skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Korea is the dominant movie producing country of the last decade. Not much of this boom arrived in western cinemas, but festival goers do know.

And sooner or later the superior quality will sweep over to the mainstream.
Parasite is just a relatively minor movie compared to the really big ones. https://koreanfilm.org/ might give a good overview.
“..By One Amino Acid”
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, said they have identified a genetic mutation that triggered the faster creation of neurons in the Homo sapiens brain. The Neanderthal variant of the gene in question, known as TKTL1, differs from the modern human variant by one amino acid.
A Visual Quine
Instagram isn't nearly as bad, but still seems to have an ad/suggested/sponsored post every 3 posts from people I follow. YMMV.
The Death of Richard Dawkins (2021)
I was a big fan of Endless Quest for similar reasons. Loved CYOA, but loved the non-linear narrative along with tracking stats throughout your story.
The recommendation system was really addictive for me for a while. I was wasting a ton of time on YouTube. Then I switched off recommendations based on my watch history and it suddenly got abysmally bad. And hallelujah, that worked like a charm. I spend almost no time on YouTube at all now. Whoever thinks that recommendations aren't predatory time sinks probably hasn't experienced both sides of that.
I'm not sure I follow why that would be. Surely most people, even when intrinsically motivated, would be expected to gravitate toward certain common interests that are appealing to human beings at large.

You're more likely to find a human interested in learning to play the guitar than staring intently at a squirrel out the window for hours (although a a cat might be interested in that).
Youtube and Facebook both offer monthly subscription plans for creators.
People gave Google a ton of crap for buying YouTube for 1.6 billion (~16% of annual revenue at the time). That $10B FB spent is more like 8.5% of their revenue.

I’m skeptical of the metaverse, but I was also pretty skeptical of user-generated video. And given their current ad take, $10B is not a crazy bet.
Yes, I have started using their cloud for a personal project. Ended up going back to self-hosted. Great thing their product is open source.
It's worse than that. They changed the name of the company to "Meta" because they want you to forget about Facebook.
>> For instance: today the government has the physical ability to break into my house and shoot me in the head for no reason at all, but they don't have the legal ability to do so.

> Technically they can do it legally. Few years back in Kansas City (iirc), some guy was basically prank calling the police on a gamer, but got the wrong house, police just knocked on the door. No weapon. Killed some the dad, and walked. No repercussions at all for the police. The prank caller got like 5-10 I think, as he should. But there's something wrong when somebody dies by cop and they are unarmed and don't serve time.

It sounds like that was a mistake on the part of police. I was not talking about "SWATings gone wrong" or anything like that. I was talking about deliberately killing someone just because you can.
One thing that needs to be considered is these "fake downtowns" (or "lifestyle centers" as they like to call themselves) are generally owned by a corporation. So things that people might expect to be possible in a public neighborhood (hold a protest, hold a block party, etc.) may not be allowed because it's private property.
Yes, these were his sellouts, the real bad ones.
Oh sure, I didn't mean to suggest code quality can't kill a business. I however think like you said it's very domain dependent on how quickly that happens. I think taking on no debt wrt to code quality is impossible though and knowing how to take on that debt and pay it down to effectively meet the broader business goals without doing irreparable harm is something everyone has to contend with while being a dev.

That said, I can really only speak to web api dev, data engineering and search. I'd say out of all of those search was the tightest area with regards to quality and even then I was lucky to be working with another very talented dev. Him and I didn't run into very many issues we were unable to solve with scaling the technology even after hitting 100m pages or so and we could have kept going on scale but we were cost constrained, navigating the business side was far more challenging for us.

I'll admit as well I've been pretty lucky so far to work in situations where code quality is considered and managed and haven't yet worked somewhere where the concerns were entirely ignored or the team didn't care.
At some companies you’re still in onboarding hell on day 3.
> Let's say, instead of DNA, it was an outstanding bench warrant.

A bench warrant is a court order. We have this famous law that says that no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause. If the court has done its job correctly, you only issue a warrant when you have justified suspicion of a crime.

Pulling someone's DNA from a database absent any other evidence of their involvement in a crime has no such judicial review failsafe.

So, yeah, this is different because one is just justice at work and the other is a really terrible fourth amendment violation.
Mnemonics almost always imply an order. My point is the order is backwards, even though people naturally assume that the first step is introducing oneself. They naturally assume that their name is the most important thing because it is the most important thing to them.

But for other people, one's name is the least important thing, because of course what it most important to them is what affects them.

Once one realizes this principle, you'll see it in action everywhere.
There's a lot of baggage that comes with each language. I could probably learn any language at that point, but it also takes time to learn whole ecosystem, mostly used libraries and tools. You typically can't do this in week or two, because you need to actually write something and see how it feels, if there are any surprises.

