skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a long time, a BD-rental was only $1.50. Even today, Blu-rays are obviously higher quality than streaming content because there's just so much more data on them.

The convenience of streaming is hard to beat, but the quality and price of disk rentals would have been competitive if the studios didn't muscle their way into the streaming business so destructively.

Ultimately I think Redbox COULD have been fine if only it had better access to new releases. People blame their pivot into streaming, but at that point the studios had already killed them and the company was flailing.
Show by letting users login in and use the app.

There are literally 100s of this same application. Here's the start to mine:

https://topicalsource.dev/chat/8e8c2bdf-41f4-4fd6-b8db-9bbda...

See how I am (1) providing something people could log into and try; and (2) providing the ability to have public posts that are sticky between visits, even for non-users (localStorage gimmic)

Here's a second link so you can see the public menu grow

https://topicalsource.dev/chat/84a0d6dd-f66f-4f12-af17-5e99c...

Will probably have a page/search for public chats eventually (private by default)

I only made this available in the last week, no signups outside my network yet either, but the goal isn't really a basic chat / rag app for business, I'm definitely looking at the b2c area, but not for your data. The goal is to work on the misinformation / trust problem that is starting and only getting worse
That’s not what “expect” means in statistics. If we’re rolling 100-sided dice (each person rolls once), no person should expect to roll a 1, even though 1% of people will in practice roll a 1. Likewise, no one should expect to beat the market, even though many will in practice.
Plants mainly need light and CO₂ to grow.

But I assume they all need a few more elements to construct a real plant.
Interesting that Nelson Goodmanis is mentioned. IMO music notation has the same, albeit lesser observable, problem as language and that's context. Regardless if it’s the Köln concert or a modular synth. If we try to capture all context for -let's say- the first second of a musical piece, it’s almost impossible to do.
A laudable project. UEFI proponents here wondering why the person bothered to create a new bootloader approach might be missing the point of why people undertake such tasks as this. As the writer ends:

> Cool if you actually came along this far.

Cool indeed.
Simulating the Evolution of Rock, Paper, Scissors (Primer) [video]
Very interesting. Would be useful to know how this compares to other Lisps and what could be some use cases.
Which, without looking, probably means NASDAQ today--and certainly the top 50 or whatever tech stocks by whatever metric. That didn't look so great in late 2001. Certainly my T Rowe Price tech fund cratered. Tech has been very good, even relatively speaking through the great recession, since then.
Primer is an excellent YouTube channel on game theory.
I didn't expect Sweden's Prohibition history to be so interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget#History
Power costs are the result of private profit taking not electrical regulation. Look at power costs for municipal providers with the same regulatory burden. LADWP customers are paying maybe 16 cents a kilowatt hour.
A big part of what made Twitter influential was that twits could be easily shared widely on other platforms. That doesn’t happen with Threads, and happens less now with Xitter.
I don't see how this won't kill local investment. It might be great for multinationals though, unless it also kills local consumption.
Very interesting read. Is there a way to sandbox apps and send user input to them in parallel? I'm using docker to containerize apps to set up end 2 end tests but it would be nice if this was possible without containerizing.
Zuckerberg bets that Twitter will collapse under's Musk's management and that Threads would then fill up the void. But my assumption is, Threads will close sooner or later because in the long term, it is simply not viable business for Meta. How will Meta monetize Threads when growth starts to stagnate and when engagement starts to drop? Zuckerberg even introduced ActivityPub compatibility for Threads in order to improve network effect but is that enough?

We can even end up in the situation where both Threads and Twitter collapse and people start to move to Mastodon. That would actually be great. More power to the people!
All of physical reality may be a self supporting "mirage" created by quantum physics. Taoists delight.
Not necessarily, there are different ways of merging a PR in github
Not sure what they mean specifically but you've probably seen a lot written about it, in terms of BRICS, the petrodollar, ARM in China, subsidies on electric cars, and so on.

