skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant "best" as in "most practical for a third-party dev when deciding what behaviors to take advantage of." Defined behaviors are guaranteed to work in both 1. clone consoles that conform to the spec, and 2. future revisions of the official hardware. Undefined behaviors aren't.
Netflix added just 2.7 mln paid subs in Q2, missing its own target of 5 mln
> "Buy this and you will be able to put any code you want into any project that uses Requests and doesn't carefully audit the changes in new versions" is potentially a pretty huge problem, yes.

Would not taking money somehow obviate the issue?
Tokyo commuters told to work from home to avert Olympic transport congestion
If I were Disney, I'd be aiming for a market positioning of, "Netflix, but with content from places like Disney and Marvel and without all of the 2019 political craziness."
The point stands. I've been involved in big hospital management and at a FAANG. Hospitals are a horror show if you see behind the curtain in both respects, and others.
I mean this isn't that weird. I'm sure a lot of companies would like to buy 'control' of the project and move it in the direction that the original maintainers didn't necessarily want to. Plus being the company/org that maintains requests is pretty good PR.

There is absolutely an exchange of value here, no reason to assume that a change in maintainership means cash for malware.
> Waymo’s CEO, John Krafcik, has admitted that a self-driving car that can drive in any condition, on any road, without ever needing a human to take control—usually called a “level five” autonomous vehicle—will basically never exist.

That's equivalent to saying AGI is impossible.

It's a pretty big statement.
New Fast Social Network
I just recently cancelled my Netflix subscription after 10+ years of being a customer (after they raised the prices, yet again).

For me, the problem is they are just throwing too many darts at the wall at this point. There is just sooo much garbage original content being added monthly, it seems. They are almost over optimizing/testing their shows, in my opinion. 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. Sadly, they have also been ending a lot of what I thought were popular shows on there (some of my favorites). Their catalog outside of Netflix original shows has also been dropping significantly, which many very popular shows leaving here soon (Office/Friends).

I used to spend about 80/20% time on Netflix/Hulu, now it's 100% Hulu after cancelling Netflix. The content on Hulu has been ramping up significantly for their TV department (non-originals). Plus, I love having my HBO through Hulu, and it's all in one place under 1 subscription payment.

I'll most likely re-subscribe to Netflix again in a few years just for a month or two to watch a few seasons of new content that will actually interest me (then cancel again), but until then, no need to pay them so they can produce the copious amounts of BS half-assed content like they seem to only be doing lately.
Program or die: Application programming interfaces are transforming business
This is such a mess... In India, the income tax department releases both Excel and Java versions of their forms that you can fill, verify, sign, and upload (as xml) - see https://www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/downloads/incomeTax...

And what is this about a 2002 deal between Intuit and the IRS agreeing for the IRS not to release a tool that competes against TurboTax? That's so completely bizzare. Why in the world would the IRS strike a deal like that, that is detrimental to their own interests?
I appreciate you actually trying. A "negative" result is still valuable.

What I don't like about the article is that small fan have to spin fast (= noise) to generate enough flow. I'd much rather use a 80 mm fan, slowed way down, but I suppose I'd had to roll my own case for that. Better still, wait for someone to start offering this (or maybe this: http://blog.flirc.tv/index.php/2019/06/24/new-pi-4-cases/)
DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out–and it’s horrific
mini-wars LOL. Such a cute term for such a scourge. Not demonizing your comment, but it made me laugh :D
But in this case, isn't a large percentage of the content predicated on the person generating the content?
You'd rather rely on... systemd?
Yeah I was just reading that. Why was that not an obvious bug to be fixed immediately? I haven't read much of the GitHub issues but it seems so weird to recommend trusting the CPU RNG instead of just pushing out a quick fix...
That is definitely what their concern has been the last 7 or 8 years and why they've made such a massive push with original content. With so many content producers starting their own streaming services, they have to lure and keep customers the same way the other content producers will be: with original content not sourced from elsewhere. It's the only way forward for them and fortunately for them, they were aware enough to realize it almost a decade ahead of time.
Has the movie roster improved much over the years? I looked at it a few years ago and I could barely find a single movie I wanted to watch.
You're being downvoted but you have a legitimate point. About half the country has problems with abortion. There was absolutely no reason for Netflix, a neutral media company with a customer base encompasing all groups, to publicly take a position that would alienate and create a potential moral crisis for half their subscriber base. It was highly irresponsible and breeched their fiduciary duty to stockholders.
I don't know enough about the situation to say which bucket it falls in, where possible buckets include at least "there's nothing morally or legally wrong with that", "that's morally dubious but probably legally okay", "that's illegal but unlikely to be prosecuted", and "that's illegal and you got lucky".

