skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The boutique Blu-ray market has become fairly well served in the last five years. I suspect this may partially be because of the pandemic, but it seems to be sustaining.

Most people have heard of Criterion and of course they’re still going strong. But there are easily a dozen labels of various sizes dedicated to physical media these days. Arrow is one. Vinegar Syndrome tends to focus on more exploitative titles plus they act as distributor for many smaller labels. Severin does a lot of horror. The UK’s Radiance Video is carving out an interesting niche in more obscure genre offerings. Kino Lorber has a lot of classics. And so on, and so on.

I don’t know the financials behind this but a lot of the print runs seem to be around 3K copies and many of these labels have sustained for a few years now. Radiance and Vinegar Syndrome both have subscription programs which probably help with predictability. Some people buy these for the movies, some because they’re collectors, and some for both reasons.

https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/blu-ray-labels-film... is a decent article on all of this.
I joked with a coworker the other day that if my shower thoughts are too dominated by workplace arguments, it's time to quit that job.
An example question in that eval set is "How many publications were published between 2019 and 2021?". That's something GPT without any context can understand how to answer from a schema (which I assume has a column called publications). An example question that I'd get in my previous role at an ecommerce fraud detection company could be something like "what's the chargeback rate on the ATO segment". Neither chargeback rate nor ATO segment are defined in the database schema. Not only did they have different definitions depending on the context (e.g. which customer), the definition also change over time within the same context.
If quickly navigating the tables is your goal VisiData would probably be a better option.
> I can't think of the last time I encountered a UX change I thought was actually worth it.

I absolutely hate software that doesn't change the UX. The chance that they got it right on the first try and kept it right as the capabilities grew is exactly zero.

Keeping old UX is nearly always lazy or forced. If you have or hope to have growing userbase let the stuff evolve. Let stuff move to where new users expect to find it. Let it move to places that make sense now. Sure, offer legacy UX for old users that absolutely hate change but don't stifle yourself and your new users.
In folded down beds that you pay extra for. Also it's possible that some portions are too oddly shaped to fit people so that can also be used for luggage.
It's a fairly old tradition specific to Swedish and Finnish. Wikipedia has an explanation. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(punctuation)
I was confused because i just kept brushing and rinsing with listerine and it wasn’t getting better. I thought I just had terrible breath. But then I realized after I read online about calcified plaque being the culprit and it builds up behind the mandibular incisors. I looked in the mirror and it was there. I removed it by chipping it off and my SO told me how much better it was.

And now I just do it every morning and its just soft plaque rather than calced.
An important clarification is that the leaks about NSA snooping on Google motivated end-to-end encryption between all pairs of Google internal services. It was a technical marvel, every Stubby connection had mutual TLS without any extra code or configuration required. Non-Stubby traffic needed special security review because it had to reinvent much of the same.

People even got internal schwag shirts made of the iconic "SSL added and removed here" note [1]. It became part of the culture.

Over a decade later I still see most environments incur a lot of dev & ops overhead to get anywhere close to what Google got working completely transparently. The leak might have motivated the work, but the insight that it had to be automatic, foolproof, and universal is what made it so effective.

[1] https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-her...
My Panasonic BR player has an internet connection but I've never connected it and it works just fine (I updated the firmware once from a USB stick).

I'm pretty sure it works better not connected than if it was connected because prior experience with disc players which wanted to be online was they would boot slower and play discs slower due to doing online DRM updates, content checks and load movie studio web pages containing nothing but promos and ads - all while providing no actual end-user value from being online.
Or a crash in market. Where they simply run out of the big money. So the big ticket items like stars simply do not get hired and everything is done with less people and less VFX.
It's not particularly terrifying - it's just an array of pointers, and it's well known how it's implemented for the main compilers. As I've pointed out elsewhere I don't think it's necessary though, and it definitely creates a dependency on the compiler that may or may not be acceptable.
The first claim is that less women are competing because it has been invented by men for men (and only a long time after were women allowed to compete)

which is not contradictory nor opposite to claim 2 that the level of women would increase if there were more women competing.

Look at pro cycling. 25 years ago I was riding in circle around an elite women cyclist as a junior. Now they haven't reached the same level as I had and are still far away from elite men (who are also much more to compete) but they are much closer because there is more money to the sport, more women competing. Now if races were 5to 10 times longer the difference would probably be lower as found in ultracycling events.
>we definitely talk to all levels of managers.

Consider how much of HN are individual contributors, not managers. So, you don't talk to those minions.
Yep. Humans are lazy, greedy, and gullible. Give us a device which feeds our brains constant little dopamine hits and we will sacrifice anything for it.

