skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How comparable is $3 a month to the ad revenue they might make from the shows?

Apparently Amazon Prime accounts get a median of 300 minutes per week of view time. That’s 20 hours of TV a month with (in the order of) a few hundred ad slots I am paying to not have to watch. Amazon are making a penny per unwatched-ad from me.

Contrast with broadcast TV: Good Morning Britain wants £4k for an ad slot in a show that has 500k to 800k viewers so that’s a CPM also in the order of a penny [edit: ahem, £5, not a penny] paid for by the advertiser, for 1000x views.

So, even taking into account Amazon’s targeted ads vs broadcast TV ads, they can indeed make a lot more money from withholding ads than if they show them?

We could call their bluff. Maybe they don’t have any ads to actually show for which advertisers are willing to pay significant fee. But if the business model is to get consumers to pay Amazon to make the pain go away then they’d probably just show 90 seconds of screaming at the start, middle and end of every episode of The Boys.
We could spin wildly off into philosophizing here, but I responded to a narrow point made upthread, and you in turn responded to that post. To sum it up:

* The untenable position the Palestinians are in today stems at least in part to the results of the Six-Day War, wherein Egypt ultimately conceded its administration of Gaza --- in which Palestinians were not full Egyptians --- to Israel, and Jordan conceded the West Bank, which it had annexed after the Arab-Israeli war. That's what Rayiner was referring to upthread --- what happened "56 years ago" was the Six-Day War.

* The Six-Day War may have had multiple causes, and perhaps nobody's hands are clean in it, but it seems beyond dispute that the "preemptive" strike against Egypt was a response to months of military provocation by Syria and, especially, Egypt, both of whom had mobilized on Israel's border, arranged the expulsion of peacekeepers, violated Israeli airspace, and blockaded the Gulf of Aqaba, an act Nasser acknowledged made war inevitable.

* Had the Six-Day War (and then the Yom Kippur war, which was, like the Arab-Israeli war that preceded the Six-Day War, unquestionably a war of aggression by a coalition of Arab states against Israel) not happened, the cause of Palestine would be directed instead at/against Egypt and Jordan.

* "From the river to the sea" implies, among other things, the dispossession of Israeli Jewish people outside the West Bank and Gaza.
You forget that these large corporations invest heavily in REIT's. It's not just their own RE they care about. They want to prop up the entire industry.

Also, with soft layoffs, they don't have to pay severance. People who rage-quit due to RTO aren't eligible for severance or unemployment insurance.
What do you do when you run into someone without a GitHub profile? Most of my work is either proprietary or in my private but bucket.
You’re aware that mRNA is a fundamental part of DNA based life biology, so there are lots of long term issues, by design of biology. Just probably not the ones you’re thinking of.

I would note there’s billions upon billions upon billions invested in developing cancer treatments across hundreds if not thousands of research labs, not just Moderna. This isn’t an all eggs in one basket thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA
Glad you asked. I recently wrote a post about it: https://vitaut.net/posts/2023/print-in-cpp23/.
Wait. The Marx's theory explains how things get commoditized, and the margins go to the smallest possible required to fund the actual production. If anything, it explains how prices drop in a price competition, and with them, profits drop, too.

What we see here is prices rising, in a landscape which is becoming more competitive.
Meanwhile, the usability of pirate tools is improving. There's a number of "seed box" providers that put a decent management UI on top of the various pieces you need. And ways to see what's trending (or search the catalog) on Prime, Netflix, Max, etc, and add it to your download queue. A hosted service also trades a fair amount of hassle for a few extra dollars a month.
It was just a web app, and it was a decade ago. I whipped it up in a day because I wanted to try a new framework, though I can't even remember what that was called now.
What is the usual way to do it inside the python file that defined the model?
The problem with STL is that there isn't one of it but every compiler/C++ library/platform has its own and some are better than others. Writing your own containers at least means you take one uncertain dependency out of the scene for something that'd be all over the engine everywhere (so it isn't easy to replace later).

Though personally i'd make my own containers because i heavily dislike the API design C++ library has and i am glad every single engine i've worked on had their own (well, except in a single case where while the engine did use its own containers it was basically 99.9% the same API design as the C++ library :-P).
The worst way to store and manipulate text is to use an array. Firstly, the entire file must be loaded into the array first, which raises issues with time and memory. Even worse still, every insertion and deletion requires each element in the array to be moved. There are more downsides, but already this method is clearly not practical. The array can be dismissed as an option rather quickly.

Someone has clearly not heard of Notepad nor used the prolific quantity of text editors for DOS that appeared in the 80s/early 90s, a time when memory bandwidths were in the low MB/s; or even before that, micros with CP/M where memory bandwidths were measured in KB/s (and the whole address space was only 64k). Modern systems have memory bandwidths of dozens of GB/s.