Compensation of employees of a not-for-profit is certainly allowed - that's a different thing than returning profit to shareholders except when it isn't (in which case, IIUC, it comes with restrictions, which isn't to say it's never abused, which isn't to say it's never/always prosecuted, etc, etc...).

I explicitly admitted the possibility of wiggle room around the restrictions - my point was about what the restrictions referred to in the first place.
AT&T and Microsoft announce a strategic alliance covering cloud, AI and 5G
Tesla frequently talks about platooning when touting their Semi. "Self-driving" by almost blindly following a human-driven lead vehicle doesn't seem that far off. But I'm not looking forward to the day when I see a "train" of semi trucks speeding down the interstate only a foot or two apart from each other!
That's a good point, and a valid one, but not the central thesis of THIS article. (ProPublica has previously written articles on that.[1])

[1] "But, as ProPublica has been reporting, Intuit has steered eligible customers away from the truly free version, aggressively marketing products that are called “free” even though many customers end up paying."
Fred Wilson has a blog post where he outlines the role of a CEO like this:

>A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.

Based on everything we saw in the Neuralink livestream, it seems like Elon is nailing all three of these. Doesn't mean he deserves all the credit, but it mean he's doing his job.
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I have a bunch of series in "my list" waiting for "new episodes".

Favorite anime series audio is not available in English. Nor is most other originally non-English content.

Why should I renew?
I may be canceling soon simply over the annoying auto-play trailers when I dare stay on a show for more than 5 seconds. Really annoying at night.
Either: You can open source the website without the font and say you open sourced your website, or if you consider the font part of your website, it means your website isn't open source... even if you put it on GitHub. Because it's a copyright violation for someone to use that font.

Your best bet is to just use open source fonts, of which there are numerous.
Please keep your religious nonsense out of here, it doesn't belong.

(Also, abortion will always be possible, legal or not)
> If I use a commercial font as part of my website design, I am in fact publishing that font on my site and anyone can obtain a copy of it -- in fact, they automatically do merely by visiting my site!

It depends on the file format. Commercial web font providers typically don't offer TTF or OTF formats but only (subsetted) WOFF. You can't use WOFF fonts with most graphics design software (although conversion to TTF is probably trivial). That's basically the reason why WOFF was invented as it doesn't have much technical benefit over compressed TTF files.

The article on the other hand shows that lots of TTF and OTF files can be found on Github which is something the copyright holders certainly have a problem with.
The new Pi 4 looks amazing! It’s crazy to think the original only had a single-core processor, 256MB of RAM, and one USB slot.
It seems odd, especially some of his use of words, I hope he is ok.
The same thing happened to me and I contacted the Amazon order center. I spoke to a contact center agent who told me tough luck. It would be nice if they let their agents know about this mistake.
Yes, it depends on what you mean. The packets themselves aren't a big deal to me, it's more the ability to construct them in arbitrary ways that concerns me.
Netflix is a heavily data-oriented company; if a large chunk of Netflix subscribers just watch decades old reruns then they know it. What Netflix needs to do is build content specifically for these people and I don't believe they're doing that.

My anecdote on this: My collage age daughter watches Friends on Netflix basically continuously -- she's probably watched every season a dozen times now -- when she gets to last episode it just cycles around again. This is because she keeps on it in the background when she's studying or doing school work.
Do all these new digital currency schemes have the two important properties that inflation is prevented and that transfers are anonymous?

The first is realized by ensuring that the calculation for minting a coin requires the expenditure of some increasing threshold amount of energy to compute the next coin. It's just like the fact that producing a kilo of aluminum requires some ampere-hours of current through an electrolytic cell, except that the next kilo requires more.

The second is realized by the transfer protocol and the distributed ledger of blockchain.
Awesome to see new players in this space! I've been subscribing to https://compensate.com/ which seems somewhat similar to you guys.

Going the business route instead of non-profit sounds like something worth trying out. Ultimately this is about making the biggest impact on slowing down the climate change - not about who takes the smallest fees and has the lightest overhead.
Interesting article, though I wish there were more details on why this was cheaper, and where the hundreds of thousands of dollars saved annually came from.
"Wow. That's so obvious in retrospect. I wonder why I haven't considered it before, nor why I haven't read of it before either."

Get ready to have your mind blown because the next leap in this line of logic is to physically fix "tracks" to the road and run the cars on these "rails" - possibly on a schedule.

It's a future star-trek world we in the United States can only dream of ...
> Fire is not something new for historical monuments.