Remember the experiments with rats and pigeons that could administer hits of plesure giving drugs? They all hit that button til they died. We are no different.
D:\etc\your.conf would like a word, they seem lost and confused.
I suspect he was... as a patent clerk. And that may be why we never heard of him THEN.
>but most ppl would probably get quite anxious in such a coffin

100%, that is absolute nightmare fuel
Taking this to the Nth degree, you could optimize the air travel process to an incredible degree. So you make a pod, with tubes for air/water/food(maybe), power for systems/temperature/entertainment, and communications. It's got room for pax and luggage. Big ass airport lobby, you take your sedatives, get in the pod, and then that is it so far as "regular users mucking up the process. The pods get routed to aircraft, aircraft take off, they land, pods routed to lobby, and off go the pax. The pods pass through what's essentially a gigantic dishwasher, sterilizing them, re-dressing with consumables, and the process repeats.

Cabin design could make absolutely maximal use of internal volume, with just a central stem for routing the pods. A smaller subdivision could be reserved for emergencies where passengers need to be de-podded.

I don't know about you, but spending eight hours in a private little pod, sleeping and whatnot, sounds like some sort of personal nirvana compared to a intercontinental coach seat, which - at my advancing age - is getting to be something close to frickin' torture.

I don't have the bandwidth to run numbers on this, but I am betting an airport could probably more than quintuple their load/unload speed. Actually . . shit . . they'd clog their strips really damn quickly unless you did some sort of super optimization on the landing/takeoff/ground ATC. Although you do have the increased capacity per plane . . I dunno. This might be a fun weekend project.
We already knew dogs could understand imperatives (Sit! Stay!); I wonder if given the combination of imperatives and nouns one isn't already at a WIMP-interface level of discourse?
> some are looking for businesses, shopping items, legal help, etc things that ChatGPT, etc can't emulate.

Except it can. It doesn’t have to try and “remember” the details in its weights, it can RAG and all sorts of fun tricks. As Google’s Search Generative Experience shows, LLM interfaces don’t have to be strictly chat. These tools surface and aggregate existing content, instead of hallucinating new ones. It can’t stop people from pasting generated content into Reddit, but it can be used for actual search.

Imagine just asking ChatGPT (or more likely, Gemini) for “space heater recommendations for a 300sqft office in a shed” and having the LLM walk you through the options - you no longer need to use a UI to toggle filters, and you don’t need to explicitly throw keywords into a search bar and hope you picked the right ones.

Regarding the “dead internet” - you’ll always have humans create new content. People wanna talk about their interests on Reddit. That won’t change. People will file bug reports and new code in GitHub. Companies will post support articles. Journals will publish research papers. These “good” sources will still exist because there are external reasons to. The only thing that will die are the SEO crap now that they’re really not special.
I'm not tall, just 175 cm, but even for me it looks like you'd have to travel with no dignity. Those 2-level chairs where you have to shunt your body in...

This is happening even in sleeper train designs too: instead of a coupe with 2 sofas with a table in the middle and 2 (or 4) folding berths above them, you're getting non-convertible suitcase to throw your body in, and lay down all the way, probably looking into a phone. No serious window, no sitting at a table, no standing upright.

Plus, for some reason all the stuff is really thick. Like earlier there were cases for bags under the sofa, with wall made a sheet of steel. Now they're desinging them like 4 cm (2") thick, probably of cardboard, and they just eat space (because train cars have no place to expand, they've been at max widths already).

I have to add that a berth with a rectangular wall behind to lean against, is a torture for anyone's spine -- whether for lower back or for the neck.
Ofcourse, but if the manager is using the KLoC to decide who to look at, that won't happen.
The most unbounded recursive time travel paradox story has to be All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein. You can find it at https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a....
If the feed restrictions don't work, we don't have any checks in place. With stuff like CAFOs and an 18 month time to market, it's possible we create conditions that can spread prions quickly buy they get to slaughter before they become symptomatic. We won't know until it's already a massive issue.
I still have a landline. It comes from free with my fiber internet anyway, all I have to do is plug a phone.

That's really handy for kids.
Related, many SACDs contain a two channel SA layer that is completely different than the red book layer. The medium is normally mastered to appeal to the widest audience. In the 80’s, CD players were very expensive so the mastering were made for that type of consumer. As CD players in cars became the more popular listening mechanism, the DR shrunk and loudness increased. Some (most I think) modern vinyl is actually just the digital mastering and the newer stuff is written from a DSD source-not tape. Even Mobile Fidelity got in trouble for claiming tape when in fact it was from a digital source. I’m old so my ears can’t tell the difference at normal listening volumes to DR as the article agrees but I can absolutely tell original redbook vs modern mastering. Black Sabbath Sabotage is a good example of mastering techniques to “correct” for mic dropouts and what not.

