skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Montana, wind is about to overtake coal generation capacity
Being back in Canada over the holidays, I was shocked to see how much better their streaming catalogues are.

I remember historically, some countries have had much better catalogs than others. Incidentally, I think the catalog quality is proportional to the amount of piracy. more lucrative markets have worse catalogues, despite making more money.
The point is that the question is sort of interesting and the history is just fluff for YouTube clicks and video length. The context is irrelevant.
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Like in the movies when they show a current newspaper, but easier and safer. I use as seed the last mined ethereum block, and I show it in a fancy way.
i think you might want this:

https://yt.artemislena.eu/channel/UCIDpP-r7peinOH_aalpSdGQ
FBI warns travellers not to use public charging ports at airports, hotels
Always good to be reminded about this
The vast majority of users probably would never side load. The App Store and Play Store is more of a discovery and acquisition channel than anything else.
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The article directly states that the fee won't impact Freevee. On the other hand you can access Freevee without Prime.

It would be nice of they made a customer focused app for Prime Video (vs their decision to make one that incrementally maximizes revenue).
It doesn’t and doesn’t need to, especially since Amazon profits tripled YoY
Both C [1] and C++ [2] have string literal syntax for UTF-8, 16, and 32 strings.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/string_literal

[2] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/string_literal
I believe they are definitely general purpose. You can browse the web, do professional work in several industries (spreadsheets for business, media editing programs, tax software, etc), play soke fairly intensive games, and track all kinds of parts of your life. And then you can dock all this to a monitor and use a KB&M and treat it like a ultrathin workstation.

I'm struggling to think of something you can't do on a phone/tablet these days. Dual monitor support seems to be beyond most devices I tried it with. Maybe some government applications for security purposes.
Then it started pretty much at the same time for both men and women.
Are there any decent reports of someone's phone getting compromised this way?
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Yea, when you make like a million of these you have different economies of scale, plus an ability to negotiate with suppliers.

This is the power of making a product at huge scale.

The amount of technology I can buy in a $90 Android phone is mind boggling.
You can buy multiple consoles. You can't practically carry and use multiple phones as they will have different phone numbers.
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I bought one of these a few months back. Excellent product, can definitely recommend.

Very simple, but very effective.
As a bystander, could someone tell me how many of these video platforms get basic usability wrong? Do the programmers not eat their own dog food?

If I watch show X to the end, a little prompt will display saying, "Start Next Episode", I then close the viewer. Next day when I click resume series, it will bring me back to the episode that is 99% complete so that I can watch the credits roll. Why is the algorithm to detect end of show so poor? They have already identified I could advance to the next episode.

Even better is when I want to re-watch a previously seen episode, and it will return me to the end of the show where I last stopped. I think it is HBO(?) who lacks a "Restart from Beginning" option, forcing you to manually rewind.

Or that some platforms do not maintain a, "Continue Watching" video bar in the same consistent location, forcing you to bounce around to locate your show. This one at least seems like an obvious dark pattern to remind you there is other content, so I can at least attribute some thoughtful design to that annoyance.
Maybe it’s because I use OpenBSD, or something, but I’ve never once gotten Prime Video to work. Every year or so I try it, it doesn’t work, then I remember most shows and movies are garbage and forget streaming video even exists for another year.
That looks great indeed, thank you. I assume the concepts are generalizable even though it uses Emacs to concretize them? I ask since I'm a Vim guy (not trying to start a flame war haha)
Nothing; I wished you luck! I imagine people with screenreaders have an even tougher time...

(mobile I agree would be hopeless with zoom [I avoid reading on mine even without zoom], but does your desktop zoom mean even TFA's vt100-friendly 72-chars needed reflowing?)
> Clearly the model -does- work, especially when the project is new and things are moving fast. But it's hard to grow.

The market is proven (and we have closed source competitors). The project is 20. It grows slowly but does grow. It also doesn't need to grow too much. Not every company wants to become very big. In the end, the company is (increasingly) profitable, employees get paid and customers are happy.

> Naturally there needs to be some incentive to keep the support staff in-house

The company, while not paying incredible salaries, pays decently and offers awesome working conditions. They perfectly know that we could get paid more elsewhere so it compensates by making it enjoyable to work at. And it works, many people have been there for a long time. Some of the first ones are still here.

More critically, the support team heavily relies on the product team for specific questions, and also supports custom projects built on top of the product, so it's not like they can just leave and create a competitive support business. The expertise in the finest details is with the product team and the infra team.
"Why does everything get worse?"

We came of age in streaming at a time when Netflix was a de facto monopoly and, importantly, monopsony. Its monopoly/psony was based on a technical moat: streaming was very challenging to pull off, and only Netflix had the technical talent necessary to make it happen.

