skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have phrased this as a question, instead of being dismissively declarative.

>If, upon hearing that "ripgrep can replace grep," you actually hear, "ripgrep can be used in every instance grep can be used, in exactly the same way, for the same use cases, with exactly the same bug-for-bug behavior," then no, ripgrep trivially cannot replace grep. Moreover, ripgrep will never replace grep. If, upon hearing that "ripgrep can replace grep," you actually hear, "ripgrep can replace grep in some cases and not in other use cases," then yes, that is indeed true!

I think this statement says it all.
Not sure why you are simply rephrasing what the article said. And I am telling you, acquiring customers is hard.
Single digit percent is unacceptable to me. Also, how long did that take? I assume your friend needs a bank account too..
So you really can’t see how a corrupt government can hinder the development of alternative energy sources in favor of dirty deals from which they profit themselves?
It's for building frontend apps in Rust by compiling to Webassembly, that is still pretty niche compared to using it for the backend, so it's not strange that there isn't a very polished incumbent for that role. Of course, you could just use the tools from the JS ecosystem instead. When I played around with Rust WASM, I used Snowpack and called out to cargo to do the Rust build.
Intro to Money for nothing gets me every time. When the chaos resolves to that crunchy riff i get chills. You need to listen to it where the drums are actually hitting you though.
Actually, gas heating can _easily_ be replaced with heat pumps assuming cheap electricity is provided.
Isn't this just gonna result in stories based on survivorship bias? Those who put it all on red and won, aren't going to have the same experience as those who lost.
"an acceptable place"

Look at the situation in Germany. "An" acceptable place, yes, but given how many of the Windräder you need, finding enough such places is a different task, because many less populated places are wildlife refuges.

And yes, German wind power is expanding into old growth forests and mountains, which provokes embittered fights with classical nature protectionists who do not want to allow such damage to the last remnants of preserved landscape. The entire "do we need to protect local vulnerable species or do we have to sacrifice them to reduce global climate change by 0.1 per cent" debate is very bitter and as the Green party leans towards the latter, it may yet lead to emergence of an anti-Green pro-Naturschutz movement, which, in all likelihood, would be co-opted by the far right.
Venmo is USA only. Paypal takes egregious transactio fees. Everything you listed has transaction fees except for biscuits, cash, check and beer. Which will take much longer than 60 seconds to arrive
So if I want to build a house I have to come to the building authority with blueprints and ask if that building design is OK. I can't just ask step by step: is it OK if I use these walls, these windows... And build up my house like that.

Why would that be different for a nuclear regulatory body? Moreover, they are designing new reactor technology much more complex and less understood than a house. I imagine for safety assessments one would need to look at the whole design, just look at the example on cable trunks given in the article.

I wonder what the startups would say if the agency would approve their first steps, but then disapprove the full blueprints, because even though the steps made sense the whole does not meet requirements. Or do they want guarantees?
Bubbling customers in one or two genres of content with the addition of some "trending" original series that Netflix is pushing at the time. Their support suggests creating multiple profiles to avoid bubbling. You can't even delete/replace/reset main profile - just need to skip it all the time.

Most of original content is just crap produced to fill the library. Netflix creates more and more titles, not watching material. They are cancelling their own shows with such pace that I started avoiding investing time in their new content, assuming they will promptly fuck it up.

Abundance of unnecessary sex scenes. It's almost like watching bad porn: -Ma'am, have you called about cable TV not working? (oh, they're gonna bang now); -Oh, I'm stuck with my head in the washing machine (he's gonna bang her now); -Teacher asks student to stay after class? (banging in 3.. 2...); Opening Netflix (ridiculous, out-of-place sex scenes no matter the content). Just create "soft porn" category already and let people choose.

Production aiming at 100% engagement, giving viewer no time to think. Whatever the genre, every movie or show is unnecessarily action-packed like "Speed" (1994) or "Crank" (2006) making watching feel like work, not relax. Refreshing, thought-welcoming productions like Apple's "Severance" have little place on Netflix platform.

> "This show was so good I couldn't stop watching. But would I watch it again? Hey, this wasn't good at all, I got played"
when you go to some page and it downloads 10MB of javascript for starters, proceeds to show you spinning wheels for 9 seconds (sometimes with original messages such as " time to take the world"), then when it loads it jumps around for 12 seconds while the images are absolutely destroying the layout of the page, then it beeps some chat asks you if you would like help, but the only help you need is to dismiss so many popups ? ... that one.
That was my assertion, I said the surface for attack included supply chain. As another poster pointers out, that is in fact reduced under some circumstances, since the runtime context is browser side.
> 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.

This is my least favorite genre of lazy content, especially when accompanied by some kind of moral that society is getting dumber.
> Anyone who has studied quantitative finance knows that it is a HARD science. I worked with a Nobel prize winner in economics, and the math dominated. There was no politics, no opinions, no ethics involved. It really is a science.

