skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Netflix churns out hundreds of thousands of hours of content each year

Uhh, how much content do you think Netflix is making?

There exists 8760 hours in a year.

To produce "hundreds of thousands of hours of content each year" would require producing almost 23 hours of content for every hour in the day. Every single day.

From its creation Netflix has only produced around 1500 original shows. Give a few hours per movie and maybe 10-50 hours per show depending on episodes and seasons.

No where close to hundreds of thousands of hours of content even since their inception.
It's probably making it up. I scrubbed the PII vs a list of fake names and info.
When you inherit $100M in property that comes with fairly large income streams.

A $600k house barely registers in the wealth / inequality spectrum the parent is talking about.
Going to repost his from a couple of days ago:

Back in the feudalism days the ruling classes typically took between a third and a half of what the serfs produced[2] which is what is happening now as rents are taking over 30% of take home pay in many areas of the country.

> This means that 37% of the average single person's salary now goes on rent, though this proportion is even higher in London: a staggering 52%.[3]

Considering there’s all the other taxes like council tax, income tax, vat and whatever else, the average worker is most likely paying the same amount (or possibly more) to the ruling classes that they did in medieval times.

It's not "almost" modern feudal like system. It is. No other way of looking at it.

[2]https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/feudalism.html

[3]https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/single-person-salary-rent-p...
People who believe themselves to be more intelligent than others have an easier time rationalizing anything just to maintain that image. It’s just arrogance in my view.

One way to detect this is to see how many public apologies, corrections, withdrawals, opinion reversals they have done in public. There aren’t too many front page news that sound like “Shit, I guess I was wrong about my position, I apologize for my condescending comments…”
It’s like the book “Why Nations Fail”. The elites wind up wrecking things as soon as they can consolidate all the power.

They (stupidly) would rather have all of a small, shrinking pie, rather than sticking with a smaller slice of a much, much larger pie. Even if they themselves would have been better off taking the smaller proportion.
Yes. But if you follow the laws of the Torah, you may run into some issues:

https://en.toraland.org.il/beit-midrash/halachic-guides/mitz...

For complicated reasons, this is only strictly checked for grapes and for etrogim AFAIK.
Compiling to native on whatever random chip is always a recipe for hassles and random incompatibilities which need work to unravel/fix. Having a spec that chip manufacturers can implement (and that can be trivially tested) and/or a JVM that can be exercised and ported to a chip once and validated removes the vast majority of the integration work.

Does it always make sense? No. But clearly a bunch of folks have found it valuable in many niches.
‘It’s Pseudoscience’: George Monbiot Blasts Regenerative Grazing In Heated Debate with Alan Savory

https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/george-monbiot-r...

Monbiot said that there was no empirical evidence that holistic management could mitigate the climate crisis. He went on to say that there is also no evidence it can offset the emissions it produces itself. On the contrary, he said that there’s “loads of contradictory evidence showing that grazing livestock systems are a major net loss of carbon into the atmosphere.” He highlighted that there had been several papers published recently that found removing animals from land allows more carbon to be sequestered. “Far from livestock grazing helping to mitigate climate breakdown, it actually accelerates climate breakdown,” he said.

He pointed out that Savory’s claims had been debunked repeatedly, and added that there are “several words” that can be used to describe a claim for which there is no evidence or that has already been debunked. “One of them is pseudoscience,” he said. “One of them is mumbo jumbo… But perhaps the most appropriate one in this case is bullsh*t.”

The debate: https://www.youtube.com/embed/rhwEaCmQ2XE
TIL: IA is more than Wayback Machine.

Something I'd love to learn to do better is search WBM. I use WBM only a couple of times per month, but when I need it it's the only tool that can do the job and is therefore very valuable. Trouble is, I don't really know how to search it unless I have a record of the exact URL I want, which isn't always possible.
>Reigning Champ

$75 for a boxy cut and arm circumference so huge that Arnie would be swimming in them?

>Arc'teryx

I went to their site using a VPN and got this obnoxiousness:

SECURITY CHECK REQUIRED
Sorry for the interruption, but something in your browser indicates you might be a bot.
Please press and hold the button to prove you're human.

There was no button... SMH
I'm reminded of this DFW quote:

"Here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship."
>No incentive, right? If you mess up as a CA, you go out of business because every browser drops you.

Not going out of business is not the only possible incentive though. Security is a pretty key part of the sales pitch of every cloud provider: "We can do this better than your in-house team" they keep saying.

No one is going to move 100,000 employees off Microsoft over this, but what about signing up the next 100,000? Will it impact next quarter's growth figures?

And for the people directly responsible for security at Microsoft breaches like these may be a career risk or at least a huge embarrassment. There will be meetings. People will get blamed. Some will feel they haven't met their own professional standards.

