skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we are post-something alright. I made the same conclusion and it's weird that there is no new Bruce Willis on the market that made it in the last decade. We have people like Pedro Pascal who are good but not a-billion-dollar-garanteed-hit good.

When it comes to music and cinema what changed is we replaced major labels and cinemas with Spotify and Netflix... both are not paying as much as in the old days - up front and in the long run.

Music Albums are no more, most of us are just listening to singles right now – so why release an album at all? But the LP was basically invented by the Beatles who said we put out ten songs at once - before them like in the Elvis generation everything was released as singles! No one thought that you can make the kids buy an LP which was typically a collection of greatest hits until that point. Nobody thought 30-million-sellers like "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Appetite for Destruction" were even possible.

Artists these days need a build in audience which cater to the taste of their audience and then they maybe get the label contract or publisher deal - but I guess most just don't bother at that point and release their things on their own.

We live in a super fragmented market - I stumble upon these bubbles everyday where I think "so this person has a career for a decade appearently and I just learn now about it?" Even if it is completely up my alley...

But everybody can record an album these days that sounds like it was produced by bloody Bob Rock on a 1.000 dollar notebook... when it comes to music everything sounds pitch perfect - which it is thanks to Audiotune. And even "live music" is hardly "live music" anymore in a lot of cases these days. And most of it is derivative and banal.

Back in the days a major label could and would take some kids out of the gutter - who had no other choice to succeed but the Billboard 100 - and put them in front of 60.000 people where everybody just loved the same things. I mean these sort of things still happen but they are few and far between.

Why bother putting in the 10.000 hours to make a career in acting or music if you can get a business degree and make 6-figures anyways?

But I think it makes sense for these musicians to sell their publishing rights because its an easy way out. A lot of these people are old and its easier to give a couple o million dollars to your kids than a music catalog which they probably don't even know how to handle. I mean every musician worth a dime knows about the Frank Zappa family feud so maybe it's all in all better to give these music rights to people who actually know what they are doing.
It doesn't seem like your solution achieves columnar breakdowns for unstructured parts of the log. Eg they will basically reverse engineer printfs, you don't. Misleading claim of being similar
"ship as much as possible as fast as possible" can lead to that kind of result (i've seen it over and over...)
I believe the state of the art in these things do mix multiple different types of satellite data, night time lights is just the longest dataset we have since even crappy old satelittes could capture it.

Several parallels with the various reconstructions of earth's atmosphere via proxies like tree rings and ice cores and its later recalibration with satellite measures.
Isn't the point that MikePlacid is making that if a platform does not engage in censorship then it will:

a) have some users who've been censored elsewhere

b) be accused of catering to them, as you have done

c) meanwhile, the majority continues to use censored platforms

Whereas if you and the majority used an uncensored-yet-legal platform:

1) White supremacists would be a tiny minority

2) Everyone could speak freely

3) That would not be catering to white supremacists

Or would it? Based on what you've written above it seems you might claim it would be catering to them by not censoring them.

You've created a circular argument and a vicious cycle on top of it. That does support censorship and it shows that the majority does prefer censorship. Freedom of speech will necessarily entail having speech the majority don't like being around. That's the price of it but it's better than the alternatives.
Seer – a GUI front end to GDB for Linux
I am always amazed at the effort in UX that StreetComplete has taken. Which sadly is also a reason why rewriting it in something that runs on iOS is a major undertaking. And replacing all those beautifully-designed quest screens with simple key-value pair tables is obviously not a suitable replacement.
Yes, the film "The Congress" was quite loosely based on the Stanislaw Lem book "The Futurological Congress", but in the same way that the film "Blade Runner" was quite loosely based on the Philip K Dick book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".

Both the books and the both the movies are excellent and unique and stand on their own, all having a lot of interesting important things to say, both in common with each other and on their own.

>According to director Ari Folman, some elements of the film were inspired by the science fiction novel The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem in that similarly to Lem's Ijon Tichy, the actress is split between delusional and real mental states. Later, at the official website of the film, in an interview, Folman says that the idea to put Lem's work to film came to him during his film school. He describes how he reconsidered Lem's allegory of communist dictatorship into a more current setting, namely, the dictatorship in the entertainment business, and expresses his belief that he preserved the spirit of the book despite going far away from it.
This would obviously not fly in Europe.

I have setup my SolarEdge system 4 years ago, (HDWave with an LCD) and never did I sign anything that stated 'must be connected to internet, or else', again not even possible with European warranty laws anyway, as the vendor has to prove that the malfunction occurred due to not being connected to the internet.

When I was doing research on inverters and the control units, I looked into a few systems. Back then, you had either string based (Sunny boy, GoodWe was what was standard offered) or per panel inverters/optimizers.

