skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, ok I guess you've got a point there. I took the post as being about "why TV Lost (to streaming services)", which I consider Netflix to be one of. But you're right - those are more or less "shows" the way "Friends"s was, more than Logan Paul and PewDiePie and the other stuff I'm too old to "get" that have replaced TV in popular culture.
POV-Ray is a renderer. And just that. In fact you could (and probably still can) use POV-Ray to render your Blender scene.

Comparing POV-Ray to Cycles or Octane would make more sense.
I know a few ex-YouTubers, and they're all doing just fine. Working in PR, marketing, agents for other creators, etc. Sure, they don't all have a degree... but they have a ton of connections and relevant experience.
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Netflix autoplays ads whenever you load it up or are scrolling around to find something to watch

Prime returns things you cannot watch without paying in its search

It forces you to watch ads before it starts the show

They've all barely gotten started, I assure you
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There’s ENS, which seems on sturdier footing than Handshake to me, but the gas on ethereum is ridiculous
It’s Luddite in that it rejects modern tools and methods in the belief that there’s an older, more artisanal method of doing work.

If you believe this is the case then you can put your belief to the test. Build software the way you think it should be built and see if users are willing to pay for it.
While you have a point in general, it's a bit weird posting this in response to a comment that explains how this particular case apparently isn't actually all that "draconian".
Iirc, Borland literally had to add closures to C++ to make their C++ Builder work and be as simple as Delphi in the UI editor.
This is a poor straw man argument. Spring boot is an option, but so is Ktor, or Dropwizard. You are arguing you preference as fact.
Every story that's come out since this mess started vidates the bad vibes I got from their recruiter on the first call, and my decision to walk away.
Isn't that being a bit anal? It's offical name is "Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2".
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If things go well, it will look much like it does today, except energy production won't be dumping a ton of methane and CO2 into the atmosphere. The value of centralization of physical resources will fall with a resurgence of rail for transportation, combined with even smaller containers for local deliveries.

If things don't go well, it will look much like it does today, in the rich parts of the world that are still habitable. The mass migration due to climate change won't be kind to most people, and billions will have starved to death.

Or, nuclear war happened, or Covid kept going, and civilization collapsed, like it has so many times before. Unfortunately this time, we've used up the irreplaceable (even on geologic time scales) coal and other fossil fuel deposits, so we would be out of the running, forever, as a multi-planet species.

Most people have quite foolish notions about the stability of civilization, even I know I'm an optimist.
Yes. A lot of professional athletes don’t really make much money. They get normal salaries and play for non major league teams or federations of some sort.

Eventually though they will have to quit their sport due to wear and tear and no longer being at a peak level. And most will probably never really progress to a level where they can make some quick millions from a contract and then retire early.

So what then?
Working on machine learning infrastructure for self driving cars.

In my opinion, self driving cars are going to be a significant improvement in quality of life for people who do not have access to transportation (eg. the young and elderly, and people who are not able to drive for various reasons) or may need goods and food delivered at a cheaper rate than what is currently available.
Manning is free despite her crimes because she is transgender. How is that just? Quoting Wikipedia:

"Manning was charged with 22 offenses, including aiding the enemy, which was the most serious charge and could have resulted in a death sentence.[15] She was held at the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico in Virginia, from July 2010 to April 2011, under Prevention of Injury status—which entailed de facto solitary confinement and other restrictions that caused domestic and international concern[16]—before being transferred to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she could interact with other detainees.[17] She pleaded guilty in February 2013 to 10 of the charges.[18] The trial on the remaining charges began on June 3, 2013, and on July 30, she was convicted of 17 of the original charges and amended versions of four others, but was acquitted of aiding the enemy.[19] She was sentenced to 35 years at the maximum-security U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth.[20][21] On January 17, 2017, President Barack Obama commuted Manning's sentence to nearly seven years of confinement dating from her arrest on May 27, 2010.[8][22] After release, Manning earned a living through speaking engagements.[23]"
But they have Better in their name, so it must be better right?
These comments brought to you by the community that dismissed Bitcoin while it was still trading at sub $1k.

