skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix has produced a lot of fairly solid content. Not at the level of the all-time great prestige TV shows like the ones you mentioned, but enough to keep a lot of subscribers happy for long periods of time at an accessible price. House of Cards (at least until the Kevin Spacey scandal blew up), Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black, BoJack Horseman, Disenchantment, etc are a few that come to mind that I watched and enjoyed.

I think Netflix has two big issues. The first is the way they drop seasons all at once prevents the natural cycle of pre-episode hype, post-episode interviews, speculation and leaks, fan anticipation, fan arguments (ship wars, etc), etc. Fan culture can't develop around this content as easily because there's never any breathing space for fans to collectively sit with the story so far. The shows that become a cultural force like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones need us to keep coming back to the conversation every week. They have us talking about what happened last week and will happen this week with our colleagues at work and around the dinner table. How can these Netflix IPs enter stable orbit in the cultural zeitgeist when they're once-a-year events? It devalues the work, positioning it more like a movie that you watch and then forget rather than a story you become invested in over a long period of time.

Full season drops also allow people to binge a whole season of content for a single month's subscription and then immediately churn (ask me how I know). I assume they have some data-driven reasons for doing this, but it makes absolutely no sense to me.

Besides that, I think they should put more wood behind fewer arrows. They've developed a reputation for aggressively cancelling smaller shows with passionate followings which makes a lot of people not even want to bother until something has become an established mainstream success. I think of them now as the Google of content-creation, putting out a lot of solid (but not amazing) products and then cancelling them once people start to grow attached.
That’s a little over the top, eh? They disclosed within 4 days of discovery and implemented better security controls all over. They are probably the only major retailer with chip and pin payments in the US, for example.

If you think they were unique or egregious in terms of 3rd party access to networks, i am afraid that you will find reality disappointing.
agreed.

brain-as-a-radio-antenna is a common trope amongst those who would believe that meatspace isn't capable of generating consciousness alone (always looking for some sort of elan vital, to equate with another pursuit for the magic stuff of life).

From a purposely scientific perspective, we have to begin with the working assumption that materialism is true, until such point that it is conclusively proven false.

There is no evidence that the brain works in any way like an antenna, at least insofar as any electromagnetic waves or other such messaging systems supported by the physics of our current world as we know it.

Thus, the brain-as-antenna thinking necessarily pre-supposes an other-worldly explanation; it assumes what it's trying to prove.

Even if it were true (HIGHLY unlikely), we can't begin with that as the starting point in our search for understanding it. Otherwise, our brains are incredibly adept at shaping our thoughts and concepts to fit those prescribed notions of animacy and otherworldliness.

It's no wonder that many pseudoscientific principles BEGIN with the presupposition that you have to be willing to believe in order for the effect to become apparent.
> Except by telling every speaker of Arabic and Hebrew saying they want some of that delicious “plain text” action to go screw themselves

The problem is not with Arabic or Hebrew. The problem is that this modifier affects other languages and characters in a way the vast majority of people clearly wouldn't expect (otherwise the story wouldn't make it to the front page).

> Specify the dominant direction of your user-input-containing elements, people, and/or enclose the input in U+2068 FSI ... U+2069 PDI (after balancing outstanding bidi controls inside).

The level of arrogance packed in this sentence is just mind-boggling.

There are many other "Easter eggs" in various basic technologies. I can assure you that no matter how high of an opinion you have about yourself, if you write any production code at all, you are guaranteed to be using something that contains other Easter egg design decisions. You're not aware of them, you're not mitigating them and therefore whether they will explode on you is mostly just a matter of luck.

Minimizing "Easter egg" design decisions is the only long-term viable way to get complexity in our already complex environment under control.
I'm not going to take the time to go through all your links, so I just picked one I thought was interesting: McConnell's "naked power grab" comment. Here is the view from the other side: https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-democratic-bill-el...

From what I read, McConnell thinks most federal workers vote democrat. This makes sense in that if you work for the government you are probably pro-big-government. If they got a week off, they would just use that time to campaign for democrats, giving democrats an extra advantage. Also, it would result in an undue burden on the taxpayer, apparently to the tune of 4 billion a year: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/04/18/new...

Here is a more comprehensive rebuttal of this H.R. 1 bill: https://republicans-cha.house.gov/democrat-politician-protec...

And here is the an op-ed written by McConnell himself: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/call-hr-1-what-it-is...

I'm not going to claim McConnell is right, but I will claim that from a quick search I can find there is a reasonable other side to this story different from "Republicans want less voters".

