skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what everyone wanted and briefly had, was a few streaming services for basically all content, without ads.

Before the more recent Cambrian explosion, it was just Netflix, HBO (via HBO Now), Hulu, and Showtime. Yes, there are some smaller players too, but these were the big ones.

Everything else was licensed out (typically to Netflix) and in some instances was perhaps only available on cable. People got alot of content for sub 60 USD, for the most part.

Then everyone started clawing back their catalogues for their own streaming services. I think the 2017-2019 period was the "golden age" of Netflix streaming in terms of sheer good content availability, and people really liked it.

At least Apple TV+ is original content and not re-selling the rights that used to be on a different platform. They're a genuinely new entrant into the space.
Could these ledger be a log data structure in a single database that is run by a trusted entity like a government? Why does it need to be decentralized?
“Virgin birth” in aquarium sharks – even when potential mates are nearby
I don't think we should reject the creation of a medical cure at all. I'm completely of the view that if an procedure exists to treat/cure a problem (however that's defined to exist) the procedure should be available to the extent the creator is interested in providing it.

However, GP expanded upon a sociological dimension to disabilities and chronic illnesses that isn't usually discussed and considered. When asking "How do they cure it", an important question to consider is "Do they/ Would they ever want a cure and under what corcumstances?"

It's quite the coincidence that deafness was the example used, because the scenario GP describes actually happened once before:

https://www.icphs2019.org/the-marthas-vineyard-deaf-communit...
Hey, this is still a WIP, but I'm building [redacted]. We wrap an open-source workflow orchestrator Temporal that offers "durable execution" with very detailed execution tracing and a bunch of recovery mechanisms. We offer a fully-managed Temporal cluster, hosted runtime (so you don't need to worry about provisioning/scaling workers), and offer version control integrations, CI/CD and dynamic config out of the box - so you can go from code to running workflows with no infrastructure overhead. Think "lambda for workflows". Feel free to get on our waitlist!

Here's how a cron job implementation would look with Temporal -

`
func Subscription(ctx [redacted].Context, userUUID string) error {
free_trial_on := true

for {
if free_trial_on {
// Sleep until trial period passes
[redacted].Sleep(ctx, days(15))
free_trial_on = False
} else {
// Charge subscription fee
[redacted].ExecuteActivity(ctx, ChargeSubscriptionAndEmailReceipt, userUUID, frequency).Get(ctx, nil)
// Sleep until next payment is due
[redacted].Sleep(ctx, days(30))
}
}

}
`
Aside from the other responses, the second biggest city in Mexico just had a drought for months.

Not to say people are going to begin experimenting with popping whole grains over it, but water goes into short supply all over the world. And in those cases the water you can get has things like heavy metals and runoff that don’t just boil out.
Tangent ... these BlackMagic 2.5" multidocks are so cool:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicmultidoc...

I don't really have a use for one but I wish I did ...
I've used it for over a year but never that issue. Works perfect for me
>Adam Smith was pretty clear that monopolies were antithetical to what he called a free market... The US is not a free market.

The last time I pointed out the above in DC, I was called a communist and literally hounded out of the bar. (What is it with people who don't understand economics often also wanting to abuse the label of "service animal"? Someone should commission a study IMHO.)
> There are many problems to fix.

You are not kidding here. San Bernardino California is going bankrupt paying the pensions of LAPD officers who moved there specifically to retire. Not to mention all the tiny PDs that are stealing from innocent people using asset forfeiture. The racial profiling by small town PDs that will essentially run non-whites out of town on a rail.

Everyone has a story, like my brother who got pulled over for a "Suspicious right turn" when he drove through the wrong town with my black friend. Or my other brother who got a ticket for riding his motorcycle on the sidewalk without a helmet while running a left turn light... on his bicycle. He got more community service (110 hours) from the corrupt state commissioner than another guy who beat up an old lady.

Police quality is a huge issue in the US. Justice is a huge issue in the US. We have a LOT of work to do.
I used this at one point. Might give you what you're looking for.

https://github.com/tehkillerbee/mopidy-tidal
I see #2 being likely, but with it being more of a title thing only and Elon Musk still being just as hands on.
That's a lot in just one year
> Do they have police who have a duty to save you? Nope. That alone is just an absolute shit show. What sort of country says the police have no obligation to protect you? Only to show up and solve the crime once it's happened? What sort of society doesn't look after it's own?

What country puts that kind of positive obligation on the police? I'm not aware of any that do.
> the press is not doing their job.

What's their job?

Who's their boss? To whom are they accountable?

They appear to be doing the job they're paid to do. Despite claims that they should behave counter to their employers' interests.

