skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The allegations here are astonishing. If true, how is this possibly allowed to continue on like this? This is some real mob shit.
Wait, what Apple Arcade games have ads? Some of them have “formerly had in-app purchases” vibe, but no actual ads. I would guess Netflix’s stuff to be the same.
Here's the trouble with vaccine tourism and policy conversations. Up until a few months ago, the US would not accept Covaxin as a shot for entrance into the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/coronavirus-vaccine-co...). Since then, the WHO has accepted Covaxin under emergency use. The US might, and I repeat might because I cannot find evidence to support this claim, allow Covaxin to allow students into the US.

Again, since I can't find information in the affirmative, I believe that had the mandate gone forth throughout the land, even if I flew to Mexico to get the shots, I still wouldn't qualify on the mandates. No one would. The Covaxin shot is not part of the orthodox tradition now. Even though a cloister of scientists at the NIH, part of the greater church body of the Shot, designed it. Essentially we are told that the Covaxin shot is for the unclean foreigner as a grace dispense from the church of the West. True believers in the West, however, must drink from the approved wine of mRNA.

Further, requiring vaccine tourism is a terrible policy. I can work from home. I can afford a red-eye to Mexico (since that is the closest country to the US that dispenses the shot). That is great; I have privilege. What do we do with some 50% of blacks in NYC that lack the ability to do the same?(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-bl...) [Yes, according to the article the number is 28% of blacks have both shots, I'm assuming that number has increased since the writing of the article]. Why should we deny importation of medicine that is effective and was designed by the US? The best I can discern is simply because acceptance of the mRNA tech is now a shibboleth for orthodoxy. It is the homoousion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousion) of our day.
win / win :D
To be fair part of the reason that it's price is rising faster than cable is because cable is more expensive. To a large degree they are catching up to where cable is.
Our company has antenna towers in rented locations throughout the US and other areas. The default "inclusivity" bot on Slack always flags "guys" and "guy wires."

We turned it off.
> It’s not [...] illegal

Errr - what?

I think you'll find that market manipulation is prohibited in the US under Section 9(a)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and in the EU under article 12 of the Market Abuse Regulation (etc.)

The US Securities Exchange Act defines market manipulation as "transactions which create an artificial price or maintain an artificial price for a tradable security".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation
I’ve been reading some crypto- and NFT focused Telegram channels. There’re many people who’d willingly “invest” into something like this.
Man, even in south america driers are a desirable appliance. Most of time we use the sun, but the kids need dry clothes in the dry season too!
The only difference, is that separated driers are kind of considered obsolete here and everybody wants a washer-drier korean machine from samsung or LG.
He didn't deliver food. People picked up whatever they could find cause they felt entitled, and then said... oh look there was a sign here all along.
SQL is not modular (the root cause of why it’s hard to reuse) because it’s declarative. If the underlying data models stay relatively stable, you can reuse code with certain assumptions. There’s a trade off here for sure.
> All of that said, let’s not forget that performance isn’t the only reason people choose to use a Mac over a PC.

No, but that's a huge factor for many people. Or, more accurately, the promise of future performance.

It's a bit like the stock market. People don't invest in the Ford Motor Company because they saw past performance, but because past performance dictates future performance.

Even though I'm not particularly fond of what Apple has become, they seem to create reliably performant hardware, and I anticipate it's how many people consistently feel about Apple. It requires someone else more trustworthy to enter the market to change the balance of trust.
Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/iam-roles-f...
Something I’ve found interesting with cable vs. streaming services is that when cable was the only option, people didn’t like that you had to get the sports package to somehow get the history channel. In addition to this, it’s extremely difficult to turn on and off access to certain cable packages because you’d need to call them. Now though, we have the content split up very piecemeal and I now hear complaints that “there are too many streaming services”. It seems like we got what we asked for as a market but the model is still flawed.
Elon Musk in the exchange above:

> I think I have a pretty deep understanding of what money actually is on a practical day-to-day basis, because of PayPal.

His comments in the exchange seem insightful to me. I assume you didn't bother reading them.
Probably less so if they’d written a Dashboard widget (also a new feature in Tiger) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashcode
My understanding is that purchasing the book is, among other things, supposed to be a publicity stunt that enables them to spur further interest in their project including convincing current IP holders that they are serious about producing new Dune-related content.

https://medium.com/@spicedao/roadmap-timeline-ae319c92505d
Most probably you're using too much soap.
I am the opposite. Almost none of the new Netflix content appeals to me, but I watch re-runs of things like The Office and Seinfeld.
That thread is just describing a long squeeze, which is an mechanism, not manipulation. The allegations in the linked article (against the same guy!) are quite a bit more detailed. And they absolutely are illegal in real money trading on licensed exchanges; whether they constitute crimes in the crypto world is sort of an open question.
Meh, it's more fun than gambling on the superbowl. Put $50 in, and with the superbowl you get an hour of watching a game and maybe come out with $100 or maybe come out with $0

