skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are definitely famine prices. A choenix [1] is about 1 quart (4 C), and a denarius was one day's wage for a laborer [2]. At, say $10/hr, a day's wage is $80. A 5 lb bag of flour has 18 C [3], so that would be $360 for a normal bag of flour! Barley is better, at only $120 for a 5 lb bag. When I've baked bread, about 8 C of flour produces 3 loaves, so a loaf of (manually produced) bread would be about $50!

The text is presumably describing a famine produced by drought, which were regular occurrences in the ancient world, rather than by siege. In the latter, the price of all food rises because the supply is dwindling. But a famine in the highly-connected ancient Mediterranean world would not necessarily affect other areas. Egypt supplied a lot of grain to the empire, so a drought in Egypt would affect grain prices empire-wide. But a drought in Egypt would not necessarily affect olive oil production in, say, Italy.

Regarding Revelation, though, each generation thinks the end times is their generation. One (potential) wheat shortage is hardly enough to qualify as meeting the prophecies... Besides, if we're just going to quote Bible passages, "there will be wars and rumors of wars, but the end is yet to come" (Matthew 24:6) [4] Besides, the only one of the 4 major interpretations of Revelation that actually makes sense of the entire text is that most of the end-time prophecies are about the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, which is called preterism (and also partial-preterism). While this does not preclude multiple fulfillments of a prophecy, OP presented no evidence for why the prophecy this out-of-context verse applies to the present situation.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/choenix

[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2020%3A...

[3] Google: "how many cups in 5 lbs of flour"

[4] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A...
Major studios give creative concessions to foreign markets like China in order to be allowed into their film market. It was incredibly naive of Netflix to think they were too big that they could ignore feedback and input from strong audience bases. You can't build a mass market product based on servicing the needs of a woke minority in a functional market. The market will quickly remind you of this mistake when you don't have any more investors pumping funds into the business.

They need more than an ad-supported tier to come out of this. In the midst of a shaky market and lowest ever subscription numbers, they have no choice but to cater to all walks of audiences if they are to survive.

And spend less on shows, I was seeing crazy budgets to the tune of $30M per episode[0] on the new upcoming season of Stranger Things. That's now bad for the bottom line.

[0] https://decider.com/2022/04/21/stranger-things-season-4-30-m...
LuaJIT can use the FFI against statically linked object code just fine, I'm not sure if that answers your question since in this context it must be embedded in a C program.

It's a hard requirement of static linking that you have just one binary so it might, answer your question that is.
With a global average IQ hovering around 80, it really terrifies me what the future has in store given how manipulable the masses are via social media. The recent Phillipines presidential election is a perfect example. There's a sort of cutoff I've noticed around 85-90 IQ where at or below that, people can simply be spoon-fed whatever form of reality you wish for them to accept. The truth no longer matters when someone's entire reality is shaped by 30 second TikTok videos that are actually just performances masquerading as "POV real life". All of those absurd fake videos we see and laugh at only exist because they work.
In addition to what alistairSH said, the US already has remedies for lawyer fees. If the judge feels your lawsuit is frivolous, they can award “fees” in addition to damages to the other party.
I think this is related to "wholemeal" programming as some haskellers/FP-ists do, thinking in sets/tree/graphs operations.
There’s also something to not aiming to be very successful - or borrowing success and bringing it back.

But if you move to the US for ten/twenty years to amass a pile of success and money, it may be very hard to move back afterwards.
Best depends on your criteria, which you haven't listed other than app creation, but people have been making apps for a long time on computers of various capability, so that doesn't narrow us down very much.

Lowest cost option is find something used that works, or from CDW outlet or the occassional crazy deal. Many chromebooks can run windows if you use a 3rd party bios. The keyboard layout is a bit sparse, which means no windows key. Check Mr.Chromebox for models his script supports and you'll get a minimal machine that boots UEFI capable OSes, you might need a keyboard driver depending on specifics.

