skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Problem is — and again, this is not some massively deep observation — wanting more hits and actually making them are two very different things. Netflix until now seems to have believed the best way to produce them is to throw all the money it can find at Hollywood and wait for the successes to start rolling in.

This is basically the VC formula applied to entertainment, and just like how sometimes you get a Dropbox, sometimes you get a Stranger Things. And sometimes you don't.

Of course the key in both is having people with a developed enough market savvy and eye for talent to spot the future Dropboxes and Stranger Things. In VC, it requires a deep understanding of market forces, founders, teams, and tech, and in entertainment, it requires an understanding of both popular tastes and critical tastes as well as the intricacies of production.

Smart people can make bad bets and anyone can get lucky, but the part that's so much harder than it looks is to improve that batting average. Everyone has an opinion on what Netflix should do – I certainly have my own thoughts on things that ought to work (sign Ian Hubert to make a Dynamo Dream series! Adapt Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination with The Rock as Gully Foyle!), but ultimately, it's just my guesses about the cultural marketplace. What Netflix needs is people with greenlight power who have a better feel for that marketplace than anyone else.
Why don't you click from there to

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant

and on to

[2] http://www.akkuyu.com

?

Which is about a project in progress in Turkey, having 4 of them.
Just skimming [2] gives:

> The stake of Rosatom State Corporation in the project is 99.2%. The total project cost is estimated at 20 billion US dollars.
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however the fuel constitutes 97% of the radiation of all waste
but it's less straighforward and developed. Uranium-based nuclear power produces plutonium. non-uranium based nuclear power is possible but requires technology development that in practice has taken much longer than expected.
As soon as humans grow multiple stomachs, we'll be all set.
if you are willing to jump on the discord, we'd be happy to improve them

https://htmx.org/discord
> sir, madame, or they

Neither, I think it's a cylon.
Eh, there are CeFi lenders like BlockFi/Gemini offering 7%. It's not zero risk, but the loans are partly collateralized and the borrowers are institutional entities who aren't your everyday scammer. It's better than unsecured corporate bonds in my view.
It would be great to see some HN gardens. Do you style au-naturale or go for autonomous systems for irrigation? What about germination/grafting/cloning? Tackled microscopy? Entomology?
> I will not lose my funds, whether the market is good or bad

Is your counterparty risk always zero (between you and the chain)? Custody? What if a chain is halted or amended?

These systems run on novel rails. You couldn’t honestly tell an investor “you will not lose your funds,” and you’d refrain from using the word “deposit.” Because you’re trying to honestly communicate an opportunity, not to defraud.
You're right, they were at the right place, right time. Others were as well though, so I give them credit where it's due.
This isn't a fringe opinion. It is historical fact. The founders were mostly slaveowners [1]. The Constitution originally had slaves as three-fifths of a person. Oregon didn't like black people so much they didn't even want slavery [2]. A Civil War was fought to preserve chattel slavery.

The idea that white supremacy didn't run to the core of America's founding is demonstrably false and, well, laughable.

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/five-truths-about...

[1]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/oregon-on...
I work at a GIS SaaS company and we use QCAD for our services. I always appriciate that they offer commercial licenses at a low price.

A few things about QCAD:

1. The coolest feature is its CLI [1] and it runs beautifully on Linux/macOS/Windows. We use it for CAD to Tile map conversion and metadata extraction in our backend.

2. It looks like the rendering engine is single-threaded and does not support GPU acceleration. So watch out opening a complex CAD file.

3. There are some compatibility issues with AutoCAD files, especially Hatch. But it mostly works great.

[1]: https://www.qcad.org/en/products/qcad-command-line-tools
> horse-drawn carriage has less carbon emissions than an automobile

Is it? Especially if counting by miles of travel, I'm not sure about it. Also, if by "carbon emissions" I believe we mean "greenhouse gas emissions" -- including methane yes.
Labor is very expensive, more than parts.

For something like a washing machine that costs $750 and has an expected lifetime of 10 years, it's hard decision of when to repair vs when to replace.

Say my washer is already 6 years old, it breaks, and labor + parts to fix it would be $250. I might decide to give up and buy a brand new one instead.
or set up openvpn on a dirt cheap vps based in romania or some shit
Before the invasion of Ukraine, covid has already wreaked havoc with agricultural supply chains. The war in Ukraine has made things worse but things were going to be bad even without it.
I would be interested in understanding what drives this. Even in Korea, where large scale infrastructure projects like new subway lines get built very quickly, new nuclear reactors seem to take >10 years (both the ones installed domestically in Korea and the export ones in places like UAE).
This is what happens when you have insufficient or no spinning reserve
Holding my child as she sleeps
Cuddling my kids

