skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of new competition in Disney+, Discovery+, Paramount+, and Peacock. Why now?

> 71% of TV households nationwide have some form of pay-TV service. The percentage of TV households that have a live pay-TV service (via cable, satellite, Telco, or Internet-delivered vMVPD) is down from 82% in 2016, 87% in 2011, and 86% in 2006.

http://www.satellitemarkets.com/71-percent-us-households-hav...

A second source that classifies vMVPD differently: https://www.emarketer.com/chart/239301/us-pay-tv-vs-non-pay-...

Combined with the decline of movie theaters, it's an existential crisis for everyone in the media world. Can they replace lost cable/theater revenues with streaming subscriptions?

I expect we'll end up with a 2 or 3 major media companies and a couple small premium services bolted onto unrelated products like Prime and Apple TV. Netflix has some short term headwinds with this new competition but is the only company that's a shoe-in for making it.
ESXi free edition is real nice and very easy to setup.
I wonder how it works? I imagine some sort of hill-climbing search method, simulated annealing perhaps?
Insurance is great, but it doesn't automatically mean everyone lives happily ever after.
You're right, but it can become significant, actually. And the target needn't try to kill you directly, it's enough that it can relay your position to a competent artillery unit.

The Israeli Iron Dome is intercepting unguided ("dumb") rockets and shells that cost $500-$1500 each using missiles that cost ~$100k or more each. Had Hamas decided to launch 100 per day for a month it would exhaust the capacity fairly quickly. Ofc this kind of an action would reignite the war, but points at the problem with air defense systems.

In fact I don't think there's a practical solution against an enemy that has cheap, non jammable drones with a very high density, like 1 per soldier or more. There's just no way to counter that, and cheap military drones start at $5k-$10k, so it is feasible to achieve this level of density.
Maybe you could enlighten me on what you see as becoming very techy about Traverse City. When it comes to the companies that I've seen there you have:

- Small computer repair shops competing with big box computer repair

- Hagerty Insurance

- Munson Healthcare (the only health care provider in the 30 mile radius that I'm aware of).

- Finance - There are a couple of banks and credit unions but most of the investment firms I know of aren't based out of Traverse City.
Introduction to Acoustic Thermometry – An Olive Jar Teaches Signal Conditioning [pdf]
Not sure what you mean, as “pushing bugs without testing” (or not using bugfix/feature branches) has nothing to do whatsoever with SVN.
Not really. But if you ship it sufficiently fast, the en-transit expansion won't be enough to matter.
I hope those advertisers feel like they got their money's worth, because I can't remember a single brand from Stranger Things
This made my brain go straight to pregnancy. The women I’ve spoken to all describe it as feeling like they’re experiencing someone else’s cravings.
10GbE is cheap enough if you get a microtek 4 port box.

I use it to connect my NAS, my vm server, my Mac, and uplink to my nortel. Works nice.
I don't know how TopoR implements this, but the linked Wikipedia article contains a reference to a PhD thesis on this topic:

> https://web.archive.org/web/20170718184145/https://pdfs.sema...
Reparations in reverse: Afghanistan pays, Vatican prays, US preys
Same here. Last thing I want when I move to a new job, especially if moving to a competitor, is have people ask me to fix bugs/answer their questions about my old code, which would be creating a conflict of interest.
> with their 128 kB data cache

Bigger than that. (https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/2ff845c2e033bd0ff64...)

/* I-Cache, 256KB for Firestorm, 128KB for Icestorm, 6-way. /

/ D-Cache, 160KB for Firestorm, 8-way. 64KB for Icestorm, 6-way. */

Apple also uses a base 16KB page size on macOS, with 4KB being present for backwards compatibility (x86_64 apps) and the wider ecosystem (running Windows for example).