Your comment makes no sense. Just because there's modeling involved that does not make it a hard science. A hard science requires stuff like the ability to perform controlled experiments and replicability, in order to arrive at a high degree of accuracy in predictions.

Throwing around partial differential equations does not turn something into a hard science. You need to meet way more requirements before you're in a position to claim that.
> EU law supremacy ... individual constitutions

The EU Council and the EU Commission can issue "Directives", which States must implement, and "Regulations", direct laws, with power to override national ones. (Plus "Decisions", "Recommendations" and "Opinions" - see https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/law... ) The possibility of "Regulations" is clearly and explicitly a delicate matter which has to find the right space for movement in a collection of Sovereign States.

Constitutions and laws are very different entities: a Constitution is the Social Contract to which citizens subscribe, the collection of the guidelines defining the National Project. This already entails, a Constitution indicates a Country - it strengthens the point.

This said, I am still confused about that original idea some proposed, according to which Countries and Not-Sovereign States have critical differences in energy trade.
I can answer this in one word: privatisation.

The neo-liberal economy is at total odds with this industry.

For a private enterprise to succede at nuclear power, it would take someone crazy and with very deep pockets like Elon Musk, but even then, his model wouldn't work as failure is not an option. You can't fail and iterate.

So what we have instead is privately run nuclear power plants, that are entirely publicly funded, with 0 risk taken, in typical neo-liberal fashion: socialisation of the costs and risks, privatisation of the profits.
> If you follow the scientific method, it's science.

OP's claim was that quantitative finance was *hard science*. Requirements regarding predictability are way more stringent than merely observing stuff and seeing how it responds to an input.
What’s truly decentralised? Miners are increasingly centralised and can effectively block/ignore transactions if they like. They may conceivably end up compelled to blacklist certain wallets, as some exchanges already do.

And that’s before we get to stuff like Luna, where the decentralised authorities took the centralised action of halting the chain entirely
Understanding SSL/TLS Certificates for Dummies
I briefly mention this phenomenon in Designing Sound [1], and have
since learned there are several forms of it elicited aurally.

As well as the pleasurable goose-bumps associated with positive musical
emotion there's another kind, an 'uneasy' frission that is the feeling
of hairs on the back of your neck raising.

While the "Wilhelm scream" is the most talked about sound design
cliche, probably the one familiar to most of you will actually be the
"doom tone" (60-100Hz noise bands), a signifier of "space", "evil" etc
- think of Vader's "force choke".

It's a great example of a fear response that is hard-wired, because it
represents danger, avalanche, thunder, earthquake or stampeding
animals. We have deep auditory circuit, and evolutionary advantage to
run away.

The other kind of frission stimulated by very high buzzing seems more
mysterious. I discussed with sound designer prof. Mark Grimshaw, who
amongst other things is an expert on the horror/suspense genre [2], as
to why some screeching (bat-like) or buzzing sounds might give us such
creepy feelings. It turns out the sound of mosquitos causes the hairs
on the neck to stand up - likely a defence against being bitten when
we were much hairier creatures.

Still mysterious, I think, is the reason nails on a blackboard
"hurts your teeth", and the exact mechanism and function of
pleasurable frission is still a mystery as far as I know. I suspect it
may have a social signalling utility, much like blushing. In times
when we were much more attuned to each others' body states there could
be an evolutionary advantage to signalling when we feel good about
something.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/designing-sound

[2] https://sonicfield.org/sonic-virtuality-sound-as-emergent/
No, as long as at least one person chooses to host a full-node (or, just a torrent containing the entire historical chain). It's exceptionally unlikely that this information will cease to exist in our lifetimes.
Cool pet project, admirable engineering etc.

My comment is about something else: net neutrality, as someone already mentioned.

I was teaching English in Laos for school kids. I was amazed that some of their families struggle with providing (nutritious enough) food for their children, yet, everyone had smartphones with always-on 4G,even in the countryside - however, no WiFi almost anywhere.

The brains of these kids are like sponge. They WANT to learn, they're shy, but they want to speak, to read, to practice English. They also like to (constantly) sing (something that is badly missing from western schools), so at one point I referred them to "simple English Wikipedia", where they can research their favorite singers with easy-to-process articles.

Empty stares.

"so instead of Wikipedia.org, you go to simple.wikipedia.org."

Still nothing.

I had to realize later that even if they knew that this free, always available encyclopedia exists, it's NOT included in their 4G subscription.

