skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit is upset at all the Reddit mirrors that preserve deleted + removed comments, simple as.
There were a frightening number of people repeating the same obviously false claims here post-election. Motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.
Well, do you think a 4 Megapixel camera sensor has 2x resolution compared to a 2 MP?

If no, I agree with you, but if it indeed does... Why should we not compare resolution in the higest dimension here too? We already have a term for linear resolution, voxel size.

(But yes. I agree with your clickbait argument here. Could have been better to use voxel size in the heading)
A whole DVD only stores 4.7 gb, so a 5 gbps network is well fast enough. Maybe depends on your hardware. Netflix you need the top plan to get 4k streaming though.
Anyone know why it took this long?
VidAngel was the best. Too bad they are gone. The library rental system has a bunch of stuff though…
Another intel product I never heard of because they sell too many bloody CPUs at the same time...
This whole affair is an incredibly frustrating example of why society is breaking down. There are legitimate concerns with both security and reliability with these voting machines... But no, Fox had to fold it into their culture war fight and took things too far. Now, Dominion is vindicated and I'm happy to bet good dollars to donuts that any legitimate criticism or questions raised about the fidelity of their machines will be countered with culture-war ad hominem attack
This is the best summary of the current state of scraping laws - https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2022/12/hello-youve-be...

It's complicated is the short answer.
so 50-60 miles is recognized as the edge of space, is that too far for a shockwave to travel?

im looking at the idea this was re-entry shock from an jettisoned booster stage, either that or there was someonelse , using the spaceX as cover for thier own launch, but i havnt heard about anything from Kodiak.
Democracy is about the people being able to participate in government. That's it. In order for that to be a good thing, the people need to be informed about the decisions they're making.

If the people are completely brainwashed by lies that are completely contrary to the truth--like nearly a quarter of our population seems to be at the moment--then they will vote for those with the most convincing lies.

If someone who gets their information from Fox "News"--which has been shown to be less reliable than not watching any news at all--is given an equal vote to those who actually know what's going on, Democracy is subverted. At that point you actually have a "fake Democracy", where the country is actually guided by the propagandists and not the people.

The US is one of a very few Democracies with this absolutist attitude about freedom of speech. It's not a required component of Democracy, and it's ultimately self-destructive, but it's clearly (based on the downvotes and responses to my comment) deeply ingrained.

As an example, Trump should have gotten barely any votes in the last election. He accomplished almost nothing besides stacking the supreme court and passing a deeply unpopular tax cut. Yes, we beat him, but 74M people voted for Trump. And those 74M people, nearly 47% of the voting public, were manipulated by blatantly false Russian and Republican propaganda.

To my mind, the "free speech as a religion" POV is looking like it will be the death of our democracy. If we can't fight misinformation, it may bury the country.

And clearly those on HN disagree. I won't argue with you further. But as things stand, we're circling the drain.
No, that's what's changing and it's why everyone is freaking out - software development is no longer a fully-deductible expense.
Teenage rebellion goes back to James Dean, arguably, with baby-boomers reacting to a calcification of postwar societies they inherited.

I think the difference now is that happy endings used to be the norm, whereas now they are not necessarily there, or the protagonists are pushed through such extreme losses that the win ends up looking pyrrhic.

This might simply be a function of the amount of productions - in the history of mankind, we've never seen so many new stories circulating so widely on so many different media. Smart authors want to look different and "real", so they might veer dark more liberally than they used (or rather were allowed, by public and editors) to.
How is that any different from current Reddit? The users gamify themselves into garbage without money.
Build a bridge out of her!
Your ballot is linked to your address? So, someone could link a ballot to the voter? That’s not something we want in the US. It’s intended to be anonymous.
Snowflake Data and Workload Optimization Co-Pilot Dashboard
I use stardust cookie cutter: https://www.stardustnetwork.com/
I don't think it's forgetting that some things are worth fighting for.

I think it's that, after a fascist government is ousted via violence, people spend so much time and effort to demonize them, that Joe Blow on the street doesn't see them as 'Us' anymore.

We would never make decisions like They made, so We don't have to worry if Our leader is a fascist. Our leader is nothing like Their leader was, other than in absolute power. Our leader has our best interests in mind. Their leader was just a power hungry madman.

When we remove the humanity from the monsters, we fail to remember that we could be monsters, too.
I guess to be fair, there always has been an authoritarian bent to Western democracies. It's just that most of us here on HN are not members of the groups against which those democracies employ authoritarian practices. It just kind of shows you why you have to stand up as soon as you see a practice or law that's F'ed up. It's pretty much a guarantee that on a time-scale long enough, that government will use that practice on you.
A bunch of medium sized filters can look a lot like a great filter.
What 'choice' exactly are you being denied?
Because humans (and your language is confusing here between individual humans as models and human society as the model) are constantly receiving new information. Even before humans learned "some berries are bad" they initially thought either "all known eaten berries are bad" or "all known eaten berries are good", then somebody at a good/bad berry and updated their believes (i.e. their model of the world).

