skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warner Bros didn't buy out Discovery, other way around really. In return for taking on loads of debt, Discovery got ownership of WB.

HBO Max was an incredibly lean org, around 200-300 engineers at launch, 1/10th the size of its competitors but we launched a similar scaled service (tens of millions of domestic users, followed up by international launches one after another).

IMHO once COVID ended and HBO Max just became a streaming destination instead of having movies "launched" on it, they'd be just fine in terms of profit (and indeed iirc the successor Max service is profitable). First releasing big block busters doesn't drive enough user growth to pay for the movie, but if you have an existing content pipeline then having a streaming service as another delivery platform becomes reasonable.
Updating a fleet of embedded devices like routers (which can come online and go offline at any time) will generally be much easier using a pull-based update model. But if you’ve got control over the build and update lifecycle, a push-based approach like ansible might be appropriate.
I think both causes can be true, and both are relevant to modern food production.
WhatsApp add a warning like "This persons is not in your contact list. [Add] [Block]" So it's easier to detect new telephone numbers, that have a higher probability to be spam/phishing/...
Can you copy-paste the tweet? I can't see it.
I didn't mean "do what they want" as in ignoring law.

I meant "do what they want" as in: the winning party gets to choose the policy. The winning party can ignore the will of the losing party.
Because "fight" can only ever be used to mean a physical altercation?

More or less right after the "fight like hell" part of his speech:

"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give.

The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country."

It's clear (even through his rambling) that he meant they should march down there give the Republicans/Pence the guts (or whatever) to send it back to the states to recertify.

> Trial by combat

That was Giuliani, apparently, who said that.

“Over the next 10 days, we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent, and if we’re wrong, we will be made fools of, but if we’re right, a lot of them will go to jail,” he told the crowd that day. “So, let’s have trial by combat.”

Yes, clearly he's talking about an actual trial by combat.

Come on.
With AI, this entire vast content library is about to be worthless anyway.

We'll be making more long-form, quality content per month than entire Hollywood production years.

And if you include short form content and slop, it'll be more content per second than entire years.

When faced with infinite content, people will reach for content currently popular in the zeitgeist or content that addresses niche interests. Hollywood never made Steampunk Vampire Hunters of Ganymede, but in the future there will be creators filling every void. There won't be much reason to revisit old catalogues that don't cater to modern audiences unless it's to satisfy curiosity or watch one of the shining diamonds in the rough.

There will be a few legacy titles that endure (Friends, Star Wars), but most of it will be washed away in a sea of infinite attention sinks.

We're about to hit post-scarcity, infinite attention satisfiability. We've already looked over the inflection point, so it doesn't take much imagination to reason what's next.

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I have direct experience with this field.

I've written, directed, and acted in independent films. I've worked on everything from three person crews all the way up to 200 person shots. Even mocap and virtual production.

We're now developing film and VFX tools for individual artists, and the world is full of artists. It's been starved for films, however. The studio production system only had so much annual capacity per year, and most creators never get the opportunity to helm a project of their own.

You're not crying over the accessibility of digital art, digital music, indie games, or writing.

Film production and distribution has been bottlenecked at the studio level for far too long due to capital, logistics, and (previously) distribution barriers. That's all changing now.

Films are going to look more like fanfiction.net, Bandcamp, ArtStation, and Steam. That's a good thing.

I have friends in IATSE (film crew union) and AI is going to hurt their work. The nature of work changes, and new opportunities arise. But what's hurting them right now is that film productions are being offshored to Europe and Asia to break up their unions and bank on cheaper local labor. Production in Atlanta is one sixth of what it was just a few years ago.

I also have friends who write and direct that are looking at this as their big chance to build their own audience.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-regulations-default...
While I don’t doubt that there are bogus tests in there, looking at how many of them Safari and Firefox pass does not indicate that they have rejected many of them.
BBC is great at talking about the Gaza situation. Makes it seem like people are just dying from natural causes all the time.
> (Bashes head on table.) Intelligence, aptitude, and potential are incredibly hard to measure and judge in a purely objective way. The SAT is just a thin slice of that picture.

What is a better test?

> And less than 10% of university astrophysicists think the world is flat. Where's the diversity?!

I suspect you wouldn't be making this naturalistic fallacy if the ratio were flipped. Either way, you appear to confirm that the purpose was not diversity.
The issue with that reasoning is that it fails to take into account that risk is a commodity now. It's often more profitable to go for short term profit and offload your risk to an insurer who amortizes that monetary risk in a pool containing a bunch of other industries.

For critical services like food production, that's a problem. "Well, we don't have food, but it's okay because screw production went well" doesn't make sense socially, but our system makes it so monetarily.
Check out Peroscope films.