Whether through the goodness of the hearts of those in charge or through fear of regulation, Netflix didn't do much to extract monopoly rents. But monopsony is generally treated much more lightly by regulators than monopoly, and Netflix extracted monopsony rents on those who made movies -- if they wanted to get money after theatrical distribution, they had to make a deal with Netflix, the end. Netflix extracted a monopsony rent and distributed it partly to themselves and partly to the end users.

Then the technical moat eroded as it became technically easier and easier to build the infrastructure necessary to stream movies. Movie makers (studios etc) were eager to end their dealings with a monopsonist, and they all jumped head-first into the bandwagon of making their own streaming service (Disney+, Paramount+, HBOMax being the Warner Brothers streaming service, etc.). They also saw that Netflix had a great business and wanted in on that money.

But the Netflix business was built on the monopoly/psony. The monopsony surplus being driven to consumers meant that prices were low for consumers and they stayed subscribed to Netflix, delivering Netflix an enormous audience. Post-technical moat, the audience fragmented, and it turns out that there are in fact fixed costs (mostly tax liabilities related to writing off the costs of making a movie) associated with maintaining a big library. Without the big audience and the monopsony surplus, the economics of streaming haven't actually been attractive at all, so now the streaming providers are all aggressively increasing prices/including ads to jack up the revenue stream.

Obviously, the end of free capital/rise of interest rates was also a factor in all this, but I think the monopsony story is the big one.
'enshittifcation' is just the rebranding of vocabulary for promotional purposes. Doctorow is part of the very problem he complains about.
I use both slic3r and cura.
Both are installed in 2 minutes.
Slicer is good for having better out of the box profiles. But the biggest drawback for me is the auto orientation tool to lay an object flat. For thin complex objects slicer always has issues. Cura does not.
If the company is already huge and makes a tonne of profit, there's little/no need to double-dip on an accessory service that already makes a good case for pushing people into their main service (i.e prime video is free if you use amazon prime -> using amazon's main website/service).

It's not about the market cap specifically, it's stating that prime video doesn't need to operate at a profit in order to benefit amazon's core business.
> I wish they had fixed it to accept both tabs and spaces a long time ago.

I have good news for you: this is already the case! In all modern versions of make you can use semicolons instead of tabs.

You just write

target : dependencies ; rule

instead of

target : dependencies
^Irule

if, for some reason, you hate the beautiful tab characters.
I think it's a little disingenuous to make a comparison so extreme, but I guess I'd just ask why that theme seems so popular. Money doesn't make you happy, it's true. But there's a reason it's always presented as a dichotomy. It placates the masses.
I grew up with the stories of real people (students and scholars of the past times) being able to memorize things by just hearing or reading them once.

Seems a forgotten thing in the modern world.
Ah, now I see, thanks!
Not that I know of, but, regardless, USB was a mistake from the beginning.
Interesting analogy and it may not be wrong.

The acquired immune system basically includes a feature where it can squirrel away some of the white blood cells that fought an infection in the past at the site of the infection. This is a subset of the cells that were activated by the chemicals that were found during the infection.

But the immune system doesn't have a great way to distinguish the chemicals that actually cause illness from ancillary chemicals that may have been present during the infection as well. This is one of the root causes of allergies... you get sick with, say, rhinovirus at the same time that the pollen count is really high and your immune system defeats the rhinovirus but squirrels away both the white blood cells that were activated by the rhinovirus and the ones that were activated by the basically harmless chemicals on the surface of pollen grains. Then the next time allergy season comes around, your nasal passages and lungs fill up with pollen grains and the white blood cells close to the surface that were squirled away due to that old rhinovirus infection activate and trigger your immune system to respond to the pollen.
Where's the story? This recipe has no pathos!
Tell us about your childhood.
Great post. You could also use Automize.dev to generate those xpaths easier ;) Disclaimer: I am the author of Automize.
It depends on the viewer’s perspective. From the coin’s point of view it rotates three times, but to an outside viewer it rotates four times. I think the outside viewer’s perspective is far more intuitive, so four is really the “most” correct answer to me.
It’s not like the airport USB ports work anyway
> What about overwhelming bills and other liabilities, lack of marketable skills, illnesses (including addictions), lack of opportunities, lack of parenting and education, of food, etc.

These are all issues that can be overcome with an absurd amount of effort, but are often exacerbated by the psychology of the individual and their surroundings/family/support.

Removing all agency from the person gives them a reason to stay in poverty as it is far more comfortable to know that "i am poor" and not be responsible for it, compared to facing discomfort and climbing out of the pit.

