skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the "pandemic stocks" have taken a real pounding.

For me, Netflix content is "OK" overall. But so is content on most of the other streaming services. And I don't really watch a huge amount of video so it makes sense for me to pick a few services and maybe dip in and out. Netflix is probably the one delivering the least bang for the buck to me right now so I'll probably watch a few things and drop it at some point.
To be clear: bitcharmer says "we" to mean "fellow HFTs" not "Jane Street".
Comic books were only infantilized for a brief period. Have you ever read the original Dick Tracy, which was perfectly fine entertainment children in the '30s? It's hardcore. There are scenes with Tracy torturing gang members with fire. Pulp, western, romance, and horror genres dominated. All would be deemed in appropriate by this author. Children read them anyway.

Then came the Comics Code Authority, which it seems this author would like to see return. It started in the '50s and didn't officially end until much more recently. But even under the CCA in the '70s and '80s you were seeing plenty of material "inappropriate" for children. In the US kids could be found reading Claremont's X-Men, a run of comics absolutely boiling over with everything that makes conservatives angry. In Japan, where the CCA did not exist, you could find children reading things like Fist of the North Star.

Those children Are now in their 40s and 50s. Purely anecdotal, but I've never heard of even one person who was traumatized or devastated because they read such a comic book at a young age. I have heard many stories of people who's lives were dramatically positively influenced by those books such that they still remember and revere them to this day.

Let your kid read (almost) whatever comic book they want. It's not hard to avoid what truly XXX-rated material that's out there.
it's just sad to me to see grown men spend all their time on video games and comic books

high quality comics targeted at adults have existed in europe for decades. there was no infantilization there. and the fact that i enjoy playing videogames occasionally allows me to spend quality time with my children in ways that my parents never could.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

@echo off
powercfg.exe -x -monitor-timeout-ac 5
powercfg.exe -x -disk-timeout-ac 180
powercfg.exe -x -standby-timeout-ac 180
powercfg.exe -x -hibernate-timeout-ac 999
Instead of increasing every one's pricing they should have added a FOMO tier giving people early access to new content before anyone else.

Additionally to get people to think twice before unsubscribing increase the price for new subscribers but keep existing subs at the lower rate. You cancel you can't get that rate back.
Sounds like woke gibberish. I suppose we can take some solace in the fact that they haven't renamed "motherboard" as "birthing-person-board."
It's also what will cause the far right to succeed.

The left eats its own rather than being patient or tolerant ("I shouldn't have to teach you!") to people who mean well, while the right allows people to fly way off the handle and still be within their tent because their tent expands to include increasingly extreme ideas.
Do you also make backups of HD movies using this process, by any chance? Like you, I have no issue purchasing something. But I don’t like “purchasing” something stored in a walled garden online-only service that can be taken away.
> Your political leaning might influence which batch of toxicity you describe more

And that's bad, and we should try to combat it whenever possible without devolving into whataboutism.
bravo sir! It is only the opera and the delicate art of croquet that hold any moral character. The rest of these ragamuffins are filling their heads with nonsense like philistines instead of reading through the classics 24/7 like anyone sensible would.

What-ho!
It probably won't make you feel any better, but even in America, there is a feeling of SV is shoving its political trends down our collective throat.
What was wrong with the old bridge? Not that I know anything about bridges but it looks newish.
As a radio ham you're not supposed to talk about religion but I got away with running an APRS beacon that said "It's Thorsday!" every Thorsday
I have used LispWork’s CAPI on occasion. Just now, I am slowly starting to experiment with McCLIM more often, and I have Franz’s Open Graphics in my radar.

I still need to use Python for deep learning, but even for that Common Lisp is also a good glue language.
There's a big difference between wiring up a new outlet that'll likely last for decades without further effort and will very likely require an identical or near-identical process to replace even 30 years from now, and care and feeding of fully-local "smart home" networks & interfaces.

Most plumbing or electrical work I do will last decades. If I move, the same skills will transfer perfectly to the plumbing and wiring already installed in the new house. The last big innovation in any of that was PEX piping, which takes about five minutes to get completely competent with, and has been around for years already. People who can come out and fix any of that, if I don't feel like dealing with it, can be found anywhere and often work pretty damn cheap (unless you're getting ripped off). Almost all the maintenance is "buy part, replace part", which is fine because (in the scheme of things) most of the parts are very cheap.

Add "smart" devices to any of that, and they're instantly the most finicky and needy part of the whole system.
I'm guessing the UK. And I agree.
> In my case, our family car is moved only very little, say 10000km/a. There are some use cases where a rental car or train tickets just don't cut it - we would pay double the price

Have you actually done full lifetime cost analysis of the owned car vs. a rental car under this scenario?

