skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday I saw that 'Lord of the Rings' is on Netflix.

I thought to myself 'Cool, I have not seen this movie since it's initial release. I remember there is an extended version, let's check it out'.

Nope, you only get the base version on Netflix. And that's until netflix removes it from it's library.

I am pretty sure that for such a well known movie, I could be watching the hires version of the extended cut with all its goodies after 2 minutes of research if I wanted too thanks to bitorrent.
> That has to be at least partially it

No, not at all. The wavelength of the light is about 1,500 times larger than the atom emitting it. So the atom would need to move at least 1,500 diameters to make any difference in the light.

It doesn't move that much.
Unlucky for this guy that wont help him after brexit.
> Indeed, if the physical world is kept safe, then no speech will be scary.

We are very, VERY far from that world, so you may want to reconsider for now. If some drunkard says to your face "I'm going to beat the shit out of you!", don't you at least consider he might do it?
They had to be on the conservative side, so they assumed a doubling every 9-12 months. In reality we have seen one doubling every ~34 months in the last 14 years. In 2005 I bought 250GB HDDs for $110 each. In 2018 you can find 8TB HDDs for $150 each. That's 5 doublings.

So with 5 doublings, if we saw datasets on the order of 2^50 back then, we should see datasets on the order of 2^55 today (30 PB). And sure enough, here is a computer with a 30 PB global filesystem: https://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/TC/sc11/k-computer-system-...

So another 9 doublings to go to 2^64 bytes. With one every 34 months, this should happen in 25 years (2043). But again, if you are a filesystem developer you should be on the conservative side and assume it might double every ~12 months.
My experience with cloth diapering was that it was much less likely to blowout. But it's easy to put on wrong (mostly loose or too far forward, which will leak), and cloth diapers are bulky which is less convenient for traveling light.
From the "More information about this page" link at the bottom of that Snopes page:

> You’ve just had an encounter with False Authority Syndrome.

> Everything in this section is a spoof.... As for Mississippi’s doing away with teaching fractions and decimals in its school systems because kids find them too hard to master, that’s no more true than Kentucky’s imposing a licensing fee on uses of its name
> Is that how good business people operate? "We did a transaction once, therefore I will favor you and give you free consideration for no other reason"

Suppose a person works in real estate their entire life, and then runs for political office but still maintains their real estate business. Is it not reasonable to assume, absent evidence to the contrary, that they have incentives to benefit the real estate industry and in particular their own business, over that of others? Why would they stop acting in a way that maximizes their own personal profit?

Would we not assume the same for really any professional background? If Mark Zuckerburg runs for President and wins, would we not assume that he would favor policies that benefit Facebook to the detriment of their competitors, simply because he has a strong financial incentive to do so? Indeed, would you be comfortable with a President Zuckerberg who remained in complete control of Facebook while in office?

Why then is it weird to be concerned that Trump has not distanced himself from his business interests? Trump has done thousands of deals, but those deals only benefited him and his counter parties. Those deals were not done for the benefit of the American public at large. That's fine for Trump the private citizen, but not Trump the President. I reasonably expect that all dealings that a President has while in office are exclusively on behalf of and for the benefit of the American people. If he were a banker, or wall street financier of any other type, wouldn't the same conflict of interest exist? Do you really not think this is a cause for concern?

The default assumption should be that a person is prone to corruption. That is the safe assumption for anyone granted power, and is the assumption of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution. We should not give the benefit of the doubt to any leader. That is far too dangerous and runs contrary to the spirit of Democracy. If you want to believe a leader is a saint above reproach that is the realm of Authoritarianism, not Democracy.
haha i read this headline and thought to myself "breaking textbook RSA is EXACTLY what I was just learning about in class today" and then I noticed one of the authors is my professor
PG&E's Digital Catalyst just released their first open source project
Feel free to contribute, comment, fork whatever. PG&E's Digital Catalyst is propulsing the company ahead of the competition. Teams are working with Tensorflow, React + redux, node.js, golang, GraphQl etc...
https://github.com/PacificGasAndElectric/SlipCover
>complete and utter bullshit

Why must one drop that word choice?
> Can the divisive part also apply to any cable news networks guilty of divisiveness?

no, because these are already in the pocket..
given the feedback loop of social networks there wasn't much of a reason for viable competitors to emerge in the first place.

The lack of competitors here is structural, not everything is an issue of 'we must remove the red tape!' That would do nothing because nobody is voluntarily going to switch away from an established social network monopolist. It's a nash equilibrium of sorts.
Mr Fogg's 5th anniversary party review
The way it works is that the freight railroads are supposed to clear a slot for Amtrak's timetable. If Amtrak misses that slot, then the freight trains get priority. The end result is that trains are either on time or substantially delayed (6+ hrs) with no "slightly" late performance.
The first time I visited Seattle was the middle of July. The weather was warm and sunny. I recall going swimming in Lake Washington. Everyone was really, really happy and joyful, to the extent that I wondered if I had been lied to all my life about Seattle.

