skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> can we think of something that the Chinese government has done that is worse?

https://twitter.com/zachsdorfman/status/1029861843521523712
And in that dimension there would be debate about whether we should cut corners by reducing security and reliability to slightly improve speed and mollify lazy programmers.

That debate would be short and the answer would be "nope, we shouldn't because that would be stupid".
Plenty of customers probably don't mind, but the moment they will mind is when they want to see a movie that is sold out at one of their common theaters and go to another theater not in the same chain.

People do tend to use the same theaters except for special runs of movies or when movies are so big that you might need to go to another theater due to sold out showings at your favorites.

I could see this non-issue of theater locked programs being heavily complained about when those types of customers get in that situation.

The other problem I see with theater locked ones it that they give special treatment like cut in lines and such that may turn off non program patrons to a certain theater.

Independent products just seem to also have the customer in mind more than the brand/theater itself, plus it creates competition for these customers if concessions is tied to it.
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Yup. Also known as Porsche Girl.
"schwarzites", not "schwartzites", which the article mistakenly prints 4 times, plus the HN submission
Mom always said if you play with match.com, you're going to get burned.
I went through the same experience once; instead of 1-10 I told them I wanted the "Thai spicy" maximum. I thought being an Indian it should be something I could handle; I couldn't have been more wrong. That thing burnt my intestines and "exit wound" was literally true. Took two days to feel completely alright.

"Indian spicy" is not really that hot - it's more about the strong flavor that comes with mixing spices of multiple varieties.
To most people a gun is pretty much a button you can press and instantly end your life, and in the hands of a knowledgeable user that's about right. I think that kind of ease makes a gun very different from other methods you list, most of which require some combination of willpower, preparation, and endurance of pain and discomfort.
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As an added bonus lifting weights, especially pulling movements like rows and deadlifts, can go a long way toward correcting the hunched forward posture many of us end up in at the computer. Also there’s this: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/06/07/neuroscience-leg-exe...
I mean, the same is true on Unix. If an app is in the background and wants to write to (or read from) the terminal, it gets SIGTTOU (SIGTTIN) sent to it immediately. It might have to be impossible on Windows to ignore SIGTTOU/SIGTTIN/SIGTSTOP, but I think that's just fine.

Mind you, ptys + tmux/similar is certainly very good, and if that's all we'll get that's still way way better than the current state of affairs, but if that's all that will be possible it should at least be possible to pause the console's output (and flow-control the console application).
Author here - I was looking for best practice ways to support bulk/batch operations in RESTful APIs. Most ideas seemed really wrong to me [0], until I came across the way that google cloud storage API does this [1] (at the HTTP layer). I couldn't find a good implementation of this concept, so I decided to build one.
I'm hoping to eventually try to get this project accepted as an "Approved Extension", so I'd really love your feedback.
Let me know what you think!

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/511281/patterns-for-hand...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/how-tos/ba...
Oh wow, that is a different experience from the mainly-text version. The text version is missing a lot of images, it seems.
Not only that, but if the software at the Urgent Care is that old, it may be raising false flags on things that are no longer considered clinically relevant and just present a hassle for the provider to click through.
My code quality also improves when I limit my sessions to a few hours at most.

After about 8 hours or so, I feel like I'm getting a lot done, but I almost always have to refactor significant chunks of that code later.

If I limit my sessions to implementing one feature or process, and then going away from the screen to think about it more, my results are better.
Yeah, I think that would really be a great solution. With NZs 3 year terms, no govt is prepared to invest heavily in infrastructure, which leaves privatization. Which kiwis really really hate. The insane choke point that is the Auckland harbor bridge could be resolved if a private company put in a second crossing, but nobody is prepared to pay or let it be in their backyard. Having lived in large cities including the US, I do love the attitude to just do stuff.
A recovering economy. By most measures, it's healthier than it has been for years.

Let's hope it keeps improving.
Demofox is a jerk!
I second this question. Perhaps there will only be support for vt100/vt220?
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Well yeah, you can get lower bitrate with the same perceived quality, or better quality with the same bitrate, or a mixture of both. It all depends on what options you set when encoding.
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Header files are generally declarations, not executable code, and for a program that's 50 lines long, it probably doesn't even have room to use all 4000 lines of declarations. It looks like it uses three structs and about three members of each of those structs, a half-dozen function calls, and a handful of constants, so you could write it without the include in under 100 lines.

A more meaningful objection is that you link with -lX11, which is a significant amount of actual code. But apart from "what about libc and the kernel" counterarguments, the X protocol is actually pretty straightforward - I'd bet you could write this with just socket syscalls in about as many lines of code, too. (Which is to say, an embedded system without libX11 could implement a window manager for a remote machine given just ~100 lines of C or similar and a TCP stack, and the TCP stack is only required because it's remote, anyway.)
I'm guessing the main thing they proved is that there's a small subset of movie fanatics that would see every movie released, some multiple times if they didn't have to pay. They figured out the size of this market and it probably was what killed them i'm guessing.

