skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not stupid consumers that's people not rightly giving a f what nonsense licensing setups requested by ip owners and enforced by a government monopoly on force. The consumer just wanted to watch the media, which is fair because they probably just spent 8 hours at some nonsense unnecessary job and would like to switch off... again.

No vote no power.
Sure, not to say it's impossible. Sometimes you have early technology that can be refined through mass production. But at some point, you optimize as well as you can, and then the only way to continue driving or keeping prices down is to make compromises.
I was in a computational physics class in grad school when the professor mentioned "guh-new Emacs", and it felt like time froze. I had been seeing this word for nearly a decade since I started using free software stuff, but had evidentially never talked to anybody about it and it was difficult to register this new way of pronouncing the word.

I still pronounce it "new" in my head from time to time.
It is small, but that's not what you should look at. The Derivative in subscribers matters way more (since Netflix is a growth company), and Russia was nearly doubling in subs each year.
Nothing can beat the efficiency of the Carnot engine. That's one of the equivalent ways of stating the Second Law of Thermodynamics [1]. Just like you can't create a perpetual motion machine, you can't extract more energy from warm water than a Carnot engine.

And the efficiency of the Carnot engine is 1-T_cold/T_hot, both temperatures expresssed in Kelvin. Room temperature water is 300K (that's by convention, this translates in 27 C or 80 F). Let's say warm water is at 333K (that's more like scalding hot, at 60 C or 140 F). The Carnot engine efficiency is then going to be 1 - 300/333 = 10%.

So, not engine can exceed 10% efficiency when using scalding hot water, for merely warm water it's probably going to be 5% or less.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics#C...
This is basically me. I have the 15 dollar tier of Netflix and then my friends and i share a Plex hosted at a buddy's house where we get whatever content we want.
You can hire a 3rd party to do the torrenting and then stream from them (put.io, etc.), but there's no guarantee they can't be compelled to hand over their logs.
that sounds sweet. do you mind telling us which VPS are you using?
You are correct the vast majority of medicine as is normally practiced are skill that can be easily picked up, but you know good old humans, they make a mountain out of a mole hill, so they make a bunch of regulations...
You've replied to my post, but I honestly cannot tell who you are talking to, or whether your assertions about whoever you're talking about are in any way connected to anything I've said.

It could be that this style of engagement is why you're bored. It does seem boring to talk to people without actually talking to them.
flags are fine. If they reduce complexity.
Is it easier to add a comment about what the flags do for the next dev than describe the other structures to avoid the flags?
You won't the last dev to touch that code. Write the simplest thing possible.
Law can declare that the Earth is flat. Does not mean I have to believe in it.
Yes it works on the latest macOS very well. They recently released native M1 version too.
There is nothing civil about civil asset forfeiture. It is straight up robbery, about the most uncivil government action you can imagine short of rounding suspects up and shooting them.
I kinda wonder how long movies will continue make economic sense, at all.

What we call movies are 1h30 or more of continuous contents, and in this day and age this becomes an increasingly long time to be stuck in one place doing one thing. If it’s a full hobby, like pottery or bordering why not, but for “casual” people I feel the proposition is less and less attractive.
Last year, I had the opportunity to talk to some PG&E-associated contractors [0] who were replacing the distribution transformer serving me. I asked them whether they trusted the anti-islanding protection in everyone’s inverters and whether they would like me to turn off my main breaker. They laughed and said that they couldn’t care less. They were going to intentionally short the secondary circuit if they were doing dangerous work, and if anyone’s inverter was trying to energize it, that was the inverter’s problem.

I’m genuinely unsure what purpose anti-islanding actually serves.

(My inverter is moderately intelligent and formed a one-house microgrid all by itself. That being said, this capability may be at odds with helping the grid survive a major disturbance. When my inverter decides to disconnect from the grid, it cannot support the grid regardless of what its software and the regulators think.)

