skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bigger "why" is that there's a huge glut of content: There's waaaaay more TV than I could ever hope to watch.

For awhile, every time I opened Netflix it was promoting a new series with a full season.

Part of the reason why I won't bother with "new" streaming services is that I don't want "yet another subscription," but the other reason is that I simply don't have time to watch all that TV.
The difficulties involved in managing offshore talent are not solely due to remote work and timezones. And managing LATAM talent doesn't involve timezone issues.

Companies that really think that they can benefit from foreign knowledge labor are readily capable of opening foreign subsidiaries. No immigration bureaucracy gets in the way of that.

You could remove the H1B quotas tomorrow, and the fact remains that employers will prefer American talent when they can get it. Because cultural barriers are cultural barriers regardless of immigration status.
It sounds not just infeasible, but comically infeasible. For the sake of argument, let's assume that it's easy to improve ICEs in general by 5%. You still have to apply that upgrade to all the existing engine designs, ideally as drop-in replacements, and then swap all those engines in the wild.
If you leave it to that, most people don't care. They'll take whatever's cheapest, and what damage it does to the environment or other people is not a consideration. All of that stuff is happening far away, over long periods of time, but the nickel saved is right here and right now. If you want to leave it up to all 8 billion people in the world to take individual responsibility to end climate change, extinction, slavery, etc. then the approximate change accomplished is something approaching zero.
They misspelled “amount”

“amountt: $('#transferval').val()”

But great dive into FiveM! Had no idea it came bundled with Vue.
The problem with prestige TV is that most people just want to watch garbage.

The path to profitability is reruns of Cheers, low budget quiz shows and (scripted) reality TV.
Every web-based message board has a better interface than the Usenet newsreaders did, if only because web message boards have more affordances for features than newsreaders do.
People are probably looking for a good place to discuss books they've read.
Can you articulate the ways in which it seems not-a-social-network to you?

Comparison with reddit might be useful.

The only fundamental distinction I can draw is that there's no unified source of identity in usenet. All the rest of the differences come down to moderation policies.
But you can't edit any of the qemu arguments?

I wanted to run some risv emulation, and I need to remove some device from the default args UTM has, and nope. Not editable.

Unless I'm missing something..
> I like Teams

I believe this may be the first time I've heard anyone say that.
How are brain infections of other types normally diagnosed?
> I'm a Microsoft critic on lots of fronts, but I can't understand how people consider bundling teams with office to be anti competitive. Isn't team communication essentially a modern feature of a productivity suite that you'd expect to see included?

No. Team communication can happen just fine without some ridiculous chat program. Many businesses just want office and have other methods of communication, and want to use other chat apps. If teams is included in Office, it will make it harder for other companies to sell their products. People should pay for what they want, and not get a bunch of useless, bloated junk along with it.
They're probably referring to dynarmic: https://github.com/merryhime/dynarmic
Having been in the IT industry since 1992 - I did use a free Usenet server, probably provided by my ISP.

Used the "comp.*" heirarchy mostly, discussing technical topics and answering questions - in 1996, a publisher (Wiley!) sent me a box of books - apparently I had helped one of their authors and they wanted to thank me.

On-one-hand, I would like to try it again - OTOH, I think spam and/or bots would overwhelm it to the point of uselessness.
Obviously yes, the more complex the more difficult. And if it's a technology you don't have experience with it's going to be extremely difficult to impossible. But that's not what I'm talking about.

I'll give a clearer example taken from my actual job:

At my job, we needed to use a NodeJS library to accomplish something. We found one, but it eventually fell out of maintenance. We discovered a bug that was blocking us from continuing to use it, so we had the choice: fork it or find an alternative. We chose to find an alternative because even though we had the technical capability and understanding to fork the library and fix the bug, we realized that would be one more piece of infrastructure that would take time and energy from our team which are a finite supply.

It's more equivalent of an airline pilot saying "I wish I had more time and energy to fly a plane for fun, and not just for work." The ability is there, just not the bandwidth.
Sorry but you are pretty much missing the entire point, maybe you aren't in the us but this doesn't work like you expect. Nasa has really limited budget options. Congress points them toward specific things like Artemis and funds those. Nasa often has to use a tiny bit of money on the side for the irreplaceable things like voyager being continued and upgrading the DSN - all the money in the world can't replace them without decades of effort, for example.
...so then they inherit the earth?

I wonder if this sort of thing is cyclical. The next dark age, caused by the earth being overrun by the fecund and illiberal peoples of the world until they can only eat themselves. Maybe a plague wipes them all out and they are too poor/illiterate/unlucky to survive it. 600 years later, someone re-invents the internet, for people to use to post that they don't want kids.

