skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a "scientist" mentioned in your comment (they call us Research Engineers), I have to tell you that this is a business decision. One or more than one suit in the C-level made this decision.

And, as a scientist, you cannot build a model with a never-happened-before phenomena. Only "risk specialists", "risk engineers", etc. which are different names for BSers will even try to "predict" this.

How can one build a "model" with no x (password policing enforcement) and only y (stay or drop) is beyond me. If anyone does, I will show you an idiot/BSer.

I am sure this is a business decision. Or MLEs/Deep Learning Engineers are going beyond the capabilities of their fields.

Sure, you can predict if a user is going to drop if a show he was binging is going away or his watching pattern, time spent watching, etc. But to build models with password policing enforcement? Hah!

Trying to predict whether this decision is harmful in the long run is not in the realm of science, but of art, business, or bullshitting.

I don't know if NFLX did a smaller scale pilot study and tried to build a model, but that would be inadequate.

Note: Never worked for Netflix.
> Performance is still dependent on user behaviour, no? If you have a user that follows 10k people then your server is going to start getting a lot busier?

If you have a user that starts following 10k user in a short time, you have a spam bot and not a user.

The fediverse is not made in such a way that your social circle grows quickly. You usually starts by following people on your own instance, then people whose content is boosted by them and it only happens slowly and gradually.
I’m checking in regularly to see if it’s Twitter yet (the only reason I’d use it) and so far it’s not. It’s slowly getting closer but still a long way off the time when you can just use it as a timeline of tweets from 100 known people like I use Twitter.

I realize becoming Twitter is a non-goal, but the actual goals are also uninteresting to most I think.
Eh source for that. AWS has had issues where a single Zone caused such a lack of capacity in the region that some multi-zone services degraded to the point of a domino fail-over. However I've not heard of any AWS event where a fire/flood in AZ A also caused a fire/flood in AZ B.
Yes? The largest causes of accidents are fairly well understood, if we decided it were worth the effort. Not coincidentally, this is why all the arguments for self-driving fall flat. Being as good as an average driver is a low bar. Being as good as a median driver is a harder task. But it's the latter that is the bar we have to pass if self-driving cars are ever to become mainstream.
Humans playing with fire is exacly how we evolved from a primitive society to who we are nowadays.
same for Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha or Our Blues
I had a similar thought.

I had a laugh years ago when I realized that jam and jellies are full of soluble fiber and my entire childhood my parents were sneaking fiber into my diet. My whole childhood was a lie!
When will this be jailbreaked?
This is original research.

As the word "train" refers to applying the uniquely human capability of acquiring information, the word "upload" seems the most appropriate term fallback to use when referring to putting information into some AI system.

You're welcome!

Reference: open any dictionary and look up the word "train". Choo choo!
Like what? Everything you do as a tradesmen can be done safely. They aren't moving their bodies in ways that humans aren't supposed to.

The only people that tout stuff like this are overweight office workers that sit on their butts all day trying to make excuses for their sedentary lifestyles.

I don't meet many tradesmen that have heart attacks at 40.
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Use of the word orcs is incredibly unfortunate as it's clear you're just trying to dehumanize other people. I get why, but I don't think the ends justify the means.
I hope the OTT isnt a bearer token but like a private key used to sign requests

Also:

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I agree, I like 1.1 speed. The playback dropdown actually has a "custom" button in the top right of the dropdown on the desktop view of the site. You can set 1.05 and 1.1 playback speeds with it. It's a little annoying to use on mobile, as you have to switch to "desktop" view in the browser and can't use the app.
It's etiquette (maybe even a rule?) to clearly state when you have a relationship with something you're commenting on.
Few deer I saw did not seem to care at all about the drone. Neither have raccoons, beavers, squirrels, chipmunks and birds.
Later research found that opposite-sex similarity in some brain features actually correlates with homosexuality.

This wasn't accounted for in the earlier transsexual studies, because they were using subjects who were both homosexual and trans.
Not the exact same example as the "randomly give upgrades", but mintmobile just upped our plan a bit. I realize they did this across the board, but they did also ping us to let us know that a) we're getting upgraded data, b) it's not a one-off thing, and c) we're getting the same deal as new users.

Often when you see upped/higher data rates, it's "new customers only". This wasn't one of those cases.

Recently switched car insurance. I check every so often. Never bothered when the delta was $15/$20 over a 6 month period. Last week, there was a $200 delta, with better rate for lower deductibles. I bought new policy, went to cancel old one. Took 10 minutes of friendly text chat to keep saying "no, just cancel". At one point, the agent said "is there any possible thing I can do to keep you?". I said "no", then it went faster after that, but they'd tried "let me look for better rates" angle. WTF? You have some internal "better rates" that you don't give me up front? Makes me not want to go back in future.
This looks great! Is it publicly accessible anywhere? I couldn't find it.

