skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thus we come to the sad end of a tale. A once robust medium where people could own content (yes the MPAA and RIAA will disagree with that statement, but at least users have some right of first sale rights) is dead. A medium where most of the world's good content got published is dead.

Now we have ever reshuffling access to a smaller select catalog of stuff. Ever piece of content has to be fueded over by lawyers & rights holders. DVDs and Blurays exist but primarily for mainstream content & republishes of old & smaller content is rare.

Netflix has attained their goal of disrupting reliable access to the form's moving pictures.
Who and who is not a journalist can't be determined by any institution. According to democracy. If people find what they present to be journalism, then it is. Ironically, I just defended Rachel Maddow and many more people.

It seems strange to have to impart basic civics lessons here.
> Theoretical results allow you to make experiments in the first place

How so?

> Sometimes experimental results aren’t even the important part.

When are experiments ever not important? What is a theory without experimental results?

I know you've mentioned Special Relativity but let me illustrate my point using General Relativity:

When Einstein came up with General Relativity, few people believed him – until experiments proved him right[0]. But the hype was over soon after because there were not many things one could predict (beyond rather simple things in cosmology). While hype came back briefly during the Golden Age of Relativity between 1960 and 1975[1], afterwards everyone lost interest in GR once more because there were still barely any experiments you could do. That is, until recently, when people found gravitational waves and started taking "photos" of black holes.

So do you think that Special Relativity would be as well-known and popular today if people hadn't proven it right in countless experiments and found applications in many other areas? Personally, I think SR would probably be known only among physicists today, as a correct but somewhat arcane theory some patent clerk from the early 20th century came up with.

Don't get me wrong. Some theories are impressive. But they're much more impressive if they turn out to be correct. :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity#cite_ref-14

[1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-017-2203-1
If the transcription messes up that flight might not fly .. which means the airline is out a ton of money trying to make alternative arrangements for a flight full of people.

Your invention could bankrupt the airline in a matter of months.
Hmmm I am not sure the title matches the content of the article. As far as I can tell the WGA is quite open to writers using AI as a helpful writing Tool. What they are trying to limit is studios using AI as a tool to screw over writers.

For example, a studio could use an AI system to generate a short story and then ask the writer to adapt that, which significantly impacts the credits and renumeration the writer would receive for doing the entire writing process.
Well, the studios never really had a problem with Netflix as a DVD rental company and were usually happy to supply them discs. Netflix's pricing model didn't cut into the immense profit studios were starting to see from the home entertainment boom (which was tied to DVD as a medium) and if anything, they had a massive bulk buyer. Plus, for the first five or six years, Netflix was way smaller than the Blockbuster. Studios knew that if The Matrix or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars Episode 1 or whatever was released and people wanted to watch it immediately, they would buy it rather than waiting for it to be available from Netflix (or Blockbuster or Hollywood Video). Meanwhile, they could use Netflix as a longtail way to sell bulk discs of titles that might not do tremendous retail numbers. Plus, as fast as Netflix was, there was still a delay of a few days between requesting a movie and getting it or returning one and getting another. For a new release, you'd be just as likely to try to buy it if you absolutely had to see it that weekend.

It was Redbox that got the studios on the ropes. Not only were home entertainment revenues dropping because of over-saturation, a bad economy, and burgeoning digital rental options -- and these were revenues the studios had started to rely on and build into their budget forecasting for films that would often only become profitable after a successful home release -- being able to get a new release for $1 from a kiosk (a kiosk that can store 500 copies and might be loaded up with just the top X new releases) and then returned and re-rented within 24 hours, that was a problem. Because now I don't have to pay $15 for that movie I'm not sure I'll ever watch again and that will clutter up the living room, I can just drive up to the grocery store or the gas station or whatever and grab a disc and go. And a website will tell me where the disc is available if it's out at the place up the street. And it's $1 and I can just return it right after I watch it. $1 rentals was a threat, but Netflix never had that pricing. They were like $7.99 for one out at a time and then it would go up from there.

But the studios didn't have a problem with Netflix and in the early years, were probably able to get better terms (for the studio) with them on bulk purchases than they had with Blockbuster.

Studios didn't start to have to grapple with Netflix until Netflix signed its landmark deal with Starz, allowing it to stream Starz's catalog of content (there was no provision in the Starz contract with studios that disallowed offering a digital streaming option -- future contracts obviously added those clauses but that would take several years to expire), thus truly making good on Reed Hasting's vision of having the internet deliver movies.