Like X% of movie pass subscribers saw 10+ movies a month. What was the size of X?
There are three aspects that make the Georgia Tech masters programs incredibly compelling:

1) The degree earned is the same exact as what the on-campus students earn. Exact same diploma - no mention of 'online'

2) It is a top ranked program (the MS in CS is ranked #8 - not sure about this Cybersecurity one)

3) It is (relatively) cheap at under $10k
> It's similar to how Netflix would never exist had it started out today, because no studio would surrender their back-catalogs to them for pennies.

I personally doubt the longevity of Netflix. On it's own it's not much more than a cable channel, like say AMC. Its success depends on producing very good content... it has not mastered this at all. Over time most studios will back out of their deals with it.
Windows has a proper shell, it's called PowerShell and it is by far the most discoverable and consistent shell that exists.
Still no idea what happened.
Think of it not as a shake up, but as a wealth transfer from investors to the proletariat.

It's like how Uber has been giving me $3 rides while it posts losses 1/3 of revenue.

I should send VCs a thank you card, those loveable dummies!
In theory C++ is a good language, beautiful, even, with its sheer power of abstraction. But nothing is free, and the mental overhead of using this power is enormous. To avoid it, developers (and designers of other, "easier" languages) transfer the overhead onto the run time. With C++ this is done by heavily relying on the data structures and the algorithms that are provided by the C++ standard library. One problem with this is that the most popular (and useful) standard structures rely, by default, on dynamic memory management. While it is possible to customize the way these structures manage memory so as to make it less taxing, this also would create a mental overhead - the one that the developer is trying to avoid in the first place. Another problem that people rarely think about is that the pervasive adherence to the RAII pattern does not come without a run time penalty, either. Constructors are often redundant and are used for "bureaucratic" reasons; destructors, on the other hand, are always "eager," so they would be used for releasing resources, such as memory, regardless of whether this is actually necessary or not. (In comparison, garbage collection is "lazy.") Yet another problem is that the use of templates (which is one of the biggest attractions in the C++ world) leads to an increase of the code size. Again, this is not to say that C++ is a bad language; it's just that it can be a bad choice.
>While there are countless other ways to commit suicide, experience shows taking away just one of the tools can save many, many lives.

I have found two studies with that claim. One is going state by state (like there may be no other factors?) [1]. The second is comparing urban Maryland vs rural (if you've ever been to rural Maryland, you'd know comparing it to Baltimore is ridiculous) [2].

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/suicide-rates-mary...
IBM's problems predate Rometty becoming CEO.
That is what concerns me: if they can't afford a house, then why don't they buy an apartment?

There are apartments in Auckland for $300-400k, which is even cheaper than affordable KiwiBuild houses ($500-650k).
https://www.netlify.com/
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This is the part where I'm supposed to shill for lower cost nuclear to win the argument, isn't it?
libuv supports child processes via fork, such as in uv_spawn. It also uses multiple threads to support uv_fs_stat, etc.

How does it handle the well known incompatibility between fork and threads?
I went to one of these with a friend last year and it has spoiled me for standard theatres. Would definitely pay a subscription if there was one near my place.
In that case shouldn't the U.S allow in the vast majority of Africa?

Where do you draw the line? There's only 300 million people in the U.S. A quick search reveals that 780 million people don't have access to clean water. What do you do?
https://m.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/term-is-termi...
fwiw the tweet is by the author of the linked article
It’s more like HBO, but yes, I agree. In fact, Netflix has largely become HBO while HBO was becoming Netflix, so they’re largely the same at this point.

VOD services are here to stay, and the catalog shifting will continue in order to maximize value. Netflix is doing it at least as well as anyone else.
Hmm, I haven't even noticed the "weird baseline" (what is so weird about it?).

On Inkscape, another colleague
also suggested it. I'll give it a try next week. My main use of LaTex (with Beamer) + TikZ is for not too complicated diagrams for presentations.
The Fog of War
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Robert McNamara gives his accounts of WWII and Vietnam wars.

He was a senior member of the White House administrations and saw a lot.
Still sad that Coursera/Udacity etc didn't really solve the course accessibilty problem though.

Master's degrees are cool, but what about Bachelors' degrees ?
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I'm not opposed to wealth transfer from investors to proles, I just wish it was more sustainable.

And maybe in the form of health care and not movie tickets. :)
That seems to be the defense Alex Jones’ layer used.
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She lost her eyesight and several years of her youth; it's a safe assumption that many HN readers, my future self included, owe significant chunks of their careers and lives (pardon the redundancy) to those two things.