If you want the most processing power for the $, get a basic desktop with integrated graphics. Ryzen 5600G or something Alder Lake with DDR4-3600 or so (DDR5 might be faster, but right now it's pretty close and DDR4 is much less expensive). Alder Lake boards are either DDR4 or DDR5 but not both, shop carefully. Desktop chips are going to be significatly faster than laptop chips, because they can use way more power.
It’s transphobic in the “hydrophobic” sense. I don’t think he merely pushes back on activists; I find he delegitimizes the movement altogether.

Which, disclaimer, I do think anyone should be free to do. But people who are offended must be free to share their thoughts as well, then.

It’s akin to saying alcohol addiction isn’t a real addiction. It’s not that you’re making fun of alcoholics, the idea of an alcohol addict, or the behavior and recovery of an alcohol addict — You’re instead devaluing the idea that someone can be addicted to alcohol, falsifying their reality.

Sure, many people can laugh at that, but it’s only going to be the people who can’t relate. The people who have never been familiar with or been victim to substance abuse can probably laugh at the idea that you can just “stop drinking right now, there, problem solved, now what was so hard about that?” because the idea is so foreign to them.

Humor will always be divisive, which means as a comedian you alone wield the responsibility for where that line will be drawn. Chapelle intentionally draws it on personal identity.

I think we can support better comedy than that. Anyone can make an in-crowd; A great comedian makes you the subject and makes you laugh about it too.
Sure, but it makes sense. You have overproduction, how do you deal with it?

If a tiny amount, you can ignore it. Extra boxes pile up a bit higher than ideal. Power production gets a bit uncomfortably close to the maximum limits established, but you don't get into any trouble. You take note, but it's not worth really doing anything yet.

A bit more, and you start making minor changes. Slow things down a bit. Offer discounts to get rid of excess stock. Talk to the nearby businesses to adjust their schedules to use more power when you have too much.

If you have a lot of excess but have good reasons to believe that it won't be piling up indefinitely, but that you will profit from buffering the excess and then selling it off in times of high demand, that's when you build storage.

And something like crypto mining would be my very last choice. You're talking about building highly complex, highly specialized infrastructure for a single use. Storage can sell to anyone who wants, while crypto hardware only does crypto. Should conditions change it'll be far less flexible than storage.
That's good. I don't trust Apple though and I have no way to verify Apple isn't spying on me. In fact I'm pretty sure they are.
HN hasn’t been this rabidly, vocally mad at something since levels.fyi outed FAANG comp.

Ads? Evil, useless, fuck those people making 10x me. Recommender systems? Evil, creepy, fuck those people making all that money.

You can short this shit. You can short Google stock. You can short Bitcoin.

So if it’s all one big phony ads tracking machine learning Ponzi scheme scam? Don’t bitch and moan to the choir, profit from it!

Repeating the same arguments ad nauseum on here takes calories you could be using grind leetcode and get that leet job. ducks
> Snowpiercer

So your example of woke propaganda is content made for other services that Netflix later acquired non-exclusive rights to?

> after the main plot focused on maintaining a lie, not discovering a truth (conventional screenwriting)

I have no idea what this means. I followed your reddit link thinking maybe it would explain what you're talking about, but "snow" appears nowhere on the page.
I think in the future, forced working from the office will be considered barbaric, and a direct form of control over the employees life. Similar to feudalism, peasants, or other patterns of worker owner relationships, forced office work for a middling wage simply isn't worth it.
You minimise it as "being in a book". The book is: "a publication by the American Psychiatric Association for the classification of mental disorders". Are you part of the psychiatric field?
Did you mean to reply to me? I have not really made a statement about the actual topic because it is personally irrelevant to me. I just want people to argue in good faith, even if at this point a reasoned discussion seems impossible. (And just to be explicit, by that I mean, we’re probably not going to see eye to eye, so I’m probably not going to engage with your rhetoric. Sorry.)
Yeah, I find Netflix content to be fairly high quality. I often have to watch a couple of pilots before I find something that hooks me, but I always find something. And I'll recommend Maniac to anyone who will listen...
I mostly agree with the exception of Quebec. Much of canadianness is taking french-canadian symbols & culture and saying: "See we are not americans!"
The D programming language has literally a zero overhead to interface with C. The same calling conventions are used, the types are the same.