I don't think "let's make some babies to keep those extremists at bay" is the sexiest of pillow talk. But then again, I have dated individuals with severe enough views on the world where I could see that actually working. :)

My lifespan is too short to worry overmuch about any of it.
You may be decreasing premature deaths from cancer but increasing premature deaths from other causes related to screening, thus you don't increase life expectancy. Read the original article in JAMA.
This looks like a great project. Medieval manuscripts used something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_abbreviations

You can go back even farther to ancient inscriptions. Humans have been trying to save a few characters here and there for quite a while.
Thank you. I am prescribed some meds that could be effecting me.
> (which is why they will never agree to WGA demands to release viewership numbers in order to pay writers residuals; their stock would go to 0 if those numbers ever became public)

I wonder what percentage of streaming hours on Netflix is toddler and preschool shows like CoComelon?
Yeah I think they meant if Compose worked with any other Docker equivalent, they wouldn't care specifically for Docker itself.
I've never used multiple monitors. I've also never talked about that fact, because why would I? Only people who use multiple monitors have reason to talk about them, so discussion is biased in favor of seeming like people use them.

(I've never even tried multiple monitors. I could immediately think of several reasons why they would not be an improvement for me, so made a quick decision in 1998 and moved on.)
> Engildification. Of which there should be more!

There are. You will just never find them with Google.
What amazes me is that you just can't opt out, short of jumping off a cliff. Everything you do involves the destruction of non-renewable resources. If you look at what you produce in terms of garbage and other waste every month it is completely insane. Everything is packaged in plastic, high grade cardboard, glass etc. The amount of energy and materials required is ridiculous. And yet, not a month goes by or something that used to be packaged in paper suddenly is only available in plastic, something that was available in re-usable glass is only available in plastic and so on. The hold-outs seem to be beer bottles but I don't drink beer...
> People (and I include myself) are simply unwilling to accept that their lives have to change

The real tragedy is that a fair amount of this change would make people's lives better.

For example, more walkable human scale communities, less combustion in vehicles and homes, more comfortable, healthier, and cheaper to operate homes, reduced air pollution for communities in the vicinity of power plants and industrial facilities.

But on the other hand, yes smaller houses and cars, less meat, etc are hard to adjust to.

> Barring some of unforeseen technical miracle the next 20-30 years are going to get increasingly grim.

Disagree on that. The technologies we need are all pretty ready or close. It's about bending cost curves and the rate of deployment.
Also relevant to note that although Nix builds individual derivations imperatively (call this compiler, write this file, rename this directory), it completely controls all the inputs to that imperative process.

This is fundamentally different from a Dockerfile or Ansible script which have no idea what the "starting point" of the target environment is and are pretty much just mindlessly imposing mutations on top of whatever happens to already be there.
People 'switched' to youtube instead of writing because everyone wants to be a star (although we call them 'influencer' these days).

Nobody⁺ gets 'famous' writing these days.
The thing you want exists. It's called the Fediverse. Don't like the politics? You wouldn't have liked Usenet in its heyday either.
I’m pretty terrible at this stuff but just got into a couple of CU and capital one, I’m branching out.

Help me understand, you have one checking account for one recurrent bill and then manually make sure that checking account has enough balance to cover that one recurring bill every month? That way nobody can drain your main funds, right? But what if there’s a big charge then you would be overdrafted?

I also saw qube recommended here on another thread as a simple way to make and close accounts easily (I think that’s the idea).

Unrelated, I like the extra protection credit cards give and the extra warranty and theft clauses. Hope visa and MC can get their act together.
Because it was seeded from Instagram, a platform which promotes people who look good (like myself, of course) not necessarily people with anything interesting to say. "Authentic conversations" was never a possibility.
Wireless carriers are price differentiating between credit cards which cost them more to process and debit cards or ACH transactions which cost them less. This is a good thing. It will take you all of five minutes to change your autopay from your credit card to your debit card.
> To your point, oftentimes the marriage wasn't considered valid if there were no children, after all, what evidence was there that the marriage had been consummated?

No, I don't know what culture or religion you're referring to, but this is absolutely backwards to what the Catholic Churches (and, by extension, other Christians) believe and teach.

First of all, every marriage that is going to be valid, is valid without consummation. Remember, Joseph married Mary and they never consummated: she retained her perpetual virginity, so that is our gold standard.

Now, traditionally for the Catholic Church, if the bride and groom were alone together after the wedding, consummation is presumed. It might be difficult to disprove a consummation, children or no children, because a married man and woman will naturally wish to do what is natural to their state in life, and will indeed be encouraged to have as much sex as they wish. Interestingly, if the man or woman is fully impotent and unable to complete the marital embrace, then the marriage is invalid from the start. The ability to consummate is vital to validity, but not the fact of consummation itself.

Christian marriages (and natural marriages) are valid from the moment the spouses exchange consent. The consent makes the marriage. Full stop. Of course, consent must be given by qualified persons, in an approved ceremony, before the proper witnesses, too.