For loudness comps check out: https://dr.loudness-war.info/
No, I'm not missing the point. Yes, I said profitable. But let's all agree that profitable doesn't just mean making one dollar more than all of your expenses. By definition, that's making money which is technically profitable, but that's not what anyone would consider a profitable business. So while technically right might be the best right, it's technically useless in this conversation and does nothing to actually move the conversation in a positive direction.

Saying that a company is profitable but not worth the investment is not going to solve the streaming is our only option. We are looking for a solution other than streaming that is still legal so that people do not have to resort to pirating. If you are suggesting that a service providing shiny round discs through the mail or any other brick&mortar Blockbuster or mom&pop video rental solution is going to be profitable to the point of sustaining a business, then there's a bit of realism that needs to be brought back into the conversation. This seems to not be wanted and instead point back to me not understanding what words mean.
Discs don't require internet connection, but genuine BD player app on PC requires frequent AACS keys update to play latest discs.
It isn’t possible to use whole volume since the floor is structural. Also, the wing spars run through the hold. There is also important equipment in the lower area.

It is impossible to use cargo hold. It doesn’t have the escape routes and would be death trap. Plus, the hold is full of bags.
It's their version of cutting the middleman.
Half of what keeps me going is the belief that I can randomly wander into this forum and witness black magic being tossed around like spare change. ;D
Who controls the data? Are the screenshots sent automatically to the employer?

How do you handle the sensitive information (api keys, user personal data) that can be displayed in the screenshots?
I can't believe no one as yet has trotted out the Dijkstra quote, so I will: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/754979
Reverse Vowels using Factor
I've seen this trotted around and I think its absolute bullshit. I've asked multiple people in the music business, and they've all told me they use the same masters for CDs and Vinyl.
I tried to do the right thing. In the end that company was going to fail anyway
The amount of cabin luggage we bring is too much anyway. You can impose small bags only, the rest in the hold.
What premium would you pay for something like that? Say on a flight from SF to Tokyo (or some other long haul flight)
please add http://nightowls.space
I find the following asymmetry interesting: if you pick a random spot and start zooming out, you will pass through interiors of both dead and living cells in some ratio. But if you start zooming in, pretty much all of the cells you pass through will be dead.
> If you use your own domain, that should equal self-hosting.

Plenty of SASS solutions take the CNAME approach.
Same in Brave.
React server components are a bad choice for shipping [video]
IIRC it was added on Pentium and maybe late 486. You had to do classic tricks to identify the model before that.
My project pdot^1 has a full-ERD mode but it's honestly less useful than the semi-interactive/contextual mode of navigating schema subgraphs in a database of any size. pdot can output mermaid and render other graphs too, like trigger cascades and grant inheritance.

^1 https://gitlab.com/dmfay/pdot
It doesn't look terrible. And it seems a lot more compatible and realistic than the examples in the original article.
Nice project! Our house has something similar. Every room has its own rotary phone, with its own number (usually someone's birthday!). I think we have 7 or 8 total. They can't dial out or anything fancy like that, but they can all call each other. The kids mostly use it to call and ask us to bring snacks when they're playing, and we mostly use it to call them and ask them to come to dinner!
With regular Blurays it's pretty easy to find a good USB3 model on Amazon for MakeMKV. I have the prior model of the Pioneer BDR-XD08 and it works great - the current model uses USB-C even!

On the other hand UHD/4K drives require flashing firmware to get them to rip with MakeMKV and manufacturers have been seemingly patching them. I've not given it an honest try yet.
No, a return to piracy, unfortunately.

I WANT to pay creators I just don't want to also pay for 10 different services to watch what I want.
And even I'm kinda warry of using bittorrent... Usenet is fine from legal stand-point for sourcing my linux distros. But networks where you share got enough legal trolls to make want not bother. And I don't consume enough linux distros to make any special setups.
Dignity -- this is what's forgotten in these designs.

I prefer sleeper trains to intercity buses, even when not needing to sleep, exactly for that: you can travel with dignity. You can sit upright, stand up, or lay down, which you can't do on an intercity bus.
Ask HN: Why doesn't ChatGPT try to learn while chatting with experts?
For example, while chatting with a world famous mathematician, it might ask him/her questions (perhaps only somewhat related to the current chat) whose answers are unknown or extremely hard to find.
'Wild West' of neuroscience drives new laws on brain privacy
Stuff like this is going to put us back at guild systems.
You’re saying after a student learns physics from a copyrighted textbook they have to pay the textbook publisher royalties to work as a physicist?
My first thought on seeing this was, I can’t believe the Belters never thought of this in The Expanse.
I think the question is about what kind of commitment the functional package management paradigm, especially as implemented by Nix and Guix, requires too much commitment or skill to really 'eat the world'.

That whole operating systems based on this model are workable by enthusiasts, experts, and adventurous hackers is, as you point out, well-proven by NixOS and (perhaps especially, by your reckoning) GuixSD.

