skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I buy a lot of stuff from AliExpress, eBay and Alibaba, it goes without saying you should use a separate email address for those. My email was not only sold, I started getting malware themed links shared to me as Google Drive files. The moment you click on it (and I did from another test env.) - it straight up runs some clever JS and then downloads a DMG or EXE file which is clearly spyware (multiple flags from AV providers) in the exact name of the Google document.

I have also received pornographic images with embedded code which somehow seems to run JS code when you open them. In short, they try to con you once they know you're a frequent buyer. Oh, and they also WhatsApp me directly with lot of links to porno-like malware or actual malware directly from new numbers every week. I had to stop using my WhatsApp after all this happened.

But, it is what it is and I have learned to move on.
I wonder why after all these years after PCs became cheap and powerful trackers didn't wipe out all hardware drum machnies (if not everything else)? (note: I include DAWs and other MIDI sw there as well) Maybe because of tactile feeling? :) To have things to touch, press, turn, squeeze, tear off, crack... :D
> continue to generate revenue even after all the 3rd party content went proprietary.

They did and they do. They put all their money into the 1st party content. They produce huge number of bulk mediocre content and also some really good shows. I can't see how they could do anything different. It's not enough. They have no competitive edge in 1st party content creation except size. That edge is in danger.

The competition has either deeper pockets, more content, or other income sources.

I have no idea about music streaming. I assume its similar network externalities, economies of size business.

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edit:

As an infrequent investor, the company must do better than relevant index fund (SP500, NASDAQ composite, and so on) over the next 5-10 years to make sense to me. Netflix may establish itself as a good blue-chip company, but that's not enough a reason to buy it.
I agree re: Netflix and Dropbox. Salesforce acquired Slack though.

The main issue with a thesis about Slack is that for some completely unknown to me reason, nobody has even attempted to make a competitor. Discord is the closest but using both I don’t think I could use Discord for work at all. It’s just off.
You could argue that Arm mostly doesn't get too weird and that that's part of why it succeeded, but some things include:

+ 'char' being unsigned

+ handling of unaligned accesses (in early architecture versions a value is read from the aligned address and rotated, which is useless behaviour that falls out of the original implementation because of how it dealt with byte loads; subsequently it was at least made to fault, but it wasn't until I think v6 that unaligned accesses were made to Just Work)

+ the weak memory model
The story behind ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers) (2021)
Does Afghanistan even have the Internet?
Yes, once in a while I play around with it as well. And each time I like the straightforwardness. But building on premises windows software there are not much uses cases for using OpenBSD boxes and I have a lot of stuff related to our business I first have to spend my time on before fiddling around for fiddling arounds sake.
The answer seems to be in the follow-up comments to the post.
Where have you been the last twenty years? This is their whole business model.
Your feeling is generally observed to be correct. Induced demand [1] is a fairly well observed phenomenon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand#Effect_in_trans...
so last year
LispWorks or Allegro Common Lisp are as easy as it gets.
Is this a Teams joke?
You could just use a powerbank, there are models available that can provide the necessary voltage.
Would you care to publish it? I'm interested in the same thing. Perhaps we could even team up
Are you lecturing someone who does this for a living on the environment of their specific professional setting? Why do you assume you know better?
I agree. I was skeptical of this from the start but now hearing that it doesn't have a backlight? No way. I will be shocked if even 25% of the people that buy this are still using it a year later.
What backlight is even linear though ?

IIRC cathode rays aren't. Plasma-fluorescent ?

Are liquid crystals even used in big screens with something else than a diode backlight these days ? (Maybe cheap ones still use plasma-fluorescent ?)

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Ooh, right, silly me, for displays green light being human-efficient is backwards !

So you need less than 1/3 of green subpixels, rather than more ! (Anyone tried that yet ?)
- Leberkäse
- head cheese
- milkweed
- hair cream
- tanning butter
No, Teams is a joke.
Networks aren't neutral either, even under net neutrality rules: you might lose your data uplink of the tower is at capacity and someone dials 911.

