skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was never a fan of high-spec setups. I operate several discrete low-resource machines which all have a single purpose. One for gaming, another for casual surfing of the web, Raspberry Pi for tinkering and coding, etc

These types pushing the envelope of a high-spec machine 'Because they can' is madness, when we had to be very economical of system resources in the past just to display basic 3D graphics (look up the demoscene).

Anyway, horses for courses. People are gonna do this, running multiple Adobe products, multiple Electron-powered apps, browsers, games, all running at the same time. I guess if you have the hardware, why not?
GGP referred to 'real wages', and implied that they've increased.
Even if you are, there's the chance that the glut of the content coming out causes fatigue. I used to really look forward to new Star Wars things because it didn't come out super frequently (a new trilogy of movies every few decades, a TV show here and there), but it was enjoyable. Then they started coming out with a new movie and multiple TV shows year after year, and it just wasn't good enough to justify going out of my way to consume all of it. Marvel stuff seems the same way; I'd generally go to the movies maybe once or twice a year, so when there are half a dozen of them coming out for a single franchise within a year or two, it feels more like work than entertainment to keep up with it all. At this point, I'm not sure I'll _ever_ go to see a Star Wars movie in a theater again, which is extraordinary since even 5 or 6 years ago that would have seemed ludicrous to me.
> You are extremely unlikely to ever come across a fentanyl user, even if you work for law enforcement, even if you're a LEO in a major metro.

is this a joke?
yeah :) it took around 5 secs to calculate that. May be done as a gimmick to show something is calculating, lol
> Mercurial's branch management makes more sense. If you want to know which branch a commit originated from in git, good luck.

`git merge --no-ff former-branch` by default includes "former-branch" in the auto-generated merge commit name. When it matters what branch a commit "originated" on, it's very easy to use `--no-ff` (which doesn't rewrite history and won't need any sort of force push!) and most PR tools used to default to that before "rebase" and "squash merge" became some people's favorites because of some weird (in some cases OCD) wish to see SVN-like straight lines only in their commit history.
And they're not even the worse at that. The Ultrasparc T1 only had the one FPU shared among it's 8 cores.

But I guess $12M is just the high end of nuisance money for AMD.
Homes are architecturally more complicated than the ranches and bungalows of the past as well. This increases the time spent on each job significantly.
You're not ignorant, it's an excellent question.

The Unreal Engine has a long history, and its origins did not start from a fixed or semi-fixed timestep. The Unreal Engine doesn't benefit from a variable timestep, it's hampered by it, and the engineers have deemed it too difficult to fix, because the decision permeates the entire engine.

There is a "fixed timestep" mode, but it's for cinematics, and specifically for synchronizing the engine with external hardware, IIRC. But it's not a true fixed timestep, it's actually a fixed framerate, instead.
Recommendations that are heard rather than read have a greater influence
>undocumented workers [are responsible for the productivity drop]

I am confused by this assertion. If they are undocumented, wouldn't they be excluded in the stats? And if they aren't included in the stats, shouldn't we expect an artificial increase in worker productivity? If there is a 4:1 undocumented to documented ratio, then that 1 documented person will get "credit" for the work of 5 people! Even if 4 of those people are relatively unskilled, that's still a big boost.

My initial thought about this is that productivity declines because workers wait around a lot, and they wait around because of ballooning administrative overhead. This would also be consistent with what we know about state of the medical industry and academia during the same time period.
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> can only see Microsoft acquiring Netflix

This makes no sense. Microsoft licensing e.g. the Halo franchise to Netflix for serialization is a solid pitch.
Why does everyone think Disney lost because of steaming....they lost because of politics....the steaming was the easiest target to hit...not the cause...lmao
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The flamewar you started (and perpetuated) here is among the worst I've ever seen. That's seriously not ok, regardless of how right your cause is or you feel it is.
Wow, that's a lot lower than I would have thought. I wonder if my memory is wrong? The "30% of volume" stat stands out in my head, though.
Even better, we could base hiring on solving word search puzzles containing workplace words to select the best of the best construction workers, and maybe some trivia tests.
Note also that that the expression should be read as "crash (modernisation program)", not as "(crash modernisation) program"
I know about the division of chores, having live with other people, but to put the very existence of a social life on someone else is just ridiculous. I am sure your wife knows you very well (certainly more than I, a random Internet stranger), but are there no people you are on friend terms with, simply due to shared special interest? Like a particular video game, or some craft? I firmly believe that in today's digital age, meeting people online who eventually become friends, and who share a particular interest is just part of the rich and varied tapestry we call life.
Thank you! It most assuredly was not "ten minutes of Bash".