[0] By which I mean line workers at a company that PG&E contracts with to maintain their distribution network. Apparently PG&E outsources real work. Go figure.
Yes, vladimir is the founder of Kagi and created the form himslef, beause Kagi is a bootstrapped effort running on a tight budget.

(vladimir in question here)
Being unemployed.
People have limited time and investing in a storyline is not free.

> This is because consumers have been conditioned since last century to assume this is how things should be.

Or people aren't conditioned to care about what the idiotbox tells them at all. They are simply upset that something they like is being summarily made unavailable, like any other product.
Malicious PyPI package opens backdoors on Windows, Linux, and Macs
Our high-end Mac IIci setups were $8000 each.

So easy to forget these mind-boggling prices, as they were usual and customary (for that level) at the time.
The problem with American TV is that almost everything is unbounded. Some shows manage to keep things going. Others jump the shark.

It’s not that having 10 seasons is bad. But many shows tell the story they wanted to tell in much less time. At which point you should just stop.

Some formats are interesting though like American Horror Story. It’s more like an anthology. Different story each season. Some actors might return with different roles.

Dr Who is also interesting since the mechanism for “reboots” is built in to the character.

Or go the Disney route and expand the individual character stories like they are doing with Marvel and Star Wars.
Games are a bit of an atypical case, since the overhead of runtime polymorphism (allocation, virtual function calls) motivate many to avoid runtime polymorphism due to the importance of performance in games, regardless of if that motivation is justified or not. Thus, polymorphism might still have been the most elegant approach, but its use avoided due to non-stylistic factors.
I once broke FreeBSD Current.
I was porting a zfs on linux commit to allow mounting filesystems in parallel, instead of copying the zfs-on-linux code I decided to read it and write it by hand. I didn’t test the patch… it was merged and was quickly reverted because it broke the boot sequence for many people.

great learning experience!
Because the policy will bankrupt founders.

Imagine you're the founder of NFLX and you held $1 billion worth of stock at the peak last year ($690 / share)

The IRS says you owe $300 million (30% of your unrealized gains)

Fast forward to spring 2022. The stock has crashed to $186, your shares are worth only $270 million but you owe a $300 million tax bill.

Not to mention the impossible situation this creates for corporate governance and the general functioning of a business when founders / board members are constantly forced to divest and therefore no one can know who will even control the company from quarter to quarter.
The battery is largely optional. The critical bits are the switch, aka “microgrid interconnection device”, and the inverter’s ability to make a decent sine wave without grid assistance.
Yeah, LLPs/PLLCs might have the credentialing requirements. However, I am not sure law firms have to organize with those structures -- I admit ignorance in that case. I was thinking more generally.
Using the people picked for funny Jimmy Kimmel interviews is hardly representative, given that they’re literally hand-picked to be the most ridiculous responses.

The article acknowledges this somewhat, but it’s an example of another confidence fallacy: The idea that nobody knows what they’re talking about.

It’s a comforting fiction to tell ourselves when we find ourselves less educated on a topic than we might want to be. The disappointment of not knowing melts away when you can convince yourself that even the people who think they know what they’re talking about are just as uninformed as ourselves.

But it’s a trap. It’s the same line of reasoning that leads people to believing their own random guesses about the climate have equal footing to those of career climate scientists. Or that all political candidates are equally dumb and therefore we might as well pick the one with a personality we like the most. It’s a similar to the “death of expertise” phenomenon.

The truth is, many people do know what they’re talking about and aren’t idiots, but you won’t find them embarrassing themselves on a funny Jimmy Kimmel segment or a Trevor Noah show designed to make us laugh. For that, we need to zero in on the people who don’t know what they’re talking about and then pretend that everyone is just like them. It’s more comforting that way.
"Microsoft wants to increase usage of Edge, Bing and other Microsoft properties. Increased usage increases Microsoft's revenue at the same time, as advertising revenue increases with usage. The features may also keep users in Microsoft's ecosystem of services and applications longer."