And even then, the relationship was adversarial but also somewhat necessary from both sides, because Netflix needed to license content for its library, and studios needed that sweet licensing revenue (at least before Netflix started to create its own content that competed directly against the studios).
Wish there was a great free open source GUI which works for for Sybase or even jdbc.
I'm in the far suburbs of Chicago, but I wasn't aware of this, and it does look like there's one of these in downtown Chicago: https://www.chicagohash.com/

Downtown Chicago is a bit far for me to drive for a run, but I'll keep an eye on it in case one of them ends up a bit closer to me. And maybe this will help someone else that does live downtown. Thanks for the suggestion!
I agree that plumbers will always be valuable, but the market we’re in is in no way efficient. People are not compensated by their value. The ideal rate to pay a plumber is as little as you can get away with, and that could just drop.

Consider this — there’s more and more rental properties, and so less people who want to maintain their plumbing properly. There will likely be more “lowest bidder” work, and so the rates will drop. The quality of plumbing will drop, the pride in the trade will drop.
cool. stack exchange might become useful again.
that seems to describe the path, the [sound] intensity was in sync with the path of the spiral.
It prints the ballot you cast. Nothing in the BMD beams a vote to the secret vote-fixing center.
That only makes sense if you think slavery should’ve never been abolished. How would it have ended under the Articles of Confederation?
I wholeheartedly agree. I said exactly this to my friend earlier today. However, I immediately followed it up noting that any law like this will eventually be used maliciously.

E.g. Party in power will say “CNN LIES!” and get DOJ to set up a sham trial.

But even if it shouldn’t be possible for the ruling political party to infringe on free speech, it should also not be tenable to lie to millions of Americans this blatantly.
They've corrected the story (angular momentum, not momentum) and added a note at the end.
Imagine the friends you didn't make because you stayed in that one night when you were on the fence about going out. Good thing too -- it kept you out of prison!

I mean, imagining what 'wouldn't have been' is a lot easier than imagining what 'could have happened' because you literally have no idea. You can imagine life without your friend group, but try to imagine a life where you ended up grabbing a drink at Jeffery Dahmer's apartment or any of a million other things.
You do understand this is a non-obligatory guidance document, right? You can continue to not read nor understand it and no one will be any the wiser. The NSA will almost certainly not put you on a blacklist someplace (no promises and all that). Then you can google "privacy framework" to find a wealth of other non-obligatory guidance documents more to your liking (most of which will reference a NIST document or two someplace, so be careful).
The job market is still pretty strong. It was wildly overheated in 2021.
Algorithms may increasingly help in making layoff decisions
Came here to post this. This is a pretty malicious pattern.
The $10K Nvidia chip powering the race for AI
That's almost the solution. Just add this [1], which requires just minor changes to how the ballots are printed and the use of special pens to fill in the ovals, and you gain these properties:

1. The ballots can be published after the vote allowed anyone to verify the counts,

2. Individual voters can, if they want to, note some information when they vote that will allow them to verify when the ballots are published that their vote was counted and it was counted correctly, but will not allow them to prove to a third party that they voted a particular way,

3. Individual voters can check before they vote that the ballot they have been given has probably not been tampered with.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/evt08/tech/full_papers/...
I wholly distrust anything freudian. Every major claim he made I keep finding serious flaws in it.

Freud did not popularize the unconscious or thinking about how you think. Basic children's sunday school at a Church even talks about how you think. Major religions from Christianity to Buddhism talk about how the thought life of a person affects everything and the split and conflicted nature of humans. They just don't use post-freudian terms like conscious and unconscious.

What freud popularized was a secular way of coping with how humans think, analyzing it in a purely secular context and considering thousands of years of knowledge on the subject as childish fairytales and defining a framework by which a modern secular world can explain the actions of people and respond to them.

Socially, I have seen horrific impacts of his work from criminal punishment to people attempting to understand and help people who have chosen to be evil (worst examples being child rapists, school shooters,etc... not sick, evil! But evil has no place in a freudian context).

This documentary shared on HN a while back was eye opening for me, how almost every aspect of modern capitalist life was influenced by freud:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s&feature=youtu.be (Century of the self). Worth watching the whole thing.

I don't discount psychoanalysis as quackery but I am very hostile to it. I would need to filter any attempts of psychoanalytical thinking with a ton if critical analysis, taking it with buckets of salt!
Where in Settings? I've not see any ads there.
You're the one without integrity. He was speaking in a hypothetical role as a government official, not as a journalist.

In fact, he was making a very socialist / populist point that few on the Left would be able to disagree with.