I'm hoping to expand beyond GB and Ireland would be a great next step if the data is publicly available.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching 3b1b's videos. They're very intuitive for me.

> This video is not an outlier.

I would argue: this video is an outlier in that it's "best of the best". I've seen other videos. While they're usually "good", they're also usually very dry.
While we're at it. Ben Eater is the equivalent for Computer / Electronics fundamentals. Check him out of you haven't before.
> Back in the days, Netflix was a one-to-see-all service and that was also one of the reasons why it took people from torrenting to paying for movies.

Netflix streaming never had a good library of the most popular movies - especially after the initial STARZ partnership.
Found the tool extremely helpful and easy to use. Was able to discover some issues as well in my first few recordings on our app and the autofix feature works amazingly well. Great job guys!
It's like one of Murphy's law that in any conversation there must always be those who side with the big corporation hurt by the peasants
I'm curious on how a MS merger would be good? At the start, they would almost certainly try to merge user accounts into MSN accounts. Likely force a migration down the line, after merging doesn't work.
So? There are plenty of written works from before copyright. There would be more if we had been better about preservation. People will still write without copyright. Maybe the quality will even go up as there are fewer incentives for quantity over quality.

If your argument for copyright relies on protecting speicific jobs then you have no argument. Jobs become obsolete all the time.

If you want welfare then argue for that. Best if it isn't restricted to a small class of people.
To learn and try to understand that is the goal of human life. How can we possible understand our planet if we destroy all of its resources, kill off its diversity of life before we have an inkling of the complexity of how it works?

We can continue to exist and learn without killing off the planet.
highway/road landings of small aircraft happen in the US on a pretty regular basis.

the biggest risk is still probably power lines, not cars. a small aircraft landing on a road will be going about the same speed as highway traffic, so unless it's really busy, drivers will usually notice an airplane in front of them and have time to slow down.
How the motors were killed? Were they melted their coils or was anything cracked?
So Murdoch is fuckhead because he decided not to share content that his companies produce with other streaming providers?
Brave has vertical tabs built in nowadays (though they're behind a flag, but they're more or less mature now), designed in a very similar way to Edge's.

https://imgur.com/a/dAAysvy
There is a "vibrancy" to social networks that are growing that is difficult to quantify or even explain. I'm still on IRC, I'm still on some phpbbs that the average age of the users must be somewhere in the middle 50s, and which might get 10 new sign ups every year. They started out big, but the attrition is much greater than any growth (I doubt that most of the new signups even stick around).

That's why social networks seem so magical early on, not only is everyone you like maybe on them, but there will be new people in the next week, month, or year that you'll like too. New things and new ideas are possible. But at some point, this turns sour. Eternal September describes that phenomenon, I think, but doesn't explain it well.

In some unfortunate networks, I think the latter can come even before the former (preempting it, making it impossible). You don't ever get the golden age.

Mastadon looks alot like this. Ignoring the politics, it looks alot like Voat did, and all the "we didn't learn the lessons of Voat" reddit alternatives that came after. It's almost as if you can't build a social network as a refugee tent city and make anything that anyone wants. Maybe that's the problem. In such a place where everyone is fleeing, there is nothing new there. It's all the same old people who were at the last place with you, there is nothing new about it.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to be spending some time soon on the UX so I'll add this to the list to look at.
Why the Equinix is priced relatively similar, and is a better car.
Here's an amusing video [1] that demonstrates this.

The first part is a bunch of different famous songs' lyrics sung over the music to the Gilligan's Island theme. The second part is the lyrics to the Gilligan's Island theme sung over the music of different famous songs.

Most of the first half is using old folk songs and such, and each is pretty short.

The second half, where it is singing Gilligan over other music, has more recent popular songs, such as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Stairway to Heaven", "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida", "Ghost Riders in the Sky", and "Mack the Knife", and they do the full Gilligan's Island lyrics.

Of the Gilligan over other songs, probably the best are "Mack the Knife" [2] and "Ghost Rider in the Sky" [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adIzx0VXTS0

[2] https://youtu.be/adIzx0VXTS0?t=645

[3] https://youtu.be/adIzx0VXTS0?t=556
I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to describe woke. It’s mostly genders and race, it becomes a problem when you’re trying to watch a movie and you start noticing the minority token that exists exclusively to gain imaginary social points but adds nothing to the story.

This isn’t anything new however, cinema is soft power and the US has been at it for nearly a century now.
> It is still very effective, it took you a day later to respond to the parent.

My apologies for not being terminally online.

> Instead you decided to come up with a typical anecdote which can easily be dismissed.