Is Microsoft headed back into anti-trust territory?

Have they not seen the investigations and complaints against Google and Apple for similar actions?
That paper was analysing the system with a temperature difference of 40C (a temperature difference which doesn't allow you to extract energy efficiently anyway). Nuclear power plants at minimum produce steam at about 300C (all the way up to 900C). It doesn't seem like it the paper would particularly support its use for nuclear power. (Basically all plausible uses for this involve using low-grade power. But any system which attempts to do this needs to be really, really cheap compared to conventional systems to be worthwhile).
> I helped drive that subscriber loss!

> […]

> when I got the notification that prices were going up, it served as a reminder that I really wasn't getting much value out of Netflix at the current price

A perfectly reasonable reaction. Netflix is still generally my primary streaming service, but mainly because the others are either a terrible UX for my setup (Hulu), won’t ever get me as a customer for ethical reasons (Amazon), or have content/catalog models like Netflix, only smaller catalogs (basically everything else that isn’t a cable provider).

Netflix becoming a studio was great when it still offered licensed content I love. I could watch their originals and my favorites and things I’d put off watching. Now it feels like I have an HBO subscription I never asked for, where the only thing they offer is original content I don’t want to sift through to find out if it’s worthwhile.
I cut my subscription at the end of 2021. The comfort shows I'd watch from time to time were leaving to other platforms, and Netflix was pumping out so many originals that it would take forever to find a show I'd like, then they'd go ahead and cancel it after a season or two.

The nail in the coffin was the price hike - in Canada it went to $20.99 for 4k streaming, for something I was rage watching maybe once a week. It's just not worth the money to spend so long hunting for content, only to be disappointed.
No. No we don't.

There is no reason any culture can justify sexy anything with a _child_. Find me one example of where "the culture someone comes from" has a woman rolling like that with a boy who may not have even started puberty.

8,000 years ago, maybe that was kind normie for reasons other than shitty old men (lifespan, w/e), but that doesn't hold any water today.

I'm not saying any of this is equal, but there's no way I roll up into Tehran eating pork rinds and doing cosplay of the Prophet either.

This BS argument needs to be deaded.
So you can guarantee 20% returns? We're back where started.
Is Do Kwon going to get arrested after Terra's LUNA price collapse?
Great point. the book that drove this home for me was Time Management for Mortals
These are my favorite kind of projects.
See Blackadder Season 3 for an explanation of why "cromulent" is now a punchline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08
Putting myself in that situation... I imagine if I was confronted at random and given a few seconds to give my opinion on a subject I know nothing about, but my social standing would gain more by my saying something than by saying I know nothing, I would absolutely say with confidence an opinion.

It would be wrong, probably, but I would flash a smile at the interviewer and make an effort to both appear genuine and be totally forgettable.
I think Netflix is learning a hard fact about the content business. Hits are hard.

All the shows I’ve gotten into on netflix get cancelled once the cast demands to much money around season 4. This strategy makes sense if you can turn around a new hit next year to replace it, but having to deliver an exponentially growing set of hits is really hard. At this point just getting cast and crew who want to work with you is a challenge with 5 other major content streamers. If given the choice, I’m sure hot talent would prefer a studio that won’t fire them once it’s a smash hit.
I ran into old John Hoffman in Owen's last week. 78 yrs old and doing laps on a 5.11c. Has a surprising amount of muscle mass for a guy his age. He just never stopped climbing. Use it or lose it.
People realized "considered harmful" was too hyperbolic, so they moved to "smell". But then it gets treated the same way, because who wants to be smelly?
I work in Healinggardens.co. Check out some of those gardens we have. Also very curious to see gardens by other HNs
> The holders would pay less in taxes when the valuation drops, why would they get a credit?