Some vendors of those setups even wanted to place an (additional) router! Maybe to ensure the wifi signal from the inverter was close, though they wanted to place it in the meetering cabinet. No way of course. Are you crazy?

The Enphase control boxes where the worst, that still stick with me today. They actually setup a VPN to their mothership, and use that to be always connected, completely unacceptable of course. Just think about it, joe schmoe gets a solar setup, happily lets it connect to the internet, and then exposes his entire home network to Enphase.

SolarEdge was the least worry some, as (after research) showed they have a USB/RS-232 and RS-485 internal port that can be used (https://github.com/jbuehl/solaredge) and I've been using that to scrap the data for years.

I do know that with the newer HDWave (without LCD) things are a bit trickier, but should still have those RS-485 connectors, as those are needed for other purposes. Of course, I don't know what software updates broke over the years.

My system has _never_ connected to the internet, and is happily humming along :)

All in all, this is completely unacceptable behavior, and I'm surprised that they keep on getting away with this. Installers think its great, they show up to give you an offer, and show how great some of their customer setups are functioning, because yes, they also keep having 'full admin' access. Insane.
Ok, but how exactly is your story an explanation of the motivation for VPN in their browser?
Why would I defend Putin?

I'm guessing those numbers are fairly typical for the ruling party in Italy where elections are typically fairly fragmented and chaotic.
So that result is likely just as legitimate as any previous result.

I'm also guessing the overwhelming majority of people that voted in this election aren't nazis.
I once read a quote from some movie exec that basically said studios turn to old content when the economy is weak because it is lower risk.

I find this to be true from a few perspectives, it’s lower risk financially for the studio but it’s also lower risk for the audience too. If you’re struggling financially and can only see one movie, you’re more likely to see something that reminds you of good times than risk seeing something totally new.

I do agree with your point though. I’d love to see more original content.

Also, it’s interesting that you reference South Park (membererries) while criticising Lord of the Rings given that South Park is older than the LotR’s film debuts.
Aging is not solved unless cancer is solved. Youre guaranteed to getcancer if you live long enough.
This post does not expose the fact that all of the companies analyzed in this study were crowdfunded.

It seems like they didn't look at the current most successful companies founding history.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898
Your code example is just wrong. You didn't use parameter binding. You didn't even execute the query. You didn't even store the returned rows in a usable structure.
I think it is pretty standard usage for ETL tools.

You are not inserting a few dozen records, you are inserting a several thousand records each query.

In fact, sometimes insert speed is measured in MB per second, not records per second.
For me it's simple. My hands are already on my keyboard, and I already have my terminal open. For most of my programming I use whatever Jet Beans IDE my company has licenses for.
Don't get that, isn't it like that everywhere, does anything else make sense?

If the decision is not final, why distract the workers who would now have a what-its-worth-if-it-maybe-ends thinking?

And at the moment the decision is made the opposite, it doesn't make sense to let anyone keep working on it, so it is abrupt and surprising for most?

Also, what is bad about it, sure it is a bit frustrating to trash work, but sometimes things change... for me, this never resulted in layoffs but there is always enough work for skilled people and they move to other projects in need (most times being the main reason for such decisions).
Not at google?
That would hold more water if people were using services that are not heavily censored, or not censored at all. The white supremacists (apparently, I've not used Gab) all used to be on Twitter - were Twitter users associating with them back then? Did everyone stop using Twitter?
Nation shall speak pro-Western propaganda unto nation
On a bike that's very doable though - if you wanted to do it 10 years you'd need to ride ~105k a day, which doesn't sound completely crazy.
Harm I feel is when YT doesn't pay them for their contribution to the platform anymore, based on any myriad of reasons that the YT moderation can trigger falsely. There's also the extra complication of brand and personal impact of having videos removed or flagged falsely. Of course you have to work within the platform rules, but many people are doing exactly that and still getting flagged by the algorithmic moderation. Especially in the music YouTube space.

Content creators are working with YT for distribution of content in return for a cut of ad revenue, so it's more than an account on an internet platform like a forum, it's a business relationship, which would make them a client or vendor.
> developers to reuse layers and layers of packages and libraries whose behaviors are not well aligned with the goal of application, but hey, it's cheaper to just slap something on the existing packages

and in many cases those layers and layers actually slow development long-term because of that mis-alignment and needing to untangle/manage the mess of dependencies over time...
I'm sure this has already existed for years. The AI technology needed to implement this has exited for years. You just need to do web crawling and keyword and link matching.

You don't even need a 'writing fingerprint', you just need to parse comments which reveal identifying information such as 'I participated in project x', 'I taught at university y', 'I invested in startup z'... then when you combine all the identifying information, you can narrow down the pool of possible matches to a single person.