I worry about the great libraries being consumed by fire. I do not understand why there isn't a larger effort to digitize them.
About half the country supports reasonable restrictions. Not the nonsense the southern states are pushing. Big difference.
Well, this repository mentioned in the article comments got DMCA'd: https://github.com/r4in/typefaces
I was bummed when they canceled Marco Polo, I liked that show. They seem to be canceling way too many shows. Kinda reminds me of Google canceling products left and right, even those with tons of users...
Bezos- you're part of the consumerist world-raping for profit problem.
The movie lineup is still as disappointing as it was a few years ago.
not quite the same - that statement is more accurate than saying "sessions". "sessions" has a contextual meaning in analytics and our marketing copy misused the term.
yes they do abuse and they are very creative in bending the law for own favor. H1-B program was designed as temporary program to bring skilled immigrants. But somehow ended up being abused by huge tiered network of consultancies:

1. CV/resumes for H1-B candidates - are 90% fake, inflated
experience -> that leads to hiring overseas nationals over domestic professionals.

2. Usage of training visas (cpt/opt) for actual work. The training visas are for training entry-level students, not just a work authorization for experienced foreign IT specialist working for entry level wages.

3. Lower effective wage in the industry, due to inability of Department of Labor to depress wages. They go around the rules by creatively choosing specialty occupation codes to determine prevailing market wage and make foreign-brought IT talent way cheaper than domestic ones.

4. Outsourcing itself allows greedy companies to slash full-time staff and increase profits, as foreign IT nationals require fewer/cheaper benefits than domestic -> that's why C2C and consultancies in general are in high demand

there are countless other examples of how the system was abused that I can go on and on forever.
Just the stupid ones.
I used to send my tax information directly to Massachussets via their own free platform.

Sometime around 2016 they discontinued it and told me to go beg someone for free service, or pay turbotax (seriously).

They told me only 2% of state filers used the website.

Question-- why should I have to pay for them to tell me what I owe them? If running the platform is so much money, donate to an open source consortium who will maintain it forever for a rational price.
Wrong. Men also do the same. Have you heard of the elements? Also can you take your cultural allergies elsewhere or apply them accordingly. This is climate change
> Honestly, what's wrong with being well rounded in your entertainment?

Absolutely nothing. However, people are weird, and everybody is wired differently. Sometimes cutting out the thing completely is the only way someone can control themselves.

For instance, an alcoholic might not be able to moderate their drinking and abstinence may be the only way they can beat the addiction.

Similarly, someone who is addicted to television might not physically be able to moderate their television viewing, and it takes going cold turkey for a while for their brain to adjust and new habits to form.

I'd even go so far as to say that a large number of people addicted to television don't even realize that they're addicted to it. Over the last few decades it's become normalized and expected that Everyone (for varying definitions of 'everyone') has at least one television that's the center of their entertainment life, and every waking hour that they're home the television is turned on and tuned in to something. If it's not, then the person is weird because television is What You Do(tm) when you're home and not working.
No. If anything, it's getting worse with all of the other streaming options out there. A while back, I realized that HBO on average had about as many movies I wanted to watch as Netflix, with a total library size that was a fraction of what Netflix was, which made it easier to find something to watch.

I don't really want to know how much time I've spent in my life scrolling through Netflix thinking "meh".
I doubt you would get a positive reaction because listening to music isn't considered a problem. There might be a lot of reasons for that, one of them might be that most people don't sit and exclusively listen to music.
“Much of our domestic, and eventually global, Disney catalog, as well as Friends, The Office, and some other licensed content will wind down over the coming years, freeing up budget for more original content. [...] From what we’ve seen in the past when we drop strong catalog content (Starz and Epix with Sony, Disney, and Paramount films, or 2nd run series from Fox, for example) our members shift over to enjoying our other great content.”
Exactly. It discourages you to invest time in shows that seem to be cancelled so quickly. A lot of them having very abrupt/poor endings, as well.
(And for a cite on that: Only 13% support overturning Roe v. Wade. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730183531/poll-majority-want-...)
>Who says, that your comment isn't a bot already?

Why do people care whether a human or a bot wrote a comment / draw a picture / developed software.. ? The only relevant metric is the quality of the comment / picture / software, isn't it?

https://xkcd.com/810/
You need randomness for ephemeral keys, both asymmetric and symmetric.

Quality entropy isn't a hard ask, at least not for anything typically running OpenSSH or other server software. Intel has RDRAND, and even where AMD's RDRAND is broken their PSP coprocessors provide an entropy function. Similarly, NICs and other controllers also often come with RNGs. RNGs abound on modern embedded systems, actually, it's just that nobody has the full-time job of plugging them into the kernel's PRNG pool. It's not a full-time job for any OpenBSD developer, either, but they do seem to do a better job of this than on Linux; often times the only feature supported of a miscellaneous system component is the RNG.

It's the APIs that are broken. getrandom shouldn't block, period. A system only needs 16-32 bytes of pure hardware randomness for strong security. That's it! You either have it shortly upon boot, or you don't. If you don't, you're screwed anyhow, so why block? If you have 32 bytes of good entropy, all the entropy accounting mumbo-jumbo is pointless.

