skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People aren't asking for a single distribution channel in the sense of a single monolithic company owning all the IP. They do want (1) convenient apps that aggregate

I generally agree with that. I don't care about one platform at all. I'll pay up to ~$30 total per month for nearly everything (TV + movies), whether that's on one site or spread across four.

With the way things are going, it looks more likely that I'll just frequently turn subscriptions on and off. That's the routine I've found myself in the last year or so. I might watch some shows on HBO or Showtime, then when they end for the season I kill the subscription. I might maintain one central subscription, such as Prime (which makes it easy to add and remove other 'channel' subscriptions). This seems to be how a lot of consumers are behaving now.
> For very small organizations?

For small parts of large organisations. I’ve only ever seen it deployed internally, and the clients/users are usually a small subset of the organisation.
As a chronic pain sufferer, opiates are a lifeline. Problem has been indescriminate use pushed by docs before they became fully aware of the risks. Now I jump through hoops to get a fairly low dose of hydrocodone 7.5. I have both rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and a host of other diagnosis. Without effective pain management, life isnt worth living. I'm only 58!
The pricing is not per agent per month. The pricing for everyone is always either per million events or per gb.

You do not need an agent. You can ship directly from syslog ( https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/rsyslog/?tab=datadog...)
Coding on Smartphone with Vim [video]
What's wrong with running Solr/ES? It is trivial to run either in standalone mode, and it is a lot easier to set up autocomplete with misspelling support than messing with PG. Algolia is a good option if you have the budget.
Well, China does not seem to have solved the equation of how the so-called communist system failed in the USSR - which turned into a large aggregation of bosses who squeezed the peasants into the mud to the point where the low efficiency of the actual system in operation in the USSR made it collapse. Now we have a sea of debt swallowing China from the bottom up. The lack of economic market feedback broke up the USSR, and it is on the edge of breaking up China as the Chinkogarchs have now burdened China with staggering debts. Most of this debt has been squirrelled away in hundreds(thousands?) of offshore money havens that the Chinkogarchs frantically export their US$/pounds/marks/Francs/or whatever to buy a huge maze of foreign assets with hidden ownerships that mother China will be unable to winkle out.
Now the debt ratio has crested, the good times are nearly over, and soon these little interest clocks will demand to be paid and the Chinese base currency will be totally unable to cope with it. The Chinogarchs are already deserting them motherland. More and more are finding they waited too long to exit and the teeth have closed on their fat little rumps.
The mother country with tighten these teeth in a vain hope to get the money back, but the Chinkogarchs have left the keys in the hands of sons and relatives who will never send the money back and they are too smartn to venture too close. Have you notice that a number of Chinese national have been grabbed off the street in many foreight places - this is the beginning. 2-5 years will tell the tale...
When I was in my elementary school days I was limited to 2 hours a day screen-time. Tbh, it did not do much since my parents could not watch me 24-7 and did not have the time to regulate the 2 hours. Furthermore, in middle school once my parents stopped caring I just binged for like 3 hours on video games and tv.
Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic
Yet here we are discussing TFA that says otherwise, and crawlers are only going to be become better at it.

This is a beautiful part of the new web: indexable applications.
It's easier to settle: more gravity, more atmospheric pressure, more resources and we haven't been there yet. Plenty of reasons to go to the moon as well but nothing that could inspire a generation like a Mars mission could.
> You are what you consume

I'd like to highlight this – especially for those searching for insight in the comments.

Pick and choose what media & content you consume. The adage "you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with" applies directly to media.

Over the past ~6 months I've filtered a lot of stuff I read. I don't read online arguments. I don't read much political content. I try not to read anything that won't leave me feeling better afterwards.