Yes, you guessed correctly: those subscriptions are sponsored by big US / Chinese corps, so all these kids had were Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and TikTok, everything else costs ~10$ which is days worth of meals for whole families there.
Netflix could have bought a few of the legacy companies. Amazon bought MGM, Netflix could have bought cbs/paramount, or ABC, for the cost of a series of the crown.
Ach and bank wires cost me nothing, iBAN costs me nothing, payconiq p2p costs me nothing, all are roughly instantaneous, except ach which is still same day.
The risk is that if you have mutually exclusive predicates, a memoized/persisted flag set might be contradictory. You'd need extra code to check that this is not the case. It's just safer to make invalid states unrepresentable.
You mean taxable for US tax office?

In my country it is not taxable, only exchange to fiat currency is. (and this is explicitly mentioned).
If you like that, I suspect you'd enjoy Breaking Into Heaven[1] by The Stone Roses. It is a much longer walk (as in a few minutes long), but I highly recommend sitting through the chaos until it resolves, as you say.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nu5YLoaxHc
This scheme is certainly faster than an IPO which usually takes 10+ years
Solid whataboutism.
Well, let's dig into this.

Serving N images all cropped slightly differently isn't going to save bandwidth over serving an image one time, caching it, and then doing slightly different cropping in the browser.

Airbnb's homepage images only seem to be 50-90KB per image. And they already do some image resizing:

https://a0.muscache.com/im/pictures/prohost-api/Hosting-4850...

vs.

https://a0.muscache.com/im/pictures/prohost-api/Hosting-4850...

If you compare the slightly cropped homepage images to their uncropped versions, you just aren't saving a bunch of bandwidth by serving static crops, especially since you need new crops once the user clicks in to property pages.

Finally, images (1.3MB) only account for 10% of airbnb's homepage transfer in desktop Chrome (13MB total) and 2% in desktop Safari (60MB total... content blocker bug?). Images seem to be the least of their worries.
I also plan to switch the music PC to Manjaro soon. I really like that distro, maybe not as Debian for tinkering (networking, embedded boards, etc) but for desktop use looks really great to me: I already install it whenever someone asks me to migrate to Linux their PC.
It's so decentralised that Mr. Kwon can just turn off the blockchain when he wants to!
I am very happy to see more people realise that "everyone can achieve greatness" is incomplete and thus wrong.

The sentence ends with "...but not everyone is born equal and some will even meet insurmountable barriers".

That being said, the article is quite apt on the power of compounding results. They are too often overlooked in daily life.
That was electric. Thank you. I have also had a few of those experiences singing and some old Benjamin Britten masses.
A prison is usually run by the government. A private prison is run by a corporation hired by the government; payment is usually prisoner * time.

It's understood that the incentive for the private prison is to spend as little on the prisoners as possible, because the rest is profit; although I understand some contracts regulate this.
Plot armour, a complete lack of consequences, CGI battles over dialogue, _really poor_ writing and ridiculous plots just to get characters in the right place at the right time.

The first four seasons are among the best TV ever. The final two among the worst.
It's right there in the article, but it seems many here commenting did not even read it:

Many US nuclear plants are incapable of cycling power output up or down without changes to procedures or equipment.
My assumption with appletv is that you need half their ecosystem to even have the honour of giving them money to watch content.
World wide ores won't last long = no future.
The other way round, actually. France recently had massive problems because they had to switch off multiple nuclear plants for unexpected maintenance issues, and bought lots of power from Germany
Batteries work at night.
Could you link to an example of a doom tone?
in this instance a simple vpn or proxy should suffice. they could get by on free subscriptions for textual content
There's a legend of when Sony bought Columbia Pictures which is probably not true but the story is, after Sony bought Columbia Pictures, some Japanese executives flew over to meet with the top management at Columbia. The Columbia management explained to the Japanese execs that only 1 in 20 movies makes a profit. The Japanese executives talked to each other in Japanese and then turned back to the Columbia management and said "Please only make the profitable movies" (lol)

Just to spell it out in case the point wasn't clear. The Columbia management was trying to explain they don't know and have no way of knowing up front which movies will be good and which movies will sell and make their money back. Instead they're always gambling by funding a bunch of movies and it only works out because the few hits pay for all the non-hits.
Poo and wee
That happens when you have small kids and you arrive home after work.
the majority of crypto is being held in non custodial wallets, not exchanges.

a better way to frame your comment: why does the world use Stripe and PayPal when you can just go to your bank and ask them to setup a multi day long wire process from bank A to B for less fees?
Some CMSs (ProcessWire) have an option to set a focus point on an image. This is very useful for responsive designs where images are cropped. With a focus point you can keep the important part of the image in view.

So a pro tip for all CMS developers: make it possible for the user (or automate it with AI) to mark the important point of an image so it can be used in the object-view-box property.
Not at industry scale, I don't think. At least according to these guys: https://www.absolicon.com/
In the video he explains that the equipment is simply what Apple uses internally, seems reasonable that customers get access to the same equipment and use it if they want or use something cheaper if not.
The first device to connect has to go through the captive portal, then the rest doesn’t.

