skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may have missed something but the two take down notices they show are for the Bewitched TV show. They may be old but are still being shown on television and sold on AppleTV/Amazon etc. - they are still making money for the owner.

I can’t see how anyone wouldn’t expect a takedown notice for posting them or similar shows on YouTube.
The point about escaped slaves is to point out that legality and morality are only loosely correlated.

I was making a general point about media companies and older media that seems to have escaped you and not specifically talking about Bewitched, but your mention of "pay the creators" raises the question of who exactly receives money from the sale of DVDs. Sol Saks is arguably the creator of Bewitched and he died back in 2011, so I have my doubts about whether copyright law is working as intended to incentivise him to make more shows.

Edit: Just had a look on wikipedia and everyone listed there in relation to Bewitched is now dead.
Either way, it has to happen, and it will happen. It might as well happen on universally-equitable terms.
I really like the look of the composition API in Vue 3 though I have not used it yet, it gives me hope for addressing some of the issues you mention. I wonder does Svelte have anything comparable?
> This is not a very charitable read of the agency or consultancy business model.

Judging by all of the comments from people saying this matched their experience working either inside or with agencies, I don’t think it’s inaccurate.

> What you call grift is actually sales. Most business in the world are incentivised to grow and scale, so that's a given if it's done ethically.

I think you’re talking about something else. I’m not talking about a sales process being done ethically.

If I was talking about ethical sales with aligned incentives, I wouldn’t have used the word “grift”. That was, literally, my whole point in using that word. :)

I’m specifically talking about the huge incentive that exists to unnecessarily balloon the hours as much as possible.

It’s simple, really: As a solo dev with a mostly full pipeline (assuming this for simplicity) your incentive is to finish work efficiently so you can impress the customer, build trust, and build a reputation to overcome the challenges of being solo. If you sandbag your efforts and deliver inefficiently, they have nobody to blame but you. You also burn your chance of a good referral. It’s bad all around.

As an agency, the situation changes. You now can scale up to as many people as you can convince to work with your agency, but now you need to force them into as many projects as possible. You’re no longer limited by the number of hours you have in a week because you’re selling other people’s hours. Hiring inefficient people will actually get you more profit.

When the client catches on, you can remove the inefficient people and apologize for the “bad apples”. You temporarily assign some superstars to the team to impress the client until they’re not looking again and then you slowly go back to the inefficient people when they’re not paying attention again.

Like I said in my post, not every agency does this. However, as someone who has done a lot of hiring of contractors and agencies I can say it’s almost like most of them are operating out of a hidden playbook. The headcount always gets inflated over time (including their assigned project managers who they require to work alongside our internal project managers) and the revolving door where the good devs get pulled off to other projects and then they try to substitute lesser devs.

It’s gotten bad enough that we have a framework for bullet points to negotiate away from agency contract proposals. We reserve the right to aggressively dismiss anyone they assign who isn’t doing work up to par. Agencies hate it, but it’s a necessity these days (at least until an agency has proven themselves)
It’s hard to believe this couldn’t be amended given how unjust it is.

I guess the fact that it hasn’t been amended shows everyone how expendable they truly are.
Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US government
TL;DR: the title says it all.
About 5-10 years ago there used to be a bunch of tupperware products impregnated with silver nanoparticles which were supposed to slow the growth of mold, fungus and bacteria until they were shut down by the EPA as unregistered/untested pesticides.
That's what a 200 million dollar marketing budget buys you ;)

...as a diehard Amiga user I just remember how ridiculous it was that PC users would be so excited about OS features which even "home computers" like the Amiga had since the mid-80s.
I agree with you but then the proceeds should go back to the government to pay for those things.
microk8s currently has a showstopping issue that makes it guaranteed to have an irrecoverable failure in HA mode. see https://github.com/canonical/microk8s/issues/3227

k0s is better but also has a lot of bugs. it's the closest to vanilla kubernetes among all the distributions.