Which is fair, but

1. It still makes your "silence" comment look premature, and

2. If even I can still get mails delivered to GMail inboxen as an ordinary person running a personal mail server, an actual (legitimate) business should have no trouble with that whatsoever, and

3. There was more in that comment besides the anecdote, and your decision to dismiss it out-of-hand - much like your decision to prematurely declare the existence of "silence" on a topic - does not reflect charitably on you.

> The main fact is, almost everyone knows that you lose LOTS of users emailing you once a provider like GMail blocks you

Do you have any examples of GMail blocking its own users from sending an email to a domain it doesn't like? Like I mentioned in the other comment: it's more typical for it to be the other way around, and more typical than that for it to be a soft block (mail going to Spam) than a hard block (hard bouncing of mail).

Unless you've got such an example, calling that a "fact" (let alone the main one) would make Elastigirl pull a muscle; like sure, that'd indeed be pretty thoroughly inconvenient, much like it'd be inconvenient if Behemecoatyl took over my mind and compelled me to shut down my mail server, but I'm unaware for much (non-fictional) precedent for either. Even in my anecdotal case where AT&T does indeed hard-bounce emails from me to my grandpa, my grandpa can still send me emails just fine.
Will it work on windows though? Without any special installer permissions?
The people who were first online didn't represent the average person. Everyone's online now, it used to be a bunch of geeks and weirdos back then. I'm nostalgic as well but the times have changed.
Both sides use them for great effect in the same way.
You may find this Twitter thread of interest, it discusses excerpts from a book about the most common manifestation of gender incongruence: https://twitter.com/wundt_vil/status/1650983275190530049
Yes that's very true! Much to their benefit, Playstation has been positively aggressive in recent years, I would attribute a lot of that to Mark Cerny (and the core platform tooling team) learning from PS3 mistakes and making the platform prioritize ease of development, and also from Xbox's mistakes on trying to pivot to general entertainment.
Lol, I talked about very short snippets and you counter my argument with a video showing very short snippets.

If I wasn't scared before, I'm even less scared now.

But if all you do is write trivial code anyone can learn to write in 1 week, with extremely detailed instructions, perhaps your job is in danger indeed. That's not what a software engineer does anyway.
The graveyard of bedroom sets
And it completely devalues the content and their catalog.
tl;dr: Reducing meat consumption should not rely on meat substitutes, it's a losing game. It's much better to explore alternative vegan dishes than to expect plant-based or lab-grown products to replace something that the average westerner consumes almost every day.

I have reduced my meat and dairy consumption by well over 90% and I'd say that vegan meat substitutes are the worst option for people looking to reduce (or eliminate) meat consumption long term in terms of taste, texture, nutrition, climate impact (due to food processing) etc.

At best, you get a 'passable' substitute when you could be having a delicious and nutritious meal instead. You wont ever get the taste and texture of a prime cut, cooked chicken skin, bacon or anything of the sort – so why bother? There are countless great vegan dishes that leave you fully satiated and won't bore you like textured plant proteins (TPP) would if you ate them every other day.

Drastically reducing meat consumption required a change of habit and the way our family looked at food. If we ate meat/poultry every day, we couldn't rely on meat substitutes (aside from vat-grown meat, I guess), because you cannot really substitute the variety of cuts, fat to lean meat ratios, cooking versatility, organs (from pig ears to duck liver and beyond) that people consume. I found that consuming different types of TPP seven times a week, made me much more likely to throw in the towel well before someone who expanded their protein sources to chickpea (humus, falaffel), soy (tofu, tempeh), nuts (peanut and almond flour/butter), ate more mushrooms for the meaty flavor etc.

Eliminating cheese from my diet was the hardest part for me. I am not holding my breath for passable vegan cheese substitutes to appear any time soon. Now, I'd say nutritional yeast and peanut butter scratch the itch for basic fermented cheese for me.

To be fair, there is one meat substitute that I actually like – tofu spreads beat most liver pâtés. What I do is just blend some tofu with caramelized onions and nutritional yeast, add soy sauce or salt.
Always thought DC was a bada$$. He worked on NT, Azure, and Xbox. Would love to meet him.
Are you saying NVIDIA does not have a successor to the chip they provided Nintendo? I thought the deal with Nintendo was a decade+ long deal?
> CloudFront is anycast-routed

This is false, cloudfront uses DNS (geo & latency) based load balancing.
I'm stunned by this.

How is this even legal? The youtuber got the packs from the company through a logistical error, didn't sign an NDA or embargo agreement, and gets armed mercenaries at his door for 'leaking' when the company did.

This it's some criminal level of intimidation, something you expect from a gangster or a cyberpunk dystopia where companies bypass the state establishing arbitrary punishment for internal rules you didn't sing on.

I hope this guy lawyer up, and get as much as possible from them.

Why a company with the minimum brand awareness thought this was a good idea, it's still beyond me.
A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques
> When you make the cancellation process smooth and friendly, if that customer is reconsidering at a later date, they will remember that their last interaction with you was a pleasent one.