The outcome can depend on a number of things, notably how much you pay for your own car initially. It's also obviously somewhat subjective how you price the inconvenience of picking up/dropping off the rental car.

When I did this in Philadelphia in the mid-90s as neighborhood car shares started to become a thing (briefly, sadly), my conclusion was that since we already owned (outright) a small, useful vehicle at that point, it made more sense to continue doing so, but that if we were about to buy a more expensive replacement vehicle, the car share made more financial sense. This was with a child, btw.
I can, but I am choosing not to as to preserve privacy. Just one data point, you are welcome to not believe it.
Nobody was bothered by these words until some jackass told them they should be.
The real problem with rampant neoteny isn't adults playing video games, it's the very revulsion at the idea (and I hate this phrase) of "adulting".

The entire point of the transition from childhood to adulthood is that you become responsible for yourself and others which is a transition from you being the responsibility of others.

The idea that responsibilities are somehow an injustice has dominated thinking of my generation and latter. I really enjoy playing a round of Elden Ring after I've gotten all my house work done and taken care of the things that people rely on me for. Just on the basic standards of household maintenance I'm shocked how often my friends apartments look like they are lived in by a teenager.

The whole idea of "ghosting" is another example of this bizarre inability to just do the things you need to do. Being an "adult" in just about any culture, means you do somethings that are uncomfortable because those things need to be done. Sure it can be hard to tell some people "no" but ignoring them completely because you can't stand a bit of discomfort is the very essence of "childish" behavior.

I grew up in a dysfunctional household, where I was not taken care of as a child, so I was very eager to become an adult. Taking responsibility and taking care of myself where things I looked forward to because I'd be taken care of, even if I was the one doing it.

Now that climate change is starting to show undeniable consequences it's a bit hard for me to take demands for climate action seriously from people who just a few months ago complained about "adulting" when doing their own taxes in their late 20s.
it's pretty crazy that this article only mention hyper or the built in vs code terminal as it's two recommendations, when excellent terminals like alacritty, kitty and terminator exist and aren't written in javascript
How do you prove it?
The study proved discrimination based on gender. I would say that being discriminated against is pretty harmful.

I think laws are written something like:
"employer cannot discriminate based on a person's gender".
Which covers men.
Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi
A better example is theft of services. If you sit down at a barber's chair and then walk out without payment, we all consider that stealing. But no property was actually deprived--just wasted effort.
It’s profound the amount of effort that goes into influencing and seems as though if the influencers believed what they were saying to be true, that they wouldn’t feel the need to perform so many mental gymnastics. What bothers me about these organizations is the overt levels of monetary greed and psychological abuse they inflict.
One of the challenges with moderation teams like that or similar is that the folks who REALLY want to do that job .. are the folks who absolutely should NOT be doing it.
And if you also pass an Authorization header it just drops the basic auth header (tested against a mirror server):

$ curl http://user:pass@localhost:8080
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: curl/7.79.1
Accept: */*
Authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz

$ curl -H 'Authorization: Token blobbity' http://user:pass@localhost:8080
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: curl/7.79.1
Accept: */*
Authorization: Token blobbity
the docs also say "every statement is atomic" and the ambiguity around whether merge is one statement or two (or three) ought to be settled by explicitly stating our atomicity expectations with a transaction. anyway my experience has been that adding the lock hints "fixes" the problem with pk violations during concurrent upserts and it seemed to be commonly known and widely used afaict. fwiw I agree with not adopting "merge w/hints" as the syntax for upsert I just thought the decision had more to do with the aversion to hints but I stand corrected (also from reading some of the links here I see that even merge w/hints has a potential deadlock if you get unlucky with the range locks it uses under the hood - I never hit that in practice myself, but it seems clear that sql should have a standard more constrained upsert so that further supports your original decision)
I still remember Simba's dad falling and being trampled to death by gnus, when I was 5.
I don't think that traumatised me or my friends. It can be good for kids to see sad things happening in movies, so they know it's not weird if something sad happens to them.

A quick, clean decapitation of a bad guy is hardly going to set a permanent mark. Nobody cared when Scar also died at the end of said movie.
Petty life pro tip: find out what jerks dislike and do it very discreetly.

Confronting bullies is a game of chicken and most bullies can't really take it. You just have to hold the line or make them think you will.
See, I knew this but now I think of it, it doesn't make sense.