There's no lack of incentives.
what's the threat model?
Your comment about pickling reminded me of something novel I saw recently - fast-pickling with whipped cream chargers. I haven't tested this, but the claim is that the high pressure drastically accelerates the pickling process (I believe the example I saw was a ten minute cucumber pickle)
No. She had a wealthy family.
Not having much luck running non-strict Node.JS classic scripts in Bun using CommonJS/require. Errors about strict mode despite not using "use strict";. Is there a flag to allow such scripts to run?
How to build an Internet that doesn’t suck
Browserless: Scalable headless Chrome instances as a service
Interesting, I have wild strawberries growing on my property and they are pretty tasteless in my experience, but I'm at a low altitude.
That’s very cool. Thanks so much for the detailed explanation
Apple TV+ bid for UK soccer streaming rights unlikely to proceed
For the rec, comment I'm replying to highlights two simultaneously released papers that both include 4 of the 5 authors of the 2020 paper, Proximal Origins, that is in question by the Nate Silver piece that headlines this HN post. (The 5th author, Lipkin's "view has changed":

"The revelation that the WIV was working with SARS-like viruses in subpar safety conditions has led some people to reassess the chance that SARS-CoV-2 could have emerged from some type of laboratory incident. “That’s screwed up,” the Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin, who coauthored the seminal paper arguing that covid must have had a natural origin, told the journalist Donald McNeil Jr. “It shouldn’t have happened. People should not be looking at bat viruses in BSL-2 labs. My view has changed.”

quote source:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...
Your proposed fix would make the 1% completely happy. The poorest people spend 100% of their income and thus 100% of their income would be subject to that tax. Rich people invest and spend only a small portion of their income, and so only a small portion of their income would be subject to a tax.
Please make it multilingual (Spanish). Some people here don’t speak good english
You can do it yourself and it’s fascinating. I have a black doris plum which seems to refuse all grafts, but my apple tree probably has 10ish varieties growing off it.
Most are only able support one apple, but the older grafts should be able to take several this coming season.

I am no expert but all you need is some grafting secateurs, some grafting tape and some twigs from a related tree (same genus). For example, apple or pear will go on the same tree, citrus won’t.

You make sure the grafted twig is about the same size the twig it’s attaching to, bind it up with tape and leave it. The bark grows across cut and strengthens with time.

There are loads of YouTube and website guides, here is one.

https://minnetonkaorchards.com/how-to-graft-an-apple-tree/#:....
It’s interesting to see how they are piling up complexity as the time passes. Sad to discover new features varnished by marketing terms that on the technical side attempt to fix the problems arised from previous solutions and narrow and struggle the ways to use them.
The last 4 paragraphs of that piece feel like it was AI generated. The overall nonspecificity and upbeat positive prose feels like something output by ChatGPT.
If you got in back then, there was some kind of promise that the price wouldn't go up. Newer customers don't get that deal. Make sure your payment method is always up to date or they'll cancel it and you'll have to restart with the new terms.
There's a big differentiator:

Bun is written in Zig while Deno is in Rust.

edit: I find this to be a big differentiator for those wanting to better understand how their tools work and hack/propose code changes when desired.
Academia seems to lean on the side of crap for the most part. That being said I've grown a keen, if naive, interest as I've enjoyed past mentoring opportunities. I remember reading a post of someone hosting a programming workshop at their local library and I feel it would be a worthy and approachable step towards feeling it out.
Reminds me a lot of some of the ACOUP academic explanations, although those are history not science focused. The feel about academia being a tiny exclusionary club is the same.

https://acoup.blog/2023/04/28/collections-academic-ranks-exp...

https://acoup.blog/2022/12/23/fireside-friday-december-23-20...

https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-...
Read the book of Job.
There are different kinds of lidars that use different wavelengths and sensing methods.

For self driving car use, the difference between a small lidar that's on a phone or vacuum cleaner and the one on a car would be the amount of power used such that objects far away can be detected, and the ability to operate in automotive environments (noisy power supply, high temperatures, lots of vibration).
If the law makes apple ban 3d party e2e encrypted apps along with its own, UK sales of iphones will be a good test of society's current values.
Is it also too much to ask that someone explain how they think a technology which has been chosen by market participants and is used widely and (apparently) successfully by them does not actually match the real constraints of the market or participants?

And perhaps proposes a concrete alternative that matches those constraints better?

