skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this idea of forced interaction with people we might not like is ridiculous and outmoded.

I like interacting with family and friends. I do not like going to game nights or parties to meet new people. I don't like going to bars. I don't like being forced to interact with coworkers.

So yeah, I recognize we're social animals and we have to interact to be healthy, but technology has made it such that it's now easier to be selective about who you interact with.

That's a huge benefit. Why should I have to be forced to get along with some passive aggressive or outright aggressive asshole in the workplace more than necessary. I believe hanging out with such people who make you miserable causes premature death. I shouldn't have to change my attitude about such things if I'm happy with the friends and family I got and technology enables me.
No, it hasn't been a backslide, it has been always like this.

While media in the west will pick certain stories, you can find such events all across the political spectrum.

A much lauded and young people supported newcomer party used the police against the members of the party in power at the national level as soon as they came to power in a state and got hold of the police there.

It is sad but when courts won't act in time, this abuse of law will keep happening.
A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5mm private jet
> Also, now that I know they just buy stolen credentials, and don't even have the talent to actually hack their way into the systems, I'm underwhelmed by their achievements.

It seems to be a common sentiment on hacker news, that they're script kiddies and what they did "doesn't count" as real hacking. But doesn't that just makes things worse? It means anybody can break into anything, given basic social and computing skills. There is clearly a very big complacency problem in our industry and maybe we should do something about it.
Apparently it works with virtualization at least with KVM according to https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace/wiki/Supported-pla... & https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace/wiki/How-could-mag......
What did the printing press do in early modern Europe?
My point about "weak typing" is this: if someone says "hey, I'm designing a new language, its type system is going to be weak", they gave you no information whatsoever about the type system other than maybe "some people on the Internet will probably complain about it".

That's why it's useless to say things like "it's about as weak as a static typing system can be" and "has been historically considered weak".

If you had explained your objection to C's type system (like you have now), I wouldn't have said anything. And I've been on the Internet long enough to have seen C's typing is historically referred to as "weak" because X for *many* values of X, so I disagree that that's the only or even main objection.
Looks like a sentence merged from separate ones. In that context, you could derive multiple intentions. So while not grammatically correct, it could still be useful.

- "i want to play that music one again"

I want to play that music again.
I want to play that one again.
I want that music again.
Play that music again.
Play that one again.
I see. This conversation tends to be focused around tech hubs, so I figured you were talking about tech hubs by default. Which goes starkly in contrast to my exprience with senior developers.

At least in tech hubs, it seems like by the 30's they'd burn out. Those still kicking in their 40's seem to still enjoy their work, IC and mangement alike.
A lot of people will surely have strong opinions on topics like this. And if true, then those strong opinions and voices are needed.

But I don't think Hacker News is the right place for this since there is not even a single bit of tech relevance in this story.
It is the same logic as why we switched from "fireman" to "firefighter" or "stewardess" to "fight attendant" decades ago. Because some people find the old word offensive. The only real debate is the size of the "some" and whether that "some" is small enough to ethically ignore.
Podcasts + YouTube have made legacy media close to irrelevant now . Even someone like Lex Fridman brings in bigger numbers than cable tv.
Wow I thought 2022 nobody would still be so 90s in this regard.

Most of those who pirate, wouldn't pay and since the content is not going away because somebody pirates it, it can't be stealing.

And Jesus...please...it's not like you're starving out there. Start producing original stories. We don't even need all that fancy and expensive CGI crap. Just start writing properly and in a creative way. Pay THOSE people more IF they deliver (though I'm not sure anymore if you really understand what's missing here with all your sequels and remakes...). We're not the audience you should cry to, go to those managers who messed up that market so piracy is coming back again.
So i get annoyed that my computer doesn't go to sleep sometimes because some website is playing a video. Is there a simple way to tell Linux/Gnome/Chrome to ignore videos and go to sleep anyway? I don't watch long videos on this computer so I hate to come back into my office and find my screen never locked because some website played a video i wasn't even watching.
>> Gradual typing is a type system in which some variables and expressions may be given types and the correctness of the typing is checked at compile time [...]
> This is definitely not what Python is doing.

When I read "compile time", I mentally replace it with "before runtime". There isn't a real compilation step in Python, so it's reasonable to accept static code analysis as part of "compile time" in that definition.