> like the simplest GPU support

linux users should be ready to install the nvidia device plugin. if they can't do that, they're never going to succeed in running a gpu accelerated application on their cluster anyway.

> like bootstrapping

in my experience, writing all the bootstrap scripts is painful. but now that there's chatgpt, so much of the drudgery as gone away.
By Walter Isaacson
>Did people really line up to buy an Operating System?

I take it you haven't opened the article.
I like to think the B.S. stands for Bull Shitter lmao
Nobody is relying on anything. The early results were too scary for people (scientists and patients) to continue.

Anyway, the conclusion was that more antioxidants is not necessarily better and that we still don't understand how things work.
Slightly off-topic: I didn't have the opportunity to visit industrial sites when I was a kid, so I made it up to myself by watching lots of "THE MAKING"[1] as an adult.

[1]: "THE MAKING" is the Japanese equivalent of "How It's Made." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_X1TqiJZQ&list=PLOEDIkStOh...
If RISC-V is just their platform to provide a different company to license IP from, I'm just sticking to Arm.

RISC-V is only interesting as a platform for a different business model.
yes, the lawyers always clean up

the aim would be to make training on copyrighted material legally toxic and render all existing datasets and trained weights unlawful

the damages are simply a bonus
The link that says you can watch cross-entropy loss live is locked or broken.
The primary motivation behind Shpong is to have a FOSS alternative to Discord that's indexed by search engines, not closed off behind auth etc. All the channels can be toggled between chat and discussion view. Things like encrypted DMs or private rooms are also trivial to build on top of Matrix.

I'm just more familiar with the Matrix protocol, having built several projects on it. Activitypub is pretty cool though and I'm working on AP support, so Shpong should be able to interface with Lemmy in the near future!
> I never learned it

> there is no point to the two-handed backhand.

No offense, but by your own admission, this is pure ignorance. Learners should consult an experienced tennis instructor.

The best strokes for a player depend a lot on the individual's circumstances: age, physique, experience, talents, weaknesses, goals, etc. In fact, there are sometimes advantages to a two-handed forehand (usually not at the pro level, though of course Monica Seles was one of the all-time greats).
Piracy is still the best way/our best chance to get rid of soccer and all the nothingness that it involves in terms of drama, gossip, etc
>to a 32-bit, preemptively multitasked, protected memory “real” OS while maintaining excellent DOS and Win16 compatibility—in three years.

and only >10 years after competition! :)
being a refugee is an adaptation to climate change, you and the OP are not in disagreement.
I like the Chain Baker. He has a quite scientific approach, for example he bakes the same bread with salt before yeast, yeast before salt, and two other variations, to explore the difference it makes. In the next video he tries something else in four variations. Over time you learn what matters and not.
This is wild. Swap out a couple assets, change "PDF" to a different rebel group like "ISIS" or "Proud Boys" and you have something that is literally a one-way ticket to Gitmo. This is extremist propaganda.

Yet another link for the "our freedom fighters, their terrorists" collection.
Not what I was expecting from “the PDF Game”.
Quillaia: In Root Beer and Vaccines
When ya think about it, what is a body but a pile of unmaintained code made by two drunken people a few decades ago, using a framework with a few million years of tech debt?

Everyone wants to do the upfront coding, but nobody likes maintaining it afterward...
Scarecrow is going to be your best bet for getting all those rare gems, but it is expensive.

https://blog.scarecrow.com/scarecrow-rent-by-mail/
Spotted the ChatGPT bot
You sound like one of those people who think governments should ban encryption because pedophiles use it.
There is a purchasing option for non-soldered switches.
Honestly sounds quite lame. The whole thing with a LAN party is carrying your own computer and giant CRT screen and setting up cables all over
> Did us-east-1 go Dow because of hurricane sandy?

Nope, but Sandy did a hell of a lot of damage to some key telecommunications infrastructure. Verizon lost multiple floors worth of equipment, cabling, and related infrastructure that served at least their customers across Manhattan.

