skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a movie with famous actor makes 100M more than without them, why shouldn't they get a significant portion of that?

Is that DiCaprio number salary, or profit/revenue sharing as a producer? Looking at [0] it seems like his highest salary was $30M. He made more on Inception and Titanic, but that was total income, not salary.

Anyway, when thinking about it as cost and value, then it makes sense in our economic model.
The answer is "they don't. It's illegal to buy". It was illegal to buy before, it was illegal to buy now. One can't argue that this law is worse because it legalizes only one of the two aspects.
Yeah, more or less what I figured. Right now at least, I don't even have the port opened on my network, so the only way to watch it is to be logged in via my network, or do some kind of VPN/proxy into the network. I really doubt that it would be worth it for a company to sue me for it.

To be honest, I think that it's a pretty stupid law; obviously distributing the media makes sense to be illegal, but I think it's idiotic to make breaking DRM illegal.
That's great, I didn't know about those.

For anything that an adult depended on, especially if I didn't live with them, I'd prioritize simplicity and robustness over almost everything else.
There’s also the cost of the fuel. Can’t be cheap.
I've read the second book (by Tunstall et al). It's excellent.
The entire race is filled with similar arbitrary and humorous details

I think the start of the race is indicated by a man lighting a cigarette
All airlines want: yet another way to nickel and dime passengers!

“Sorry sir, your waist is too wide, that’ll be $100 extra”
Yeah, that makes sense I suppose. My Java background also means the verbosity and structure doesn't bother me much.
English translation https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/norge/sas-kansellerer-flyv...
It’s not worse, but it is not great. That’s my position. It’s like having feces on your hand instead of your face: still not amazing. ;)
Sounds like someone did a bad job managing their maintenance schedule (via Google Translate):

Can you say anything more about what caused the planes to be grounded?

"A routine check was not completed within the specified timeline, leading to the decision to temporarily decommission the aircraft. There is no immediate risk, but according to the regulations, these checks must be carried out.
Yes. Kind of my point to. But the OP missed the possibility to step through the code.
I get uncomfortable if I’m on the wall side of my kid’s lower bunk bed, and it’s probably 80cm.

It’s an interesting mental exercise, but honestly I think this madness needs stop. If flying is not profitable enough, then we need to plaster the country in passenger rail.
Having long a storied history in DoD contracting, this is not the case.

CAC login is for web only in most cases.
Two reasons:

First, solid wings are dramatically better in lift drag ratio.

They start out around 3x better per square meter than conventional sails on a bermuda rig, and can get up to 7x better with careful design. This is why the America's Cup boats with wings are dramatically faster than conventional rigs (the other reason being foils).

Second, the simplicity of the rig.

These designs are self trimming, which means there's a control flap you set, and that causes the wing to have a consistent angle of attack vs the wind. As the wind vector shifts around the sail just tracks it without needing any active control or electronics. You only have to change the control flap when the bow or stern crosses the wind during a turn.

If you get into severe weather you just put the control flap in neutral and the wing just acts like a weather vane. Surprisingly enough a feathered wing like this has less drag than a bare cylindrical mast with no sail lifted. Aerodynamics can be counterintuitive.

That's what's so cool about this technology. It really is just a bolt on.
Doesn't the writer sort of revel in the misfortunes of John?

I'm not sure how he got his money, but what he is trying to do with it doesn't sound awful. He might be bad at business - it seems like that's the idea here - but a person like John, from what I can tell, is a kind of protagonist.

He wants to build his crazy ideas that seem on their face not all together sound. And he puts a ton of effort into making it happen. These ideas are meant to improve the world in some way through the market forces as he can tell. I wish him the best for it.

It seems like there is a big culture of cynicism towards people trying to improve things through action and not words. Underlying it is the assumption of negative externalities. But I think we lost sight of something here. All actions have the possibility of some negative externalities, but humanity got to where it is because of a lot of people doing their best to improve things.

The instinct to make potshots from the sidelines at the guys playing the game sucks.
I can understand that the statement order can be awkward, such as choosing what to select before the source.

But help me with "more concise". SQL has no boilerplate, its keywords are brief, you express the exact logic of the result set you're seeking. There are tons of SQL overlays or replacements embedded in programming languages or BI/reporting tools, and they are universally, more difficult to work with than straight SQL.
As a child growing up in the UK I was allowed to call up, each evening, the bedtime stories phone line run by British Telecom. I used to call that bedtime story phone line from an an old 1970's era rotary Snoopy telephone from British Telecom which I still own.

I ever so carefully updated the phone with a new RJ-30 jack (the original was bare wires), so that in a custom built base that the phone sits on is an Nvidia Jetson running an LLM and trained on Charlie Brown's voice and a voice recognition model.

