skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow amazing chip. Running at 30W in turbo. It'll be fun & exciting to see portable units compete for increases cooling, pushing this higher and higher. Of course it'll need to also throttle down (and optionally shut off some extra cores) on battery, but I think people radically under-rate how incredibly effective that can be.

Also worth point out the upcoming Ryzen 8000 leaks, with Strix Point & Strix Halo APUs that look absolutely absurdly fast, with huge ram bandwidth, in 15-45W and 20W-120W (correspondingly) power points. I cannot wait to have small decks with these beasts.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Massive-AMD-Ryzen-8000-Zen-5-l...
Because the user expectation is that a browser won't leak their private URLs to a search engine?

https://www.example.com/id/0ca6ade6b2bb1eea371d0b029f552cee/... may be "public" in the sense that it is accessible if you know the URL.
Or it could be that children of PhDs come from an environment where they know what’s required to get a PhD. Neither of my parents had bachelor’s degrees. I had no idea that any PhD worth its salt would be something that the PhD student was paid to attend rather than would pay to attend.

And as an aside, my cousin’s husband has a PhD and yet none of his kids have graduate degrees, while in my family, out of three brothers, there’s a DVM, and MS and me with a MS and MFA.
This is why all the streaming services are constantly trying to hype up their one "must watch" show. If you aren't watching it now, you're left out of the conversation, and nobody will want to talk about it in three months.
Regardless of the decision on password sharing, I hope they create a way to port a profile into a new account. I wouldn’t want to lose my saved movies and viewing history if forced to switch accounts.
Flamewar will get you banned on HN. You posted dozens(!) of comments in this thread and in several places broke the site guidelines extremely badly. If you do this again, we will have to ban you.

No more of this whatsoever, please.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines badly and frequently—mostly on the nuclear topic, about which you've been perpetuating vast and dreadful flamewars—but also on other topics. This is seriously not cool.

I've therefore banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
I think I agree with that. To 3b1b credit I think he frames his videos as "Here's a cool way to think about this topic".
We were discussing being competitive with peers and what peers are doing vs what we are doing. It seemed pretty relevant.

Also, I mentally separate long working hours from other aspects of “worker conditions.” You can have low working hours but a toxic and unsafe work environment or a physically safe and supportive work environment with long hours. You can also have high and low pay with various working hours (although typically high pay isn’t supported by low working hours unless the business has some sort of massive moat).
It would really help if the headline differentiates between a "user" and a "customer." If a bunch of people who had someone else's password are no longer able to watch Netflix, that is probably what Netflix wants. If millions of customers have cancelled their subscriptions, that is not what they want.

The article makes it sound as if there were 660k people who are no longer watching on someone else's account and 330k customers who have cancelled. Not sure if that is a big deal to Netflix or not without more historical data.
These studies seem to consistently play down the importance of "culture." By that, I mean that some families tend to place very great importance on education and learning (and consequently prioritize it above other activities), and these families are likely to be ones where the parents hold a bachelors/masters/phd degree.

Somehow, the studies focus almost completely on the economic status that the family derives out of higher education and attribute all the benefits to income. Sure, there's definitely a link between how much time you can afford to spend on academics when you're poor, but after a threshold -- probably somewhere near middle income families -- the economic status starts to matter less and less, and the importance and priority accorded to education starts to matter a lot more.

Kids from these families can also foresee their career path more clearly on account of having a parent already in the field. It's a natural and obvious effect, but to see this success as a negative and attribute it almost completely to income and nepotism is disingenuous.
Possibly, and that's what the whole video is about. The point is that we don't know how much of the difference is behavioral or related to wealth if we don't even try to consider the possible effects of heritability.
Yeah I feel like that description is a lie. Some customers would probably think twice about putting things into the same region if they knew zones weren't physically separated, or go to AWS.
How generic is that? Is it relevant to someone who deals mostly with stuff within EU?
I'm sure this move is partially because of copyright holders. Bet that they get their cut per stream and account.

My hypothesis is that Netflix knows that account sharing is a net positive, as it cannot be curbed without losing a significant amount of subscribers, and many people aren't willing to pay $10 per account.
I dunno, having to re-download next pack (if game is popular enough to even get that) every time new DLC comes isn't a bad motivation to get the game on next sale instead of continuing pirating.
>Funny how saying Bandersnatch was innovative gets HN absolutely livid.

... huh? I didn't say Bandersnatch wasn't innovative and my feathers are far from ruffled. I just don't see how citing one thing from five years ago that no other streamer, nor Netflix themselves, have replicated since (correct me if I'm wrong) is a strong is example of Netflix being "innovative".