Personally I try to avoid investing in the US for political reasons, besides the wishful expectation that the empire could fall within my lifetime and hence be a not so good investment.
I feel like cost, availability, taste, and strength are kind of important actually.
This approach was cleverly used by a PC company in the 80s/90s, Packard Bell. That brand had been a radio company from the depression into the late 60s, when the company failed.

When PCs were starting to take off, parents of boomers were interested in getting a PC but unsure what to buy, so a familiar brand was attractive.

This was widely discussed in the business press at the time, and various other bramds were revived for this reason.

In the case of Shinola they aren’t reviving the brand in this fashion, but I assume they think a bit of familiarity, even as a joke, might help (I only knew Shinola from “can’t tell shit from Shinola” and only after I saw a Shinola shop a few years ago did I bother to even look it up).
Very cool! Synths can 'move' in a bigger musical space than a traditional instrument: it's fascinating how musicians can still manage to convey a written account of the music.
Great read. I actually recommend it over Nudge. I had him as a professor at Cornell for a couple courses before "behavioral economics" was a term.
The Mathematics of Reliable AI
Unless... you use the Web to ssh!
Apart from the SLS, Ariane 6, Japan's H3 Launch Vehicle, the Russian Angara's KVTK stage, the Saturn V 2nd and 3rd stages, and several others which do/did all use hydrogen.
Exactly.

Active funds ask investors to accept 100% of the downside and get taxed on the upside. Actually it’s worse: they’re taxed on both the up and down sides.

If this is a terrible deal for fund managers then virtually by definition actively-managed funds are a terrible deal for investors.
I think kombucha used to have 1-ish percent or more but they were made to get rid of most of the alcohol.
He’s a Democrat donor that registered Republican likely to pick someone else during the primaries. Possibly because the Democratic establishment decided to (by some degree) “skip Democracy” by not holding a primary election to potentially replace Biden. Hence people that wanted to participate in the political process had to be Republican to participate in a primary election.

It was my understanding at the time of posting before much pictures came out that the bullet and the aim was too far to the left which was the perfect line up for a politics joke.

Similar jokes include [a person] is so far left or so far right that they can’t walk a straight line down a sidewalk without falling over.
https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Value-Spreads-Back...

I’d be cautious that you are about to get a wicked mean reversion.
They don't guarantee you zero downside compared to investing in the index, though, but compared to putting your money under the mattress.

It's relatively easy to achieve a return profile like these promise with some combination of Treasuries and index options (at least while Treasuries pay 5%!), and the ETFs are doing this kind of financial engineering rather than promising to beat the market through stock-picking skill.
The costs associated with high and unstable inflation dwarf everything else. Get that down and the economy will take off as investment gets funneled into productive endeavors
It's adding pointless complexity, and baking assumptions about how an OS should work into the firmware. Loading a sector at a fixed memory address and jumping to it (with some function provided so that your code can go on to load other sectors) is both easier to understand, and doesn't require you to use some multi-megabyte toolchain.
Given the contexts I most commonly see it used in, I think it means “having empathy for someone outside my identity group”.
This works until it doesn’t. I have seen many startups raise a ton of cash from pre-payments, burn it on marketing and R&D, and then find that the cashflow isn’t forthcoming as expected. I force my companies to clearly show prepaid revenue on their balance sheet and treat it as debt. Any discounts provided to win the pre-payment also have to be recorded as a financing cost - not a “sales discount” or buried in lower ARR. It might be borrowed from your customers, but it’s still debt and you have to “service” it by providing products and services that do have a marginal cost. Showing the financing cost achieves two things:

1. It allows you to run a higher EBITDA metrics because financing costs are backed out of EBITDA.

2. You record the non-discounted revenue for the customer, which is a truer representation of where the business could be one day when it’s no longer playing the pre-payment game to generate cashflow.

