skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though they do sell some packaged food at Williams Sonoma. Last time I was in there I picked up some items as Christmas presents, and it wasn't until I got home that I realized that I had purchased a box of marshmallows for $20.
Europe’s Tech Laws Should Be a Matter of Principle
Maybe if they built something a little less ostentatious(and adopted similar policies throughout their lives), the monarchs could have occupied the grand palaces for more than 100 years before losing their heads. I'm thinking specifically about Versailles
They didn't; it was strictly forbidden. But, also according to TFA, they nonetheless found cigarette butts on the scaffolding.
Super interesting! Thank you for taking the time to write this out and give an overview of the main challenges in geology today.

If there was an X-ray or MRI machine that could scan the whole planet, would that help solve some of the challenges that you mention?

Also, is there anyone in geology actively trying to get/explore deeper into Earth? Anyone aiming at the core?
Good local focus on Finland w/ Compensate! Like the team behind that product a lot. Thanks for sharing
> Instead of focusing on the good shows (obviously opinionated), and building up on them with new seasons, it seems like they are just investing more into new content to see what happens.

Can't have more good shows if you don't make new shows.

The writing's clearly on the wall - the major content providers are cutting Netflix off. They need a large stable of good-enough content, and quickly. Some of that new content will be crap, just like on the networks. Some will be awesome. Some of the awesome stuff will get enough viewers to stick around.
Isn't Disney a poster child of political craziness? Copyright laws, workers rights, Walt Disney racism stuff, etc.
I bet Pac Man will be preserved for posterity. It has that a simplicity and a timeless quality to it.
It just sounds like they’re doing what every other network does. A bunch of it is trash you don’t care about but another subset of their customers do. It’s not all commissioned for us personally, and Netflix will always prioritise their own shows before others in the app.

It’s not like you watch HBO 12 hours a day expecting pure content that you love from start to finish.

That said, apart from the tent pole series they [plan to] push out each year (stranger things, better call saul, Fargo, mindhunter, nightflyers, etc.) the rest is clearly data driven garbage that doesn’t realise it’s working a cliche. With a couple of exceptions even the marvel universe shows fell into their pattern.

In that sense it’s Netflix Unoriginal Content. But you still get the diamond in the mine.

Being in the EU I get about 8 different translations of two different kinds of zombie story, but you’re not really paying for that.

And on the same level, it’s a shame that streaming is now split. American Gods, Good Omens, The Expanse, and Mr Robot are all on Amazon. Netflix definitely dropped a ball on some of that. The TV show costs the same but I have to pay 2x to watch because of the networks.
This is a useful tool for determining if a streaming service has any movies you want to watch:

https://flickmetrix.com/

But no. Netflix's value seems to be in its original shows. So, if they come out with a new season show I'm interested in, such as The Last Kingdom, they can have my subscription for the month. The trend of show seasons becoming progressively worse, a la House of Cards, should be a concern for them.

Disney+ is really going to give them a challenge once it is available.
Some of their original content is OK, but they do have some spectacularly bad shows.
Doesn't hulu have ads? (this means untrustworthy to me)
Don't really agree that this list could have come about through discussions with engineers at Google, Facebook, etc. The more computers you have the less important it becomes to monitor junk like CPU and memory utilization of individual machines. Host-level CPU usage alerting can't possibly be a "must-have" if there are extremely large distributed systems operating without it.

If you've designed software where the whole service can degrade based on the CPU consumption of a single machine, that right there is your problem and no amount of alerting can help you.
The government seems like the party most likely to, and most able to, abuse being in control of a trusted security resource. Would you trust the API if it was operated by the USA (NSA), Russia, China, Australia, or the UK?
Your comment reminds of this wonderfully written post by Roger Ebert[1]. It's not the same topic, but there is something to be glanced at in his writing where he eludes to choice, editorial-ism, and doing a story regardless of what the audience wants.

[1] https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/video-games-can-ne...
I think Netflix is trying to pump out as many original series as they can because Disney+ is on the horizon and they already own Hulu. Netflix’s best bet is to pump a lot of money into new content since non originals will be more expensive for them, but going the HBO route requires very impressive shows that have multiple seasons. Netflix is just throwing darts on the wall trying to achieve this.
I’ve had this thought that intelligence and talent is actually very limiting. You need to be a little stupid to sit in front of a computer for 10 hours straight. You need to be a little stupid to go into a coal mine, or work on a fishing boat, or chase down criminals.