The point is that type annotations will let a static analysis tool make sure that the program is correctly typed. This can be enabled easily in most of the modern IDEs and editors. You could just decide to block the code's deployment in CI/CD if the type checker raises issues, for example.
I'm aware that Netflix offers a tiered plan structure, but it seems pretty lackluster to me. Really the only differentiator between plans is the availability of HD or Ultra HD [1]. That isn't much of a value proposition to a viewer like me, since I only watch Netflix on my laptop. I'd be curious to see what other tiered models Netflix has considered, if any.

One would think there's room for a Netflix equivalent of Amazon Prime, where you pay a yearly fee instead of a monthly fee (as the author mentions), for which you get a discount off the monthly rate for essentially "buying in bulk", as well as early access to original content, and maybe even get access to content that non-Prime subscribers can't access at all.

Netflix's strategy contains several apparent contradictions that I'm unable to make sense of. For example, charging by the month seems to conflict with releasing an entire season of content at once. If you're going to charge per-month, then as the author mentioned, switching to a weekly-release model seems like the smart move, so you can squeeze more months out of a viewer who sees that content as "appointment viewing". If you're going with a "binge-release" model, I would think you'd charge per-year instead.

Another contradiction- simultaneously raising subscription rates and cracking down on password sharing seem to conflict with each other. The more you raise your prices, the more you incentivize people to share passwords.

1. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926
russia is our way out of this timeline
>> That is a problem that was already solved. I've personally bought things from foreign countries (in person, and via mail order) with a credit card.

> Try to buy something from not-so-friendly urisdiction. And you will see the difference between storytelling and business.

Give an actual example, rather than a vague hand-waving hypothetical.

Some random points:

1. For mail order: paying is only part of it. Shipping is just as important. Are you hypothesizing a "not-so-friendly [j]urisdiction" where international payment difficult but international mail is easy?

2. For in person: would the person prefer my crisp American dollars or dicking around with Bitcoin addresses and waiting hours for transactions to confirm?

3... I could go on.

My general problem with cryptocurrency "use cases" are they tend to assume the utility of cryptocurrency, ignore alternative solutions, and latch on to some narrow aspect of a situation when zooming out even a little would reveal contradictions and problems.
I'm also a fan of Shapr3d on my iPad Pro it's a great app.
"Use of the format "user:password" in the userinfo field is deprecated."

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt

FYI
Was it Evan himself who came up with stories?
Wasn’t Salman Rushdie’s satanic verses banned as well?
“How Computers Really Work” by Matthew Justice. [1]

I enjoyed this book because every chapter includes hands-on hardware and software experiments for you to see the concept described in action.

[1] https://www.howcomputersreallywork.com/
Do you mean the chosen page layout, the attribution of different classes of information in different specific parts of the page?

It does look quite clear, well thought and well structured.
This is just plain ageism; there is nothing “adjacent” about it. It makes a generally untenable correlation between your age with some other trait that has no bearing on your ability to do the job, then bases decisions using that correlation. The result is discrimination based on your age, plain and simple.
Why should the country suffer the fanatic beliefs of a few rioters, have we not tried to settle that once and for all in 1947 at a huge price.
> Our society just doesn't have the concept of racism

I'd say "racism" those days is a fairly weird word that I've seen infrequently applied as an umbrella term covering many different things.

It's almost certainly true that there is virtually no "classical" (black vs white) racism there. Russia never had any significant fraction of black population, and the flavors of slavery were quite different from the US. When Russian sees a black person, while their inner voice would surely say "this person is an alien", there's most likely would be no immediate derogatory prejudice involved - because to best of my awareness it was never instilled, at least not in the Soviet and post-Soviet mindspace.

But in Russia there surely is something similar, just of a different flavor - again, because of different history and societal composition. Say, doubtlessly there are tons of prejudices based on ethnicity - just remember how many derogatory names and jokes are there (and always were) for neighboring nations such as Ukrainians (this is so fucked up!), Georgians, Tajiks or Uzbeks; or Russian ethniticies - especially Chechens (this nationality is pretty touchy conversation subject).
I appreciate that you're being positive but with media companies I'm much more cynical.

I think we're going to see a price increase to stay ad free or an option to have the same price with advertising. So it will be a price increase to keep your same service ad free.
> There are some use cases where a rental car or train tickets just don't cut it

I get trains, but what are some of these car-requiring scenarios where a rental won't cut it?
>9/11 really was plotted by Islamists who do actually hate us for our freedoms, since to them our freedom amounts to a rejection of God's law, the soul of heresy, for which the punishment is death.