Generally speaking, it’s a good idea to generate cash from pre-payments, but don’t treat it as free no-risk money. You can get over your skis quickly, run out of cash, and then be in a world of hurt when you’re unable to service those customers.
Can you subscribe to any of these via PaySafe, or any other kind of card that you can just pick up in a grocery store for cash?
This was a nice read, interesting to see how far Postgres (largely alone) can get you.

Also we see how at self hosting within a startup can make perfect sense. :)

Devops that abstract away things in some cases to the cloud might just add to architectural and technical debt later, without the history of learning from working through the challenges

Still, it might have been a great opportunity to figure out offline first use of notion.

I have been forced to use anytype instead of notion for the offline first reason. Time to checkout to learn how they handle storage from the source code.
Oh, you get to choose between AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, and you can jump between the three networks at whim with US Mobile.

Travelling to a remote area? Jump to AT&T. Similarly, want mmWave coverage at a stadium? Jump to T-Mobile. All without changing your cell plan!
> Why would anyone take the other side of this bet?

People accept this bet every single day… when they buy actively-managed funds.

Actually they accept a worse bet. Instead of taking 100% downside risk and being taxed on anything above the index, they’re taxed on both gains and losses.

You’re right that it’s an incredible financial instrument. Actively-managed funds are extremely profitable… for fund managers, who get paid out of investors’ assets in bad years and also get to skim off the gains in good years.
A wierd bubble he/she lives in. "Raise your prices! Your prices are low! Raise them now!"

I find most services now are extremely overpriced. Your "pay us $coffee$ per month", is absolutely not going to happen because your service is one of dozens or hundreds I randomly find kinda somewhat interesting in a given day. Ok If the service was a couple of pennies, i might consider it.

Every single little app/service now thinks they are indispensable utility provider and by such are entitled to x% of my monthly salary. Get lost!!
Is it possible to enhance channels to fit into the iterator need? I mean using them without always creating new goroutines.
its not uncommon for the founder to buy the IP out of bankruptcy for some token amount, since the technical ip of a filed company is pretty much unusable by anyone who doesn’t know the code base.

I’ve never seen such a company successfully revive, though some get close (for example Tilt5 is selling hardware and doing some interesting license deals, so could make it).
Not quite. We have adapted the `git format-patch | git send-email` flow to support editing the patchset. You can add, remove, even `--force` replace all patches within a patch request.

The goal is to provide the flexibility of a pull request with the simplicity of generating patches.

At the end of the day, the maintainer of the repo has to load the patchset locally, apply it, fix it up, then push to upstream. They have full control here.
Show HN: I Built a Web Platform to Manage Web Frontends ENV
Hi HN,

I'm excited to introduce Browset, an open-source web platform I built to simplify the management of environment variables for web frontends.

Why Browset?

Managing environment variables across different stages (like UAT and Production) can be complex and tedious, often requiring intricate setups and rebuilds. Inspired by the challenges outlined in this article https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-implement-runtime-e..., Browset aims to eliminate these hassles by offering a streamlined solution.

How It Works:

Create Projects: Set up projects in Browset to manage environment variables.
Dynamic Configuration: Retrieve environment variables dynamically based on the request origin. No need to rebuild your frontend for each environment.
API Integration: Easily integrate with your web frontend using our API to fetch the environment variables in JSON format.
Interesting. We can meet and talk!

I'm really not sure about fully open-sourcing it. It's generally good for developer-focused products, but for Listenly... I just can't see the benefits. But I might be very wrong.
Gizmondos Miljardkrasch
TryDry offers a great UX for free. Made by UK gov IIRC.

iOS https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/try-dry-the-dry-january-app/id...

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.alcohol...
> A couple of years ago it was "$foo, but on Kubernetes". Before that it was "$foo, but Serverless". They're just pushing where the profit and interest is, and pretty much always have done.

I don't think that's it. Those who migrated their EC2 apps to ECS/EKS/Fargate/App Runner have already migrated, so there is diminished returns in pushing those technologies.