You could probably do it with just basic text matching, no AI required.
Witcher 3 doesn't have crazy high requirements especially when you turn down the settings. On Switch it also only renders at 540p resolution, so just a quarter of 1080p.

I see no miracle here.
I just get the impression that it's lost on a lot of people new to the industry. The industry use this aesthetic (for lack of a better word) to market itself and attract talent (as evident by TFA). There's almost a subcultural element to it. I've seen perfectly dull boomer engineers go away on security conferences and come back with stickers on their laptops and looking like Lisbeth Salander.
> This was a tradeoff to appeal to people whose vocabulary is narrow, not improve comprehension.

”Comprehension” is not some audience-independent property of a text. Comprehension is what happens when a text is well-calibrated for an audience. If your audience is unlikely to know the word ”obviate” (which seems true of many engineering settings, where the audience is international), you absolutely improve comprehension by replacing it with words the audience is more likely to know.

I agree with you that ”obviate” sounds better, and in a setting like a blog post, monograph, or even an hn comment, that’s probably what I’d use. But in e.g. a work email for colleagues in another country, you reduce the risk of miscommunication by following OP’s suggestion.
"EVERESTING IS THE MOST DIFFICULT CLIMBING CHALLENGE IN THE WORLD"

Sure, unlike say climbing Everest for real, or dozens of other high mountains (including many more difficult than Everest)
I don’t think this is just a young adult thing, it’s more a genre thing. Brandon Sanderson will cram as many books down your gullet as you like. But even so, what’s the harm? My son likes the Percy Jackson books. I’m not a massive fan, my classics tutor despises them. But my boy has gone on to study the original myths in school and consumes them voraciously. I have no problem at all with a series like Percy Jackson or Podkin or whatever that he’s hungry to keep reading. It seems like a great outcome.
“Moof”
Yours reads like a comment that even the NATO propaganda department would be too embarrassed to attach their name to.

In a nuclear conflict between the US and Russia, Europe would be wiped out. UK, France, Germany, Italy and other countries hosting nuclear weapons will be certainly annihilated. Poland, the Baltics, Finland, Romania, etc will probably be nuked out of spite and whatever’s left will wither under a radioactive cloud.

Even the US “win” means being hit by hundreds of nuclear weapons. Those claiming that nuclear war can be won are just suicidal in a very contorted way.
Wait until you realize that the article itself it's an ad for a videogame...
DVD drives turned into microscopes
Wow! I think regardless of the junior this is a failure on the authors part not to handle this internally and instead write this blog post. He could have mentored the new guy, and he could have taken it as an opportunity to reflect on his teams practices.

To the actual commentary; I might be wrong but it’s giving me dogmatic vibes. All the things mentioned can be ok, sometimes good, and also bad in the wrong situations. Context matters. Doing the things described (in moderation) is not by definition bad.

This seems like a perfectly wasted learning opportunity for everyone involved. I would strongly urge the author to reflect on this as an important part of being senior is to lift other less senior people up so they can be productive and progress in their careers.
Still no word on durability guarantees even for GA?
There's very good money to be made in consulting if you "know" Lotus Notes. Even a lot more if you know how to migrate the thing (presumably to MS Exchange).
The most prominent example of using tech like this is the re-creation of 1980s era Arnie in one of the early scenes in Terminator Genisys, released in 2015. They're showing a time travel modified version of the naked Arnie scene from Terminator and it looks fantastic. I think that use of the tech was really smart. I was meh about the film as a whole, but I really enjoyed those recreated scenes with additional time travel twists.

As in this case, the fact that the actor was closely involved in the process and supportive of the use case is really the way to go. Actors make a lot of creative decisions in a performance so I think that personal input is key. I suppose there's an argument that in the case of a commercial that aspect of it isn't as big a deal, the actor is basically just renting out their likeness anyway, the performance aspect of it isn't as important.
Since 2002 as a layman I would expect some progress has been achieved?
Try reading Moby Dick knowing what we know now about these cousins of ours - there are moments of too brutal treatment. And it's practically a non-fiction book aside from the side- drama.
The problem we have is that popular content creators are the most susceptible to the problems caused by YTs moderation. Your solution only reinforces that problem since you’re excluding unpopular content creators.

You’re also making the assumption that humans are going to moderate consistently but that simply isn’t true. Different people will draw the line at different points and our mood will also vary the line too. Review guidelines would only only help with measurable criteria but so often what constitutes as acceptable or not is a lot more nuanced.
> "freedom of speech" that everyone in his generation grew up with, that served as the impetus for much of the internet's creation

Yes, because bulletin board systems famously had no moderation whatsoever.