Personally, while I think later, 'more pragmatic' takes on functional package management (e.g., Spack) get some things right for the first time in the space, I'm optimistic about how far projects like NixOS and Guix can go even without relaxing any 'purity' constraints. NixOS is blowing up with Linux hobbyists right now because there's already so much it can do without experienced administrator. The Guix package collection is growing incredibly quickly given its relative youth and smaller contributor base— I'd be shocked if it didn't outgrow some of the most popular Linux distros in the next few years.

Like you say, these projects aren't just proofs of concept in a lab or paper somewhere. They have users and contributors right here in the real world, already, and they're growing and improving all the time.
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I go outside in the mornings for my coffee, standup meeting, and perhaps some PR review or other little tasks that I naturally flow into.

Once I’ve got my fill of sunlight or want to get into some heavier duty work with the comfort of my keyboard and external monitors, I head back inside.
> The trial and error is the worst part.

I don't know about anyone else, but I do this kinda naturally when writing SQL queries. Usually start with a base table, query the first 100 rows to see what the data looks like, start joining on other tables to get info I need, querying as I go to check join conditions, perhaps build out some CTEs if I need to do some more complex work, query those to check the format of the data ... And so on.

It doesn't feel that different to any other programming in that sense. Querying is printing.
> what is the real difference in quality of life of $20M vs. $50M?

Minimal.

But people having so much money that they have nothing to spend it on encourages investment in wild ideas like SpaceX or OpenAI. If you tax that money away, who will invest in new ideas?
I only buy the bluray if I've already seen it and know I'd want to watch again when I receive it. Keeps me from collecting stuff that doesn't get watched.

I loop through the collection by putting a watched disc back in a separate spot until I've gone through them all and then start over.
Likewise, the niche pressure for me came from SQLite being agnostic to a canonical form for SQL `.schema`. I did not need to get into parsing every flavor.

https://github.com/TomConlin/SQLiteViz
the jump from windows xp to windows 7 was amazing

(yes i know there was something in between, but let’s not talk about that)
YES, exactly this.

My method in college ended up being explicit balance. Study, read, ingest as much knowledge on the topic as I could until I felt I was at either the point of diminishing returns or having sufficiently covered the subject, taking some, but not copious notes. Then just start doing idle things, specifically letting the "background processing" happen in my brain, things like running/hiking, going to dinner, etc. Mostly just waiting for the ideas to form and appear. At that point, I just started rapidly scribbling draft shards, in whatever order the ideas appeared. When that slowed down, it was time to wrangle the shards into a properly organized paper, which usually also included finding a smaller number of new connections among the shards.

The whole key was first feeding selected info in, then allowing — and trusting — my unconscious brain the space to work on it.
I myself saw "Road House" on Thursday, 4K stream. A lot of dark scenes, perfect for OLED. But also very vulnerable to bitrate related quality problems. And it was fine.

But other examples, like the first season of "Reacher", look like shit in 4K. Many artifacts resulting in skintones that get pushed into green or red. Super weird.

Good encoding comes a long way, and not all services go the extra mile.
Out of all the ways to replicate a game of life inside a game of life, there has to exist a "most efficient" one for a given size and speed. Something maybe akin to Carnot efficiency. I wonder if aspects of the maximum ratio of scale for space and speed apply to all "simulation inside simulation". And does it say something about our reality? Maybe Planck length is the smallest unit of length and lightspeed is the maximum speed irl and that tells us about what we can simulate and could be simulated from lol
The trend has been clear for a long time. The future is a streaming, not physical media. Profitability is necessary but not sufficient to be a successful business over the long term, you also need to grow and change according to market dynamics, otherwise you will find yourself dead.
Yeah I noticed that, which is why I'm confused about this screenshot feature being invasive. Unless it's remotely managed, it would only be screenshots taken by you, and stored by you, in your time tracker.
My custom home automation system
Please cite a double blind experiment for parachute wearing. One where some jumpers have parachutes and others do not have parachutes.

But seriously you have inferred that parachutes are important from other high quality evidence… This is exactly what dentists are doing. Then they get criticised because the study was not double blind for the exact treatment they recommended.
Likely a mechanical system offers more predictability and longevity compared to fabric.
You might acknowledge this analogy is popularly ascribed originally to Bill Gates.

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” ― Bill Gates
Also checkout https://www.schemacrawler.com/
101 Things I would tell my self from 10 years ago – Leila Clark
> Is the ability to do this tied to the fact that Game of Life is Turing-complete

sounds like GP is aware of that fact :)
Heh, I didn’t know that. I just occasionally encounter very old projects that use it. Good riddance.
> If you don't need threads in development OR production, you might as well do SELECT * from users and do the join in your imperative code.

Except that it most likely will be orders of magnitude slower. Most databases are very good at what they are doing.