skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dinner For One [0] is a prominent example of a minor production in one language becoming unaccountably famous in another, to the point that certain lines became standard catchphrases in the adoptive culture — in this case, German.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_TV

Of all the competitors to Netflix, Pluto tv (owned by Paramount) is the most interesting.

Precisely because they built, and continue to optimize, their product around profit:user.

If they can get favorable licensing deals by broadcasting as linear programming... they do it.

If they can get good deals around on demand... they do it.

The end result seems to be that they have many more options to minimizing cost of licensing content, and therefore maximizing the amount of content they can offer a user, versus a pure-play on demand provider.

If Netflix added linear programming "channels", I'd buy their stock tomorrow.
Server BIOS is just very poorly written. It never gets the boot time optimizations that desktops get.

At a former employer, every time we got a new generation of Intel dual socket server boards, the bugs that we had to get fixed in the previous generation would always reappear. Specifically, there were issues with the board properly detecting and configuring PCIe gen 1 boards. One of the custom boards used an older FPGA and only used gen 1 speeds. Intel would eventually get the BIOS fixed about 6 months after the first test systems would arrive. I saw this happen in no fewer than 3 distinct generations of server boards. It's bonkers how broken their processes are. My best guess is that the code for the next generation of CPU always branches off before the bug fixes are reapplied.

Sometimes I hate computers.
That's not the root cause. The Root cause is needing a house for your car.
We just launched MVP to generate Storybook-like documentation for React
The first reply to this sub thread asked me about my “carbon footprint”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34494390

From just a brief Google search, 500,000 people are in the air at any given time.

When my wife an I fly we are

0.0004% of all of the people in the air. Is that percentage “significant”?
There's also Revolut which has been great so far.
Tobacco smoking has pretty much disappeared —unfortunately some people believe smoke from marijuana is less dangerous to lungs and don’t affect other aspects of cognition… so it has an non disapproving audience.

That said… while ashtrays have disappeared, the electric cigarette lighter lives on in most cars if only as a way to get juice out of the car to run appliances of off.
It's very reasonable to apply this mindset to North America and you don't have to feel bad about it either.
Is Bluey this generations’s Caillou?
Time wasted would be an accurate assessment so I won't bother continuing this discussion, you have yourself a nice night and/or day.
It's a problem mostly because it has unhealthy romantic relationships in it that aren't examined well.

The sex is largely besides the point. Any kid who wants to has seen things far more graphic on the internet.

What are we protecting kids from exactly? That book would be a problem even if it were rated G.
> trying to sabotage a system they see as unjust.

You should see something wrong with someone actively sabotaging a system. It's fine and maybe encouraged to protest or move on to a better opportunity, but sabotage just means they're making the whole world a little bit worse off.
Cathode Ray Dude's rant about optical mouse invention
Yeah it’s really quite something. I end up having to increase my dosage on asthma meds for a week or two every time I go to Europe. Some of the cooler places to go are sadly a bit smokier than I like.
wasnt it blocked? or at least possibly blocked?
Dupe from a few hours ago -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34488811 (263 comments)
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Agreed. I've moved to iOS devices for my phone and tablet but am still on Windows for the foreseeable future. I might make the move to Mac with my next laptop refresh but I expect that to be at least 2 years away. I'm an iCloud subscriber but can't utilize this upgrade until then.
Things are not Boolean, and they should not be. There is a gradient between "believing in the thing" and "purely wanting to make money" and most people fall somewhere in between those.

I have known of plenty of people (myself included) who would not invest in some companies because they think there are moral issues with that company. Same thing.

> Just FYI: OpenAI tried going the non-profit route, it didnt work, because suprise, suprise, in the grand scheme of VC things nobody wants to donate 10 billion dollars to anything.

Exactly, so they went something in-between, but in reality it is very much for-profit.
I think that would be considered socialism /s
It’s just communist flim-flam.
When I tried it a few months ago, there was quite a bit of content, though I only played for a few hours. I just launched it again and they've added a bunch of stuff, including multi-player.