Humans learn from other humans because humans don't individually share the same information and model of the world. A science teach can speed up how you learn science by taking the compressed information and explaining it quickly (essentially what is happening in the post), but out scientific model is expanded when we have experiences that call into question the strength of our current model.

However both individually and as a society we are constantly taking in new information (sometimes more sometimes less) and using that to update our model.
I have to imagine there was a trend away from refreshing the inventory as discs wore out while management was mulling the decision to shutter this side of the business, a lot of the inventory might be fairly marginal and worn by this point.

E: Not to say that Netflix should just dumpster it all. I'd love to see a pennies-on-the-dollar buyer beware 'these might be scratched to hell' wholesale for anyone who cares to pick some up. Whether its a la carte, or "Buy 10 <genre> for $X" or, well, who knows. Just about anything would be better than tossing 'em all into a landfill.
I genuinely don't see how this viewpoint is compatible with the grokking results.
>For example their symptomatology is usually culturally determined

Could you expand on that? How is depression different in China?
At last, I can get a free Gigli DVD! Oh wondrous day!
It's going to take a lot of arguing but I predict we'll end up back where we started some time ago in the 70's:

The computer hardware is the asset.

Software engineer salaries are the operational expense of that asset.

Fanciful: It was only a brief period of time where some companies were able to resell the operational efforts of their in-house staff to other owners of computer hardware assets. Now it's all bespoke operational activities just like steel presses and sawmills.
> If you don't like how someone mods their subreddit then why do you want to be part of it in the first place?

Access to the rest of the current community.
Good to hear you're no longer suffering from epilepsy!

Have you noticed any other changes due to your lobectomy? (Isn't the amygdala responsible for fear, among other things?)
It's not GAAP revenue until the product is out of your hands and in a usable state.

So you can drop the license in an envelope and recognize the revenue immediately, but only if the recipient could have used it if they'd grabbed it from the mailbox.

If the license isn't usable for another month, you can send it to the customer, they can pay for it, and you can even spend the cash, but the payment sits on your balance sheet as a liability until the moment the license becomes valid.
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I don't think those frustrations are comparable with advertising in the Start menu and file browser. I also find it funny that you mention problems with fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows.
It’s interesting to see adware go from being this undesirable loathed and parasitic thing being covertly installed on a users pc to Microsoft now shipping their own.
The "Downloads" link is dead but the other 2 work.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting you, but your comments give the impression that you think Scott is anti-trans, or when he says “woke” he means trans people. I don’t think that’s true. The term “woke” is used by lots of different people in lots of different ways. Some people view the existence of trans people as a type of “wokeness”, so I can understand how you could have formed the impression that’s (part of) what Scott means by “woke”-but if you read more of what he has to say, I think it will become clear he doesn’t define “woke” in that way at all.

Unless I’m misunderstanding what you are saying. You started talking about “my people” in a conversation about “wokeness”, I thought you were self-identifying as “woke”, and I’m probably not the only one who read you in that way. Now you say by “my people” you meant trans women, which leaves me confused about what you were trying to say all along.

You also speak of a “cesspool” and “dehumanizing comment threads” and I’m wondering what you are actually calling those things and why you are calling them that. Again, I suspect you may have the wrong impression, but I’m not entirely sure what you mean, so maybe my suspicion is based on misunderstanding you.
>European software companies don't go broke

They don't do that well either. Which is perhaps why the biggest ones are all American

>they have 0% tax credit for salaries

At least in some countries I know that's totally wrong, but depends what you mean by "credit". Salaries are expenses, are not counted in profit.
This lawsuit wasn’t about criticism it was about blatant lies.

Dominion Voting Systems doesn’t give a flying fuck about the culture wars, but they do care if people stop buying their products. Fox on the other hand very much cares about the culture wars, and is as shown here perfectly willing to lie.
Here in Canada we have similar fractional write-offs called CCA (capital cost allowance). That's for assets though, like a company building, car or equipment.

I've written an accounting system before for business activities and successfully used its reports to win a tax dispute.

I'm not so interested in the details of this, particularly because it's in another country, but I do understand the implications of suddenly not being able to entirely write off the likely most important and large business expense.
Just because a process is iterative doesn't mean the result will be ideal, or even satisfactory. You're limited by the capabilities of the individual designer, and you'd better believe a decent one will want payment even if you sit down for a few hours but end up not coming up with an item that really speaks to you.

If you can start the conversation with an tangible pectoral representation of what you want the end product to be, you're much better off.
GP didn't say anything about Sabine.

