skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just seems to obvious to me, even when doing the math:

Max costs an average of $12.99/month. $30 million / $12.99 = 2.3 million. Max has over 95 million monthly subscribers, and one has to imagine that ~2% of the subscribers would pay for a single month of Max in order to see this movie. After that one month, the movie's made its budget back without having to market it at all. Like, come on, it's the age of the internet -- if you really don't want to market the film at all, just Tweet out "Hey this movie is out now on Max, go watch it" and you're sure to reach a decent amount of people.

I'm sure there's an argument against what I just said that it creates the perception of their original content made for Max being low quality or something, but that can't be worse than the now extremely accurate perception that creatives can't trust that their work will be released by WD, and thus would prefer to work for other studios. I myself work in Hollywood and have absolutely zero desire to work on a WB project after Batgirl and now this.
A non-profit organization is a group organized for purposes other than generating profit and in which no part of the organization's income is distributed to its members, directors, or officers. Nonprofits run like a business and try to earn a profit, which does not support any single member.
Boomer executives especially at banks are like children. They only understand what they see with their own eyes. They can’t think in abstract terms.
Chemical Synthesis with Gaseous Molecular Ions and a Mass Spectrometer
From NAND to Tetris.
If you follow the exercises all the way from logic gates to application level you will have a much better idea of how computers work.
You don’t have to buy Coca-Cola from Wal-Mart.
c2.com changed some world

and symbolics.com didn't change it enough
Why is Delhi's air pollution so bad?
> just works without any tinkering

Yes. It'samazing how much better Linux runs when the hardware vendor actually supports Linux.

It also helps that the Steam Deck has a narrower Mission than a desktop computer.
The articles seems much more inconclusive than your comment implies. On one hand, yes, they point out that MAOIs may be confounding. But they also say:

“additional work since 2002 has clearly shown that nicotine alone does have some addictive properties”

And, frustratingly, they point out that addiction effects can’t be parsed out using smokers because of the confounding effects of other chemicals present in tobacco yet they quote a study using smokers to support the non-addiction claim.
I also got a BMW (but only a 2er) recently, and I think it makes me more confident at maneuvers I would have dreaded before. Top speed on a high way is now very comfortable, and taking over feels safe. That hasn’t been the case with my Kia, Hyundai, or Mazda. I can definitely see people becoming a bit more reckless with this general feeling of safety.
You mean a company gives large customers discounts as incentives!!! I’m shock!

I bet AWS also has a secret deal with Netflix where they don’t have to pay retail prices. (Note sarcasm of course Netflix doesn’t pay retail).
The article now reads that the trouble has been resolved (*since about an hour ago)
The central bit:

"psychedelics are silently doing something even more remarkable than warping reality: They are rapidly inducing a state of neuroplasticity, in which the brain can more easily reorganize its structure and function. (...) For the first time, researchers have purposively developed psychedelic drugs that appear to bring about neuroplastic effects without producing a trip. These drugs stimulate the same serotonin receptor as traditional psychedelics (...) nontrip psychedelics will have at least one major advantage over their trip-inducing analogs: They can more easily be placebo-tested. Classic psychedelic research has been bedeviled by the simple fact that it is virtually impossible not to know that you are taking a classic psychedelic"
And blocking all extensions by default on Firefox mobile.... At least you can create an add-on collection to bring them back but Mozilla is evil nowadays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2bbHoVQSM (“Timeshares: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”)
> And significantly fewer deaths than countries that closed schools for years or arrested people for walking alone in parks.

Which country had schools closed for years? Not the US.

> Ok, just also make sure to include the psychological and economic costs of NPIs, which we are also still learning about. Remember the teacher's unions saying that learning loss was a myth and kids are "resilient"?

Oh, the "I want to kill my parents to save the economy" argument. Gotcha. Just to be clear, which of your parents would you off to save your 401k?

I'll answer your question once I know where you land on that.

> Two agencies lean toward a lab leak, others toward natural origin, none with high confidence (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origi...). A lab leak origin is perhaps less likely than the alternative, but it's a entirely reasonable hypothesis.

Plausible. The world you are looking for is plausible, and only one of the two, out of more than a dozen. Only one is plausible, not two. And plausible does not mean, in any way, "leaning toward." So no.
Yeah!

There was a thread the other day about a linter that flagged useless code and all the odd bugs it caught, and I think it would have flagged this snippet, eh?

"Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38196644

https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-n...
Like… people do get addicted to caffeine right? I know people who drink a very large amount of coffee, who “can’t function” without it, and who generally seem to be in a pretty bad shape.