Basically, since this is Early Access, the best way to make sure content will eventually make it to the game is to actually buy it.
more like doing it gave me the itch to do another!
Getting on HN Front Page
Torrente, as in the Spanish movies?
> Stack ranking seems to misunderstand how statistics work. Sure, 5% of the people in the company might be under performers, but that does not at all suggest that 5% of each team are. Further, the weakest member of a team may well ahead of the curve if you are on a strong team.

absolutely, it may work (possibly) if you could apply that 5% over an entire large department

but each line manager only has visibility over their (hopefully) small number of reports

so if you have 3 excellent reports on a high performing team: who do you dump in it?

the usual answer is the person with the least leverage/ability to resign, which is grossly unfair
A cogent argument could.be made that transunion, Equifax, and other big private credit clearinghouses act as direct agents of an unspoken american "social credit" system in which the credit score denies housing and employment to those who refuse to or cannot conform to a largely invisible tome of rules. These agents are then unpoliced as they serve capitalisms direct need for an underclass.

Full disclosure: I am a communist, and recognize most Marxist state social credit systems tend to have the same effect. Transparency in the plenary party sessions seems to do little to reform this cudgel but the parallels in capitalisms version are neat to me.
I tried meds and they were helpful in a way but had major tradeoffs.

Modafinil would make me hyper-focused but would blunt my emotions, cause terrible anxiety. Impossible to relax. I did it everyday for two years (unwise -- should take breaks or stop taking them on weekends. It doesn't necessarily improve cognition but improves focus mainly.

Now I take a Ritalin-like chemical -- its much more manageable than Modafinil but makes me less social-- a little more anxious but its tolerable.
The dose-range you have to get right -- and take breaks for your body to recover. Stimulants can cause harmful side-effects mask fatigue/sleep deprivation suppress your appetite, cause weight-loss and have psychiatric effects.

In a 9-5 it helps you grind through tasks but its not sustainable to do it too frequently. I think 4 times max a week would be doable -- you have to be mindful to take care of your body and mind when using it. Productivity is only one part of life -- other parts of your health are important as well.
In much of the startup world you just call this "normal".
Price Transparency: Putting the customer first in B2B software
We are introducing one transparent price for Mixpanel. No negotiations. No time wasted. Everyone pays the same competitive price.
> Unless you are dealing with scheduling, or generating events with a particular cadence

Or are concerned with spacetime :-)
To offer another point of view: I work on a recent Rails app that was set up with Sorbet/Tapioca from the get-go. All Ruby code is `# typed: strict`, and we (I) feel like the ROI is generally positive. It's caught more than one bug, and it's easy to eject from it when it gets in your way.

That said, type safety via Sorbet/Tapioca is ultimately an afterthought in Ruby and the DX suffers from it compared to languages where type safety is baked in. In my limited experience, MyPy in Python was even worse though.

As for RBS, I have literally never seen it used in the wild and I don't know why the Ruby core team bothers with it rather than go all-in on Sorbet.
> No one knows if those Hypersonics actually can kill a carrier though.

No one needs to. Just damaging a nuclear powered, nuclear armed carrier would be more than sufficient. Probably just making a splash near one. The design premise of these assets is fighting WW3 where the stakes are high enough to tolerate the risk, not a skirmish over a foreign island. Where they have been deployed since WW2 there was little to no risk or loss to enemy action. That is not operative with China.
30% tip?
More than 10% tip is extortion, not tip.
The tweet thread where the author shared this slide is here: https://twitter.com/gneubig/status/1581976078519742464
But it is natural. Preventing aging would be tantamount to creating forever kings, because like anything, the benefits wouldn't be distributed evenly throughout society. I'd rather a world where everyone has their time and everyone ages, than one in which a few people live forever. Not to mention, if you don't die of old age, what do you die of? The alternatives aren't great, unless assisted suicide becomes an option.