The dust can't just hang there like it does in an atmosphere so why isn't it moving either in orbit or falling towards the sun? And if it is, how can it occur at the same time of year every year?
Your ableist bigotry against people with lower intellectual capacity has been noted.
Wat? Superhero movies are all about sacrifice. Almost every superhero is practically dedicating their life to serving the public good. Half the superhero movies are about how things only work when we come together and cooperate.
Maybe I mis-understood your point?
I just pulled info from this table (1) to understand better the importance of keeping nuclear plants going as we transition away from fossil fuels. There are some interesting notes.

Only 17 states have more than 50% of their power generated without fossil fuels. Among these (Vermont with a whopping 99.8%, good job!). Most of these states have one major source of power (>40%) (except Maine). Some examples are hydro electric (WA, ID, WT, OR, SD, MT), Wind (IA, KS), Natural Gas (CA, NY), and Nuclear (NH, IL, SC, TN, NJ, MD).

This is not good analysis, but it helped me think a little bit about where we're at and how nuclear can help. It seems that today, nuclear is vitally important among states that can't generate power due to geographic constraints, while hydro is significant for the West, Wind for the midwest, and we should shame California and New York for holding on to natural gas production.

Something else of note, the states with the most solar generation (CA, NV, DC, MA) all use natural gas as their primary energy source. It would behoove them to build more nukes, and fewer solar farms.

(1) https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-g...
I think they're trying to change language to disassociate "black" with negative meaning.

Which is going to be very hard, because the reason for the association is from black being the unknown. It's the night that hides the predators. It's the shadow where the enemy hides. It's where you don't want to put your foot in case there are spiders or a sharp rock.

Humans are afraid of the dark. I've not even heard of being afraid of the light.

Death and darkness.

I'd like a historian to confirm, but I'd be very surprised if this type of language didn't exist in most places, including before ever seeing a darker skinned person.

But this effort is doomed to fail. You can be afraid of the dark at night and that is not a predictor at all of racism. Indeed, do people with darker skin not get afraid of the dark?
@Stunting your perspective in this thread is very valuable, and the best thing that streaming has done, much better than old-school bundling and certainly better than piracy, is encourage a boom in interesting content, and I'm very glad you and the other workers in entertainment are getting paid.

But flogging the tired comparison between stealing physical objects and making illegal copies of content is a losing argument. Everyone instinctively knows it's not the same thing. Just because an end user gains a benefit they didn't pay for doesn't mean it's theft. The owner still has the content and can sell it to as many paying customers as they like. Once the car is gone, it's gone and unavailable to sell to someone else. Consider: what would the auto market look like if we had Star Trek-style replicators and could make copies of physical objects for pennies? Let's use bikes instead. If you had the ability to make cheap copies of a bike, would it be ethical to deny the use of a bike to a poor farmer who could use it to get goods to market and make their life better, when your marginal cost is near zero? Do the needs of the R&D people who designed the bike override that consideration?

This is just as much of a problem for all the software creators on here as for the content creators, though the rise of SAAS has changed that somewhat. Content's inherent non-scarcity is one of the best things that has ever happened to humanity, it just happens to break our pre-existing economic model and hurt the people who create it. This is a fundamental shift in our economy that's underway and we have been lurching around trying to solve it for decades now. We need to solve it, but pretending that it's the same as theft is just not going to get us to a solution.
You have got to be kidding. Was this some retaliatory complaint by some dude showing dudes can be triggered by female-emphasizing phrases as well?

Should it have been renamed to birthing-person-board? What a joke
>5. The urbit network is hierachically federated, and hence resistant to censorship.

This is not true. Urbit is essentially a proof-of-stake network where the Galaxies and Stars have the authority to ban anyone off the network that they want.

After Planets are already routed to some of their friends, they can keep those connections, but if a Planet is refused service by Stars, it will be limited in reach and capabilities.

The whole point is that there is accountability in the system and there does need to be a kind of Byzantine (literally it is set up like an empire) consensus.

If you're banned by one Star, you can still be served by another Star, but it does affect the reputation (not hard-coded, but actual) of the Star that serves unsavory Planets.

It's not far off from the Fediverse in this regard.
plug, socket
I see you haven't interacted with many landlords.
American culture is so impoverished, and doesn't even. realise it.
They seem to consistently mis-spell "community" in the code, which is kind of interesting:

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In the public realm, we must legislate equality to all.

But in the private realm, I think it's not sustainable. It's better for us to work hard and make people learn from reality.

These people are extremists. If we try to legislate change in their private realm, they'll get even more extremist internally. They'll crave for a chance of revenge. Even if it takes decades or centuries. It's unsustainable.
In healthcare in my part of Europe, it is a requirement to log every access to patient journals.