The same goes for serverless. The whole world already adopted this to it's full extent. Those who want/can use these services, are already running these services, and AWS is already getting better utilization rates from their idle computational resources from this.

These are not fads. They are already infrastructure.

What we are seeing is additional high-level services being released to meet customer demand. There's now a massive need for training and running your custom private LLMs. There is absolutely no justification to skip the revenue you can generate by serving these markets.
I provided my position with extensive rationale, citations from context, and a link to learn more.

Do you have anything to support your position? anything in the federalist papers?

What about the simple fact of reality of the time that every citizen was allowed to own arms without being in a formal organization?
No. The _ability_ to exploit it "en-masse" didn't exist 30 years ago. Random dell advertisement shows 16mb RAM (max 64mb), and 450mb HD.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/49o9tm/dell_opti...

Keep in mind, these are Mb, not Gb!

Nowadays with a raspberry pi and a 128gb SD card you can go to town on "all location data for the last year for all American cell phones".

Back in 1994, even coordinating reliable central writes of all that location data would have been extraordinarily complicated, and there was not yet a panopticon appetite that would attempt the endeavor without a heavily funded psychopath behind it.

As "we the industry" have gotten more capable (and comfortable) processing huge quantities of data (eg: post map-reduce), and the hardware requirements have fallen to "my cell phone could compute it in an hour", the risk has increased tremendously.

Same story with muskets, cannons and tanks vs AK-47's. "Gun Control" in the musket era is materially different than an era of AK-47's and drones. Same with data processing.
He's talking about 7 years. Lots of people do very very well on short timeframes. They usually balance out in the long run.
Beyond the concerns that have already been raised this is also a substance that is pretty untested at these dosages for ingestion. Side effects are unknown. But who knows, maybe it’s like vaping: we know that it’s probably bad for you to some extent, but most people are on a consensus that it’s probably not worse than cigarette smoking
I am using nats Jetstream with nex.

It’s a self hosted Cloudflare.

It uses nats Jetstream , as a work around to Nat having bog / anycast , like how Cloudflare does its magic.

https://github.com/synadia-io/nex

You have to run it on bare metal or any cloud that supports next virtualisation.

I use nats Jetstream listening to git repo web hooks to deploy.
Michael Sugrue's you tube channel [1] has some of the best introductions to philosophy. His ability to articulate such complex concepts and lay them out logically and connect them is like magic. True performance from a master! RIP

[1]: https://youtube.com/@dr.michaelsugrue
How the war in Ukraine is reviving Russia's rustbelt
When I asked local tech CEOs in my town what skills they wanted entry-level programmers to have, they said they wanted them to be able to read and write.
The funny part that people start to forget is that this version of snippet was introduced when original one (ga.js) was blocked by most of the world (back in the days when Firefox became browser number one and Adblock Plus was in use).

New snipped was designed to break Adblock Plus, which was unable to block inline scripts (and simple blocking analytics.js caused js failures in the same script block). So it was malicious dark pattern. Obviously eventually it was bypassed, which required fake replacements like https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/src/web_access...
Thanks, makes sense

TopicalSource looks great, and you're right using an example is 100x clearer than reading the website.

Follow you on X btw, keep me updated on TopicalSource this might be something I'd use.
>Why specifically is it bad for people to prefer devices that are small and tightly integrated to devices which are repairable but make trade-offs to get there?

For repairability, upgradability, hackability, the environment, waste, tighter vendor control, and so on...

Do you need more reasons?
This

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass

is pretty popular in many former USSR states, and can be easily made at home. I have no idea if you will like the taste, I'm used to it from childhood. It has 1-2% alcohol and gives a slight buzz if you drink liters of it (which I tend to do in summer).
I certainly feel like we need to use computing for some better things to benefit humanity

1. A long term human readable storage format that will stand the test of a 1000+ years.

2. A database system that works easily and well to catalog things like the DNA of every living plant and animal

A great mandate for the library of congress or the national archives
you can remove perchlorates with dissimilatory perchlorate reducing bacteria, by rinsing the soil, by thermal decomposition in the soil, etc. there are many paths to perchlorate free soil since it is very reactive and water soluble
Hey, I admitted it. I see a number of others that didn't. Looks like a number of folks didn't read it, and there's a number of others that are taking great glee in pointing it out.

