skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the gambling. Casual games with friends/family is one thing, but definitely teach them that Casinos are not the same thing and exist to part fools (or rich people already set for life) from their money, no matter how badass some movies make them out to be.

I'd rather they learn risk taking through strategy games with incomplete information (like XCOM 2, Starcraft, Among Us, etc). That gives them a range of strategies to experiment with and will teach the perils of both risking too much and being too conservative. Most traditional gambling assumes a position of "luck is part of the fun" as opposed to treating it as a risk to be managed. Because if you treated it as a risk to be managed, and the requisite luck level is set so high, why play the game in the first place?
My tinfoil hat head cannon says this is all hype to have a reason to make the price of any given grain skyrocket.
Coming from a Linux background but experimenting heavily with jails lately, I think jails are more like LXD/LXC containers than docker.

While most jails usually start the init system inside the jail, you can set the "entrypoint" of a jail to just one app and run only that in the jail. That would be a little closer to a typical docker container.

The tooling around jails is not like docker. There is no central "hub" with different images centered around specific usecases, you mostly have to roll your own.
There have been various efforts to improve that, but I haven't had the impression that I could rely on anything that isn't in FreeBSD base when it comes to jails.
Too much abandoned wrappers and helpers out there.
Well… I’m 50% of those relationships, so… yes?
> We have to have an Adam Project and a Bridgerton every month

Decade+ subscriber: I'm never watching those shows. If they have to advertise or talk up their programming, it's not going to be worth the time to see how terrible it is. On the other hand, I'll have 3 people mention a new season of Ozark before I've noticed it's been released.... Actually, that was more true of the second season than the recent ones.

So, if fixing the content is the answer, then maybe the people who created the problem aren't the right ones to fix it. Their taste is out of sync with that of their subscribers.
Spending time with my family. I used to enjoy programming (the alone on a greenfield project hacking kind) the most but things change as you get older.
There is a known way to handle "nuclear waste": burn it in fast-neutron reactors [1]. The waste is mostly still uranium. The rest can still be burned, turning it into much less active isotopes and producing energy.

Yes, these machines produce plutonium suitable for nuclear weapons. But plutonium is a perfectly good nuclear fuel, too, and the US already has nuclear weapons, longer than any other country.

[1]: https://whatisnuclear.com/fast-reactor.html
while I agree a 500 fold increase is a bit of exaggeration, There is some merit to the argument.

more expressive languages including common lisp certainly give more power for an experienced engineer to outperform someone fresh out of univeristy. enough to say that I'd rather have 2-3 senior engineers experienced with common lisp or clojure or haskell over 10-15 juniors working on go or python.

and what if you gave them the same expressive language? I'd argue that its even more dangerous. Common lisp is a powerful language but its easy to code yorself into a corner if you don't have the experience to properly use it. it;d be easy to build overcomplicated systems that are brittle. go is in fact better for them because it limits the damage they can cause.
Because they can. So they do.

And when you don't pay, they sell your debt on to collections. Collections will sue to get a judgement against you, which will allow wage garnishment and other types of confiscation. Finally, say goodbye to your credit rating.

They charge because the power in the hospital/patient relationship is so very asymmetric.
Can't reply to your comment below so will do it here.

"Do banks really create money out of thin air?": https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/do-banks-really-creat...

"...The phrase “banks create money” forms part of the popular discourse, but it conveys an erroneous representation of the banks’ role in the money creation process..."

"...Without the correct understanding, the misguided belief that banks create money out of nothing will continue to influence models of the financial sector and monetary policy interventions..."

"...The traditional view adopted in the money supply debate is that banks create bank money by granting loans. This explanation is then extended to suggest that banks thereby create money out of nothing. However, this is an inadequate caricature of the process of bank money creation..."

"...To an outsider, it appears as if by recording an asset account entry connected to the buyer and by recording a corresponding deposit entry, the bank has created money out of nothing; this is the illusion of the bank having created money..."

"...But this is only the prima facie appearance and not the truth of the matter because the outside observer has neglected to acknowledge that the deposit value records the value-for-value exchange conducted through an underlying transaction. In reality, the seller no longer has a house and the buyer now has a house..."
Similar for me, but Drum & Bass or (nu-)metal. And most definitely seconding good earplugs.

Metal gigs with good moshpits and great crowds... If someone falls over, three people are hauling them back up onto their feet. Everyone looks out for each other.

Skindred do the "Newport Helicopter" where everyone removes an item of clothing and swings it around their head. Slipknot do a thing where everyone crouches down and then jumps up at the same time. It sounds stupid, but the whole crowd, already buzzing, exploding in unison is amazing.