I do take issue with the author's complaint that systemd shouldn't have its own user-space PRNG. BSD systems have arc4random() as part of their libc, which is seeded from the kernel pool. This is very convenient; developers shouldn't have to think twice about calling into a PRNG for a 32-bit number, but if acquiring that requires a syscall they do think twice and often screw things up. Not to mention that Linux getrandom's default block semantics is broken by design.[1] Until glibc, musl libc, and other Linux runtimes wisen up and add arc4random, it's hard to blame projects like systemd for including their own PRNG.

[1] I realize that getrandom has an option to not block, but it's only function is to cast suspicion on itself when in fact the only thing that deserves suspicion are entropy guesstimators.
The author of event-stream on npm got so much flak for handing out the package when he couldn't maintain it anymore, yet I see no mention of any concerns here. Aren't the same risks of malicious takeover present, or is the python module environment somehow safer?
Huh? There are quite a number of users who can get by without it. My main 32-bit development VM has no Qt package installed; I'm using native apps for code editing, git manipulation, file transfer, IRC, and so on. It isn't an imperative.
Depends, for taxi drivers, it's a job that directly involves customer service, and many female clients may feel more safe riding alone if the driver is female. So if that's the problem they're hoping to solve by focusing on hiring female drivers then I don't think it's sexist.

But for construction and software, I don't see what this practice is trying to gain besides waving around the industry telling everyone they have diversity, when they're treating female employees as victory tokens instead of valued workers.

In general I feel the whole diversity practice recently is missing a huge point of the movement in the first place -- to not discriminate, and let everyone have a fair chance based on their abilities. How it has played out has just been discrimination in a different way. When companies do shit like this, minority groups feel their credits are being disregarded, and non-minority groups feel the other side have it easy by pulling a gender or race card, then they proceed to disregard minority group's ability when they're hired. Nobody is winning.

I've had more than one male friends that told me "You're a girl, you'll get hired even when you don't do so well at the interview", and who do you think are to blame?
FaceApp – you give up more personal data than you know on this Russian-made app
Not really, the US conveniently has had several offshore earnings "amnesties", to allow US companies to bring money back home from profits in foreign countries without having to pay tax on it.

That's a MASSIVE subsidy the US keeps giving to its companies. Trillions of dollars not being taxed.

So everyone's playing silly games, the US haven't got clean hands in this at all, effectively allowing their companies to run 0% corp tax on foreign trading.
The new title (EDIT: "Issue: find a new home for repos") seems pretty generic to me, though. If I didn't open the story while it had the old title I would have probably missed it.

Edit note: At the time of writing, the article title did not include "Requests".
I've been watching more Hulu just because it comes with my Spotify subscription. After years of Netflix having different shows is great.
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I think it makes sense to spread federal employment across the country instead of concentrating it in Washington DC, which has become a high-cost area. Especially for agriculture, having offices in the Midwest makes sense.
What can you build for those people except reboots of those old shows, which they're doing (e.g. Sabrina, Fuller House)? They can't force NBC to license them the old reruns forever if NBC doesn't want to. There's no amount of money they can offer that will work once a studio decides it's going to reserve the content for its own streaming service.
> Authorities are looking to promote tourism at Dahshur, located about 17 miles south of central Cairo.

> The site, which lies in the open desert, attracts just a trickle of visitors and is currently free of the touts and bustle of Giza.

> The promotion of Dahshur is part of a wider push to boost tourism, an important source of foreign revenue for Egypt that dipped steeply after the country’s 2011 uprising before gradually recovering.
Debit/IBAN or PayPal would work :)
I feel their Apple TV app is the worst it's ever been. I hate the autoplay trailers, and the use and feel of the app is incredibly sluggish.
I still don't see why any such company would want to take a political side, no matter which side it takes. How is this any beneficial to its users?
You sound as if you know what you're talking about, but you're just a living advert for the benefits of abortion.

Fuck off.
Sometimes people break rules.
If you advertise a product with certain specs, and the user can only use the full capability during a fraction of the time, then that is misleading.
> The point was censorship for prevent violence has it's place, and the west now recognizes that.

???

The West recognizes what? The West now endorses Chinese Internet censorship? Western governments now also enforce Internet censorship? Did the White House start calling to Build The Firewall? What are you talking about?

> Access is possible and not even inconvenient.

The Chinese government spends billions of dollars on a system that doesn't work?

> Someone posted a western brand awareness and usage article yesterday, where 17% of Chinese internet users regularly use facebook and are aware of western perspectives.

Who cares about Chinese internet users' fucking Western brand awareness? I care about Chinese people knowing our own history, warts and all.
> Why was that not an obvious bug to be fixed immediately?

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