Perhaps you're not familiar with some of the proposals to tax unrealized gains or what this means. This means there have been serious proposals from so-called serious people to tax individuals when a stock they're holding goes up, even if they don't sell that. So somebody is making a point that nobody has made a serious proposal to give a similar credit for unrealized losses. It's just the government wanting to tax and take and take.

> Also, the only people who would be subject to those taxes are already extraordinarily wealthy, so who cares?

You've got it backwards.

The already wealthy aren't the ones bothered by paying a bit more taxes on unrealized gains too much. If Warren Buffet had to pay an extra few million because a stock he held went up, he probably wouldn't really notice. It wouldn't even be a buzzkill on his day.

In the event of a tax on unrealized gains, it's the middle class dude who made a great investment on the next Apple who is screwed over from holding for a few years because he has to sell the second the price went up just a bit to pay that tax.
A more specific (and so hopefully less arbitrary) claim for you all:

In CRUD apps, database tables with lots of boolean columns are a data-architecture smell.

In my experience, the model encoded by such a record is almost always a — perhaps implicit — finite state machine of some kind. Usually, in CRUD stuff, this is a "lifecycle state" machine. (For example, the BlogComment lifecycle: draft → awaiting moderation → visible → deleted.)

But, because the people who create and evolve data schemas aren't usually familiar with FSMs, there's often no explicit "lifecycle state" enum-typed column in the DB record.

Instead, you get this pile of boolean columns, where each column represents the answer to a predicate that would take the model's lifecycle state as its input. Think e.g. `can_login?(User)` — which really just boils down to `can_login?(UserLifecycleState)`.

If you add the lifecycle-state column, then all the predicate-answer columns can go away. As long as you formally define+document the meaning of each lifecycle state, you can then statelessly recompute all those predicate-answers any time you like, on any layer of the stack you like. And now those predicate-answers will never be able to end up in an incoherent state, because they're never persisted; only the lifecycle-state itself is.

Of course, if you actually go all the way and make your model an FSM on the business layer as well, then you'll also get as a free benefit, the ability to validate lifecycle-state transitions — e.g. "Articles should only be able to enter the Published state from the Reviewed state."
For me it's spending time with friends. Interestingly, I'm a bit of an introvert.
Watch Market Price Indexes: Rolex
By the way, here is an idea about new type of coin, that I would call "investcoin". Do you see any potential problems with it?

This would be a coin that is backed by stocks. When you buy my investcoin, you can choose any kind of stock from a preapproved list and I will buy them for your money. If you decide to cash out, I will sell stocks of my choice to repay you. The stocks are managed in a public account, so anyone can ensure that the amount of stocks matches the amount of coins. You are guaranteed a share of stocks proportional to amount of coins that you own.

Of course, hard work of thinking out a hypothetical cryptocurrency must be rewarded, so I will take a reasonable fee from every transaction involving buying or selling stocks.

To make things more interesting, we could manage those stocks by voting of coin holders.

Why this is much better than stablecoins:

- first, in contrast to existing stablecoins, anyone can easily check that I hold the amount of stocks matching the amount of coins

- second, unlike existing stablecoins, the value of my investcoin is going to grow as on average stock markets grow over time

- third, the money that you have invested is improving world economy instead of just burning electricity

- fourth, you can use this investcoin as a mean of payment

- fifth, there will be no promises of ridiculous yield. The stocks are meant to back the value of coin, not to be a source of a significant profit.

Looks like a perfect business plan, or am I missing something?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YSYFs7Y1fFI
Netflix's content is truly shocking. They were so enjoyable back when they were not creating their own content. Cancelled a long time ago.
There are currently less than four thousand movies on netflix, and about 1.5 thousand of those are "netflix originals".