The behavior of a certain segment of the population with regard to coffee looks a hell of a lot like the stereotypical addictions to drugs, including just ending up in bad shape. Totally anecdotal of course but “caffeine in large amounts bad” aligns with a lot of human behavior.
Yes because retail stores never get paid by customers for special deals
Debt is sometimes inherited, particularly on home equity.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/can-you-inherit-...
Digital Fly-by-Wire: The Apollo Guidance Computer's Final Gift [video]
They mention Ketamine and its perceived effect on mental health as a side effect of its primary action, but a recent study says it’s no better than placebo: https://www.science.org/content/article/ketamine-no-better-p...

So, it’ll be interesting to see if these effects from other drugs, will do better as we continue to study and learn more.
After being on IRC for the best part of two decades (and the fringe groups who frequent the medium) I have seen the word “nootropics” banded about.

The first time, I thought it was a fun idea but nothing I wanted, see; my brain is all I have so I dont much fancy experimenting with it- this is also why I avoided alcohol and coffee despite social pressures.

The community that formed went away as quickly as it had been created; various people began having psychological issues.

The next time I heard about nootropics I passed along the information. “This time, will be different” the anonymous internet handle claimed.

“We know more, we will not do anything dangerous”.

Alas, the same fate befell them, and the community that formed quickly dissapated as they became incoherent even amongst each other. Prone to fits of paranoia and delusions of a grandiose conspiracy - which they were the only people who could see the truth.

Later, on of my fellow IRC opers followed this path, I gave strict warning that it was hubris to believe himself smarter at drug use for brain optimisation than the scores of admittedly intelligent people who came before. He (much) later would become unhinged and fly cross continent to find me at my irl work location where he threatened my mother.

He was incoherent most of the time and dropped out of university.

So, forgive the hesitance, but I am even more hardened on the notion that we should probably not mess with our brains too much. I know some people must be pioneers to understand what works but I always took “YOLO” as a warning and not as a reason to throw caution to the wind.

That said, I am a heavy user of caffeine in adulthood and I am more susceptible to pressure on drinking alcohol now. So I will admit to being hypocritical when it comes to the socially acceptable brain altering drugs.

NB: Nicotine itself is addictive mostly because it has such a long half life, it stays in the body for multiple weeks; so if you decide to take this advice, make sure you wait at least a fortnight between doses.
It should have been called "issue 9", which would have been a great name, expandable to "Issue 9 from Google Labs", very unique, nicely abbreviated to i9 for compiler and filename extension.

I was there, along with many others, and I'll never forget that this language has a dumb name and it could have had a much better name:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047467
> distributed blockchain (to use neutral language)

Personally I tend to use "distributed ledger" when I want to talk about the exceedingly few actually interesting use cases / technical innovations in the general area
I don't think it will. NASA has contracted SpaceX Dragon flights at about $70M per seat, and the OIG estimates the cost to SpaceX at $55M per seat. If we are extremely optimistic about Starship and say it will cost the same amount to launch as Falcon 9 / Dragon, and has 100 passengers instead of 4, that brings the price down to $2-3M per seat.

SpaceX could probably do suborbital hops on just the StarShip second stage for less per seat than what Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin do now, but I don't know if that is a market they want to get into. They haven't shown interest in it in the past.
That computes with this article which discusses the addictiveness of naturally occurring MAOIs found in organic tobacco.
Same here. We are also getting some performance gains on transaction processing and system.io stuff (10% or so) compared to windows.

Additionally, some of clients are linux and we have to ensure that our programs work flawlessly on it.
Modafinil is a Dave Asprey bullshit lie. It does not promote nootropic benefits or flow work or anything like that. Pretty much anything Dave Asprey says is bullshit.
Electricity and physics change immensely with scale. The kinds of slop you could get away with at very slow speed and relatively low powers on old hardware are not allowed for with modern high-speed technologies.

In the context of PCB design, even something as simple as decap sizing and placement becomes tricky as clock rate increases. EE students regularly suffer through voltage drops and ground bounce from poorly managing the size and placement of decaps. These are problems that either did not exist or had simpler solutions in the old days.
You don’t pay royalties for the most popular codecs until you are at massive scale.
Indeed, there are loads of occasional-cigar smokers out there who have zero interest in smoking cigarettes, and in between the times they feel they can afford a quality cigar, simply do not smoke at all.
Canoo's rugged new 'American Bulldog' electric pickup truck
The Economy Is Fake, the Jobs Are Fake, the Money Is Fake
You may like this John Peel archive to (re)discover music:

https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-session...
Google doesn't force you to go through them as strongly.
I mean, don’t go to one if you’re susceptible to this sort of sales presentation. If you can withstand two hours of a pressure cooker, you can get an excellent deal on a multi-night resort vacation.
> Reach out to Paul Graham?

No. Sorry for been confusing.