Don't forget to include things like long term support, developer time, interoperability, etc.
> the same reason that made jQuery popular.

jQuery emerged from a lack of standardization and features in web browsers. It was a huge step forward and some of it's core features were standardized as extensions of the DOM interface (DOM queries are an example of this)

> most often because they can't

The issue isn't skill, it's a question of common architecure. A batteries included framework gives you exactly one choice for each part of your core architecture, which accelerates development because you don't have to worry about it. In addition, it saves you time and _immense_ costs on maintaining the core architecture of your app. React is a bad example due to it's simplicity, but take Angular or Ruby on Rails. Lot's of choices made for you, so you can benefit from the ecosystem.
The whole point of doing it one at a time was to show the scale. Completing it quickly was not the goal
Nixon Letter 3/21/1994 to Pres. Bill Clinton RE Russia – EYES ONLY [pdf]
Recently declassified.

Article here:
The Ukraine War Wouldn’t Have Surprised Richard Nixon https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ukraine-war-wouldnt-have-su... no paywall for article: https://archive.is/CpfLL
80% of our current energy still comes from fossil fuels. The world runs on it. There isn't a simple solution that's economically and politically viable. It takes time to change that without drastically altering people's lifestyles. We saw how untenable that was in the longterm during Covid lockdowns.
>Back in the feudalism days the ruling classes typically took between a third and a half of what the serfs produced[2] which is what is happening now as rents are taking over 30% of take home pay in many areas of the country.

Did the serfs get free housing under feudalism? Otherwise you can't really compare how much the serfs were taxed compared to how much people today spent on rent.

>Considering there’s all the other taxes like council tax, income tax, vat and whatever else,

All of that funds social services and the welfare state, something that serfs didn't.

edit:

...that serfs didn't get
I disagree a little with the first item. Copper has a higher conductivity than gold, so there isn't an advantage in electrical performance to use all gold conductors. It's only used in specific portions of a circuit board that you want to prevent from oxidation. Even if gold was cheaper than copper, you wouldn't want to make your whole circuit with gold metal.

Even on IC's, which don't use a lot of metal, they switched to copper traces for the performance benefits.
My first job working for minimum wage in a theater, I was invited to go to IHOP or someplace like that after we closed. I asked what they talked about and the answer I got was, "mostly work politics", so I suppose that was a good early lesson for 15 year old me that basically wherever you get two people together, you will get politics.

My suspicion for the reason that academia is seen as being so political is because they're actually not very good at it. The top of the heap of political practitioners in my experience tend to be the VP+ level leadership in publicly traded companies.
Mankind punished for sinning against the environment.
The thing is that they never have to liquidate. They’re given an outsized leverage because any bank will lend them money with the assets as collateral, and they never have to pay tax on that cash (unless you consider low interest given to a bank tax).
Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society’
I have used this previously when tracking health metrics and I couldn't much else that had integrations. https://exist.io/
The fact Google's own documentation is this poorly kept is a astonishing.

Makes me a firm believer companies should have their documentation on GitHub (or similar) so anyone can make a PR to tidy these things up.
Myrtillus is the bilberry. High-bush blueberries (corymbosum) are the farmed variety in North America and while there are wild high-bush varieties, wild blueberries most commonly referring to the smaller, sweeter, low-bush varieties.
I wish that were the case, but we wouldn't have such a problem with inequality if the only defenders of the system were trolls.
Quality of life has massively degraded in absolute terms. It has degraded because a huge fraction of productivity that used to be dedicated to improving the lives of average people is now dedicated to improving the lives of the extremely wealthy.
In some situations a renter may decide to improve a property at their own cost, when the property is sold it has a higher value and the new landlord is likely to want to recoup that cost.. So they are buying and renting their contribution.

There are some people with limited choices where that is rational but for a lot of people that is a wake up call to stop improving things they rent.
> Apple isn't even a person

Legally, that pile of paperwork gives the Apple corporation some rights of a person. Obviously it is not a living, breathing person in the biological sense. But it is treated as one from a legal perspective.

Should it be? That's a different question. Changing that would probably upend contract law.

IANAL

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
Disagree. The line is with intent. What you intend to do with the creation is what usually dictates the legal ramifications. This is of course hard (or impossible) to prove, so demonstrating actions to distribute is a good proxy to intent.
What was the conclusion of this paper? The link's conclusion was truncated.
In academia, this typically means being attached to more prestigious institutions.
^ You nailed it. The only issue tracker you need today comes with your source code repo. Both github and gitlab are not only more than sufficient, they are arguably better because the stripped down natures keeps people from doing silly things like all the jira anti-patterns.
I wish I were joking but I'm not... Shit like this has been going on for years.
It is funny as Apple no longer use Fundamental Human Rights as reason or excuses.

I guess they do constantly read some press / Twitter and forum to adjust their PR strategy.
The age of the lang is not the point, the popularity / adoption of it is.

