skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I've been a Netflix user since 2013 (so after the mail service) and I think it was the best around 2014/2015. When they had great content, just gotten success with their own content, and things seemed to be booming.

Now the content is subpar; every movie I've wanted to watch in the past three months is not on the platform. Add to that, the UI is incredible tedious to navigate. Everything _has_ to be "Because you watched XYZ" - and never the kind of content I'd be willing to settle for.
I learned that the startup dream of being acquired is bittersweet. Sweet that I got rich, bitter that my baby is now being eviscerated by the acquiring company to make it less bleeding edge and more mainstream. There are worse things in life I guess. But its akin to watching your child turn to prostitution - you wanted so much more for them.
Only if someone was standing there when the tree fell in the woods.
Seriously. I do robots (OTTO Motors) and I just can't imagine shipping _anything_ to the field that I didn't have at least some plan for how to keep up to date. Even if the plan was the Panavision model of only ever leasing hardware and having all hardware periodically make its way back to the factory for updates and refurbishing, that's still more of a plan than a bunch of unidentifiable devices floating around at customer sites.
It wasn't really the far right doing it, it was Gab's management, because they control Gab. When federated social networking becomes a reality, anyone will be able to set up their own server and communicate with anyone else (who chooses to peer with them).
Having suffered multiple concussions, what's wrong with that phrasing? Is everything offensive nowadays?
What’s the problem with the disjunction?
> The existence of a historical Jesus is totally incedental to their faith.

True.

> There were tons of Messianic preachers at the time, what's so unbelievable about one of them getting deified?

It's actually quite believable, because we have not known any other story until now. The thing is there is more compelling evidence to suggest Jesus was more a character like Hercules than he was a living person.

> The hypothesis that one of those people was named "Jesus of Nazareth" does exactly nothing to prove Christianity.

Correct, but it's easy to see how the inverse is troubling for many many people.
I believe ZIP supports updates about as well as SQLite. You append the new file to the end (and write the "header" after that). This leaves a hole in the middle, but that can be reused by a later addition. There's some details about internal page size and fragmentation, but I think it could amortize to about the same. There's something to be said about quality of implementation, but that's not an argument about the file format per se.
It's important not to lump together the proprietary browsers (where the limit you speak of can only be worked around if the proprietors allow) and free software browsers which respect your software freedom, like Firefox.

You could modify Firefox source code to let you run whatever add-on you wish. With Firefox whatever changes you want are limited only by your willingness to implement them (either by doing the work yourself or working with others to get those changes made).

You can even distribute the improved Firefox variant browser to others and help the community. Hacker News recently had a story about some hackers doing exactly this with a variant they call Librefox. Other examples of Firefox variants include IceCat and the Tor Browser.
I've not been able to find out why this is being cut.
We are spoiled by the abundance of job opportunities.
Bitcoin: a digital lottery ticket for a dystopian future?
I'd rather have a text message if it saves me fuel and time.
> Yes, I’m referring to the bind mount capabilities.

Okay. Every existing container runtime supports bind-mounts. Having a global configuration for them is mostly a UX thing (you could make a wrapper in half an hour that does that).

> The situation I described was a negative where a user run container bind mounts directories they shouldn’t have access to and modifying it.

Oh I misunderstood your question. No, that's not possible. "Root" inside a user namespace cannot access files that the underlying user would not be able to access -- this is guaranteed by the kernel (which is why I misunderstood your question -- it's a kernel security policy which affects every process).

I thought you were asking whether it's possible to run a cluster as an unprivileged user. An unprivileged user can bind-mount whatever they want, but actual file access is blocked when you would expect.
Okay okay, I saw that name in another comment... but now I'll seek it out 'cause I know you've seen Rare Exports and that's still your favorite.
Just watched it and am confused how you consider this to be legitimate.
Without trying to get too political, using similar styles of lying can get you to become the US president. It's not about the lie itself as much as the willingness to bend the truth to fit whatever the narrative is.

Again, not trying to start up political discourse, but just want to point out this is not an inherently Chinese thing. It's more of a totalitarian thing really. Do/Say whatever to get into power and then stay in power.
But on some level it worked for Steve Jobs, arguably it worked two times. What are the differences that made it work out for Jobs, but didn’t make it work out for Evan Spiegel to the same degree?
The entire NIST budget is pretty large. This is one of the most visible things they do. By threatening to cut this if their budget shrinks, perhaps they're hoping to preserve their original budget request.
I set my analog watch to WWV every couple of days.