> What is it about theoretical physics that makes people on the internet (with zero understanding of the context) feel entitled to snarkily attack results such as this?

This is about you.
So... the strategy is to not appeal to older buyers who have money and instead court younger buyers who can't afford your vehicle so they're "locked in" to a brand they can't purchase. Interesting.
Thanks - yeah, I was mostly being dramatic for effect, there's no way I'm not applying for Phase II.
And? Do you have so little ability to cope?

I find it harder and harder to relate to Americans the older I get. I was at my cousin’s wedding recently, and a friend of their family has hassling me for being in a mixed marriage (we’re Bangladeshi, and my wife is an American). I sucked it up and was polite because I put on my big boy pants that day. Blood, and community are more important than abstract ideological debates.
Star Wars is pretty dystopian in every era shown in the movies. Even at the height of the Galactic Republic large areas of the outer rim have people living in poverty and outright slavery. Coruscant appears nice, but a little below the surface criminal gangs are running the place with most of the planet's population never even seeing sunlight.

Plus the powerful elite tapped into the discontent that they'd created in order to further their own power, then crushed the useful idiots who rebelled against the oppression and doubled down with more oppression.
If you have spent a meaningful amount of time on this site over the last few years you will have seen that the general user sentiment has shifted pretty far right. The standard discussion isn't too far from what you'd come across on a Fox News/Elon Musk/Infowars/Joe Rogan forum.
I wouldn't call it "the most secure", there is no id check (because there is no mandatory ID scheme) so the process to verify your identity is super loose. Also very little constraints on voting by mail, with the only form of authentication being a signature which is weak to say the least.

France has much stronger controls on ID checks at the voting booth and vote by mail (in fact for most elections there is no vote by mail, you can only delegate your vote to a person who cannot act as a delegate to more than two people to prevent ballot harvesting).
There is one, in the sense that the law states you cannot use the digital contents any way you like - you can only use the digital contents for your own personal, home use.

However, the physical disk is protected by First Sale Doctrine. You can sell it, rent it, auction it, destroy it, whatever you want. The same applies to, say, your laptop. You can do whatever you physically want to your laptop, even if you can't copy your Windows license wherever you like.
dBeaver is written in Java, but it feels very lightweight. I'm running it on a Linux desktop I've been using since 2014. It's also cross platform so I run it at work on a Windows laptop.
It’s public for humans, not for other businesses stealing it for their own profit. I don’t want to be an anymous contributor to an AI.
Thanks for your comment. I don't think people work for $3 for an hour of work. Perhaps you would forward to anyone living alone. Thanks again.
Netflix 4k compression is pretty bad. Lots of aggressive banding, blocking, and other compression artifacts. If you don't notice them, good - don't try to start looking for them.
I had a similar experience copying DVDs from the Redbox (automated rental kiosk). I felt so accomplished getting all the right software and amassing a huge collection of pirated disks (stacks of DVD organizers in my room).

Streaming went mainstream a little later, and I don't even remember what I did with all the disks, but I probably either gave them away or donated them...
Reproduced your calculation on the 1 million miles, it's surprising but checks out. Then consider how many miles of road we have already made and how much we continue to make to support large vehicles on them. You could designate half of them as car-free and induce alternative transportation if you really wanted to. OTOH, a new electric vehicle costs roughly 250k miles worth of driving to produce, without considering electricity generation.
There are so few elite that their actions can’t matter due to math.

Birth control may be the great filter, as it breaks evolutionary assumptions.
Nope - per reports, there's no requirement for anything on-air at all:

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1648432832266801158

> News: I'm told that, as part of the terms of its settlement, Fox News will 'not' have to acknowledge ON AIR that it told lies about Dominion in the wake of the 2020 election. Fox did acknowledge falsehoods in its statement. But don't expect hosts to have to read statements.
SWA has optimized their operations to the point where there is little margin for error. They have the quickest turnaround times. They land at the highest speeds their planes are designed for. They taxi at or maybe above the maximum allowed speeds once on the ground. This all works great most of the time but when it does fail, it tends to do so spectacularly since there is no slack in the system.
I'm in Canada; I can't speak to the specifics of the UK.

> what happens if a mark got erased? If the circle is half filled? If the circle is quarter filled?

When I sit down to vote, there is a very unambiguous set of instructions on how to fill it out: mark an X in the circle.

