skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that I have quite the same issue with Chinese movies. Some have quite good production values, actually! Especially for the budgets.

The challenge I have with Chinese films (especially high fantasy) is that it feels like I have missed something along the way and can't follow the plot. This is regardless of the translation quality, and regardless of how closely I am paying attention.

I suspect it is the case that as a viewer you are assumed to be well versed in Chinese fairy tales, mythology or history. Certainly this is the case in lots of Western films.

Pretty good example: Sorcerer and White Snake. Quite watchable (beautiful film, really), but hard to follow 100% of the time as a Westerner.
Dear HN: Why blockchains are better than regular dbs for NFTs
Oh, absolutely. On both counts: strategic decisions that have been delegated to you are important to get right, and relentless self-promotion is the single most important skill inside and outside of any workplace. It's also important to recognize it for what it is, though, and TFA, well, is what it is.
That is a correct interpretation.
Aluminum, glass, and steel are highly recyclable.

The biosphere is incredibly good at recycling raw materials. It is not particularly good at recycling the materials that we produce.
I'm just tired of wasted time. I'm not bothering with code screens and interviews if it's not significantly more than I make right now.

The seniority thing misguided. People should be paid based on the value that is a product of that role. Maybe their seniority qualifies then for a better role. That's fine, then post a different job description for the other role.
I do believe in getting paid what's deserved and what's deserved changes as the market changes.

What's unfortunate is that people aren't willing to see the change go downward ever and then also argue that others can't go upward because... well then you yourself "can't" go upward.

What's deserved is for people to be compensated fairly. If the company is compensating someone unfairly and can't compensate someone fairly because of then, then that is a definite and clear problem.

Whatever your definition of fair is, whether that's "deserving" or "market forces", it's still the same argument.
The difference is, most tech companies aren’t selling the product/service exclusively in the region that the worker is working in, so the cost of the product/service, say for example Amazon prime, is the same nationwide despite the differences in cost of living, but the employees are paid regionally.

Basically: most tech companies don’t adjust the price of their product for the region they are selling it in, but adjust the salary of the people making the product based on the region they live in.
Works well, are you using the HN API?
Is this thing opensource?
No one is going to reduce consumption. To even suggest such a thing as a solution to any issue at any meaningful scale betrays a complete misunderstanding of the world by the author..
It applies to all copies. Unless you have a blanket law like AHRA that absolves you or you're doing something covered by fair use, it's unauthorized. This has always been the case since before DMCA.
200 neurons, yet still more AI complete than any concocted deep learning attempt with way more of so called "neurons".
> The pay isn't as great as it once was

Not to mention there aren't that many entry-level openings so you don't get much choice on where you live after college
Even for devs in the late 30s, the confusion is same. First thought it was about Integrated Development Environment, was wondering what channel means here. To realise the IDE mentioned here, it took some time. :)
Comes and goes - old computers namely the Commodore 8-bits. Back in the day the golden age was the 80s (yeah ran a users group and BBS), but lately it's got a renaissance with a lot of emulators, 3rd party advanced devices like wifi modems, SD-Card drives, and even hardware enhancements/re-creations. Lots of you tube videos highlighting repairs, history and other resources.

I've noticed interest comes and goes in waves - one year people are ridding of their stuff and its great to collect... a few years later interest pics back up and you get some new hardware/information, etc.
> HN, being a rather progressive forum

HN, as in the site ran by a cutthroat venture capitalist firm... and you describe that as progressive?

This is the same VC that funded and financially enabled LendUP, which according to CFPB, was quoted saying "We are shuttering the lending operations of this fintech for repeatedly lying and illegally cheating its customers". https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-shutt...

No. A union is progressive. A worker cooperative ala Mondragon is progressive. These are corporate capitalists doing venture capitalist-y things.
Already tried that. I'm just coasting now.

Merit gets you nowhere anymore.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29719137
Forgive me for my ignorance, but would you mind explaining why providing functionality with a .pyc is potentially a red flag? I'm interested in learning more about Python codebases.
Shrinking consumption (ie economic deflation, a decrease in GDP) would absolutely destroy the USA. That's not a moral statement. I personally absolutely aim to reduce my consumption. But we live in a financialized debt based economy. It's about one nuance a way from an actual pyramid scheme except instead of recruiting people what it needs is GDP growth. The whole gig explodes when growth stops. Luckily the US could hypothetically keep growing for a VERY long time where as some other countries (China, Japan) are not going to fare as well (on the time frame of their own demographics curves).
Can you relocate? Easiest way to save money on taxes and buy a bigger house.
I think 4K is only available on smart TVs and game consoles. The piracy code probably tells the sites you're using one of them.
I remember castles in Ultima Online going for thousands of dollars around then on eBay. I think an 800pt Grandmaster build character went for a couple hundred dollars to $1k depending on the skill set.