You would probably not want someone with little experience in given language, to touch production codebase without review, because there are always traps that you might've not encountered in other languages.

I typically don't touch low-level programming languages, but once I had to use C to write some small adapter to communicate with some Oracle product. I did it, it worked as expected, but I would not be able to use it efficiently for complex solutions without more experience with creating and managing solutions in C.

I can also write in Go with some basic proficiency, I felt confident at one point in my abilities, but when my code got reviewed by someone specialized in Go, he would propose several improvements that did not cross my mind, because I had less experience in Go.
Management doesn't want to go against the latest fad which is like you say, 'busting up the monolith' and 'everyone wants to work on new services'
Sony announces development of its first over-the-counter hearing aid for the US
On the contrary, I assume making decentralized database products is very hard. And I don't doubt that authorization is a whole can of worms. My point is not that they're easy, but that they're the type of problems you are most likely to care about if you're building a web service.

A web service. Not a moon rocket, or an MRI machine, or high frequency trading software, or computation fluid dynamics simulations, or a compiler, or a video processing pipeline, or a word processor, or a 3D game engine.

So, just saying: When bloggers consider the headline "Software component names should be whimsical", I wish they'd spend a second to ask themselves whether their advice actually applies to any of the niche domains I mentioned, or if it's just a best practice for their fellow web service developers. Presently, there's a cultural trend that you don't have to bother with that step, and you can just write as if your audience is always the other web service people in the valley. To me, that gets very grating, and that's where the snark comes from.
These rules have served me so so well. I'm really proud of them.
Bullshit. I haven't been eliminating all my direct human contact, and I've been fine. I've taken some reasonable safety precautions. I recognize that I've been somewhat lucky this far, but I think that I've had a reasonable take on the risks associated.

Edit: I also realize that I've been exceptionally lucky in where I live. Tokyoites have been taking the illness seriously until now. The signs of fatigue are there, so not sure if that'll continue, but at least I've managed to earn some time; the later to catch the disease, the better!
Your argument could perhaps hold water if it were centered on the Johnson & Johnson formulation.

There is no precedent for a relatively novel technology being injected into everybody in a blind panic before a great deal of testing has been performed.

It was a huge gamble. It could have gone much worse than it did.
Almost like building a business around “engagement” is a model that leads to a death spiral. Social media sites are basically giant MLM schemes that sell the idea that become real companies before the scheme runs out.
A single datapoint in a 12 year near non-stop bull run powered by free money. You can't refute a statement on an economic rocket ship with a single instance.

You're welcome to post a little more about how I am wrong though instead of just tell me so.
Random question but do you people who play flight simulators but never flown a real plane think that if you were on a commercial passenger jet and the pilots became incapacitated that you would be able to take over the controls and land the plane safely?
My old electronics are generally not computers. Sure, you can probably hack/replace the ICs to run some trivial thing, but I don't think that really counts. They certainly aren't running an OS, not even Damn Small Linux.
W4 Games's CEO Juan Linietsky is the creator and lead dev of Godot. Their primary mission, from my understanding, is providing the non-open-source tooling and support that's needed to make it feasible to use Godot as an environment for developing console games. The SDK's and their APIs cannot be included in the FOSS Godot code directly.

Juan shared a blog post about the state of console support in Godot shortly before the launch of W4 that gives some more insight: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-...

Often time folks say that what Godot is missing is a "killer app" that shows that the platform is viable. I think that this could potentially go a long way towards that.
We’re in the midst of the 6th known extinction event, which is caused by human activity. I’m sorry if the “marketing” seems underhanded.

If humans don’t mitigate climate change and habitat destruction, life on earth will get a lot harder.

I’m sorry that the marketing isn’t convenient for you.
Wait what? If your landings are a ballistic trajectory, kindly step away from that stick ;)

And that's kind of the point - nobody except the few planes that fly parabolic trajectories needs this. So good luck mandating something affecting all of aviation with no practical use except for a handful of flights.

Autoland already exists. And can handle crosswinds up to 25kts. It's just that using them is an incredibly intense task - your reaction time to fix mistakes is a bit short.

That's why most landings are still manual, unless visibility is so bad that you have no choice.

(Also, the idea that meteorological radar could give you enough info about air density to preemptively handle air gusts is... a bold future)
True, but that's no different than any other root cert. It doesn't really count because it's not a cert that's directly used.
Mearsheimer is way more of an authority on the subject than you are, so if you're going to dismiss his claim as bullshit while claiming you're trying to combat the claim you could at least provide a link. Also even if Mearsheimer is wrong in that claim it doesn't make it propaganda.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...