I guess SAD is a thing. Is there an anti-SAD?
It expands the data structure size, which multiplies N for both on disk and in RAM representation (and cache and shorn cache lines). Many modern architectures have native 128b types (amd64, POWER) so it's not really a big deal to the CPU itself even if you need to do atomic operations for concurrency.

OTOH it guarantees there wont really need to be on disk changes for pointer sizes. That may be useful in situations that weren't really imagined, for instance 128b is enough for a Single Level Store where persistent and working set (or NV) are all in the same mappable space for any conceivable workload.
You beat me to this comment by a minute!

I've run engineering teams in SFBA for years and have, with a friend, built Cronitor. I've come to believe the most valuable "soft" skill in an engineer is just a relentless drive to ship, to know how to be both tactical and strategic in avoiding over-engineering.

With Cronitor, we call it the JIT Mindset: Don't actually write code until you have to, and focus on solving most impactful problems first. My co-founder wrote more about it here -- https://blog.cronitor.io/the-jit-startup-bb1a13381b0

In one sentence it's simply: Over-engineering something can be hard which can trick you into thinking it's real valuable work -- it's not. It's a trap.
WHATSAPP and TELEGRAM WAS HACKED (Live on TV)
They are complaining about "toxic content directed at children". We are talking about the worlds biggest ice cream manufacturer, they own brands like Lipton who make billions from sugar water with ads like these Muppet animations targeted at children gulping it straight from the bottle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8n-BF5lrnQ

Once those kids are fat teenagers, they own Axe of course, infamous peddlers of archaic gender role pushing crap like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpPJjgIfRkI

So yeah, the first step on making responsible ads for the internet is banning these particular vermins at Unilever.
But I can say the same thing about multiple repos!

I've seen more than one company now that has had the same problem: how do they patch atomic cross-repo changes onto their multiple git repos? The reasons for this can vary, but the core problem is always that. As far as I see it, there are two solutions:

- Use a monorepo

- Create some external database that ties multiple hashes together for use in your ecosystem. This also requires re-inventing bisect on top of this database. I'm sure the intelligent people of HN can come up with the multitude of other tools you need to modify to make this work, but its not trivial.

If you're willing to manage that overhead somehow, that's fine, but I can't imagine its fun.
Internet advertising sounds horrible. I marvel that so many people still put up with it.
Exactly, so you're better off not accounting for all these special cases. As there's a never-ending list of email providers.

A better approach might be to limit the effect that a new account can have in the system. Hackernews, Reddit, Stackoverflow all do this through reputation. A new account on these systems is unable to achieve much until time is spent proving the account is being used. Thus reducing the incentive for an individual to create multiple accounts.
If anything, OSM is over-policed. I remember going in and fixing up some divided roads that were criss-crossed at each intersection. I went in and carefully "unbraided" them and aligned the roads so they were parallel and matched the underlying road geometry. Lo and behold a day or so later I got a message from some guy outraged that I would make such an edit to his roads and asking me to revert the work. Thanks for nothing I guess. I reverted the change for him and never made another edit contribution to OSM.
I just hope they can make Spotlight work. I can drag down from the home menu, type the full name of an app on the phone, and only get random other results (or the App Store link to the app.)

e.g.: https://imgur.com/a/jYE9M (reminders is a built-in app but apparently Spotlight's never heard of it)
re: "I’ve seen APIs with thousands of usages across hundreds of projects get refactored and with a monorepo setup it’s so easy that it’s no one even thinks twice."

This makes it sound much easier than it is. You still need to get approvals from all the teams whose code is touched. In the meantime, code may be changing out from under you. And the more code you touch, the more tests you need to run.

For anything but the most obviously risk-free changes (where a global owner can approve it), splitting up a large change into independent pieces and sending out a bunch of changelists in parallel will make more sense. There are tools to do that too.
The easiest way to get started with webpack
Aaron is my personal career idol. I love seeing his work come up on here, it gives me a view in to the deeper workings of ruby that are years beyond my expertise, but in a way that I can mostly grok what's going on. I'm super happy github hired him to hack around on ruby.

Also, his talks are excellent; his closing keynote for RailsConf in particular seems worth recommending, as it was about his work speeding up Rails using kind of similar string optimizations/caching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTTygyxuGj8
> The ISS was never meant to be a "profitable business."

That comment was likely referring to the first sentence of the article:

> President Donald Trump wants to end US funding for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025 with the aim of putting it into private hands.
Basically, you need more population density.
The company behind the Axe ads is also the company behind Dove advertising. Different brands, different markets.