The first hard problem of a agregator is to get an initial commuity. One solution is to have a popular blog or mailing list and try to convince the readers to be the initial comunity. It worked in HN and in Stack Overflow.

The site looks too empty. You should convince a few of your friends to make a few post/comments to make it looks more active.
Ah was visiting for the first time. I stayed at the Canopy Hilton and a Room with a View (3 different rooms there). 3 out of four rooms I stayed in were new to new-ish looking; didn't use hot water from the ground. The last one at a Room with a View was very old from the old style elevator (all other rooms used more modern /present day elevator) to the older building (hallways) to the room making me assume since the newer rooms didn't use natural hot water that only older places do.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996) has an interesting structure using hundreds of footnotes some of which have themselves footnotes. The ending is not straightforward and the novel's chronology non-lineal. It contains disgressions on many topics. According to the Wikipedia, in an interview Wallace mentioned that the plotting and notes have a fractal structure modeled after the Sierpiński gasket, suggesting some degree of recursion.
Relevant auto tune the news: https://youtu.be/1dqTrUpmwPg
OpenAI's model version docs are not archivable
I have yet to find a webpage that is constantly (deliberately?) invisible to Internet Archive, but there you go.
I do as a substitute for Chrome. When I have to access websites that use some kind of Chrome feature not implemented in Firefox, I use Edge instead of installing Chrome.

I also recommend Edge for people that like Chrome as it uses a lot less of resources than Chrome while being about as fast, specially in old or not-pretty-powerful computers
They aren’t low, and it’s not dangerous for me to risk $10k of my own savings.
Anecdotally, I've accidentally quit vaping several times, because I don't vape when I've caught a cold and that's coincided with me needing to buy supplies.

I've gone back to it because I find it enjoyable, but, having watched my father quit smoking several times, I can't say that I've ever had withdrawals like that, or really at all.

So my theory is, really, that cigarettes and tobacco in general is far more addicting and therefore far more bioactive than just consuming nicotine is.
For me, two books that changed how I thought about software were (and I may date myself here):

1. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment[0]

This changed writing software from being about the code I was writing to being about the underlying systems my code was interacting with. My favorite little feature I learned about was the ability to pass open filehandles between processes (not threads, but processes), which I later used for open connection caching in Usenet systems.

2. Object Oriented Perl[1]

The mind-bending part of this book for me was when Conway explains about using structures other than hashes (dicts) as Perl objects. Arrays were interesting, scalars slightly more so, but then functions ... as objects. This one chapter brought clarity to functional programming that I never got from any other explanation.

All the other books listed here are on the list two, but these were two books about specific mechanics of software development that were worth so much more outside of their respective languages.

(edited to add links)

[0] https://www.pearson.com/store/p/advanced-programming-in-the-...
[1] https://www.manning.com/books/object-oriented-perl
It is, however, extremely useful to treat narcolepsy.
Does it help at all that Zig is LLVM-based?
I've been using Wayland + KDE (currently Plasma 5.27.8) for a very long time now on my machine with an Nvidia GPU (first a 1080TI, then a 4090). There are annoying bugs, but they're not show stoppers. I'm not someone who whines about problems like these, especially because I'm at the forefront of the Linux desktop, on a known-bad combination, so there are bound to be bugs :P

For example, a persistent bug that hasn't gone away in all this time is flaky wake from sleep. Sometimes, one of my monitors breaks in such a way that it drops down to 640x480 res and can't be changed back unless I do a list of different rituals. Another bug is that KDE's "Night Color" feature doesn't work, and whenever it turns on it completely freezes the display every few minutes (although unfreezing it is just a matter of pressing the Meta key, so it's not a big deal). I keep sleep and Night Color on, even though they're broken in the hopes that I'll one day wake up to an update that fixed them. I'm 99% sure those are Nvidia driver bugs, and Nvidia has been working to improve their Wayland support recently (for example, there's an upcoming Night Light fix that I'm excited for: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/gnome-night-light-nvidia...). Being able to follow progress like this is fun for me.

I'm sure there are some other issues that I'm not remembering, but overall the desktop is completely 100% usable and reliable (for both working and gaming). My only other machine is a laptop, and that too is running KDE+Wayland (though no Nvidia). I have not switched back to X11 once in the months (year?) since I switched to Wayland, and have not missed anything.

EDIT: also, I should mention that I'm on Fedora Kinoite. I feel like a lot of problems people have with KDE/Wayland/Nvidia comes down to bad configuration somewhere. If you're on a similar machine, I recommend you try switching to Kinoite since it's designed to just work out of the box, and is pretty much impossible to break.
In sports there are two "legal" performance enhancing doping substances: caffeine and nicotine
The Internet's First Emulation Streaming Show [video]
Specifically, it's from a month before Facebook opened to everyone with an email address.
> It also feels unreasonable to point to a generation long dead as proof of why we need financial protections today.