That is, the point was about the national necessity of protecting a job base for a immense mass of people. Protecting it from robot capitalism.
We’re on the edge of an AI boom, and our tech giants are cutting rather than investing. This seems like a bad strategy.
What is the rationale for amortizing R&D expenses in general? Even outside software, what is the motivation for this?
Interesting. But why couldn't they continue using the existing recommendation system which was excellent.
Using the filibuster the way it's used now and not actually trying to come to a compromise is definitely new. It's not something that changed about the rule itself, but about the way it's used. See the graph in this article: https://www.statista.com/chart/25929/number-of-senate-filibu...

IMO it all comes down to the insight that the opposition party has nothing to gain from cooperating. If something good gets passed, the majority party gets the credit. If nothing gets passed, the majority party gets the blame, regardless details how that outcome was achieved and what role the minority party played. So blocking everything is the best strategy. IMO, it's disgusting to have politicians put party over country, but here we are.
Think of a symmetry as "something that remains the same" when you do something to a system.

Imagine a pair of denim pants, one could say it has the property of being made of denim, and when you bend the pants or move them around the room, they keep being made of denim. Anything you do to the pants that you can undo, like moving them around or bending them, those are invertible symmetries. Now imagine I rip the pants in half: they're still made of denim, but this action is not so easy to invert. So there are actions I can perform on these pants that are hard or impossible to undo, but still maintain the property of them being made of denim, these are non-invertible symmetries.

The example given in the article is a system being split into a superposition in a way that's hard or impossible to undo, sort of like the pants being torn in half, but just because the system is now in a superposition doesn't mean there weren't properties preserved along the way.
I have hundreds of Steam games & keep buying there but god damn does it make me sad to have traded first-sale rights for this flimsy access to a catalog with no ability to share or resell.

I resisted for so long. But now my library is so big. I feel like half the random games I get are only available on steam or other like services anyways.
Somehow, ruff is linting my entire codebase 350x faster than pylint did.
It's covered here [1].

I believe the common enterprise exists no matter which coin, but with Bitcoin there was never an investment of money in its launch. Don't quote me on that though. I know the delta has to do with initial coin distribution.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/files/dlt-framework.pdf
The damages part of their case was weak, and in any case it's owned by VC who will happily take this payday.
What makes you ask? If you're encountering problems maybe file an issue?
Returning to 2020 levels. Says something about the hiring frenzy that went on.
> it will ship its final DVDs to customers on Sept. 29
you can improve this be picking top 3 server with least connections and then pick one randomly from these 3 servers.
Have you ever done roofing? There are few occupations which will destroy your back faster than roofing. Everybody in construction knows you always outsource roofing if you can; better to feel sorry for the poor folks (usually literally quite poor) stuck doing that work than to be the one people feel sorry for.

Road construction might be worse, though.

Note well: No roofer or road construction worker would tell someone to skip college. If college is in the cards, just go to college and get it over with. Even if you never use your degree, it would still be the right decision, so long as you didn't take on a ton of debt going to a private school. (If the thought of slogging through college is off-putting, know that a lifetime of manual labor will be even worse. School is work, and if you can't make yourself suffer through that, you are very likely going to be even more disappointed with the choices manual or unskilled labor throw your way.)
NIH, it's 32%. You can negotiate a custom one somehow, but I haven't waded into those waters yet.
No More Cheap Flights Is the New Reality for Air Travel
Why should they be running lockdown mode? It says it only blocked some, but not all attacks which means that they were successfully attacked. For a targeted individual who "might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats" that does not cut it when your life is on the line. No, this is a existence proof that the Apple marketing that explicitly states that it can protect against such threats is bullshit and criminally irresponsible.

The only smart thing to do if you are such a individual is to not have a smartphone at all otherwise you are 100% going to be successfully attacked because every commercial smartphone is trivial to hack for a dedicated threat actor. In addition, you should never purchase a smartphone from any existing smartphone vendor for the foreseeable future regardless of what dangerous lies their marketing spins because all of their security organizations are structurally incompetent with respect to protecting against sophisticated digital threats. It would require a wholesale replacement of their security leadership, technology, and ideology for it to even be possible to actually protect against sophisticated digital threats.
Bernstein vs. NIST is just a FOIA suit, about an open standards contest where all the participants were public academics. It's not going to uncover the next BULLRUN.
Check out figures 1 & 5.

Best I can tell from skimming, it looks like the command processor and the grid of compute cores both probably use a RISC-V ISA, and the "shader cores" have some custom extensions.

It looks very cool, I wonder if they published the RTL anywhere.
I think it would be popular if they even attempted to grow that arm of the business. Netflix made it obvious they had zero interest in it when they tried to spin it off into Qwikster.
What are the "multiple" times here?
Ahh, maybe that's why my service has been spotty lately - sattelites diverted to light shows.
And further proof that speech is free, but you have to pay for the lies.
They’re going to disable old.reddit.com soon aren’t they? Locking the API will prevent any workarounds.
Contracts can constrain or direct speech in specific ways. So sure, you could put that one special in a settlement. There are severe first amendment problems when you try to do something more vague, like "You have to report on unflattering stories about Fox itself", which I took to be the upthread point.
Why isn't the stock down though? Was this priced in?
> kernel in assembly language.