> Biden makes false claims about his past all the time

My favorite was about how he was in prison with Nelson Mandela. I can only assume that due to a transitive property of the Mandela effect, Biden died in prison.
> In practice, though, PAdES has a lot more support and has the crucial property of being easy to view by end-users.

For now, I'd expect ever increasing compliance with eIDAS in the future. PDFz are also not the only thing that people want to sign, that's where an agnostic container format has its benefits.

> Is there any wide use of ASiC?

I know that at least Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland have deployed it. Of those Estonia probably has the widest and longest use of it, as they migrated *to* ASiC-E, having used the predecessors BDOC and CDOC previously.
thanks for your comment,

just a small correction, it's "medieval" and "palate"
Between dead artists and art-for-art-sake artists we're not gonna run out of stuff to listen to, even if intellectual property was abolished tomorrow morning (as it should be). It only works for the 1 percent at the top anyway (due to power law distribution).
This is great for advancing the technology. Probably not great for shareholders.
I’m for it.
Funny but I wouldn’t think that Lex is remotely qualified to rebuild and lead Twitter.
I wish this guy could come home.
That's pretty much how it works, at least in GPG world. You generally never rotate the top-level certifying key, and you use that only for certifying.

All that said, "that's how GPG does it" is usually a strong argument against a proposal.
People should care more about reforming exclusionary zoning laws so that a massive amount of more affordable housing can be built.

Environmentalism, in the form of so-called green laws, has done so much to keep prospective home buyers out of the market for much of their lives, could really care less about the efficiency of new homes that most of us can't afford to buy anyway.

'Burn baby burn' ... if 'build baby build' ain't your motto.
> It is 2022, so I had thought it would be tremendously easy and cheap, but it seems no solution is easily implemented.

You assume someone purchased hardware (preferably available anywhere on the planet), powered it up, set it up, connected it to the internet, then built the software to handle your very specific task, then put it online to do specifically what you want and for a close-to-free price? And you're shocked this doesn't exist?
Why Does Argentina Wear a Pale Blue and White Football Kit?
Huh, that is very interesting (and rare). Also highlights one flaw of S/MIME, there isn't any validity (OCSP) stapling equivalent for it.
But people do pay for it and set up their own instances, or pool their resources and support larger instances - and maybe that's better than having our attention monetized by opaque algorithms 'for free'.
Even if the degradation could be repaired (e.g. after five years, restore a 28% panel to 31% efficiency), at grid scale, does it make financial sense to do the maintenance instead of replacing the panel when it falls below X%?
Those are not large SUVs. Rivian R1S and the E Hummer are probably closest to a large SUV in the market now
This is useful if you care about conformation and scare tissue. For everything else, micromachined electrodes/meshes are the superior alternative IMHO.

1. Neither Synchron nor Neuralink have adopted anything resembling this in their R&D stack (despite the hype and wild claims being around for 15-20 years).
2. Instability is a major concern. And the target application (surgical/augmentation) wouldn't compromise stability for...conformation. Impedance data on such devices are very much humidity-level dependent.
3. Soft matter degrades. Especially if it gets heated by nearby electronics or when subjected to HF signals (brains/synapses are >1kHz). As it does, its properties change.
4. Ionic diffusion will mess with your interface in vivo. It's just the way nature works.

Nature created a journal dedicated to reviews in materials science this year. That was the news for me.
Easy way to step away from it after throwing a morale and org hand-grenade and let others pick up the pieces.
Apparently implementations don’t use this or something like that.
Some impressive cognitive dissonance here.
The remote work as a "smiling menace" is an interesting way to describe a risk that some friends were talking about prior to the pandemic. I can't tell whether is pushed the timeframe forward or back, but the same risk seems to be there. Although outsourcing seems to me to trend in waves.
The most important question is, do you like the work? Are you passionate about it?

If Yes: then you'll get better because that's what passion does.

If No: then meh, I think if your work is good enough for your boss, it's good enough. Save the money you make there and then look for something else. If you're really making a lot, use the money wisely to do something in life that is truly self-enriching.
Spotify has a stable api for free users too (as can be seen by devices sold with that capability, it just isn't public). Splicing and rate limiting would clash with caching I would imagine
It doesn’t provide even remotely close to the same level of security as Vault because of how it’s designed with environment variables in mind.

The lack of an API means if they want to add secret injection without env vars, you will be launching a CLI command in a thread or subprocess as opposed to using a native library.

There is something to be said about creating a secret manager that is easier to use than vault, but this misses the mark in way to many areas for me to consider it a serious contender.
It's a bit debatable but he definitely only did the image coding part of the video codec. All of those listed formats also support the metadata required for video.

I was certainly expecting some motion coding.
What did the Earth look like 450M years ago
City buses are where EV is needed the most IMO.

The stop and go constantly, barely on the freeway, and this is the kind of driving where EV shines.