This has lead to a marked improvement in my attitude and approach to life – I'm a much more positive person. Attitude changes have huge run-on effects in your life – my personal and professional relationships benefited hugely.
If your coding in rust, need ssl, and are cross compiling, using rustls over openssl leads to simpler builds. This helped me simplify the rust -> aws lambda flow on a recent project.
The article essentially said "because sexting probably won't end in extortion, parents should STFU so I can see nekkid pix." ... Which I likened to another discouraged activity that "usually goes okay" and yet is ALSO clearly "not okay".
In any case, is this a bad thing? I don’t know

If the benefit of catching a bad apple is less than the downside of 100+ pissed employees due to being spied on, it is a bad thing, specially when a few KPI can't give you an accurate view of an employee's performance or impact.
Love when people that are not in healthcare have an opinion about how healthcare pays
Hi HN, I've spent some time working on this PoC that allows one to (kind of) code on smartphone using Vim. I am sharing a video demo here to see what others think of it.

It is based on my other similar project swell.sh [0], that you run a HTTP server process (written in Python) on a server and connect to it from your smartphone's browser (Chrome/Safari). Then you will see Vim in the Web-based terminal in the above and can interact with Vim using the virtual keyboard specifically built for the App below (it is part of the page's UI, not your OS's keyboard app).

The python process in the backend is able to provide the completion information gathered from Vim (I used the TabNine completion engine [1] in the video but it also works with other autocomplete engine like Coc.vim) to the front-end, where you could choose from the keyboard's autocomplete suggestion row, thus greatly reduce the required number of 'taps' on the keyboard for inputting code.

Obviously it's not going to replace your desktop/laptop for serious programming work, but what do you think about the idea? Any feedback/thought is welcome.

[0] https://github.com/wcchoi/swell.sh

[1] https://tabnine.com/
On PC you can click on a icon near the video on the home page and say that you're not interested.
There's no reason to send manned missions to either.

Well, except for the infantile HNer dream to get a free ride, someday, somehow.
The dramatic reading is hilarious:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110203081223/http://blog.seatt...
And make everyone's health history public? Why couldn't the government do something similar but with more privacy?
Its well known.

But not for FFS. For the most part i believe that is nonsense. Instead it was SOP. Like doing blodletting on a sick patient. You did it because it qas the thing to do.

In 1970s it was hip replacement

1980s it was tonsil removal

Etc
How about over the middle encryption.
the route is non encrypted but local and remote are encrypted, thus the unencrypted route carries an encrypted payload.
what encryption algo to use? ALL OF THEM!
instead of ROT13 over HTTP use the new CRYPTROT13 [fictional], and rotate encryption algo randomly by hardcode script or by prompt.
or go text stego, the whole point is oultawing encryption is about as usefull as outlawing security, or privacy.
so who gets a break? the ISP that uses HTTPS by default?
the banks and financial systems that must encrypt data as a matter of function?
Why wouldnt someone comeup with a way of transacting pennies in a manner that actually conveys data?
Since other people are throwing out alternatives, here's what I use:

https://dynalist.io/

I'm not affiliated, just a happy paying customer. I organize a pretty good chunk of my life in it.
Yea this is what I meant.
>It seems to me that it's time the OS providers start providing a very easy way to restore the state of data.

Wat?

How are you imagining this would be implemented? Right now you can have a cronjob that runs rsync which allows exactly that but doesn’t protect you from ransomeware. Are you thinking if it were part of the file system in the kernel it would be better protected? I guess that’s partially true but in practice probably will do very little (also, that already exists on Linux in the form of things like ZFS.)

Once something like that infects the machine there really isn’t a whole lot the OS can do to prevent the damage, all it’s doing is handling user requests for operations on things like the file system and the malware is operating as a proxy for the user.
That seems like it would have to happen within CanvasKit itself, as the code using it only uses abstractions over the canvas itself. I can't find anywhere in CanvasKit where it does getContext('webgl'), only '2d', so I'm not sure how it's doing it.

The latency of that example seems great with a mouse, and a little laggy with a pen (a bit better than a pure canvas drawing app I've been working on). The frame rate is much better than my app.
I am fine paying everyone is whatever convoluted ways, but I'm not OK with this translating to a miserable UI experience. At least TV had a single interface. I don't want to manage apps for shows, and have to search within apps or learn different menu trees for each different app, etc.