Or perhaps that old saying really applies: worse is better.

IMHO an array is all you need for a regular general-purpose text editor. I hate needless complexity in software, but unfortunately others seem to love it.
During a recent stretch of non-Prime membership, I found that Ebay sellers often were equivalent or 5% above Amazon prices, so if I was in a hurry, go to Ebay. Otherwise, just add to Amzn cart.
I don't know about all that. Sitting in a chair all day for decades doesn't seem optimal for health.
truly the mr beast of outdoor clothing brands
Mine is a chrome plugin called LookupChatGPT (on Github and store) to send selected text to ChatGPT but with your own prompts. My main usage is here on HN, when I don't understand some new jargon or some complex idea I select that text, right click and do "what's this" which is a system prompt I have defined like "explain the given word or sentence or translate it. This is taken from webpage title: VAR_PAGE url: VAR_URL".

Can also just click the extension icon and ask a question, again using your own predefined prompt.

It popups up a box with response and a field to ask another question. I can re-request the response which is very helpful since you never know what's right.

Works for text selection from input boxes on a page but I don't use it that way much.

Recently used it to translate some Japanese tweets.

Made this extension mostly using GPT-4 so there is that too.
its wrong. crack an egg on a flat surface. if you use the edge of a bowl it creates smaller shell fragments that can break away.
Show HN: Patterns, an Financial Operating System for Your Company
Title: Show HN: Patterns, a Financial Operating System for Your Company

Hi HN,

[Update]: here's my URL: https://www.getpatterns.io/

I'm excited to share Patterns, a SaaS product designed to simplify complex financial operations for companies. Inspired by challenges I faced during my tenure at Amazon and Flexport—like a 3-day deep dive into a $0.50 accounting error and consistent billing discrepancies—I've built an alpha version of Patterns to address these costly inefficiencies.

Though we didn't make it into YC and I parted ways with my initial co-founder, the vision for Patterns has evolved into a live product. I'm now inviting companies to join our alpha and help shape the future of financial operations.

I'm also looking for a co-founder who's passionate about solving these problems. If you're interested in trying out Patterns or discussing co-founding, you can reach me via calendly: https://calendly.com/xin-shen0/30min.

Your feedback is crucial to making Patterns a tool that can save time and prevent revenue leakage for businesses everywhere.
You're better off buying physical. Amazon can and do replace/modify/update the versions of your online media.
For at least ~20 years, the typical solution for ATX power supplies has been to make one big 12V rail, and then tack on up to about 120W of converters to step down from 12V to 5V and 3.3V. In practice, this has meant that anyone running less than a dozen disk drives has excess capacity on their 5V rail, but no capacity from the 12V rail was sacrificed to provide that.

There was a time when the 5V and 3.3V rails on ATX power supplies weren't vestigial, but that era was shorter than the current era of all the major high-power components using a 12V supply.
This is an 18 minute video about an SAT problem from 1982. If you're not sure you want to commit to it, here's a contemporaneous NYT article:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/25/us/error-found-in-sat-que...

(Gift link.)

And a recent Scientific American article:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sat-problem-t...

(Both of these are linked from the video description itself.)

I'll bet Marilyn vos Savant wouldn't have got this one wrong[1]. :-)

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121183432/http://marilynvos...
You have absolutely zero idea what poverty is if that's your list.

You just described the difference between lower-middle and middle class.

Poverty is when you have to quit your job yet again because your CCMS paperwork got screwed up and the daycare won't take your kid after school.

Poverty is when you have to make visits to the food bank on a regular basis for commodities because the price of food is outstripping what EBT is offering.

Poverty is when you don't have a strong attachment to any of your physical possessions even if you've worked long and hard for them because one medical problem could make it impossible for you to afford your rent, so you might as well not become too attached to anything that you'll eventually lose.

Poverty is when you either keep your cash on you at all times or you pay a 3% fee to a debit card company to keep preloading a prepaid card because the banks don't think you're creditworthy enough to open an account.

Poverty is when you make stupid decisions with money when you have it because there are just so many occasions when you don't.

Poverty is getting CPS visits because even though you put your kid in the best clothes that you could afford, some teacher decided that today was the day she was going to white knight your child away from you.

Poverty is being ashamed to be dragged through a book fair only to be the only child to not purchase anything because you don't dare ask your momma for money given how much she struggles.

Poverty is when you gut through toothaches and abscesses because you don't have dental insurance and nobody does that work for free.

That's poverty.

What you described is an inconvenienced life.
Not judging, just reporting: organizers this year have urged people to wear masks. The vast majority (I guess >90%) of current attendees don’t wear a mask as of now.