You see, there comes a time in every self-respecting Yak-shaving programmer’s life when one is driven to render large-scale follicle trimmage unto a sizeable Yak. In my case, ‘twas and ‘tis the deceptively diminutive but in fact mighty Site-Maker-Yak that renders World Wide Web Sites publishable unto the Internet.

I wager, engaging oneself in the glorious enterprise of Yak-shaving is at least as therapeutic for the trimmer as it must be to the trimmee. I wholeheartedly recommend it :)
MapOut for iOS is my favorite hiking map app. Excellent offline maps, and it's easy to import GPX files for new trails.
Proposal, people with "opioid use disorders" are more than likely suffering in some way that needs evaluation and treatment. Many of them were probably on something and then cut off suddenly from the supply of that something, leading them to seek illicit sources instead and leaving them in the position of both unregulated treatment, and being unable to get proper regulated treatment because they are labeled either addicts by people who know about their illicit use, or "drug seeking" by people who don't that they ask for access to their drug of choice and almost all sources of proper health will refuse to treat them without them first continuing to insist they stop their use entirely. Cutting them off suddenly again by simply making their drug of choice stop working does nothing at all to address the underlying reason why they think or do need the drug and treatment in the first place. Given that our medical system often gives you a drug and then kicks you out the door to deal with it and its effects on your own, this "vaccine" seems more likely to exacerbate the larger drug problem, even if the specific "opioid" problem is solved. More likely rather than getting someone off their drug habit, this will simply drive users its forced on into seeking out other drugs to get the same results, possibly at higher and even more unsafe dosages.

Drug use is a symptom, and until our medical community wises up to that fact, the fight against any "drug use disorder" is going to continue to be a losing fight.
The best lootbox sim I found is the CSGO Case Simulator [1] mostly because it keeps tabs on how much it'd cost to buy the case, buy the key, and how much you'd be able to sell your won item for. Obviously it isn't the exact same as the Valve system of odds, etc, but it's fun to let it auto spin for a while and see just how much you've lost.

[1]: https://convars.com/case/en
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Well, even as a legalization sympathetic person, I can _sorta_ see the argument when you look at how marijuana legislation has gone. Dispensaries all over the damn place and the endless variety of products and general "mainstreaming" of weed use... I'm not opposed in principle but as sympathetic as I am I can't help wondering if some of it has gone a little far.

That said though, I totally agree that "legalize all drugs" doesn't have to imply that we would do the same super fun dispensary thing that we do for weed for something like fentanyl, or even something more benign like mushrooms. I imagine legal fentanyl would be more like a freely available prescription or similar, where you can be dispensed a certain amount under reasonable conditions as opposed to just walking into the fentanyl dispensary and picking your favorite strain in a colorful container.
FTFA:

Netflix would go on to offer to buy Blockbuster Online; Antioco turned the company down, assuming he could get a better price once Netflix’s growth turned upside down. Carl Icahn, though, who owned a major chunk of Blockbuster and had long feuded with Antioco, finally convinced him to resign that very same quarter; Antioco’s replacement took money away from Total Access and funneled it back to the stores, and Netflix escaped (Hastings would later tell Shane Evangelist, the head of Blockbuster Online, that Blockbuster had Netflix in checkmate). Blockbuster went bankrupt two years later.

OK, it was probably a mistake to cut back on "Total Access", but that takes on a deckchair character considering the whole firm was bankrupt in two years! That isn't a convincing support for previous management. ISTM the best decision for shareholders would have been to take the Netflix deal?
Melting, laser cutting, heating, stressing, grinding, any time you are releasing any kind of particulate into the air, you should be taking precautions not to let it end up in anyone's lungs.

