skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if that was due to how much awkwardness there was in the movie.

* It's a divisive mood. Some people find it relatable and cathartic (and hilarious in the context of comedy), while others find it intolerable to the point that they will leave the room during awkward scenes.

* It's not a common type of humor, especially in mainstream American movies, so people are unlikely to have many other awkward comedies in their viewing history.

* Napoleon Dynamite took it to such a degree that even people who enjoy it in small doses might have become exhausted by it as the film went on. (As far as I can recall, that's how I experienced the film.)
I'll add cache invalidation to the list of reasons not to use a CDN. Its a solvable problem, but I've more than once seen irritating issues caused by something getting cached in the CDN layer and loading the wrong resources.
Speculations on how S3 Express works
If that were true, western companies would spend billions to hide their complicity in slave labour
What does Spotify gatekeep? Or are you saying that Tidal, Apple Music & Deezer should also be targeted by DMA?

Netflix isn't being targeted either, so it's obviously not purposefully targeting FAANG/M$ and nothing else.
If a friend of mine had written this article as a joke, I'd laugh my ass off because it's that funny.
It's the only thing that keeps intellectual property in check. Without the option, publishers just have a legal monopoly. When piracy increases, it means consumers are unhappy.
Love the UI. Catchy clickbait title though.
But then you're a criminal anyway?
I've only added 500+ startups up to now, so some spaces are a little empty and/or too broad. I'll set up a good way for users to contribute very soon.
Autopilot is the name which implies no assistance.
fscanf() is also pretty slow because of thread safety so each call involves a mutex (which goes unused 99% of the time). I wonder do the new C++ libraries have faster non-threadsafe options?
And I was talking about how little relevance of Steam on Linux has for worldwide share of gamers, let alone game consoles and mobile devices, being forced to emulate Windows games, and Valve's lack of success in making GNU/Linux native games, as proven by Proton being a thing, and SteamOS Machines market failure.

Proton will never stop being a requirement for the large ecosystem of Valve's gaming library.
See libuv and event loop.

"Single threaded" is not a selling point of JS, but a statement of its limitation and it refers to how JS event loop is executed.

Implementing multithreading doesn't make sense for some people unless they can attain the same "ease of use" of JS.
Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror, Lew Irwin

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard

The Fleet That Had To Die, Richard Hough

Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness, Neil Swidey
This is a challenging situation. A few thoughts:
Yes, it is possible for companies to succeed even if early team members prove poorly matched or incompetent for their roles. However, it will be an uphill battle and require extra effort from other team members to compensate.
Communication with the founders/leadership is key. Share your objective concerns and examples (without blame or accusation). Highlight specific problems and where deficiencies are hindering execution and operations. Propose potential solutions if you have them (additional training, reassigning roles, letting go, etc).
If no changes are made, you'll have to decide if you are willing/able to carry the extra workload long-term. This could potentially lead to frustration and burnout over time. Set clear boundaries for your own work capacity.
Focus your energy on the parts you can control - doing excellent work, communicating effectively, and finding creative solutions where you are able. But you alone likely cannot compensate for major underperformance in other roles forever.
At some point if major issues persist with no intervention or change, you may need to have a frank talk with leadership about whether this situation threatens the viability of the company's success. Offer to help find solutions, but don't sacrifice your own health trying to single-handedly save an unwilling/unable team.
The ideal outcome would be recognizing where the gaps are early and promptly getting the right people into the right roles. But sometimes early teams need to stumble a bit before figuring that out. Just don't let it drag you down in the process. I wish you patience and discernment navigating this startup's growth pains!
Hah actually yeah didn’t realize the full history here, it’s actually tied back to x.com in a full circle way:

> In March 2000, Confinity merged with x.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho. Musk was optimistic about the future success of the money transfer business Confinity was developing. Musk and Bill Harris, then-president and CEO of X.com, disagreed about the potential future success of the money transfer business and Harris left the company in May 2000. In October of that year, Musk decided that X.com would terminate its other internet banking operations and focus on payments. That same month, Elon Musk was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com, which was renamed PayPal in June 2001 and went public in 2002.

Anyway, my comment was more about Square and Twitter and how I wish they’d formed a partnership of some sort.
Time mirrors are useful to know if youll cut yourself shaving tomorrow.

(This is not an endorsement of Future Mirrors Inc.)
> It would be nice if Biff weren't dependent on various ad-hoc scripts (some in bash, others in babashka), since it means newcomers to Biff (and especially newcomers to Clojure in general) have to install a variety of tools without clear purpose.