Also works well if your 2nd device doesn’t support captive portals (Chromecast, Tesla car).
If a search engine needs cookies to operate, its neither private nor something for me.
Are you a nuclear scientist
Also a great talk from Richard Feldman about "Making Impossible States Impossible": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
>A metric fuckton of content that caters to people with below average intelligence.

The big question is how big is the fraction of people who are below average intelligence. Depending on that ratio, it could make sense to produce content for that part of the population ...

Additionally, highly intelligent people earn more money and don't have to buy content wholesale. They can afford to buy movies directly which means that each view of intelligent content is worth much more. Now, how can Netflix integrate that into their platform? There won't be any bargains left. Even young talented creatives will demand what they are worth.

There have to be different streaming services for different quality levels. Netflix has decided to serve some fraction of the bell curve and leaves other fractions to others.
I didn't watch the shows you mentioned.

I was late to Netflix.

The original movies I saw were beyond bad. In every movie they used every plot twist ever invented, and every bit of cliched writing. The overpaid actors just read lines.

It's almost like they locked sober hack writers in a room and told them just write. Write like your audience is an angry/perverted Forrest Gump, and can't speak English. (I threw in sober because even if under the influence--they might have written better?)

They just wasted money.

I understand comming up with original clever scripts is hard.

I felt they could have redone classic movies though--instead of the garbage they threw at us.

I was watching Dog Day Afternoon the other day. The movie aged very well, and is an all time classic. No one is going to top that movie on any level.

Netflix could have tried to remake it though with up to date references, and even change up the script. Sonny, and Sal could have made it on the plane, and go from there.

Dog Day Afternoon is a bad example because it aged so well, but their are other good movies that could have been brought up to date?

I believe it's too late for Netflix.

In retrospect, I would have rather had them throw money at students in film school.

(I don't bet on stocks, but we all saw this comming. Every studio was working on their own pay per view service a year after we started talking about Netflix. Someone brobally made millions shorting that company.)
You’re thinking about USDP, if I am not mistaken.
BUSD is Binance dollar.
I meant prison vs. jail. It seems mildly blurry to me considering that in my country we do have some distinctions between different types of detainment facilities but from what I grasped, the distinctions are delineated somewhat differently in the US that they are around here.
I know of at least one similar site where all that is achieved dynamically in the server. Images can be rotated, cropped, and resized dynamically. Common cuts can be made, cuts are cached, and making a new cut is done on the fly without noticeable delay by passing different parameter values.

This has been working now for about 6 years. It has never been a problem for the frontend team in any way.
Fine, since you came out of the closet, I will too. I don’t understand Wordle, solitaire, bridge, or minesweeper. I can write a compiler soup to nuts… But I can’t figure out minesweeper.
> BTC solves the problem of techies not being as rich as bankers

Wall Street is having a bonanza with crypto. It's normalized the plundering of retail investors to a level not seen in a century.
Ah, so it's something else with the same name. Never heard of it, sorry.
Really nice read! I first heard about Hexagonal Architecture thanks to the posts of a cool developer I used to stumble upon in Quora frequently, but, since then, I've seen it mentioned in a few more occasions and it's nice to see it in action in Netflix!

Slightly unrelated, but, this is also mentioned in the book "Grokking functional programming" from Manning, essentially keep the stateful pieces of your system at the boundaries and strive to keep services which handle business logic as pure and side effects free as possible.
Can't you get the local RF assocation enforcement authority to deal with them?
Sounds like blatant EMI violations at that reach.
Web rings!
Germany has more problems with north-south transmission lines than with places to put wind turbines in. Their windy coast would serve them perfectly well if they managed to push those transmission projects through.
I hired a boat recently and took it around the Greek Islands. Beautiful weather, calm water, nice food and music. Happiest I'd been in a long while
> I would even question why construction costs so much in US vs. say China.

The difference is in manufacturing and labor costs. If you want to build cheap, you can do so in Mexico at half the manufacturing and labor costs of China, which is about 1/7th that of good ol' fashioned USofA manufacturing and labor.

You should have already known this. Nothing to see here.
I use a old Steinberg CI1 external USB card, but those figures should be obtainable also with on board audio chipsets as they got a lot better in the last decade.
I agree with you 100 percent that it’s not too hard. But even smallest bumps tend to discourage people. I’ve gotten people to switch/ subscribe for a month couple of times but I had to make a very strong recommendation of a series.
> Uh...Germany's actually recarbonized by shutting down their nuclear [increasing coal and imported electricity to pick up the slack].

Wikipedia contradicts your claim.

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

From wikipeda's article, Germany has been constantly shutting down it's carbon-based energy sources for the past half decade, with dropping to a fraction of its contribution in the past six or seven years alone.

Germany currently relies primarily on wind, and wind+solar contribute more than all types of coal.
I played bass in Canasta Renaissance. Toured the Midwest a couple times in the 80s.