>the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.

More regarding Mearsheimer in case anyone is interested.

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

https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/john-mearsh...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-...
I've got a Raspberry Pi 2, a ~10 year old Samsung Android media player, an iPhone 6, a 5 year old Chromebook, and another older Windows laptop. I also just recently bought a ~10 year old Mac Mini to play around with as part of a little project I'm working on. I suppose technically my TV might count: it's a SonyXBR-55X900E from 2017 running Android.
"Get therapy (you can actually afford it now), trade your money for more free time, seek meaning, be more generous and altruistic - acquire more friends, help others."

I don't dispute that people who do these things would tend to be happier on average, and I agree they are all good ideas, but we can also conclusively say they aren't silver bullets, since there are many people who do all those things but still end up finding their lives so intolerable that they kill themselves.

"try to imagine for a split second how miserable life is if you can't afford hobbies, healthcare, stable housing, or a companion pet"

I'd put healthcare and stable housing in the basic needs bucket, though of course they both exist on a spectrum.

And again, that's my point. There are countless people who have enough money that they have no financial worries whatsoever and yet are still miserable, while there are others with a modest income who feel content. If you are unhappy and feel that making more money will fix it, and you're not struggling with basic needs, this should indicate that at the very least, there's no guarantee it will be a solution to your unhappiness.
It wouldn't be that hard to write a bookmarklet that scrolls through your feed, removes posts from people you don't follow and sorts the rest by time.

A good portion of people here on HN would be capable of writing it.

That nobody does shows that there is not really a strong preference for this type of experience over the current suggested/ads/friends mix.
I think it is a universal experience. That's why you're (presumably) a programmer and not an illustrator.

Most people naturally choose to focus on things they are relatively good at, instead of keep banging their heads on something they struggle at.

GP's comment seems to imply it was a negative experience for the newbie, but in all probability given the daily frustrations and chaos of software development in the real world, switching majors might actually be the "right" decision for that person.
US special ops aircraft stuck in a Norwegian nature preserve
A good number of every communities members thinks their community sucks.
Amazon is big but it is not the best.

Their momentum is going to work against them in the long term. Somebody who is in the Prime habit is going to order 20 items from Amazon waiting 4-7 days each time.

Someday they're going to buy something from another retailer like Adorama or Best Buy or Target or Walmart and get it the next day and say... Wow!

Amazon has the considerable advantage of having a larger catalog but who knows what fragment of the catalog is a scam.
Train of Starlink satellites flies through the aurora borealis over Alaska
Sure, that seems relevant. But can you respond to my direct point - if I turn over my diary where I recount being the victim, can the police look at an entry from 5 years before, and use that to charge me with a completely separate crime of breaking and entering?
I use a Digital AlphaStation 200 4/233 (1995) as my home's NTP server.

edit: and a Macintosh LC III that is my SimCity/SimCity 2000 machine. That's all it does-- sit in a corner and wait for me to want to play a game of SimCity.
I remember buying boxes of floppies hoping that I'd get one that would be error free.
The most shocking thing in this article is that SF actually prosecuted a retail theft case and went so far as to get DNA? This is not the SF Fox News has been telling me about.
They do. However once this becomes known you become progressively less likely to derive any benefit from it as criminals will simply stop reporting rapes, while you will scare away far less serious criminals and a lot of non-criminals from reporting rapes too.

Before you even consider the harm to those victims from not being able to seek justice, there's also a real risk that in doing so you may end up creating more victims by losing the ability to catch a proportion of rapists some of whom may reoffend.
My electric bill fluctuates so wildly based on how much I'm at home and using the ACs that I could never differentiate inflation-related increases from changes from my own use patterns.

I haven't purchased any of those other things since the start of increased inflation. I mean, I purchase food often from all kinds of different places, but I don't track prices. I don't think food and drinks here have doubled in price, or even close to that, because that would be shocking. $40 burgers? $20 beers? And if food prices have only gone up by 10%-15% (which may be the case) I would likely never notice.

I feel like it's mostly people who go to the same store every week and buy the same items that notice inflation.
The issue was closed for bypassing fingerprinting, a use case that the maintainers feel is not a valid precursor to this feature. Again, that isn’t a no to the feature under any circumstance, just a statement that this use case is insufficient.

More generally, if a server wants to fingerprint you, there are a variety of additional fields and changes that will flow from that as it’s an arms race, one that this libraries authors are not inclined to keep adding features and configuration for them. There exist other libraries for this purpose, some linked in the discussion. So no, it’s not like saying you can’t set your own HTTP headers at all, more akin to saying that if your needs fall outside the 99% use case you may need to go elsewhere.
You obviously don't trail ride.

