skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a light-hearted tongue-in-cheek bit of commentary on today's eternal rent-seeking culture. However, the studios have always been this way, and to doubt that is just planting your head firmly in the sand. From the early days of VHS/Beta tapes, an ordinary citizen could not own them strictly from the high prices. Also, look at the legal writings on any physical media you've purchased. The terms clearly limit what you can do with it. Let's also not forget DRM.

The holy grail for them is a per-viewing fee whether that's ticket sales at a theater, or rental fees from a streamer. Allowing eternal multiple viewings is just leaving money on the table. If you think conversations about how to eliminate that have not occurred in a C-suite at any/all of the studios, you're just not thinking about it enough
Ask HN: Are you more likely to use something because it is open source?
I look at car prices now and unavoidable "destination charges" and "document fees" are also outrageous. Just put it into the number that I see first, before the paperwork is started.
Well, "Technofeudalism" is on Amazon, and it has DRM. Enough said. He could at least have made it DRM free, like Doctorow did with "The Internet Con".
The two together are key. There are many subreddits which had a great culture but mods went underwater when the sub hit ~100k, the point where every sub becomes closer to the norm. And obviously you can't just pay a mod to create something special, it takes two.
Separation of interface and implementation. In languages without them you must rely on documentation generators or an IDE to explore a library/packages public interface. Header files provide this separation without the need for fancy tools.
Very recommendable read in this context: https://archive.org/details/1922-08-15-00-carlo-m.-cipolla-0...
“There are not a lot of photos of Icons of Filth. Apparently they encouraged people not to take them because there were animal products used in the processing of film.”

LOL I suppose film is technically an animal product, as it contains gelatin, normally obtained from boiled up cow bones.
They didn’t kill the cows to make film though, it’s a byproduct. This is the first time I’ve seen anyone attack old-fashioned photography for not being vegan enough.
Mini Cooper SE is like 25k haha.

I don't know why you're fixated on that price point, though.
Still belches out nasty pollutants. When COVID hit and I saw how clean air in LA could be if we stopped driving gas cars I was sold and bought my first EV (our only car) when our previous vehicle was involved in a crash. With all the solar and wind resources CA has, there’s no reason not to go electric w/the incentives available, especially now.
You have all the hassles of a combustion engine (wear and tear due to all the moving parts, oil changes, filters, etc etc) and a fraction of the fuel economy of a battery electric vehicle. I don’t get Hybrids for anyone that doesn’t have a massively long commute.

Wouldn’t hybrids be more efficient if the gas/diesel was just generating electricity for an electric drivetrain? They do this for logging and mining trucks.
Thanks, that sounds about right. Wikipedia's article for What The--?! has:

> What The--?! hosted a number of fake advertisements that made fun of classic comic book advertisements such as Charles Atlas
Why Do Planets Rotate?
“many times” is roughly equivalent to not always.
Yeah. Toyota’s PHEV are interesting now, but they literally could’ve built a good, full-speed-electric, PHEV 20 years ago if they had wanted but they refused. The Volt was way better than Toyota’s PHEVs.

Toyota can’t get out of their own way with this tech in spite of being easily 10 years ahead of everyone else at one point.
Yes, screw you for broadly suggesting that teachers generally prefer to hand kids devices and browse social media. There is a world of difference between needing to find compromises because they’re under resourced and willfully checking out with minimal effort.

You are not recognizing they are “ underpaid and unappreciated by society”. You’re calling them lazy and uninterested in teaching.

Also screw you for doubling down on it.
That’s tricky. When I look at most of my recent friends, they’re almost always work friends or friends of a friend/spouse etc.

Starting from scratch must be hard. I don’t know if bars are the only solution. Gym friends, maybe trying to go on some dates etc. could work.

If you are 100% work from home why do you choose to work in a place where you have no friends?
I am not wondering that. There could have been corporate sponsors or community fund raisers to fund this essential work.

>If they wanted buy in the logical thing...

I already know that this was poorly handled. If Microsoft or Apple wanted to change rearchitect display servers I can assure you it would not take over 16 years.
Not sure I'd want to read about the character either way, sounds like a tool. Maybe in 150 years when this would maybe give insight to the culture of the time.
It's not that hard. if the causality cannot make sense logically or plausibly, then you can reasonably reject it . no reasonable person would ever get the umbrella puddles thing confused.
I would recommend Citizenfour if you haven't seen it. It's a documentary where you essentially see Snowden leak the documents from his Hong Kong hotel room. It's amazing the footage exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour
> I said locally, and neighbourhood.