/r/wallstreetbets enters the chat

:)
Yep, I just love viewing Netflix on the web when I don’t have an internet connection and I’m watching previously downloaded content…
Furthermore, why do people have withdrawal symptoms coming off the patches and gum?
I sometime use Edge in an attempt to get HD on DRM-heavy streaming platforms that are not satisfied with what Firefox provides.

I can live without 4K but 480p at a low bitrate is a no for me when watching a show I care about.
There was post made in recent weeks on the Gnome Accessibility blog about the work they'll doing over the next year. Sounds like it's being spearheaded by someone quite capable, with a strong vision:

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-...
Probably because they assume android users to be more technically capable, and thus think that they can use a browser to pay rather than using the App Store?
This is exactly the problem. These two things are not at odds. Good design is functional. Good design makes information easy to find and digest. Visual soup is hard to organize and make sense of. Form is a component of function. A knife with another blade instead of a handle can do less cutting, not more. A knife with a contoured handle is easier to wield than one with a flat block handle. These concepts translate well into UI.
Obscure corners of a standard macOS installation
Agreed :( It's a much better choice if they want to fund a "standard" desktop environment.
I'm a non smoker, I never smoked. Once I decided to try a nicotine chewing gum, took one pillow and chewed it thoroughly. After about 5-10minutes I suffered some very very severe effects, including: I started sweating extremelly such that all my clothes become wet quickly and sweat was dripping down my nose, ears, and into my eyes. I felt an intense and urgent need to urinate and defecate, which luckily I could do on the spot (happened to be in the proximity of a public toilet). I think after about 30minutes the simptoms subsided. I subjectivelly imagined that I ran the risk of a heart attack there.

So, I'd like to warn any non-smoker that may want to try out nicotine: please start with a very small dose, and only gradually build up; because otherwise it can be dangerous.
I was in Grindavík yesterday and stayed until the evacuation order. No you don’t get used to it. You may think you do, but your brain doesn’t.

The larger earthquakes (the once above 4 M) started around 16:00. There was near constant—if not plain constant—shaking from then on until the evacuation order around 23:00, as in there was always at least a minor earthquake shaking the ground every 20-30 seconds. When the activity was at the peak (around 18:00) there were larger earthquakes (close to or above 5 M) every 10-20 minutes, those were above the constant shaking from the smaller once. Note that these quakes are really shallow (5-2 km deep) and close (some had their epicenter a couple of blocks away from me, but the furthest away were still less then 3 km away). So the shakes were really sharp and sudden.

As the quakes went on, I noticed I started getting more jumpy whenever there was a bigger earthquake, some people reported feeling seasick from the constant quakes, but I personally didn’t. Today I have a headache and am just spending the day in bed at my safe harbor, I suspect the stress got the better of me.
For smartphones, there is G and A.

For supermarkets there is some competition. I mean Walmart doesn't even operate in the country I am located.

See the difference?
Not a book, but an article: Herb Sutter's "What's in a Class?" completely changed the way i thought about OO programming and still holds up today.

<http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill02.htm>

PS: plus anything by C++ guru Scott Meyers.
Anecdata follows. As a never smoker I used nicotine gum during strength training workouts. I never had any urge to use it at other times. I did not find the effect very pleasant either, so while I couls see its benefit plotting my progress, ultimately I stopped using it. I do have tobacco addiction in my family history.
For the word “dangerous” to be appropriate, it needs to be established (1) that nicotine is bad for you or (2) that this introduction ever leads to smoking. Or are you just taking all the harms of smoking and applying them to nicotine because of cultural reasons?
It looks like it focuses on AI, so rather they should use OpenAI to generate some traffic.
There are various commercial distributions of WINE like Crossover that are also much easier to use. E.g. CrossOver from Codeweavers which upstreams their code. Or just a commercial Linux distro.
Unfortunately, playing politics is part of communicating.
> I had no idea you could sign a contract that obligates your benificiaries after your death.

You do any time you buy property subject to an HOA with fees (which is, in fact, how lots of timeshares are structured.)
Anyone can make a claim against an estate. But there is a deadline usually 6 months to a year after the death where the estate can be closed. Even when someone makes a claim the executor of the will can tell a judge that they don't think the claim is valid. So it comes down to the timeshare company needing to know about the death and filing a claim quickly enough and a judge accepting the claim as valid.
> On the other hand, would you choose to build a long-term business on top of Go, given that all that support comes from one company?

Like Java? Or c#? Go is hardly unique in that it's developed primarily by a single entity.

...but even if Google abandoned it, it seems like you're making the assumption that no one in the world would continue developing an open source project, and the source would just become unusable, or something? It's not like Google can just turn off go lmao