Wait...
Each of the two nord stream links consist of two pipelines. All four exploded on the same evening, in exactly one place on each. Three of the leaks are very close to each other, the fourth is within 50 kilometers from the others, along a 1000+ km long pipeline. By accident?

All relevant authorities on different sides of the conflict agree that this was sabotage.

It can be fun to stretch the imagination and construct complicated technical causes. But it should be known that this was not an accident.
It doesn't matter. At the end of the day it's all your money anyway, just in a different place. The following is a simplification, but the concept should (I hope) be clear.

Let's say you want to buy an asset that can generate revenue. Let's also assume you need to borrow the amount, that you don't have it lying around.

You could take out a loan, and back it with some other asset, like your car.

Or you can get the company to take out a loan.

If the Company makes money, that money goes to servicing the debt. Either way its "your money" servicing the debt.

There are reasons to select one approach over the other, but putting the loan in the company name is often better for tax, and personal asset protection, reasons.

So yes, you buy the company with its future profits, but ultimately that's why you buy it in the first place.
>Bruce Willis can now die even harder with a digital twin

I see what you did there, and look who's talking! The verdict of his first deadly sin is that he's nobody's fool and had mortal thoughts, so what just happened is that he wanted to be the last man standing before armageddon, fight fire with fire, and not cop out or breach his contract because of his death wish, and just survive the night long enough that his precious cargo of vice and acts of violence could be appreciated by the kid. ;)

I tried to go the whole nine yards, but I couldn't figure out how to work Beavis and Butt-Head Do America into it.
You could also consider the Firefox forks Fennec and Mull.
I'm pro whatever is cheapest and fastest. Which just isn't nuclear. For every GW of nuclear coming online, there are hundreds of wind and solar GW coming online. An order of magnitude more power in an order of magnitude less time. And things are getting cheaper and faster still. Fifteen years from now that will be a lot cheaper and faster. Any plan that does not take that into account is not a great plan. And my problem with many of these nuclear startups is that they don't seem to do that. They are reluctant to talk about cost because it's a weakness and a problem for which they have no solution.

We're in a weird transition phase where gas/coal generation still exists and matters but have obvious financial challenges that are getting worse very quickly. Courtesy of the Russians, everybody is well aware of that now and can look forward to some really steep energy bills in the next year. But investors have been voting with their feet long before that happened as this has been quite obvious for a while now. Coal plants have been shutting down in many countries mainly for cost reasons and with a few exceptions (China, India), very few countries are building new ones. And now that cheap Russian gas is not an option, gas plants just got a lot more expensive to operate and they were already too expensive before that. Basically, that's an industry that is experiencing a rapidly accelerating collapse. It won't take until 2050 for that to be completed.

The only remaining debate is how soon we'll turn the remaining plants off. That's mostly a function of production capacity for solar and wind generation and energy storage solutions. More investment is flowing into that industry every year and we're seeing massive sustained growth there for decades in term of new capacity coming online every year. It's a super profitable industry to be in and a lot of those profits are getting reinvested in more and even better stuff. Lots of countries have been revising their already ambitious plans to become carbon neutral to be even more ambitious as they find themselves beating their own expectations of just a few years ago on this front. Ten years from now, a lot of countries will get the vast majority of their power from renewables and the remaining ones will be busy figuring out how to get in on the action.

Nuclear is getting lots of attention and investment obviously. But planned new capacity does not add up to mattering much at all over the next fifteen years. A few GW here and there vs. hundreds of GW in the next few years alone. And it takes that long to plan more nuclear plants and there are very little signs of countries warming up to that notion. A lot of those nuclear startups you mentioned won't hit volume production (if they survive long enough) before most countries have shut down all their remaining coal and gas plants. Which in Germany would be around 2035 according tot he latest plans. And those plans don't seem to involve any nuclear. Of course, that timeline might be accelerated due to recent events..
My guess is because the younger generation does not go to the movies that much. So the films are being produced for people who still do - the generation that likes Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Ghost Busters, etc. What is the best way to get most of them go see your new movie? - a remake of an old classic.
Found it:
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/talk-to-books
Technically it's slightly lower surprisingly early in the trip -- get to an altitiude of 500km and g is down to about 8.5m/s, at 2000km it's 5.7, and by the time you get just 1/10th of the way it's pretty much gone. At some point the moon's gravity will start to work with you and pull you in.
What does someone’s salary have to do with their company showing them basic respect?
But how fast can it type?
Any word on how much light the lenses filter out?

In the promo video it looks like you loose at least 30-60% light.

edit supposedly 2000 nits, which is meant to allow it to be visible in normal light.
Just comparing size:

> The human brain is about 1,350 grams, three times larger than our big-brained relative, the chimpanzee. A sperm whale or killer whale brain can be 10 kilograms.