Having geographical redundancy for mission critical workloads is a good investment if your business is making money. Networked computing is one of the few places we can actually “run away” from a physical source of problems. (Not forever, or universally, of course).

We’re based on the eastern seaboard. You bet we have failsafes in areas less susceptible to natural disaster.
That's fun! It also likely serves a real purpose. It lets English-only speakers test that localization is working and available for every text element.
https://offline.cash/

I mean. It’s already happened. Thanks to some clever non-intuitive use of escrow contracts one can create fungible cash-like electronic money for offline transactions.
Can we talk to whales?
or curl -O which is more ergonomic

that "killer feature" for cat would be turn `cat file.html` into `cat file.html > file.html` which means if you actually wanted to cat instead of cp you'd also need `cat file.html -o -` kinda glad curl doesn't have that killer feature.
It’s dumb. They’re trying to get caste codified and defined where all it will do is extend the longevity of a system that is genuinely on its way to being forgotten, even in India.
If you want to see some criticism of svelte, one of the core maintainers recently asked about some things that could be improved about svelte in the next major version: https://twitter.com/trueadm/status/1676694161188159490

That should give you some rough ideas about the things that the community itself thinks need improvements.
I notice that he started with Linux to create his copy-on-write disk setup and then switched to Windows 7.

I wonder if/when he rebuilds it in Austin if he'll just use Linux, now that Proton has made Linux gaming more feasible.
> Just put in the search terms and it will give those things to you. It's not hard.

Have you actually tried this? A search for "communist news" returns primarily pages about communism from major outlets like AP and CBS. Somewhat amusingly one of the results is the South China Morning Post, which is based out of Hong Kong and blocked in mainland China.

For "libertarian news" it at least gives Reason and Cato (which are fairly major outlets) but then proceeds with all the mainstream media outlets. No hint of anybody's blog or social media account anywhere.

> But obviously, for broad queries, Google is serving up the popular results most people click on. That's not Google's bias, that's just the bias of what most people are looking for.

It feels like the problem is that all the results are the same. Even if you search for some more specific subset of the news, all the results will just be the pages for that topic on each of the major media outlets who are all writing the same stories. Whereas better results might be e.g. the first three results are major media outlets but then it starts giving alternative outlets with varying perspectives.

Nobody is looking at the search results page and finding the coverage from CNN, BBC, MSNBC and CBS inadequate but finally finding satisfaction with NBC. These results are redundant with each other, or might be better served as an info box with a list of major outlets and a "more" button instead of constituting the entirety of the search results to the exclusion of anything else.

Essentially the problem is that it makes the search engine useless for discovery because the only things it will give you are the things everybody already knows about.
I don’t know, the advice in that link is, don’t take a multivitamin because there isn’t a lot of evidence it will do a lot of good. Instead they say you should just have a perfect diet, and to consult with a dietician if you feel you aren’t getting a perfect diet.

Seems to me that few people eat a perfect diet, and I’d be amazed if there’s evidence dieticians work better than multivitamins. People don’t eat right, not because they need education, but because unhealthy diets are tasty, cheap, convenient, etc…

And multivitamins are not all the same, they have radically different formulations, so I doubt the results of any research that didn’t specify a specific multivitamin, or break results by gender or age. (Vitamin needs/ deficiencies are often age related. Consider subsets like prenatal vitamins, vitamins for the elderly, etc…)
In mid 95 I got a 'tech' job, and part of what I had to do was load up new laptops with 'stuff' - update OS, install our custom software, check modems, etc. We'd get a contract for custom development, and part of that contract was the hardware install/support part, so depending on the project we'd get a shipment of 20,30 or sometimes up to 100 laptops that I'd have to manually update.

The win 95 launch was just... insane. I was in a band at the time, and you'd get to the bar/club beforehand, and chit chat. When they found out I "did computers", I'd inevitably get asked by random strangers "should I get windows 95?!" Just... so much mania.