With bitcoin you get to ride the highs and lows for years and maybe come out with nothing, or maybe with $5000
Huh, interesting. Netflix recently slashed its prices in India, that too by a considerable margin.
Later xvidtune was added to easy the process of monitor destruction :)
No, we don't need laws for every edge case that occurs in .0001% of the population. Nor should we rearrange society for these edge cases or pretend they are hugely significant.
Out of curiosity, why do you want to take the Covaxin instead of the ones the US is administering?
Also the German subtitles are often very different from the German audio, apparently translated by completely different people. Makes it very annoying to watch with subtitles on.
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Are patent trolls really such a persistent global problem that they're a nearly guaranteed issue for startup founders? How is this even possible unless someone is quite literally using stolen IP for their business?
I have used those features that you say "Would be nice to have." I didn't realize they weren't ubiquitous. I agree they are excellent.
It’s just manipulation tactics. These things wouldn’t work on intelligent people unless they go all out
This is showing basic cable in the 20-30 range? What company is giving out those prices? Even at promo prices, which are going go up like crazy once the promo period is over, basic cable is still higher, and they have added costs like local broadcast station charges.
> I mean, how would you write a SELECT that was better than: SELECT whatever FROM thisplace?

Haskell's comprehensions. C#'s LINQ. F#'s query providers.

SQL is really not that good actually. It had (and still has) all sorts of limitations that eventually led to new syntax, and has many quirks that require all sorts of workarounds.
Excerpt:

> Yokoi: If things are too realistic, there’s no room for your imagination, and the reality of those faces you thought were beautiful will be revealed. Or to use another common expression, it’s actually more erotic when a woman leaves some skin covered. Even if a video game doesn’t have the power to display very complex graphics, I believe your imagination has the power to transform that perhaps-unrecognizable sprite called a “rocket” into an amazing, powerful, “real” rocket.

> Morikawa: We must not steal from players the ability to add their own imagination to what they see. As designers, we show them the dotted lines where they’re supposed to cut, but we must leave it to the player to do the cutting. If we take that away then there’s no room for imagination.
> Such an innocent looking operator, the simplest of all operations, leading to a function call, a memory allocation and thus a very real potential memory leak

I hadn't considered the memory leak angle of this, and now that you mention it it's clearly a driving concern here. When freeing is explicit, it's a problem to heap-allocate temporaries. (And I guess the addition operator would also require a third operand to supply the allocator?)

I'm still a big fan of destructors, and how they make this problem mostly vanish. But I understand that it's hard to make them efficient without move semantics, and maybe also a global allocator so every object doesn't need to store an allocator pointer? What other interactions am I missing?
This is done in regular stock market too. Fake news, speculation, etc are frequent. Ex: “X giant is acquiring Y” claims with no data to back up.
What’s different in case of crypto?
I haven’t been keeping up with the dynamics of covid spread, I thought covid is mostly spread by close proximity and over water particles. How much of the covid spread is attributed to transmission through air? I am curious because covid also needs enough density of viruses(forgot the term for this) to infect, wonder what happens to the density of the viruses as they go through the hvac system.
i believe there are strange corner cases around x87, but that may have changed since IEE754 got revised last year
> An encrypted disk would be kind of useless in such a device as it would require the user to login every time the device reboots

There is actually a solution for that (shameless plug): https://www.recompile.se/mandos
Me. I don't have an opinion.
- Dagre (deprecated, unfortunately): https://github.com/dagrejs

- Viz.js (via Emscripten): https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js; Online demo: http://viz-js.com/
This ignores the (admittedly under-researched) aspect of autophagy after 12-14 hours of fasting.

It's also not clear from your sources whether there actually was a caloric equivalence in the diets. Dietary patterns can significantly affect base metabolic rate, which is the biggest problem with just caloric restriction, where your base metabolic rate is lowered. This means you eventually stop losing weight while also being restricted to consume fewer calories. It's a vicious cycle.

Anecdotally, you can lose weight with just restricting your feeding window to 8 hours while eating "normally". Perhaps that inadvertently results in caloric restriction, but it feels different. As such, it's more sustainable.
Is Bitcoin already classified as a tradable security or is it still Monopoly money?
I'm this way _for Netflix_. HBO Max and Disney both have an awesome back-catalog of things to revisit, and I'm constantly finding myself watching an old 90s or 00s movie I had forgotten about on a whim, because it's there. The catalog is curated enough to focus on including good stuff, and HBO Max also has all of Batman: TAS.
It's not classified as a security.
SQL can be somewhat reusable through views. Also in your code you can make reusable functions that contain SQL queries. You won't get the best performance reusing the queries this way, but you can put them into a transaction and build up more complex flows from reusable pieces that way
That isn't the problem.
This is the issue:

let x = str.parse()?;

someFunc(x);

The function called here is dependent on what `someFunc` will accept.
That means that I can change what values will be accepted here by changing a completely different piece of code.
Anti-art is actually a thing and kind of interesting, if also arguably also kind of dumb and pointless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-art. It's sort of the equivalent of trolling in the art world, and is usually a meta-commentary on what it means for something to be art.