Flying aerobatics

Skiing and rock climbing at the edge of my ability
The reason for Netflix lost subscribers in 2022 is the same as the reason Netflix experienced a growth spurt in 2020: work from home. When people work from home, on average they gain an extra hour or more per day, because they don't have to commute. (Not to mention, the boss can't walk up behind you and catch you enjoying a movie!) Now that work from home is over, they no longer need the Netflix subscription.
Microsoft Teams also does this. Google meet used to do it too.
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If you find yourself passing in flags to change behavior, it sounds like you should just have two functions. For other cases, an enum might serve your needs better as it gives you more options as your codebase grows. That said, I wouldn't call boolean flags a _smell_. Seems like throwing out the baby with the bath water if you ask me.
Oh, I'm not claiming that Signal is taking over everywhere, just that in some groups of people it's becoming quite common.
So noone was bothered to run a simulation to see the second-order effects of their regulations on the grid?
This is starting to look like a generic problem for companies which are valued on the basis of future growth, but may have in fact reached their mature size. Suddenly they have to be priced as ongoing operating companies, which is based on revenue and profits right now. Facebook. Uber. Netflix. Tesla. They all do something that people will pay for, but they aren't going to get a lot bigger.
Nice work. How do you crawl dynamic websites that barely use links, or those which have scraping countermeasures like Amazon?
“No honey, I did not lose the house in a poker game. I know exactly where it is, the only difference is that Bob owns it now”.

The statement is kind of true if you want to be very disingenuous to what people actually care about.

Also, As far as I know, no one deposited UST with stablegains. Stablegains took funds in other formats and converted it themselves.
Really wanna try Vienna. Been on their waitlist
Becoming a parent means that you now have a person whose wellbeing is more important to you than your own happiness. I don’t think it’s a contradiction to say (a) that I’d be happier if my daughter had never existed, and (b) that I don’t care about (a) one bit.
I loved it when Facebook released the Messenger app, because I could occasionally install Facebook to post vacation pics without ever installing Messenger. I've still never used Messenger.
I would second that, outside rock climbing is pure bliss.
Ah, I think I’m talking more about helping friends and family and the like. Usually I can avoid helping with anything I think is going to be harmful in the long term.
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Doesn't help that the build pipeline takes a long time to complete. By the time the build is done, the needs may have changed. Agriculture is not good at iterative development, at least not rapid iterative development.
A lot of companies will restrict voting rights to the top % of investors. Some may even sit on the board.

Yes, the general public retail stockholder doesn’t have a whole lot of power. I was just making a point about ownership and securities. If you own enough stock in a company, your vote Carrie’s weight.

Downvoted I’m sure by the hodl gang.
Perfect comment on the topic. With that said, newer inverters do have “grid fault ride through” capabilities where they will continue to operate during excursions from nominal operating windows, and some regulators are more hip to it than others.

https://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/committees/co...

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2019/03/smart-inverter...

Grid forming inverters (versus the traditional grid following) are at the finish line of being proven, and paired with distributed storage providing ancillary services (including frequency response), regulators simply need to be dragged to the present to solve for this (distributed energy orchestration, rapid system segment isolation and recovery during transient events [“self healing” for the marketing folks], etc). This is one of those tug of wars between very conservative regulators and a quickly innovating industry (DER power controls).

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/powering-grid-for...

https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2020/renewables-rescue-st...

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/73476.pdf

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50176
>"You are a minority in a sea of crap"

I believe there are countless companies like mine, serving needs of various businesses. We just do not make much noise and hence are not written about.
One measurement for medical intervention is caesarean births versus natural births by mother’s age, which hugely jumped in the states in the 2000’s: https://www.statista.com/statistics/206438/us-cesarean-deliv... (although rates are highly influenced by consumer demand?). Chance of caesarean jumped in percent from ≈⅔age to ≈age (e.g. ≈20% for 20 year old). High variation between states, although some of that might be state demographics of mothers: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/cesarean_births/ce...

And a comparison against caesarean rates in OECD, which can be higher rate of caesarean per birth: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283123/cesarean-sections...
>They were engineered to be hard to repair, that's the whole point.

This doesn’t make sense for two reasons.

(1)Apple is on the hook to repair iPhones under AppleCare+ warranties. This means “engineering for hard to repair” goes against their own interests.

(2) The fellows in Shenzhen, Guangzho, Shanghai, and Hong Kong have no problem repairing all kinds of damage to iPhones for <$20 USD. So if Apple is designing these to be difficult to repair it they are doing a terrible job.
The article has no reference at all to the Federalist Society. Where do you see a connection?
> But you are keeping dismissing the interoperability part. Since you are now sending fully rendered browser specific output you loose your chance to use the same backend for different type of clients, such as mobile apps or other tools that can work with your system.