I think the problem with your model is that it conflates these two concepts, which may sometimes be appropriate but definitely isn't universal. For example, if you walk about 3/4 of a block east from my house you will hit a relatively busy arterial that is honestly one of the more dangerous roads I've ever ridden on, with broken sight lines due to parked cars (which also constitute a dooring hazard), lots of cars pulling in and out from side streets and parking spots, delivery drivers blocking the bike lane, a busy pedestrian crossing (again with very poor visibility), and cracked and rutted pavement. Just from their small stature alone, a child riding on this road would be in significantly more danger than an adult would, to say nothing of the skill and experience it takes to navigate so many simultaneous conflicts safely.

On the other hand, if you walk west from my house, you can go the better part of a mile through a quiet, shady neighborhood before hitting a main road.

Now what is "local" and what is "neighborhood"? Is the grocery store about a 3 minute walk east of my house not "local" just because to get there you have to at least cross this busy, relatively dangerous arterial? I don't think that makes sense. However, it's definitely not part of my neighborhood in the go ride around the neighborhood sense I understood as a child growing up in the suburbs. So in my view I am not changing the scope of the conversation, but rather trying to draw your attention to a distinction that may not exist in the locales you have experience with, but is important in some of those you don't.
Yeah

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"Why is this so important to you?" only works if you're asking someone who isn't already having an emotional knee-jerk reaction to something. Once they're past that state, questioning their position will probably just lead to them doubling down.
#1 reads like a like a line from American Psycho, every line is packed with brand names. Or maybe that's just because I'm reading it right now.

I don't think I mention brand names that often in conversation or in thought, the natural place is somewhere in the middle.
I don't know, but disrupting an ecosystem has knock-on effects. It could change something else much more directly important to humanity.

That is a big premise of climate change mitigation. We don't necessarily know all the knock on effects of CO2 and other pollution, but we don't need to. Any climate/ecosystem alteration is generally disruptive to civilization, which is why things have to be so critical to even discuss geoengineering.
Modules adoption would be severely stunted if everyone had to adjust all calling code in order to convert a library to use modules. Ideally one could find/replace includes with analogous imports, a bit at a time.

I guess we could instead mandate that module names have to match the namespaces inside (i.e., mandate what modules are named up front), but it's also common to have C++ namespaces be reopened for various reasons (like adding to overload sets in supported ways).

Anyway, bottom line is that modules and namespaces need to have M:N relationships, though in practice, it should be Bad Practice to get too creative there. Nobody has added namespace/module matching rules to CppCoreGuidelines or clang-tidy yet, but right now is a good time for some ideas in that space.
I always wanted this - a terminal-based spreadsheet (I don't use much fonts and pictures in spreadsheets anyway). Glad to know it's finally here! I hope it's going to get ported to Mac and Windows as well.
The solution is to volunteer.
I traveled extensively for work for years — around 100 nights/year, on average. So, I’ve stayed at a lot of hotels.

“Resort” and “amenity” fees were occasional annoyances, but the number 1 purveyor of junk fees in hospitality is local government.

There were nearly always 1 - 3 junk taxes in addition to normal sales tax added on to the bill as a way to extort money from a group of people who have no franchise to contest the predatory taxes.

I’ll not hold my breath waiting for the government to do anything about that.
Organized religion, though it is on the decline, is also a very important vector for socializing. So are local sports leagues. The key is frequent exposure to the same people breeding familiarity. I'm in your boat, a little older, and married with kids. Having kids helps, because you take them to the same activities on a regular schedule which puts me in regular contact with other similar adults. They're acquaintances, not really "friends", but it's better than nothing.
A friend bought the new Ford Mustang Mach-E (100% electric) a few weeks ago. They went car shopping intending to buy an ICE but ended up test driving the Mach-E which was in stock and on the lot. Test drove and brought it home the same day, impulse purchase.

They were going to pay all cash expecting the interest rate to be high, but they had a 0% interest promo so ended up financing it. This was a few weeks ago, honestly not sure how they’re still offering 0%.

Edit: this happened in a rural dealership 2 hours away from the nearest large city and 1 hour from the nearest Tesla dealership.
I would argue it's more a blind spot of big data, which tends to tacitly imply just doing correlational studies on data that happens to be laying around.

Most data scientists work for companies that don't really want to pay for controlled experiments outside of maybe letting the UI team do A/B tests. Natural experiments can be hard to come by in a business setting. And all of the wild mathematical gyrations that econometricians and political scientists have developed to try to do causal inference from correlational data have a tendency not to be as popular in business because, outside of some special domains such as politics and consumer finance, it can be rather difficult to get away with dressing your emperor in math that nobody can understand instead of actual clothing.
What's the market for a Prius Prime? If it was cheaper than an EV it would make sense, but a Prius Prime is more expensive than a model 3, and after rebate it's more expensive than a model 3 LR.

If you can plug in at home an EV is likely viable. If you can't, why would you buy a PHEV rather than a cheaper non-plugin HEV?
Postgres still has a ways to go for scale but has improved substantially in replication options since that 2017 article. Sharding has also seen a lot of upstream patches from enterprise db and other commercial providers since then. Upgrades in particular are still a sore spot.

