skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not subscriber data, that's JustWatch "measured interest in SVOD services" data—in other words, people that use JustWatch tend to use more Netflix. Well, no shit, because people go to HBO and Disney+ for memorable shows and franchises that they don't need to look up on JustWatch. Netflix has Stranger Things and then falls off very fast. If you put their production investment up against Disney+ and HBO it would not look good (I haven't looked at the numbers, but I spent 10 years as a founder in the streaming industry and I feel confident making that wild guess).

Here's a more reasonable comparison (not fully apples to apples) that shows Disney + having passed Netflix: https://deadline.com/2022/08/disney-just-passed-netflix-in-t...

Disney+ launched less than 3 years ago. They are also a pretty bad employer by tech standards, but they've proven content is king, and Disney, HBO and a host of others are much better producers than Netflix. With the stock price down, and the lack of warchest that diversified companies like Disney, Amazon and even Hulu have, Netflix is in a rough spot.
Historical patterns and sustainability implications of worldwide bicycle use
Your point about needing to glide all night is interesting. Is this true for Zephyr as well?
So then why don't you do everything Joe Rogan says? You should be powerless before his tremendous social proof. This is the kind of "I'm special smart, the other side are sheeple" discourse that is pointless.
Ya, 20 years of war and a loss and the West still doesn't know the basics of Afghan history.

We think we fared better than the Soviets did.
They locked everyone down. After trying to hide the pandemic and failing (see https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-06/corona...). If everyone's locked down and the CCP is doing all the counting, how are you going to know anything other than what you're told? Undercounting is a lot easier than trying to hide it, which again, they did until they couldn't. The presence of foreign ambassadors and business people means nothing. They weren't involved in auditing data collection.
I know it's dumb, but honestly I'd probably take the shot in the same circumstances. Seems unlikely to kill me, and "when in Rome"...
Japan Digital Minister declares a war on floppy discs
I gave examples of several other things which can be purchased with money that are not goods & services.

"Purchasing power" is therefore not limited to goods & services, but I defined inflation as an increase in the cost of goods & services alone.

A tautology this is not.
Sort of off topic but also sort of relevant, pixel-accurate mouse motion blur should really be a thing by now. The lack of it makes mouse movements significantly less smooth than need be.
The feedback control necessary to keep them in the air is done on board. Radio is used for very high level waypoint nav.
That just reminded me about how my CC's tap to pay spend limit was like $40 per transaction before the pandemic. That was a huge waste of a feature until the limits were raised.
The distinction might be: are they at least trying and putting a reasonable investment into moderation, or do they not care / have no plausible plan.

Disclaimer: I have to idea what degree of content moderation Truth Social currently has... but it certainly wouldn't shock me if they have no viable plan or aren't bothering to try very hard.
My favorite internet horror stories were always by an anonymous poster named Josef K: I recently found their blog. My favorite story: https://thejosefkstories.com/2008/10/27/quiet/
Does Zelle use ACH? My understanding is that Zelle transfers are permanent. (But then I thought that about Venmo.)
Those probably descended through PlantUML
gitoxide is a cool project, but it cant even clone yet:

https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/discussions/300
And only implied in your comment: they should not be alone. Not an excuse to go full catlady as 2 are plenty.
No way, this is great! Like this one:

> A surfer was pulled out to sea by a rip current and was stranded in the water. The sheriffs department used their drone to find him, and used the drones loudspeaker to tell him to swim farther out where a boat could reach him.

I would never have guessed...wow. Thanks!
> this must be a solved problem

Yes, this is called a11y (accessibility). Install at-spi, run xwininfo, dogtail/sniff, accerciser, qdbusviewer to find dialogues and buttons, use any of the desktop automation tools to press them.

> buttons based on their label (OK/Cancel etc.)

That only works for English. Automate based on the type, not the label.
I don't doubt their title is developer, what I doubt is that their primary function isn't devops, etc.
Their point I think is that drones can operate outside of the safe operation envelope of a flak canon. I don't think flak canons would be a good anti-drone defense except in really specific scenarios, and drone operators would then just not fly those scenarios.
Software engineering research questions
> I haven't seen anything to motivate me to try to switch since the "new shiny" wore off a decade or so ago.

I get some terrible screen tearing on X, especially when using OBS. On Wayland it's solid. With X/Wayland the best thing it can do is be invisible.
I'm about 15 years into my career, and I've been writing code the whole time. In hindsight, a lot of my code has held up well. I just heard that code I wrote 10 years ago is flying in space, so that's cool. I've been at my current job 6 years, and since it was a small startup when I joined and it's grown fairly big, I'm one of the most senior employees. About a year ago I was given the title, "software architect", mainly just so that I can officially make unilateral technical decisions in the presence of ambiguity when there's a schedule crunch.