There's utility in promptly admitting when we're wrong.
>And the fact that your preference is different than someone else's doesn't automatically make yours the better one

Of course, it's better for other reasons, not because it's mine.

>it's a toxic, elitist mindset.

I'm all for elitism, it means celebrating and promoting higher standards.
I'm mildly annoyed by merchant-specific gift cards when I receive them. They're strictly worse than cash because rarely does the merchant have anything I want at a price that I consider reasonable.
Sure. Pull Requests tend to force users into collaborating in a web view. Further, they require a collaborator to:

- have an account on the platform

- fork the repo

- pull repo

- create a branch

- make the change

- push to forked repo

- click a button in the UI to create the PR

With `git-pr` it can be this simple:

- pull repo

- make the change

- submit pr with a single command `git format-patch | ssh host pr create x`

If you've ever used the email workflow I don't think I need to explain why it sucks.
Huge military boon having the interstate as well for our icbm truck platforms.
A corporate VPN on a personal device definitely does.
At best, a lifetime subscription means the lesser of my lifetime or the company’s lifetime. If the former, sucks for me - it’s kinda like “winning” on your life insurance policy.
So in the end, what's the key takeaway regarding global economics ? If (some of) the most well-paid people cannot guess the market, then doesn't it mean that they are useless ? Then why are we paying their services ?
I thought by the time the railroad came about the US army already did that for the various ranch lands the railroad went through?
oh, you're just so busy here, aren't you?

we don't have to prove the negative; you have to prove your claim.
Python vs GoLang is a whole thing, but being unable to compile a go binary is a skill issue on your end, my friend. It's not a problem for this software unless you want to edit the code and don't know GoLang, except that's also a skill issue.

The fact that this tool is unnecessary due to other tools existing is a fair point though.
>Isn't that just showing that repression is orthogonal to ability to track people?

No, it just shows that you can repress even with less ability to track people (a fact nobody doubted. The Romans could repress people too and they didn't have mass surveillance).

It, however, absolutely doesn't refute the point that with more ability to track people you can repress more, more effectively, and in novel ways.

>Elect trustworthy people first.

Popular pressure (and even ocassional popular revolt), separation of powers, and various established checks and balances are there precisely so you don't have to depend on electing trustworthy people.

Of course if we could somehow magically only be electing trustworthy people, we wouldn't need to have this discussion (or have these problems).
I thought this was common knowledge.

There’s a company called DMCA which provides a site badge service. Tied to a url.

We know a law can’t be a company, someone or something has to help with it.

"IF YOUR CONTENT IS STOLEN WHILE PROTECTED WITH
OUR BADGES, WE WILL DO A TAKEDOWN FOR NO CHARGE*"

https://www.dmca.com/

It’s easy to ask what someone means instead of dismissing them.
Yes wgpu is a much lighter build and has a lot going for it.

The situation has gotten a lot better for both dawn and wgpu integration in C++ with:

https://github.com/eliemichel/WebGPU-distribution/

Getting a shared library build was a revelation though, credit to:

https://github.com/jspanchu/webgpu-dawn-binaries

because the FetchContent cache invalidations would still periodically lead to recompiling which gets quite annoying. When it's just a matter of linking you get few-second builds consistently. The cost is we'll have a bit of hardening around potential ABI bugs but it's ultimately worth it.

We'll work towards wgpu support. There's some sharp edges in the non-overlap w/ dawn which seem most pronounced with the async handling (which is pretty critical), but I don't think anything is a hard blocker.
I think reneging on a lifetime signup is really petty. I strongly suspect that they don't actually constitute much of a drain, and they are folks that had faith, and supported the company, early on.