When you ride trails you sometimes fall down. Sometimes you catch a branch with your bars. Sometimes your bike lands on rocks or logs.

The down tube of an ebike frame is often where the batteries are located. This area takes a lot of abuse from the front wheel and is in perfect position to take damage during frontal impact.

Look up my YT @Platinum_Racing to see an example of terrain that could very easily destroy an ebike or gas bike.
It's plain old Control Theory, no AI needed.
> I don't think we are content with lower wages. It's just that you cannot really compare EU-US just like that. You need to compare cost of living, entirely. Paid leave. Public holiday. College fees. Working time.

None of this justifies the lower pay compared to US tech where it's very common to have a good medical coverage and much higher standards of living. It's not like France or Germany are cheap for the average french or german. All things considered, french and germans end up taking home less than their american counterparts. Maybe this worked well in the last 50 years in Europe, but it most certainly won't in the next 30 when you see fewer younger people entering the workforce and the pension and medical system won't be sustained in Europe.
They did that back in the day, with the LS-120 and -240 "SuperDisk" and I think a couple of similar but even less well known systems. They used a secondary head tracking servo information on the medium in order to achieve tracking precision beyond what was available with the standard floppy design, and thus (no doubt along with reformulated media) write more information in the same area. They were back-compatible with regular 3.5" floppies, but they were also slow, flaky, expensive, and introduced after Zip disks but not long enough before writable CD media, and so they failed to compete.

If I were to do it today, I'd probably think in terms of USB, with an annular PCB loaded with flash chips in place of the disk medium, and a set of pads exposed by the slider to mate with pogo pins on the drive's head sled. (The PCB would be fixed in the disk case, with the central "cookie" remaining in place to mate with the drive spindle.) You'd almost certainly need to modify or replace the drive firmware, which in its default state would likely find this all very confusing, so it could spin the "disk" but avoid moving the heads (and thus interrupting connections and maybe also doing mechanical damage) and thus give the added realism of motor noises that stock USB drives just can't match. For extra bonus points (and a saleable product!) replace the firmware (and the onboard controller hardware) with something that can talk USB to the inserted "disk", and the native protocol out the board-edge connector to the computer in which the drive is installed - and then you have one of those "multidisk" devices for vintage machines, but one that actually uses a disk, and you can make a mint from retro nerds like me who enjoy old machines but are too busy to deal with them in their fully stock configuration. [1]

I'm the wrong kind of engineer for a project like this, but I wish I weren't, because it sounds like a lot of fun.

[1] Well, not me personally, because the only machine I still have with a 3.5" drive is a Toshiba Tecra from 1995 or so that uses all the exuberantly nonstandard interfaces one would expect of such a year. The internal floppy gave up the ghost ages ago, but an external one and an Ethernet PC card keep it able to talk to the world when it wants to. Heaven forfend its hard drive ever fail, though...

edits: correcting misrecalled SuperDisk technical details
Depends on the plane, weather conditions, air traffic control and the runway. Does the runway support ILS, will ATC help guide you, clear skies & daytime? Probably would work
Subscribestar, which I'm much more of a fan of since they have more common sense rules around NSFW art.
It was announced on the Patreon blog, the poster chose to link to Instagram (annoyingly, for those of us not on Instagram).

https://blog.patreon.com/a-note-from-jack

I assume OP expected the blog post to be taken down or changed, so they captured it and linked to the capture instead of the original. I feel like the protocol for this should be to make a capture, post a link to it as a comment in the thread, and link to the original in the post.
Structural inflation is primarily driven by blue collar wages. Going to be a lot of white collar casualties on the way back to 2%, given that rising discount rates hits them first
> I'm a huge geek, with mental health symptoms that could be mistaken for autism and ADHD but are actually due to trauma from having terrible parents who I removed from my life decades ago.

I have a similar background. Can I email you?
AI Generated Music Video – Deltron 3030 – Virus
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If I had a nickle for every time someone on HN claims that a sizable company could be replaced by 1-5 devs, I'd have enough money to start a competitor to most of them that did it better with more devs/staff, as evidenced by the general lack of 1 person saas companies out there that solve more than a very niche problem.
I agree, Russia should form or join an already existing defensive alliance to protect itself against what it considers to be aggressive neighbors.

That sounds reasonable to me, just like the neighboring countries doing likewise - joining a pact to defend against Russia.
If by "that" you mean gene transfer technology, then I agree. But they also want to patent the result - they do not want a different lab with access to that same technology to be allowed to take a naturally occurring gene and transfer it into crops.