Just in the last few months, I've found it difficult to be personally productive writing much code. Between catching COVID, then a string of other viruses, and having a young daughter and a baby on the way, I just haven't had a lot of quality focus time. Instead to feel like I'm earning my paycheck, I've had success in writing out high level architecture documents and diagrams, then relying on my coworkers to take over ownership and execute on the details. It's actually seemingly working out well, since I'll be going out on paternity leave toward the end of the year.
After using SD heavily for a week, I half agree with this. It is incredibly disruptive, and it's wild how much it accelerates the creative process. I'll give you that.

But two things I've noticed:

First, artists will still have a massive advantage over non-artists with this tool. A photographer who intimately knows the different lenses and cameras and industry terms will get to a representation of their idea much faster than someone without that experience. Without that depth of knowledge, someone might have to rely instead on random luck to create what's in their head. Art curators might be well-positioned here since having a wide breadth of knowledge and point of reference is their advantage.

Second, we need the ability to persist a design. If I create a character using SD, I need to be able to persist that character across different scenarios, poses, emotions, lighting, etc. Based on what I know about the methods SD/Midjourney/Dall-E are using, I'm not sure how easy this will be to implement, or if it's even possible at all. There will always be subtle differences and that's where being an artist who can use SD for inspiration instead of merely creation will retain their advantage over a non-artist.

That said, holy crap. This tech is insane.
"One Twitterer, Nick Smith, was outraged at what Microsoft had done to his Outlook iOS app."

"The iOS @Outlook app shows me ads that look like emails now," he ululated. He added that he wished Microsoft would just go away with this sort of thing. Well, his exact words were: "get the f** outta here, @Microsoft."

"To be entirely fair, this email-looking ad did include the word "Ad" in a little box. One can, though, appreciate the feelings of human beings who, too often, keep wondering: "Is nothing sacred?"

Creating ads that look like emails might as well be malware. It is quite henious because it tricks the user and mixes ads into the user's data.

What comes next? Putting ads into a user's music files? Inserting ads into the sidebars of Word and PowerPoint documents that the user is building? Inserting ads into Teams chat feeds? Despicable.
I'm deep believer in fat long tail of content. That is you also need sufficient availability of the content people rarely, but consistently look for be it older movies or tv shows. Then again I haven't looked recently at local netflix, but I guess it isn't very good.
That movie has the most ludicrously poor mix on the audio that I've ever experienced. I saw it in a theater and the levels ranged from threshold of pain to inaudible.

I thoroughly look forward to revisiting it in this alternative presentation. Thank you for sharing.
> Most horror isn’t that scary, especially anything supernatural.

I believe it all depends on whether one was raised with religion.

The original creeypasta is, of course, the New Testament (and I suppose we can be more specific: Mark 16, as the very original). There is nothing creepier than the Resurrection, thus the need for the internal instruction, "do not be alarmed." Any decent production of Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar will exploit this creepiness in their respective Resurrection scenes.

Go on, tell me you would not totally freak out if you saw a dead body come back to life.
Not $600B. Yeah.
Cambodia also has very simple financial systems and a lot of fraud
Great insight into how it all happened! Thanks for sharing
> small particles of coffee find their way into the water storage basin (inevitably). Because of this, the heating element and pumping area are exposed to small particles of coffee

Fun fact: I had a coffee maker literally catch fire because of a build-up of coffee grinds on the water heating element.
Gave it a test.

For anyone who struggle with understanding on how to use it I would repeat this line from the README (which I read but didn't comprehend at first):

> The keyboard shows up to 4 extra characters in the corners of each key. These extra characters are hit by swiping the finger on the key.

After that it all falls in the place.

There are some good ideas (especially about cursor movement), but it lacks language switching (or I didn't found how to do that).

Overall it's a good one and since switching keyboards is less painful in the modern Android I decided it would stay for the time of need.
im not sure i see the punchline? theres a group of connective tissue cancers called sarcomas that are often found near knees and elbows.
Kubernetes absolutely eats the HashiStack lunch. I think they’re aware of this. That’s why I think HashiCorp invested so much VC funding into their SaaS offerings: they know consul, vault, and nomad are a huge pain in the ass to configure and manage, particularly in support of each other.

It’s all a little bit more agnostic than k8s but If you actually run consul + vault + nomad in production you know that managing it and repairing it can be a nightmare. GKE or EKS on the other hand feels like I almost shouldn’t even have a job.

In fact, two of the most high profile outages in the last two years(Robinhood March 2020 and whatever Roblox outage happened recently) we’re due to consul or vault or something going completely hare brained.
US financial infrastructure is far more complex yet secure in comparison. The hurdles are natural.
It’s not a deficit by reducing residential. How are you not getting that?
Thx for the work. We don’t have to destroy China, they’re doing it to themselves. Alas, that may take us with them.
In the stores they go to in order to feed themselves and run errands, or by people that drop off food.