They take public domain footage, mostly us government stuff, and release it and claim copyright over it.

I took some of their public domain footage and put it on YouTube and they freaked out.

Through logic and reason I was able to get them to admit they have no copyright right, as they were initially claiming.

But they did have the YouTube terms of service.

So, back to this.

If they had public domain stuff they wanted to protect, this is another less obvious way to do it.
As a queer person I don't even know what I'd want from a CoC like that. It feels like I'd be giving up the freedom I love from F-Droid so I could better police other apps (which is something I don't want or need).

Considering how absolutely useless CoCs are in other software I use, I'm pretty happy with where F-Droid is today.
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Bird flu has 95% lethality in chickens and takes ~48 hours to kill. It's not like they can get away with ignoring it. Testing happens when you wake up and half your birds are already dead.

That said OP is asserting local costs haven't changed without evidence. Even if that were true (and I don't think it is- local farms are also being hit hard eg duck farming in NY) it probably speaks far more to small operations having a harder time changing their prices. Or the cheap eggs are just places who haven't been hit yet.
If it were actually impossible to have affordable eggs without confining chickens to tiny cages for their entire lives, that would be a damning indictment of our entire food system.

But luckily that isn't actually the case. The price difference between cage-free and "caged" eggs is negligible. I'm in New York City, not known for its local egg production, and I can still get cage-free eggs for $4/dozen. Kroker/Walmart is just ripping you off.
In academia, there are more qualified people than positions, on an extreme level in fact. I agree, we have to distinguish people. We must distinguish on intangible characteristics sometimes. Suppose I am hiring for a position in an department and there are three finalists. They are all extremely qualified. What is an acceptable way to distinguish people? "Alice was more thoughtful and well-spoken during than Bob and Charlie, I believe she will make a better colleague and mentor to our undergraduates. I suggest we accept her." Compare with the following. "Alice is a black, homosexual, woman unlike Bob and Charlie, who are white, presumably homosexual men. Our university has a stated DEI policy promoting the acceptance of more women and BIPOC faculty. Therefore we should admit Alice." Do you see the difference?

We do not need to enter a deep philosophical debate about what is "merit" and its many dimensions. I agree with you, it's complicated. But the issue is universities are explicitly discriminating and ranking candidates and students on the basis of DEI factors. We know this because, as in the CU case I have linked to already in other comments, their very own notes say so! This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Doesn't feel like a safe home right now.
Title fix >

Trump's Gaza proposal for 'Riviera of the Middle East' sparks global condemnation
I migrated from Arch to Debian.

It just works. It's stable, I don't need to worry about breaking updates and changes anymore. I'm at peace for at least 2 years.

And all the software I care about have their own deb repos or are self updating (Firefox, Chrome, VS Code, Cursor, Signal, Slack, etc), so I always have up-to-date versions. There is flatpak as well but I really didn't have any need for it for now.

It's the best combo, stable unchanging base and up-to-date apps.
Because why would you say that?

You would say "we're going to build more housing."
What should the cover of Pride and Prejudice look like?
I think we're going to become Russia, honestly. Or probably even more accurately we're just going to revert to the way we were during the Gilded Age. Oligarchy time.
Calc is... bad. It's slow and I've run into bugs in formulas; would rather use google sheets, which are a different kind of bad, but better than calc. No issues with writer, haven't used anything else.
> both causes can be true

They can be but they’re not. Canadian and Mexican factory farms are not being affected sufficiently to raise prices. The cause of the price rise is not factory farming. It’s vaccination practice and trade policy.
>They think the process is “senior make ticket, anyone implement ticket, unga bunga”.

The fact that you just summarized about an hour worth of argumentation from my last annual planning meeting with that one sentence has just destroyed me. I kneel.

At this precise moment in time, if anybody seriously thought the above was the way the process works or should work, they should be advocating for firing all the juniors and replacing them with LLMs.
Does this actually say anything substantiative? I read it twice and can't see the point, the only point of contention is that they have hired Goldman Sachs and Bank of America for advice for the initiative?

The largest European aerospace and engineering firm, is talking to the largest banks of international currency and connections, who already have experience in managing the financing and connections of the broader engineering economy in this space is a bad thing?

Then calling ULA effectively a failure? Was this written by anyone with actual integrity or knowledge of the industry? ULA has the highest success rate of any launch provider with 600+ 100% successful launches (including the maiden launches of a brand new rocket - Vulcan Centaur!), and are likely the only developer who can compete in the native US market against SpaceX. They have been the maintainers and innovators behind all recent Altas V, Delta II, Delta IV (Md/Hvy) and now Vulcan Centaur rockets, for the past twenty years.