As much as we like to think talent = productivity, maybe it’s more of a curve? You need to be just talented enough to maximize productivity. Too much talent and you never get anything done.
except why would you ever migrate to Germany where wages are like 50% of the US salary for IT engineers and like 20% of silicon valley wages for senior folks.

supply/demand in action, and difficulty of the immigration process is just an indicator of that
You can filter out a stable amount pretty easily but oops I just checked the blackbody math again and an exponent flipped when I changed one of the ranges while everything else stayed almost the same, I screwed up and ignore everything I said.
They make shows to match different demographics and user groups. Not every show is supposed to be enjoyed by every person. It is about making a broad range of shows to meet the wants of multiple people. Going out on a limb, but I assume most young adults don't care about high brow political shows like House of Cards and would rather watch shows like The Society.
Climate change as stated is not of course the main cause of wars, but its increasingly becoming one. Fighting for resources is inevitable, even between sages conflict would arise on who is entitled to what. Wait to see these lunatic world leaders shifting their starvation from oil to water. As mentioned it's already happening. To maximize the chaos politicians play this as a card for their agenda, as scarcity reigns, they will use it to scrap vote. There was an article mentioned earlier on HN about a city in India that has completely ran out of drinkable water. I'd say things look pretty grim, even for the optimist.
continue hands on development until they pry your cold, dead hands from the keyboard
Or just else if... but honestly elif is easiest to type and it's not hard to understand.
>string words together REALLY WELL

FTFY
What Image Formats Should You Be Using in 2019?
because people are poorly educated and copy their system disks without changing the random seed. then, they generate similar long-term keys, e.g. RSA keys with common factors. digitalocean was well known to have identical SSH host keys for quite some time (one of many reasons I wouldn't trust them with any sort of remotely serious hosting job); I would be shocked if they knew to reset the random seed.
That's fair, and I understand that point as well. But when it feels like R&D is starting to steal from the good money makers, that seems like a problem to me. That the effort/focus is in the wrong place and more resources are going into the wrong bucket. But again, this is just from an outside opinion with no data to back that up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All those sensors on the truck will be very useful to police investigators afterwards. Sure they make off with cargo, but theft is illegal even if it isn't robbery. The police are generally pretty good (despite the real cases of bad apples). In most cases "the cops say they know who but there is no proof" (obscure Stan Rogers reference), and the truck will upload the proof they need in real time.
> You mean I can be easily ticked by a shady partner?

Yup. And everyone else you engage in financial transactions with, such as getting loans, negotiating a financial settlement, negotiating an employment benefits deal, dealing with your investments, even dealing with your credit card, etc.
The show had potential but I lost interest. The big revelation about the main character was not executed well. The writers were terrible and from the outside it looked like they just picked the hottest topics from the weekly tech news blogs.
IMO people should have a right to sell things they've made. I get that that is inconvenient to open source folks. And most of the time it will be fine. But, IMO, if this is a concern, someone should make it worth it to this owner not to sell it to a bad organization. It is just not good enough to say, "You can't sell this thing because it is inconvenient to me, someone with whom you have no contract and to whom you owe no duties."
Exotic 'second sound' phenomenon observed in pencil lead
If I recall, the flak wasn't around handing off the package. The flack was for the lack of due diligence in picking a new maintainer. The same risks are present for sure but at least the process is taking place in the open.
Living room gets used every day. It's not tucked away, it's in the center of the house with the kitchen, so that I like as well.

It really is interesting how the layout of a home can really determine how you function in your life day to day!
Study Finds Transgender, Non-Binary Autism Link
I complain about it. I've lost good friends to bad drivers. I can't figure out how to improve humans so I'll take self driving cars when they get better than humans.
No. The keyboard isn't great and the touchbar is worthless for anyone who is reading HN.

Consider getting a Dell XPS, a System76 or a Google Pixelbook for your development unless you're specifically making iOS or macOS stuff.
Subsequent to this article there does appear to be an update from GSA, which states in part: "Based on the results of the troubleshooting activities, several elements of the ground infrastructure were re-initiated. The progress is being closely monitored; it is too early to confirm an exact service recovery date." https://www.gsa.europa.eu/newsroom/news/galileo-initial-serv...

So, we're still talking days, not hours, to restore service, apparently. And no real details, besides reiterating that it's something on the ground.
They have cheaper plans that do have ads, yes. But it's a pretty cheap add-on to be ad-free.
Polling on these issues is all over the place, but the number of people who support “overturning roe v wade” is a particularly tricky one to quote considering most people don’t understand constitutional law.

Many of the people in that poll who say they support Roe are also saying they want its ruling to be adjusted - which in practice means overturning Roe and replacing it with new controlling precedent. Arguably, Roe was already overturned once by Planned Parenthood v Casey, which replaced the trimester framework with the undue burden standard and allowed several regulations that had been considered unconstitutional under Roe.
There's a lot to be negative about wrt our climate crisis for sure.

However overwhelmingly negative messages I believe can contribute to inaction through people moving straight from the denial phase to the "what's the point, we're all doomed" phase.