> Maybe they've gone with some special purpose hardware support for emulating x86 4k pages on their 16k page architecture

Nah, it's that when you run an x86 process, one of the TTBRs is pointed to a page size corresponding to 4KB pages.
I'm not sure there were many problems in DNR until Putin deliberately created them after 2014. It was a pleasant and popular holiday destination prior to that I believe.
> While it's hilarious, it's understandable IMHO - just basic statistics, she is more often used in front of pretty/ugly. It's showing a glitch in our society more than a glitch in Google AI.

Well, this doesn't necessarily show you facts about society because there's no particular reason to think the training set distribution is the same as anything in the real world.
SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was ‘eyewatering’: DoD official
I am surprised there is no established standard for CL cross-platform UI.
You can make the same argument about breaking changes. Code is constantly changing and needs to be updated, so breaking backwards compatibility is zero-cost?

In reality each change that requires updates to documentation (or code) is of course not actually zero cost.
Although there are consumer protection laws that puts the onus on the company -- in America, where it is caveat venditor -- there is also the question of how much decision-making power we want to give to automation in general, and who is ultimately responsible.

Some things, like the decision to trigger a weapon in an act of war may be something societies want to have humans, and only humans make the ultimate call. That is, there is a desire for a human-in-the-loop.

On the other end of the spectrum are decisions we want to take out of the human hands because we think automation is more reliable and better for our society.

And then there are the unintended consequences. Looking back the past 10 years, it's arguable that the 'share' and 'retweet' features of social media that gives the power of virality to ordinary people have had a profound effect on our society and culture, both for good and for bad (and for many cases where we can't even agree on what's good or bad).

I argue that, while some of this is not novel to the law, I don't necessarily think that those precedents cover all of the changes tech has wrought to how we live and govern ourselves.
I don’t think employers should do any of the sort. I think employers should not discriminate in their hiring (based on race, gender, etc…) and be mindful that they’re not doing so.

One of the most important thing companies can do for DEI is pay their fair and expected tax burden.
NFLX got clapped for Q4 2021 earnings too
I forgot to address the issue related to my indiscriminate usage of the bold. I have always been an advocate of the fast reading techniques but you are right telling me that it may be too much of it.Note: I thought that I also linked the github hosting this gitbook to further collaboration. I have also upgraded that issue.
It doesn't say therapists and psychiatrists can't prescribe social transition, it says it should not be a treatment option, which means that prohibition applies to peers and family.

While simultaneously saying they should provided social support by peers and family and seek counseling from a licensed provider, which kinda means support and counseling have can't take the form of allowing social transition.

More generally you keep saying things like "from what I've read"... what have you been reading? The actual texts have all clearly usurped parental rights. Fucking Idaho made it a crime to leave the state to get your kid affirmative care. Who has been splitting what hairs to make any of these seem like they're securing parents' rights?
I'll take your assertion into consideration as I research the topic, I mean it. Yes, I for one believe socialization and introversion are correlated. I used to be more extroverted, and now I am not, and the timing correlates with some life experiences including the pandemic and WFH. I am not a king legislating that everyone think like me, but in my personal experience, to be introverted is to have anti-social tendencies, and that is something that is suboptimal, all other things being equal.
Pretty much spot on, though the ceiling is a lot lower, at least in the US.

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A 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X is now $395 everywhere in the US, though a patient soul can get one on new eBay for $370-375 before sales tax (but including shipping), best $350 used.

DDR4-3200 CL16 from top brands isr $3.50-$3.65/GB new, or under $250 for 64GB. Again, a patient soul can save more still and get it closer to $200. Want 32GB? Cut those prices in half.

So ~$530-650 new with sales tax and shipping, with a floor of maybe $455-575. For a tremendously capable processor and 32-64GB of memory.
Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
You might have luck in any one of a number of university towns.
Let me recommend pirateship.com for discounted USPS/UPS rates. Not affiliated, just a happy customer.

It gives me a UPS 2nd day air quote of $338.90 from 27518 to 95050 for a 12" x 8" x 8" box weighing 115 lbs. That's supposedly 66% off retail ($1000.12).

But as sibling comment mentions, think of the person delivering a 115 lb package. I semi-recently shipped some treadmill parts to a recycler and they went via three boxes (the recycler paid for them).
In the perception of the Micro$oft users who are brainwashed with the idea that what Micro$oft does is good for the developers.

