skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because, while we've gotten much better over time, we humans are still not as effective at dealing with abstractions as the tangible. 100 people dying is a tragedy, but 1 person close to be dying is something else altogether.

We can't possibly comprehend the multiple permutations of that "something else" playing out x100, multiplied by all the people who are close to them. It's simply incalculable.
There are a lot of eccentricities to complain about in VB, but somehow you have managed to only call out the features that were actually really common in a lot of other languages.

What about 1-based indexing and On Error Resume Next?
Never confuse movement for action :-)
In this sense, Oscar Wilde was the executive's executive: "I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out."
Asking what the word "operating system" means is like asking what money is. There isn't really a one true definition.

"Operating systems" in a much narrow sense were invented in the 1950s. I cannot tell you what people meant by the term back then. Then it seems that they accreted features. And then they accreted more features, like a gigantic snowball or avalanche. Ultimately, this all happened because people were lazy and didn't want to repeat themselves -- and there were lots of things to be lazy about. Also, branding and marketing became important. And now an operating system is defined by its user interface guidelines, the artwork in its GUI, what web browser it comes with, and what other software it does/does not ship with. Some people gerrymander the meaning of the word to justify the architectural choices of their favoured operating system.

By the way, being able to parrot the dictionary's definition of a term doesn't mean you know what it means. And knowing what something "means" (that is, knowing how to use it) does not mean you know its dictionary definition. The education system often forces people to remember these things and regurgitate them, which serves only to help you sound convincing in debates.
Late answer sorry, I stopped Etsy because they have literally zero support and many problems.

However I resold whatever worked. Pins were a interesting business for example. Whatever people need to create things on their own goes well, even simple juwelry worked well.

Thing is it is very dishonest. 99% of the 'Handmade' products aren't Handmade. If you are ok with this fact and just want to compete with other Chinese resellers Etsy allows a huge Markup by their average pricing. Some markets like Pins are 99% resellers that picked Handmade as source. They have zero quality control.

Not sure what I should say, kinda easy money, very dishonest and ugly platform.
I don't think it's the server costs they care about it's stuff like db maintenance, security, security, and security. Security professionals are expensive, and it's very hard to get right in house on metal.
> they wanna use EU affiliation as a badge for respect for privacy or something like that.

Literally my first thought.
To be fair, it's been that way for a long time. VB6 (and VB5) compiled to machine code, unlike earlier versions which were criticised for interpreting bytecode ("P-code").

Now, VB required some runtime dlls, namely msvbvm60.dll, and several ActiveX controls, but that feels small compared to even the .NET Framework. And tiny compared to your implied comparison with Electron/Chromium.
Ah yes, tickets for the world's most beautiful open-air sewer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt2QnGckVog

"We found a variety of pollutants from several sources, with sewage-associated and faecal bacteria accounting for up to 5.98% of microbial communities. Sewage-associated pollutants were most abundant close to the city centre." - ["Partitioning and sources of microbial pollution in the Venice Lagoon" (2021)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...)
> It feels like Peter Jackson has already tackled all the really interesting parts of the LOTR world.

looks sideways to The Silmarillion

looks sideways to The Children of Húrin

looks sideways to The Fall of Gondolin
That would be the venerable 2600K of Sandy Bridge. It idled at five watts.
But the muscle mass will rise your metabolic consumption.

You can loose all your extra weight in the kitchen. Nevertheless, doing a sport help, a lot. I lost 15kg just by changing my eating habits (over 3 years). But the last mile is really hard to get to without exercises. I'm a sailor, but i only get to windsurf/kayak/so catamaran during summer, where i loose ~5kg i immediatly gain over the autumn-winter period. Doing a new, indoor sport did help a lot. This year, even though i only started in February, i already have my weight of October (when i usually stop enjoying myself on the water)
The optimize for the near term and after a while some other company optimizing for their near terms as startups stumble upon an awesome new product-market fit and upend the previous companies.

There is no grand plan, there's just evolution.
You can do interesting stories in any setting. LOTR is just a famous brand which means the show is going to be easier to market. I mean if you think about it the LOTR lore is mostly a somewhat christianised version of Norse mythology. It leaves a lot of room especially if you don’t feel too bound to the original texts which are frankly uneven.
You say there's gonna be a layoff, then you don't get to choose who leaves. They start to choose for themselves. You lose control.
I hope it'll be better than The Wheel of Time, not that it takes much...
I'm glad you found this problem. I also had this problem (me, me, me) and realizing this has improved my life and the life of people surrounding me, a lot.

Our ego is not our friend.
It is DRM, and Amazon Prime is particularly bad, it servers 540p or similar - it is basically unwatchable (other streaming services default to 720p, which is OK, with netflix having an unofficial plugin that makes it 1080p).