It really depends on what you are building and if the interoperability is a requirement vs costs and simplicity.

I was part of a 4 person engineering team, all who are full stack, that built an app in Rails, started with server side rendering and later on moved to React, but much of what we had were still serverside rendered html. But our mobile app was done in Cordova and we didnt have to pay for mobile engineers (who usually are exclusively mobile) and to build out APIs for the mobile client. As a result our team was able to move multiple times faster than another team that had 4 frontend 6 backend and 8 mobile devs.

There are inherent costs when you have multiple teams/components or even specializations, especially around coordination and communication.
Yes, and it’ll be done via that little electronic signature pad that doesn’t show what you’re signing for.
What I find most common is that the website has arbitrarily blocked firefox based on the user agent. The site works fine if you tell it you're using Chrome, so it's neither an engine nor a tracking issue.
There are more issues than that, such as exchange rates. Also many populations around the world spend almost their entire income on food and still can barely survive. They are very price sensitive. If the price of wheat doubles it's almost irrelevant for us in the west, but potentially lethal for many in the third world.
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There's better break downs videos on YouTube which go into far more detail including over time.

The top 9/10 are exchanges so it's not too surprisingly.
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Interesting you mention this because the US equities market is dropping in value faster than the dollar is right now. :)
You’d have to be doing something seriously wrong in your staking endeavours to break even due to “staking costs” even over the course of 1000 years.

The primary cost of staking is the initial investment in the stake, handedly.

The initial investment in the stake dwarfs the cost of even the most sophisticated staking infrastructure.
Yup, got the same though after reading the first paragraph. Priorities should propagate transitively, obviously. Straw-man problem.
> Facebook needs a Martin Luther King Jr, not a Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs.

Every part of society needs an MLK Jr.

We pay so much attention to elites who are as trivial and uninspiring as they are rich and powerful. It's been so long since a public figure was someone to believe in. Other than perhaps briefly Obama, I don't think it has happened in my lifetime (I'm under 40).
Depending on the blood work, it might be worth it to get it done via walkinlabs.com or a competitor.

Up front with the pricing and usually cheaper than the alternatives as well.
WhatsApp had revenue; part of their “what could have been” tragic narrative was they charged $1/yr, iirc.
No, not like that. “Disappeared” has a specific context in Latin America. It is to be kidnapped, possibly tortured, killed, and body disposed of for actions against a drug lord, the police, military, or political figure.

This isn’t even close to same thing.
Is your counterparty risk zero? Custody risk?

In the case of flash loans/swaps, the answer is yes. It's 0.
Further, I never have any capital at risk, all of my bots use flash loans/swaps. These transactions are atomic, which means that either all parts of it succeed or they all fail (it's a "revert" in blockchain parlance). So I can borrow $200 million without any prior permission and do an arb/liquidation or anything else I want with it for the life of my transaction, with the only requirement being that I must return it by the end. If my arb/liquidation/whatever succeeds and I return the loan, I keep the profits. If not, it's as if the whole thing never happened. The only risk is the transaction fee, which on the chains I do this on are miniscule.

I realize that it sounds unbelievable, but it exists. My code does thousands of these daily. I am not the only one doing this. See https://eigenphi.io/ . With the exception of sandwich transactions, every one of the bots you see on there is making profits without any capital at risk.
> I build all my systems in serverless now

> I'm actually to the point where I question someone's decision if they choose to use actual servers.

These are the "Paid for by..." aspects of the comment, but I agree with the important part, which is where it stops:

> Serverless is a much more efficient use of resources and much more manageable than most companies can do on a low budget.
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That's probably part of it, yes.

During peak covid vaccine ramp up, special plastic bags used in vaccine production were single source. So were the lipids and the factory to encapsulate the vaccine.

We saw mask and gown shortage, oxygen shortage, needle shortage.
wow, congrats!
In my opinion, social sharing usually requires free accounts. If the account costs money, then the social sharing features are probably less important. Pinboard says it is for introverts.

If proper free accounts with all functions are supported, then advertising is a likely revenue model.

To combat this problem, I've added sharing over email, SMS and Slack to my project, which is a personal search engine and document manager. There's no reason to not allow a very basic and free account function to read these shared links, without a lot of auth and registration getting in the way. The service already has the guest's email address, phone number or Slack account from the other user. This can be used to send a token for easy login. Limits would be added so these accounts can only store a few URLs themselves unless they upgrade.

This keeps privacy protected, hopefully.
You should read the article more carefully, specifically the second paragraph. Of course it is true that anything can be misused. What makes something a smell, according to the author, is that it is likely to be used incorrectly, perhaps because the distinction between correct and incorrect usage is not immediately obvious. I think the argument has merit and the example supports it sufficiently well.
> Finance is the way it is for many reasons. There are thousands of years of lessons that have made the system the way it is. I get the innovator mentality of sweeping away the old but there seems to be a fine line between innovation and ignorance.