It only takes one person in an apartment building to infect the whole building if the ventilation is poor.
If I were an expert and the government came to me and my team with this project, I'd definitely charge at least $15M.
Not just field trials, your average joe has been able to program waypoint missions for a long time. They generally require reliable GPS after take off, but I imagine rough intertial referential sensors would be enough for warfare. It's enough for commercial aviation.
Maybe, but a lot of those birds belong to a small number of species that won the adaptation lottery, like pigeons.

Pigeons are not the sharpest spoons in the drawer, but another name for them is "rock dove". They evolved to live along cliff faces, and to feed simple carbohydrates to their chicks. They can outcompete just about anything in a land full of steep edifices and discarded chips.

Corvids, like crows and ravens, don't do quite as well in cities. They are very smart, but they are scavengers who like to nest in trees, and they need protein-rich food like meat for their hatchlings.

On the bright side, if you live in a city, you can probably befriend your local crows by tossing them a dollar menu burger every now and then. Seriously, they can recognize faces. Try not to make eye contact until they know you.
Isn't it a scary precedent that the government wants to compete with private enterprise, while publically funded?
That same trade off exists in an extreme form with the copter that flew on Mars!

Same volume of air pushed through the props, much lower density, and as you say, much higher RPM.
I have a Starlink and live in an RV and use it across the U.S. You can set it up wherever you just have to toggle a setting in your account for that (easy to do from the app). As others have mentioned, I do not believe oceanic coverage is available unless you pay the much larger fee.
MySQL with a manually maintained spreadsheet on Windows 98 that get held hostage by outgoing presidents.
Thanks!

Colab has always had a notion of quota for all users. This notion was implemented in a hard to describe way, but we would throttle you as you used more compute without making it clear how or why. This change will make the quota allocation transparent and visible for paid users.

Any limits we're using here are just to ensure you don't use more GPU $ than what you've paid for.
At my last job, somebody made everyone custom, "Don't blame me, it was {excuse}" t-shirts, tailored to their roles. My manager's shirt said, "Don't blame me, I was in a meeting".
> Second, we need the ability to persist a design. I

See yesterday's Stable Diffusion article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643564
For most users, Windows 11 22H2 doesn’t move the needle
Mount Everest is in Nepal. The Nepali people are far too chill to be offended by this. However, I'm sure others will be on their behalf :)
Ask HN: Is it just a terrible time to raise?
Hi all! Could do with some advice.

My co-founder and I have been building a new product which we launched in March this year. We went full-time in May, and we've been bootstrapping since then.

So far everything has been going great: we've gotten a bunch of customers on board, we've had good traction (20-30% growth every month in the revenue we're driving), and we've come up with some awesome products that have outperformed our competitors in the same space -- some with billion dollar valuations. We collectively have a ton of industry experience, me as an engineer, my co-founder as a product manager, on a very high profile team at a large tech company.

We've been angling towards raising some pre-seed capital, to accelerate our sales and activation and hire a few more people. But so far we haven't managed to close with the handful of VCs we've talked to. Not to mention doing a raise seems time-consuming as hell, when we'd rather focus most of our energy on growth.

What are we missing?

- Is it a matter of casting a wider net and talking with absolutely everyone, rather than focusing on the specific VCs we feel would be most valuable to helping us grow?

- Obviously the market is down; is it just a terrible time to raise, and we need to wait for a more opportune time?

- Are we talking to the wrong people -- should we be focused primarily on angels at this point, to get some capital under our belts and keep proving out our product?
> as soon as juniors in my work are involved I have to spend a lot of time reviewing PR's, fixing changes and explaining concepts in order to make sure that the application actually runs correctly

I've never worked on a codebase where this isn't true regardless of what frameworks or libraries are used - that's kinda part of the gig.
You represented Internet on a cruise ship as an unqualified advancement in progress and appeared to be disgusted with anyone thinking otherwise. Also, I did not make a substantial edit, just a minor one for clarity. I can’t imagine you would’ve written something significantly different, after reading the whole chain.
NATO is voluntary? Please! Gladio, P2 in Europe, the Greek civil war and coups in Turkey beg to differ.

The post war equilibrium was decided in Yalta explicitly defining how Europe would be split with zero input from continental Europeans.
Flak shells are designed to explode into a hail of steel fragments, in order to damage the target. Naturally a rain of steel from the sky is not good if you are standing below.

Allegedly at Pearl Harbour 63 American civilians were killed by anti-aircraft shells falling on them and 34 wounded.
Xcode cloud is terrible. Slow. Fails randomly with unknown error messages.

Save yourself time and money with an M1 Mac mini as a GitHub actions self hosted runner.