I wouldn't really say that it makes up much of the art market, though they always get a lot of news attention when they appear.
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Does Netflix? Does anyone?
While I don't entirely agree with you I do think the price of Netflix is getting a little higher than the value we personally get out of it. Our personal breakdown this year (in the UK):

Adults in the house, we are quite picky but if we love it then we will keep watching:

Netflix @£9.99: 2 tv shows, 4-5 films
Apple TV+ @£4.99: 3 tv shows, 2 films
Disney Plus @£7.99: 1 tv show, Loads of movies
Amazon Prime @£7.99: 3 tv shows, quite a few films, plus "free" shipping!

Kids (3 and 7):

Netflix: They watch quite quite allot but we don't give them free access even to the kids profile (*see note)
Apple TV+: Only 1 tv show, but haven't really explored.
Disney Plus: All of it, I think they have "completed" it!...
Amazon Prime: None

Disney is by far the best value for money for us as a family, Apple TV+ for us grownups is best value. I don't think we would get rid of any but Netflix is probably now the least value.

Point is, Netflix know from their retention metrics that you only need a couple of shows that a customer loves to keep them subscribed. Add in some content to amuse their kids and it's a done deal.

*Note: Netflix seems to still show image for adult shows in search results in the kids profile even if not available when clicked on, some of this images can be quite aggressive. Hence not giving the kids free access
I still have a working 2007 16” MacBook Pro (fully loaded 4GB of RAM, yeah!). It’s not just the software that was better but the hardware too. That keyboard has so much travel compared to these newer ones, it’s crazy. It actually feels like a real keyboard.
`{}` has always been special in format strings, so no real change there. If you've got a string that happens to contain "Hello {x}!" and you want to print it, you must template it in, as the format string needs to be a literal:

print!("{}", hello_string)

Or as others have pointed out, you can double-up the braces:

print!("Hello {{x}}!")

Then if you want to be cute, you could do something like this:

print!("Hello {x}!", x="{x}")

Note that the named parameter syntax isn't new -- what's new is capturing named parameters from a scope that's larger than the format macro:

let x = "{x}"
print!("Hello {x}!")

And also note that it's a compile-time error to have an unused format parameter in a string, so that last code example wouldn't have compiled at all in older versions of rust.
Product managers don't build things.
I'd have to look at my phone. I just know I installed some and got ads in the games, and it made me unsubscribe.
I learned FORTH on the Apple ][ too! 6502 FORTH (and others) have a great RPN assembler that is nice for writing the performance sensitive and hardware accessing parts of your program. It was perfect for writing stuff like terminal emulators.

The original LaserWriter was actually a more powerful computer than the Macs that used it, at the time of its release.

Debugging on a laser printer definitely was a challenged, and used lots of paper.

You're right that NeWS made it a lot easier to debug PostScript code interactively without killing trees. It had a command line debugger, but was great for making visual interfaces too! Here's a visual PostScript programming and debugging environment I made with NeWS:

The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines — October 1989

Abstract

The PSIBER Space Deck is an interactive visual user interface to a graphical programming environment, the NeWS window system. It lets you display, manipulate, and navigate the data structures, programs, and processes living in the virtual memory space of NeWS. It is useful as a debugging tool, and as a hands on way to learn about programming in PostScript and NeWS.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo...
Graphviz is one of my favorite tools. I use it for most of my diagraming https://github.com/dylanowen/mdbook-graphviz and I use it as debugging output when I'm working through graph problems.
Well, if other professors are tracking attendance, that is probably enough to give the kids no choice but to go.

But I don't see where it says that all students showed up. Is it on the first class (what's perfectly understandable, as they didn't know all of that), or is it for the entire course?
Yep, every abstraction introduced has added cost, in some cases. The fastest way of executing a program is to build special hardware with the perfect state changes of a set of transistors — I am not joking.
Air combat would logically take place when air superiority is contested. If there's no contest (as one side is overwhelmingly superior), then the strategy would rather shift to ground-based anti-aircraft defense.

It seems that during active conflicts the main job of air forces remains focused on causing lots of damage on the ground rather than sweeping the skies clear. Just as in old bi-plane days, drive by and dump hand grenades into tranches from above...

On the other hand, in peace time, sweeping skies is the main job. I think each successful intercept of enemy craft or in-air detection should be counted as a kill-surrogate.