Complaining about facebook is a way to get free advertising for all of it.
> The worker will still qualify for unemployment benefits

The worker would qualify for unemployment benefits even if fired for good-faith poor performance. For terminations, only gross misconduct (criminal acts, deliberately failing to work, etc.) is disqualifying.
This can't be great for Google. I suspect a large part of their margin is advertisers that assume their investment is paying off somehow. Should encourage some actual investigation of ROI in the space.
Whatsapp and Telegram HACKED (TV News)
Engineer show live on TV

http://www.t13.cl/videos/nacional/video-operacion-huracan-creador-antorcha-explica-como-funciona
> I don't know why Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, etc can't have a simple toggle between chronological and the default algorithmic feed...

It's not that they can't have it. They have no incentive to do so.

Algorithm feeds provides the guarantee that an ad is seen by a minimum number of users, which is the entire value of facebook.
Hm, I thought they were doing 1-1-3 in previous situations and 3-3-3 in this one?
How funny! It's pretty cool learning things from the literal experts at the frontiers of human knowledge. I hope he or she teaches well as well!
It was sunny today, and yesterday. It's been really weird, because I guess I had forgotten what sun was like...
I am willing to bet that companies have a reasonably good handle on the returns from their advertising spending.

I suspect they have no better than guesses as to why those returns change over time, or what might improve the returns. That brief "ad-blockers are immoral" campaign was probably the result of a few advertising committees deciding that some downward trend was caused by ad-blocking. This is more of the same.

The companies are never going to come out and say "we're not making good enough ads," they're going to blame the platforms they're advertising on. That will put pressure on the platforms to lower prices, and in this case, serve as a kind of corporate virtue signalling by pretending to be concerned about social issues.
I think we're just not the target market. By "we" I don't really mean HN, I mean just developers in general. Sample size of one, but I know in my own social circle, male techies = not really social media users. I think it probably has a lot to do with extraversion vs. introversion, and also if you happen to have some personal traits that tend to be social media friendly (photogenic, popular, etc.)
Calling a newly proposed regulation "pro free market" legislation is a little orwellian.
> if you habitually use a VPN

depends on the VPN...

if you mean 'commercial vpn service', then probably yes.

if you mean 'routing it through some other machine you own', 'your access to <xyzpq network>' then probably no..

vpn != commercial vpn service
And how long to convert the cryptocurrency into a usable currency? As long as cryptocurrencies are not widely accepted, it isn't much useful.

Also, there's a good reason for the checks and balances that take time in traditional banking.
The synergy lies in sales and marketing, not production.

They've amassed their portfolio by slowly buying up local producers and their brands, and keeping the production facilities. There might be some synergy to be had by letting former separate production facilities learn from each other.

However, almost all of their products are sold in grocery stores, and there has to be enormous efficiencies there by newly acquired brands getting into a large existing distribution network. Instead of each product being distributed and marketed separately, Unilever can simply dump a couple of pallets of all their goods at once, and they can easily introduce new products by just dumping it on the grocery stores complete with marketing materials as part of a normal delivery.
> if I need static typing

And that's when the Static Typing Is The One True Way person parachutes in. :)
Chase bank did something similar a year ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/chase-ads-youtub...
The biggest challenge for us was a bunch of small tasks that we HAD to do. It was driving us nuts until we realized we could either find a service, make it dead simple (MVP style) or just not do it until we absolutely needed to do it. We worked on being customer obsessed with the absolute list. We ended up with a great product. I can't take full credit, took a lot of advice from great blogs and Lean Startup (the summary is better if you don't have the time. http://amzn.to/2H8isRI).
Others mentioned that those rules of thumb are for running the deduplication system, which one really shouldn't[1].

In real-world use memory needs will vary by use like anything else, but are entirely reasonable. I have an old box with 4 gigs of RAM and about 20T disk that performs just fine for modest file-serving needs. If I had more than a few users for that system, it would need more at some point, but mostly for client access software, not the filesystem.

ZFS will use as much memory as you want, and benefits from lots of it in many use cases. But it doesn't require it.

I find it to be the current sweet-spot between useful features, performance, and stability - snapshots, trivial filesystem serialization; not the fastest, but acceptable; and rock solid.

Anyone approaching it from scratch, I highly recommend thoroughly going through the operations one does without your irreplaceable data on it. Everyone, including me, ignores this recommendation. So at the very least, allow me to suggest that you think very long and hard before running that -f (force) command the first time you replace a disk on the array with the baby pics.

[1] Maybe on a system with a lot of ram but constrained storage; I haven't encountered those, but I'm sure they're out there somewhere.
I agree, "broadcasting" your activity likely increases engagement within your network.
Why does the atom look so big in the bicture?
Atomic radius of Strontium is 219 pm, so that small spec there in the picture should be about 438 pm across.