I knew someone at the time who bought a brand new sports car with all the money they made off Ultima Online.

I honestly miss the game, had a blast playing it back in the day.
On desktop the site was covered in ads and auto playing video. With blocking enabled, the experience was even worse, with stylesheets and images missing. I don't know why this article in particular was so bad, but I've personally never experienced this from a site I visited here before, fortunately the workaround above allowed me to read the article as they intended.
Most servers I run only require a nick. It's not unheard of in IRC land for channels to require you make an account.
If you change the masterpassword, and then still get the same message after that, then this means it is not from some old hacked data store, but it is someone able to glean the latest masterpassword from your account live.

I saw this on twitter, but cant reply as I am in twit jail:
"Exactly the same thing happened to me last night. They tried again literally minutes after I changed the password to something not used on any other form."
Imagine you re a tv station with a license. I think you re ready to MURDER to keep some of these exclusive, must be their last easy butter these days.

Last time I watched tv I did the whole vpn + american tv package thing and I just was appalled at the sheer amount of unwatchable content (ads)... I pity these things, how did it even work in the first place?
Here's the problem with non-deterministic conversations: everyone has an opinion (fair enough), and is willing to state it with the authority of a highly experienced subject matter expert.

In deterministic conversations, a naive opinion stated with a lot of authority would be shut down quite quickly (eg: many areas in programming where you can quickly prove something to be right or wrong). You can't do that in politics, business, and many other areas. As a result, we have about 8 billion politicians and business experts.

The author is making the assumption that listing a salary is connected to being a progressive business. A bunch of other people take this a step further and state how not listing the salary is a part of some conspiracy (in YC's case, apparently this is an attempt to lower the payroll costs of their portfolio companies).

The reality is that even the most transparent companies out there (eg: Gitlab) do not disclose individual salaries. No, it has nothing to do with some secret plan to underpay anyone or certain groups. It's simply a fact that people become incredibly irrational when it comes to compensation, and the minute you lay it out in the open, you open up a huge surface area for conflict. Last year we learned that encouraging political activism at work has a similar dynamic, and many companies have made that a no go zone as well. It's not because they are racist or don't care - it's because it takes a tiny minority of people to get the entire business derailed, and it's hard enough to keep that from happening in the best of times; once you add a catalyst like salaries or politics, it's like adding fuel to the fire.

But rather than ask ourselves why the leaders at Gitlab and millions of others companies have made the decisions they did, it's a lot easier to just make assumptions - "it must be coming from a bad place, so let me brainstorm what some of those bad places could be."

I'll take it a step further - Colorado State Senator Jessie Danielson would make you believe it's more likely that millions of companies are "bad actors" than that she just doesn't have the relevant experience in business to predict which way her bill was going to work out. Now that she's cost so many of her constituents lucrative remote jobs, it's too late to admit Mea Culpa, and instead it's everyone else's fault. If she was held a bit more accountable, the next time someone tries to bridge the gender pay gap they will hopefully spend some time interviewing and learning from people who have the relevant experience in hiring.
They updated the law: you have to go through at least one interview before they are forced to share it.
My experience of homelessness, including two years in coastal southern california yes, was a lot more miserable and desperate than the one you had or are imagining. I don't remember anyone else around me having that great a time either.

Anyway they got homeless people in frozen ass places like the twin cities too. What's your read on the benefits they are reaping?
The magic of IRC is that you are not always connected and there isn't any way to reliably keep a connection alive. The urge to always be online, always want to lookup history, is a kind of FOMO-paranoia. We've developed weak memory a species for some important reason. It's ok to forget things, it's ok to not attend everything, it's ok to have off-time. The important things will surface by themselves, there's no need to be digging, plus you have a lot of work to do already. So, in my view, IRC is more like the being in the park, flowing with the Tao. It is simple and it is good. Discord is like getting cocaine and going to a festival. It's fantastic, but exhausting.
People who are smart enough and know enough math to pass these exams can make a lot more money in investment banking or data science. I’m shocked student still go this route
For the sake of readers:

Bazel does not put outputs in random folders, it puts them in folders that are a deterministic mapping from the build target plus relative path to the thing being built in the source directory. It is well-suited if you have a huge amount of source code with things being output, but one among many speed bumps when getting started.
Learnings from 10 years of my software development work
Wow, I'd seen one but never actually checked whether it was fair.
Not if the same race relocates to a different location and has similar outcomes.
Couldn't you get the whole country high with a couple kilos of LSD or Fentanyl? Weed is called that for a reason as well. And pizza is about as cheap a food as can be. Seems like we're almost post scarcity on some things. Might need to go to VR for beachfront for all since that is scarce indeed.
That’s simply not true.