Dialing 1 will answer questions about Snoopy and Peanuts history and Charles Schultz in Charlie Brown's voice. You can just talk to it. Dial 2 and a very nice lady with a British accent will read you a bedtime story, interactively, like a choose your own adventure of sorts, from a large database of stories. Dial 3 and Lucy will pick up, announce that the therapist is in, and talk with you about what's troubling you, again, voice recognition and an LLM. Dial 4 and you get Woodstock. Any other number gets you an "adult" from the Peanuts cartoon that is impossible to understand, again, voice recognition to understand what you're asking, but the response is unintelligible.
I was a big believer in Haxe, it seemed perfect. The main issue I and many people had at its inception was that the ecosystem was very fragmented. The promise was "write once, run everywhere" (which is what we had with Flash), but each platform you wanted to actually compile on was a whole process, often undocumented, with lots of caveats, and having to hunt for third party community wrappers to do the native integrations you want etc.

This was ~10 years ago, I'm sure the current state of the ecosystem is very different (no idea), but this is the reason why I was never able to adopt it, and I heard the same thing from dozens of Flash creators at the time.
No worries! Thanks for the hint about the date -- I didn't know that was a function in the equation. Changing the date back to 2023 actually allowed the 19190301 code (had a typo in my original post) to work, though it seems they've removed the telematics switch unfortunately. Some day, I'll have to figure out how to disconnect the antenna.
I'd be pretty happy if restaurant employees were incentivized to stay home while infectuous, rather than risk getting fired.
And someone else did a good job not sweeping it under the rug
1. buy warehouse
2. buy houses
3. start a company and rent houses to workers
4. maybe profit
No, all of it is very real. And there's a lot more on John's Twitter and Youtube.
> you cannot break a hexagon into smaller hexagons

Actually you can.

1. Think of hexagons as six equilateral triangles sharing a center point.

2. Place one smaller vertically flipped equilateral triangle, in each original triangle.

3. Each original hexagon center point is now the center of a smaller (1/2 linear dimension, 1/4 area) hexagon.

4. New small hexagons replace each of the six original hexagon's edges. Since edges are shared, this is an increase a 3x increase in number of hexagons.

So each new hexagon has 1/4 the area of the original ones (and 1/2 the linear dimensions). This results in 2x the linear dimension resolution, 4x the area resolution.

Grids could also be increased in scale the same way. By retaining a half-sized (in linear terms) square at the center of each original square, and turning each original edge and corner into new squares. With the same 1/2 and 1/4 ratios of linear and area scaling.
Yeah, I actually have one of the drives that's ostensibly flashable to be 4k compatible, but I haven't been able to get it working.

Honestly, I've been happy enough with 1080p. I think 1080p blu-rays still hold up pretty well visually. My biggest TV is 70", and I watch it from like 15 feet away, so I don't think I'd benefit much from the increased resolution.

I know that there's other variables that are enhanced with a 4k blu-ray, but they haven't been significant enough for me to bother collecting/ripping them. When I buy a 4k blu-ray, I've just been ripping the regular 1080p blu-ray that always comes with it.
I agree the "more technical" UIs (generally--except for egregious examples like CATIA V6) suffer less from sort of arbitrary breakage.

> the MBA's and 'Designers' doing the rocking are under the impression they are smarter than the people who built the boat in the first place.

Exactly. It's a function of power and incentives. In the organizations we build there are people who have the power to hurt users, and the incentive to exercise that power in a visible way. They aren't intending to hurt users, that's just a by-product. Instead, they're trying to "delight" users, as if the user is some kind of infantile homunculus instead of a thinking person doing important work.
Genuinely interested: which are the “better coded” competitors? An earlier post here on hn by dan about web bloat seemed to show wordpress was actually the best option in that category?
Markets are great for health care itself as they create competition. Insurance that pays 100% from the day you join is financially unsound, unless everyone is forced to join. So-called "universal" health care would suffer from the same constraints.

If you really want to make health care affordable, increase the supply of everything and cut the red tape. The cost issue is mostly due to a lack of supply rather than an issue with who pays. Of course well-financed entities like governments and insurance companies are capable of distorting prices. But if there were enough clinics, doctors, and supplies, we would all be able to afford basic health care even on a meager income.
This is the interpretation I'll choose. You win. Muh-muh-muh-muhltikill
Indeed, I have a 486 DX-50 without CPUID, and a 486 DX2-66 with CPUID support. The latter provides much more detail when viewed in CPU-Z.
> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value)

How does it implement and, or, or if?
I moved the time multiplier slider to 0.2x and scrolled quickly out. When I did I got stuck in this slow outward zoom that allowed time to tick and it presented the most beautiful infinitum simulation of life I've ever seen. My gosh this is cool. It just goes on and on and on forever!!!
Interesting: > I'm not saying waterfall is the only alternative. But one week sprints is a dumb idea for any serious software development.