I think there is nothing wrong with wanting to charge me for exclusive content, packages of content, whatever you want. But do not then it actually harder than just channel surfing.
Very true. It's also true that Medicare and Medicaid, used by the majority of disabled and elderly does not provide coverage for most alternative therapies. Medicare recently approved 'dry needle' treatment, a less-effective cousin of acupuncture. Massage therapy is a proven pain reducer but not covered at all. The list goes on.

Some of the issues activists are still working on are quality of life aspects of health care: for instance, Most policies will pay for the amputation of a diabetic patient's foot but NOT for a $50 pair of properly fitting shoes.

This is my 2 cents: I was looking for access info on the DEA database referenced here and found your discussion interesting. Thanks for the tips on getting past WAPO's paywall!
I agree that the boomers didn't do a good job but I am not sure the next generation will do any better. It seems the best and brightest of this generation are busy building total surveillance infrastructure to sell ads. I don't see much movement towards more community oriented thinking.
a recent example where the guy got away with nearly $40m over a number of years. internal billing scam https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/ex-accounting-manager-c...
Is "shaders" a name that doesn't work anymore? I always perceived them as after effect functions to apply to a scene to do stuff. Ie. Shading. But they seem to be little programs you can run in your GPU? I see more and more examples of using shaders to do stuff that really isn't about taking an output scene and making it pretty.

Or did shaders always have this extended role?
Honestly, many of them are in nations where they are working for a state-sponsored cybercrime agency and have few other options, if any. North Korea and Iranian gov'ts are major purveyors of ransomware; I've known many clients who were breached by them (FBI guys said it was usually one of them each time). If not, it's probably Russia or China, especially if it's a higher-value target. If it's just a private citizen flinging exploits at ip ranges, it's possibly Brazil too.

Honestly, it used to be Eastern Europe, until we started realizing they've got some serious programming talent and contracted some work out. Now it's less bad, though still a bit sketchy. Of course, this doesn't help nation-state attacks.
For me it's comedy specials. I don't even like them that much, but they have been plastered all over my home screen for nearly a year. Since they took away ratings and reviews I have to use other sites to try to find good stuff to watch.

I've been watching a lot more Youtube recently oddly enough. Youtube does a better job of giving me a mix of videos for my interests, and there are a number of great vloggers out there across a lot of my interests posting weekly+ content.
And the clicking/drawing/dragging interactive demos ignore touch input, but also block touch scrolling.
They are being punished by setting the bar higher for them based on ethnicity. So for an asian, you have to be the tigerest of tigers to get admitted, making the problem you describe even worse.
Did Diablo II or III have the same draw on you?
People respond to incentives. If we as a society incentivised community projects then we’d see more of them.
I'm still using an older version of Sphinx. I love it. It's fast, moderately flexible, very lightweight, easy to set up and produces good enough results. I have also found it to be highly reliable (at least the version I've been using for years). It's not useful for anything that needs hyper scale (Twitter et al), however for the next tier of scale below that it generally does well if you know how to leverage its strengths.
> pretty easy until somewhere over 10TB.

10TB is not even the largest single HDD money can buy... and I wouldn't use a single drive anyways. What I'd do... There's the new Silverstone CS381 chsasis with is <30L (so it easily fits anywhere) and houses eight 3.5" hot swap disks plus 4 2.5" for boot and a micro ATX PC... Looking at https://diskprices.com/ I'd go with the Seagate 8TB drives at 120 bucks by shucking them from external and then you need a cheap uATX board and an LSI-9207-8i card.
Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all offer paid rentals of nearly anything, on a per movie, episode, or season basis. So what you are asking for definitely exists. It’s just priced disproportionately high compared to the streaming packages that are popular these days.
Unlike in the 60s these days it's far easier to just stage the moon landing rather than actually going there.
Why is it infantile to want to experience life on another planet/moon?
Many years ago I built a service on appengine to hit the auto complete api endpoint for every single and 2 letter prefix, as well as things like "how do I" or "what is the".