And if a nurse, doctor or similar access a journal they most likely have no reason to, it can get flagged for investigation.
I ask to elevate the level of discussion here. Speaking in generalities and characterizing people's work without evidence is too facile; you can go to other popular social media sites for that. Elsewhere in this thread, my gentle prodding has led to discussion of some actual shows and scenes that people are thinking of, and it's led to much more interesting - and less heated - discussion.
Depending on local law - the owner of the land, or the national antiquities authority, or the owner of the mineral rights, or...

"Finders Keepers" is very, very seldom the law, when there is anyone with a plausible prior connection to the found item(s).
> Can you imagine if you had a bizarre feature where the next line of code after a branch still executed even if the branch was taken?

I seem to recall that there was a mainframe back in the 1970s that actually did that. Univac 1108 or 1100, maybe? Maybe only in some particular mode?
Refusing to pay and refusing to consume is different morally from stealing.

I don't know where to find all those requirements. Perhaps they exist. If they are that big of a dealbreaker for you, don't consume the value provided by entertainment services.

When you decide that the exact moral high point is to consume the goods and services while still maintaining integrity about not providing the cash value asked of those things, you are justifying being a thief.
the widespread usage of something does not say anything about its safety. It's fallacious to assume just because something is widespread, that it has been shown to be safe. This illogical mindset is how we ended up with lead paint and asbestos in most homes in the US at one point. Studies showed the dangers as early as 1904 yet congress didn't ban lead paint until 1971. One number I'm seeing is that 87% of homes built before 1940 have lead based paint.
Aren't we supposed to use female pronouns when we're speaking generally now? It used to be male, but I know that's long gone.
Google’s office suite has always been amateur hour.
I almost exclusively pirate movies and tv series from pirate bay. I would have no problem paying $20 a month for that service as-is (TPB + torrent network), as it's better than the currently available alternatives.
Death from the Centre Out
If the average person actually knew what these initiatives meant they would be against them. In practice what it does is make it so members of designated groups typically win by default whenever they & other candidates meet minimum requirements for a position. It’s not even good for the people who get promotions faster as a result imo because everyone around them knows things are rigged in their favor.

And who has benefitted? This stuff was supposed to help people that lacked opportunity but for the most part it’s people who were upper middle class (predominately white women) to begin with reaping the benefits & using these policies as a political weapon to get more influence inside companies.

I’m personally hopeful that the upcoming Supreme Court case involving Harvards admission practices also affects the private sector and that these types of policies simply become illegal.
I started donating blood specifically because I have a needle phobia. I'm up to 8 donations now and feeling better about it each time.
This is a case of disruption being too disruptive. They stuck with their disruptive models instead of adopting the parts of the older model that were working. Binging is great but it's hell on getting people to come back every week and continue to build the buzz for shows.

Squid game was huge and should have been a monster pole to hammock off of for months. The conversation about Squid Game should still be goin on...

Killing off shows because they're not bringing in new users is a terrible idea.

Their tech is great but the running a network aspect was pretty terrible.
I just don't like people telling me what to say or write. I think it's unhealthy to look for grievances in language and that if you get good enough at doing so you might not be able to stop. I also think terms like these are just a small part of an ongoing effort.

Independent of all other political goings on, in a vacuum, I could agree that we should get rid of white and blacklist and replace them with something else.
Hahaha, I guess I've avoided that because I rarely purchase anything that involves electricity from Amazon. I don't trust them not to burn down my house.
I think the point you're missing is that often moderators are in that position because they specifically want the power that comes with it. We see this all the time with volunteer moderators getting high on their power, pushing through whatever agenda they have regardless of user opinion.

I think those types of people are even more likely to end up as paid content moderators, since the work tends to be too tedious for most average people to deal with.
Trans people are frequently in tech. Go to any college and you'll see the CompSci department is the one with the most amount of LGBT individuals.

The same can't be said for people who are blind or deaf.
Similar policies in Oregon now, which force increased density in existing (orm as an option, brand new) urban areas, rather than just spreading. Or at least, there were a decade ago. I hope they've survived.
Torrent client in one hand, blunderbuss in the other, I just hope the Royal Navy doesn't hang me.
Yeah! I found your thing when I was looking for options in the gifting space.

For me it's the difference between wanting to outsource and wanting to optimize.

I was never comfortable with the outsourcing because I never felt like it would have been "from me".

Instead I wanted to find a much faster way of winnowing through a category to see if there was something that I thought the other person would like.
Hang on, are you really saying that it's easier for kids and grandparents to set up Plex, Radarr and Sonarr than it is to sign up and use Netflix?
Is there at least some sort of mailing list you can subscribe to to know which phrases are verboten this week?