Some of my gig buddies have tinnitus because they didn't look after their hearing though. Always earplugs.
This is a very promising tool - I can see many uses for it. My one fear nowadays is that this data could be valuable to the likes of Google etc for training ML models. Hope you can keep this away from the crawlers.
No one knows what that would look like … wait, Dentists. Mexico. Thailand. Singapore.

The obvious reality is that something structural is causing this massive price inflation, and the government is heavily involved in this structure already.
If I remember correctly, a feature of cable TV way back when was ... no ads.

Pesky things. I bet Gutenberg felt the same.
We do have that though, right now.
These are the keys. You need a larger tortilla and or a lower amount of filling than you probably realize.

Also, after you build that burrito, you can optionally toast it in a pan with some oil to get the exterior crispy and rigid.
I was expecting to see some discussion over Netflix's depreciation models, which is (apparently) over 5 years, 20% per year.

While Disney (and other producers) do something like 90% depreciation over the first year, the famous "Hollywood accounting" that gets a lot of criticism.

But "Hollywood accounting" might be closer to the truth than Netflix's model. 20% of the movie "Bright" (released in 2017, the Will Smith + Orc buddy-cop movie) is still being "paid for" on Netflix's books this year.

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Since Netflix's growth has slowed a bit, the effects of depreciation are now going to start hurting it. But it seems like everything discussed in this article is about the fundamental viewership issue, which might be worse.
That would be fine if the storylines were wrapped up at the end of season three but shows not only fail to do this, they often end on a cliffhanger and then the series gets cancelled. I don't know about other people, but I wait until a show has been on for years before bothering with checking them out. There are a few that I knew were continued as graphic novels, which I thought was a decent compromise but if I know there's an unresolved cliff hanger and a bunch of half finished storylines, I don't bother starting the show.

A three year series is fine but treat it like that in the third season before too many people's behaviors change and it starts to become difficult to get their attention to new series because they fear it ending suddenly without resolution.
According to Sweatman (a year ago), 'three bodies' have been found in 'a burial' 'under the floor of houses'. Start at about 5:10 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3qZQRzzA4]
How do you settle pricing in this system? Its easy enough if your asset has enough liquidity and distribution to arrive at a fair market price, but what if the price isn’t transparently obvious - as it is for most assets.

In your example of a blockchain based subscription service used as a collateral, revenues would likely accrue in some native token. Which will likely be volatile. So you have to first settle on a volatility range. Then you have to settle on a fair market multiple for the asset. Do you go with 30x MRR? And is this MRR on the token’s current price, twap?

I’ve seen so many projects try to get loans against NFTs right and even most of them struggle to do it with the “blue chip” NFTs.

At some point, you have to ask if the middlemen in the current system exist for a reason. Perhaps the system organizes itself in this fashion - repeatedly throughout history - because offers some efficiencies and safeguards that are not worth completely discarding.

Its a flawed system of course. But the crypto system is arguably even worse for 95% of assets on the planet.
It depends on your issue management system, but most offer some system (labels, tags, flags) which you can use to identify a blocked issue to be passed over without tweaking the priority directly. I'd favour using such a system over priority adjustments in most cases, because presumably when the task gets unblocked it should be seen to sooner than the "While we have time" task you were doing in the meantime.
This is not a good comparison, because except in very few cases, the audience of a pilot is not the general public. In fact, the general public will never have the chance to see the pilot unless it's picked up, and in that case they'll still have to wait until the entire season is filmed.

By contrast, Netflix uses the viewership ratings from the first season to determine whether to renew for a second season.
But that's a problem. Watching a whole season makes you more invested in the show, so you're pissed off when it gets cancelled.

I also agree with OP that encouraging binge watching is not good. Netflix pumped out more content than any cable TV package I've ever had in the past, but by allowing binge-watching people binge and then get bored and say Netflix has no content.

If they spread out these shows it would be healthier for the viewers and would create a perception of more content.
Yeah, I love FreeBSD's base system's release model. It feels like a complete system, and each release is supported for a long time.

Same with systems like Ports, and in particular, NetBSD's pkgsrc. I've personally been using pkgsrc on my MacBook (and sometimes on Linux too) for years, and have really enjoyed using it as a cross-platform system to add my own little packages that'll work across macOS/Linux/NetBSD (I use NetBSD on my Pi). And I have no problems doing upgrades every 3 months, since I want my shiny new software.