ULA wasn't supposed to be a massive innovator through breaking things, they are what the space industry requires - successful, reliable, and low-stress launches. Then, you can apply your knowledge to the future. SpaceX is great (only due to Shotwell, hampered only by the notorious newly-unelected US Prime Minister (and now-known nazi) Musk).

Is Ars Technica now just a US imperialism advocate? I just don't see the point of complaining when more funding, more initiative, more progress is being made in European space is always a good thing for the entire industry, and our future as a technologically advanced species.

At this point, with the amount of decades-in-the-making real infrastructure and brain-gain of the EU cluster, I remain confident that the EU space industry is going to leapfrog the US within the next fifteen years (Order: China, <->, EU + NZ, US, Aus). Really looking forward to EU taking up more attention in the space, and then South America coming seemingly out of nowhere eventually.
Why are so many people saying "Asians and whites were discriminated against" and pointing to this case?

The judges ruled that the program was unconstitutional and had to be changed, not that Harvard had been illegally discriminatory in their admission practices(as was attempted years prior by the same conservative funded activism group)

Just because you personally see racism, doesn't mean it's actually happening(aka, "facts don't care about your feelings")
Not trying to hijack, but in addition, I'd love to know how we can fight back beyond just archiving data. HN tends to lean heavily into tech skills. How can we leverage those skills collectively or individually to prevent needing to archive this data in the first place?
Do you realize how hard is with the price of childcare to have a woman who works and have kids?

In my circle of professionals, most wives with small kids don’t work and even many of the wives that do work, the husbands can afford for them not to work. One entire income goes to things like college funds, investments, vacations, etc.

But you said in another reply that you made $700K and you really still need to worry about having a wife that works or her income?

I’ve travel full time for a year when I was making $225K with my wife and next year we plan to travel at least through the summer.
> Allowance for emergency payments to keep the lights on

This article notes that some federally-funded nonprofits "couldn’t access funds to make payroll": https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5115026-white-house-fund...

People rely on their paycheck to pay bills! If anyone stops getting their paycheck, that's not "keeping the lights on". Do you agree that any "review" mustn't prevent anyone from receiving their paycheck?
Bad UX? Maybe a bad UI but the UX is fantastic. I prefer the keyboard magic I can do. Just look at MARSHA (For Marriott hotels), a terrible UI but major in the keyboard warriors that have been using it for two decades.
Hm, I think you've mischaracterized me then. I do plenty of funny stuff with git in CI, but am usually able stick to modifying the repo in the way humans do. Maybe this is why I've mostly avoided edge cases over the years.

Though I have to say, for your examples (generating statistics and automated builds), read-only operations generally suffice for me, aside from pushing tags. I prefer to implement pull-based deployment if possible, and only allow release branches to fast-forward.
First followed you on flickr ages ago, then your networking guide! Thanks for the amazing resources.
>we’d supply manage primary food energy like beans and oats

We have enormous amounts of these crops, are hyper-competitive in them and fully self-supplying, and moreso they're very quick to turn around: A single season can yield enormous stockpiles of beans and oats.

That isn't true for dairy farms, egg operations, and so on. These don't scale up nearly as quickly. If Canada allowed the unrestricted flow of US options in these industries, US booms and mass industrial operations would wipe out Canadian suppliers, leaving us hugely vulnerable.

Like in the near future we might have an entire collapse of trade between the countries (as some new nonsensical exercise of brinksmanship is pursued, with new and ridiculous demands). We could wipe out 100% of foods that the US sends to Canada and be...perfectly fine, including, thankfully, poultry, milk and eggs. There are a lot of countries where this sort of food security independence isn't true.

Recent events have amply proven how critical Canada's protection of these industries are, making it all the more ironic that they're such a target. For obvious reasons.
All fair points. I'm having trouble understanding how this relates to the outrage-centered media, however.

Current top stories on the CNN frontpage are:

> Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship is blocked nationwide

> Trump’s Gaza plan is the most outlandish in region’s peacemaking history

> China is building a giant laser to generate the energy of the stars, satellite images appear to show

Is your child not a citizen? Are you child's vaccines related to Gaza, somehow? Will China's laser affect your wife's pregnancy?

Why do you feel the need to engage with this?
It was on a Twitter space, it seems - picked up by a few outlets at the time but, I think, lost in the general insanity of the last 2 weeks

One source: https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-eliminate-regulation...
I think the most brutal thing is when the male chicks are immediately sent into a shredder damn. Out of sight out of mind

That's where I can be a proponent of lab-grown meat without consciousness
But the method doesn't die with you. Now when someone gets a like it is meaningless.
I wonder if any of them will make back the amount of dollars the intern was paid to upload them.
A friendly reminder that your local library has a ton of free online access to news sites, movies, and ebooks! Libraries are amazing! Support them!
Free range birds cannot be quarantined?
I don’t think of it this way. I think the conventional producers were acting to maximize expected profits at the cost of increased volatility in outcomes. Most years these practices have been more profitable.
> Trump's undersecretary of state for diplomacy tweeted last fall that "competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work".