Just to pick the first of your points to rebut:

> Electric bikes (going to largely be powered by, fossil fuels)

1) in my country the grid uses 70+ renewable energy (mainly hydro), so EVs are extremely promising.

2) progress made on EVs will pay off in the future, when/if the grid becomes greener. How crap would it be to make big success at one end of the equation, e.g widespread deployment of nuclear to green the grid, and then find that all the vehicles had no way to use that clean power?

Of course it makes sense to develop technologies like electric bike, EVs generally.

Yet your comment is written as if it makes no sense. It conveys a strong sense of doom and pointlessness.

If your intention is just to spread doom, then perhaps keep it to yourself.

If it's to shock people into action then there are better ways to communicate.
> Quality entropy isn't a hard ask, at least not for anything typically running OpenSSH or other server software.

128 bits is enough to feed into a stream cipher that will generate a lot of random bits:

> The original version of this random number generator used the RC4 (also known as ARC4) algorithm. In OpenBSD 5.5 it was replaced with the ChaCha20 cipher, and it may be replaced again in the future as cryptographic techniques advance.

* https://man.openbsd.org/arc4random.3

* https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/85601/

Re-feed/-stir every so often so that past entropy state can't be used to compromise things in the future.
Personally I haven’t found the quality of Netflix originals to be anywhere close to the same level as HBO. Their approach is more “consistently release a ton of average quality shows” and hope a few stick. Will be interesting to see if that actually work long term.
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher on AI: The Metamorphosis
Oh hell yeah, this is my topic. I really really really hate Comcast's poor reliability and cost in my area (seriously you can see me bitch on usenet today: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.online-service.c... ) so I rely on a stack of various LTE providers that are comparable in speed.

I'm tethered right now to Sprint which really doesn't appear to give a shit. Their network is encapsulated to all hell since it's ipv6-only so I recommend decreasing MTU's when connecting to it (something like 1320 seems to work or sites like duckduckgo get blackholed). Sprint sucks unless you're line of sight to a band 41 tower and/or have a HPUA device.

T-Mobile detects tethering a matter of ways. I use a Moto E LTE 2015 (surnia) as a dedicated modem phone for them. I modified lineageOS 14.1 for my specific use case (namely just to add TTL as a target in the kernel for iptables). I also use Network Signal Guru to lock it to the meatiest band in my area (band 4 broadcasts at 20mhz)

The magical iptables option to pass is: iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -j TTL --ttl-set 65

They detect certain services like playstation network, so you have to VPN that so it isn't counted. I disable ipv6 on the t-mobile APN too as an added layer of protection. Average use is around 250-300gb/mo, this is rural so it's unlikely it causes any quality of service issues (and I don't end up subject to deprioritization issues after 50GB)

EDIT: Should also mention at least T-Mobile used to do DPI on the User Agent sent by browser years ago. They don't appear to do that anymore (widespread HTTPS made that pretty useless). Back then I used to just get around port blocking by ramming my traffic through SSH dynamic port forwarding on port 143, normally used for IMAP. This was for T-Zones service level in the early 2000's.

Oh and for AT&T in the later 2000's I used to buy import phones that weren't in their system and use them on the non-smartphone unlimited plan until they got wise to that.

EDIT2: If you find ethics of this questionable, can't be hassled to figure this stuff out, and/or still want to use LTE unlimited where money is not a concern there's plans for that: https://unlimitedville.com/
Fargo and Better Call Saul are FX shows, not Netflix Originals
That could work, for the platoon, while on the interstate.

It might not work for other vehicles on the interstate, though. If there's not room to pull in between them, then you have to pass all of them at one time. If you're a semi that wants to drive 1 or 2 MPH faster than them, that's going to be a very long, slow, pass. It will be even worse if it's in hilly country, where the semi attempting to pass may have higher speed on flat ground, but less power for climbing. That could block both lanes for a really long time. Human drivers in cars (some of whom want to drive faster than semis, and have more horsepower per ton at their disposal) will be very annoyed.

Then you get one "train" trying to pass another, and things get even worse.

Then the train gets off the interstate. They hit a traffic light. Less than all of the train makes it through the light in one cycle. Now what?
Companies are actively engaging in negative SEO all the time too. My friend used to work at a shady SEO shop in Florida and they used it often. Their clients don’t seem to care how it gets there since they mostly pushing affiliate ads, not a sustainable long term business.
Here are some examples: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=San%20Francisco%20heart%...
The entertainment companies have already explained why: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/business/disney-bob-iger-abor...

It will be difficult to hire actors to work in these places.
CTRL-F "ethics".

Not found.

:-(

I guess another generation of developers dark-patterning their users into giving up their personal info, and then exploiting them for stock options, a WRX (or Tesla if they've been around for a couple of years) and a Bay Area condo they can barely afford is upon us.
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695495

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219267

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650929

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560691
Galileo Initial Service recovery actions underway
Apollo 11 was just one space achievement of many in 1969
I'm biased but I would think that if someone chooses to invest on space on it would make sense to reach out and assist non-profits that work on developing open space technologies too.