(In fact, it might even be outright true. But that's not a guarantee that what the Micro$oft users do with the Micro$oft tools is necessarily also the *BEST* thing for the user of that software product that the Micro$oft users produce.)
I’m a “go along to get along” Asian but even I think this level of obsequiousness remarkable.

These departments have an expertise, sure. But part of being an intelligent, critically thinking person is knowing when people are speaking within the scope of their expertise and when they aren’t. You and I both know that this wouldn’t hold up under Daubert. This isn’t like telling you not to name your car the “Nova” in Spanish-speaking countries. It’s like trying to make “LatinX” happen.
I heard that vitamin B-round can help the flora!
Can you spend some time pointing out a few of the specific inaccuracies from your perspective?
The next line in his comment was an example
They linked to one in the following sentence.
That's a great question. There's solid phases you can create at extreme pressure that remain stable or metastable at STP, like the diamond allotrope of carbon. I don't know of any examples that retain a high density at low pressure. Is it possible for something like that to exist?

There was a suggestion that hydrogen metal could be metastable at low pressure -- it would be much denser than molecular hydrogen -- but it looks like that's controversial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen

edit: Turns out diamond is ~70% denser than other forms of carbon, so that's sort of an example. Though its density is pretty low in absolute terms (~3.5 g/cm³).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon
If my memory serves me right, this chess game started this way:

1. Many teachers in Florida started teaching kids (grade 3 and below) about sexual identity matters (aka CRT).

2. Parents got upset and legislature passed a bill to ban such activity (again, for grade 3 and below). The left promptly called it a "dont say gay bill" and the right responded with the "anti-groomers bill" label.

3. Disney execs came to rescue the losing left and threw a few accusations on DeSantis.

4. The mostly conservative legislature got upset that Disney is messing with politics and retaliated with this bill, to strip Disney from its special status.

My guess is that Disney will respond with a PR campaign to smear DeSantis.
Thanks for the thoughtful response!

Yes I do write, in fact it's my main intellectual activity nowadays. Like you said, it's great for making sense of our thoughts.

I know of Zettel but have been worried I'll get carried away with the set up and the atomic note thing which I'm not a fan of. I like the idea but it seems a lot of upkeep??

And thanks for the reminders in your last two paragraphs (I'm not in tech). Good to keep in mind :)
check out coolero, it's foss for controlling cpu coolers that can handle lighting for a lot of them https://gitlab.com/codifryed/coolero
Protein too. Americans used to consume considerably more animal protein, especially red meat. For example the typical Union Civil War field ration included 20 ounces of meat. I don’t have any non military data, but I’d bet that the rations were modeled on the civilian diet.
How often do you have 2" cubes of gold lying around?

Also, if your house burns down your tungsten cube will still be intact, so you don't have to insure it.
I don't know about the cost of the hardware itself, but there is also the cost to license the tech, with different lidar companies attempting grab a piece of the patentable space for lidar.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22451404/tesla-luminar-li...

https://www.patentforecast.com/2021/07/22/lidar-competition-...

https://www.patentforecast.com/2021/09/02/waymo-is-driving-l...
First off, most processors are not BE. Arm and X86 are LE and cover "most processors".

Second, processors like the Motorola 68000 were 32-bit, so there was no need to read just the first byte. Refer to my point about instruction fetch. Like I said, if you have an ISA that came from byte-sized opcodes, and then expanded later, you need to fetch bytes first. However, if your opcodes are 32-bit, then the code is bigger. (In the old days, CISC code size was a selling point compared to RISC, this opcode compression was one of the reasons.)

This is what you learn in first-year computer architecture. However the world has changed a lot since the 80's. Single bytes aren't fetched in x86, 256-byte cachelines are, and the decode happens on that.
People who watched the road runner growing up might like "Acme" anvils.
I never understand these hysterics about the tax payers have to pick up the additional amount, this is based on the idea that with the dissolving of Reedy Creek Disney will continue to pay the exact same amount of property taxes they do today...