I don't find this accurate. Biff is not dependent on any bash scripts at all. There is one(1) bash script, server-setup.sh, which you can run to configure a server. It's a 112loc script which installs dependencies, configures nginx, sets up a systemd service and git deploys. I don't call this a dependency since it's literally the exact same thing as running these commands by yourself. Once you've ran it, neither your server or development env depends on it in any way. It's just a handy way to set up a server.

As for the bb scripts, yes you need to install babashka to run them. I don't see how this is different from having to install lein to run luminus apps? clojure-cli is the defacto standard tool these days after all.. babashka's deps are declarativively defined in bb.edn, i don't find it accurate to describe as "moving pieces" .

> like existing Clojure "frameworks", it still fails to feel like a Rails / Django / Laravel and feels more like "here is a project template with a bunch of decisions baked in for you".

"Strong defaults, weakly held."
I know people who programmed an app for controlling this kind of thing- licensing agreements for video content on streaming platforms. The “period” entity was a huge monster with many fields. Resolution amongst them.

> why they would not offer it in 4k

That’s because the other license was either too pricey, or simply unavailable (another platform might have purchased exclusivity for that show in 4k in your area)
The cooking one looks spot-on, is it using GPT4 and transcript or with Vision ?
We have come back around to the reason that Netflix was so popular when it started. Too many walled gardens and exclusive content locked behind too high of a price.

We had cable, people hated it so they "cut the cable" and media companies just changed where that cable was plugged into homes. Now instead of cable/satellite services, it's just streaming. But the outcome is the same.

It's a mess. And as always, instead of looking for effective solutions, media is trying to guilt people into paying for their services.

Is it time for Netflix 2.0? If so, what does that look like now that every company is trying to sustain their own streaming service? Is it a small box that you attach to your TV that brings all of these disparate services together in one easy to use location?

Are we just seeing the long game of trying to get people to sign back up for cable and satellite?
Yeah, it wouldn't be standard-compliant, and I think it was very ancient one---at least as old as STLport I believe.
Awesome, thanks for plugging this here! Exactly the kind of material I was looking for :)
That's also not legal though, and there's been moves to make DNT in browsers be enforceable as a user explicitly not consenting.

The laws themselves say that rejection should NOT be more difficult than accepting. You can make it as complicated as you want, only if the acceptance process is equally or more complicated.
I think he’s saying this because the experience of seeing it at midnight with a performance troupe is distinct from the film itself. The experience can be fun even if the movie is possibly not.
I'm sure it varies a lot geographically. In the US, I expect the bulk is streaming services as you say. While I'm sure there are many outliers on a forum like this, most people subscribe to a few services and watch what's available. I know I do. I'll rarely look for something elsewhere if I can't easily get it via streaming (whether subscription or a la carte).

I have no particular insight into the global situation but certainly availability is patchier and incomes are often lower.
You can compete if you startup has low cost of operating but if you startup has high computing costs and high software engineering cost, you will probably run out of money sooner or later.

China is probably the only country that can compete with US in the computer tech industry because they can also throw billions at tech startups....just look at TikTok(apparently they got popular because they invested billions in creating and promoting TikTok).
They are free to define it locally in a more strict way than federal gov/agencies do.
Imagine if they had resurrected Jesus in plan 9, the polarization on that one would be out of this world!
2021-22 is cherry-picked to land dead center in the middle of the inflation burst. Check the FRED charts I posted elsewhere in this thread and look to numbers before covid. They literally say the opposite.
I noticed that for every movie on the list that I like, I can totally see how others might not. But for most movies that I dislike, I just don't get how people can genuinely enjoy them.

I don't know what that says about anything but I found it curious.
Please, please don't mix up ORMs with ActiveRecords. ActiveRecords are one way to implement an ORM, but it's not the only way. I think many say they hate ORMs when they actually mean ActiveRecords.
For bigger projects ActiveRecords suck, yes. But also you need to have some database layer logic which most likely does some Object & Relation Mapping (ORM).
How to Use AI to Talk to Whales–and Save Life on Earth
Definitely. I have this list at heyhomepage.com, at the bottom. Right now, it's a list in HTML, but you can browse it.

The accompanying OPML file (basically just a list of RSS feeds) doesn't work at the moment, because it's usually populated one by one when I change something. I made all my subscriptions public at once for your request by changing the database. In the future this OPML file will contain all the feeds, with my categories and all.

The HTML list contains 900+ feeds, of which more than onethird is what I call a 'dev blog'. But I also found a lot of interesting sites/feeds on HN that I put in other categories, like 'art n design', 'bizz n marketing', 'philosophy n life, 'science n history', etc. You get the gist (pun intended).

The category 'photo feeds' is also interesting. It contains feeds with an image in the <enclosure> tag, which makes for a more lively feed when I browse it in the RSS reader of Hey Homepage (my website system for small businesses and individuals).