You could create a viable investment strategy based around doing the opposite of what HN thinks and you would do extremely well.
> Java

Uh, whaaaat? I am a legit Java hater, but “friends don’t let friends use Java” is kinda a bizarre viewpoint. You know how much of our industry uses Java? I may prefer other languages but I’m not turning down a job based on them having settled on Java. It’s not PHP. :D
Yea, in my home state, all big signs are banned; billboards, store signs, etc. Only a smallish sign is allowed for any given building or whatever. It's really nice.
What a great read! I have been playing with DLNA equipment lately and have found that, while extremely niche, is still alive and quite flexible for the few of us who like to curate local copies of our own music.

I do sometimes pirate music, but I have found that buying used CDs at thrift-shops and at Discogs is cheap (and much more fun!) and lets me rip to FLAC with my own preferences.
Playing video is very expensive task. Just updating 4K screen at 60 frames per second requires transferring of 3840×2160×60 ~ 497 million pixels or 1,49 Gbytes per second (if you skip every fourth byte). It will take at least several instructions (in the best case) to calculate value of every byte so the CPU should be able to perform billions of instructions per second.

I doubt you can do it without a "modern PC" with hardware graphic accelerator.

Also modern codecs require lot of computations and lot of memory. For example, codecs like VP9 require to buffer up to 8 frames for reference. That would take 8×3840×2160×4 ~ 265 Megabytes of RAM. The program will need to extract bits, decode arithmetic coding and calculate lots of IDCTs.

I did some research to see if it is possible to play Youtube video on 8-bit CPUs. What I found is that there is little hope for this. It's better to develop your own video compression format.
We used them ~three years ago, and seemed like our account manager was US-based.

I wonder if their recent 'success' with outsourcing is the primary impetus for the layoffs.
If we go by history, the best guess is "roughly the same as now". The past 100 years weren't like that but that was an atypical period.

But some predictions along those lines:

- computers stopped getting exponentially faster.

- people spend a lot of time in front of screens.

- people still die.

- energy is as plentiful/scarce as today, just that it is green.

- rich people have a lot, the poor scrapes by.

- cars drive themselves, but a landmark case where a kid got kidnapped by a car and died of heatstroke lead to laws prohibiting self driving cars to drive without a person sitting in it with a self driving car licence. The exception are corporate cars making deliveries, but that doesn't change much from today.
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So what I left out of my comment are the ethical implications of doing whatever you want, as long as there's no law against it. Many behaviors are unethical, while still (for the time being) legal.
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Tangentially related, I had a fun time hooking the audio jack of my Geiger counter up to a digital input pin of an esp8266 the other day to generate random numbers from radioactive decay [1]. Not the fastest way to make random numbers. But fun nonetheless.

[1] https://partofthething.com/thoughts/making-true-random-numbe...
I own several electron tunneling based RNGs. I will say they are not all the same, there are differences in security, and other esoteric things that HN will probably downvote me for for lack of being in the know.

I will say that random numbers as a service is a viable business opportunity. And I have heard that micro QRNG chips are being put into new phones.

I'm a bit of an rng nerd
If someone has contractually agreed to pay a certain amount if an event happens, and that event happens, then yes, that person has to pay that amount if that event happens.
Interestingly in Finland at least women have been reporting considerably higher amount (around 70%) of side-effects from the vaccine. Haven't looked at other countries though.
if you attribute this inflation to the guy in office instead of the global pandemic that's been going on for multiple years, you're nuts lol
Coinflips sounds pseudorandom.

Greying or mixing or whatever of pseudorandom or actual "trng" like static or radiation discharges is pretty well known. I.e. take some source of randomness for 10000 bits, xor with each other, and use that to seed a cryptographically secure generator, topping up the seed as more bits become available, is pretty much the gold standard for "I need 50gbit bitstream of 'random'"

The other part seems to be the binning/bucketing/curve fitting, or "massaging" the output of that to only gives numbers in the range under scrutiny, which sounds like an implementation detail to me, rather than something that you can configure at ... Runtime? Compile time?

I'm sure there are real HRNG (or sensors for TRNG) that can approach ludicrous bitrates, I've never had the luxury of one, and I'm not entirely sure I could be convinced the output was any "better" than a vetted arrangement from my second paragraph.