I'm a proponent of weakening net neutrality for when lives are at stake, but that's hardly ever the case on the internet. The problem is that most non-neutral treatment is the result of business interests rather than the greater good.
I hate to use reddit as a resource, but there's a good discussion here about why "peaked my interest" doesn't make grammatical sense. "Peaked" is not a transitive verb. "Peaked my interest" is a bastardization of the original because people were not familiar with the word "piqued" and guessed at how it was spelled when they heard it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/1n7ezp/why_is_piqu...
I really hope Apple doesn't use this as an excuse not to support WebM, which is a web standard
5 gbps signal rate doesn't give you the full story about actual data transfer rates to important services, but its a start. Ran into this problem with AT&T Fiber (1 gbps) in Houston, Texas
You also have to distinguish between the architecture, and an ABI targeting a specific architecture. I believe x86 exception handling is nothing like this on gcc/clang.
I'm not seeing great things about SAFE

https://www.smharter.com/blog/safe-a-collection-of-comments-...
The parent is referring to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, stoking fears of a bigger and possibly nuclear war.
Of course it will always be like this. Most people don't know much about most infrastructure because they don't need to—they just use it.
What is up with those guys?
That space stuff really put me off. I subscribed to his channel for the music (gear) videos and suddenly the channel turned into cheap sci fi and I had no idea what was going on... I unsubscribed afterwards and refrain from clicking his videos when youtube recommends them.
Still waiting for an Octatrack mkIII with 8 analog in/out, polyphony and overbridge
To be fair I eat everything and never feel bloated or tired afterwards. Sometimes I eat vegan for a while if I go on vacation with some vegan friends or I eat more meat for random reasons and never felt any difference. I have the feeling that when people do try to actively do something to improve their wellbeing the bode has some kind of placebos effect. You believe that eating meat is better: you feel more energetic after eating meat. You believe vegan diet is better? Same things happen.
With this I am not saying that either option is equally healthy! On the contrary there is a very strong scientific evidence towards a plant based being healthier!
Netflix is now a mature business that stopped growing.
https://app.finclout.io/t/NBbmd0A
I had a great time reading the essay.

The information and concept density of this essay is higher, and reading this essay reminded me of reading a good book. I think the author advertised their book honestly in the sense that the essay likely reflects the reading experience of their book, but it's probably too honest if their goal was improving sales.

About the actual content: I resonated with the concerns of games becoming work, as it matches what I've heard from most of the YouTube creators I follow. YouTubers having to create strategies that maximize engagement makes video creation more work and less "game"/fun than it used to be. I agree that a lot of the web can be seen to be following this trend.
Table based exceptions only work if everyone plays ball. Its not practical to introduce them after the fact because they will not work with any existing code including OS callbacks. AMD64 can use them because they were there from the beginning.
> He’s not a wannabe. He’s a writer

Anyone can claim to be a writer. It does not take more than having a keyboard in front of you and lots of time.

> Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination, more.

You don't have to make the reader pain through your long and fastidious journey.

> Not all writing needs to follow an introduction, body, conclusion format, with topic sentences.

Indeed, but still writing is supposed to be more than just fluff that says nothing paragraph after paragraph. That's just filler content.
The Onion did a thing once when they reported being bought out by a Chinese company. I think it was site wide.

I don’t think they have a way of reporting anything real. So that’s easy to play along with.
Like Plaid?
> Are you suggesting there has been no invasion?

If there has been an invasion (of where, exactly? Presumably Ukraine?) then it is not a "scare".

I assume you are talking about Finnland, Sweden and Russia?
May I ask for the empirical proof that they protect narratives? Don’t get me wrong, I dislike the need for centralized censorship in the hands of for-profit corporations having the power to manipulate the population’s view on anything, but not doing anything is just passing the same power to government-funded bot networks that will upvote/reshare their own propaganda.