Congress-Seuche has been a thing since forever and it won’t stop this year.
Did you mean endling?
> But no one would have for cost reasons back then.

Not on the GBC, but GBA had a number of video cartridges, including several full-length movies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_Video
> I would go with the Kremlin would tend to avoid looking inept or stupid and prefer people believe the enemy blew up their ship

I would think the Kremlin would go with the option that doesn't give their enemy any credit for being able to hurt them. You can pin your own incompetence on a few miscreants who can be punished, but the enemy's capacity for success is something entirely out of your control. Authoritarian states need to seem strong, even when losing.
Cars are depreciating assets. Owning a Ferrari is pretty much the opposite of good money management.
there are a lot of book teach you writing note later and give client deep impression.
Basic human morals are difficult and very inconvenient for some businesses.

The executives of these companies have names, such as Joshua Kobza, CEO of Burger King (Restaurant Brands International.) As CEO, this has been his choice for nearly a year. [0]

Hundreds of major multinationals have left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, but not BK. [1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/burger-king...

[1] https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-cur...
If you do, I'll buy one :)
you really think a little more concrete is a problem? its the most abundant construction material in the world.
You “own” it lol.

I hope you read the contract and confirmed the “I’ll get my money back” part - because others have done the “sorry, you no longer have access to your purchases and you’re also not getting a refund” trick. I don’t think Apple is beneath that if they can get away with it.
Intersecting postingslists is a solved problem. You can do it in sublinear time with standard search engine algorithms.

The problem space is embarassingly parallel, so sharding is no problem. Although, realistically, you probably only need 1 server to cope with the load and storage needs. This isn't 2004. Servers are big and fast now, as long as you don't try to use cloud compute.
I don't know about POSIX make, but GNU make you can run "make -p -f/dev/null" to get a dump of all the built in rules it has. And if you don't want to run those, you can always use "make -r" to have it ignore built in rules.
I don't understand the logic. Because we talk about things.. we become them? What's the causative element?
I rarely watch shows on all services at the same time, and it's fairly easy to turn them on and off on demand.
The point is that the userspace shoukdnt need a kext.
> I know there are things that people expect me to pay money for and I feel bad about taking things that I know I shouldn’t.

I used to think kind of like this, but came to the realization that it doesn't matter, at least for movies. First, it's not "people" that expect you to pay for it, it's corporations, and they don't really make money from you directly; if you pirated a movie instead of buying it, it really makes no difference, because either they came out in the cinema and the companies expect to make as much money as possible from the cinema ticket sales, or it came out on streaming which has a really muddy economic calculation. It's much different than, for example, a band's album on Bandcamp or a short film on Vimeo. Second, you're not even really "taking" something in the sense that you're not depriving someone else of the thing you have now, because it's digital, unlike if you stole a Blu-ray from someone's home or off of a shelf. Thirdly, sometimes it's legitimately not possible to get certain media other than pirating. There are multiple movies that I've wanted to watch and pay for but couldn't because of rights issues, and in those situations I'd have no option but to pirate or ask a friend to "get" me a copy.

Essentially, if it's a small artist or filmmaker, support them directly, and if you want to see a movie, go to the cinema to watch it if you can. Shows might be a different matter, but I also think they fall under the same "streaming economics" model where the pirate makes little/no difference in reality and you often can't even pay for the show individually if you wanted to.
Here you go: https://x.com/hgmeryem/status/1739710696693125432?s=20
>- anime

Are you expecting they might have some beef with Japan in particular?
How is this different from replicate?

https://replicate.com/
> Prior to any major advance in any field of intellectual endeavor there are approximately zero percent of workers in that field who thought that the thing that led to the advance was a good idea. This is exactly why major advances are rare.

This argument would make sense if nobody had ever come up with an alternative system of maths notation, but MathML, Mathematica, Coq, Isabelle, Lean, and many others exist, and yes, probably even some notation based on s-expressions (you could do mathematics in Pie[0], although it's probably not super pleasant since it's a toy language). They get their use for specific situations, as I mentioned before, but they haven't replaced mathematical notation wholesale.

[0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pie/
That was the benefit of my system over what you are talking about, there was no dependency on a global state or centralized control surface. Each worker was autonomous and self contained and had enough intelligence to bring itself to the desired state on its own. All you had to do was one line curl|bash install my service and it would take care of the rest without any other external dependencies. No worries about having to have ansible try to connect over and over again until things were working. It would just magically fix itself.

Again, many ways to skin the cat, but at the end of the day, this solution really worked extremely well. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
>Wait until you're 90% through a TV show and your streaming provider removes it from their catalogue.

Or Sony just steals it from you.
The claim about those models being "statistical". Why wouldn't you consider human brain to be statistical or animal's brains as "statistical"?