Osama Bin Laden's own motivations for 9/11 had more to do with American imperialism in the Middle East and less to do with "rejection of God's Law". This isn't speculation, but from the horse's mouth. The "hate us for our freedom" was propaganda by Bush, and anyone who only looks at that, without studying the history of American imperialism in the middle east, starting from the coup of Iran, ends up in the backwards conclusion that Islam is a violent religion (or at least any more violent than any other Abrahamic religion).

Please bear in mind that "rejection of God's law, the soul of heresy, for which the punishment is death" is also a major tenet in all Abrahamic religions. Secondly, there are plenty of Americans who are pining for nuclear war with Russia over Ukrainians; but somehow the blowback of nearly 50 years of foreign intervention by the CIA wouldn't be a motivation for anti-American sentiment in the middle east and instead "they just hate us for our freedom".
Fair point. I guess the ideal for getting actual "culture fit" would be for the good applications to somehow reach the team needing the new hire without being filtered for "culture" by a completely unrelated team elsewhere in the company. Come to think of it, I believe that's what an in-house referral is...

Hopefully someone becomes rich for solving that problem without needing a friend of a friend to get your foot in the door.
> This doesn't make much sense. MSSQL does these already I think (except the first)

We tested all of these before taking the time to do the rewriting, and no, either they don't, or they way they did it isn't good enough. You can say I'm lying if you want, I'm not going to spend time arguing about it.
I’m looking forward to birthing-person-in-law jokes.
By deleting your comment you're depriving people of the chance to evaluate whether the downvotes really are an echo chamber or a reasonable reaction to reprehensible statements. If you're confident that what you wrote was reasonable, and HN's reaction unreasonable, it'd be a lot better to leave the comment up.
Good example we can explore!

So in this case there are a lot of differences:

Comparing TE with Yamaha is a pretty massive difference in size of engineering teams and overall engineering knowledge. In the 80s the products, while definitely complex, had some advantages: back then you could get very simple and precise parts from many manufacturers because you had more small chip foundries available. seriously, try and find options for some of the bread and butter chips and you go crazy. The industry has consolidated most functionality into complex SoC parts which increase the bugs. The OP-1 is all run on an ADI Blackfin and even ADI was quite impressed by how much they got running. The graphics, the peripherals, the audio, everything. I was quite impressed!

You’d think that the tools got better but… honestly? Not really. The complexity of the chips has grown dramatically faster than the ability of the tools to simplify development. I can give tons and tons of examples of this in this particular industry, even with that exact chip. You pay for cheap chips in development and engineering hours

Battery or mobile products are no joke. Small products are no joke. Not only do you have to optimize around cost/performance but also around power considerations. Each major variable you add to development isn’t additive, it isn’t even multiplicative. It’s very difficult to compare apples to oranges here

Then you have overall price… the TG77 would have been roughly 2700$ adjusting for inflation (from 300,000 yen in 1989)

What comparable products do we have in that price range? Those are better comparisons

Just some thoughts. There’s no one right answer to this but if you think you can make a better product for the cost there might just be a business opportunity there!
I don't, actually. I pay for a number of things that I feel deliver value. I've bought movies and TV off of amazon video/youtube. I pay for some podcasts. I buy audiobooks off of Audible and eBooks from kindle (despite these being even more expensive and more convenient to pirate than movies/TV). I've commissioned some graphic design stuff for personal use. Though I'm personally not into sports, a friend of mine is super into the NFL and buys their online package (though he still has to pirate certain local games because...not enough people showed up to the stadium that day???).

As I've said in the thread, for me the alternative to movies/TV isn't piracy, it's playing games or reading books, which I do pay for because the experiences of finding what I want, buying it, and consuming it is a superior experience to piracy. If that ever changes across the entire media landscape and games/books go the way of movies/TV that may change.
Recent and related:

CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31111276 - April 2022 (316 comments)
I seriously don't want to engage with whataboutry, but I'm going to reply to you with the tiniest hope that you might be willing to listen to reason.

So first, i agree with you that power structures have always taken advantage of their position to shutdown their opposition.

The reason that this has become significant enough in India for someone to take note and take action, is because of the blatant and frequent application of authority in this manner and that too targeted towards a specific community. The scale is enormous and is not showing any signs of decreasing.
Here I thought they meant electric discharge machining and thought "Whoa...this person must have a realllly expensive shop in their garage."
Like pointed out elsewhere, "1,200 strikes" includes artillery, missiles and airstrikes so most of those were clearly not delivered via planes.