She - like a mentally-vegetative senior citizen on life-support - reminds us how little the word "alive" really means, by itself.
> You're welcome to run away with your tail between your legs ...

LOL!
Thanks for doing this!

What did they use microcode for in the 8087?

How were the functional units on the die arranged? It looks like that column above and to the right of the "8087" logo could be a shifter.

How many metal layers under the transistors are there for routing around the die?
The key is to just laugh it off and consider it trolling, jokes, whatever. Most of it is but there's useful info there also and people who feel oppressed by the SJW movement at work let off the steam in a safe space (how ironic).
> on producing very good content

This is not necessarily true. Even moderately good content, catering to a specific audience will suffice.

IIRC, NF has loads of user data and behavioural data to help it guide in production.

Assuming an average, not fully satisfied consumer subscribes to NF for 1 year, that's 120 $ per consumer.

Assume a show that takes 100 million to produce, say 3 seasons. To make the production break-even, NF will need around 840000 paying subscribers (currently it has around 125 million subscribers, so about 0.672% of its total subscriber base) , who don't even have to watch it in the first place. Now that's a very small number compared to the amount of paying subscribers currently on it's platform.

To me it seems to be a very profitable model, at least for 10 - 15 years from now.

Edit : Updated the math.

Edit 2 :

An average episode costs between 3 - 5 million. Lets take 5 million as the cost per episode. With 125 million subscribers paying 120 $ per year, Netflix can produce 3000 episodes. That's just for 1 year. Also, in India, many shows cost way less than 5 million USD. But I have seen NF splurge of shows (it is hiring top notch actors in India for it's shows, where traditionally and culturally, a movie star playing in a "TV" series usually means an end-of-career move, so it's a big thing to work on a NF show here in India)
Uh it was the clinic's third face transplant and the world's 40th.
Some koreans
if you have enough qualitative data it becomes quantitative data and you can start do fun stuff with that
I checked both of them out, and they're nice, thanks! But in both cases, it's definitely music, and as such I'm definitely distracted by it.
I don't believe that it is real, but rather a byproduct of credentialism.
Besides the functional issues she has pre-transplant, there is the devastating daily effects of being seen as and treated like a monster by society at large. It would be bad enough to handle your own reflection in the mirror each day, but to know that everywhere you go you'd be treated as less-than, would be treated cruelly with some regularity, would be basically treated as sub-human by most people -- that kind of toll on ones psyche is immense, and there is little chance she'd ever have much quality of life.

If the choice is between being a monster guaranteed to be mistreated and abhorred by most people vs potentially being a somewhat decently normal-looking person, then I think there is no way that someone would choose the way of the monster.
Can I assume that's just subtle humor on your part?

If not:

UTF-16 is born of UCS-2 being a very poor codeset, as it was limited to the Unicode BMP, which means 2^16 codepoints, but Unicode has many more codepoints, so users couldn't have the pile-of-poo emoticon. Something had to be done, and that something was to create a variable-length (in terms of 16-bit code units) encoding using a few then-unassigned codepoints in the BMP. The result yields only a sad, pathetic, measly 2^21 codepoints, and that's just not that much. Moreover, while many codesets play well with ASCII, UTF-16 doesn't. Also, decomposed forms of Unicode glyphs necessarily involve multiple codepoints, thus multiple code units... Many programmers hate variable length text encoding because they can't do simple array indexing operations to find the nth character in a string, but with UTF-8, UTF-16, and just plain decomposition, that's a fact of life anyways. If you're going to have a variable-length codeset encoding, you might as well use UTF-8 and get all its plays-nice-with-ASCII benefits. For Latin-mostly text UTF-8 also is more efficient than UTF-16, so there is a slight benefit there.

Much of the rest of the non-Windows, non-ECMAScript world has settled on UTF-8, and that's a very very good thing.
Looking at all the comments here, I imagine this is more of just a cash grab. They see the trend and the opportunity to make some money using their name. Serious employers would look for OSCP, less serious employers would look for CISSP, or either one for management positions.
It is accurate
Wikipedia says: "UTF-8 requires 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits (one to four octets) to encode a Unicode character, UTF-16 requires either 16 or 32 bits to encode a character"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encoding...
HRESULT WINAPI ResizePseudoConsole(_In_ HPCON hPC, _In_ COORD size);

If Microsoft is in the mood to fix old problems, right ^there you've got another old problem: its bizarre API that is different to everything else. Designed that way to lock everyone into their OS.

In 2018 nobody has the time to learn this. Just use a cross-platform API and if it doesn't run on Windows then just don't run Windows.