I feel like the only benefit of all this is being able to see posttrade services rewritten with some sane API instead of crazy legacy garbage riddled with CSVs.
Ya. I hear ya.

I was thinking clients.
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I didn't think I was arguing with you, as much as agreeing with your sentiment.

Not everything is a debate.

PS the strawman I mentioned was not yours, but in the linked article.
And ads are what killed it too, once a competing technology (finally) came out. From what I understand the US shows way to many adds compared to Europe, it's nearly half of the show time. If TV/cable execs weren't so greedy, they might still be alive. It seems like US companies tend to kill the golden goose.
Apple display supplier could lose out after reportedly caught cutting corners
I agree, milking shows usually ruins them. On the other hand, if they are great shows that last a long time you can gain a loyal audience. This seems to be how HBO has found so much success- Sopranos (never lost quality, even by the end), Curb, the Wire, etc. Although, GOT got milked out terribly. I think the hard part is just deciding which shows to drag on- and being based on a story that already has an ending helps guard against plot degradation.
Lack of competition. Don’t need to compete with WhatsApp once you own it.
Erm...no? Look at the screenshot in the article. There is no charge for Ubuntu in that shot, only for Windows.
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It would still limit "most" =p
I did not read the article and do not care whether civil forfeiture is constitutional. It is in my eyes one of the most disgusting things government does to its constituents and has no place in any civilized country. It is a crime. If constitution allows it then the constitution got to be fixed,
> As long as there are well-capitalized parties (Bitfinex, other exchanges) that want to prop up Tether, it will be fine.

This reads like the honest description of a Ponzi scheme.

As long as the originating parties, or newbie rubes, continue to prop up this sham it will not collapse.
I really enjoyed PBS Idea Channel when I was younger. I'm not sure about its vanguard today, but it was like VSauce but without the VSauce aspect.
And a patent application from 2009 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100272864A1/en . Maybe abandoned because of prior art?
And that would constitute buying an equity. We’re not mining in your example, we’re buying shares in a mining company.
Indeed. By common sense, civil forfeiture as it de facto occurs today is a clear violation of fundamental human rights. If an argument can be made that the process is compliant with some document supposedly enumerating fundamental rights of a person - such as the US constitution - either the argument or the document is flawed.
25 years already? Wow time really flies. This is one of my all time favorite movies.
Just to mention a few not well known trivia: Moebius did the production design, Jean Paul Gaultier the costume design, Lee Evans and Tricky are playing roles, Beason and Jojovich got married after the film and there was a legal battle with Jodorowsky and Giraud vs Besson about plagiarism of the plot from The Incal.

This film has devoted fans and haters, but we have to agree that this space opera is something special :-)
It was government actions related to covid which wreaked havoc on supply chains.

And endless wars are also government actions.
Yes and no, a lot of people say it has no contents because some stuff was pulled, but they still have a sh*load of content compared to what you got before, but people have already binged on all of it, so there's nothing new to look forward to most of the time.
This is great. Thank you so much.
In a civil suit, you don't get the assets until you win (and maybe not even then).

Here, the government takes them by force immediately, and you have to fight for them back. Not the same thing.
Almost everything being put out now is propaganda for someone. Not sure why anyone would trust western media but the alternative certainly isn't to trust RT, Sputnik, or any of their sibling media outlets either. Anyone who thinks they've got a good handle on the situation in Ukraine is living in a bubble of wishful thinking. Eventually the physical world will win out regardless of what the Metaverse and cyberspace presents as being true.
The link and article title may have changed since your submission. This is the correct link:
https://www.gq.com/story/how-testosterone-therapies-are-tran...
While WFH probably did impact some of their subscriber amount, other issues definitely affect the total subscriber amount, including cost (compared to competing against apple TV+, amazon prime video, and disney+), lack of content (which they're trying to work on) and controversy.

They also have competition on the "content" front in that amazon prime video is now creating its own terrible "lets throw money at this until it works" service to compete with them, and many people already have it with prime so don't feel the need to pay netflix's increasingly expensive service.

I don't know about you but netflix costs more than amazon prime for me, so I could either get netflix or I could get all the amazon prime benefits. It's a losing proposition for netflix.
Telstra was empowered and emboldened to sabotage because Labor was scared of taking it on. Because the union movement was sceptical of the outcome, and because the banking and finance sectors wanted to do it, which made Labor scared there was a hidden trap. De-mutualisation of electricity, telephony was hugely politicised.

As it was, telstra was paid $11b for the transfer of its pits and some customer access network exchange infrastructure to the NBN and had paused maintenance so much, significant amounts of asset had fallen into disrepair.