So I definitely see and appreciate Ports/pkgsrc's benefits - but I still feel uneasy using stuff like FreeBSD+Ports on non-personal projects, like for projects at work.
That tells you nothing about a trend though, right? We'd have to look at this over time to see if people are actually moving to/starting to use signal.
The randomly generated shapes are beautiful and mesmerizing (just keep pressing 'R'). Pure math in all its visualized glory.
> Roundabouts generally make streets safer for pedestrians as they slow the flow of traffic

This is rubbish. Roundabouts are a lot harder to cross, and more unsafe.
This is a bit of a hobby horse for me. I grew up in El Paso / Juárez which is arguably where the burrito was invented. The problem is that burritos these days try to pack two pounds of stuff into a one pound sack. A proper burrito is about the size and width of a baby's forearm, not the size of a whole baby. If you are hungry, eat two.
It's a hosted service that will be available as well as an on premise deployment for companies.
Can also happen if there are a lot of wet or watery ingredients and it sits in a wrapper for a while.
Good opportunity to reduce livestock and redirect crops for human consumption

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/future-water-and-en...
> Happening in a different place makes it simpler because the backend no longer needs to take into consideration the various clients

I’d argue it makes it more flexible, but not easier. It’s so much easier rendering html serverside than having it all done separately in React.

> Also makes it possible to separate the people who build the API and the people who build the UI which can have many advantages such as hiring more specialised people and decouple the releases

You now also have to worry about versioning and/or coordinating releases. Mobile clients demanding a different set of APIs than web client. use graphql? Rest?

> front end and the back end are agnostic to each other

This is good in theory but in practice when you have to replatform the backend for example, it is often for reasons such as separating out concerns, refactoring, rewrites, or moving the frontend over to a new system etc and that usually ends up with the frontend needing to change as well. The frontend is coupled with the API contract that the backend provides and is not entirely agnostic to each other.

This is pretty similar in nature to monoliths vs microservices where monoliths are by far a simpler architecture.
What in god's name does this even mean... The rich (and I don't care what fucking currency they use) are going to give up their political power? The same power that they used to get rich in the first place?
Your mistake is to think that Russia will not disagree. It does, because this is one of their tools to put international pressure on Ukraine to surrender. They try to portray this as fault of Ukraine.
> But when you ask people directly whether or not they're happier with kids, they almost always say they are. It's as if they aren't fully aware about how unhappy they are with the kids.

It's as if having kids rewrote the utility function of the person, introducing a bug to pass the test suite ("self satisfaction") to allow for a wider diffusion of the behavior ("I'm so much happier now, trust me it's wonderful!"), yet in a flawed way (i.e. that's not robust to scientific inquiry, as you observed)
>It needs to be drilled into a good gambler's head that they should take good bets as long as their bankroll supports it but avoid bad bets. Most people who learn to play poker don't learn that.

Absolutely true, and to add to that, even taking good bets requires disciplined bankroll management. Too many gamblers seem to think a bet that won means it was good; and that it's an oxymoron to take a good bet which loses.

Tangentially related, it's important to learn to seek out mispriced odds or lines in sports bets. For example, the recent Mavericks Suns game 7 had the Suns favored by ~6.5 points depending on the oddsmaker, which translates to ~94% implied probability of winning. I saw this as mispriced and so I bet on the Mavericks, expecting to lose - I thought the Suns would win, but nowhere near a 94% probability of winning (I didn't pick a number, but I'd have estimated something like 60% probability to win); therefore I felt it was a "good" bet to take. If the suns won and I lost money (which was my expectation), it was still a good bet to take.

As an additional point of interest, after the game, I googled to find out the home team in NBA game 7s had won the game 78% of the time (after last week, the number is now 77%).
Rice in burritos is a northern California thing, not as common in southern California.
seasons are iffy measurement. episodes or hours is better. one season of star trek used to be 20+ episodes. no adays lots of shows are only 8, 10, 12 episodes.

tell the story you want to tell, with a satisfying ending. book and run the show for all of it.

no open ended shows that will run until it lives.lo h enough to suck. no shows canceled before their story is complete
Yeah, I agree. But I’m talking about at home. Not work.
So the problem with media conglomerates (including big studios) is they want predictable returns. More specifically, they want a formula. Let me introduce you to Save the Cat [1]. This book has become so influential that you can read this book and then watch pretty much any movie and you'll be able to tick off everything in the movie to this structure.

It's why studios love sequels and franchises. They have a built-in audience ie predictable returns.

The biggest innovation we've had in this industry is the advent of highly serialized TV shows, made possibly in large part due to (at first) DVRs and then streaming. 30 years ago it just wasn't possible or practical to do somethin glike this when people had to tune in at a set time. The audience drop off would've been too severe.

For me this has been the true Golden Age of TV. But movies? It's all superhero films now and dull, dull, dull for the most part.