I'm in California, so I can actually hear both signals at the same time (one from Colorado, one from Hawaii). You can tell which signal is which by the gender of the announcer. Pretty cool stuff.

It will be a very sad day for radio if it is discontinued.
My wife hates this behaviour because you never know when it's going to show previews for intense thriller or even horror content. It's bizarre that they would show this to an account which has literally only ever been used to watch Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Gilmore Girls, and similar shows.
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> Of course Introverted personality with almost no emotions

I know that people like you exist and understand your position. However, people running companies should use an approach that works for the lowest common denominator. People like you are somewhat rare.
Do they mean first "successful" launch to orbit? I thought the launch where the payload failed to separate was the first launch, even though the launch was a success and the deployment failed. Why is this launch considered first?
Sure, but that's ~500ppm drift, which is fairly extreme.
Rise and Kill First - about the Mossad/Shin Bets operations against Muslim terror groups.
Yes, fuck you. ;)
Everything you say is true, but this article is not really about "how to get NTP right". It's about how (not) to deploy embedded software.

If customers can't update their devices' software (or you can't push a remote update), then you need to get the software right in version 1. This seems to be a foreign concept to software developers nowadays, who are used to the world of endless updates and patches. It takes a different kind of development process and a lot of QA to do it right.
This is the heart of the net neutrality debate, is it not? ISPs claim that Netflix doesn’t pay for all the infrastructure required to carry their bandwidth.
This right here. Doesn’t completely solve the problem, but at least gets rid of the obnoxious sound.
For when Ruby 3.x?

They should release soon, if we are to start seeing some decent adoption by 2028.

/pythonicsarcasm
Are there zip libraries that facilitate this usage pattern?

Either way, I tend to think you'd probably be better off with sqlite since it would give you more flexibility (for instance if you later realize that your application possesses relational data.)
Looking at it, CMU was involved (as well as Cal Berkeley), among academia, but required embedded transponders. This system is still very viable given that it would be cost effective on freeways where most of the miles are driven. It could have been a great transitional technology but DARPA went and distracted everyone with the great challenge and everyone wanted full autonomous navigation in unpredictable terrain...
The cotton bags I've seen in Norway are usually about 2/3 the size of a standard plastic bag. I usually just reuse the plastic bags - some bags are needed for garbage so this works well.
Don’t we have satellites broadcasting super accurate time, now?
Calling the author brain-damaged doesn't say why the writing is bad, its just ad hominem
I'd assume #num_customer_complaints is not part of the A/B metrics. If people complain but don't follow through with actions A/B probably should ignore it.
>I find it very obnoxious how the Netflix app for Apple TV autoplays previews of titles when you’re browsing and doesn’t let you disable that behaviour. As a result I rarely open Netflix except when I already know what I want to watch.

I suspect it's a result of poorly done UX research.

If you frame the question as "How can we increase engagement with the homescreen", adding noise does increase engagement.

Basically the % of people interacting with the home screen increases, but the number of people viewing the home screen decreases.

Ironically this means less time spent exploring...

Netflix often generates some interesting micro-genres and I used to scroll through a bit looking for things to add to my list - now if I don't have a specific title in mind I don't open Netflix at all.

Though I'm not sure I should complain - less mindless watching has lead to me reading more research papers and news. Being more productive.
Why is that? I mean you can tell a story where the local $15 shirt benefits the local country more but it's just as a easy to tell a story where the local country benefits more from buying the t-shirt abroad.

If you buy the foreign t-shirt there's $5 more floating around in the economy for you to spend. Plus you have a t-shirt. Plus the local country is likely to stop making t-shirts (which it manifestly is not competitive at) and put that money into something that it is competitive at i.e. away from something that is not productive and into something that is productive which is to say efficient which is better for everyone - even better for the environment as resources are not wasted by inefficiently making goods.
> Single-File Documents. An SQLite database is contained in a single file, which is easily copied or moved or attached. The "document" metaphor is preserved.

Is this still true by default? With write-ahead (wal) and shared memory (shm) enabled, it is no longer safe to consider only the database file. Pragmas exist to disable those, but people should be familiar of these features and use with care. The document should be updated to introduce these concepts.
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How? There's a massive difference in usability and performance with a SQL database and all the data querying and manipulation it provides compared to a ZIP file that just straps together a bunch of compressed payloads with a key/value file structure.

