skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think anybody ever made that argument.

The original post in this thread advocated for making hundreds of indie films vs one film for twenty million.

> That proposition would mean that the reason why majority of the last decades' top budget movies were rehashed crap was because of the exorbitant profit margins and exorbitant money paid to stars rather than anything related to the movies' production.

It's more complicated than that - at the top end film budgets are vastly higher than they were a decade ago. Regularly topping 200 million. But more importantly, studios have making far fewer films and pining their success as a business on a 'super' hit driven model. This is almost a separate industry than film at this point, with grosses in the multiple billions before merchandising is taken into account. It's not really what the original article is about - they're talking about hit 'indie' films, in the 20 million ball park.

Arguably the issue with movies of the last decade has been the creation and duplication of transmedia franchises at the expense of making standalone original films.
Because the hearts of men are easily corrupted
I can say the exact same to you since you're just outright lying.
Some sweeteners are just sugar plus another molecule to prevent absorption. That’s sort of what orlistat does to oils. It’s somewhat unpleasant because the oils just come out the other end instead of being digested.
Don't Read in Bed: It is a dangerous practice while lying down (1902)
Honestly, okay and?
To understand context, Germany was like USA back then. A LOT of media, books, philisophy, goods came from there. German was read and spoken as a language like English is now.

We did it so we would not get bombed, rolled and smoked.

Sweden was dirt poor after the wars of 1600s. In the 1800s and early 1900s people emigrated to the USA as people where so poor and the government actually had to stop it for a while. It was only after WW2 we really started to prosper. First due to natural resources, still important exports for us, enabled us to renovate cities, but making the right choices, we also invested in a knowledge based society, government laid phone cables and fibre, had a tax programme for home computers in the 90s/early 00s, school was mandatory early on, collage was free from the start etc etc etc

We are a country of 10milion and we built 3 jets of our own design, JAS Gripen is one of the best currently flying, we design our own submarines, worldwide tech companies like Ericsson for phones, 3/4/5G, Software companies like Spotify, Gaming like Minecraft, Battlefield, Division, SAAB/Scania for trucks all over.

Imagine the city of New York doing that, cant imagine.
Well, all dot matrix printers make funny noises sooner or later so the gun is clearly justified.
My first experience using Swift, SwiftUI, and XCode
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Physics? super heroes? knobs?
>Bad technology.

I've seen many people complaining about modern safety features such as back up cameras and collision detection, I wouldn't call that bad technology.
(I work for Undo)

> gdb has had reversible debugging since release 7, in 2009. What does udb offer that it lacks?

GDB's built-in reversible debugging is cool (and it's helped raise awareness) but it doesn't scale well. We build on the same command set and serial protocol that GDB defined - UDB is GDB but with additional Python code hooking it up to our separate record/replay engine.

For UDB, I'd say we offer:
1. Performance & efficiency (orders of magnitude faster at runtime and lower in memory requirements).
2. Recordings can be saved to portable files (share with colleagues, receive from customers, etc).
3. Library API so applications can self-record with control of when to capture and save.
4. Wider support of modern software (proactively tracking modern CPU features, shared memory and device maps, etc).
5. Correctness (in the past we've found the reverse operations in GDB don't have as strong semantics as we'd hoped, though I'd also be happy to be wrong here)

FWIW, rr (https://rr-project.org/) also offers many similar benefits over GDB's built-in system (though not the library API in point 3) but with differences in what CPUs / systems are supported, ability to attach at runtime, etc.

If you're looking for an open source solution, I'd choose rr over GDB's built-in approach.
One more relevant use case: I've found Floyd-Steinberg dithering to be somewhat useful in compressing scanned JPEG paper notes at 600dpi (~1.5-2.5MB per page) to 1-bit PNG (100-300KB).

At full scale, there is no loss in readability and in fact I think I prefer the aesthetic quality of the 1-bit PNG. However, at <50% zoom, the dithered version was way less readable than a 2-bit PNG of slightly higher file size, so I ended up not compressing to 1-bit.

Edit: I was wrong, my (ex-) image viewer was at fault at 50% zoom. Viewing in other apps, the dithered version is visually no different from the 2-bit version. I bet the difference is even less with a HiDPI screen.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/business/bird-flu-japan-chick...

Would you consider perhaps that a sky-rocketing price in eggs, when inflation overall has been between 6% and 8% might be about something else?
Offbrand also increased at approximately the same rate.
In Eastern MA electric is 26 kwh, and $15.00 per thousand cubic feet as per January 1st.

Most natural gas furnaces are between 80-90% efficient, but to get above 80% you need to have a high power electric fan. Which would put them roughly at 6 cents per kwh or (0.0625 for 80%).