So the lesson Netflix is learning here is you can't just scale up a content business by throwing money at it. Studios would love if it this were true. Netflix has thrown many billions at this problem and not spent it wisely. You can't just write a check for $10 billion and become HBO.

Movies in particularly just don't make economic sense without theater releases. We've seen this durin gthe pandemic with movies that have skipped theaters out of necessity. It just doesn't work.

I agree Netflix needed to create original content given the inevitable "me too" streaming platforms from all the studios would otherwise rob Netflix of their catalog. But they may have just saddled themselves with so much debt that they're forced into ever-increasing sub prices because of decreasing subscriber numbers, which just accelerates the need for more price hikes and so on.

Ironically this is exactly what is killing cable TV.

[1]:https://www.amazon.com/Save-Last-Book-Screenwriting-Youll/dp...
> by allowing binge-watching people binge and then get bored and say Netflix has no content.

People don't say that Netflix has "no content" because they binge watch. People say that because Netflix does genuinely have dramatically less content than it did 8-10 years ago, because of the proliferation of competing streaming services.

If Netflix still had access to all the content it has hosted over the years, people wouldn't be making those complaints.
If we’re talking strictly about material goods, and excluding relationships, I’d have to say coffee.

It’s almost a meditative practice. I only drink one cup a day but there’s nothing else that really comes to that moment. Preparing it. Taking in the pleasant aromas. The warm feeling.
Flags are not code smells and this article doesn't convince me otherwise. It's basically saying that they can be misused. Okay. Everything (from inheritance, to polymorphism, to functional programming) can be misused, so that's not really an argument against flags themselves. Flags & bitmasks (pun intended) are probably some of the most long-lived patterns in software engineering, so the argument would have to be particularly compelling, which it isn't.
How about when the job is bs? Like, they don't really need it, but they want it, and the whole process will be an excessive mess and expense, and they are definitely laying a foundation for future suffering, but their mind is set.
NRC's services don't necessarily need to be free. But they should be reasonable, both in fees, and in the process. They are a service run by government.
Exactly. You support 5 big ones or die trying to support 100 little ones.
Ditto. Fifty-two years and counting.
>But, principle comes first at Netflix, to the chagrin of their stock holders and employees.

You're saying that as if that was a bad thing.
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LOL, tech guys (me included) are SO detached from real life.

This is not a "just spin up more AWS instances" kind of thing.
> This seems dubious at best. It seems like a lot of mining is happening on hydro and solar power, and only shifts to carbon intensive electricity when the price is booming.

You're still warming the planet. And total energy use is so large that even carbon intensive part is significant.
No, they shouldn't look at some of the frameworks. They're all more complex than just making a bog standard SPA, which seems to be working fine for them. People need to stop bringing in that complexity when they don't need server rendering.

This is basic software engineering shit, and it boggles me that the industry can't get it right. Same kind of code goes in the same place and runs in the same context unless you specifically need to do otherwise. No reason not to route and render on either the client or the server unless you absolutely need both.

Trying to get fancy is how you end up with a truckload of bugs you wouldn't have otherwise had. I've been on like 5 projects that have spent months dicking around with Next or Nuxt or Gatsby or whatever rubbish, lighting client money on fire, for a portal behind a login that doesn't need to be indexed and would work totally fine as an SPA.
How do you account for downstream effects of charitable behavior where the hyperparameters have reached a complex state?
Nuclear waste is not a problem at all. There's just a very very tiny amount of it produced, so storing and securing it, even with super-high expensive security is very cheap from the general viewpoint.
I created a vm of the XP install that came preinstalled on my HP laptop a out 11 years ago. Through multiple laptops and migrations, it has still survived and is so convenient when a website expects to be accessed from Windows. Boots in less than 5 seconds to the login sounds that has been burned into our memories.
Right now:

- BBQing. My partner is vegetarian so I drastically reduced the amount of meat I'm eating. A few weeks ago, I finally made the jump and bought an electric BBQ. Eating a good piece of meat from the butcher on my balcony is amazing

- Tinkering with a Raspberry Pi after years of not doing anything technical

In general:

- Dancing at a concert/music festival

- Listening to music and find new favorites that I'll end up listening on repeat

- Being on a beach in front of the sea, ocean, taking a breath and feeling more alive than ever

- Riding a motorcycle in the spring/summer. I'd love to try an electric one.
This is what passes as legal scholarship these days thanks to the Federalist Society.
If you look at the data over time, you'll find that both Messenger and WhatsApp have grown MAUs every quarter since their existence. You're free to draw your own conclusion to the question.