All of this is to say: okay but we already do that and massaging randomness to give us results we want is what all this modeling stuff ... is, so other than some off in the weeds magnetic film manipulation, I'm assuming that's modelled, too. It's just models all the way down?
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Thanks, the work done is definitely cool but, as with any other decentralization project, I’m yet to find the content use cases.

The only two kinds of successful content types that I’m aware of are pirated movies on Torrent and cryptocurrencies on the blockchain. They all depend on centralized discovery(torrent websites and exchanges).

Which makes me wonder, are these decentralized websites or social media platforms attacking the right problems?
Ah, that was not my intention.
Same. Very frustrating, but the money savings was substantial.
It's clearly not primarily driven by the "printing money"

HNers are not a rational bunch when it comes to economic and monetary policy lmao
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That's a heck of a great observation.

In the complex numbers, every imaginary number is, indeed, just "i" scaled. But the quaternions are like three copies of the complex numbers glued together; you have multiple kinds of "imaginary", each with their own unit -- like "i", but now also copies of it, "j" and "k".

To bring this somewhere more familiar, you can probably imagine the real number line as a physical line stretching off to infinity. This line has a point called "1". Now if we take two more copies of this line, they each have their own point called "1" -- a different one for each line. And if you stick all three of these lines together as a three-dimensional set of axes, you get a world in which you have three 1s coexisting. We just say "in the X direction" to be clear about which we're talking about, or group them together in (x, y, z) triples -- in which case X's 1 is called (1, 0, 0).

The situation is the same for quaternions -- we glue one real line together with three copies of the imaginary line. So we get three different i's, and we give them different names to distinguish them.
It's a valid question, but the answer is simple: nearly the same thing that sports players do when they stop being the player. They either coach, manage, promote their brand, or switch careers.
Twitch streaming can be extremely practical if you're being sustainable about it. Assuming you're actually watching your income and expenses and being smart about when to hire on additional help you can make a pretty darn successful career. I'd point to T90[1] as an example of someone that isn't near the top 1% but has built an extremely sustainable business including paid moderators and content editors (for sending clips to YouTube).

1. https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/T90Official/Broadcasts
That journalists and individuals have separate first amendment rights guaranteed by the constitution is a lie created by the same mainstream media you’ve lost faith in.
Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
Sure but there's probably a downside as well.
Fascinating! I never considered insects could have emotion.
This reads as very biased and judgmental. It treats streamers as kids who can't take care of themselves and don't understand the long-term impact of their lifestyle and career choice. It honestly makes me wonder if the author is jealous of the subject. It seems like the piece is really reaching to make Tyler's life appear as irresponsible as possible.

Plenty of people in all careers don't know how to run their lives at 26, and plenty decide to completely change their lives at ages far older than that. Tyler seems like an admirable rags-to-riches success story -- he didn't get his foot in the door by being in the right location or knowing the right people, just hard work and a ton of talent. The company that runs the game he plays banned him for life, and he persevered anyway. In many ways, his success is more rare and more difficult than starting a startup. I'm not saying the lifestyle is necessarily worth celebrating, but it's deserving of a lot more respect than it gets here.
ask your colleagues :)

i was pleasantly surprised one day to find I was working side-by-side with someone who was once a minor music celebrity

they had pivoted in their 20-somethings after a decent payout, used it to finance their education, and are now just 'one of us' haha
So that would be one order of magnitude, not orders (plural). We need to be precise in our communications.
It's gonna be super neat to find out. Are you of the opinion that Assange will be eventually set free?
If this stuff is illegal then posting a job when you already have an internal candidate in mind, or you are just collecting resumes or the actual job does not match the listing should also be illegal. After all aren't they sabotaging my application process with their spammy adds?
"Stock Instead of Real Money" is my new band name. So much meaning in just five words :)
It does not work that way when selling services or goods to a person. In most jurisdictions, anyway.

It is highly regulated and it should be so.

You can only charge for things that you have delivered and only the ones which were requested/consumed.
That clip sounds like something straight out of the soundtrack from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Borland fell for Microsoft's OS/2 fiasco, and devoted a lot of energy to porting products there, to no economic benefit.

At that time I was using Borland C++ and the quality really went downhill. Errors that never should have gotten past QA. Either they weren't checking or were intentionally shipping with killer bugs.

One release the license said you couldn't use it to make a long list of products that would compete against Borland, like spreadsheets or databases. They rolled back that provision a little later.