I'd argue that other streaming providers would've explored this sort of thing already if they felt there was enough interest. Anecdotally, I'm in multiple communities that involve the discussion of film and television and people just aren't asking for that sort of thing.
Comb jellies have a bizarre nervous system unlike any other animal
> (something the new batch of Millennial and Gen Z workers are bad at)

Let me remind you that the average Millenial is in their mid-to-late thirties now. Hardly the "new" batch.

For that matter, I see no reason that robust interpersonal skill should be distributed unevenly across generations other than the younger ones haven't had as much practice yet. They'll get there, though.
There is definitely an ROI, especially with recent prices (current tariffs are around 33p kWh)

Then there's the likes of Ripple Energy's solar park co-op offering. The levelised cost of buying in is around 2.5p kWh, with another 2p kWh going on maintenance. The return on the 1st (and active) co-op agreement there via a wind farm is 28p kWh, no reason why the solar park would give different returns than the wind one. Here in the UK grid pricing is more or less the same nationally.

Unfortunately there's much less of a return in Winter months due to higher latitudes, though in Summertime the days are longer than in many other countries.
When I was studying German twenty or so years ago I got good results from reading lots and lots of children's books, starting with the really basic stuff--like books meant for kindergarteners--and working my way up to books by Erich Kästner. By grading the material in this way you can read a lot without getting tripped up by unfamiliar words every sentence.
> Similarly, if the streaming service continues to play ads despite paying for the service, we will just pirate the content.

Why though? Why don't you just watch some other content? There's so much out there, and you have so many choices, available without any ads, and also if you choose you can consume free content as well.

Given that you have these alternatives, why do you feel you have the right to nonetheless violate IP laws because you don't like that a subset of content carries ads or restrictions?
I wonder though how plausible this "trunk only" appearance is. What would the biological function of that trunk in the life cycle of prototaxites supposed to be? Modern fungi have heads, I think to spread spores.
Slimbook Pro2, Kubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 upgrade, changes, fun
I just cancelled audible this morning, and did not see any pause subscription. It may have been there, but I was annoyed with other dark patterns. "no! i want to stay subscribed!" as a bright orange button, and "continue cancellation" as a muted grey button, for example.
not a collection, but Heinrich Böll, An der Brücke, is one of my favourite shorts in any language.
Count the fingers. For god’s sake, remember. If you want to live, count the fingers.
Autometrics-rs 0.4: Spot commits that introduce errors or slow down your app
They might be talking about farmland. For example, pastures, agriculture and forestry in New Zealand has approximately zero in common with the native flora & fauna that was here before humans modified the environment. The native plants that remain are virtually all in areas that are simply too uneconomic to farm in any way (usually mountainous). ~55% of New Zealand is being used for sheep and cattle, and another 8% for exotic forestry.

We also eat an extraordinary amount of the fish and seafood in the world from the ocean. “The global per capita consumption footprint in 2011 is estimated at 27 kg. Our estimate is higher than the 18.6 kg reported in FAO statistics for the same year, as it also takes into account the indirect use of capture fisheries production by the fishmeal sector.” “the conversion of wild-capture fish that would not be used for human consumption into fishmeal and subsequent use as aquafeed, results in an overall increase in human consumption of fish”. “31% of the world's wild fish stocks are estimated to be overfished, 58% fully exploited”.
The problem they have now is not that people who didn't pay wouldn't pay. They are now losing people who actually paid.
you have to be able to afford to have a kid

plus you might need time and a place to find a decent husband

none if this simple imo, it would take either a loan or a subsidy, or someone whose family structure is fine with them living with their parents
CEOs outperform VCs as investors
Don't accuse someone of astroturfing just because they don't share your opinion about someone.
Singapore math focuses on teaching every concept by first manipulating physical objects, then manipulating pictures, then manipulating abstract symbols. Encouraging children to draw connections between these.

It also spreads each concept over time so that you keep revisiting the same ideas to ensure it gets fully integrated. And mixes them. So grade 1 kids may be doing "multiplication" by arranging blocks in a grid before they've fully mastered the + sign.

The USA gives a much more cursory pass through operational actions and goes straight to the abstract representation. We also do a lot more of one concept at a time, only to move on to the next while kids forget the first. The result is that kids learn to blindly follow poorly learned procedures, hoping to do it well enough to pass the test before forgetting the concept. And then the following year do it all over again, having forgot the material from last year.

Yeah, yeah, we have an official curriculum, sequencing, and there is lots of verbiage in official documents about how and when kids are supposed to get reminded, etc. But I described what ACTUALLY tends to happen. And you only have to glance at test scores to realize that the official narrative about what is learned is more myth than reality.
Who could possibly have thought that it was a good idea? It makes absolutely no sense.
I think the UX of a stream limit matters...