Now, a consummated Christian marriage (between a baptized man and baptized woman) has a special property: it is absolutely indissoluble. There is nothing in Heaven or Earth that can separate the marriage bond in this case, except the death of a spouse.

Now it follows that if a consummated, sacramental marriage is indissoluble, then an unconsummated marriage may, in certain cases, be dissolved, and this is correct. If the couple finds trouble and procures a divorce, then the Catholic Church may grant a dissolution of the bond. This is different from a declaration of nullity ("annulment"). A dissolved marriage recognizes the validity of what came before, but for some reason it was broken up.

I hope that helps; Christian marriage law, and Catholic canon law, is rather confusing and surprising to most laypeople.
If ai can't use books to learn, perhaps we should ban people doing the same. No more book reports, and ban the ability to mention even the slightest theme from another book that's not public domain. Because the author of said book knows that content and therefore might use some of the same wording and this plagiarise on a micro scale.

What's the difference of a computer learning about The works of Dickens and then writing a similar book in style but with 99 percent different wording and a human doing the same?
It's not the "tragedy of the commons," it's capitalism. They're opposite things. The "commons" were fenced in and taken from the public by private entities. In the same spirit, a healthy environment and stable climate system are being taken from all of us by private corporations. I would argue, in fact, that if the public had control over these resources, we would govern ourselves in a far different manner that would not lead towards such a bleak future simply because we are motivated by short-term profits.

Elinor Ostrom has written an excellent book called "Governing the Commons," and she was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics for her work. I recommend it.
To "steel man" the argument put forward by the state: The government doesn't have the right to regulate speech, but does has the right to regulate how people behave and conduct themselves.

In meatspace, these concepts are distinct: You can speak all sorts of horrible stuff while being peaceful and conducting yourself well. You can also say nice things while being violent and belligerent. Government surely has the right to stop you from being violent and belligerent. On the Internet, there is no difference between speech and conduct. You conduct yourself by speaking/writing. So how can we enforce good conduct without regulating speech? The states are trying to draw the line between speech and conduct, and that's not easy (maybe impossible) online.
If remote LATAM is that much of a game changer then we should see US software salaries continue to go down and a salary equalization that ends up being much lower than the current US market rates.
When I looked into it, I found that Canada’s really serious about the high-skilled part (or high-credentialed, anyway). A bachelor’s in CS and pile of experience won’t cut it (in fact, experience can hurt, because being older hurts your score) unless you have already landed a job with a Canadian company.
do you think the wavelengths used by phones are going to work through space and the atmosphere, are they focused on short length transmissions (higher freqs). The answer appears to be yes ;-)
It wouldn't be that hard. They already have great power trains. Just make it look like a normal truck.
> This is part of what I’m talking about. Part of it is a mob justice thing where people get attacked for not being pro left enough. Give me a break and stop pounding on people for not touting the line. I don’t want to get on anyone’s side

You say you "don't want to on anyone's side" but then repeat right wing talking points like "not being pro left enough". It's not about being"left enough" but about how their actions make lives of most vulnerable people even worse.

And remember who benefits the most from inaction of good people.
Now LinkedIn wants you to share your passport. Hard pass
Arch Linux, duh!
"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."
These days, you join the Usenet by posting in news.peering and saying "I want to peer with somebody", or just emailing the Eternal September folks: http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=peering

You configure both configure your servers to exchange messages and then... they exchange messages :)

It's good practice to have a couple peers, in case one goes offline or doesn't carry the groups you're interested in -- or filters things you might want. I run NoCeM on-spool and have stricter-than-normal CleanFeed rules, which translated from Usenet admin speak means my server drops a lot of spam and garbage posts, and if you want those you'll have to get them from another peer.
Clearly, it's impossible for women to have children before getting married.
this is default tool for cooking rice in Taiwan. It is important traditional way that cooking by vapor in here. there are many food should made by this tool, e.g., steamed egg or steamed stuffed bun. You can get perfect Asian rice by one click. actually,
I never see anyone try to cook rice without this, especially their Tatung does not work...(sure, people can buy more modern replacement, but the usage is more
restricted). before microwave, it is the only way to heat food. finally, look picture, you can't see too many buttons, everything controlled by amount of water. simple structure, so more robust than other machines in kitchen.
I disagree. I've never yet seen a forum environment which was more usable than GNUS was for me 20-mumble years ago.
I was hoping to learn more as well.

I think the streaming accounting isn’t as directly attributable so it probably means that costs are allocated over long periods because the single show is a very small percentage of the overall library.

So you spend $5B on shows and lump them into your library and some are watched and some aren’t, but they all pay out sort of the same. So you amortize that $5B equally over the whole schedule.