D can also access C code by simply importing a .c file:

import foo; // call functions from foo.c

analogously to how you can `#include "foo.h"` in C++.
Huh? Which war?
So how does “it work” when Mozilla themselves says that GeckoView can’t be used as a drop in embedded WebView?
I use Brave Browser. I am always shocked to see how bad the internet is for users without ad blocker. I also totally forgot that YouTube has annoying ads.
Right, when they asked me if I used drugs I replied: Are you asking this because of the urine test?
> If you are an employee and this is original content, your name is forever linked to it and so you should be able to have a say in it. If it was purchased content, maybe you could say you weren't involved.

Like working for a tobacco company, your name and reputation will be tarnished by that association. The solution is obvious: don't work for that company.

Or maybe Netflix will start to implement solutions like those used by the pornography industry; hire sys admins, programmers etc under a shell company that doesn't share the name of the main business. So rather than putting "Software Developer at Pornhub.com" on your resume, you can put tell people you worked for "MindGeek".
For anyone else who's never heard of these before:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:where
Strange religion ;)

But people refer to the USA as “America” even though Canada and Mexico are also in “North America” and all the countries in South America exist also.

Even so, nobody would refer to someone from those countries as “American”.
No, but we can expect a lot of angry Apple customers at some point bitching that Apple's QMJJs stop working after two years because the coolant leaks into their trendy graphene and gold logic gates[1] throwing them out sync with the laser, catching fire and turning their advertised 350 million times faster[2] computer into a superfund site. But having massive renders sitting there for your review before you get actually submitted them to render might be worth it.[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356109

[2] hundreds of times faster bump from superconductors (arbitrarily chose 350) times a million times faster with the fancy new super fast laser driven graphene and gold logic gates.

[3] A benefit of using materials that light passes through faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
I think you’re proving your own point - what if you don’t feel like you fit into that small town culture? In a denser area, you can move a neighborhood or town over.
You can make a bunch of comparisons here between various shadow markets. Prohibition would be an extreme example but the parallel is in my opinion quite clear. People have and continue to resist oppressive legislation that really mostly affects themselves, not everyone else. Be it drinking, piracy or extreme skydiving. It's ineffectual and breaches people's freedom. A reasonable middle ground here would be forbidding making profit off it, like some better countries have adopted.

If we now take a look at the causes, it's quite clear that it shouldn't and can't be improved with restrictions. The underlying reasons and their possible solutions have been highlighted well by cable, Netflix and Steam. Unfortunately streaming services are cable-ifying. We'll probably have to endure and wait for history to repeat again. If you didn't get what I meant - making a service not affordable, cumbersome and restrictive makes people seek alternatives.

Third and possibly the worst aspect here is that such legislation has collateral damage. Large players can steal content, revenue and obliterate anyone standing against them - simply by having deeper wallets. There are Kafkaesque content filters that you can't properly dispute. Artists have to agree to unfair contracts to properly earn royalties. Consumers get hurt by idiotic DRM. In the recent years I've seen Google search results being removed with DMCA requests by "unknown" for sharing "unknown" made by "unknown". Lumen DB literally contains entries like this.

There's no way they'll improve their behaviour when given more power, there's no way it'll improve citizen's lives, it won't even help artists in any reasonable extent. It would only help a few select shareholders.
I don't see that being true in the US, it certainly hasn't changed policies that have resulted in massive increases of fertilizers, from high natural gas used for fixing nitrogen to the pre-invasion post-failed Color Revolution sanctions on Belarus which has 20% of the world's potash (potassium) market. We're both suppressing natural gas production and increasing as fast as possible our ability to export it as LNG.