I find that it be laughable, and purposefully misleading as well designed political misinformation by people that are politically opposed to the dominant political winds in the state.

In reality I expect this to be a windfall for the tax base in a few of the counties (except orange) that have been starved for cash because of Reedy Creek
>Small towns have grocery stores and hospitals...

Yes, but 4-40 acres gets a lot cheaper the further you go from the town. My point was as he was looking and pricing, make sure you are 30 minutes away from a grocery store or hospital. You can always grow a garden and hunt if you so desire, but if you break your leg or something, an hour is a long drive to get it fixed.

>Land outside a medium city is a suburb, not rural.

Depends on the city.
Yes, women do have an advantage. Hemachromatosis occurs in men much more frequently. Of course, they suffer from iron deficiency much more often...
I'd actually like to see less of podcasts and more blogs or transcripted interviews. However sites like Ask HN and Quora have been good at democratising them. There's always a lot of the emotional junk that trends, especially around work, existentialism and productivity, but for the most part, it gets good questions to those who are interested in them.
Ask HN: How big is your database?
Mine is ~5gb in postgres. I thought this was quite high, and looked into advanced methods to try to lower it, but I realised 5gb is a teeny tiny baby, so it had me wondering. How big is your database, what's the BIGGEST you've worked with?
Others have answered the question but the reason this works in CL is rather simple: Function calls (by default) have a single level of indirection. When CL calls a function it looks up the address of the function in a table (the symbol table), then jumps to the given address. If you redefine the function associated with the symbol, the next call gets the new definition. Yes, you need a separate thread (native or green) for the REPL but it has less to do with the REPL being a separate thread and more to do with the symbol table being a global data structure.

This is why there is no "linking" step in Common Lisp compilation: CL keeps the symbol table around at runtime; C just throws it away.
I often wish, that this kind of thing would be called something more like homedatacenter
For really modern stuff sure, but a lot of enterprises are not using containers, they're still Hyper-V or VMware based. The only reason to go Hyper-V is because it's cheaper, so if you can use ESXi free... you choose ESXi.

ESXi remains one of the most ridiculously and stupidly stable platforms of all time. Someday someone will find an ESXi host with a twenty year uptime. Not because you should, but because it can.
They haven't even captured 1 big city

Urban warfare is the most useless form of warfare. If anybody could learn the lessons from the Wehrmacht's disaster in Stalingrad, it would be the Russians.

Note that the West still bombs cities, which converts the ruins into hundreds of defensive positions that have to be taken slowly and with heavy casualties. The Russians tend to leave cities mostly intact and flow around them, very similar in a way to the US policy of 'island-hopping' in the Pacific during World War 2.
shouldn't there be some scale at which we can just be happy with the value an organization is providing? how many more movies and tv shows do we need for netflix to achieves the same level of credibility as TBS or the CW?

capitalism has always been about infinite growth but seems to have gone wild since everything starting going service-based
The Air-Ambulance Vultures – Why my flight cost $86,184: private equity
> But on the other hand, why the heck does Disney have these special privileges in the first place?

It's probably because of the $5B in annual tax revenue from the FL tourism industry (led by Disney).
No kidding. When I was heavily contributing to Julia's Pkg (which uses roughly the same model for modules as NPM, at least in terms of the file system), our test suite would run roughly an order of magnitude slower on Windows. This was very annoying on days where a lot of PRs where in the pipeline. I poked around the problem about for a while, and eventually came to the same conclusion (but I'm no Windows expert).

Eventually, I worked around the problem by using a caching system to avoid blowing up the filesystem. It was necessary at the time, but it never felt like a satisfying solution. I wonder if anyone has the knowledge to make native Windows go fast on e.g. a large number of sequential git clone operations.
2-3 lbs of steak a day since 2020
I've always wished they'd just disable auto-scroll when you first interacted with the carousel. Win-win.
I run Arch these days and so does the wiff.