Even the stuff that doesn't cause cancer can still cause you physical harm. It takes very little effort to just be safe.
I can only speak for myself, but I’ve always felt he’s far more intellectually challenging than other espionage authors. I remember reading one of his books (can’t remember exactly which, possibly The Little Drummer Girl or The Honorable Schoolboy) and realizing that every single line of dialogue in the book has multiple layers of subterfuge, double meaning, pretense, irony… Even the simplest exchange requires focus on part of the reader, which is not common for the genre.
they already did that with paramount+
Not OP, but my team uses tickets to track support work. We use JIRA. We have a service project (SWS) and a software project (SWE). If someone is working on support, you'll see their names on SWS tickets.
Because of the open southern border allowing low cost labor to flood your market.
Even if Netflix is profitable, and makes money on streaming. Considering it's market cap of $160B with today's rise of ~6% and compared to others like Disney at $192B, and AT&T at $140B, and Viacom at $14B. It seems Netflix is viewed at some tech premium that existed in the early part of the decade. Considering now almost every competitor has their own streaming service, there isn't any tech advantage. Maybe a data advantage in that they know what works and what doesn't, but a lot of that is also public knowledge kind of. But, this seems overvalued right now.
In my opinion, Netflix got 2 things right:
1) Streaming model with hits. (Becoming HBO)
2) Streaming internationally. (Where hits in one region can become global hits like Squid Game)

And now they are trying to "Become TV" with all the wide spectrum of content that Cable TV offers. This means continuing spend, while competition will exist. And basically involves revenue growth in the form of advertising, which is the traditional model of TV. They are not going to grow revenue as fast in terms of subscribers because they are almost completely penetrated in the US, and international subscribers will have lower revenues associated with cheaper offerings. In other words, they really don't have a special lever of growth ahead that distinguishes them from the competition. And Amazon and Apple are continuing to spend money, and hire talent in their offerings.
Paying less for labor increases productivity. Anyone in the construction industry will point to the code books for their explanations.
> In the build environment, the current time is set to the epoch which removes that variability.

The amount of time per build can vary. Embedded timestamps will all be in January 1970, but even a single second difference means the binaries are no longer bit for bit identical -- and that assumes the embedded timestamp isn't microseconds.
> For example, in triathlon and some open water swim meets, wearing a wetsuit does give someone a speed advantage

Is that because of the distance?

An extended family member is an elite swimmer (competes in USA Swimming national meets, NCAA D1 times while still in middle school, etc) and the idea that wearing 3+ mils of neoprene makes you faster is ludicrous to them.
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Since this is usually the point at which someone with strong ideological/nationalistic views usually says "you're just banning me because you're against me", I suppose I'll add that (1) I have no idea which side you're on—I don't scan comments that way; (2) we enforce these rules regardless of what people are arguing for or against; and (3) you've crossed the line countless times in the past and I specifically held off banning you—for years actually. Eventually the assumption of good faith just no longer holds up under this degree of abuse.
just to show something is calculating. In fact, as you told, the percentage was calculated immediately after you submit the 4th one. Thanks for asking.
A memory that un-repressed itself about a year ago was being a teenager and hearing my mom wailing, "I can't do it anymore. I'm done." in the later stages of her cancer treatment. Apparently shortly after that they had a fairly significant intervention with the physicians and she got fentanyl patches. I got about another year with her.

I completely agree that there's a ton of recklessness in the history of opioid prescription. It's been a horrible plague on society that will have generations of lasting impact. But there's uses for it. I dunno, maybe heroin patches could have become a thing?
cf https://littlemechanic.com/2021/12/20/lm-ts1000-lite-tensegr...
> I would love to see a discussion from somebody who really likes Nix on why it isn't ready for prime time yet/just play devil's advocate aloud on why it isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Top reasons in my mind:

1. Error messages. Even with my >1 year of experience using NixOS full-time, I've encountered errors that I simply _cannot_ fix. This is getting better (recent nix releases let you introspect problems more easily).

2. Documentation gaps. Much of the nix docs are actually pretty good now! But sometimes you run into "missing links" that make it really hard.

> What is a real world use case where Nix isn't overkill? I've read toolchains but... nvm (node version manager), rustup. I still Rust on a machine once and I never think about it again.

For me, nix is unbelievably powerful to construct system images for various virtual machine formats. I'm using the nixos-generators[1] project to construct 8 or 9 image formats from one NixOS configuration. Packer and similar tools are the non-nix analog, but nixos-generators requires essentially adding a singular line to support something like Proxmox as opposed to much more work in some other tool.

I'm also using nix to build all our team's software - which varies from Vue.js to Rust to Django - and fold _all_ those development dependencies into a singular nix `devShell`. This means you can clone our repository, use `nix develop .`, and all engineers use the identical verisons of all software, dependencies, and libraries across several toolchains. It's incredibly convenient. (Imagine that you're a .js developer who needs to make a quick edit to a Rust backend route but doesn't sling Rust all day - you don't need to know how to setup rust at all, the `devShell` provides it).