The basis of this is my own experience (as you quoted yours) as I grew up homeless along with my mother and sister. I have lived this life, and I'd be very surprised if you had any real, (non-phoney) experience with what you're talking about. My mother is now dead, I escaped first and am now well off; I am bringing my sister out of poverty by trying to combat those very issues (addiction, lack of skills, education).

In this day and age it is VERY easy to give an abundance of support for addiction, Education is free (via youtube and the like), learning to do things, bill support, financial services. -- The number one blocker is getting her to get up, keep calm, carry on, and get through to complete any single item on that list. I can send her all the money in the world and it doesn't mean jack shit. I bought her a $1500 computer so she can learn about emails, and she hocked it for $300 because she was short for cash one day.

I find "pre-existing wealth and opportunities" a much lazier answer then you'd find everybody would generally trend upwards; which we have to a small margin. But it's most often that rich families meet inter-generational demise.

It is much easier for us all to be poor, than for us to all be rich; we can take comfort that "we just got dealt a bad hand, it's not our fault".
This thread packs more info in it that any I've seen the last decade, at least, to this northeasterner who put a few years in Cali.

"Pizza Hut is best pizza place in Cali" is rationally incorrect but is broadly correct, in that, California suffers from either:

A) bargain basement tomato-sauce-on-cardboard pizza...think Dominos.

or...

B) pizza that frankly is _not_ pizza to people below 80th percentile income who aren't foodies. To wit, "Pesto and Potato Pizza"
Sadly, no one will use your extremely slow text editor.
I’m just sticking to a high daily D dose. It’s cheap, there is no risk, and it seems to bother the medical press and tabloid science journalist alike.
Whatever happened to the Zettelkasten note strategy approach?
> I don't understand this conspiracy theory about multi billion dollar companies willing to sacrifice their productivity for tens of millions of dollars in real estate.

How is this a "conspiracy theory?" Some of the largest companies in North America are intertwined with real estate one way or another (sunk billions into constructing one or more HQs, investment, etc.) This becomes worthless if they're vacant.

As another commenter said, it's incredibly difficult to measure productivity. Large enterprises care more about their balance sheets and stock prices, hence decisions are made that provide immediate fiscal relief despite obvious long-term implications. Aggressive RTO mandates have led to an exodus of top performers in my company; many core teams are worse off than before, but all the executives care about is budget.
Practically I think that just means that the kids end up getting taught vast quantities of "exam technique" rather than content.

I taught myself the essence of calculus when I was 14 or 15 - there were holes in my knowledge but it took I'd estimate 5 years for regular education to catch up to the intuition I built then (on a houseboat on the Thames even, sounds romantic except for the fumes)
Oh wow, hi Bruno (so much for Anon84 haha)! Thanks for the reply. Your book sounds much more like what I'm looking for. I did not know it has Python code to go along with; that's a huge plus for me. Your Substack looks great as well, looking forward to digging into it.
I have worked on very large e-Commerce sites and it seems there are 2 common issues:

#1 a lot of teams are understaffed, overworked an not aligned, improving search is simply not a priority (at the same times, a lot of people are bored out of their mind, because of inefficient allocation of capacities). And of course, usable analytics data on search does not exist as it is hard to collect...

#2 search might be actually ok, but the quality of the catalog data is a nightmare - and the catalog is maintenance by a tiny team that overworked and underpaid. To add injury to insult, there is also no clear accountability established and 5 departments and a couple of vendors play the "not my problem" game. Sometimes 10-30% of the catalog is renewed every year and people gave up a long time ago to report problems.
That's true. I had a touch display for a pi laying around and started a personal dashboard project. Thought about Google calendar to synchronize the calendar between different devices... It was too much of a hassle.
I ended up serving my own caldav server on the pi and everyone's device could easily synch the calendar, no matter if PC, iPhone or Android phone. No need for Google
This is a problem that PWAs address
The time-lock acts as a way to ensure names aren't revealed the moment channels are registered which would create a race condition where attackers could hijack names by registering them on other servers.

The channel name is something like time_lock(name_meta_data, server_details) -> deterministic channel name based on the parameters passed to the function (output is unique per server.) Just like if you used a hash function you get the same output for the same input. Since the time lock needs a certain amount of compute to elapse (and a certain amount of time to do it) -- it allows time for the name owner to register the appropriate channels on other servers.
Old equation:

Everything everybody spent on cable + all ad revenue = cost of delivering cable + cost of producing all TV shows + profit

New equation:

Everything everybody spent on subscriptions + all ad revenue = cost of delivering subscriptions + cost of producing all TV shows + profit

So, "ad revenue" went from a big number to 0. "Cost of delivering" went from a big number to a small number. But the revenue went way down as well.