Then releases every couple of months.

I just gave up them, they had burned the tremendous good will originally generated by Turbo Pascal, which, it should be mentioned, was created originally by Anders Hejlsberg.
You are right, even the consumer protection agency says as much: https://www.hallakonsument.se/en/articles/card-complaints/

However, I think now I have a better idea why: debit cards have a major share in Europe and the page above says "When you pay with a debit card, you have no right by law to turn to the bank to demand a refund."

But thanks for a reminder, and I will think about using a credit card for online purchases in some cases rather than a debit.
“They” above was intended to reference individual politicians designing legislation but publicly castigating citizens who follow the very intent of the same code.
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I think what you are describing is the AI effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

'AI' has always almost been a marketing term, anyways.

I would call all of this pattern detection btw.

But so would i call the kernel perceptron (1964): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_perceptron
They're currently in a private repo, only because they use an old crusty implementation of the graph DSL. We're porting them over to the open-source graph DSL (tree-sitter/tree-sitter-graph), and we'll add them to the tree-sitter-python repo as part of that effort. As mentioned above, future language development will happen directly in the per-language tree-sitter repos using the open-source graph DSL implementation.
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Sorry, I don't. I just so it in passing and didn't book mark it.
There's no lending of money involved? If your card gets declined, they add a fee to your bill. You can either choose to not pay it (and stop receiving any services from that company, and possibly have your account sent to collections or even be sued since you agreed to pay something and then didn't pay it), or you can pay it.
> Is there a list of this stuff.. presorted to remove the crackpottery?

Not that I know of. A lot of these devices and inventions are still in the indeterminate realm between crackpottery and established tech, so it would take some work to make that list, eh?

FWIW, there are a few people who seem to me to try to do a good faith investigation of some of this (weird) stuff (E.g. http://jnaudin.free.fr/ )

Some of the things are pretty conventional (compared to free energy devices) such as the Vaneless ion wind generator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator
Correct, I mean region. Thank you
Delphi, C++ Builder, etc do have free licenses for personal use actually[0][1] and they had for a while. It is just that their license is only free until you have $5k annual revenue (the site's wording might sound as if this has to come from selling Delphi software but the actual license[2] isn't that specific).

[0] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter

[1] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder/starter

[2] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/rad-studio-e...
When I was a wee lad I did something similar and ended up running `getty`. Not a good idea!
I would be interested in hearing more about it. Is it a completely new language? Or a library that helps writing Rust?
I did a search here just to figure out what Better.com did without visiting their web page, and the results are quite a saga:

> Simple, Online Mortgage – Better Mortgage (3 years ago)

> Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Threatened to Burn His Business Partner Alive (2 months ago)

> Better.com CEO Vishal Garg lays off 15% of employees [video] (7 days ago)

> Better.com CEO blasts laid-off employees, accusing them of ‘stealing’ (4 days ago)

> The Better.com CEO says he’s ‘deeply sorry’ for firing workers over Zoom (2 days ago)

> Better.com's's CEO is 'taking time off effective immediately' (2 hours ago)
> Go is one of the least expressive languages I've ever used

That is by design, and when it comes to "programming in the large" - a winning formula. I keep repeating this response: I worked on a Perl codebase with a medium-sized team. Perl is very expressive, and my teammates did not hold back. I can tell you that is a nightmare to debug or add a new edgecase to a "clever" Perl 1-liner, usually it involved making the code "less expressive". So, I'll take Go over the more expressive languages in a team setting any day.
Working on accurate extreme weather forecasts.
> But, as Dr Aimone’s colleague Darby Smith notes, the real world that computer modellers are trying to model does not work like this. For example, the temperature in London in December may vary between -7°C and 17°C, but is most likely to be in the range 3°C to 8°C. [...] Distorting uniform distributions of random numbers to take account of these realities is tedious and unsatisfactory. As Dr Smith observes, it would be more efficient if the random numbers used corresponded to the natural distribution in the first place.

I have a hard time understanding how this is a problem. Using uniform random numbers to choose the x-axis value on a graph of an integrated probability distribution function and mapping it to the y-axis is pretty garsh darn simple and normal. This is the crux of monte carlo methods and is stupidly fast these days.

What are they talking about?