At COP of 3, that would mean 8.66cents per kwh, and a COP of 4 would be 6.5. Which would roughly be breaking even compared to 80% efficient furnace.
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> Neither checks the checksum on every read as that would be performance-prohibitive.

It is expensive. It might be prohibitive in a very competitive environment. This is hardly the case here. Safety first!
You’ve always been able to sue for wage theft.

Edit: I’m in America, the article is Canadian. I don’t know about canada.
Another excellent article on dithering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633483
I cannot overstate how important this is. There are is a real reason why we tried to move away from mob justice as society. The conclusion however is that since mob justice is being demanded more and more often, something is wrong going on with how justice is being dispensed and there is a clear lack of balance in the distribution thereof. Hence the mobs.

Frankly, we should all be terrified. I talked with busy-bodies before. My neighbor was one too. They have uses, but that behavior should remain an oddity and not a permanent feature of society.

It is asking for real trouble.
> There isn't an "official" NPM package or ES6 model yet

(The sqlite team's JS/WASM Guy here...)

An ES6 module build was added shortly after the 3.40 release.

NPM/node.js are nowhere on our radar. Our build is structured such that people who want to plug it in the resulting JS file to whatever their favorite toolchain is are welcomed to do so, but we have neither the ambition nor the bandwidth to support every build/bundling platform out there, especially ones none of us otherwise use.

> It's also very much designed for the browser currently, but again I believe they are intending to support server WASM environments too eventually.

The JS code is targeted solely at browsers and there are no plans on changing that in the foreseeable future.

The WASM build itself, we are working to provide server-side support for. We have a branch which builds under wasi-sdk, but we cannot create a JS binding for that build until/unless we find some substitute for Emscripten's transparent translation of POSIX I/O APIs.
You say it replicates the logic, but I think it's more useful to say that it describes the meaning: fib is the function on natural numbers that has that property plus the base cases fib(0) = 1 and fib(1) = 1. That's what fib means.

That said, there are plenty of cases where your reaction is justified, where the test is implemented the same way as the function it's testing when the correctness property could be specified more simply.
The judges consulted; this internet win stands.
Annoyingly, even though tungsten literally means "heavy stone" in Swedish, the name of the element in Swedish is "volfram".
Usually miners undervolt and also clock down the gpu. The memory is what gets clocked up. Majority of those deaths happen due to heat-up and cool-down cycle of the gpu between gaming sessions.

Not implying that mining is light on the cards vs occasional gaming but if you game daily on it you'll have higher gpu temps during gaming.

Source: had an rx6800 that mined for over a year and no such issue.
To the bank, apparently
Hi, just seeing this now. I work at Dashlane.

What part is concerning for you? I have not double checked the claims on the marketing content, but on the technical ones:

- Re: Argon2 parameters, what they don't say is that even with those parameters, this is still way better than most of the competition which uses PBKDF2 (it's equal to 1M6 pbkdf2-sha2 rounds - see https://infosec.exchange/@sc00bz/109611328606658997).

- Re CBC vs GCM: We do encrypt then Mac as we should. Also we don't use the same key directly for AES and MAC, we stretch the key to have a longer key - or we even directly use a long 64 bytes key in some cases - that we split for both purposes.

- You can get our GPG key here https://www.dashlane.com/security/researchers. It's owned by security@dashlane.com and is using ED25519. In don't know which key they checked, but I don't think it's ours :)

I hope this helps!
I'm a user of 1Password and a huge fan of the service but I'd really like to have a device sponsor another device automatically (like how iCloud does it) instead of having to present the secret key to the user to manually input into the new client.
One of the features that Twitter plans to add is long-form blogging.
Presumably a lot of that is sales/support. Their customers are start-up HR "departments" (i.e. one or two people who worked as an HR generalist at a bigger company).
The only place that the ring can be destroyed is the place where it was forged
Not everybody wants to use a terminal
In my experience, this arises as an unintended consequence of the quest to lower costs and reduce bureaucracy.

About ten years ago, a new manager was brought in to make us act less like a moribund government department and behave more efficiently. As an example of government waste, he pointed to the money we were spending on storage for data back-ups. We wouldn't need back-ups if we stopped making mistakes.

You might think that this no-back-ups policy would be an instant disaster, but it lasted years without issue. When there was a failure, the manager would hand the sys-admin a soldering iron, the admin would fix the hard drive, and we would be back on track. Finally, the sys-admin retired and a new one replaced him. Not long after, a critical system failed and data that we were required by law to maintain was lost. The manager handed the admin a soldering iron and told him to fix the hard drive. The admin said it was impossible and the manager fired him (yes, you can get fired from a government job). Other candidates were interviewed, but no one applying for a $30k job was confident that they could repair a broken hard drive.