That's racist. It doesn't excuse existing racist policies.
Resolved? By whom?
The only thing caged birds do is interact with other birds. There’s a reason antibiotics are so widely used. It’s like a massive Petri dish.
Ah yes, typically suburbs. Cities that adopt it generally have regulations around it, such as needing an inspection and nominally priced permit. The inspection just makes sure it's sanitary and follows certain rules about distance from house and whatnot.

I definitely don't advise raising chickens in an apartment or some such.
Java, or at least Lombok, seems to have a @NonNull annotation that does what I want— cause code not to build that fails the check, and forces propagation of the annotation.

Reality does indeed feel exactly like what you mentioned with C#, though. The annotation is going to be missing where it’s needed most unless something forces the whole project to use it.
If simply requiring it filters out the kind of people that would abhor minorities coexisting with them, I think it's worth it to them.
My favourite rant on this subject.
https://www.bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs...

Now svn does have things I miss from the Mercurial world.. grep --all, fa --deleted, revsets, phases.. some could be implemented serverside in svn, but svn dev lost a lot of momentum post-DVCS (git esp).

But DVCS has issues that aren't an issue in svn land. History consistency, simple reliable narrow/shallow, people can work on files independently without syncing. (and a significantly more complex dvcs process)
It is absolutely fair! Farms have to cull cows, to reduce methane emissions, to save penguins!

F-Droid does not exist in vacuum, their actions send message!
A minor difference being that one is a bunch of bluehairs Twitterati and social science professors using a goofy word and the other is a systematic purge of scientific literature and government data... Minor difference though!
Not the author but for me the taste is obvious. It’s like the difference between the cheapest eggs and the pasture raised you get at the store.
It isn't all women who leave, it's the ones who refuse to have anything to do with men in the same percentile as they are themselves. And you couldn't sell that to men anyway.
I gave up on Linux Desktop by Windows 7 timeframe, there is always something that doesn't work, even for old dogs with UNIX experience back to 1990's.

Since I am not to pay Apple prices for private gear, I rather keep Windows with Linux VM approach.

At work, it is a mix of Windows and macOS, depending on the project.

We leave Linux for the cloud servers, and embedded devices.
Are You Building a Startup?
You didn't build a startup to do bookkeeping... did you?

Are you building a startup? That’s my jam—I LOVE startups. I built (and sold) my first one not too long ago, and let me tell you: the part I absolutely hated was the back-office busywork.

You know the drill: bookkeeping, spreadsheets, receipts...Ugh. I didn’t start a company to watch QuickBooks load—I started it because I had a mission and a passion.

So here’s the twist: this time around, I built a whole new startup dedicated to bookkeeping. Why? Because founders like you and me shouldn’t waste another second on all that administrative nonsense. Focus on building product, closing deals, and making waves—we’ll handle the rest.

Seriously. Let’s get you back to doing what you love (and crush it). Leave the spreadsheets to us.

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I thank myself for having avoided social media so far. I've also developed a keen eye for headlines that lead to "outrage articles" which I avoid.
It's past time these institutions were audited. I had an NSF fellowship and was on numerous NIH grants during my PhD work (Chemist). All of them, even in 2013, had DEI language that made it clear if you were a white/chinese/indian male you were not going to be funded. The institutions, already, were self sabotaging, doling out tons of taxpayer money, not to the best ideas, but to labs that had a few women of various colors other than white working in them. It pushed me and almost all of the other chemists (who were generally white/chinese/indian males) in my class to leave the field either after our PhD or post-doc.
Hey Google, I want my $2/month for 100GB subscription back. It had disappeared and only $20/month for 2TB plus subpar AI that I don’t use remains.
Internet radio still exists like actual radio streaming online and online only radio (such as radio paradise). With the latter you often can find community around then, voting on what comes next and the financement model are very varied. I know I rather spent the equivalent of a Spotify subscription as donation to independent radio instead of suffering the crass absurdity of an algorithm ala Facebook.
Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
> Code coverage has absolutely nothing to do with code quality (in many cases, it's inversely proportional)

I think this one keeps on being viewed as a % metric. You have 50% code coverage, 75%, 99.9%, 100%, etc. In that sense it is useless. Where I think code coverage has an enormous value is in showing what parts of your logic are/are not covered by test code. Being able to eyeball that and see where key parts of logic are not tested is extremely helpful and tends to get lost in these discussions.
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I live in a city and buy most of my fresh produce, meat, and dairy from local farms.