By removing shows you think won’t get you viewers you amortize the whole cost immediately.

But in the olden days revenue was more clearly attributed. So if you payed $5B for 100 shows each and the costs were equal (not really but let’s say) then each show has $50M in costs. You can run them all and when you don’t sell ads then you know they suck and can close those ones down. There’s no risk to run and see because you have revenue for each show.

And with old cable, shows paid out based on plays. So you could just not play those old shows.

But with streaming, just to have them available for streaming, even if no one views them, they make revenue for tax purposes.
I used UTM extensively when creating an almost-no-touch tool for developers to setup their Macbook devices at the company I work for.

There's really no other convenient way to do this. It was awesome to be able to run the tool on a fresh MacOS install, test the effects, make some changes, then do it all over again with little fuss.

Thanks UTM!
Looks like breaking Windows is a feature now, going by the last comments in that issue.
How AI Will Destroy Us
Here's an article I wrote about how AI will destroy us. Feedback welcome. Be nice if possible.
It is the most declarative thing in a Dockerfile. It becomes an imperative solution very quickly.

Here's an example Dockerfile:

FROM McDonalds Cheeseburger HappyMeal

RUN Get ketchup packets

RUN Squirt ketchup on fries

RUN Dump happymeal on plate

The first is declarative, a menu, you point at what you want and software makes it so.

The rest is a recipe, an imperative, a command, you tell software to perform, and software makes it so.
so you think its a collecrive decision made by all of us with full knowledge, and fossil fuel companies are just doing what the consumer wants?

Then why do journalists investifating recycling sham, oil spills, etc. frequently end up dead or in prison?
Instagram is considering removing the ability to chat with Facebook friends
Epstein’s Calendar Contained Multiple Meetings with Peter Thiel
I'd like to prepare for it. How?
I need QHD. Having gotten used to reading and writing code in QHD I'll never go back to plain HD. ;)
It's more of a kind of trade war than censorship since the links being removed are removed in a content-neutral manner, not based on whether they support/oppose a specific viewpoint. Also, it's Meta that decided to remove the links of paying the tax. Removing links was not mandated by the government.

Having said that, it's a very stupid law.
…then search is no longer fit for the valuable segments of the population, unless you measure "value" strictly by numbers of eyeballs without ad blockers.
Its difficult to meaningfully compare small mostly homogenous nations with larger, more diverse ones. It not hard to imagine that when you have an overwhelmingly homogenous society, the need for free speech is greatly lessened because there are far fewer dissenting voices. Free speech is there to protect those minority dissenting voices, not the majority ones who will are going to hold popular and socially acceptable opinions.
Just curious, have you read the original article in JAMA?
You are correct that streaming atmos is different. Blu-rays deliver audio using the Dolby TrueHD audio codec, which is a lossless codec whose streams average 6 mbps, but can peak up to 18 mbps. Streaming services use Dolby Digital Plus to deliver dolby atmos content, which is typically encoded at 768 kbps.
I don't remember the correct term, maybe someone can help, but this is what happens to "scenes".

Cool kids do their own thing (art, music, whatever), some people notice and like what they're doing and enjoy it genuinely. They spread the word and more people join the scene. Then posers come in and try to imitate the cool kids, but can't really capture the same spark.

Scene grows and an eternal September commences where the original intent of the cool kids and genuine interest of the original fans is lost, as newcomers are there just to be part of the scene. Eventually they dominate the scene.

Finally advertisers and capitalists see a money making opportunity and they monetize the whole thing, ruining it for everyone.
Weird that there is no discussion here relevant to the book or the author, though perhaps that's just because the book hasn't been released yet. I really enjoyed "White Teeth" so I suspect I will read this too.
$(£?)70 mil contract with IBM with a government agency will get you some serious consultancy fees

Source: father works for government and sees budgets for how much is wasted on IBM doing fuck all for the money
>Climate related deaths have declined by 98% over the last century.

Wow, HVAC is an amazing technology.
i, too, wish that there were an actual way to pay per view on things like this.

i read a lot, but i read widely, and I have absolutely no desire to pay for the entirety of what tNYT is into (nor do i want to deal with their dark patterns around canceling).

Everyone keeps telling me there's no market for this, etc etc, and I suppose that must be true, but I can't help but think that there must be _dozens_ of us who want a different approach here...
> Used to be that some businesses and universities configured their Unix machines to call other machines on their modems overnight

I used to work in London, for Olivetti, which was partnered with AT&T. Olivetti's office was in Finsbury, just north of The City. AT&T were south of the river, near Vauxhall. I believe our Usenet feed (and our internet email) was couriered-over from Vauxhall on mag tape.

In those days, most ordinary businesses didn't have fixed-line internet access, and maintaining a Usenet feed over dial-up was expensive, even text-only.