And they bletch tons of diesel exhaust on city streets. (Unlike trucks which are mostly in remote areas.)

They also all return to a depot, so there's a good place for them to recharge. The only issue I can see is if there's enough time for them to sit and recharge. But I think it should work out with some good scheduling, since obviously there's much less service at night.

> 18-wheeler segments

That's not going to work so well. Don't they sleep in their trucks on the side of the road? 18 wheeler cabs are almost always on the move, there's not really a lot of time for them to sit and recharge. I expect 18 wheelers to be one of the last segments to go electric.

They will only go electric when every truck stop has rows of fast chargers (so they can sleep and charge), and there's as many chargers as gas stations. This will take a long time.
Wow, I never expected to see chimp inflation at this scale. I laughed off my friend who kept a stack of chimps under his mattress, but look who's laughing now.
Bankman-Fried wants to see indictment before agreeing to extradition
Show HN: CCTV Shop – Everything was written by GPT-3
This entire shop was built using GPT-3 and WordPress. The WordPress theme was modified using back and forth questions between myself and GPT-3 and then all the content was written by GPT-3 including the product selection. Nothing you see on the fully furnished online store was my decision or doing. It was all AI, started with how would you design the best online cctv store, and went from there.
> The UK has its issue, but from what I can see its because they are purposely starving it of money so they can ultimately privatize it.

This isn't true. Healthcare spending has grown every year and has never significantly fallen relative to GDP. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

> America's health care is fucking garbage.

I agree, but it's not for a lack of spending. The US government actually spends more per capita on healthcare than the UK in total. I'm not opposed to universal healthcare. I'm opposed to politicians throwing money at a problem to buy votes, but that is the only thing that can result from a universal policy that results from healthcare at all costs rhetoric.
A professor tested ChatGPT against his computer science exam
Have you not noticed that when you write something down with the purpose of summarising it in a structured way you tend to understand it better?

There's no market for kids essays, we never made them write these things with the purpose of being useful output. The market for essays for grown ups is also very small, making kids write things down was not with the purpose of covering the case of them becoming journalists or something. It's just that makes them learn to think and structure their thought process. That's why people take notes and write down things even if its not going to be graded or read by anyone else.
Anything optional + opt-in doesn't get used.

Mandate EVs, and suddenly the industry will respond.

The status quo finances oppressive regimes, the Holocene extinction event, and climatic omnicide.
So they...hired people with relevant experience? How is this a scandal?
As I said, there was one man in my "cohort" -- the group of parents that went through the adoption training together. He was a tradesman -- single, self-employed, my guess in his early 40's; he passed the screening process and adopted a school-age boy. This is a "local authority" in the UK. I'm sure rules vary from place to place, depending on culture, experience, and need. I do know they look extensively at your support network, history, and so on; presumably the requirements for a support network are higher when you're going to be a single adoptive parent.
This is a nonsense argument.

Yes, of course random walks are a thing. But that doesn't mean that skill isn't also a thing.

In an adversarial, high stakes game where there can be only one winner (like sports, but unlike the stock market where there can be multiple winners) differences in skill show up in statistics well.

There are techniques like true score theory[1] that separate skill from luck by looking at variation (which is essentially a way of looking at reversion to mean as I mentioned earlier).

Sustained performance over time when looking at skill-based statistics in sport (eg, passes completed in soccer) is not something where a random walk applies.

> I'm not saying it directly applies here, but it's a caveat worth mentioning.

No, it's not. It's worth mentioning why it doesn't apply here, but by just mentioning it you imply (incorrectly) that it does, which is both misleading an wrong.

[1] https://conjointly.com/kb/true-score-theory/
America has the largest amount of recorded donations to their rather stretched legal definition of a "charity". This says a lot more about the American tax code than it does about American generosity. I'd encourage you to travel around the world a bit.
Tumblr is launching a livestreaming feature
100% not worried.

There are some real short-term issues. Teachers who don't know anything about it. Students who think the teacher won't notice that their illiterate self got smart over the weekend. Legislators using it as a political football.

But ultimately before long text AI will be good enough to fool anyone. And you will be able to feed it your style and it will spit out text appropriate for your grade level, just good enough for the A. And cheating will happen.

Pandora's box is not going to be closed.

Does that spell universal illiteracy and the end of higher learning? lol. Nah. Testing will certainly have to be creative.

Just off the top of my head. Have every student write one paragraph during a whole period and make it as good as they can. That creates a baseline. And, you could actually use an AI (or not) to measure future results against it and map growth.

We will figure this out and AI, at least for a time, will be a good thing. Quantum Computer AI that can predict the future... not quite as excited about that one. heh.
If you think it is not good for producers and consumers, you are not disagreeing with me as much as with economic theory. Personally, I think there are many distortions in practice that can lead to exceptions, but that in the bigger picture of things, it nonetheless holds water.