Also note that folks aren’t running giant vanilla MySQL clusters. They’re running it through vitess or home grown tools with similar functionality.

Finally MySQL gets performance in these large setups by turning off features like foreign keys, acid guarantees etc. it’s awesome and powerful that you can do this in MySQL but it’s not apples to apples here. MySQL has also improved a lot on these dimensions in the last few years.

The other reality here is that on nvme hardware with a few tb of ram you can get away with a basic reader writer replica setup for a long time.
You think we are physically unable to build an asteroid defense?

Anyway, I didn't say we should do nothing about climate change (and we are doing a lot), but if the counter to everything is: not enough, doomed anyway - then, yes, totally happy not to work in that field anymore.
"The Fringes of Reason" uses a lot of questions and quote marks but it looks to be a pretty breathless extolling of all things mystic. If you want to defend the writing style there, you're at the same time defending Ancient Aliens "Might there be an extraterrestrial connection behind the secrets of the pyramids?"

https://wholeearth.info/p/the-fringes-of-reason?format=sprea...
They have an image cdn that does resizing and such, but the per-request fees are rather high.
Common color mistakes and how to avoid them (2020)
> Even though shunned by Apple and Mozilla, Web Bluetooth enjoys wide support and just works.

That’s an interesting way to say Chrome Only feature but you shouldn’t care because Mozilla ran Firefox into 3%/ground and Safari doesn’t matter.

IDK… to the point of the project… I guess that’s cool. But once you have defined and tested your GATTs, it hasn’t been my experience to come back to it a ton of times.

I just wrote unit and systems tests along with a BLE speedtest that also confirms protocol so I could run it where it matters - on different phones.

It was my experience to care more about distance, speed, interval, and MTU on actual hardware than protocol confirmation to a PC.
Characteristics of Effective Systems Leaders
yes, GYM friends, now you're talking.

bars, gyms, what else are super easy and common?

libraries are out because you're supposed to be quiet.
Research swishing Gastric Pentadecapeptide (BPC 157) around your mouth and through your teeth daily. Rsearch sems to support that it does seem to halt and sometimes reverse gingival recession.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30915550/
Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia May Contain Elements Outside the Periodic Table
There is a difference between not handling a corner case and having a security vulnerability. People are lazy and they will copy and paste without thinking.
The linked Kilian article [0] explains that it’s for Firefox on Android devices.

[0]: https://kilianvalkhof.com/2022/css-html/your-css-reset-needs...
Lakehouse and Warehouse: sharing data between environments
The comparison is on cost. It is explicitly not a goal to include something like how it feels to drive one. I don't like cars, and none of them feel good to drive. I don't want a car, but I have to own one for transportation. I want to own the cheapest one I can that can still reasonably and safely get me around. I don't care that you think it's ugly or whatever. I'm not using that as criteria.

You have no reason to question my motivation, and it's unreasonable to make up possible deficiencies you imagine my methodology might have without even attempting to understand what is there. I provided plenty of information. The link works.

Depreciation never enters into it, nor should it. The model is that you buy the car, drive it for ten years, and then add up how much you spent on everything: The original purchase, fuel, maintenance, insurace, registration, etc. The value of the vehicle at any point after you buy it is irrelevant. You never sell it. It simply ceases to exist at the end of ten years. If you think I should include a sale price in the model, it will not be favorable to the car that sells for 15k less at t=0 and is 7 years older. But I'm not including that, because it's not useful. I'm looking at the cost for driving a car for ten years. When I do, a new bolt is cheaper than a used civic.

The prices are very similar (18k vs 19.5k) after tax break. And the electric one costs a lot less to drive over time, so after ten years you spent less money. It's not complicated, and the math bears it out easily. I brought receipts. Just look at them. Or do it yourself. Or propose your own model.
I think learning from omission is a real thing. If you never observed anyone doing it, then why would you? When I was growing up, no one ever talked about mental health or therapy, so I didn't even realize it was an option until college when I met others raised in a different culture.
Don't know what qualifies as a Scotsman to you, but CMake is more modern than Makefile.
The numbers don’t pencil out given the changes to the tax code and current gas prices. That leaves the whims of fashionability. Not something I’d bet billions on.
yes, thanks for reminding me to look into this, I've never done this yet.
Put it in a desk drawer and leave it there
Also realize somedays you'll have more energy to fight through pain than others. “Spoon theory.”

So possibly most important is to look for and ask for help finding ways of dealing with pain and symptoms. That’s complicated by needing health insurance in the US. Meditation though did help me build a mental ability to work through pain at the cost of time. (Specifically zen buddhism, I think. The one where the goal is a clear mind.) As has some yoga. Generally, information is cheaper now so invest the time to learn everything needed and available about what ails you. Then seek out things that counter those things.