- we all know perfectly well that pencil erasers aren't perfect

- It's not a Scantron™ ffs! Is that what you're imagining? That's just a voting machine with extra steps! Every single ballot is counted by a human! https://electionsanddemocracy.ca/canadas-elections/canadas-e...
That's why we need more second-tier archive mirrors. Redundancy is important.
In general, following a combined approach of OpenBSD and MISRA is generally a good way to code. Code defensively, check all external untrusted input (Windows (NT-kernel) has checked and unchecked syscalls).
Install Arch, get everything working, and DO NOT install updates. I've never had another distro that would randomly render itself unbootable or break core functionality with such frequency with the simple weekly application of updates. Really distressing.
Very small fine for genuinely trying to subvert democracy & ruin faith in fair elections in the country with the largest military in the world.
>when did productivity increase in software ever result in headcount reduction? The competition also will have similar productivity gain.

The average AI company has like 1 employee per $25M valuation. That's around 25x fewer employees than the typical tech company.
Europe Looks to SpaceX as Its Rocket Woes Continue
> Seriously: what does it take to impress people? A mere 1000x speed increase and single point of configuration isn't good enough?

It is great accomplishment for ruff the project. But the topic here is the launch of Astral the company, not ruff the project. And 1000x speed increase is not a business plan.
> How crippled does the device feel? Is it usable?

Not. And yes.

I did some analysis of it when it came out to figure out what all is blocked and such: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/07/20/ios16-lockdown-mode-browse...

Animated gifs in text threads don't animate - which, personally, I consider a feature.

And webfonts aren't loaded, which means a lot of forums that load icons as a webfont have a lot of squares instead of arrows for reply and such.

You can disable it on a per-website basis, and I don't do much in the way of facetime and such, so I've not really noticed it. It does remove a LOT of complex attack surfaces, though, which is worth a lot.
Had the exact same experience, ripping and dropping the dvds back at the post office a few hours later,even getting throttled towards the end of the month.

Used to use this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Shrink
> Changing the asteroid orbit costs you pretty much just as much energy as your impact is worth

It's about momentum, not energy. Near Earth, you can get energy from the Sun quite easily, or fuel a nuclear reactor with the asteroid.

Momentum is gathered by throwing reaction mass around. And reaction mass is what asteroids are made of.

> The drive technology violates conservation of energy

Do they explain it somewhere? I always got the impression it was a kicking-ass nuclear fusion engine.
Very common on Twitter too.

You'll have an account like "Science is amazing" or something similar which seems uplifting and does show relevant/great content. Given the positive name and quality content, they get popular quickly.

But they never attribute or give back. They gain millions of followers whilst the original creators of the content get left behind. One of many things broken on the internet.
Nope, you only need a rental license to get copies of movies to rent out before they are available to purchase (and the contract for those often made you agree to only use rental licenses for any movies from that publisher). If your rental business is content with always waiting for DVDs to be released to the public then yes you can rent out any legally purchased DVDs by the right of first sale.
Only if it’s independent in each run. Even with different people on different problems they’re still subject to the same pressures by the people that pay and promote them.
No, everything else competes to be more efficient. PoW is one thing broken by design that can never be optimized.

Even if your civilisation had a Dyson Sphere, there would be a race to waste 51% of it on PoW.
The law that triggered these banners already mandates that the website may not reduce functionality if the user rejects the cookies. Functionality-tied cookies are already exempted from the acceptance requirement.

These banners are the most-user-hostile possible response to the law, so it makes sense to automate getting rid of them.
Bluesky’s CEO wants to build a Musk-proof, decentralized version of Twitter
dbeaver is cross-platform and is a great general db client. I highly recommend it.
how is that relevant to Cupertino?
Yes, but without the cambrian explosion of content that netflix footed the bill for over so many years
I have used Windows since, well since Windows became a thing, and I have never had problems with finding Copy/Cut/Properties/Etc. but every single time in Windows 11.....

It amazes me that Windows gets worse with every update. I'd rater use an updated Windows Vista than Win11, yuck!
What if they don't consider it a problem? Do you think there'll be any reasonable chance of change?
Yeah that's fair, it's never just one thing and not all old towns are going to be like that, but it's pretty common in at least Massachusetts, particularly if you're in proximity to a larger town. It's also a much denser state in general than Vermont/Maine/New Hampshire, from what I remember growing up there.
Couldn't you have a max attempt lockout set pretty low and keep giving a slightly wrong variation? I mean if you dont remember, you don't remember

Both my laptops and phone I need to be the one actually typing or inputting the code, I know them through muscle memory and get tripped up those few times my laptop ask for my iphone pass code, as an example
So then why bother targeting them in the first place?
Bloomberg fixed the title on their site, but no, "One in Five Americans" are not using Buy Now, Pay Later on Groceries.

The Bloomberg article links to a LendingTree Survey[1] that states, "21% of BNPL users say they’ve used one of the loans to buy groceries." But also that "46% of Americans saying they’ve used one of the loans"

Worrisome, yes, but also overstated.

1: https://www.lendingtree.com/personal/bnpl-ends-meet-survey/