And we have seen how russian state-propaganda (in part) managed to elect a Russian-friendly president and even start a resurrection.
Amazon is another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27356550
seems crazy to take that much leverage when you are worth $200B.
the shorts must be salivating at a chance to force a margin call on him, just for fun. Would have been better to just do a tesla twitter merger for free.
It was very productive for the person who wrote the library.
I think you're spot on about this. Oddly, Netflix has seen some success by reviving shows that were discontinued on major networks. You'd think they'd know better than to cancel shows like The OA before completion.
I'm really disappointed that creators didn't catch on to this and design their shows to run for one or two seasons. Not everything needs to be a decade long odyssey, and in fact a great many TV shows that were great at first were IMO destroyed by trying to keep running for as long as possible, long past the point where they ran out of things to say.
>However they are not party to some decision loops and are often on the receiving end of architecture and design decisions. Most of them start to complain about that sooner or later, so I ask them to start participating in more meetings...

And if they decided to attend these meetings are they still expected to maintain the same "velocity/story points/etc."? Because if so then they will likely have to work outside of "office hours" to actually get the work done. Possibly why they decline and stop complaining... They realize they'll just get handed a bigger bag of BS.
"Neil Madden, the researcher at security firm ForgeRock who discovered the vulnerability, likened it to the blank identity cards that make regular appearances in the sci-fi show Doctor Who. The psychic paper the cards are made of causes the person looking at it to see whatever the protagonist wants them to see."

“It turns out that some recent releases of Java were vulnerable to a similar kind of trick, in the implementation of widely-used ECDSA signatures,” Madden wrote. “If you are running one of the vulnerable versions then an attacker can easily forge some types of SSL certificates and handshakes (allowing interception and modification of communications), signed JWTs, SAML assertions or OIDC id tokens, and even WebAuthn authentication messages. All using the digital equivalent of a blank piece of paper.”
It’s the same claim! Since the time of pharaohs those with power and money have paid informers and influencers to keep their ear to the ground and to promote their benefactor. It’s a well-established industry. Hollywood makes extensive use of it, Scientology infamously so, politicians the same, and sure as god made little green apples, Musk’s cult-like evangelists are helped along their path by the ministrations of professional influencers. You can’t say Musk farted without some toady sycophant popping up to say that it smells like roses. It’s bizarre and unnatural, and Occam’s razor says that it’s hired help.
I'm sad to report even around 100 you start running into this. Think Instagram, keep it under 12. Start your own if you have to.
Yeah the video is a little old. I got that feedback a number of times and removed/made optional anything that a user might feel uncomfortable sharing.

I have the “training” part now depends on the thumbs up/thumbs down. As you thumbs up I ask if you want to add those tags. If you thumbs down I ask if you want to stop seeing products with those tags.

My thinking was how can I train something super quick to show me cool stuff and remove crap
I believe you're thinking of the AppleDouble files with name ._file. Those haven't really been used for the past 10 years or so (unless you run software older than that, obviously).
Yeah, just cutting off power out of nowhere is way too hard for me to believe. You always first get a couple of warnings over the course of a couple of months.

I've got to admit, although I'm not a security expert at all, all of these scams sound way too unlikely for to me fall for. But then again, it's easy to think that when you're behind your desk reading an article called "how I got scammed". It's very different when they reach you when you're already stressed and confused. Who knows what I'd fall for. I hope I'll never find out.
TypedDicts fall under structural typing, not nominal typing. So Mypy is cool with this:

import typing

class Foo(typing.TypedDict):
a: int

def do_thing(value: Foo) -> None:
return

foo: Foo = {"a": 1}

do_thing(foo)

My complaint here is that Mypy doesn't go far enough with structural inference. I assume this is because it doesn't support anonymous TypedDicts, whereas TypeScript supports anonymous interfaces/types
Why would it be ok to quarantine legal stuff. If i subscribed to it i should be getting it. Otherwise Twitter is falsely advertising its service
It's uses the index either way, specifically it still index seeks but ends up doing the same thing as an index/table scan although slower. It normally makes a plan based on first execution and uses parameter sniffing, so it might optimize for no index seek if the first request has wildcard in front.