I like boring. I like working and just works. I like updates taking a couple of minutes including a reboot.

I run a company. I don't like excitability. My wife doesn't give a shit about IT. She want's to do FB or whatevs.

Trust me: when I describe Linux as boring, I'm quite impressed.
Bloggers and Vloggers would be absolutely lost without mainstream media. 99% of what they do is comment on news stories broken by real reporters and digest it with a heavy layer of opinion.
How is this possible? (Google Analytics screenshot)
So we thankfully didn't have to worry about conductor schedules another system our company built did it and we just worked on the assumption that the cow was spherical, this alone made a world of difference in segmenting whose head was exploding at which time.

All the rest was on us, failures, breakages, crashes (We never had one!!!), blocks were super interesting btw!.

So I got on it by chance, I just did interviews as a sport when I was in my early 30's so at some point I passed on this position, pay was awesome, lot's of travel involved, etc... So I joined and learned it all there, it was a small mom and genious software house that specialized on all types of JIT planning for railroads.

JIT was actually "THE" solution to it, because the controllers could just try it during the day, so let's say they new 18:00 was the worst and there was a huge trains comming in at that time with priority, he would just throw shit at the system to see how to same the most time sometimes, of course he knew how to do it by heart, but was it the "Best way" we could help him answering it super fast.

P.S: I am not ducth but I lived there for a while, I remember thinking about how much of a bad day it would have been if it was me, I knew exactly what the NS people were felling :D
America’s Javelin missile is second to none (2021)
"Latinx" isn't meant as a counterexample to "master/main", it's meant to demonstrate that the woke don't care about preventing offence, but instead about power, even if it means enforcing non-sensical policies; the fact that Spanish has no "x" further reinforces my point.
Why it pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016)
TIL a gun that shoots a net is patent-able.

This is such an obvious thing that I don't see how they argued it was worthy of a patent.
> international banking apps

Thanks for mentioning this. Without this explicit mention I would have (on HN) assumed it to be a US-focused list and likely have skipped it.

To Indian users of Graphene OS: do Indian banks use SafetyNet too? Any experiences?
We've gotten to the point where we think that not one person should be even mildly bothered by what we say.
This. Every one of the 50 states has a flagship university, and some of them are doing very good research in a variety of fields. You won't get rich there, but you can have a lot of fun and do cutting-edge work.

College towns usually have a lot more culture, in many senses of the word, than non-college towns of the same size. The highly educated workforce makes a big difference.

We used to live 30 minutes outside Eugene, Oregon (University of Oregon) on 50 acres. In retrospect, it would have been better to have a smaller place (3-5 acres?) closer to town. But we were definitely secluded.
The general "clean coding" rule is longer names for global and/or big namespaces and shorter names for localized, smaller ones. For example, a local variable that's defined in the current function or block can have a very short name, whereas for a module-wide function you'd pick something longer and clearer. Even more so for something that's globally accessible to the whole program, or exported as an API.
I recently bought an old HP server thinking it would be fun to play with. It turned out that it was loud and power-hungry, and for most things my needs could be served just as well by an old laptop. I ended up giving the server to a friend (who has their electric bill included in their rent).
This is certainly part of it.

There are also those who are not happy with woke content and "Anything Silicon Valley/Tech" and are walking away.

Disney has the same thing going.
Yeah it feels like the binge watch mindset kind of papers over and enables this.

Shows like a lot of their lower-tier Marvel ones can have significant pacing/padding issues but it's such easy watching and you can just burn through it in a weekend while doing something else anyway.
Orphaned people would like a word with you about your harmful language.
I guess my point was you don't need to drive to a "medium city" for groceries.

Unless you're in sparser areas like Wyoming, Nevada, West Texas, etc. you're always 30 minutes or so from the nearest town no matter where you live.

If you're looking for 4-40 acres, you're not wanting land out in backcountry, you're wanting land outside a town.
College town - St Olaf and Carleton. Nice place.
I did not watch Bridgerton. It was truly a contrived example.