If you send me a message on the contactform over there, I can reply with an .sql file by mail which contains everything. Might be easier for you to transform it into something workable.

Also, very recently this kind of blogroll/webring was done by other people on HN. It contains user-uploaded blogs and feeds from HN users. You might want to search for that. My guess is there is a lot of overlap between my list and theirs.

Edit: Right now, the HTML list doesn't contain the categories I added. If you really want that, I can add it quickly within a day or so. Also, there's no personal info in the list (it was private), but if you happen to find something, please let me know. ;)
Does your recent bankruptcy as a result of a multimillion dollar court judgement against you make you feel emboldened to make maliciously false ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38549409 ) claims on hacker news?

Do your bankruptcy creditors know about your 'investments' in Bitcoin competitors that you're promoting here?
Not to mention they don't throw the unspent money into a thrash can, it's just spent elsewhere...
I enjoyed the film overall, but I agree that the satire was quite heavy-handed, particularly with Jonah Hill's character.

I understand that it was intended to be over-the-top, but it was too much for me.
I'm not familiar with the games or videos, but my guess is that normally, firing in a shooter and grabbing in the goose game are done by clicking the mouse. But clicking the mouse might cause the mouse to move, messing up your aim. To solve that, you can change the fire/grab mapping to happen when you scroll your mouse instead of when you click your mouse.
Price is part of it, and paying customers should never have a worse experience than those getting something for free. With DRM, activation severs that can be shut down, exclusivity deals, and fragmentation of marketplaces… paying customers often get a worse experience.
You can thank the "patriot" act for that one. Bush Jr's lasting legacy.
Understanding Data Breach: An Expert's Guide
Seems incredibly high. Literally incredibly.
Tell that to my Google interviewer.
70,000 more musicians who could be earning $0.10 per month from their streams played on Spotify.
> Western companies apparently DO NOT CARE

They do, they hired killers to murder Union leaders in Columbia

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/24/marketingandpr...
What part don't I have insight into? At least the parts that could be exploited by china in some way that would affect me, and couldn't be detected?
Most polarizing for me are the dramatized history movies like Napoleon. Most of the public will not be aware of what parts are true, and what parts are fiction. History will be remember as portrayed by these movies. They're basically committing falsification of history. It will be hard for the public to learn from history, if history is portrayed incorrectly in these movies.
Protecting Hybrid Its Networks: A Comprehensive Security Approach
There's no reward for being JUST ambitious in the US, there's a lot more involved. Luck and willingness to exploit the work of others is a big part of what's required to earn the reward.
This is a maliciously false and baseless lie. Were it true, you could simply link to an example of it in the repository.

I've read all the changes to the project for essentially its entire life and there is nothing like that nor would anything like that be accepted by many users or the ordinary review process.
> I can sort of accept, reluctantly, that the Chinese have a different way to thinking than I do and that I can't necessarily apply my moral code to China.

Do you really believe that Chinese are different from US in this regard? I.e. that most Chinese people believe that it's perfectly ok to exploit people to the bone, because they have alternatives? No, they, just like us, believe it's a rotten thing to do, and agree to it only because well, they have no alternatives. No different than the extremely exploited workers in hellish factories in XIX century US or England.
This is true, but a pirated game may still lead to a sale eventually, so they're not exclusive categories.

(Even better, there are games that I wouldn't buy on Steam, had I not have prior experience with them.)
Thing is, 30-40dB is not sufficient to properly block wireless connections, they can still work with 40dB attenuation.
> It's difficult to get paid more than £150k for a developer

It's difficult to get paid more than £80-90k as a developer.

I see some that go over £100k but they are uncommon. I had to go the contractor route to make more than £100k.

If I went FTE at my current company they wouldn't pay me more than 90k, unless I moved to the US office and they would pay me $200k.

The UK has become cheaper offshoring.
What a coincidence! I wrote about the exact same topic just some weeks ago [0].

[0]: https://www.alexmolas.com/2023/11/14/controversial-movies.ht...
Don't worry they do and it sometimes just take a few well placed gifts to the right person to get a shift in your direction. Brussels is filled to the brim with lobbyists from all kind of companies or "trade associations". I don't know about the U.S. way to do that but I pretty much expect them to not be far from politicians either.
One of two things is happening.

Either induced demand is real which implies if you bought a corn field in Idaho and built enough high density housing you could make the housing more expensive than Manhattan and walk away richer than god.