I mentioned the laptop story above because as part of the deliverable, we'd ship out a 'full laptop package' - the laptop, in a carrier bag, with any extra 'stuff' - usually an extra mouse, mouse pad, etc. Often people would want power strips for their laptop folks (sales guys on the road, mostly).

I distinctly remember early 96 getting a shipment of power strips that had a big "works with Windows 95!" gold rosette stamped on each box. It's not 'controlled' by windows 95 - there was no iot-level connectedness. It just 'worked' with Windows 95. Because... people bought anything with "works with windows 95" on it. Truly crazy times.
IF you do an excess of iron (chloride), it reduces the CD4 cells and increases the cytotoxic CD8 cells.

I say chlorides because consistently for many studies, notably zinc but applies to Iron, phytates and tannins bind and inhibit the absorption of these two metals, but leave copper alone. Chloride based metals get into the body very quickly.

I'd also look at the mistakes in some studies, different parts of the world have different theories and its possible if you look at enough to see old theories being quoted and not assertions from more recent studies.

The jury is out on what is a good diet to consume for different types of cancer let along a healthy life, its contradictory at best, zinc is good for tackling some cancers, and bad for others. Copper is good for tackling some cancers and not others, and that just looking at two common metals in the diet.

So if the experts knew, I think they would recommend a diet to go on, but they are so steeped in patient privacy they undermine their own authority I think, not to mention come across in general as quite dictatorial.

I have also been messing with some body building amino acids and I liked histdine which is one of the four amino acids that start with zinc, the other three are glutamic acid (glutamate), aspartic acid and cysteine (N-Acetyl Cysteine). Histidine is precursor for histamine which helps immune cells migrate through tissue. Aspartic acid mediates some cysteine based immune responses.

Its also worth looking at vit D, a Wellcome trust study had reverse engineered the human genome about a decade ago and found that most of the Vit D receptors are concentrated around immune system genes (2776 iirc). But you need zinc and cysteine to build the zinc fingers found on these vit D receptors and vit D will switch on some genes and switch off some genes.

Oncologists have access to the testing and measuring equipment, I see no harm if interested in this stuff to get the data from their tests and check their theories against studies found in google scholar, if you wanted piece of mind.

These experts dont always publish their theories so there isnt the transparency, and they dont ask about diet which can be significant in some cases, so they undermine their expertise imo.

And thats before you get into the debate of hackers tampering with results and other things which seem to question the fragile nature of computer security.

And I'm not recommending anything other than question the experts.
Varsity high-school player, and I've seen little discussion of what I'm personally certain is the big change causing all of this (including the surge in pickleball)

It's the rackets -- partly because they're ultra-light, but mostly because of how ridiculously grippy the strings are, meaning you can put absurd spin on the ball.

Meaning, a ton more control from the baseline. This effectively renders net-play most of the time dangerous and impossible. You'll notice, no one goes to the net anymore. It's basically full-scale ping-pong now.

Hence, pickleball for regular people, because they'd like to do that.
Self hosting isn’t exactly anonymous either.
A lot of that is about developing intuition and like in most fields, there's not an easy way to develop intuition without a lot of experience.

What helped me a lot was starting to work through "On Cooking", which is geared towards culinary students, and at least has a more useful progression of skills (e.g. starts with equipment, knife skills, etc.) and techniques, and then starts building up from there. e.g. you learn to make sauces before starting on full dishes, etc. But doing something like that is a pretty large commitment (and all of the recipes have to be scaled down to non-restaurant sizes).

At one point in my early 30s I considered writing a cook book based on trying to teach my housemate to cook, starting with the assumptions that the person in question hadn't ever cooked and didn't own any reasonable cooking stuff, and trying to establish a baseline of recipes that could all be cooked from the same 20-ish ingredients that one could reasonably always have around.