Making Diesel fuel massively more expensive prior to a very expensive transition to electrical trucks is also making pretty much every good more expensive, everything travels by Diesel powered trucks and/or trains. Biden and company have also decided theoretical so far punishment of Russia is more important than all of the above, for example the East Coast has halved its refinery capacity in the last decade and as of late was getting a lot of distillates from Russia.
Dylan was not insisting that every culture must be a mixture of foreign culture. He is just generalizing that multiple cultures is better than one. By the way, on aggregate, America is a melting pot of different cultures and has dominated popular culture the past couple of decades.

Also, he says he came from a small town so I don't think it is fair to characterize him as a coastal elite.
No one is arguing Georgist tax policy will solve all of zoning. We will still have some issues with land use and no system is absolutely perfect. Still I think on the balance this is a vast improvement over the status quo.
But you can’t replace it with Firefox’s GeckoView since they don’t support the equivalent APIs according to their own documentation.

So the only way you can actually use your ad blocked system wide is through a series of hacks

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/FAQ.md

That’s definitely a lot easier than just…going to the App Store.

Of course when your phone is using an OS that is created by an ad tech company, they aren’t going to make it easy to block ads system wide.
"Free" trade agreements. "Free trade agreement" is a propaganda term anyway, but applying it to agreements that impose intellectual property monopolies is bizarre.

https://cepr.net/trade-agreements-that-increase-protectionis...

https://cepr.net/trade-deals-are-about-increasing-protection...

> It is also important to point out that the liberalization of trade in goods is largely a done deal. Tariffs are already zero or near zero in the vast majority of cases. The potential gains from further liberalization are limited, especially since goods are a rapidly falling share of total output.

> Instead, deals like the TPP are largely about locking in rules on items like intellectual property protections and preserving Mark Zuckerberg’s dominance of the Internet. The TPP, like other recent trade deals, calls for longer and stronger patent and copyright monopolies.

> These protections are 180 degrees at odds with free trade. They are about shifting more income from the bulk of the population to people who benefit from rents on patents and copyrights, by making them pay more for drugs, medical equipment, software and a wide variety of other items.
Similar to Heroku deploy flow, checkout Sailor, a tiny PaaS to install on your servers/VPS that uses git push to deploy micro-apps, micro-services, sites with SSL, on your own servers or VPS.

https://github.com/mardix/sailor
I don't get the link between income and culture here? It feels like you should have ended your post before bringing that up.
Jury’s still out, but the Kiev offensive was a clear failure.

Like I said, learn nuance.
If you want another fantastic deep dive into a work of art by the same author, see https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/16/arts/design/j...
> What is with this insistence that every culture must be a mixture of foreign cultures

Because different cultures are better at different things, so a mixed culture is better at more things than a monoculture.

The benefits of the small town american culture is that it is a mixture of cultures already from the immigrants that moved there a while ago.

The improvements are continuing over time as more and more cultures join in
While the one plant going down is a major problem, there are assessments that say we still make more than enough baby formula in the US, and that logistical issues (and regulatory capture and anti-trust issues) make the system slow to respond.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-bottle-the-baby-formu...
there is nothing to be proud of about lacking extension methods. Kotlin has them and it allow to make amazing APIs that are much more ergonomic/reduce cognitive overhead.
Just when I make a break from fumbling with html and css to create a landing page!

I am 45 minutes in and it looks like this:

https://www.gnod.com/guest

Feedback is welcome.
Kotlin does that as well, and it's a JVM language.
I am only at the first page, but already I must recommend this work

https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/

as unmissable, and "I should have read this as a child" - that is, for those who feel a lack of solid ground until they know exactly what makes the machine work.
No. I am not sure how little you have to understand about the world (the US is also a massive commodities exporter, a good proportion of the world's trade is commodities) to think that...but no, Australia isn't just a big mining outpost.