If, for example, when you click "play", some other user on your account gets kicked off with an error about hitting the stream limit, then you will forever be worried about hitting that limit and inconveniencing family - so you may upgrade sooner. Being kicked out mid show and unable to continue until you click to upgrade is going to lead to lots of people upgrading in frustration.
> Generative AI has enabled human level comprehension and reasoning in software...

Lost me at the first sentence by not understanding the basics...
Do people still conventionally type on phone keyboards? 90% of the time I'm either swiping words (on Gboard) or using voice to text.
As a Native Dutch speaker that story reads like it’s written in an alternative ancient Dutch ancestor, very different vind then what I usually get from German.
> LAION “only maintains a database containing links to image files that are publicly available on the Internet,” arguing that it does not keep the image data so there it can’t delete the file.

So, the Pirate Bay defense?
Perhaps true...but some grim consequences for the chief screw-ups at the top of First Republic's management might just reduce the longer-term incidence of Problems with No Easy Solution.
Sweden participated in enforcing Libyan no-fly zone in 2011.
Thank you for "asking" and have the luck of appearing in the first page in HN. I am sure many here wonder why. There are more complex pieces of software that find a way to abstract the problem in a nice interface.
According to sources gathered by Statista, Asia Pacific is the largest market for gaming: https://www.statista.com/statistics/539572/games-market-reve...

(in billion U.S. dollars)

- Asia Pacific - 87.9

- North America - 48.4

- Europe - 32.9

- Latin America - 8.4

- Middle East & Africa - 6.8
Netflix has family accounts. But god forbid you live in another country and pay the subscription for your boomer parents back home - as not just a courtesy, but also as they’re not capable at all of managing things digitally. Apparently this is a racket
Actually the space rocket did alright, but he clearly knows nothing about reinforced concrete and silica dust exposure!
Binaries for “fsevents” NPM package hijacked by security researcher
> Four adults that live in four different houses sharing one Netflix account might not ever bump up against the four concurrent stream limit. Their concurrent usage might be quite similar to a family of four under one roof.

Realistically, the case to allow password sharing is four family members, living under the same roof, but not sharing the same internet connection.

If the family is watching Netflix on their own phones over cellular (respectively: on train, out walking, at work, at school), you can't impose password-sharing restrictions on the account without fucking more than one of them over.
> Ownership of land is an illogical concept anyway. The government doesn't own the land either, it is merely protecting it from intruders and enforcing the law it wrote.

I don't see how this doesn't extend to all property. If it does, perhaps ownership is "logically" impossible, so we're going to need a new word to mean what everyone's using "ownership" to mean now, because it's a useful word.
Did they? This should certainly reduce their expenses related to their streaming infrastructure. And if most of the affected people weren't paying anyway, it will have little or no effect on their revenue. It will result in less word of mouth, and possibly a bit of negative press.

If subscriptions don't go up afterwards and streaming infrastructure costs are a sufficiently small portion of their total expenses, then I could see it being a net negative. In any case, their biggest problem is that their content has become so mediocre, but this action won't have any effect on that.
Exactly. That's why it's baffling to see them spend, what? 100-200? million dollars just on Joe Rogan, to then spend 0 dollars in podcast UI improvements.

I could imagine taking a Netflix-style approach perhaps, where you fund small-ish podcast producers and see what sticks. Perhaps develop a podcast-specific UI mode. Maybe create a monetization platform for podcasts (similar to Substack) so that you can attract talent and then extract the all-too-familiar XX% in platform fees?

I mean, I'm sure Spotify employees have thought of these things before, it's not like these ideas are revolutionary. But I see nothing that makes my Spotify subscription a must-have.
I suppose what you're looking for is a study based on children adopted by PhDs.

My intuition says genetics is vastly less important than memetics. Success is almost certainly proportional to ability to manage dopamine and I think nurture is probably vastly more important than nature (although I think nature can assert itself forcefully).

This certainly seems to suggest that genetics probably is not a key factor:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/rich-pe...

Because things like success are the result of many factors, I think the study is fair even in the absence of genetics. I have a hard time believing that genetics being a dominating factor for outcome would not be an obvious/major/easily discovered and proven finding.
> My current biggest complaint is apps putting widgets in the title bar area.

Agreed and I don't know what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My guess is that they _actually_ wanted to get rid of title bars altogether, and the current result is some kind of compromise between two factions that don't get along.

From where I sit, the current trend in UI design is to remove basically all "widgets", texture, style, and visual cues from the UI until you are left with the perfect "flat" UI... consisting of only text, some pictures, and a few tiny monochrome icons that force you to guess at what they do.

Since the GNOME devs seem to be over-represented by aspiring UI trend-followers, I suspect that this is where GNOME is ultimately headed as well.

> This would be less common if they hadn't made the title bar ridiculously huge in the first place.