Since I've already spent too much time on this thread, I'll just say I have convinced someone to be more open-minded in the future and be willing to research more than one side of the issue.
That's a cool website. Thanks for putting it together. I plug my nose every time I drive through NWI. And I have seen oil slicks on the water as far away as New Buffalo, Union Pier, etc
I honestly didn't think I noticed the "ghosting" in LCDs until I started using a 144hz display. Now I can't unsee the mouse trails on most LCD displays.
Use ublock origin and hide the html element
ZH became famous to Wall St. insiders after they outed Goldman:

https://nymag.com/guides/money/2009/59457/
I use cow milk in my coffee and almond milk in my bland cereal of choice. I’m not lactose intolerant, but too much milk definitely feels “heavy”. The almond milk plus some sultanas substitutes nicely and is very cheap. Mostly its not for the taste, it just makes breakfast easy and efficient so I can focus on fancy stuff later in the day.
Ah yes, the home X-Ray machine. Soft of course. better stand in front of the tube, at least the phosphor coating absorbs some of them.
I thought housing was a bubble in 2005.

But the prices keep on going up.
One thing I think that SpaceX proves is that money is not the only solution to all problems. In the pure world of theory of government spending, all producers are as good as any other, everyone is replaceable by everyone, there are no great men. The wild success of SpaceX is a great example of how this is not actually the case.

Billions spent anywhere else would hardly do anything and would not be met with criticism of the failed contractors tasked with carrying out the job. Instead, there would mearly be calls for more money and time and that the same results would have been achieved with any other contractor.
Social media stock?
Thank you. While I don't want to distract from the topic here, I do really appreciate your feedback and you trying it out, and would love to talk more if you'd like to reach out! Speaking generally, the world needs more people working on search, and I think there is a lot of room for completely new approaches.
Contrarian proposition here:

The idea that only sociopaths succeed is an artefact of what we observe. And what we observe is driven by which narratives get turned into stories about business success, into hagiographies about politicians and businesspeople, and into folklore.

Everyone wants to talk about what a horrible person Steve Jobs was, nobody wants to talk about any of the tens of thousands of multi-millionaires who are running decent businesses, and who may not be saintly figures, but they aren't asking new hires to sign away their right to a bathroom break, either.

There's a really fantastic book I recommend everyone read about success, it was popular a couple of decades ago:

The Millionaire Next Door: http://www.thomasjstanley.com

It was recommended to me by a man who was a centi-millionaire at the time. He owned one car, a Volvo Estate, and his partner would drive him to the commuter train to his office in a building he owned and where he could easily have as many parking spaces as he wanted.

He was driven and very successful. I asked him if the money changed anything. He told me:

"Yes. We used to drive to [Grateful] Dead concerts and camp. Now we can afford to fly, and even take our friends."

The message of the book is that the reality of moderately wealthy people and business owners is very, very different from what sells copies of business magazines.

I believe that very strongly to this exact day. Also, I work for a CEO is is not a complete sociopath, so I'm up to n=2 for my experience.
Maybe this one will be different but usually this kind of acquisition marks the peak of the company and from them on things will go downhill while the acquiring company absorbs them and enterprisifies them.
YouTube CEO wants governments pass laws to have more control over online speech
> Something else is going on.

Growth.

In the last 40 years, the US population has picked up 100 million people. 227M vs 329M [1].

By 2050, the US population is estimated to be 379 million (+50M), and by 2100, it will be 434 million (+ an additional 55M) [2].

That's a lot of housing need to fill.

[1] Google "US population"; I'm not sure if these figures includes those here on non-permanent visas, but if not, it would probably increase the growth even more.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
Digital ocean makes a hundred fifty million more in revenue and 50 million more in profits. I don't think digital ocean will acquire them or merge.
Bored Ape Yacht Club members want to build an empire, starting with weed
если (!кои(с)) авост(«тупой оператор»);

You wouldn’t want to live in that world, would you? I know I wouldn’t, and I have that as my native script and most of my filesystem in Latin. I’ve spent my childhood with a computer that ran a VGA-chargen-reprogramming hack at startup and later had to maintain a website stored in an encoding designed to preserve legibility after Latinization through amputation of the 8th bit (in case you’ve ever wondered where the illogical order of KOI-8 comes from). I do not want that world back, however fondly I remember my 286.
Enzymes are proteins that accelerate chemical reactions.

Genetic engineering is already used to manufacture some chemicals by modifying the DNA of microbes to produce the necessary enzymes. The microbes then consume the precursor chemicals and synthesise the product.

Indeed every natural bioactive chemical is manufactured by proteins in the form of enzymes.

So the mRNA for the necessary enzymes could be given to a person, and their own cells would become short term chemical factories for their medication.

The problem is getting the cells to synthesise the right amount of a drug, and mRNA is quickly destroyed so would require repeated dosing just like regular drug administration. For something permanent CRISPR-Cas9 would be required to edit the actual DNA of the cells.