Mining is 10% of GDP in Aus. For comparison, oil and gas is 8% of GDP in US.
That's what "let them eat cake" means, it's a very confusing expression which means the opposite of what it means, which Marie-Antoinette Bourbon (I think that's her name) said and which got her lynched on the spot.

Since then it means they're replacing an argument about scarcity with an argument about economic subordination, ie get into debt to buy cake if you're out of bread so you can buy cake at 1000x the cost, do whatever we say to not die. Become Marie Antoinette Bourbon's slave.

A modern form of that is American medicine, that's cake. They tell Americans they're getting the best medical care in the world, so it's OK it's the most expensive. In fact it's the opposite, it's the most inferior because it's the most expensive, the less you pay the better the results, with Cuba achieving the absolute best results linked directly to the absolute lowest prices. Like religion, the less money you have the more devout you can be, prayer and fasting.
Culture is about shared experience, anything that cuts you off from sharing in popular culture has a cost. You might not care, but I think - particularly for children/teens - there is significant cost.

Interested in your thoughts on that?
Lol Americans call me out almost immediately as being Canadian just because of my accent.

There are many important differences between the two cultures. The most important IMO is being less hellbent on “freedom” and understanding that sometimes sacrificing a small amount of personal liberty for the greater good is the right thing to do.
> but they aren't operating at the same scale as Heroku.

As someone who said "I'm sure it can't get any worse" with heroku for many years and was proven wrong over and over, I genuinely don't know what you mean by this. Lots of stuff just doesn't work. Updated buildpacks don't get released on a useful timescale ("just make your own" isn't an answer). The platform is plagued by bizarre performance issues and noisy neighbors, and the pricing doesn't support it. In my time on Heroku, I couldn't break three nines of uptime one year entirely because of platform issues, including one incident where the DNS provider Heroku uses just stopped working in Israel (which Heroku gaslit me about for over a week). I don't know what "operating at scale" means to you, but if the service is consistently bad compared to the competition, it doesn't matter what scale they operate at. It's a meaningless metric.
precisely; i don't even consider using vimscript a possibility.
Escaped the regulatory framework.
Definitely mania. And being surrounded by “yes men” and a legion of fans pushing you forward. Until it comes time to produce the $billions and suddenly everyone is doing their due diligence and likes/retweets aren’t worth a damn.

He also had the bad luck to do this at the same time the bottom fell out of tech and people started questioning whether buying TSLA shares at $1000 was the best marginal use of their money.

Also interest rates going up significantly, making financing much more expensive.
Graal Truffle tutorial part 0 – what is Truffle? (2020)
I remember back in the day when cartoons had black holes you pull out of a pocket and throw down to use either as a portal to a different part of the cartoon or as a way to send your antagonists somewhere else.

I think that's where we should start in looking at potential use cases for personal, instant black holes.

I'm not young any more so I would volunteer to help in development and testing of any portals as long as I get good Cajun coffee and a smoked brisket sandwich in the lunchbox with a blood orange and a slice of Mom's apple pie.
Eich has been heavily criticised by the cryptcoin ultras for taking KYC regulations seriously.

Cf. e.g., from 2018, https://thenextweb.com/news/brave-blockchain-cryptocurrency-...
This type of argument always uses the same conjectures:

- crypto can be used for money laundering therefore it is mostly used for money laundering

- one big stablecoin has failed therefore all stablecoins are unsustainable (the first one usdt is still around btw, and so is dai)

- etc
I internally transferred (with my family) from the UK to California in late 2016 and secured a green card in early 2020.
I know this has nothing to do with the story, but I cannot get over how close this company name is to Weenie Hut Junior.
I'd pay for google premium, but since that's not offered I use ad blockers. Just like I used to torrent before streaming services came up.