IIRC, they started making the title bars huge in order to fit more things into it.
Thank you! I'll fix that. Feel free to leave more feedback!
I used a Sony PictureBook for a bit in 2001 running Linux (this exact one: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4548) and it was totally fine. Bigger apps like StarOffice were a bit sluggish at start but then be snappy in use. The battery life was really good for the time, I used it as a coffee shop laptop (although that time there were only maybe five coffee shops with wireless in Seattle and I was responsible for three of them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_C1_series
Nope. Both my Lucid and my Ioniq 5 just plug and charge at EA, and I’ve never had an issue with either.

Other stations require payment, but EVGo plug and charge works too if you’ve set it up ahead of time.
this article is terribly clueless. high-level languages such as basic had made pure assembly language a novelty? the sparc is a 'chipset'? transmeta invented vliw 11 years after multiflow (which isn't even mentioned)?

i don't have any complaint about people writing about things they don't know very much about; it's a great way to learn. i just don't think they should put on this fake authoritative tone, because they can mislead other people. i mean that's how we got the cda and dmca
very cool. Thanks
> Running your own instance is increadibly time consuming and difficult to understand how to secure and scale.

Tell this to phpbb/vbulletin/whatever forum admins. A huge chunk of those forums have been up and alive for 20 years and more. Yes, they are probably not super secure, do not support horizontal autoscaling and are not replicated across multiple datacenters. But who cares if they work and give the sense of community?..

Another example would be jabber/xmpp servers. Btw, google chat and facebook messenger were xmpp-based meaning you could chat with anyone outside of then-not-so-walled gardens. But this is a completely different story.
No. It would be a major surgery on the internals. See the article for my comment at the attempt to do this with the Zheap project:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Zheap
thanks for that, I buy organic white rice from california which appears to be the least bad origin in those papers
I know someone who was working an amazon warehouse job (as a regular entry-level warehouse worker, not as a manager or anything like that), did the internal amazon "learn to be an swe" training program (forgot the actual name, but iirc it is a 6-9 months long program) right before covid, and then converted to a SWE through that program. Currently, she is still employed as a SWE and makes typical amazon SWE salary rates (significantly above $150k). No tech background whatsoever.

This is still definitely possible, with a caveat that it just might not be as doable right at this specific point in time (given layoff waves and recession and all).
I run a misskey server on a VM on hardware dedicated to our stuff - we control the hypervisor on the boxes, we "own the IP space", manage backups, etc. Misskey is a federated activitypub instance; and in my opinion it is better than mastodon at being a "twitter replacement."

I checked the dashboard for my four user instance (myself and 3 others, total) and we're currently pub/sub to ~~5200~~ 5219 instances. I added a curated list of "journalists" across the federated activitypub realm, around 1300. So now i have basically the "news" part of twitter, 24/7, without all of the jokes, memes, and trash found on twitter. I also am on fosstodon, but I maintain that as a backup for another mastodon instance i have an account on, where both the maintainer and the public face of the instance have a "you get what you pay for" / "that's tough, suck it up" mentality toward maintenance and downtime (they're approaching less than 1 nine for the month of april). I am unsure of how many accounts fosstodon has, the local feed is pretty slow, so i'd guess between 1000-5000 users, the other mastodon instance is capped at 10,000 users, and a job removes everyone who has not logged in for a year, and signups are once a year (and maybe a thing of the past, to hear the "leader" talk).

I really like misskey. I'd probably like something else more, as i can't admin misskey competently - most of the online help, advanced documentation, etc is in Japanese.

For the record: currently 600GB attached; 130GB used, 24GB for / and 105GB for the misskey/files folder. It has 8GB of ram and 4 threads; it uses all 8 without OOM, and ~5% of the CPU. I don't really know the network throughput, but it's on par with a webforum with 3600 uniques per day. activitypub and the fediverse allows for more multimedia to be shared, faster and with less friction, so that explains some similarities and differences i see between these two decentralized services.
Don’t buy Mavic Mini 1 because it uses wi-fi for connection. Rather buy Mini 2 which uses OcuSync and provides 10km range.
Disney is very protective of its brand, so having its own platform makes it very easy to control how its content is distributed / recommended / categorized. Plus they get to see micro details on how people engage with it - is there a spot in a film that is too tense, and kids stop? Or where action flags, and people take a break?
i've never seen a good visualization of the variety of non-animal landscapes across geologic time
Do any of these executives deserve credit for the hits when Netflix earned a reputation for greenlighting just about anything?
Yes this sounds like 1M potential customers for the ad-supported tier which makes more than a paying paid customer for now.
“Suddenly being able to largely automate so many formerly human-only tasks using plain language instructions makes me feel like the nature of the computing experience itself may be evolving profoundly.”

Can you provide some examples of the so many tasks that these LLM’s are performing for you that a human was needed before?