Chronic pain is one of those things society (in the US) offers little to no space to combat. You're either a good worker or face homelessness. And interacting with the medical industry introduces friction. Especially when complaining of chronic pain.

I guess I’d say: don’t give up. Don’t let them succeed in pushing you away without treatment. Maybe document your symptoms, by hand, on a calendar. Come up with ways to document your symptoms. Maybe take photos as appropriate-easier to believe a time stamp in a photo. Etc. Remember the definition of a disorder is something that significantly impairs your ability to socialize and work.
Actually causal inference is also really hard to benchmark. My colleague started an effort to be actually able to reproduce and compare results. Also the algorithms often do not scale too well.

Everytime we wanted to use this for real data it is just a little bit too much effort and the results are not conclusive because it is hard to verify huge graphs. My colleague e.g. wanted to apply it explain risk confounders in investment funds.

I personally also do not like the definition of causality they base it on.
I've considered this too, but, I work with too many non-religious freaks, that they're basically as guilty as the religious freaks, so I can't live two sides of the same coin.
Democrats should talk more about healthcare
Which X clients are these? You didn't name any so let's just look at some of the popular and recent flathub apps: https://flathub.org/

I see a lot of games, chat apps, text editors, photo apps, office apps. These all will work fine in XWayland and XQuartz. But also, it's relatively easy to get them running on Wayland natively.
This article is not perfect in a few ways.

First, it could have better compared the slump to the overall auto market. For example, CarMax stock plummeted at the news of slow sales: https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/09/28/why-carmax-stock-c...

Higher interest rates broadly hurt automotive sales. Taking a quick look online, I see 6.5% loans for Tesla Model Y. That's like increasing the sticker price by almost $9,000 compared to 0% financing. People shop for cars on monthly payment, and high interest rates incentivize shortening loan term length.

Second, the article contrasts Toyota's shortage of hybrids with its inability to move EVs. That's because Toyota's EVs aren't competitive. Nobody should buy the bz4x.

As for why Toyota can't stock enough Hybrids, I have no idea why that is. I also think that anyone buying a Toyota probably should buy a Hybrid. It's kind of a no-brainer for that brand.

I don't think that any of the data shown in the article has a great story around customers being cool on EVs in general.
If I may add a contrary perspective here, I think this passage appears more clever than it actually is. For example, to draw a conclusion about oneself from this there would have to be a (false) implied equivalence between monkey reasoning and human reasoning, where a monkey may be simply ignorant of the sum and driven primarily by instinct towards a larger initial quantity, a human may have much more complex reasoning for choosing a larger up-front portion stemming from self-awareness (such as the knowledge that they may not be alive to receive the evening portion, or the knowledge that the trainer may be lying about a second handout). The fact is, they were not all the same. Time is one of the most valuable assets in this world, likewise for comfort.

If any conclusion can be drawn from this parable, it's that you really don't want to be a monkey in training.
Viterbi algorithm, Baum Welch algorithm, forward-backward algorithm, beam search, etc, are all very closely related, all using basically the same kind of dynamic programming. Viterbi calculates the max and argmax, Baum Welch (forward-backward) calculates the sum (forward) and then also the posteriors (backward). The difference is just the max vs sum. And to get the argmax, you would just backtrack. Beam search is an approximation for the max and argmax.

Btw, using automatic differentiation, just calculating the forward scores (sum) is enough, automatic differentiation will then automatically lead to the backward pass.

This is not just for HMMs but it applies to many kinds of search. Naturally for CTC (can be seen as a simple special case of HMM), transducer, but also encoder-decoder or decoder-only (language) models, and more.
If people are already able to video chat, then why not call Apple directly?
Calorie Restriction in Biosphere 2
I usually wind up using sarcasm for this purpose (and perhaps to make a brief point). I’m not suggesting that everyone use sarcasm with abandon, but I think it has its place.

I appreciate the need for clarity in writing, but I worry that our idealization of workmanlike language greatly narrows the range of what we can convey.

People have been communicating in writing for centuries and have invented a wealth of literary devices to communicate their thoughts more completely.
Contrasting frequentist statistics and causal inference, and saying the latter often goes beyond the former, makes for a bizarre opening. It's like saying apples have nutritional value, unlike soccer balls. It's like saying trigonometry often goes beyond the scope of calculus.
> except for the Tesla network.

I have a Tesla... you're saying that other EV's charging situation is _even worse_? If I can't charge the thing at home, I just plain can't charge it. If I'm lucky enough to be able to find a charging station, and I'm lucky enough that there are any available charging stations, and I'm lucky enough that the available charging station isn't broken, I have to install some random charging company app on my phone, pre-pay with a credit card, plug my car in for a couple of hours and then come back and hope it worked.