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It absolutely would be, and a lot of people get away with it quite well. It's more subtle than what you're thinking, though, because it doesn't mean just posting ads.

It takes root in posting really good content, at least for a while. You get your points up, get seen as a contributor, and then you start posting your own blog posts. Nothing explicitly an ad at first; you're just trying to get people to start thinking of your blog as something that usually has good reads, and that . Then you eventually post about a thing you made that you think the audience would want to buy, and, not exactly shockingly, they do!

By framing it using something like "My startup failed... again. An analysis," or "Just got the first few bites on my product, after years of trying," you let the audience escape the feeling of being advertised to despite the motive being entirely profit.

There was one user that was so good at this they were on the front page nearly every month of last year and they sold $60k worth in units because of it, never getting called out for what they were doing. To be generous to them, the content was good when it wasn't advertisements. You have to remember that what's popular on Hacker News on any given day will also circulate around a bunch of tech sites that are bad at coming up with their own content.

One person that I actually know built a complete business out of subtly using HN for advertising.

This takes root in even smaller ways, though. Like someone popping up in every thread that's remotely relevant to say, "Hey! We're building a product that does this at lazyfiveletternamedotio! Check it out, it seems like it fits your use-case." Sure, they'll get criticized, sometimes. But they'll also get bites. And when you're selling software as a service substitute for $600/mo, it doesn't take very many bites to make being criticized on Hacker News worth it. Doubly so when you're taking venture and need to up your numbers for the next round.
I don't know that we know that. But given the UK death rates I'm guessing we'll be happy. I don't know anyone still unvaccinated, but I certainly hope omicron is milder for the people are aren't.
Having a friend in an adjacent business, my understanding is that the Freight Forwarding & Brokerage business was very "hands on" and not as "customer" friendly as tracking consumer shipments. I think Flexport is (was?) suggesting that they could modernize that business. Or, I completely missed the target on that perspective.
While I do agree that 95 years is fairly long, as a consumer I am a little more conflicted.

I like the idea that any IP created in my lifetime can stay in control by some entity from a consumer standpoint. Take something like Star Wars, once that enters general domain than there is the possibility of "Star Wars" being taken in a ton of different directions and makes it harder for a fan to follow since they will effectively be competing with eachother as the true "Star Wars".

Personally I don't exactly know what a good timeline is, but I don't fully understand what exactly the harm is of some entity being able to keep control of something for a certain period of time.

Or am I missing something here?
Don't know about grass-fed beef, but the taste of grass-fed milk compared to regular is night-and-day to me. I don't often splurge on organic but for milk I do solely for the taste.
I used to be in a situation like that. Couldn’t change positions due to a visa requirement and management took advantage of that.

What helped me:

- Have a light at the end of the tunnel, i.e. issuance of my permanent residency which would put an end to the suffering.

- Have a VERY rigid separation between home and work. 2 laptops, 2 phones. As soon as 6 o’clock hits work phone gets turned off and put on a shelf.

- Personal side projects that kept me interested in IT and helped me uphill. This bit is important to make sure you don’t start associating your vocation with mental pain and understand that the industry is still fun, your job just sucks.

- Regular exercise.

- Taking regular breaks during workday, have lunch outside with a friend, etc.

- Participate in meetups and other community events, volunteer your time to help others (gives meaning).

It’s a tough situation, so good luck. If you can leave though - I would recommend it. Life is too short to work in an environment you hate.
> Now it’s big biz holding our culture for ransom.

I hope we’re not talking about big-biz created works like Star Wars or Marvel movies being the culture that’s ransomed. We the people do have the power to create our own culture and commit any/all works to the public domain. A few people do this, but since we don’t have basic income or even great healthcare for people who spend months or years writing music, books, code, etc., a lot of creators do need the economic incentive and protection in order to commit their time.
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I've never worked with a web application where the requirements of the "customer facing API" and the "drives the web application API" (or the "drives the mobile application API", "drives the internal admin app API", etc.) matched for very long, if ever. Customers will usually need a small subset of the API that your web app does, the authentication will likely be different, you will need to make optimizations in your web app fetching that will be highly tuned to your specific use case, and a whole bunch of other concerns that make the idea of your web application being driven off your public API unrealistic.
Most of my egress bandwidth is public. I would have to pay Direct Connect + egress of the data center, which can still be significant. Not to mention added complexity.
> Do they think that this is a temporary spike and building capacity would be unprofitable?