And I was thinking I'll watch The Boys in nice quality on official streaming service, turned out I had to cancel Prime and download 2160p torrent. I'm still puzzling what DRM solves, in most cases it pushes me into torrenting.
Keep in mind that Amazon needs to get only ~0.2M incremental Amazon Prime subscribers to recoup the investment. The lifetime value (LTV) of a Prime subscriber has been estimated at ~$2,300.[a] You can play around with the figure, but given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks, I wouldn't be surprised is Amazon ends up getting far more than ~0.2M new Prime subscribers because of it.

[a] https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/04/21/whats-a-pr...

--

EDIT: Updated the figures to more accurate (based on LTV).
That's reasonable, but I think a commit + a rebase -i of just that single commit gets you to the same place. And now your backup branch can preserve the code you would have stashed.
I doubt anything interesting will came out from that expensive series. They're doing it for the money, not for the product. And that as always be a clear indicator of a low quality product.
It works very well indeed. No problem either tiling or stacking when I want one or the other.
This makes perfect sense, especially on some minimal arch install with a tiling window manager. This way you can delegate most of the GUI stuff to the browser and have less stuff installed locally. Nextcloud is also something that can be hosted locally, it can help with calendar, image gallery, contact management, e-mails etc.
Ask HN: CS topics for teaching non-technical non-English speaking souls?
The aim is not to make them masters in CS, but to give them enough knowledge in layperson's terms so that they are confident about computers and don't think it as magic.

For example, what happens when a user presses a key, how are simple characters displayed on screen, how are colours represented in a computer, how are images displayed, how is a string searched in a text file, how are entries in a spreadsheet column sorted, how computer does binary maths etc.

What topics do you recommend that will be more beneficial to a layperson?
Brand new Alan Turing 50p set to rival the demand of Stephen Hawking 50p
Their lights are nice, but their motion sensor drains the battery in 2 months or so. Eventually I figured out that I could control the IKEA lights via Philips Hue, so I could switch to a Hue sensor which is already lasting a few years.

In general, Philips Hue / Signify is very reliable in my experience, though expensive.
ASCII graphics of "SpaceVim" on a screenshot seems broken.
Look it up. In the context of sex work, it apparently refers to unsafe oral sex.
Your explanation would be more believable if it wasn't for the fact that YouTube and Google sheets/docs... seem to always work better on chrome with every change they make. Then Firefox catches up and with the next change chrome works better again. Now they might not make changes to specifically make things worse on Firefox, but they just don't test on Firefox. However that is very much on purpose, so it really comes down to the same thing.

Also let's not forget the shenanigans that Google pulls with ad words auctions etc.. If a person would have a history of doing things like that we'd call them dodgy or criminal, but when a company does it we somehow are to believe it's all accidents?
mine was off by 40 years .... it said I lied about my age
And this is why downvotes on Twitter may be such a key step in human macroevolution
I just tilted my screen.

Now it's the world's widest website!
Most hilariously (to me) is the vast difference in 'powers' between superheroes. There are the 'Gods' - some literal, like Thor, or godlike otherwise - and the 'normals'. Gods can fly, shoot lasers from their eyes, or call down lightning. Normals can, well, shoot bows or kick really well.

So in the ensemble movies (like Avengers) you get teams where some of the members are in no danger at all - the Gods - while the others are very much in danger! Except of course, the viewer knows that none of the good guys are really at risk of serious injury.

I'm sure directors try to avoid or work around this, but fundamentally if the big bad guy can knock out the strongest god (eg Thanos vs Hulk) then if they so much as strike one of the normals, they should really be dead.

Finally, it's very funny to me that Scorsese got criticised for expressing an opinion on movies. I mean, I've watched a lot of these crappy superheor movies, and they are enjoyable enough at times, but it's not great cinema ...
> New Zealand, where the show is shooting

I think they’ve switched to England and Wales haven’t they? Which is probably closer to the author’s inspirations (Tolkien never set foot in New Zealand.)
Silmarillion has some very interesting stories, though. Much more potential than in Hobbit, really.

Potential can be squandered though.
Ask HN: How to Encourage Information Sharing?
My client has a deeply ingrained culture of information hoarding and strict job definitions, and it's holding them back from being able to scale their operation. The work isn't difficult or complex but completing it takes forever due to all the hand-offs and errors caused by a lack of up-to-date documentation. I can't grow the team because their culture makes it really difficult for new people to come up to speed.

They don't even follow the docs that they have, and they certainly don't update them when they notice errors or omissions. In some cases, I've witnessed them performing a task that is documented on a Wiki page (last updated: 2016!), but they skip some steps, perform others differently from the doc, and do things not covered in the doc at all. When I asked why they don't update the docs, they respond with claims of "it's not my doc" or "it's owned by Team X" so they can't change it.