Because in the end human brains as well as any brains it seems they could be thought of statistical results from long periods of training and producing output from input. Where am I wrong?

I assume by statistical you mean that the ending result of state of neurons can be represented as numbers and pathways leading through these as probabilities of going through a certain pathway - but it occurs to me that same is with human brain, no?
Lots of words, but no mention of the fact that baby's family name (for that matter, zip code) has far more influence on future earnings?
Holographic Ambient Fireplaces
> I kind of think these are just middle class issues rather than poverty; but you're right that this means different things to different people.

I don't think so. I grew up squarely middle class (and the question was never "can we afford health care or collage", but a weeklong trip to Disney world set our vacation budget back several years (to the point we could not take vacations, or only took small road trips).

The idea of not being able to afford basic health care or a university education should be utterly alien to the middle class.
Its my favorite part of watching the mac evolve. The man hours that has been used in the development is staggering.
A conservative estimate for memmove() speed on a computer from even a decade ago would be 1GB/s. That's 1ms to move 1MB. All humans won't notice a latency below 10ms.
Building a Rad Super Capacitor RC Plane
Yeah, the sad story of Slashdot. It was 'the' place to get hacker news back in the day.

It always had a crazy crowd but was well enough moderated that you kept coming back.

Then just one day shit hit the fan. To me the stories were no longer interesting or you felt they were sponsored. Didn't they get acquired?

That might be why the crowd moderation stopped working. It just turned into a cesspit.
I don’t think a whopper is what people want when they have a hangover.
> there's usually an interpretation that makes more sense

Yes, I see it as "background" part, or "common sense" perhaps.

I's funny when for instance you have grocery questions about little Jimmy having 3 bags with 4 buns in each, so how many sausages does he need to make hotdogs with all the buns ?

That's cute and straightforward as long as you know what a hotdog is, which is common sense for the question writer.

I don't think that's something that needs to be (or can be) changed, as long as school and exams are seen as a formative step, and not a single chance you'll have to make a decent living. Kids in the later group will have a hard time either way.
Pure 16bit is horrible for training, sorry.
I've already done half, I just need to find a digitizer to go over it:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/
helix editor
Didn't the GPLv3 work to eliminate this? With the "Tivoization" thing

Unfortunately (for better or worse) GPLv3 flopped
There's a lot of butt stuff in that article.
I just recently signed up for their free trial because I wanted to watch Air, and figured over the holidays, maybe I'd watch something else (I'm not a TV/Movie person).

Air was great! I haven't seen a single other thing I'd want to watch. Started a few things, but nothing grabbed my interest.

I know most people don't try life without TV, and I used to LOVE TV and movies. But honestly, give yourself a month without, and you just may find that you are filling your time with more interesting things.

I actually still wish I had more things to do, but just as a few, pick up an instrument (I play guitar), try art (I paint, would like to sculpt), write, read, exercise, make new friends. Even try spending more time cooking, or meditating.

I almost think that staring at a blank wall with your own thoughts can be better than most of what is on TV.

Also, remove the physical TV, and layout your house around socializing rather than watching.
1.15V is quite high for the core voltage of a modern efficiency-focused CPU. A lot of them are around 0.7-0.9V by comparison.
Wait, I thought it was evil and anticompetitive to use one business unit to prop up another business unit at unsustainable profit margins.
> What is the problem?

It's open source software implementing anti-features. Why should I willingly share the value of my attention with my browser vendor?
I wish people actually defined the dependencies between .c and .h files and .h and other .h files. When a project doesn't do this, I always and up doing a `make clean && make` after getting stuck on a weird bug because I just assume it's not rebuilding something it should.

Nowadays I use CMake and am really happy with it.
That looks like a really neat product. Thanks
I always found Italy as a neighboring country to have a pretty good workers' rights and an active government body that crushes foreign agents attempting to break the status quo at the cost of the common man.

It's funny how often that involves interfering with the "common man"'s own personal autonomy.
> DMCA takedown notices sent by a company calling itself DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc. claim to protect the rights of an OnlyFans/Instagram model working under the name ‘Artemis’.
That's surely a matter of the operator's health and safety policy requiring lock-out/tag-out before working on a machine, just like happens in every factory.
The title comes from the Chinese Xiangqi Association.

Like a number of sporting associations about the globe in many countries it has things to say about association members that "bring the sport into disrepute" through questionable behaviour.

The association is stripping the title it awarded from him, just as a racing association can scratch a winning because of suspicions about drugs, organised betting rings, etc.

For whatever reason the Xiangqi Association doesn't want its titles to be linked to players that are publicly known for taking dumps in hotel bath tubs and|or accusations of cheating.
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