Ayup.

A lot of the previous decades of chip manufacturing is all about how superior it is to be a "fabless" company. You don't have those nasty capital expenditures and your upside is basically unlimited--while owning a fab means you have to employ a ton of people and your profit margin is effectively capped.

The fab folks know that as soon as this shock is over, owning a fab goes back to being crap. So, you make hay while the sun shines, and you don't even think about doing capital outlays.

Even if they could find the equipment and people (not at all an easy thing), there is ZERO incentive for the fabs to expand. To first order, it's actually more profitable for them to maintain this shortage. Nobody is going to pass up a sale just to keep a shortage going, however.

Eventually, things will equilibrate. However, I suspect that there's going to be a lot less choice in semiconductors for quite a while afterward.

The only short-term thing that I'm interested in tracking is how many companies were hoarding and are going to panic now that inventory tax is coming due. That's going to move some commodity microcontrollers back into the system from the hoarders. It will be interesting to see how much comes back into the system in the next quarter or two.
I don't think it has to be profit based. Just have an ever increasing flat rate. Free 20 years but every year after becomes increasingly expensive. Then Disney can protect their stuff for ages while putting a lot of money back in to the government, while the vast majority of content becomes free at 20 years because it has no commercial value.
You are probably right. I'm relying on my fuzzy memory for that number (I've looked it up in the past).

This article [1] says 5 years to license, 5->7 years to build, and then the verification time with the electric company before it can be switched on.

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/park-k2/
That would have allowed people to artificially chase rankings even faster and more efficiently. It makes the problem worse, not better.
> If they’re not then I’m just using a fancy VCS tool[1] for backup

Yes you are; what's wrong with that?
> The chip fabs of Intel... were not being starved,

Maybe, but consider that Intel stock was pretty flat for a long time in the 2000s/2010s especially compared to the amount of money that was flowing into the FAANG stocks and other social media companies during that time. If Intel's stock had rising at something like those rates they probably would have been able to invest quite a bit more into fabs.
With a branching factor of 5 it won't take long before every person playing has made an unique sequence of choices, so I don't think caching would help you as much as you'd think. You could maybe cheaply serve the people who try a couple of decisions and then get bored.

It could make a good landing page though - play for 10 steps and then spring the "subscribe to continue your adventure".
"Mens emotions and mental health are just as valid as a woman’s."

No, they're not. I mean I agree that they are just as valid, but society thinks otherwise, so practically speaking, they're not.

Note that I'm willingly going to generalize and exaggerate as there's no other way to get to a point.

Many men grow up in an emotional desert and are soon taught that expressing emotion is a sign of weakness. The boys don't cry narrative is very much alive. Parents may instill this toughness in you out of love, as they know what lies ahead. Emotional men don't stand a chance.

In work, men are judged by performance, with no tolerance for failure. A man that can't make it on their own is a failure. Women can fail and have a support network, men do not. That's why the bottom consists of almost only men.

And here we haven't even considered the reality in the developing world, where men can't afford to call in sick for mental illness.

In relationships, men are selected for utility. Nobody wants to hear that, but you can't deny the biology. You need to be healthy/strong, economically sound and reliable, and of course easy on the eyes. Women wanting emotional men only want them when all other conditions are met. Nobody wants an emotional man that is "in between jobs". Further, relationships are emotionally dominated by women. Which is not a complaint, rather an observation.

The reason why for even the toughest of men their mother is holy, is because it's their only source of genuine love. The only place where they are not judged by utility. Love for love's sake.

In media, say sitcoms, men are always portrayed as the neglectful primitive idiot, emotionless. Alternatively as aggressor. On social media, men are made responsible for any and all horror in the world.