They rarely describe the solution for bug fixes in the Jira ticket and instead just declare it fixed and pass it to QA so the knowledge stays with the person that fixed the bug. They've even refused to share their screen during live debugging sessions and instead just loosely describe what they're doing in words.

How can I foster a culture of information sharing?
As someone who loves character drama I have to agree with you about the drama in super hero movies. My issue is that I feel like there are no stakes or consequences. The drama is just manufactured filler on an inevitable road. The characters do not actually grow, they will be reset to the same state once they have cleared the obstacle the growth was necessary for.
Isn't it more complicated than that? Many of those consumers already own Prime. How will this impact their desire to stay? Will people actually buy Prime for this and then keep it, or will they watch and then cancel?
Plus Tk has bindings in about every language in existence, so you can choose your favourite : Tcl of course, but also C, C++, Python, Perl, PHP...
Your analysis makes sense, but I was under the impression that RoP was a pure passion project from Jeff Bezos with no regard for the financials or for a return on investment.
SHGA Shanghai Gov National Police Database for sale (1B entries)
"Fossil is, however, an ideal SCM for that 98%+ of remaining projects which fall into the size categories of personal/small/medium."

I wonder why so few developers consider the scenario you describe. Git fits the development of Linux. But, a question rarely raised: why is Git considered suitable for small or medium projects?
If think you mean $90 *b*illion a quarter.
This was cool. Well done.
The thing I don't get is that people then move from one big player to the next. So the people burnt by MS and Google move to Apple as if they are any better. But I guess "new shiny" always outweighs considerations about security, privacy and freedom.
100cm * 2840em = 18.94km?

I don't get this. Could someone not missing something explain?

Edit, to make the question clearer: The CSS of the 'spacer' div has:

Font size: 100cm;

Height: 2840em;

How does this result in 18.94km?
EU member states strike late-night deal on climate laws
Sociopathic management. Toxicity solves everything. Riches for me, crumbs for thee.

This is the American contribution to organizational dynamics.

Glad I became a "corporate America dropout" over 25 years ago.
This. Thank you. Instead of playing expensive cat-and-mouse game, just make it legal for anyone to buy it and make money on taxing it.
How many uses of OwO are in the context of sex work? 0.001%?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx

Wikipedia says their net profit for 2021 was $75 billion, so your math seems off.
Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good. bezzzos bezzosn my bezzzos
When I saw that it said I lied about my age (it thought I was nearly 10 years younger), I wondered whether there was going to be another metric later about whether being accused of lying made you appear angry. I was disappointed by this one omission, but greatly enjoyed it overall!
Obviously, I’ll wait and see once it comes out.

But it seems odd to spend so much and not have a single established creator that has put out great content. And not to involve Jackson seems off because even having him in a consulting role would be a good sign.

Looking at the imdb page this seems like a corporate driven project rather than a creator driven project with lots of different directors that haven’t don’t anything remarkable and seem to have just done other Amazon shows.

Of course there are video projects done by unknowns that turn out great (Jackson had done Heavenly Creatures and Frighteners and a few others before LOTR), but I was kind of hoping there’d be some creative team who is really into Tolkien who tells great stories.

Also, I don’t recognize the actors at all. Like not a single one. Compared to LOTR, they didn’t rely on stars but they had Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Sean Aston, Viggo Mortenson, Liv Tyler, Christopher Lee, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett. It seems strange to not have anyone. I thought this was a cost cutting effort, but that doesn’t make sense if $465M.

I worry that this is Amazon saying “cost is no limit” to a project team instead of artists and creators.
Eve Online, and Barotrauma, both require you to risk costly failure in Eve this could be the expensive ship, mods, and cargo that you have accrued to do the task you are risking it on, Barotrauma, risking failure for your team by trying to improve your team's "lot".
How did Dropbox end up saving tens of millions bt making their own cloud infrastructure but FedEx loses money?

Surely FedEx would have a metric shit ton of data?
As much as I would like to see live action Silmarillion, it would probably be the most expensive tv show of all time. Many epic scenes can't possibly be shot for real so the show would require odious amounts of CGI. Heck at this point, hire a studio that makes video game trailers and turn the whole thing into a 50+ hours CGI tv show.
I don't know. 465 million seems still steep for 8 episodes TV show. I am all for it cause Disney has seemingly skimped on their CG budget for their newer shows. So more competition means more TV shows will have film quality production.

But it is a concern, if their show costs more than something like Avengers: Endgame which had some of the biggest actors in Hollywood involved in addition to the probably insane VFX budget.

Obviously COVID would have affected the budget for the show, but I have a feeling that it went way over budget than was initially intended.