Sure there are plenty of aces on current duty by this count in Northern Europe airforces and in Alaska/Arctic zones, where intercepts of Russia's warring air-cosmic-force activities have dramatically increased in frequency recently.

I remember watching some newscast about a politician meeting at an airbase somewhere in Lithuania, with a NATO fighter jet as a background; the in-progress meeting suddenly had to be cancelled, as we could see pilots all dressed up running to the jet to scramble it for an intercept alert. Here it is:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41459/presidential-pre...
Fantastic turn of phrase. Hanlon's Razor + Clarke's Third Law
I think a lot about the issues you have touched on here. What you refer to as, "reality-defiance", I call, "knowledge immunity".

Long story short, by my estimation what has "arrested this direction of travel" and "reinstated local bubbles of thought" is fear, the mind killer, and where they've headed, is back into superstition, global superstition, where they substitute whatever comfortable story, for whatever uncomfortable reality.
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Canceling is so easy. This future is the one I wanted.
You only need to sympathetic because you have let yourself become jaded by your anecdotal experience.
Completely disagree. This is about power, they are raising the price simply because they can and people will stay on. They've got a long way to go to increase it before the elasticity changes.

The business model was never about being really underpriced, that was just a way to acquire customers.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

^Great and accessible write up on the misconceptions of aerosol transmission and droplets.
How many are subscribing to competitors to watch backlog? If they are, it's going to be short lived where folks subscribe for a month or two, hit the target backlogs in binge mode, and move along.

I have a few streaming services and rarely ever am I watching old content (the key stuff I've already consumed). I subscribe to services for their new content, not their old catalog. Maybe I'm the exception and not the norm of the typical subscriber.

I blame the lack of investment in target shows and focus on broad short lived and quickly canceled shows to the decline. I understand their business model catering to short attention spans but it puts me off a large swath of their content. Unless it's a movie or mini series with full conclusion, I tend to skip right over the content anymore no matter how interesting the story may seem to be. The last thing I want is to get drawn in and invested in a story only to have wasted my time and have the remainder canceled. Entertainment is part of it but many people want a beginning to end story of some sort. If you want to cater to short attention spans, good luck competing with YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok content.
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But you still don't get content a la carte; Paramount's service comes with Nickelodeon and CBS football whether you want them or not, and they continue to push their favorite broadcast stuff no matter why you originally subscribed.
One awful thing I've seen a few times is people who put data into a database in a format meant to make it easier for working with a particular platform, such as serialized Java dates (or even dates as longs).

It completely ties you to one implementation and precludes using the data for other things such as reporting and alerts or even ad hoc queries.
I'm about in your boat, except with HBO Max instead of Apple TV+ (their shows aren't as appealing to me). And as those numbers climb and I look at one to cut, Netflix is the easiest. That's the whole point, though: Netflix is going to be the service on the chopping block before these others.
Cold humid air (outside) becomes dry when heated (inside).
The Visa/MasterCard/Amex tax is real, and large. Hopefully we can find a way to end it soon. Payment transfers really should be nearly free.

But deals like this are not the way to get it done, they just make it less competitive for small businesses.
https://github.com/hpcc-systems/hpcc-js-wasm was pretty easy to integrate into my last project
Two things:

1. Because crypto exchanges are also clearinghouses, liquidations tend to cascade.

2. It's much more blatant in the crypto markets. See the DRW lawsuit linked in the article - the CFTC is aware that DRW is doing similar things in the CME futures market, but the extent to which it's done is smaller.
He knows more than I do, is surrounded by people smarter than I am and has a track record of success and overcoming failures. If I thought I shouldn't listen to Elon Musk because I thought I knew better, then I think my chances of understanding anything about this would be greatly diminished.
No, but they heavily invested in it
In recent years I'm too busy to focus on watching something new, so usually I'll put on something I've already seen a hundred times for background "watching". Currently rewatching Silicon Valley, before that was Saved By The Bell (ahh, nostalgia).
True, but one trial is not like the other. Any specific 'form factors' (like the ones mentioned above) that play a role in deciding to start one? Or does everything come down to the product as presented on the accompanying website?
HSBC and Barclaycard I agree, but your MBNA experience is the opposite of mine - they closed my Visa and, I thought, completely went to Mastercard!

Regarding the overall proportion, when the Amazon announcement was originally made Which? listed all the retail banks and other card issuers. MasterCard far outstrips Visa at a ratio of 3:1 (15 to 5): https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/amazons-visa-credit-car...
Sketchviz look great. Is there an option to export vector graphics (for example svg)?
CI for me has to access repositories. Eg. downloading libraries from PyPI, Maven, NPM, etc...

For private repositories, that means access to credentials. Probably read-only credentials, but it requires network access.

Would you be suggesting that everyone should commit all dependencies?
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