I'm assuming the two ball-pen nib shaped structures on both sides of the spec in the picture are "two metal electrodes placed about 2mm (0.078in) apart". So, the space between the left tip of the electrode and left edge of the spec is about 1 mm. Based on some "visual calculation" (zooming in the picture and doing some approximation), the spec seems to be closer to about 0.03 mm across, which is orders of magnitude larger than 438 pm that it should be. What gives?
should have bought a digital monster cable instead..

would have had just as much utility and impressive shinyness without the latency..
> Even Firefox is no longer innocent

That's FUD

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

Review process: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection and not only is the source available, you can inspect opt-in metrics in about:telemetry, and see aggregated metrics at telemetry.mozilla.org (no other vendor will share that with you)

> There ought to be a full transparency report on every browser...

Yes, but not all browser vendors care about your privacy.
So if privacy matters to you use Firefox :)
A layoff of any kind or scale is interesting for AMZN, given that they have so much diversity of teams, jobs, skills, products, etc. It's interesting that they couldn't repurpose a few hundred people, even given their infamous up or out mentality. Sounds like they are knowingly giving up good people since the current culture fires anyone that doesn't produce already. Willingly giving up good people doesn't seem like a healthy signal.

Edit: Encountered this at a company acquired by private equity right before the 2008 bubble. They did 3 straight stack-rank/fire-the-bottom rounds. Was clear in the second round we were letting go of really good talent to the competition solely for some executive's bonus tied to short term numbers. And, it did bite them later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_(brand) is owned by a parent company that owns a lot of dairy brands, but their marketing emphasizes feeling good about consuming a completely non-dairy product (which some customers, like me, do because of objections to the dairy industry).

You can see some of this on display at

https://silk.com/our-story/history

https://silk.com/healthy-living/plant-based-diet

Notice the Danone link at the bottom of those pages (!!). (Americans will know their yogurt brand as "Dannon".)
Studies have shown it's effective. I have seen it's effects on someone close to me. Rather spectacular, and yet not a full "cure". I was inspired enough to try it and had limited success. It doesn't work for everyone or everything. PTSD it's definitely worth giving a shot.
AWS is not digital devices. Digital devices is Kindle, Kindle Fire, Echo/Alexa, etc.

Q4 results [1] say North America produced $1.7bln in operating income, and AWS produced 1.35bln. When Amazon says "North America", I think they mean "North American retail". So while international retail lost almost a billion dollars, I wouldn't say "AWS subsidizes everything".

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4142526-amazon-com-q4-2017-...

(Edit: Q4 produces more retail profits than other quarters while AWS is probably steadier, so on an annual basis AWS probably produces a larger part of the operating income. But even so, retail has been operating income positive, so AWS isn't "subsidizing everything".
I loosely assumed it was because they don't have much faith in them actually being organic or fair-trade.
For example, if you want to use SSHFS to access files on a machine that is only reachable via a gateway, you would have to change your SSH configuration with the details of the gateway, or set up port forwarding: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070925181947

TRAMP provides a pathname syntax for this kind of connection:

/ssh:bird@bastion|ssh:you@remotehost:/path

So the steps to get to the remote files are part of the pathname, and you can compose several steps with |. With FUSE, or any kind of mounting, this information is not part of the pathname; next time you need to access somewhere convoluted you have to set up the proxying/forwarding again.

You can also share the pathname. It is easy to copy-paste an SHH to sudo to Docker container multi-hop; setting up and tearing down the mounts to do the same thing would be fairly involved.
I have to say...that's one good looking car: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Benz+Concept+EQA+electric+vehicle&...

I've seen many concept cars that looked "interesting" but rarely have I ever wanted one as much as this.

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/vehicles/the-...
more generally, "corporate personhood" in US law, going back to at least the 1790s and in other countries going back even longer, serves the legal purpose of establishing that when people work together to do something under the "corporate" banner (which allows them to have a succession of members working toward a common goal and pooling resources), they retain rights like speech, property ownership, and ability to enter into or terminate contracts including hiring and firing employees. This connects to the idea (expressed by chief justice Marshall) that "The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on a collective and changing body of men."
I did. Top to bottom.
Any chance it’s actually all a house of cards and direct to consumer advertising doesn’t actually doesn’t do much to begin with?
They are everywhere. Unless travel is all on a single booking, if you miss a train/plane/hotel/etc. because of a travel delay, it's no different than if you just overslept. And it's not unreasonable. It's not really the hotel's fault that you couldn't use your room because of some weather problem a continent away. Travel insurance is probably one answer if you want to buffer against some issues--though I doubt it makes sense in most cases.
Having to enact a layoff to deal with 400 people when you already have a reputation about being ruthless with "up or out" is interesting though. As I understand it, it's not hard to fire deadwood at Amazon. So why risk the PR hit with "layoffs"? Seems curious.