Men are criminally under-complimented. They are absolutely shocked when somebody says something nice about them, as nobody ever does, no matter their efforts. There's even Youtube series featuring random acts of kindness towards men, bringing the men to tears. You can tell it's been decades since somebody did anything nice to them. And they are common men.

So, I conclude that men's emotions are worthless. Men know this, they have lived it. To add insult to injury, once should of course curse men for being so poor in expressing emotions, not taking any of the above into account.

The best response to my rant would be to say "oh gee....poor men. boohoohoo". That would only double down on the issue though, which is to completely disregard male mental well-being, to make fun of it.

Note that I'm not attacking your point of view, I agree that the above is dangerous. But it's also the reality of things on the ground, and not changing.
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He couldn't have been more than 40 hours walk from the coast. If the map was accurate, a lot less to a road.
He obviously is a real scientist. Still, plenty of individual scientists go off the deep end w.r.t. various subtopics. "Science" is the output of a community, not individuals.
Disney doesn't own the rights to Pinocchio. You are free to make your own movie with book version of the the characters and the story. Carlo Collodi was dead by 1890 so Disney definitely didn't "swoop in" and benefit at his or his descendent's expense.

I believe the other stories you mention are even older.
Looking down the list, I don't really disagree. House of Cards which got me to subscribe to streaming was 5 star in my book at first. I'd probably put some others in the 4 star range. (Never could really get into Stranger Things or, really, The Crown.)
TSMC claims 15% higher clocks OR 20% lower power for the same architecture moving from N7 to N5. There's a HUGE asterisk sitting somewhere and I'm pretty sure I know where.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12727/tsmc-details-5-nm-proce...

Chips with loads of cores like Milan (the one mentioned in that article) have very low clockspeeds to keep down the TDP. I'd guess that their 2.2-3GHz clocks are easily possible with high-density designs (high-density usually going hand-in-hand with lower clockspeeds), so performance won't suffer and might even improve due to shifting power savings into slightly higher clocks.

That's the upside, but there is also a definite downside.

Desktop chip clockspeeds will suffer. If they are made on these processes, they simply will not be able to achieve those high clocks (probably 3.5-4GHz at the absolute top end). That means that even if Zen 4 gets a 20% IPC increase, it just breaks even (or even regresses) with the 20-30% clockspeed decrease.

TL;DR -- While server chips are pretty much all upside, desktop chips seem to break even or suffer performance regressions.
I rum all custom software, I feel most off the shelf solutions aren't very resource effective.

The server has 128 Gb RAM and the index currently fits on a single 1 Tb SSD + an Optane drive of 480 Gb.

I find the average document to clock in at 7 Kb, in terms of raw HTML. In the index that's, dunno, probably less than 1 KB/doc.
Not at all what the article talks about
I'd find that fine as long as we weaken the definition of copyright. Protect the exact text of Harry Potter for that long but allow people to write their own related works at any time.
I don't really agree with his advice on caveats. Yes, they can certainly go overboard...but giving your reader a reason to go to Google is a potentially lost reader whose eyes are suddenly not on your article but a dozen clicks away reading something else.
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Wealth taxes are different from income taxes and are controversial. Other contries have tried wealth taxes and later reneged. Just because you believe they are great doesn't mean anyone who disagrees is "spewing BS".
That's kind of how relative risk works. I mean, no COVID would be nice, but we left that world behind two years ago. What do you mean "get away free" anyway? There's no morality here. The vaccine didn't "do" anything wrong. It is either efficacious or it isn't, and the side effects are either worth it or they aren't. From what we can tell, the risk of heart problems from the vaccine is so much lower than from COVID. What more would you like people to do?
Companies can (and have) make their own versions of all those. What they can't use is disney's representation of those characters.
How about real estate and land ownership? Shouldn't that revert to the public domain after a set number of years?
> wrong direction