Or high demand drives housing density and high prices.
Highly recommend the Ƒπ Model -- doesn't require the UltraGalaxy Subscription and supports the Gigaflib connector.
This is very puzzling to me: How can such a small object generate enough gravity to retain a moon orbiting it with such a small radius (see the embedded animation lower down in the article)? The asteroid is only 790 meters in diameter, which is the size of a small hill. I'm no physicist, but maybe someone can whip up some calculations to show how this might be possible at all?
That's why the word "supposedly" is there
High if they value sincerity, and your flaws aren't "I'm a psycho" or something that's completely within your control to fix.
Not necessarily. I would like examples of where "...AWS also constantly tweaks its services, sometimes to the detriment of its users..." so I can be better informed, and make better decisions within my projects.
C64 hi-res graphics was 320x200, two selectable colors for each 8x8 char sized block. So 16 colors on the screen, but...

See: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/High_Resolution
Mixtures: A Debugging Story
I don't agree with GP's original point (also afaik US minimum wage hasn't increased), but the way inflation is measured is with a basket of common goods that serve as proxy for "cost of living". If cost of living, the number in dollars, went up, it means prices rose, which means there was inflation. Maybe it wasn't measured "correctly" (the basket of goods isn't reflective of what people actually need to live), but in principle an increase in your "real" salary means you're better off and beating the rising cost of living
Music licensing is pretty much centralized and standardized for historical reasons. So streaming music services pretty much have "everything" (reasonably mainstream) and are essentially commodities aside from device support, UIs, playlists, etc.
are you sure downloading of cop material is illegal? In a lot of countries it is permitted as long as you do not distribute that content further
General Relativity has identical solutions for forward and reverse time.

The Schwarzschild metric for example is expressed in terms of time squared so time itself can take positive or negative values and give the same result. It also allows negative mass but those solutions are not symmetric with positive mass - the rs term that contains mass is not quadratic.

One consequence of this combination is if you consider "negative mass" to be just positive mass operating in reverse time (to avoid having to accept the ugly idea of negative mass in positive time), you end up with asymmetric effects.
Thanks for getting back to me. That's what I thought. The magic seems to start happening in the low billions of parameters -- and I say "seems" b/c there's no consensus as to whether it's really truly magic! In any case, it's a shame that most of the human brainpower capable of improving SotA AI doesn't have access to large-scale resources.
I'd finally managed to forget that film.

I hate you.
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms
The problem I have with Spotify is the money I pay doesn’t go to the artists I potentially to.

If I pay £15 a month and listen to 15 different artists 50 times each I would expect each artist to get £1 minus costs, so say 50p.

But they don’t, they instead get a fraction of that.
>nothing to do with right or wrong, which is written in our heart

It's just quite unfortunate we're all reading from different heart books.
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment.

Have you seen an example where a company has succeeded with mediocre early team members?

I feel torn about this because I don't want to quit so early (it's only been a few months) for many reasons—financial, looks weird on CV, genuinely like the founders—but also don't want to shoot myself in the foot staying in a possibly sinking ship.
I wish they didn't do this.

They already have an end-to-end encrypted messaging application: it's called WhatsApp. I have seen so many people (and have myself been) bitten by WhatsApp's E2E implementation: messages lost because your phone was barely online and you "read" the message but didn't fully receive it, leaving you to awkwardly ask people to re-send things. Plus the constant need to backup your messages because if you don't you can lose access to them forever. Plenty of my family have lost messages/images that were sent to them and were important to them.

I'd rather not deal with this. Sometimes I want all my messages to be stored on a big company's servers. They should at least give people the option to choose.
Piracy has a better UI/UX than legal streaming. Once that scale tipped it's not coming back without major changes.

With piracy you can watch all your shows, no matter the network/streaming-service, on one "service", one app/ui, no ads, no tracking. You literally cannot pay for that level if you wanted to. That's absurd.

If there was a legal way to do what I listed above that cost $200/mo I'd probably pay it. But you know they'd start to screw it up in record time adding in ads and the like.
Great! I wasn’t sure whether to plug it but it seemed very relevant to the post. :)
There are a number of assumptions here that I think I need to ask about.

>Organic life is then merged/exterminated/controlled in favor of AGI.

Why? What would be the motivation for this? If we are the case study, AGI isn't able to "feed" itself energy without biological life to turn switches and dials. So why would this be a logical first step?

>AGI would not have the biological instinct to grow/spread/reproduce

This infers a 'perfect' AI. One without any biases from its creator. What makes you think that's possible? Also, is self-preservation/self-propogation not part of being able to think and reason?
"Memery" being people sharing their own experience that happens to differ from the norm...?
Source?

That has never happened to me, and I use archive.is/archive.ph/whatever other domain they indicate I should use very regularly.
AdamantChicken2 (aka AlphaCode2) replied to the thread! https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/123035?#comment-1091379