There are definitely recipe-based and intuition-based approaches to cooking, and while I think teaching intuition is difficult, learning a particular vocabulary of skills in a certain order can help.
"It's just plain JavaScript," say React advocates, and go on to describe the special rules — never invoke a hook under a conditional, assign keys to list items, remember to list all dependencies next to hook callbacks…
Yeah, I've seen the step, but decided to skip that to save time. Seems like I'll have to try that anyway. Thank you.
Having a stricter admissions process just means that you're selecting for higher level of competence to start with. In absolute numbers, China completely dwarfs the US in terms of STEM graduates. China had 4.7 million recent STEM graduates in 2016, while the U.S. had a mere 568,000.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/08/future-tech-dominance-...
This doesn't really make for a compelling argument, as it's an appeal to authority without substantiation ("the majority agree with me, so I must be right")

Plus, it's a "what if" statement that completely ignores our form of government (ie, the US doesn't have national referendums)
Really? How would it extend longevity?
Seems like people who are fighting this are likely the ones still benefitting from this system
Well, you don't agree. But when you change your mind you are welcome.
Prison-for-profit, either privately-run, with slave labor, or both, creates perverse incentives to convict more people of crimes and to keep them incarcerated longer.

This is not just hypothetical. The notorious Pennsylvania 'kids-for-cash' case was particularly egregious.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-ma...
>Players, who spend more and more time in the gym, keep getting bigger and stronger, and now hit forehands at more than 100 miles per hour.

Sounds a little like baseball in the late 90s…
Ask HN: Fellowships/Memberships for non-founder startup employees?
There are a ton of useful communities, incubators, fellowships, etc for early stage startup founders, or wannabe founders. Are there any similar communities more geared to employees of high-growth, early stage startups?
Sorry for my ignorance, but any idea when we can see Desktop Processors powered by RISC-V architecture? It would be breath of fresh air to see new architectures power the desktops.
At present, China is the only place on all of Earth that can manufacture 50,000 iPhones per hour, which is on the close order of how many they sell. There's literally no other way for Apple to come up with the 250 million units a year that they sell.

In a certain sense, the iPhone is a wholly Chinese product. Without China, there is no iPhone, and there is no Apple-as-we-know-it-in-2023.

I am of the belief that Apple is doing everything in their power to change that, as even a cold war with China would put a rapid end to that.

Apple is investing huge amounts of money in India to create a parallel supply chain for iPhones. I imagine that people in the USG are acutely aware that the CCP has, at present, ultimate control over the revenue stream of one of their largest and most profitable companies, and have coordinated a response plan to address this (ultimately untenable) state of affairs.
Germany sees itself as a leader in the green transition even if this is not factually correct.
> Show me evidence that this matters in the slightest.

Say Biden actually took drastic steps-- complete ICE vehicle ban within 2030, extensive green electricity investments/grid improvements, high taxes on jet fuel, etc.

That might get you below 5 tons Co2/capita/year within 2030 or so, which is still insufficient globally...

Do you honestly believe Democrats would win the next election after doing something like that?
I worked at a little shop that built PCs in the mid-90's. The owner liked to game and always made sure the office PCs were decent-enough gaming PCs so we could have LAN parties on the weekends. It was a ton of fun and made the office PCs very nice for daily office work.
I appeciate the Team Fortress 2 "Saxxy Awards" on that photo there.

How much has changed since then.
>but can't possibly have a conversation about that. Nope.

What conversation? You just dropped in here with flamewar bait and complaining about some self-imagined persecution without contributing any substance. Hence your comment is now gray.
I wonder what a 4th, 5th or 10th person onsite could have done to speed up mitigation and recovery.
I mean, counterpoint anecdata. I was a bulkier-than-most varsity high-school player and I loved going against skinny guys who did one-handed backhands. I took out a good number of guys who were better than me in every other way by just abusing that (and not being subtle about it. Like, I made it as open and obvious as I could without saying it out loud. They knew what I was doing.) With my, again, even more awkward with someone with my build, two-handed backhand.