As a developer, using Windows for development is against your own best interest. If you like to be treated as a dog that is not allowed inside the house, use Windows.
> it has not mastered this at all

This is incredibly subjective. They've definitely shown they can produce such content. They had more nominations than any other provider, including HBO for this year's Emmy Awards.
Yeah seems fine. Sure they have a database that can track you but you can change your name in the app daily so only your org stays the same if you want. Don't break any NDA (salary cannot be covered by NDA legally in US) and why worry.
In a world of constant security threats and 2 GHz CPUs dedicated to cat videos - needing speed can no longer be the excuse for poor design.

And "embedded CPUs need every precious cycle" is not an argument either. As the paper says modern microkernals have a negligible speed penalty while IoT/networked industrial controllers are a security backwater.
HBO and all of the pay channels survive off of $10 a month subscriptions. It doesn’t have to be very good content. It just has to be good enough.

The real issue with Netflix is that it has to fund all of its content via subscription revenue. The upcoming Disney service doesn’t. By the time it’s content hits the service, it’s slready made money from theatrical releases, pay tv services(?), video on demand, DVD sales, cable TV etc.
What I meant is: are you building a Windows 11, or is Windows 10 the only release vehicle? I'm trying to imagine you pushing to a master branch to integrate into what becomes the insider builds, and then... either those become a future release of Windows 10, or you backport onto a Windows 10 branch. Neither option would be very appealing to me if it was up to me.
"We are proud to launch Pants 2.0, our custom tailored solution for all your storage problems".
In addition to the problems in the article (no mirroring, no HA, etc) it will simply stop responding seemingly randomly, and produce no errors. Have to restart the container to get it to respond again, which breaks other things.
$10/month = $120/year, not $1200/year.
Just asking to gauge the community: I'm about to start a full time in person MS CS program at an Ivy League school. The school I'm studying at is not recognized as having an elite CS program, but it is top 20. Will the general prestige of the school I'm studying at help with getting internships and jobs after graduation?
I agree that employers are looking for those certifications, but I doubt they are finding them as frequently as they would like. In addition those certifications don't guarantee that a person is the right fit for a particular organization.
The PRC says that Formosa (i.e Taiwan) is part of China. That's why I added the caveat (for some definition of China). There are political definitions, cultural definitions, linguistic/anthropological definitions. So, my statement still stands that Taiwan is a kind of China, depending on how you understand that word.

It's clear that you're speaking from a political perspective, but even that gets a bit grey.

Since you don't live in China, you should know that there are hundreds of different versions of China within China itself. You could live in Shanghai and never know the reality of the China that the people of Xinjiang experience. So I would say to your points that:

1) The markets all over China are very different.
2) The talent pools all over China are very different.

If YC wants to call it YC Shangjing, (because they're primarily targeting those two markets), that would be fair. But considering China just to be Shanghai and Beijing is a bit myopic, which is why I suggested Taiwan in the first place.

Disclosure: I am a Chinese-American currently living in Northwest China, which is VERY different than Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Linxia, Shenyang, etc. all of which I've visited.
> In the end a service like MoviePass will be needed, noone wants one just tied to one theater chain

I also wish all restaurants were on all the delivery services. I don't think it'll happen, nor do I have an expectation that consolidation is inevitable.
http://taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz/news/2018-03-29-issues-paper-lo...

Not yet, but soon. They did tighten up the rules around businesses that _never_ make a profit a while ago (I seem to remember).

CONSULT YOUR ACCOUNTANT.
Have you been to an AMC lately? The one near me upgraded a lot of their show rooms and though I've never been to an Alamo Drafthouse, they both seem to have a lot of the same features from what I can find.

Reserved seating, print e-tickets at their robo kiosk, comfortable reclining seats, full bar with pub food. I know that AD theaters have a lot of niche showings and cool events, but as far as just watching the latest blockbuster, are there other advantages?
I am what I can do: programming, music and road-racing. If I had lost even just my sight in the same manner as this young woman, let alone at the same age ... my only remaining desire would be to try again and aim better.
If it was so cheap to produce then why does it cost $10k?
Intelligent algorithms can run smartgrids with power efficiency towards renewable sources of power. AI can help reduce resource wastage

Please don't use JS or npm. Downloading the entire internet while doing a simple change is not efficient.
maybe, but you'll still have to interview and do okay. It matters if you are cmu, mit, stanford, berkely, uw (maybe?) but who knows the next tier. this will probably be unpopular but there's so much more demand than available students that just doing a decent job in an interview will yield you all the jobs you could ever want.
The Windows Console was even more terminally dead. Terminals have their limitations, but honestly, I'll take a terminal, tty/pty, and terminfo, any day over the Windows Console.
I consider "looking at trees" to be a restorative activity all on its own; hiking is merely the method by which I cause trees to pass through my field of vision. Tall green things cure what ails me.
I don't think the wavefunction is a physical object. It's just a mathematical abstraction to describe reality, theres no real justification to treat it as something physical?
Something like that yes, but they would be high price because supporting corporate overhead requires high margins