Pays for itself quickly, you can upload apps direct to App Store Connect from Xcode cli tools already.
Flak guns are neither as mobile nor cheap
I’ve done this with WinUAE, the Amiga emulator, by running it in the mode where it simulates interlace flicker, and leaving it up too long. It faded, but boy did the flickering stay around for at least 30 minutes.
"the killing of one in every ten of a group of people as a punishment for the whole group (originally with reference to a mutinous Roman legion)."

10% is "one in every ten"
DOJ Files Response to Motion for Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief [pdf]
There are really significant, novel copyright issues implicated by these large generative models trained on other people’s IP.

If you take a step back, you can see that there are different ways to frame what is happening. One frame is: “Defendant built an algorithm that memorized features of Plaintiff’s IP. Defendant’s algorithm recombines parts of those features in order to produce works in the same domain that compete with Plaintiff’s work, all without Plaintiff’s consent.”

Bear in mind that copyright holders are among the most litigious out there. If generative art becomes as big a deal as some people expect, they will have every incentive to use their huge litigation budgets to claim a piece of the action.

Because the law develops very slowly, the legal process has not yet had the occasion to really evaluate what transformative use means in this novel context. I’m personally interested in seeing where things go, but it’s going to be a while before we know where the law is headed.
I thought there was a non general secretary head of state before Stalin made the secretary the top post. I can recall what it was called though
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, I'm optimistic but skeptical that it can have true persistence like I'm referring to. Especially since it requires training your own model which requires multiple images of the same asset/character/object/etc.
These are all standard Indian right wing tropes which are all false.

Colonialism involves looting the wealth of the colonies and shipping it overseas. The difference between Mughals and British is stark. Towards the end of peak Mughal rule India was the most prosperous country in the world. Towards the end of British rule India was one of the poorest countries in the world. Yes, these are extremely different to any other invasions in the world before 1500.

> s there some fundamental difference between what Muslim conquerors did to India in earlier centuries

Kinda like the Aryan conquerors who drove Dravidians down south and subjugated the native tribes - now referred to as "Adi"vasis (translation- the original inhabitants) and forced them to the bottom of the caste hierarchy?

Actually no, the Mughal conquest was very very different.
It's one way to see that. But after such brutal events it's easy for a people to fall into despair or hate but Japan bounce back better than a lot of country. They rapidly absorbed and mastered electronics better than a lot of country. I always find it rare.
This isn't the west where you worry about a small percentage of semi-professional burglars. This was a pretty massive number of fairly amateur burglars who did it simply because it was easy. If you did nothing then you'll get robbed by them due to sheer numbers. Guaranteed. If you do something then you'll face the much smaller percentage of more professional burglars. Then you're only somewhat likely to get robbed.
"The truth is, like most people, I've long since stopped being ‘excited’ about anything my computers do. They're tools, to help me write, organize and communicate, and ANY time spent having to figure out the new ‘features’ that Microsoft (or Apple, or Google) crams down my throat is time away from doing anything productive or enjoying life."

Why would I want to use Windows 11 when I can use Windows 10?

So many changes in Windows 11 are worse than Windows 10, so there is no incentive to upgrade.
That's why Stephen King is so highly regarded.

He has a short story about a kid's first day at college, he goes up to his room with a sniper rifle and starts shooting people.
Ideally, for this strategy, the PUT is an insurance, so you can buy the longest available period that is priced optimally.

The sold CALL is nearest-date expiry.

After the CALL expiry date, you sell another CALL option and repeat this until the PUT option that you own expires (upon which you can buy a new PUT option and continue the strategy). You collect dividends on the underlying + the premiums on the sold CALLs.

Your long-term profit would include the dividiends + CALL premiums - PUT option purchase price while being protected from drops in the stock value.

In the event of a sold CALL or PUT exercise scenario, you also have capital gains adding to the profit.
The smaller places all have tap to pay in my experience. It is the large businesses, which I listed, that do not seem to have incentive to update their systems to allow tap to pay.
You just provided a plausible rationale for Twitter to extend the contract. But I apologize for interrupting your stream of snarky comments with a good faith interpretation

And yes, I am invested in the idea of not being dependent on a large corporation to authenticate my identity online, or a large bank to access my money. No surprise many people reject these ideas, given how many people's livelihoods now depend on institutions that are shaped around the existence of centralized points of control.

Just remember, the only way crypto/Web3 fails, is if a lot more people are put in prison, like the way the Netherlands put Alexey Pertsev in prison for publishing open source Tornado Cash code. Is that the world you want to live in?
Feed Google's ML training dataset
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America (2020)
Re crows/ravens, it depends on the city. In the pacific northwest crows mostly out compete pigeons in urban areas. Ravens have found good homes in semi-rural areas. Hang around Vancouver or Seattle and you will see crows/ravens pushing the eagles around.
Very interesting experiment. I'm not surprised by the result, but I am a bit surprised that some of the song regained their original position.