If I create value by hitting in a nail with your hammer I deserve compensation for my labor, but certainly you deserve compensation for the part your hammer played as well.

Wages are simply returns to labor, profits are returns to capital.
Article:

> The energetic output of an oven stove is 80 to 90 percent, compared to 40 to 50 percent for metal stoves or central heating appliances

Energy.gov

> Old furnaces: 56% to 70%

> Mid efficiency furnaces: 80% to 83%

> High efficiency furnaces: 90% to 98.5%

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/furnaces-and-boilers

EDIT: We can cut the article some slack as ducting (as typically done) does account for losses which are highly variable.
Your assumption is that each worker is solely additive or multiplicative to the process, and thus the marginal worker's input is uncorrelated to the team and the environment. Certain teams can be exponentially performant while mostly full of mediocre individuals, and certain processes can stunt the fruit of the vine.

Rather, what you're calling for is average value produced, which is substantially different. I'm not sure I accept the assertion that they are close.
I disagree here. Instead of calling it “tax avoidance” let’s just talk about reducing your tax burden as much as possible. This is the prudent move for any individual or tax paying entity.

Taking advantage of your roth, 401k, homestead exemption, writing off losses, etc… absolutely provides value to the tax payer. The value is literally more money for the tax payer who can now further participate in the economy.

The accounting industry employs loads of people. Is that not “value?”
Agile is much, much, less complicated paradigm and it has been turned into some Frankenstein of borrowed past processes at every company I've ever worked at. I can only imagine what would happen to this watershed model if it became popular.
I worked there for a couple of years. Solon has one of the best public school systems in the state and is near a couple of major freeways, which are probably the sorts of things you care about if you use phrases like "great suburb." :D

I'm not sure how to actually define "downtown" there. It's not exactly walkable. The older and grungier parts of that metro area are actually nicer to live in if you like to walk.
I agree ... and I think we urgently need that CLI.
Of course that is an overstatement, but:

I teach Bazel and help companies adopt it. I’ve noticed that a high percentage of those using Bazel have one or more xooglers on their team.
> That basically makes the Carbon/dirty production a luxury

Unfortunately this is very far from the reality. It's the rich that own Teslas, and the poor that need to use a diesel car to commute to work because they can't afford to live in the city center. Carbon taxes affect the poor more than the rich.
I was using Chrome on macOS Monterey when I attempted to read the article. I am not sure why, but I had a large number of ads, and blocking them resulted in missing stylesheets and images. So I opted to use the solution above as a workaround.
It's really easy to avoid the negatives and stay anonymous whilst doing so, and I presume part of it is sticking a middle finger to the DRM industry.
Minifigfinder – identify Lego minifigure parts using machine learning
This is the best answer...

Well the one I use anyway.
I've long wondered if several millennia in the future people might find frequent fossilized remains of certain mundane objects from today and try to ascribe some deep social significance or complex technical function to them. For example, these decorative balls that seem to be in bowls on so many American dinner or side tables.

https://secure.img1-fg.wfcdn.com/im/13146084/resize-h755-w75...

Or perhaps they will think they are so bizarre extinct ocean animal.
My takeaway from the article was a disconnect with past dating modes (past as in before online dating) when partnering up with friends was much more common. You just had to live with the gossip, and oftentimes it's friends who help you see what's going on.

The tendency to want strangers to avoid in-group gossip seems to me have come out of the blue: perhaps it was a suppressed desire latent before and this generation realised it as a lived experience?

Claude Levi-Stauss would have a field day on the emergence of normalised out-group mating. In some tribes it's mandatory. I think he hypothesised pre-dna-awareness it maximised genetic diversity and avoids inbreeding. Maybe this is a modern memetic cultural version?

I also think as many positives as negatives may exist online: for every racist refusing to meet other coloured people, somebody will be exploring the more diverse choices of culture and heritage.

We also have womens-choice drives in online dating. Yes, it's causing huge emotional stress for some men, but perhaps formalised priorities for women's choices here is a very good thing?

I have also now interacted with more people from cultures of arranged marriages. There's a heavy burden on some eldest responsible males to do something for their sisters kids they never signed up for and don't believe in. And many migrants pair up in adversity to escape a worse homeland experience but then find themselves in a new land with weak ties. Actually a story of the postwar migration to Australia with people marrying by proxy, bride boats.

Friends married Chilean refugees in the 1970s to help them escape. Some stayed married, many didnt. I wonder if online dating will fulfil the same role in future conflict?
If you judge by real estate prices it is probably true.