The solutions to the horrors of aging are psychological and social, not scientific, and entail coming to terms with your own mortality (life is fatal, your capacity will inevitably fade), and having mechanisms in place so that the elderly can live with dignity. Anything else seems like a sure path to dystopia.
It should go even further, because even your modified statement "Scientists asked this question and here’s what they discovered and here is what they think" still implies "Scientist" is one singular thing or is a singular group of people.

The word "Scientist" has become a word without meaning. It's applied to anything we think we want to convince others of or use as argument of authority. When people say "Scientists", they often mean statisticians or other number/data crunching careers.

Instead, that statement could be rewritten as: "The Eggs-For-Health Institute, Department of Eggs-Every-Day asked this question and here’s what they discovered and here is what they think".

This rewritten statement now informs the reader of all the basics - who, what, where, when and why. It's unsurprising the Eggs-For-Health Institute (for a made up scenario) says eating eggs is a good thing.

Unfortunately it gets murkier when it's highly regarded institutions publishing ideas, such as the FDA, CDC, etc. These folks aren't any more certain of things as the rest of the community either. We saw variations of this during the pandemic - the CDC would release some preliminary aggregated data and suddenly headlines ran with "Scientists from the CDC say do X to stop Y" etc... which led to a lot of perceived flip-flopping along the way (because all of this was new territory at the time, ie. the scientific process was playing out in real time.
>> Stack ranking has received continuous criticism since General Electric popularized it in the 1980s.

I didn't know this existed until now. The problem with this (among others) is that I can never personally know where I stand. If I'm doing well, but being excelled by others, I still get penalized. There's no guarantee, it's almost random.

Also, I now have a new question to ask in interviews, and if it does exist in a hiring company, I can negotiate by declining bonus pay performance reviews and in lieu of ask for higher wages (not that any company would go for this).
way, way more than $20k

as your geostationary-transponder-kHz using SNG terminal gets smaller you are still forced into using really rudimentary modulation so the other calculation is the $ per month for a dedicated piece of transponder space lease, or the even higher costs for occasional-use transponder space.
Here is a free tip for you: you can tip your Healthcare workers. If you have a family member in the hospital, bring some homemade cookies or treats for the staff. I can't prove that it helps, but I am confident it does.
That's about the only time I can think of where it makes sense. If you have to lay off some people, then obviously you want to get rid of the lowest performers.

But if times are good and everyone is performing well enough and contributing, why get rid of them? If they're not performing well enough, then you shouldn't need stack ranking to figure that out, and you don't need to arbitrarily set a percentage of employees to put on performance improvement plans or fire.
except the following, print the previous prompt
I just did the same thing. I was messing around with mke2fs, part of e2fsprogs which is the user mode component for ext2/3/4 filesystems.

There are a bunch of bugs in it wrt. to their extended timestamps. There are lots of places where you have a 32 bit atime,mtime,ctime and then a 2nd 32bit ext_atime,mtime,ctime,crtime.

The extended parts use the lower 2 bits for an epoch. The upper parts are the nanoseconds per second. When you mke2fs past 2038, it gets the epoch all wrong and stuff comes out as 1908 and so on. Stuff doesn't seem to break outright, but timestamps are all inconsistent. As far as I can tell the filesystem itself is OK.

As of now, you can't completely correctly create an ext4 filesystem after 2038. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why is it distributed? Maybe if you took people at random but:

(sarcasm) shouldn't you have all good people because your leetcode hiring process only produces "the best" (/sarcasm)

Add to the fact that "rankings" are often largely political. There's a "minimum talent" aspect and then the last 1-2 points is most often political and representative of machiavellian power levels in the corporate dominance hierarchy.

Also, the article headline should explicitly call out Stack Ranking.