A DIY biohacker cured his lactose intolerance by engineering a virus to modify his cells to produce the lactase enzyme in his digestive tract. I think the results lasted several months in that case but could be wrong, may have been permanent. Video of the project on YouTube.
Put it inside a <span dir="auto"> ?

Anyways unicide category Cf is probably what you are looking for, but blocking them is probably wrong as they serve an important function.
i hope this gets through.itd currently a pain to rewrite the signalling logic everytime I change provider
That would be my guess. I will be happy to be wrong.
How incredibly frustrating! I empathize. You're not the only one who has experienced this sort of Kafkaesque behavior from mods on Reddit, where no matter what you explain, no matter what supporting evidence you provide, no matter what reality is, you will be willfully misread in order to justify a case against you.
Yep, there are already classes of therapeutic proteins, the most notorious of which is insulin. With mRNA tech, you unlock even more intracellular proteins that were previous impossible to get through the cell wall.
Sounds like all the Superfund sites across the country, for most of which remediation is on hold due to cost, etc. Except there are no placards. It's not altogether unlikely you have one in your backyard.
I think you're probably safe assuming Akamai will ruin Linode. I went through this once before with Slicehost, and had to move to Linode once Rackspace made Slicehost unusable.
Lots of comments on how people now need to move off Linode, but I cannot imagine Akamai bought this to kill it off. It actually makes me happy as Akamai is a very professional company with a lot of networking talent. I hope they level up Linode while keeping the best parts.
Here's one you might enjoy. A phase transition that would destroy the universe as we know it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc4pxTjii9c
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The problem with all those free static site hosting providers is that you never know when they'll go away entirely, or change things in a way that'll break your website if you're not around to migrate it.
I have been a Linode customer for most of their existence, and I mostly don't have to think about them. Which is awesome. I sure hope that doesn't change...
The best unicorns lose that much money in a year. Profits are for people who don’t “get it”
> The availability of universal health insurance is the "simplest" explanation for Canada's lower infections and deaths, said Ross Upshur, a professor of public health at the University of Toronto.

I can see how care can mitigate deaths, but not lower infections. Anyone have insights?
True in the ones to dozens of dollars. I remember in the Beanies Baby era they were going for hundreds or thousands though.

I actually knew somebody with an extremely valuable collection in the late 90s whose house was broken into. Only the BBs were stolen, which speaks to their value being well beyond that of regular stuffed toys at the time.
Musk is moving the moochers’ cheese.
I find this unlikely. It would be a massive waste of capital to have acquired a developer-focused company such as as Linode only to make it, “contact us for pricing.” I think it’s more likely that they will sell the CDN product as another service within Linode.
I do think its kind of sad that the PUA doesnt have various areas with different properties (RTL, whitespace, joining, etc)
If it helps, I only use the web desktop for some email and work stuff (like stack overflow, github, documentation etc) plus reading journal papers. For HN I only use my phone (I'm literally in front of my laptop typing this on my phone). But then again HN is the only social network I use.
I didn't see a direct download link for the image anywhere, the only documented method is the extension.
if you don't try, you don't exist

they should be proud to have such a page

do you have yours? oh sorry, you don't even try
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The average salary for a Registered Nurse is $75K. Perhaps it should be higher but that's hardly pennies; it's well above the median.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/registered-nurse/...
When the users are such a* lickers, merely appearing to care amounts to exactly this much.
To be or to become. Very soon I will dismiss somebody for first time in my life, I feel very sorry on personal level, but every day I am detaching my emotions more and more from that decision. Its business, it is what it is.
Any good database for creative commons/free textbooks or technical books?
In answer to both parts of your post: you're a clear communicator (you outlined the situation concisely and effectively, and everyone commenting in response so far has found a common understanding of that) and you're approachable and thoughtful. It'll take time but those are valuable compounding traits to have; carry on with them and try to hone them.
I used a PATA->mSATA adapter in my 12" PowerBook, a 120GB mSATA was only $25 or so. But I did overpay for a 64 MB CF card for my 200LX palmtop.
Wow you stepped on every single information landmine possible.

The NYT had commentators reporting on what they thought was true. They have done many years of introspection about their rule in the Iraq war, this is not what "perpetuator of misinformation" do - they double down.

> Snopes and Politifact have outright lied and no one cares.

What is one thing either site has gotten wrong (objectively, not your opinion) and refuses to correct ? Everyone makes mistakes, how we respond to those mistakes is the distinction we should care about.

> This isn't about who's right and who wrong. Its about power.

Sounds like projection of what you believe the digital information space to be.
> You, as a citizen, do not have an inherent right to vote

Incorrect. Every citizen can vote, without any additional barriers designed to prevent them from doing so. Poll tax, literacy tests, ID laws, etc. They are all illegal in that they deny the RIGHT to vote.