When I purchase a new subscription the first thing I do is cancel renewal so I can do it manually. When a site makes this easy I'm actually much more likely to end up re-subscribing and leaving it on automatic since I know I'll be able to have peace of mind and cancel any time.
So here is the big question on Windows — can the final executable run when double-clicked or does it need to be given permissions by an installer?

Take a look at redbean server. How does it accomplish this?
The existance of Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Hacker News, Mastodon is proof this is not true.
I doubt there is much of a discussion to be had here, but at least you could try to get easily verifiable dates right.

Global cooling: 1970s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

Ozone layer depletion: succesfully mitigated starting in the 1980s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_for_the_Pr...

Anthropogenic global warming: scientific consensus since around 1990 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_First_Assessment_Report

For reference, it's the year 2023 now.
"You can, of course, run your own server. Just like you can run your own email server. And you will be blocked from the broader public discorse just the same. There will be no way for large instances to trust and allow every individual instance. The moderation work will be too much and they’ll end up trusting only large, established instances."

I don't think this is happening. Instances are only banned after they attract negative attention, not whitelisted, which would be antithetical to the idea of federation.
This is true colloquially. In engineering (or at least aerospace engineering, which is what I was studying) we more generally used slugs for mass in our calculations. Gravity/weight isn’t always constant after all, even on earth.

Not universally. We still talked about a rocket’s “pounds of thrust.” But for things like angular momentum, center of gravity, etc. those were usually calculated with slugs.
Meh, there's been fears of imports damaging the home country's manufacturing/economy for hundreds of years. It's why tariffs have existed for ages. If the government valued manufacturing at home, they've had the tools for years to make it happen.

Of course, are citizens ready to pay more than double in some cases? Not sure.
Not to forget the FOSS commitment from early Netflix.
There's some interesting research around toroidal propellers which move the same amount of air, but create far less turbulence and so make a less annoying noise. However, they're not going to get significantly quieter until the energy density of the batteries gets significantly better (a lot of what you're moving with a drone is your energy storage).

There's always a hope that someone might invent a really silent propellor, and there's some funky stuff you can do there with trailing edge profiles, but I don't think we'll see a huge leap beyond toroidals for a while.
Serializable mode is only useful in low throughput cases. You take a big performance hit and can easily have a bunch of queries waiting one each other until the queue fills up. I haven't used it in forever, I just make sure my stuff works with the default isolation mode. You also can't slap it on like a band-aid for unsure users. The DB client has to implement retry logic, which most Postgres libs don't seem to have, and the code has to careful not to cause side effects inside the retriable area.

Spanner and some other DBMSs are fully serializable always. They do a better job of that than Postgres, I guess cause they focus on it, but they're still a lot slower in the end.

What would be cool is some extension to watch your non-serializable transactions for concurrency anomalies like 1% of the time and use that tiny sample to alert you of race conditions. Like a thread sanitizer does for code. Does that exist??
All of this conditions on having a single goal: career success, or any other singular goal. Feeling the need to hustle non-stop might not be the 'best', whatever that means :)
I suppose without further research we won't have any clue what effect salt will or won't have on my emotional state ;)

But seriously, there is pretty much no point discussing the conclusions of such a deeply flawed paper.
Running an instance isn't expensive. Running an instance with 10,000 users might be, but you don't have to have lots of users. I run an instance and I can and do easily communicate with lots of other people on other instances without much effort at all.

I'd say that I've managed to find more people, with less effort who share some of the same interests as me and honestly I don't know which instance they are on because it didn't matter. Using hashtags to find content that you like, following a handfull of people and suddenly your feed comes alive.

Perhaps we should stop teating users like morons. Sure it's different but people learn.
I'm surprised the base price is only $2k.

I have no experience with drones, but based on the video, I was expecting it to be like a $40k product.
I wonder if he had a license that explicitly forbids AI training, and/or an appropriate robots.txt file, would that have strengthened his case, or not really?
Is this for development or deployment? Bothers me as well.
yeah, i think this is maybe the best video of a road landing ive ever seen.
Maybe but it becomes a lot less practical to store and manage the gas compared to batteries.

I suspect we’ll see tailsitter models come out eventually that combine the benefits of fixed wing aircraft.

Someone did make one with a lawnmower but it has death machine vibes:

https://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/gas-powered-quadcopter-...
> Yeah but you look really weird trying to give this email in person or over the phone.

That's not a problem. I look weird anyway.
It’s when there are shows about women, black, and gay people. I’m not joking - that’s what they are complaining about.
Self-hosted storage for your internal tools with Airplane
Quick note, Brave has Edge style vertical tabs now if you want the good stuff with a more privacy-respecting browser.

https://imgur.com/a/dAAysvy