You can pass it a hint OPTION (RECOMPILE) that will make it act like PG and make new plan every time, if its a query with wildly varying parameters that doesn't execute as often this can make sense, most of the time it doesn't due to planning overhead.

There is also the OPTIMIZE FOR hint that can have it make a plan optimized for the more common of the parameter values if you don't want it planning every execution regardless of value passed on first execute.
Quantitative analysis of startup team composition, alignment, and mindset
> It’s a desirable item and I think will help them increase their addressable market due to the “all in one box” nature of it - really there is everything you need except sampling in one box here, all wrapped up in a fun UI!

This is such a crowded market competing for the electronic musician's attention though, between their own Digitakt, the OP-1, the tracker-style devices (Polyend, Dirtywave m8), the Deluge, MPC One, SP-404, TR-8S and the boatload of "all-in-one grooveboxes" iPad apps. Even Ableton Push, although tethered to a computer.

There's no way they'd recoup the R&D costs if us hobbyist suckers didn't buy several of these toys, and instead decided to learn one deeply, and focus on finishing tracks rather than cultivating our Gear Acquisition Syndrome ;)
CNN+ required you to sign in with a cable provider to get the “real” CNN stuff that people were interested in (pundits). When will the corporate fat cats learn that this makes your service DOA? People that sign up for streaming services generally hate cable and despise the industry so blocking your main market from your own service is boneheaded beyond belief.
That could work, though I seem to remember last time I checked they were quite hard to find in the UK and in some cases bigger than the elektron itself (almost the size of a small generator), but worth another look I suppose
> is it perhaps promoting some state in your body that helps with longevity and long life?

Even if there is some achievable optimum, I seriously doubt it's a simple formula that can be applied to millions or billions of human beings. Complex systems are by nature complex, and we should be wary of very simple solutions and their potential to have strong effects.

Also, it's probably impossible to properly design such kind of study that would take in account a large amount of factors, removing co-founding variables and strong enough to achieve a reasonable conclusion over long periods of time.
Well that's revenue and not profit, so they might not have come out on top.

From the article:

> The court found that Trivago would have made between $53 million and $58 million less if customers had always clicked out onto the cheapest offer.

> The court also estimated that consumers ended up paying about $30 million more for their hotel rooms than if they had always clicked on the cheapest offer, rather than the top-position offers featured by Trivago.

It looks like overall this is pretty proportional to the damage actually.

Edit: Though I do agree overall it's important for Trivago to come out net negative if companies are to have a financial incentive not to do this sort of thing. I would agree that the fine should be high enough to ensure that.
I still dont know whats the role of my PO neither. He basically understand everything wrong lol
OkCupid Synthetic Profiles (2021)
I've heard CL is famous for having advanced libraries and language features decades before other languages get them.

What are some interesting libraries or language features developed since 2005 that haven't yet made their way to other languages? Not a simple "Do X" library that a C programmer could easily copy, but something more like CLOS, contracts, or pattern matching that are cross-cutting.
I agree battery power would be great. For the model:cycles you can use a standard USB power bank with the right-sized USB-to-barrel plug adapter. I've tried and it works well even with small "lipstick" power banks.

For the digitakt/digitone, people have used 12V power banks in a similar way. There's also people that have modded them to put a battery inside - turns out there's plenty of empty space inside. https://www.elektronauts.com/t/digitakt-modified-with-intern...