If voter fraud were common, you might have a point about needed to "prove you are who you claim to be". The problem is, it's incredibly rare. And there are checks and audits done after the fact to ensure fraud is low. You simply do not need to check ID at the polls to ensure someone is not voting fraudulently.

And you know this.
Since the mid 90s Internet Explorer & Netscape had aiff support and autoplay and Javascript 1.0. We had some good times.

https://auth0.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript/
Hi, I am the author of the post which parts did you find hard to follow?
I would start looking for a new Linode now. This is a story we all know the ending of. Akamai is nearly 10,000 people and is therefore incapable of operating at the human scale that made Linode good.
I liked the quote by Octavia Butler: "The police don't protect you, they avenge you."
i don't live in the US
I originally added that phase for polite reasons too, hope I didn't come off as preachy or egotistical. I always fret about teaching topics like these lest I come off as a know-it-all.
It's not a comparison, but if you're looking for a lightweight RTOS and trying to decide between the two Zephyr looks appealing at first because you think you're getting a lot of facilities that are equivalent to a Linux-class kernel.

And then you discover you're not getting any of that.

If all Zephyr DT is doing is making a fancy header file for me, I'd rather just build my own and skip the learning curve.
We'd love to better support PGP and multipart/encrypted emails - we have been focusing on nailing our UX and our client experience. But we have grand plans[1] to improve the underlying protocol, and part of that is making e2e encryption the default experience.

[1]: https://www.shortwave.com/blog/future-of-messaging/
Anecdotally, there is a social status attached to iPhones, as seen by my nephew's experience with teenagers and early 20ers. All the android users I know are older users who grew up with the Google ecosystem.
Understanding CPU on AIX Power SMT Systems
Another anecdote about him:

He once stopped by my small apartment to pick up a document I wrote for a pitch or financing or something. He looked around at my furnishings, and said:

"This reminds me of the apartment we had in Montréal when we were still in university. We had some good times there."

Very much not a sociopath. Yet very successful.
I'd also like to see a comparison of smoking rates, alcoholism, substance abuse, and so on.

This tbings compromise health, and Covid does better against the compromised.

It feels like it's been largely a pandemic of the compromised. Unfortunately, the media and the politicians don't have to capital to deliver such facts.
Musk brain-chip company Neuralink admits to killing 8 monkeys in experiments
Intelligence as a planetary scale process
> how do you "suddenly" die of Crohn's?

Why do you want to know? I know a doctor in India who can help arrange that if you need this kind of service. He's not cheap though. /s
You don't need to be a "sociopath" to cultivate advantageous behaviors. Just reorient your frame on what counts as "good". Most people are naturally limited because they assume good = "noone is offended, people obeyed manners, surface level politeness." Reframe your understanding of the world so good = "maximize efficiency and removed limits to human potential"
Couldn't there also be a shortage of homes where people want them to be? A house in the city and a house in the boonies are not exchangeable
Browsers gotta browse.

They can request but you don't have to respond.
You are the one who compared the two. Pointing out points on which they are not analogous is perfectly fair game. Calling an inappropriate comparison whataboutism when you are the one who raised the comparison is dishonest.
Customer support really is top notch. Linode and DO are so close/competitive on most things, but the DO support is garbage and they will screw you over with no remorse. Linode on the other hand will answer you with a human who cares. Even if it's a stupid PEBKAC issue.

I may end up moving to AWS, but I'm dreading the pricing. Just estimating alone you damn near have to hire an expert. There's dozens of different ways to screw yourself and pay too much.
I think in 2012 the tech community's sentiment was actually that Bitcoin was really cool and definitely useful, since it was new and did things in a practical application that we hadn't seen before. It's interesting that hindsight clouds that, it has been viewed negatively for years now but it's not that old yet. (Either way, your main point stands of course.)
Multi-lingual search results in general; Google (and FB) just for some reason cannot comprehend that someone might have reasons to search in multiple languages or even regions. For instance, I at one point was an editor/fact-checker for an academic publisher and one project involved checking a lot of information from official government sources around the world, and Google did not know what to do with that.

Hell, I'd love to have the option to make the search results be completely language agnostic.
Learning Behind Closed Doors
chrome os is much nicer and easier to use than windows/macos

too bad they focused on the web, it could have been the perfect alternative to windows, they missed a huge opportunity

Chrome OS Flex sounds like the right approach, at least you don't need to buy a new HW.. the name on the other hand.. it's a pretty bad name
Realistically speaking I think any breakthroughs that could make use of these stem cells could also create them.
Previous discussion, currently #1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30352772
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(total layperson here but) why is mass measured in electron volts?

(also i would have expected an electron to be... 1 electron volt?)
Isn't Reddit slated for an IPO?