Lost of things are created and never get exposure for decades after their creation
Active Desktop resurrected. Nice.
Time to bring back asylums?
No paywall: https://archive.is/RK7dH

Author David M. Oshinsky is per Wikipedia an American historian, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine[1] and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.
> Isn't this sort of what Amazon Lightsail is? (Haven't actually used it, but am under the impression it abstracts away networking config).

Yes. Many services abstract networking. App Runner, for example, even gives you a public URL with HTTPs. Lambda also can do that nowadays. Most managed services just expose endpoints.

> I'll probably get downvoted, but isn't global addressing + firewalling basically available by creating a VPC with only public subnets, and using security groups as your firewall? (Best practice is public/private subnets with NAT gateways, but it's probably not impossible to rely only on security groups)

I will also disagree with what others are saying. You can keep things simple in AWS if your use case is simple and never care about 99% of what's on the AWS VPC dashboard.

If your use case is complex (you need to connect several internal private apps, expose private things behind a single IP / FQDN, do load balancing, use private DNS, connect with other clouds and on-premises, segregate, monitor and authenticate traffic...) then using physical appliances would likely require more hard work and expertise.

A fun exercise to folks complaining about AWS complexity: go to Fortinet's web site and try to find out which appliances you should use to secure a small company (~ 100 employees, couple of public internet facing services, couple of internal apps), how much it costs and how can you buy it.
oh ya I'm saying we need to achieve net zero plus have carbon removal. We need to be net negative, we are already in catastrophe territory as far as much carbon is in the atmosphere (I am not a scientist to be clear).
I reckon you could do some cool things with mice and neural implants and large language models.

Find a way to semi-automate the process of fitting the neural implant, and you should be able to do science a lot faster too.
This up conversion can still make sense even if the interest rates don’t go down as with the 800k/5% mortgage, a larger portion of your monthly payment is made up of interest, thus also your tax bonus is higher and in net terms you can end up ahead even in time horizon of 20+ years before the down conversion.
For me it was new :)
I appreciate what you're saying, but honestly, my experience is that zerosum thinking is the norm not the outlier, and honestly I've seen more than two handfuls of people's lives get fucked up because of it over the past say 2-3 years.
The poorest mostly live in the developing world that's still catching up and has the highest birth rates. Yes, their carbon footprint is low now. But their energy needs will keep going up until they fully develop and the global population peaks (a couple billion more people from now). It's unclear to what extent clean energies will meet their increasing demand, at least before the world can decarbonize, whenever that happens.
Thomas Pikkety's books (Capital in the 21st century, etc) are an excellent and comprehensive data-driven analysis that examines the state of inequality today, all over the world, compared to centuries of history.

For those not in the mood to read a 700 page tome, listen to his lectures (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofjozfEr-U, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i5x_MrTuYs). I promise it's worth it.
> What I learned was that just figuring out the right answer is indifferent to change people’s minds, even in science

Seems too strong a conclusion.
Exactly, and the same script is being played all over again with a different tune.
Even in other medicine fields and academia.
I assume you are referring to the UR-browser. Despite being closed source, it seems to have better privacy policy compared to Chromium. By using chromium or many of its derivatives, you are automatically lending credibility and subjecting yourself to anti-user features like these. Chromium is one of those software that I consider as open source, but not free/libre. It absolutely doesn't respect users' interests. The usual argument of "but it's open source, modify it" isn't practical either, because the code base is too massive and complicated.

Despite all that, I would recommend only FOSS browsers with good privacy policy - because they exist.
Some people go a bit crazy, here is a man who has grafted 250ish varieties. Sorry about the Daily Mail link.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437247/amp/250-var...
This is such a generalization that I deem it devoid of value. Besides the fact that not all hiring decisions happen that way, R1 institutions are not the only ones around. If you have a passion for teaching and want to stay engaged in research, there are other options like primarily undergraduate institutions. There are good reasons to prefer industrial posts to academia, and vice versa.
It's wild that we expect doctors to know anatomy and lawyers to know legal reasoning, but software developers get some kind of magical pass on understanding how computers work. And not just a pass, a very aggressive, defensive one, too. I think it's unconscionable to call yourself a developer and not know how the computer works, because underneath all of that NodeJS magic garbage is the same operating system, processor, and logic gates.

Effective developers have, at a minimum, a basic understanding of what all of those things are doing. No, you don't need to hand-roll assembly, but maybe understand what memory is and how it's allocated, for example. Except you'd be hard-pressed to find (web) developers who can even tell you the basics of memory allocation now.

And people lament that software is slow and terrible. I wonder why.
Wall Street heavyweights mixed ahead of Nasdaq 100 rebalance
I assume they're referring to the technology. Ie immutable ledgers, merkle trees, etc. You're referring to crypto coins.

An immutable ledger != bitcoin.