[1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
Y'all know that's a word in Scottish English, right?
Suppose it takes you six months to figure out an RCE for PowerWash Simulator. Yay, if you can find another player you can really pwn them now. Wait, how will you find a player to victimise? Nobody was looking for multiplayer PowerWash Simulator a month after it came out, let alone six months.

GTA V has been around for ten years but still has a huge player base and that's what makes this practical.
That is our current trajectory, but anyone with a modicum of common sense knows there is an end.

The question, which was what my comment was about, is how we eventually get to the end. We either buck up and pay it, or we crash and burn.

I'm betting we buck up and pay it, and just have a very bad decade or three, while taxes go up and spending goes down.
Google Meet and Zoom achieve bilateral interoperability
Chess is booming and our servers are struggling
I think a Brett Victor like dev tool would be a good companion to pure functional languages, and help improve their standing.

Shared state code does not respond well to running functions in a tight loop while changing the code. Mutations accumulate and the results become meaningless very quickly.

There have been some minor attempts that may even predate Brett's work, especially around trying to run unit tests on every edit. Those tend to be slow so some people have done work on using code coverage tools to figure out which code changes affect which tests, but I suspect they ran into problems since I haven't heard about any of those in some time now.
Bulimia or similar? Treatment options already exist.

(Unless this is a joke about eating disorders)
> These layoffs don't really seem to be an indication of company strength

They never were.

I'm old and completely fucking puzzled by this assertion from Millennials that strong companies wouldn't do layoffs.
I don’t know if this is true for older generations, but for myself and many of my zoomer and millennial friends barely know street names making giving or receiving directions much harder.

Personally I rarely rely on turn-by-turn navigation but instead look at the map before hand and take a mental map of the directions to get there.
I never said intentional. Up until the last decade, filmmakers had little choice but to distribute films in 24fps. I'm ignoring the few titles where they did indeed experiment with higher ones, like Oklahoma at 30fps and Brainstorm.
actually have a friend who nearly died from snorting fentanyl passed off as cocaine. fortunately an ambulance got there in time and saved him with narcan. his doctor friend also snorted coke with him, was carrying narcan in her purse and managed to Pulp Fiction herself on the way down.

fentanyl is scary stuff.
Spotify problem is that they are not a monopoly. Competition is brutal in music streaming.

I have no idea if Apple or Google are more profitable? Maybe someone can give an insight.
Do you have an idea when the stabilization might come?

I've been using flakes for well over a year and there doesn't seem to be much discernible progress.
"1. You can’t have enough new content every month, subscribers therefore don’t keep the subscription year round."

For our household, this is true of all streaming services. We rotate them, or subscribe for short stretches. For example, I got Paramount+ for a couple of months, watched all of the Star Trek content, and then cancelled. Amazon Prime is the exception (because free(-ish) shipping.)

I wonder to what extent the big streaming services are aware of this phenomenon and how they hope to mitigate it.
In our environment support trumps sprint every time, regardless of whether the support task is legitimate or not. By legitimate, I mean that many of the "support tasks" are things clients can do for themselves, but rather than point the client to the (excellent) documentation, the development team ends up carrying the baby.
> Most companies employ a board of narcissists that only care about themselves and their wallet

My read is a bit different, in that the board optimizes to the stock price above all, which yes they benefit from but that just means their personal interests are in alignment with the interests of stock holders. I do not blame the leaders so much as I blame the model. Leaders who do not optimize the stock price are quickly expelled. When the stock market was flush with covid stimulus cash, and even before that whilst the market was hot, the name of the game was showing growth. Companies were incentivized to show growth even at the cost of burning cash. Companies took on massive debt and in many cases, either did stock buybacks and/or hired rapidly in an effort to scale their organization for growth. When the market fundamentals changed, and money started swinging back towards safer bets (cash flow positive companies), suddenly the game had changed and leaders needed to react accordingly.

I guess in summary, hate the game not the player.
> banished handguns so you can no longer protect yourself

Because it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australi...

2A was intended to allow the populace to keep government in check. In the age of muskets that was probably good thinking, but try that now and see what happens.
Does any government office work on efficiency? I can think of local , state, federal offices working to slow things down, but none working on speeding things up.
Good chance the original work was done with a bad batch of pipe, or worse, some contractor used Type M (thinwall) pipe.
Northern English dialect too…
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