That sounds both backwards and needlessly masochistic. Glad the UNIX approach won out over that!
I think this is false?

A rejected cookie preference could be stored client side in local storage and depending on that value you could decide whether to show the cookie prompt.
Would it not be wiser for them to search a candidate rather than ask for one? Or that's how they find out who not to hire?
Running Active Directory would be easier than that
> This directly contradicts what the article states.

No, it doesn’t.

It contradicts what you appear to have falsely inferred from the very vague writing in the article, and that false inference may be the intent of the vague writing, but it doesn’t contradict what the article actually says.

I have gone beyond the article to understand the actual facts here. For instance, here’s the official city page on the issue: https://www.cupertino.org/our-city/departments/finance/cdtfa...

“In December 2021, the CDTFA notified the City that they were reviewing one of the taxpayers in the City. In May 2022, the CDTFA updated the City, saying they had asked the taxpayer for more tax returns. […] In March, the CDTFA verbally informed the City of their preliminary determination that tax dollars had been misallocated to the City, and they gave rough estimates of how much money the City might lose. The CDTFA said the City would get a letter with the final results of the review, including the actual amount of money that would be lost, in the next four to six months.”

So that tells us the issue is about “misallocation”. So, how are sales taxes supposed to be allocated? Here’s official information from the CDTFA, the agency responsible for sales and use taxes in California: https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/industry/localanddistricttaxes.htm#...

“Regulation 1620, subdivision (a)(2)(A), states that participation in the transaction in any way by the in-state place of business is sufficient for the transaction to be subject to sales tax. However, to constitute participation, an activity must serve some real purpose and have some meaningful effect in the actual sales process and involve some genuine physical human interaction with the sale from that location.

“Generally, activities taking place after the sale has occurred are not participation in the sale. There are also activities that a retailer might conduct from a California location to support its operations that do not constitute participation in the sale for purposes of Regulation 1620, subdivision (a)(2)(A), including price setting, purchase of resale inventory, web design, and general marketing.

“Internet transactions are generally designed and intended to be processed online, without direct human intervention until the property is picked, packed, and shipped at the storage location. As such, a storage location is often the only place of business that participates in an Internet transaction. Activities related to creating and maintaining the automated online processes would generally be considered the type of support operations that do not constitute participation in any particular transaction. The location of the server where the website is hosted or maintained is also immaterial”
Taiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands’ internet cables
Butterfly milking and pig nibbling: building the strange world of Glitch (2011)
SEC penalizes robo-adviser Betterment
Duolingo has lessons that take 1-5 minutes. It's so small amount of time, that I feel, I literally cannot excuse not doing it every day. This is unachievable if I had to deal with less packed way of learning.

I took a few weeks long initial course to get a grasp of grammar for my third language and since then I'm using Duolingo daily, for a few hundred days now (so it costed me well under 100 hours in total).

I'm far from fluent, but able to communicate verbally, work with text and I don't forget what I learned.

If that's the bottom of the barrel, I wonder what was my public school program I had in the past (yet another language), that included many semesters of learning and left me with handful phrases.
Narrative Collapse (2020)
This is great, I'm going to switch to this from black. Being used to working in other languages I feel like I'm swimming in molasses when using Python.

It's funny that all good things for Python are not written in Python. Says a lot about the language.
For those who may be baffled at the result, it comes from parseInt accepting two arguments (string & radix), and map providing three per iteration (the value, index and whole array).

The whole array is omitted, but the radix passed to parseInt is respectively 0, 1 and 2.

Valid radix values are 2 to 36, but somehow 0 is also accepted due to its falsiness, and defaults to base 10. Base 1 is definitely not valid so NaNs out, and 10 in base 2 (binary) is 2.

For more of those WTF moments, in JavaScript and other languages, check out "Wat" [1], another hilarious lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Google has been monetizing the comments the entire time. Reddit comments are in Google search results along side ads.
dang? Bueller? Anyone?
"Driver" and "passenger" side for cars. Oh wait, doesn't work in England etc.

I guess for ships there is no variation between countries? Starboard is presumably where the wheel was so everyone must have left it on the right side?
As GPUs like Nvidia's H100 cost over $30,000, Microsoft's own AI chip appears to arrive at a very opportune time to enable the company to pursue a very aggressive AI strategy.