Why wrong? This is a project proposed by Northrop Grumman, a defense company. It would be wrong for them to look at the stars, rather than down to Earth.
I'd probably agree with you on this, except for the serious consideration that Hillsdale is giving to Narnia. That and how Grossman and Weymouth (and I'll bet other people) have given serious consideration to how to repair Lewis' cheesy worldbuilding and examine the consequences of the adventures on the Pevensey children themselves. I mean, I noticed the illogic of Narnia when I read them as a kid. Narnia doesn't hold a candle to Earthsea, it's not even as good as Hogwarts with respect to worldbuilding, but it is better adventure and has moral lessons.
Ask HN: How to deal with AV compliance requirement on small VMs?
We're running a fairly retro setup on AWS with lots of small (t3a.micro and t3a.nano) instances in autoscaling groups.

One of the groups we deal with has said 'we require AV on everything'. This effectively means we can't run anything with less than 2gb of RAM (i.e. t3a.small), which doubles or quadruples the cost of each instance.

Thoughts? Any way around this?
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If illegal immigration was driving the cost of help down, would they be complaining of a lack of laborers to hire? Someone must be hiring all of these illegal immigrants if their presence is suppressing wages in an industry…
Samsung is putting NFTs in its smart TVs
Is that real or did you just make that up
> in October 2021, Cramer suggested replacing FAANG with MAMAA; this included replacing Netflix with Microsoft among the five companies represented as Netflix's valuation had not kept up with the other companies included in his acronym; with Microsoft, these new five companies had market caps of at least $900 billion compared to Netflix's $310 billion at the time of Meta's rebranding.
Getting something working in the beginning feels very different from a coding puzzle. During the next phase of optimizing something is where it gets interesting. Understanding the hardware and figuring out the right way to make full use of it via memory tricks or specialized processor instructions always felt more like a puzzle. Unfortunately, I feel engineers are seldom given the opportunity to go deep down the optimization route once something is working reliably, since it's already getting the job done.
Baywatch was remastered and unfortunately went 16:9 instead of keeping 4:3. It looks really good but I don't think it should have been cropped.
It doesn't seem impossible that the static file could have an indicator for "send an OPTIONS in this case". 95% of CORS setups don't need to look at the request beyond the origin requesting it (and I'd wager that almost all CORS-enabled APIs just blindly allow everything).
Isn't this basically what's required on Venus ?
Maybe fix the title to 70 Million °C?
I have photographs that I took 20 years ago that I occasionally sell a print of. You are suggesting that that material now be part of the public domain?

For that matter, you're suggesting GCC version 3.0.3, Emacs 21.2 and all prior versions be public domain and not have any copyright or copyleft protection on it? And thus, I could take the source code for them, modify it, close source it release my own version.
I believe it's possible to make a motorcycle-like thing out of the car, and I think that he did it before he went there and went there to create a narrative out of what he already knew how to do.
It may or may not have been as valuable, but Netflix could still have used it to generate tons of content. It still would have been a smart buy.
It's a flatly incorrect counter-argument.

The majority of people that vote in the US and ultimately (if indirectly) determine such matters as copyright duration, are not scrambling for healthcare or education. That majority of voters rests well above the median in fact in both income and wealth.

That's trivially demonstrated by the demographic, income and employment profiles of the majority of people that vote.

You've made a sizable mistake in thinking that that majority of voters are interested in freeing Winnie the Pooh versus boosting their equity portfolio by padding the bottom line of Disney. The majority American voting profile is one of the wealthiest on the planet. You might reassess what you think their priorities are.

This aspect isn't going to change, and no amount of wishing will make it so. The majority of US voters will continue to have a significant tilt toward their financial self-interest, which rests with Disney's bottomline and not with rapidly emptying Disney's copyright vault.

Hint: look up the median and average white + asian household income and wealth figures these days (latest Fed household survey).
My ranking (from greatest to least decline):
1. Facebook
2. Google
3. Amazon
4. Netflix
5. Apple
If you get an email directly from “Taylor” and you want to reply you won’t have use their pronouns anyway.

It’s only if you’re referring to them to a third person that you’ll need them.

You should still be able to refer to them with without explicitly using any pronouns even then.