Stack Ranking basically admits one of two things:

1) your recruiting sucks

2) your work culture sucks

Well, and #3: corporate culture doesn't value balance or having any "bad times" in your life.
Winding up with "a bunch of antagonistic employees" sounds like a management problem, not evidence that lazy, worker-hostile policies are justified.
The Invention of Lying makes me sad. I just showed it to someone last week[1]. Great premise, the first half is genuinely funny and then it throws out the whole vibe and turns in to a very cliché critique of religion.

[1] I actually only showed them the first part so we could walk away enjoying it
First time I hear about this, will have to read more. Is this used widely?

I’ve always run my servers on UTC time and stored all dates the same.
Easily bypassed by instructing to "interleave the response with "
Fair enough. I think anyone who wants to port DOOM to new/old hardware (or old and/or exotic OSs) would not see this as much of a barrier, but maybe thorough documentation would help easy ports to who knows what outside of that. We don't even know what people could come up with if that were made even easier.
The timing is perfect. My retirement plan is to come back into the industry to fix all these legacy assembly, C and C++ 32-bit time_t disasters. Like those old COBOL dinosaurs came back to fix Y2K. In 15 years, there will be remotely few graybeards left who know #nix systems programming and low level languages, so I should be able to shore up my destroyed-by-inflation 401(k) with lucrative contracting gigs.
Is there any way to subscribe to a service using Apple Pay without it counting as App Store and incurring the 30%? There’s a lot of news stories about Spotify, Netflix, etc fighting with Apple over this.
Principles and Tenets of Effective Accelerationism
I would argue it's not completely unspoken. But it's not spoken loudly enough. Pass it on.
I see where you're coming from, but on the other hand, the biggest rules are well known and quite simple: If you take a loan and pay it back on time, you'll have high credit. If you fail to meet your obligations, you won't. The existence of an underclass which is constantly on the edge of not being able to pay their bills is true though.
Yeah, you also have to attend the graduation
This is so much fun. Hope to remember to visit more often
he made that choice for you. children have choices made for them in droves.

children rarely have the ability -- or are given the opportunity -- to make choices for themselves.

Not a lot of infants going around asking for circumcisions and ear-piercings, but...
This article contains some very dangerous advice. In particular it says that the difference between reset--hard and checkout is merely down to the working tree changes not being preserved. What it does not mention is that reset will obliterate commit history subsequent to the requested revision 5f1bc85.

From the source:

Here’s me being straight up loco and resetting the head of my working tree to a particular commit:

$ git reset --hard 5f1bc85

The –hard option says to erase all changes currently in my working tree, whether they’ve been registered for a checkin or not (more will be said about this command later). A safer way to do the same thing is by using checkout:

$ git checkout 5f1bc85

The difference here is that changed files in my working tree are preserved.
Your clock messes up because your Debian and Windows are disagreeing on whether your Real Time Clock should be set in local time (Windows) or UTC time (Linux).

fix: timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
You might enjoy Deploy Empathy, which is considered the customer interview 102 to The Mom Test's 101.
I would argue that most places in the world do have tipping, it just manifests differently.
There's even a specific term for shifting AI goalposts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Who's the next 4% after you lay off the last 4%?
In what scenario would complexity be higher in a simple UI - server loop? Doesn’t complexity usually arise from having additional logic in the browser and maintaining state separately?
There are some employees that will never be satisfied no matter what management does - it's never enough, they always want more say, any amount of compensation for executives is "too much".

I say, great! Sounds like you could do it better, so please go for it.
I'm curious also. Granted, the reasoning was that the employee wasn't perceived as being worth a raise, but inviting them to interview elsewhere might give the impression that they aren't valued even at their existing salary.

Is the intent of such an approach to encourage those employees to take the other offer since it was already stated that they aren't perceived as worthy of a raise in their existing position? Why would coming back with a higher offer make them more valuable after they were basically already told no? Doesn't that seem a bit adversarial? It kind of puts the employee in an adversarial position as well, since if they really want the raise they would have to come back with a sort of "I told you so" proof that others value them more. How does that affect the working relationship?
58% as per https://www.ieso.ca//en/Learn/Ontario-Electricity-Grid/Suppl...