One solution would be to make less TV, but the industry obviously isn't a fan of that idea, so they are increasing your spend. If everybody gets on an average of 5 services and watches ads too the revenue will be similar-ish to the good old days of cable!
FTA:
"Fast-food chains Chipotle and McDonald’s have already announced they plan to raise menu prices in California to offset the higher cost of worker compensation"

I guess I will refrain from those chains to offset their higher prices. Not even automation seems to help them want to reduce prices. In comparison, In-n-Out had already been paying their employees a higher salary than those chains, but their menu prices aren't as high.

Temper tantrums all because they want to keep wages low while everything else rises.
> encouraged to make additions and even changes to the base classes

By whom?

"Guideline 120
Avoid modifying the existing behavior of base system classes."

1996 Smalltalk with Style page 95

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/WithStyle/Smallt...
It’s certainly been interesting watching the multi-decade arc play out. With Mach as the origins, everything other than tasks (processes) schedule and virtual mem was out of kernel and done over Mach port comms. Then xnu via next step and later OS X linked much more in kernel and exposed specific data types using com+ in iokit. And now more and more is moving back out of the kernel.

io_urging networking on Linux is another similar move out to use space
They are big pins. They can handle it.

I mean, the much smaller pins on the 12-pin got rated for 8.3 amps. And yes that connector does have issues, but they're around bad latching much more than current.
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Isn't this hair splitting on definitions? They are there for vaccinating against future instances of cancer after somebody is in remission from previous instances of cancer.

It's not a generally-distributed vaccine, but there are all sorts of vaccines that aren't generally distributed and instead applied only to populations likely to encounter the illness protected against (such as the battery one is exposed to if one travels to particular parts of the world).
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The only reason these services got market share in the first place is by using other money (other division's income, or vc funding) as loans to undercut the competition, such as by offering prices cheaper than probably sustainable in the long term. Eventually, the loans must be repaid, which means the undercutting ends if it's not sustainable. In "real" businesses, that initial capital is used to develop something that'll be sustainable (knowledge, new technology, new products). In these industries with well established economies, there's often not something actually sustainable to develop, so eventually they have to fall back to the original economics of the industry (or shift the economics to something else that may or may not be better).

I've become a lot more really leery of "free" services, and a bit more okay with spending money when I think it makes sense. For example, I'm anti-Amazon Prime because I realize it's basically a huge loss just to get you into ordering more items from Amazon to keep their total revenue and usage high as they've diversified into even less savory business practices due to their market share. Tech companies over index too much on convenience because consumers want convenience. We should be okay with less convenience for a greater good.
I could tell you a story of a pi and a touchscreen and just some HTML, CSS and Javascript to make it :)
Assuming the compilation is perfect, it lets the author maintain the simple Just format, while simultaneously distributing the same code to a runtime (shell) that is installed everywhere. Lowers the barrier of entry. Also, my quick glance at the just.sh output, it introduces a lot of niceties most people are not going to include in their own shell scripts.

I love Just. Corrects many of Makes hindsight-mistakes, and centralizes all of your project tasks for an easy to browse summary. Even if each task is essentially `bash scripts/dothing.sh`, the single source is nice.
How does Vim feel sluggish? Everything in Vim feels instantaneous to me.
The reason they own a Ferrari might be because they're good at money management including negotiation.

The local "cheap" supermarket (Lidl) to me has plenty of >€70k vehicles in the carpark.
Make exists and is used widely and not because everyone's too inept to understand your points.

The "assumption-making" build tools are the unicorns that inevitably cannot dominate because they're not generally applicable. The more they assume the more niche they become.
I'm sure they count the installs of their phone app in a very very serious way.
How would you use Logseq together with Obsidian?
What does Bezos' worth have to do with this? If you're suggesting he cover the cost for everyone, why would he do that? To prevent subscription loss maybe, but the whole point is that the increased prices make up for the lost subscriptions, so the move makes financial sense without a Bezos intervention.

Or is the idea that Bezos should subsidize Amazon with his billions out of the kindness of his heart? At that point, aren't there better, more worthy causes than this for Bezos to give his money to?

I tend to wince when people suggest that, because a CEO is wealthy, therefore the company ought to operate in some specific way. Those two things are unconnected, as it's rarely a direct compensation that causes the CEO to be as wealthy as he is.
> Love or hate the Apple arrangement, but they seem consistent on giving everyone the same terms.

They can do that, because there's no other choice. If a company wants to offer their apps to iOS users, they have to go through the App Store, so they're in no position to bargain for better terms.
I recall an episode in Simpsons about this pseudo-science:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_to_the_Max
I've been buying movies / seasons on Apple TV.

No ads and I "own" it. I read somewhere that if Apple cut me off, they'd have to refund all those purchases.

But even better is buying a DVD set and ripping it. What a pain, but at least you never have to make a deal with this particular devil.
AI could improve your life by removing bottlenecks