I just proposed to our team we move from 3 week sprints to 1 week. It's working out far better already. In part it's already waterfall done as sprints, so the duration is not as bad, but it's helping my boss stay a lot more focused on delivering and keeping in mind WIP limits.

I do draw a distinction on "Agile" between 'agile development' and 'agile project management'. Unqualified, I would assume "Agile" to mean "agile project management", in which case IMHO it's mostly garbage. The interesting stuff is 'agile development' IMO, the project management is context dependent and would tend to flow readily from a development project where:

- developers focus on releasing early & often

- developers are speaking directly to customers frequently

- customers/users are interacting with the software as it is being built and are providing feedback along the way

> Sometimes you have to sit in an office undisturbed. To Agile people, that's the worst thing ever, but fundamentally everything truly significant in software stemmed from that.

I would tend to agree. My impression is generic IT management, or business & project management stems from just the 1920s & has evolved only so much. There's a lot of emphasis on predictability, removing variation, reducing risk and maximizing utilization. (eg: Gantt [1], and there is someone else whose name I can't think of around the same time that was also as foundational). For the context in which that management was created, in part it's fine (ableit de-humanizing) - but for an industry that is more akin to a story writer than a factory worker - it's not really fine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gantt
ChatGPT can describe curiosity but isn't curious. ChatGPT can tell you everything about trust, but does not know what it means to trust or distrust. ChatGPT, while it will say to you and me that it doesn't know something about a topic, does not have intellectual humility.
I disagree that that is necessary to run that experiment, somebody already did it, proving that it is possible.

Also I don’t think suggesting a giant task like starting a business is anything but a bad faith rhetorical tactic. I’m not going to pitch a DVD mailing company to investors for reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not it is viable (I’m a programmer, not a businessman, and I don’t care to run a business, for one thing).
Neanderthals settled all the Greek islands, except Cyprus. Cyprus was only settled ~12ka ago, long after humans had spread to both Australia and the Americas. The reason it took so long when the Greek archipelago was settled so quickly is that you can sail to every island in the Aegean knowing that there is land at your destination, because all the crossings are short enough that with a decent vantage point you can see land on the horizon. Cyprus is ~70km from the Turkish coast, which is just far enough that not only you cannot see it on the horizon from the tallest mountain on the coast, if you set off in a small boat (so you are very low and can't see far), the land won't come into view until you have completely lost sight of the shore you set off from.

Migration to Australia was in fact extraordinary, which we know because in an another place with significant seafaring culture, it took 50ka longer to do a shorter trip.
This honestly sounds concerning. I would get mad if I regularly experienced seemingly days long sleep interspersed with fake awakenings.
For moving in zero-G, I wonder if a Batman-style grapple-gun might be useful. Make the grapple slow and maneuverable so that once you fire it, it will always grab on to a loop or bulkhead or whatever.

But for floating in place, that tail feels like the right solution. Although if you did have a magical automatic grapple gun, maybe using 3 of them at once would also keep you in place very well. (although the cables might get annoying!)
Experiments with Bitnet 1.5 (Ngmi)
18 out of 37 neos. So seems like some sort of failure in their maintenance process.
What an interesting tale and gripping read. I've lived in China and surprised that I've never heard of this before.

For those unaware, not a whole lot has changed since that time unfortunately. China has had certain periods where they had opened up somewhat, but those days are long gone to my knowledge. If anything the repression may be even greater these days in some ways, though at least there isn't any kind of mass starvation going on as far as I'm aware.

The current system also seems to be more of a riff on the old imperial system rather than something fundamentally new. In the past it was an imperial examination to join the Mandarin class[1], now it's a test to join the CPC [2]. Either way, if you don't get in your opportunities are limited.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(bureaucrat)
[2] https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/
Watching the world order implode is almost certain not to be an enjoyable experience if you have to live there.
I am interested in remote dev environments, but I'm not super excited about managing yet more software in the cloud.