The linked page even has a case study of the OpenDocument file format that shows exactly how SQLite is better than a Zip file: https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html
I realized my error.
Courtesy of the US government.
If you code in c/c++, and have even a modest OS/RTOS available, you should use SQLite as your persistence layer, full stop. I switched to this methodology 5 years ago & never looked back. You know what happens when another engineer gets your on disk format & asks how to look at it? You say “open it in SQLite browser”; all further questions disappear.
What’s the reasoning behind this?

The subscription is so cheap I don’t care about it. There is enough stuff I want to watch that I regularly use it.

But if I never used it, why care? Wouldn’t I be the perfect customer? Pays the subscription but doesn’t consume resources?
For those wanting to kill the "learn logic programming" and "learn a golfing language" birds with one stone, check out:

https://github.com/JCumin/Brachylog
> It's a movie more for people who are sick of the normal Christmas movies and want a break.

Wat? For me it was just the constant TV reruns at Christmas that did it, like with Trading Places and Groundhog Day. It just does not feel like Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from Nakatomi Plaza and Billie-Ray Valentine sells OJ futures.

Do we really have to slap labels on everything?
There are good reasons to start counting at 0 beyond convention. Dijkstra wrote a small essay on the topic in 1982 called "Why numbering should start at zero."

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
A block is a proc.

```ruby

def foo &bar

return bar

end

foo {}

# => #<Proc:0x00007ff23783c4e0@(irb):16>

```

But I do agree that I don't quite understand the need for the distinction between procs and methods, or the need for unbound methods; I would think that methods could just be either bound to one object or another, as unbound methods are useless for the fact that they won't work at all unless they are bound.
i end up waving my mouse around like a spaz to find a place where something isn't auto-previewing. I like the idea of a mouse over preview, but it needs work
My neice once missed work when her phone broke and she hadnt learned they way there. I imagine there would be thousands if not millions in a similar situation should GPS go down.
A big one would be lack of secure notes.
how about a new message protocol: IP over ping. 255 addresses, each ping sends one byte. bytes are ordered by the pings timestamp
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The world is actually rather quickly running out of dirt poor people.

This is a very good thing, but it's also a world that has never existed before.
I remember when we used to have the POP-CORN number to check the time.
>> It is not "objectively god awful".

That is, like, your, very rare, by my objective consensus, opinion, man.

Honestly. Blender’s existence is a miracle. That it can exist at all, or has a serious user base compared to its commercial alternatives is baffling at best. I praise each and every one of the clearly dedicated developers who make it happen, and just because the following is true does certainly not mean I do not fully respect every ounce of effort that goes into it.

Prior to this one, minor change, the UI/UX is actually one I display to my students (I teach UI/UX design on the side) as the single worst design in software history. The mouse click being one of the first of literally dozens of examples of undoing basic behaviour I’ve seen, practically ever.

Case in point: I have seen at least a dozen of my students visibly cringe when they see the default UI/UX operations.

Blender’s back-end is incredible. To call it’s front end a disaster would be far too high praise for it. It’s not awful, you’re right. It’s arguably the worst design in recent software history.

In fact, I’d urge you to show me a worse-laid-out piece of widely-used software, so I may use it as the example instead.
I have a wall clock that syncs from WWVB. It was pretty cheap and uses a single AA battery (which seems to last forever). I never have to update the time.

Can satellite time provide an equivalent or better solution here?
For a SPV plant to be a base load plant, it would have to store just a days worth of energy.

Say we have a 100 MW plant.

Use 50 MW to charge batteries and 50 MW to supply power during the day. Having a battery capacity of 50 MW * 12 h = 600 MWh, will convert this plant to a 50 MW base load plant.

Tesla's recent 25/50 MWh battery cost 25 Million USD, so a 600 one would cost about $300 Million.
If you're using SQLite as a pile of files, you're not doing much querying if the compressed data inside.

> Newer machines are faster, but it is still bothersome that changing a single character in a 50 megabyte presentation causes one to burn through 50 megabytes of the finite write life on the SSD.

That's funny, since Firefox would burn through gigabytes of writing to SQLite. All comes down to quality of implementation.
Put the cursor at the far right edge of the screen, where it will still scroll the movies but won’t trigger the hover auto play.
This is my favorite feature, though I agree it should be a setting.
Analog AM/FM should be the next to go.
It’s actu really good, just clickbait, it’s like expensive coffe shops, terrible pricing, good quality
OK, so laws are generally not followed in China.

Is it not at least true that if China was going to start following these rules, making a law would be one of the steps that would be part of the process?
The plot is far-fetched, but that's not the problem.