Maybe that sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. If you're browsing through random movies on IMDB and come across something interesting, the chance that Netflix will have it is vanishingly small.
This one evening, my two friends and I were debating if we should go paddle boarding. When we eventually made our way to the lake, it was 7:30PM and the last two folks were leaving. We decided that we should do it anyway since we came this far. We paddled our way to the middle of the lake, and watched the sunset. We tied our boards together, I was laying down and looking at the stars while my two friends had some drinks and talked. We saw lightning bugs, heard frogs croaking, and birds chirping. We realized that in the entire city of 3million it was just us three in this lake.

I get most bliss from kayaking and paddle boarding at nights with my friends.
When I first heard this quote it really resonated with me. I think what it means is that unhappy relationships usually take on specific forms, while happy relationship are more generalized.
Lots of people like to think they don't have choices. But they make choices every day.
https://simson.net/clips/1990/1990.Computerworld.GNU-Softwar...

This 1990 Computerworld article mentions that Lotus compiled all their Unix applications with gcc. Given the timeframe involved, this likely means early gcc 1.x and supporting tools
spatial chat concept is great, love what you've done with it.
When was the last time Microsoft did something user centric? Microsoft is a (very successful) enterprise software and (aspirational) advertising and data harvesting company. There is not really any thought given to users, and almost every change from Win 95 forward has been worse for users. This has not hindered their business and has probably improved it.

If you want stuff for the good of the user, get a mac. I don't mean this as a judgement per se, it's just different business models. I use Office 365 for my business and imo it's the best available choice, but it's definitely not built for its users.
All we've done is recreate cable TV on a new medium, with broader access of service providers.

Streaming services are equivalent to MVNOs on cellular networks.
> It’s not malicious, it’s a disagreement on what is acceptable.

They figured they could get away with removing it, so they did. In exchange the user got… what exactly? Absolutely nothing.

> Once Lithium-Ion batteries that can hold 70% of a charge after 1000 cycles appeared, Apple got rid of the user-swappable batteries.

That's still an absolutely pathetic lifetime compared to the rest of the device.

And that also bears out in practice, anecdotally battery life is by far the #1 reason that people buy new phones, especially in the last few years.
It’s not black and white; this was 80 years ago, and a 17 year old. Now, that is definitely stat rape. Then, it was the norm. You’re certainly right that holds no water today, but it’s not today.
How is it an AutoCAD 2000 clone if it's 2D only? AutoCAD could do 3D really well in the 90s if not earlier... (not parametric, but still)
the sad but unavoidable reality is that a lot people are not that smart.
There was someone on my last team who loved using this term in pointless nitpicking critiques. We were a prototyping team. One minute he’d wax philosophical about how prototyping should be done simple and fast, using throwaway code and cobbling together any preexisting bits we can find to move fast, and the next he’d claim that the name “NetworkManager” for the net code client component was “code smell”. Very eye roll inducing.
Performance wise, the best one I've tried is Splashtop which is also free for personal use on a lan. Business pricing is pretty cheap imo as well. I used it to remote into a machine ~3k miles away (different country) and didn't notice much cursor/kb latency at all.

In the past I found I was able to play some games on a windows machine remotely across campus from a terrible netbook running arch at like ~30 fps. Every other tool I tried had too much latency or was too poor quality of a connection to make that viable.

Edit. I may have been using the windows client through wine, I don't think they had an official Linux client at the time.
Awful advice. Do plumbers/electricians/barbers offer a “free trial” to see if you like their work?

I’m not a freelancer, but I’d hang my head in shame if I ever paid zero for someone’s work, even if I hated it. I value their time.
As a regular viewer of Jimmy Kimmel's clips posted on YouTube: Many of the participants in Kimmel's Lie Witness News and similar segments know what the game is and are playing "yes, and", as improv performers call it. It isn't a source for assuming anything about human ignorance.
I don't understand why this is so often presented as such a difficult to understand concept.

People pay property taxes every year on assets that change in value without selling (ie unrealized gains). Nobody seems perplexed by that. But can't seem to figure out how it works for stocks.

Regardless of if you agree or disagree with doing it (which I'm not pushing for or against here), it's not a complex concept.