These days, I almost exclusively use my M8, though. It's an incredible little machine.
Fastmail lets you send email from <arbitrary_string>@yourdomain.com.
These are their four studies: https://i.imgur.com/nKRjmRb.png https://i.imgur.com/ExmNV0A.png https://i.imgur.com/3k4ILIt.png https://i.imgur.com/CX45O9Y.png In these discussions about DK I've only seen Study 1 referenced (case in point: "look at the graph"), which is "Participants rated each joke on the same 11-point scale used by the comedians".

Sure, there's in aggregate a slight positive slope to self-assessment when plotted against performance. But all of these have in common that the range of self-assessments is small across the full range of performances and they're all centered somewhere around 60.

> The actual DK result

The "incompetent self-assessment because incompetent" claim is literally everywhere in the paper. It's in the title, the abstract, the introduction and every section thereafter until the end.
Personally I would rather have a healthy competitive landscape than NN, but I’ll take the latter in a pinch.
XMPP still exists.
I received a background check result from a job application for a Florida sheriff's office.

At least it listed "my" address. :)
Market Forecast of the Federal Funds Rate – Visualized
The entire TV/movie streaming industry is pushing the world back to a cable-like one, and that's already pushing people back to pirating. There are a lot of people who were content to pay for a couple services, but even without any sports, you can easily be paying for 3 streaming services for ~$60, just to get content that used to be on Netflix (plus whatever's been released since). Once you add one or two sports, you can be looking at prices above $100 per month.
Interesting analysis.

I find it interesting that so many people spend so much time watching tv in the first place. Growing up, I was one of those people but about a decade ago I lost interest in pretty much anything on television. There are certain shows that I will watch on occasion that get me hooked, but I usually struggle to find anything that is actually worth my time and end up just turning the tv off after surfing the streaming options for 10 minutes. It boggles my mind when I hear things like “golden age” of content. Sure there is a ton of content, but it’s all so vapid.
> Instead of producing two mediocre shows and an algorithmically designed movie every single week

Thank you. The only reason I break my Netflix embargo (and log into my profile on a friends account) is so I know what some viral meme is about.

Nobody[1] talks about or remembers shows from there two weeks later.

[1] this is hyperbole validated by 200,000 - 2,000,000 others seeing the light
that’s not the point though, no one buying it is expecting it to be the switch (i hope) - it’s a boutique gadget made by a bunch of software developers, practically an art piece
Valuation is thinking about the [future profits]/[stock price] ratio.

No matter how good the company business and it's position in the market is (= future profits), it can be overvalued if the price is too high.

I think Dropbox seems like really nice product, but not at the valuation it had or has. It has no permanent competitive edge.
> and "takt" which is the Swedish word for "beat" (and/or "rythm", I guess) in the musical sense.

Wow, TIL !
Thanks, I had always assumed it was made to sound like "tactile" or "Kontakt"
MS was stuck with a poor exception implementation but what I never see explain is how they got there in the first place. It seems crazy to incur a runtime overhead to support something that is hardly ever used. The happy path is where you need the performance most, and exceptions are by definition the "unhappy path".

Michael and I talked about exception design a lot in g++ (I certainly had experience of what to do and not do from CLOS) and there was never a consideration of doing anything that might impact runtime performance.

At least now I finally understand why some people, especially in the game industry, want to disable exceptions.

As a side point, I'm disappointed by Raymond's (18 yo) claim that "Zero cost exceptions" aren't really zero cost. Everything called "zero cost" in C++ means "doesn't add any runtime cost if you don't use it". He argued against a straw man.
If you don't have solution, don't waste your time here.
If the planner is faster than a cache lookup it makes me wonder how sophisticated it is and how much optimization is left on the table.

Most apps I deal with queries are very regular and the plan cache makes it act like a prepared statement improving performance 99% of the time. Once in a while it works against you and you need to give it a hint to recompile or optimize for specific parameter values.
The graph in your link appears to show an operating profit of over $6 billion.

What has gone wrong with our world that making a 6 billion dollar a year profit is considered a problem?
Yeah, make sense. Thank you.