It's the writing style - it feels like a cheap thriller written for teens. Too many characters and cheap tricks to 'educate' the reader about technical mumbo-jumbo.

Of course, this is my very subjective opinion. But having read enough PKD and Gaiman, my expectations are different than may be majority of the readers.
the only time our 1 year old gets to see the phone screen is on video calls with family and friends
Rethinking this relationship is a major point of the original thread/article.
Same here. I literally found myself scrolling Netflix for many, many minutes on end. It essentially became Facebook. I don’t know if the issue is their catalog has expanded with so many originals that it’s hard to find something to watch and or that not having ratings (to tell if something sucks) me to not watch.

Sure they have some stellar content but they also have a lot of crap.
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Yeah but the thing is A/B testing shouldn't be "rely exclusively on it and then completely ignore feedback after it's been rolled out"
GPS could yes. Don’t know how many exist but would only add a few dollars in chips.
You're right. That was flippant language. What I mean is involving, for example, the senate and the government use of force that's implicit in that. The asking hasn't really been asking.
Probably for the same reason as any other low-savings cut in a Republican administration. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist#2001
The three major ISPs in China just deployed IPv6 in most cities, though IPv6 based routing and DNS is still suboptimal. I don't know how Google generate the ipv6 statistics, but in the case of China it may not be very accurate. Most Google services are blocked there.
I might start with the ACLU and Amnesty International.
> That doesn't mean "there are truths that humans can never prove", all it means is that we have to extend our axiomatic systems in order to prove some truths.

If you believe that the only consequence to Gödel's theorem is we need to "extend our axiomatic system", I do think you've missed the point.

For one thing, I think Gödel's theorem and Gödel's proof are unfortunately conflated.

Gödel's proof is lovely and elegant, and can be understood with minimal knowledge of logic, but, ultimately, all it does is provide a counter example. So when people read his proof and understand it, they tend to be unimpressed with its power because the counter example is very generic and seems an uninteresting barrier to our ability to discern "truth". But that says nothing about there may be lots of other kinds of unprovable statements.

Ultimately, Gödel's theorem tells us one absolute kernel of truth by saying all but very basic axiomatic models are necessarily incomplete. However which way you want to make the philosophical leap to connect that to our notion of "truth" seems far more up to interpretation, but it annoys me when people disrespect the theorem because they're unimpressed with the counter examples the proof constructs.
I promise you, moderators work on thornier edge cases, with less experience and much less time than Supreme Court judges.

Further The USA SC is an unrealistic expectation and pointless bar of value when talking about Facebook and international speech.
My pet peeve with their horrific UI is that rather than underlining what you have selected they _overline_ it.
Anyone who has ever installed a GPS backed NTP appliance in a data center can quickly answer that.

For those who haven’t: it involves drilling holes in the roof of your data center for a satellite antenna.
It's mentioned on the WAL docs on https://sqlite.org/wal.html

> There is an additional quasi-persistent "-wal" file and "-shm" shared memory file associated with each database, which can make SQLite less appealing for use as an application file-format.
Interesting. In the US, the standard plastic grocery bag is really small, to an almost idiotic degree sometimes. (A particularly large box of cereal may not fit in one at all!) Typical reusable bags are much larger.
> The Keweenaw Peninsula is the upper peninsula of the Upper Peninsula. It’s the state’s northernmost region...

One minor nitpick: Isle Royale, the entirety of which is a National Park, is farther north, in Lake Superior.
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Do you know of other softwares similar to gcompris?
awesome like the idea
Ask HN: What are the MOOCs you have taken in 2018? Which do you recommend?
I would recommend Financial Markets
https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global
I'm a software dev, but I created a card game as a summer side project. In the process, I learned about different types of paper, textures (like linen texture), thickness (GSM - grams per square meter) and that playing cards usually have a layer in the middle that prevents the see-through (white, blue or black core).
WWV, WWVH, and WWVB are more than charity for timekeepers. They distribute time and frequency, traceable to a national standard, for one leg of "positioning, navigation, and timing."

Before GPS and the internet, numerous services depended on those signals. I would argue that now, we have positioning, navigation, and timing from multiple satellite systems (and a phone network providing excellent time & freq references derived from satellites). We have internet time synced to atomic standards and satnav. All of the modern references are more precise, accurate, and stable than WWV, WWVH, and WWVB.

As to devices which sync from WWVB, there are gadgets which can get GPS time and transmit an LF signal for syncing those devices. No problems, ladies and gents, you've still got time.