Disclaimer: I'm part of one such organisation
Not sure if I am doing anything wrong, but I am unable to download the PDFs both from the website and github :(
We've been using UptimeRobot for this purpose for a number of years. Generally happy. Just something to keep in mind is that we've found their keyword check very handy, and in fact use it more than the status code check. That is, it looks to see if a word (or words) of our choosing are being rendered and pings us know if not. Some of our environments will serve a default 200, but it might not be for the page we hoped for (e.g., a default nginx page after a reboot).

I do like the open source option you've provided though. As I said, we've been using UptimeRobot for years and currently use it for around 50 sites. I fear if/when they change their pricing tiers.
Ozarks, Narcos, The Octonauts ?
It doesn't on OpenBSD. arc4random(3) simply can not fail, and getentropy(2) does not block. Linux screwed up getrandom. High quality random numbers are available very early in the OpenBSD kernel, and there is no early boot problem for userland.

Linux has an opportunity to learn from OpenBSD.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/index...
Netflix is a bit different in that (recently) they seem unusually reluctant to renew shows after the second season. People speculate that this is a rentier play, new customers don't value season 3+ as much as existing customers. Netflix expects new content to bring in new customers and they hope to be just good enough for existing customers that they don't cancel.
The haveibeenpwned API uses a k-anonymity model, so that the client can check a password in an efficient fashion (ie. without downloading the entire list of pwned hashes), without also revealing the hash you're trying to check.

Basically, it asks for all pwned hashes that start with the same 5 characters as your password's (hex-encoded) hash. So yes, there is an information leak (the first 5 characters of your hash), but it's an extremely unimportant one. Even knowing the first 5 characters, there's still 2^140 possible hashes it could be. And of course they would then need a pre-image attack on SHA1 to deduce your actual password from that.

More detail here: https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...

Finally, I'm sure this option will be possible to disable, probably in settings but certainly in about:config.
I have a radical idea. Maybe some peoples definition of good is different from yours? Your comment is ridiculous and unproductive and doesn't provide any value to the conversation.

I one of those people who you are calling deluded but I would hardly call not agreeing with you delusion. I get the sense that debating an aggressive post on a throwaway account isn't a good use of time.
Stream combinators implemented using for await syntax in Rust
> string words together.

FTFY
Thoughts on Presenting
> These city governments needed revenue in order to operate. In fact, they needed to run a profit; that is, they needed their revenues to be at or above their expenses, and that needed to continue indefinitely.

What exactly is being argued here? That the local cities should be market players, and join in the income from growth they help stimulate?

Local governments have a method for doing that, taxation.

> Rome’s local government is funded largely by property taxes. ...... But for the Rome city government, tearing down multiple blocks of taxpaying properties—even if they were in terrible shape at the time—and replacing them with a tax-exempt property, under the guise of creating economic activity, is a really terrible transaction. Absolutely devastating.

You're right, it would be a terrible transaction. They cannot be a market player in growth under their current structure. So as I see it, what you're arguing for is that Rome and Brainerd implement more transaction-based taxation. Which would be absolutely fine, as they then have a proper incentive to increase growth.
>That way I don't to wait for the pages to load

As long as they don't use lazy loading that is..
> freeing up budget for more original content

This is an impressive bit of spin, seeing as how creating new original programming is always going to be more expensive than licensing older/original programming. So yeah, losing the licensed programming "frees up budget," but the end result will be a smaller catalog.
This newsletter from early last week had some really interesting thoughts about this: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-slow-death-of-hollywo...

It quoted a section from an article in The Information:

> [Netflix] now routinely ends shows after their second season, even when they’re still popular. Netflix has learned that the first two seasons of a show are key to bringing in subscribers—but the third and later seasons don’t do much to retain or win new subscribers. Ending a show after the second season saves money, because showrunners who oversee production tend to negotiate a boost in pay after two years.
You watch anime.. dubbed?

I don't think they want your kind, and I don't blame them.
It only reduces the odds to such a tiny number if your password is in the list (otherwise, guessing the remaining 136 bits of the hash is infeasible). If that's the case, however, sending a part of the hash to the server is still the best idea, because you want to know that the password needs to be changed immediately. At this point, the 72^8 estimate no longer matters, both because the full list of HIBP passwords is much smaller than that and because you don't know if other information (such as the corresponding username) was leaked along with the password.
I wonder if we'll ever get back to that sort of thing... I guess with digital downloads not so much, but i really like the idea.
An open source software stack vs a Frankenstein Minix running with mysterious powers over your computer, do you even have to ask?