Finally, there was talking of hiring the old admin to come out of retirement and fix the drive. Except he explained that it had always been impossible. During his tenure, he'd spent 5% of his salary (gross, not net) paying for back-ups and replacement drives. When the manager gave him a soldering iron, he'd just chuck out the old drive, by a replacement off Newegg with his personal credit card, and load it with the data he'd backed up to his personal S3 storage. His back-up script was still running on the server, but he'd stopped paying for the storage space the moment he retired.

Eventually, the manager was forced to spend a whole year's budget on an expensive data-retrieval firm to collect the data (which was still cost an order of magnitude less than the fine the department would have had to pay if we'd lost the data). He was fired and a new manager brought on board. Because of the money which had been lost on the data retrieval, new measures were put in place to prevent this from ever happening again. This included a new back-up system and audits to ensure that other employees were using personal funds to pay for departmental resources. Of course, this meant rigorously documenting exactly what resources each employee was using...

Six years after the manager was brought in to decrease cost and increase agility, we were now more over budget and tightly controlled than we'd ever been.
The price of eggs has increased far far more than general inflation. I'm sorry, but this a pretty rock-bottom post.
I'd recommend using Windows under a VM, for this and myriad other reasons.

But it really underscores the point that Linux and Windows hardware really are different.
Wouldn't 'most people' also shrug if you mentioned mining of rare earth minerals? I don't think there is a distinction except 'most people' know what gold and diamonds and platinum are.
Got a System76 laptop last year because I was sick of Windows and Mac nonsense (if my OS is going to suck, I want it to suck on my terms). The last time I tried desktop Linux was over ten years prior and I was prepared for a hell of obscure configuration and instability, but pleasantly it all Just Works. If you want a full-fledged Linux-based laptop that works out-of-the-box, I can recommend it.
I think it was a DIY machine, those RTX 3090 have gotten cheaper for sure.
From my experience, going beyond 4 GPUs is a pricey affair. See [§]. All but one model of the RTX3090 require at least 3 slots.

If 4 GPUs connected via PCIe 4.0x16 are enough you can choose among various sRTX4 boards for 3000 series AMD Threadripper CPUs.

[§] https://www.reddit.com/r/deeplearning/comments/tw0olq/commen...

Another useful URL: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Quad-GeForce-RTX-...
If the cost of a more colorful world is alienating some who prefer a beige, padded room, then I think that it's absolutely worth it.
Why would he? He's doing the job he's paid to do, which includes managing downsizing when it's appropriate.
Sneed’s Seed and Feed.

Formerly Chuck’s.
Same road but with shortcuts.

I think we have an accepted fallacy in logic where we apply: Assume ignorance before malice.

I do agree ignorance is far more probable than malice, but malicious people are incredibly skilled at exploitation of ignorance and they use that skill without missing a beat.
System 76 has a ways to go in this regard.

My system 76 firm ware feels like abandon ware
We have stood against Russia before...
I think it's more of a blending of what's racist vs what's classist in America.

The argument should be that regressive taxes like soda taxes, much like speeding tickets, affects the poor at a much greater clip. Who cares about a soda tax or a speeding ticket when you make 500k a year? If you make that much and you want soda or you want to speed, you're going to do it. However, if you make 28k a year, the calculation is much different.

In America, poverty and race are strongly correlated (and there's causation, but I digress). Because of that, it's easy, although inaccurate, to use classism and racism interchangeably.

Calling someone racist creates a larger emotional response and is more damaging to social equity than calling someone classist.

Hence calling soda taxes racist.
> What Mozilla/Firefox needs to understand is that end users do not care about standards purity/principles. If core functionality doesn't work in your browser, people simply aren't going to use it. This is why the web is increasingly broken on Firefox--nowadays, about 10% of the sites I visit are simply utterly broken or slow on Firefox but work fine on Chrome.

It's not broken because they are fussy on standards.

it's broken because their marketshare dropped so low companies that make money on developing web stuff are often not contractually obliged to even support it. Few of our clients have contracts where we're obliged to support any browser above 5% market share and FF is already below even that!
Code is read many more times than it is written, so optimize for readability.

Ask the engineers if they want the company to grow. If they do, that will necessitate hiring new people. Write code with those completely new people in mind.
If you want to incentivize the lowest-cost option, you should be pushing for hydrogenated saturated fats and high-sugar diets and for people to take up smoking. Morbidly obese people tend to die quickly from cardiovascular failure in their 60s and end up costing substantially less than the ordinary population in health care costs over the course of their lives since they don't live to be octogenarians. Especially healthy, smart-eating, athletic people are actually the group that costs the most in total healthcare.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18254654/
"Because of differences in life expectancy, however, lifetime health expenditure was highest among healthy-living people and lowest for smokers. Obese individuals held an intermediate position."

"Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures. "

The linked article was published in PLoS Medicine, a high impact-factor journal.
That's why I was so surprised to see the headline! I'm not used to seeing Medium respect other people. But it is what Tumblr plans to do, apparently.
Guys, let's not go overboard with the hyperbole. I fully accept you guys wanting to support their PopOS endeavor, I totally get it. But let's not all act like we're all CEOs of megabillion dollar companies with boardroom meetings 24/7 that we can't be bothered to fiddle with some common computer issues.
Networked Quantum Computers: IonQ Acquires Assets of Entangled Networks
In our latest release of UDB we added the `last` command: https://docs.undo.io/TrackingValueChanges.html

Which effectively combines a `watch -l`, plus a reverse-continue but also monitors when the underlying memory was allocated / freed.

It's quite nice, basically "git blame" for your variables.
Uk data for comparison

https://www.trolley.co.uk/grocery-price-index/category/?id=1...
Mainly hydrogenated, the article seems to draw a weird distinction between processed and organic foods but doesn't actually go that deep into the actual differences between them other than the psychological traps of eating processed foods.

Also, disable JavaScript, it's known to reduce your bodyfat by 10% and increase muscle mass by 10 kilos on average.
> Do you agree that you can choose to not follow the law?

Not only can you do not follow a law, but people in power do it successfully today. Immigration law is the obvious example. Those in power flout the law so blatantly that the law might as well not exist. Deportation virtually doesn't happen anymore. When there are no consequences for disobeying a law, it is the same as if the law didn't exist.

> Would you also agree that if enough people chose to not follow the law, government would cease to exist?

I think it might be better to word this as "enough people choose to rebel against their government." When that happens, there is usually some fighting that goes on and the government either wins or gets replaced. There is never a point with no government, however. The reason for this is because just about every government, no matter how tyrannical, is still preferable to anarchy.

> Natural law doesn't really preclude you from cooperating, unlike reality shows

If you think it's that much easier to feed yourself as a group via hunting and gathering, then I don't know what else to say: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/hunter-gat...

> Why would they protect these resources rather than take them?

Probably for cooperative reasons! It doesn't matter, though. These are hypothetical situations that I don't think there is much value in considering. I'm totally in the "anarchy is so bad I'd prefer tyranny to it" camp.
There are just under 3 M federal (civilian) employees. I think it's entirely unreasonable to think that we would pay a UBI to ~210 M adult citizens (a 70x multiple) at levels that would represent a greater amount of purchasing power than to the people nominally working for the federal government.

If you're firm in your view that that's reasonable, I'd like to learn more about the proposal as to how the math would work.
Pre-ground coffee is stale coffee unless it's stored airtight. I would take Nespresso pod over pre-ground supermarket coffee roasted 6 months ago.

You can buy pre-ground coffee and grind it in-store in many supermarkets in America, it's just if you like coffee - you don't buy your beans at the supermarket.
"And remember that A players can recruit other A players, but B players can only recruit C players"

In point one they list this. In point 3 he mentions his biggest mistake was hiring someone with starpower from a public company who didn't work.

Unless the founder is an A player in terms of recruiting everyone hired would be a C player or less. And in point 3 we learn he is not an A player.

How do B players ever get hired?
Another cheap option is runpod

According to https://www.runpod.io/gpu-instance/pricing renting out 4x A100 40GB costs $3.56 per hour.

So that's $3.56 * 2 * 38hours = $270.56 then.
I guess it depends, materialising all the steps might be slow and you might need to do a refactor to get a CTE-based query. If you want just want to check a few (maybe changing) records because you expect problems there a final select with an appropriate where is probably faster.

Edit: also I don’t like to leave a mess behind and CTE’s don’t require cleaning up afterwards.
That doesn't make the statement any less ridiculous.

What was the ultimate reason for the 737 MAX debacle? That airlines want to save money on type rating training.

Look at accident reports, and half the time the airline's safety culture (or lack thereof) is at least a contributing cause.

The FAA may be in many ways dysfunctional, but so are the airlines, and it's sure as hell not them who are pushing for better safety standards, it's the FAA and (especially) the NTSB.
We use Lattice and it’s uh, perfectly fine but has all the functionality of a Django demo project. I’m sure they have to put a lot of employee time into integrations and custom onboarding from other platforms, etc. But its core is literally just text forms to write peer reviews and to organize OKRs
There are a few really positive comments like this popping up in this thread.

I'm really curious how this specific press release is different than the Coinbase one [0] (or most of the others on the homepage this week), where the HN crowd was demanding that the CEO "take accountability" and resign, or reduce CEO pay, etc etc

To be honest, this press release reads basically the same as 10+ other tech layoff press releases I've read this week. Including nearly identical severance packages.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34323336
I refuse to buy any laptop without a numpad.