There were some headaches around the exact specifics since it wasn't designed for this, but I liked the idea of using skypilot to launch dev machines in the cloud since it has plugins to all the cloud APIs and so you don't need to manage a k8s cluster to launch a dev machine. Admittedly it worked better for launching a Jupyter server than a "full" dev machine, but a full dev machine seemed to be just a few ssh/vs code configurations away.
Show HN: Send messages to all users in a subreddit thread
I have been using reddit to do user research for while. Basically this process involves finding threads where users are discussing topics related the the research I am doing. From there, I message users and ask if they are willing to give feedback on an idea. This app automates a portion of this work by gathering these users and sending the message to each of them. From there, I continue the conversation in reddit messages. This approach has been quite successful, I can normally find a few dozen users who are interested in the idea I'm researching.
But the parents/schools get the benefit from things which simply impair, especially things without a definitive test for their existence. A bunch of brain function issues come to mind. I'm sure such things are overdiagnosed, both amongst the poor (for the benefits) and the rich (for the aid in getting into elite colleges.) However, such overdiagnosis will not keep them out of the labor pool.
I suspect the serialising is just a side effect of the CPUID instruction being implemented as a massive microcode routine.
Maurizio Pollini Has Died
All the JSON that work with JavaScript, but not on Python. Finally a good solution?
That seems to be a dangerous place, even hydrants are against you:

https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1609493285675859973?s=2...
> Good security happens when the incentives are right.

Has this ever happened before? I can't name a single major company on earth that takes customer security seriously except through farcical characterization of the concept. It's just too much of an impediment to profitable business to be incentivized in any serious sense. Even the concept of "security" without parameterization of a threat model seems to make a joke of the concept.

I'm not claiming that free software offers security that's better per threat model, but they at least allow customization of the threat model itself. Without this being up for discussion such a claim to discuss security in general is extremely difficult to take seriously.

The Google threat model openly lauded in the article seemingly doesn't take state actors as a serious threat model, for instance. They'll just hand your data over to the state that asks for it because they want the business that happens under that state.
That is rarely going to cause disability.
If I was gonna just watch one of those, which would you recommend?
100%. Sitting in a basement and griping about things on the internet has 0% risk.

Real life fails much more spectacularly and frequently.

But it also has an infinitely larger chance of effecting actual change.

Edit:

>> He’d had enough. Fenley began open-carrying a weapon at all times and holding any would-be thieves at gunpoint.

This is semi-rural Arkansas.

A state ranked 47/50 [0] in per capita income.

It may require more than holding people at gunpoint, unfortunately enough.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
The answer is still "it depends", I would imagine that issues would arise well before you had to look at their commit history.

I believe that if you are a good manager, you would just need to look at what tickets get done during the sprint and that's it. If you complete your tickets and pass QA/UAT in 10 LOC, so be it. There is no need to micromanage.
Or just accept the reality that we can travel less. Rails are not very cheap either, at least if they are maintained for reasonable speeds.
> There's no notation for addressing cells, and every cell runs the same formula.

The adjacent cells are (X,Y-1), (X,Y+1), (X-1,Y), and (X+1,Y), you can use those values in your formula.
Personally, I'd prefer not to get a shiny new UI every update...
I do the same things with my phone I always did, I don't want to relearn the UI/Workflow just to get back to where I started.
Messaging sure could use a great, open solution. There are big problems with every current solution I'm aware of.

I'm guessing a very hard problem is figuring out how to fund Mozilla's non-profit mission, without behaving entirely like a for-profit tech company.

I have a lot of sympathy for that difficulty, but no tolerance for some of the behavior that's gone on.
Europe is more densely populated and has rail. Train often isn't cheaper than flying.

I like the idea of plastering the US with passenger rail, but I think that'll be very expensive to install and run.
> (Which, I know, being retired on crypto, I also feel ick about taking the subsidies to begin with, but that's a different issue.)

One qualifies for subsidies regardless of how much wealth they have? Sounds like US welfare system is a joke.
You can just take a sedative now, before you board.
>When you pull everyone into one room and allow everyone to speak simultaneously (like an ever growing music orchestra with no conducter) noise explodes.

Amen on this... The platforms as they are now are simply too big, too disorganized, too unmoderated, and too scattered topic-wise to succeed.

Celebrities & scammers alike are literally buying pre-grown accounts with millions of followers already attached just to stay ahead, the platforms are all selling ads while reducing all user reach to encourage ad sales, and the content ranges wildly from cooking tips, to music videos, to war and political content.

The better approach is to go back to smaller communities that feed aggregation.
CPUID has been added first in Pentium (66 MHz), in 1993.

Nevertheless, there have been some late variants of 486 that have been introduced after the first Pentium, in 1994 or later, and which had CPUID, e.g. the Intel 486DX4 (100 MHz).

AMD had 2 generations of 486DX4 (and of 486DX2), the first did not have CPUID (and it had a write-through cache memory), while the second had CPUID (and it had a write-back cache memory).

Some Cyrix CPUs with properties intermediate between 486 and Pentium had CPUID, but it was disabled by default and it could be enabled in the BIOS.

Measuring the length of the prefetch queue was the standard method to identify 8088 vs. 8086 and this was available in several commercial CPU detection utilities that were available for MS-DOS, e.g. in Norton Utilities or the like.

At that time I have discovered this by disassembling such a utility program.