I will not try to recreate the arguments to the theory but here is a basic one to start with from https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.as...:

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Wouldn’t Consumers Be Better Off If Everybody Paid the Same Price?
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In many cases, no. Different customer segments have different characteristics and different price points that they are willing to pay. If everything were priced at say the "average cost," people with lower price points could never afford it. Likewise, those with higher price points could hoard it. This is what is known as market segmentation. Economists have also identified market mechanisms whereby fixing static prices can lead to market inefficiencies from both the supply and demand sides.
In developed countries that’s where our tax dollars go.
Tesla announces 500k solar installations deployed
The bottom line being, you don't need to hire engineers anymore, just ChatGPT operators?
> Of the two billion-plus exits
That's a lot of exits :)
> I did that with Oberon+ which unifies Oberon, Oberon-07 and Oberon-2.

Oh I see!

But, AIUI, that's just a compiler on other OSes, right?

It's the IDE and the OS that interests me. If I wanted to program on Linux or whatever, I'd probably use FreePascal or something.

It's the OS and the integration that makes Oberon interesting for me. In a world of sprawling multi-gigabyte OSes implemented in half a dozen languages and held together with sticky tape: various scripting language.

One tiny elegant OS, self-hosted in one tiny language, has charm for me.
This is kind of a pointless question imo. Animals are dirt cheap to feed, compared to the cost of adoptions and such. Yes you can get pets for free, if a stray walks up to you or something, but honestly the animal itself is the expensive part usually. If you truly cannot afford to feed a pet, you're probably so poor you'd be considering eating an animal instead of keeping it as a pet anyways.

The real question is what minimum standard of care is acceptable for humans to provide for their pets. Is it actually compassionate to take your animal to the vet, where they are scared? To have surgery done on the animal, even if it's lifesaving? The animal cannot consent so we are assuming that what we want is best. Same with end of life choices.

Edit: I was also thinking, consider the alternative for an animal at a shelter that no one is adopting. They either live in a kennel more or less at a no-kill shelter until they die, or they are put down. Compared to that, being adopted by a loving person and given a warm place to live, fed and sheltered, seems like a better life to me even if the animal eventually gets sick and put down instead of getting medical treatment.

The truth is that most pet animals don't really have any other place in modern society and given that context it seems like being a pet that gets just the basic comforts of life is always better than being a stray or shelter animal.
Both of those businesses have better business models already.

For an author like Bari Weiss, the Substack model is so profitable that she started her own Substack clone. Medium users already pay for a $5 a month subscription.
HN title is misleading. This isn't "Silicon Valley" as a whole, it's "tech executives," as the article states.
I am assuming, you are talking about something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kokO6XqJvAE. If so, it's not sand, it's salt.
this? https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/

Doesn't it just use objc/runtime.h and if anything is missing you can just add your custom api calls?
> Of the two billion-plus exits

That's a lot of exits :)
> Tether and their banking partner Deltec have very little international backing

Isn't Tether based in Hong Kong?
For a technology that went mainstream, figuratively speaking, about ten minutes ago, this seems like a big deal.
Would be a shame to waste all the rest of the product just for numbers sake.
I suspect every ruler is, not just in tech. Not every one of them has a mission that'll inspire such devoted employees, though. If you run a company and you need people, you need to give them enough that they want to stay working for you. The best conditions for an employer is where all your customers are flush with cash and all of your employees are in a horrible economy preventing them from asking for more or seeking employment elsewhere. B2B (which Twitter is) is a perfect setting for this.

I hope that the remaining Twits at least are compensated well enough in the now to take the risks.
> The fact some tests can be "cheated" by AI really just suggests that some skills have little to no value in our future AI-prevalent world.

That's like saying 'speech has no value'. It doesn't have value on its own, but if you can't speak then suddenly there is a whole pile of stuff you can no longer do. The ability to put your thoughts down in writing and to organize them into a hopefully coherent form is an act that has implications far beyond the writing itself. Besides the fact that it can help you to organize your thoughts in the process. Plenty of times when I write a longer piece I find out halfway that one or more of my assumptions were wrong and then I get to fix that and re-evaluate my position. It isn't rare at all to go through several such iterations for a single text and at the end of it I have a much better insight into the material that I thought I already knew well enough to write about.

Don't underestimate the value of these foundational skills.
What if there is no clearinghouse operating in that particular market?
Given what we know about foreign intelligence attacks on social media companies is that surprising or alarming? For example, just recently a Twitter employee was convicted of providing confidential information to Saudi intelligence, probably to the same people that assassinated Jamal Khashoggi. And there are of course the influence networks.