I would rather be making 100k 10 years ago then making 300k now in terms of housing prospects.
It really is amazing what Josef has done. He’s made FDM printing just work. I own a MK3S+ that I self assembled and in hundreds of hours the worst thing that has happened is the filament getting tangled and crashing the print. I love the dog fooding principle he follows too - his factory in Czech Republic is just an enormous Prusa farm.
.pyc files are the compiled bytecode for its corresponding .py file. It's scrambled, you would need a decompiler to inspect the source code and it would be very hard to read (compared to the original source).

People typically ship .pyc files when they want to hide what they are doing, for a wide variety of reasons.
Imho, yes. Well, except for the 8.3 thing. And the total path length limit. And the primitive security model. And the limits on having files named com and the like.

But they were right on case-insensitive.
> Is a medieval abbey "useless?" Clergy? Servants to the clergy? How about courtiers? Courtiers' dress makers?

You're really misinformed. Monks have been producing goods like wine, cheese, keeping society's records for centuries, or even being involved in woodwork or construction work, providing useful services to their communities. What does it have to do with "bullshit jobs"? Nothing.

Your comment sounds like a gratuitous provocation.
I'm not comparing my status to anyone else. I'm comparing the elements of my actual life to the elements of the life I would like.
The content companies can look for differences in how the tools work compared to how a legitimate client works, and block any requests for content that are formatted the way the tools do it.
made me think of stow too.
Not really. Better window hardware and window locks, as well as window films are a significant improvement. Strong exterior doors/frames should really be a no brainer. Good lock design including key types and door frame strength go a long way.

Nothing is impervious. The goal is to slow them down and potentially make it too difficult for the majority of the unskilled criminals to be successful. Or for them to choose a weaker target. Of course Good security hygiene is another one that is sometimes overlooked (not using the deadbolt, leaving a spare key out, etc).
You're externalizing your wealth—the world we inhabit—which is a really bad way to calculate your economic incentives.
Wow, excellent piece you provided, should be a submission by itself!
I'm not sure how you get from "reducing road and concrete no-place filler in cities" to taking tree covered land away from your country estate, or what that has to do with options to improve both quality of life and carbon emissions/resource use in typical sprawling cities.
If the SP500 stopped going up in value would you still be interested in the project?
LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz
>> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

And yet here we are.
Try the other direction, call it "First Life".
Probably the same reason people provide open source code for free at no monetary benefit to themselves (even when they probably should be charging money).
Tangential, but is that a conventional use of 'progressive?' I'm more familiar with seeing it used to describe the idea of having a tax rate that increases with higher, well, income most often.

I like the idea of smoothly ramping up taxes over time, in general. It seems to be the most obvious solution to the objection "this will shock the market," and that sort of thing. But due to the lack of a better term, I always want to call it "adiabatic taxation" (stealing the word from physics), but I think this is just a me thing.
Good times for some, traumatic memories of childhood for others….

I used to have this daydream of a red line painted onto the road leading you to your destination. Never expected it to become real (in a slightly different form). Too late for me but another small way later generations will enjoy higher QoL. Few will realize the benefits beyond occasionally getting lost.
Senator Harry Reid is probably best remembered for his sabre-rattling of Senate Nuclear Option.
I think he’s implying that the investment of time must be so large to do something like this that it couldn’t just be a hobby.
I'm not talking about individuals. In aggregate, you don't profit unless you pay your workforce less than the value they produce. It's not complicated.
All things considered: "Come True"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7026488/

Small budget, the man who wrote it, directed it and scored most of it... reminds me of John Carpenter.

Great acting as well... was very impressed.
> I do believe in getting paid what's deserved and what's deserved changes as the market changes.

Well there's 2 major theories of thought about that.

One is that the holders of the capital decide how much to pay, and they make the bulk of the market. You get paid what you negotiate.

The other is that the worker will never be paid what they are worth. In other words, their surplus value is equal to the new value created by workers in excess of their own labor-cost, which is appropriated by the capitalist as profit when products are sold.

And in this country, we're seeing the beginning of the second with Antiwork and the Great Resignation. Many of us Zennials are really tired.
Packaging most things for Nixpkgs is super easy, which is awesome.

But I think impurity could be a different kind of on-ramp. See things like envfs or the reverted PR for the LSB module in NixOS.
You started a religious flamewar with this and perpetuated it egregiously below. That's really bad. It's against the site guidelines and definitely not what HN is for. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can still do the same. HDCP has been broken for a long time now...
How did you arrive at the 'carrying capacity' of the planet?
For the benefit of the non-Canadians: The Tyee is a progressive fringe publication -- increasingly fringe in recent years as it raises its revenue from donations and it needs clickbait and outrage-porn to attract that funding.

Sometimes they make decent points, but they also spew a lot of utter nonsense.