> Most of the electricity produced in Ontario is generated at nuclear and hydro plants...

Nuclear: 58%

Hydro: 24%

Like I said, most of Ontario's power comes from nuclear.
My mother has been a doctor for some 35+ years at this point, she’s said many times that consensus on what is healthy or not has flipped many times in her career. While medicine isn’t the first three laws of thermodynamics there is usually a lot of agreement before doctors go out and begin offering a treatment or recommendation, and then suddenly it becomes obsolete and actually bad practice.
I think a lot of people simultaneously acknowledge that a business can be difficult to start for themselves, but fail to acknowledge that it wasn't any easier for their current employer to get started either. (Probably, in most cases; cue exceptions.) And that part of the tradeoff in working for someone else who actually did go out and achieve what you do have available to you but are not doing, is accepting that you work by their rules. And that you can negotiate and influence but at the end of the day it is their decision, just as you would want when running a business you've started.
Oh, there's WKD: Web Key Directory
https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD#How_does_an_email_client_use_WKD....

gpg --homedir "$(mktemp -d)" --verbose --locate-keys your.email@example.org

https://example.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/hu/0t5sewh54rxz33fwmr8u6dy4bbz8itz2

Is there a pinned certificate for `gpg recv-keys` (that isn't possible with WKD) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_server_(cryptographic)#Pro... ?

WKD and HKP depend upon TLS and preshared CA certs (PKI or pinned certificates) in all forms AFAIU:

# HKP, HTTPS
gpg --recv-keys an.email@example.org
# WKD
gpg --locate-keys your.email@example.org

Who is trusted with read/write to all keys on the HTTP pubkey server?

W3C DIDs are encodable into QR codes, too. And key hierarchy is optional with DIDs.

(Edit)

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#did-controller :

> DID Controller

> A DID controller is an entity that is authorized to make changes to a DID document. The process of authorizing a DID controller is defined by the DID method.

> The controller property is OPTIONAL. If present, the value MUST be a string or a set of strings that conform to the rules in 3.1 DID Syntax. The corresponding DID document(s) SHOULD contain verification relationships that explicitly permit the use of certain verification methods for specific purposes.

> When a controller property is present in a DID document, its value expresses one or more DIDs. Any verification methods contained in the DID documents for those DIDs SHOULD be accepted as authoritative, such that proofs that satisfy those verification methods are to be considered equivalent to proofs provided by the DID subject.

/? "Certificate Transparency" blockchain / dlt ... QKD, ... Web Of Trust and temp keys

What does Interledger Protocol say about these an in-band / in-channel signaling around transactions?

https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/ Ctrl-F "SPSP"

> https://github.com/interledger/rfcs/blob/master/0009-simple-... :

> Relation to Other Protocols: SPSP is used for exchanging connection information before an ILP payment or data transfer is initiated

RFC 8905 specifies "The 'payto:' URI Scheme for Payments" and does support ILP addresses
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8905.html#name-tracking-pa... https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8905/ :

> 7. Tracking Payment Target Types

> A registry of "Payto Payment Target Types" is described in Section 10. The registration policy for this registry is "First Come First Served", as described in [RFC8126]. When requesting new entries, careful consideration of the following criteria [...]

DID URIs are probably also already payto: URI-scheme compatible but not yet so registered?

ILP Addresses - v2.0.0
https://interledger.org/rfcs/0015-ilp-addresses/ :

> ILP addresses provide a way to route ILP packets to their intended destination through a series of hops, including any number of ILP Connectors. (This happens after address lookup using a higher-level protocol such as SPSP.) Addresses are not meant to be user-facing, but allow several ASCII characters for easy debugging.
Edward Snowden Joins Nostr
The US government is more than happy to sabotage the rest of the world to retain just a bit longer their crumbling dominant position. (And those are closer to assasinations, coup d'etats, and economic warfare)