Although I agree with the marquee concept. HBO had their own marquee show: Game of Thrones, though it produced a lot of quality stuff like the Pacific, Band of Brothers, Sopranos etc that can be watched for years to come. Game of Thrones on the other hand was a big disappointment for the fans and its negative reception probably made HBO wonder what they would do after it was over (hence the Targaryen origin show and the Jon Snow series are being developed... personally I'm skipping both)
It's likely the 400 m$ is inflated, "by 2024" will be many years late and there will be significant increased costs during the interim period, also likely kept artificially low.
I agree. I use git on a daily basis, and I think I'm converging on some intermediate level of understanding, but I constantly find it difficult to use. I go backwards and forwards between wondering whether (after three decades as a developer) my brain is just too used to the SVN approach of centralised repositories and branches-are-directories -- and at the other extreme thinking that there is something unbalanced(?) about its abstractions and power.

For very large projects (eg Linux-scale or Windows-scale) I can totally see why it is the best versioning solution. But most software isn't like that: it's relatively small teams maintaining a legacy codebase and making fairly incremental enhancements. I struggle with what git brings to that vs the cognitive overhead of using it.

I've recently migrated a moderately large codebase from TFS to GitHub. A large part of what drove that was co-workers who were reluctant to use TFS - I suspect that they found it old-fashioned, and that kind of bothers me, even though git is clearly the future and TFS clearly isn't. I like diversity of tools, and tools that don't force me to think too hard about things that should be easy. The knowledge that git could turn into a foot-gun just when I most need to get things done, doesn't help.

<edit> After some consideration, I think what I'd like is a tool that gives me a simple SVN-style UX over a real git repo, with the option to drop down into actual git of necessary, and so that colleagues can use only git if they prefer. Github desktop partly achieves this, as does Visual Studio's git integration, but it's not quite what I want.</edit>

(Not a git hater. I've had a github account for over a decade and choose to use it a lot for personal projects. But mostly just simple, sequential check-ins over time.)
From reading the article, $200M was for the rights alone, and NZ is rebating 25% so it comes out to more like 150M net on production of the actual show.
Quantity is not the same as quality. I obviously don't have a detailed view on this but judging by HN and a few other aggregators, modern science is much more concerned with keeping the lights on and producing bullshit outcomes only serving to further one's career in the same area. Perverse incentives. Having free research funded will alleviate part of this problem.

We need a lot of good innovation right now and that's still missing -- starting with better (small) batteries.

The world doesn't really need to pay yet another batch of 20_000 students trying to invent better cat photos classification NNs. Yet a lot of money are poured in such endeavors.
I've been using git since 2009, first for me too
They should have taken 100M of that and fund the remaining three seasons of The Expanse.
> What does that sign ≍ mean?

Normally, `f ≍ g` means `f \in \Theta(g)`. Here, the author is using it as an equals sign. I have no idea why.
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/04/05/the-... ?
With (most likely) 0 knowledge about the internal details of their business, but with the confidence of the average programmer: "they spend too much".

I imagine Twitter could also be built over a weekend, right? :-)
India’s obsession with English is depriving children of a real education (2015)
If you discount random experiments hosted on someone's laptop or something, there's probably something in La Paz, Bolivia which would get us to around 4000m elevation. Chile has a data center at 5000m elevation but it's for a supercomputer. Some Googling indicates China thought they were on to something with a data centre in Lhasa at around 3600m elevation: https://www.passionateinmarketing.com/china-to-build-the-wor...
Trump broke Reddit. I remember around 2017 where r/popular was nothing but negative stories about Trump and republicans and has only gotten worse. The echo chamber there is insane. RIP NoNewNormal.
This is... unusable, on a decent Macbook Pro using Chrome.
UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s Spycatcher files (2021)
When we did a family vacation in the UK in ... ~1997-1998 or so, a pint was a 2 pounds, everywhere we went. (Wales, Scotland, England; mostly rural). Could have been an "obviously not from here price" or something; I didn't see locals getting charged any less or at least I don't remember it.
What were the causative factors for the existing culture?
> I'm going to launch a thing that can do this and that for you.

This is just selling an idea, not a product. You can sell anything this way, just promise something and trick them into buying, it doesn't mean that you can actually deliver on that promise.

> Then you can build something people want
The problem is that you don't know what people want. People don't know what they want. It's hard to know how to solve a problem or if a product will work unless you try it, there are so many unforeseen issues that can arise once the product is"done".
http://trout.me.uk/X11/fvwm2rc

Plus '#ffee66' for http://trout.me.uk/X11/xclus

will result in:

http://trout.me.uk/screenshot4.png

Everybody else's mileage will definitely vary.

("real" GUI wise, I still miss RISC OS ;)
Is that really the way it is? No way for law to prevail, the one with more money always wins? What about individuals (!) winning cases against huge corporations, which comes up in the news periodically?
If only they would actually learn from it (e.g. make it open source). As it works now, no chance this will succeed. Speaking for Germany alone, this would be monumental.
A more 'traditional' datacentre: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/china-sett...