In any case, where are they striking? Nearly all of their air sorties are near DPR / Mariupol / Kharkiv, just across the border from Russia. They had deep air access when they were pushing to establish Antonov Airport as a forward base/landing site but when they failed to capture the airport, it seems like all of their plans fell apart.

It's been incredible watching the sheer number of downed Russian aircraft.. OSINT folks like Oryx have IDed a substantial number of these but the Ukraine MOD shows over 300 combined aircraft losses, over 800 tanks, 2000 APCs, etc etc etc. This is not a successful military operation:

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1517395823386050560
My experience is largely the same as yours.
I remember there was a conversation about this from some of the managers. It was basically, "we don't know if things will go south, so we need to operate as normal." It did definitely feel wrong.
Another commenter already said this below, and someone else already replied with this guideline:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Freedom of speech is an extremely interesting topic to a very large part of the community here, and as such this article absolutely has a place.
Yeah, they should go with a flat price, and if you watch ads you get "4K sponsored by Advertiser X" kinda thing, otherwise you get boring 420p.
Autonomous vehicles present a shining example of why early adoption is risky.
> "blue" is the side that is pushing DEI to the detriment both of my family

> I will vote for [red] until "blue" stops with DEI.

And this is why equality in America is still an issue.
Yes, I'm talking commercial.
While I'm fairly convinced that a lot of dysfunction gets a helping hand from microbiota imbalance, including such faraway targets as pulmonary, cardiac, and even neurodegenerative disorders [1], I think there's a simpler culprit: sugar. Metabolism of simple sugars changes biochemical gears, and we as a culture and society are heavy on its use.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882347
You think it's just the major news corps and not social media?
Imagine you need to write a query to answer "what are the cities with more than 4000 inhabitants".

What more natural could there be than to write this as (old 1992 correlated query style)

SELECT cityName FROM Cities C WHERE
((SELECT COUNT() FROM Inhabitants I WHERE I.cityName = C.cityName) > 4000)

Agreed ???

YOU CAN'T DO THIS IN SQL [standard version] !!! You must write

SELECT cityName FROM Cities C WHERE
(4000 < (SELECT COUNT() FROM Inhabitants I WHERE I.cityName = C.cityName))

This makes SQL about the only language in the world that allows you to write "a<b" in certain places but forbids you to write "b>a" in those very same places. Some professional piece of language design.

(Disclaimer : I don't know how matters are in SQL:2016 wrt to this issue, but it drove a former IBM employee who was at the time a member of the SQL standards committee to (a) start work on TTM and (b) leave IBM as soon as he could.)
Yep, Youtube to chromecast is practically unwatchable these days. 1-2 stupid 5 second ads interrupt the program every few minutes. Many are so short I'm perplexed why the brand thinks they are getting any value out of them: they do little but annoy me and make me think the brand is bad with money.
> If you hire them, you have to worry about how long they'll stick.

That needs to become outdated thinking, since most people but particularly the younger ones, don't stick around any job for more than a year or two max regardless.
That doesn't make any sense as an allegory.

Nobody is TAKING anything. Everything is at the place where it belongs.

Also if you'd be able to make identical copies of money, of course people would accept it.
Not trying to troll here...but are there people advocating that we replace "Mother's Day" with "Birthing Person's Day"? If a person gave birth who no longer identifies as a woman is it not inclusive to gender the holiday as we do?
Thanks a lot! I had these subscribed but cancelled them a while back; might revisit le monde diplo. Mediapart is new to me.
"We could change everything if the status quo stopped resisting" is very self-evident, and not at all helpful.
Dunno if you care or not since they're still not healthy (just starch basically, but, instant ramen without the 'flavor' packet has all sorts of great ways of preparing it. Budget Bytes has some excellent suggestions - https://www.budgetbytes.com/?s=ramen
Nice specs. Would have been a great successor to the 6502 64K systems of the time.

> In the end of 1990 the decision to create the C65 was taken.

Unfortunately this is far too late. The Amiga and Atari ST released in 1985. Windows 3.0 was released in 1990. As well as OS/2 1.3 (which I started using for profit as well as some fun).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_65#Technical_specifi...
It’s very quick: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957428/
> They have a law criminalizing offending religious feelings.

Happens in the first world too! 2018: "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...
I mean you know what I think. Girls ignore explicit messaging and understand that society sees math based professions as manly so they self select away from them.
One expensive luxury toy crashes into another expensive luxury toy...