It ran for a few months before blowing up the free quota, but it was pretty cool while it lasted.. Seeing certain things bubble up and then disappear. Like right now 'lion king' is the first suggestion for 'l', but I doubt it was a month ago.
Hospitals in California now requires Chinese patients to pay upfront, and from what I gather, you don't even need to ask the doctors and hospitals for them to unknowingly sign you up various healthcare benefits.

Some birth tourists in fear of immigration policy changes need to specifically stress and request to not being signed up.
GTD's emphasis of getting thing out of your head is particularly good. Both BJ and index cards (I'm somewhere between POIC and Zettlekasten) do that for me.

I'm looking at tools such as vimwiki / orgmode, possibly task-warrior or renind (both CLI task managers) for longer term/repetitive stuff.

On my (linux) desktop I've got a set of general information displayed via xrootconsole, and having reminders there might be useful w/o being excessively distracting.

A script sets up multiple "panels" of information for me -- (randomly selected) RSS feed, weather, essays-in-ptocess (a large part of my To Do), and systems monitoring. That's usually obscured by open windows (and I don't use a desktop file-browser, so this isn't cluttered by file or app launcher icons), but I can check quickly by hiding open windows/reveal desktop.

With CLI reminder/calendar tools, ant term window can show wahat's pending / manage tasks.
The autoplay nonsense doesn't solve the first complaint and it's hostile to what I would guess is a significant segment of viewers which is why you hear the second complaint. The UI has written descriptions of content. I could be in the middle of reading that and then it's replaced by some autoplay trailer with audio that doesn't even match up with the video. Assuming I even want the autoplay interface, which I don't, the implementation of it is horrible. What's up with that music? It's like the musical equivalent of stock photos. And if it's a show with episodes it's virtually guaranteed that you will have to click a back button or something to stop the trailer so you can get to the right episode. It basically guesses wrong every single time.

I went from watching Netflix almost exclusively to hardly watching at all. I may put it on if I already know exactly what I want to watch and can navigate to it quickly enough that the bullshit autoplay won't make me think differently before my show starts. It causes anxiety trying to browse through content fast enough to see what it is before the trailer starts. If I pause for just a second or two due to some distraction or whatever then I lose the opportunity to read the description and I'm bombarded with a trailer. When that happens I can't click away fast enough. If my wife starts talking to me while I'm browsing I often find myself exiting Netflix so I don't have that garbage in the background. I would have canceled a long time ago if my wife didn't binge watch those Asian novela shows.

I feel like the people making decisions about these things at Netflix are making them based on bad data. I keep paying every month so I must be happy. I'm not. I give more money to your competitors now than I give to you. I wouldn't give you any at all if my wife didn't want to keep Netflix and that's not a debate I'm going to have for $10/mo or whatever it costs. So I keep paying and some data geek gets to look good for the subscription numbers or engagement even though I went from loving your product to loathing it. I would go back to loving it and cancel the other streaming subscriptions if there was an option for me to switch back to the old interface.

Edit:

Someone else who replied to you said something I thought was interesting about the autoplay.

I think the other difference is that if you’re flipping channels, you’re tuning into what the channel is actually playing, not an endlessly repeating ad for the channel. It’s getting you to the experience you care about as quickly as possible.

This. I read this and it clicked. Browsing Netflix with the autoplay trailers is a lot like if you were flipping through the channels on broadcast TV and every single channel was showing a commercial. I experience a similar kind of frustration when I use Netflix.
Regular fuel has volume too.
Cassandra handles this pretty nicely. Files are immutable, so files are hard-linked to a snapshot directory. Copy out the snapshot directory, delete it, and things are eventually consistent.

We restore our MySQL and Cassandra data every day in our production DC from backups in the DR DC. It's the only way to ensure things are working. It's about 100TB of data, but things zip along nicely now that 100gig networks are (more) common.
I'd take a tremendous hit in productivity if I followed that advice.

The amount of time I spend in Vim not customized is negligible, and I can always hit Esc in those cases with a
not even in the ballpark time saving over losing snips and all the custom plugins.
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> I don't know how on earth any executive couldn't be fucking liable for knowing the vast majority being manufactured and sold were being used illicitly.

The answer is plausible deniability. Nobody in the chain has specific knowledge of wrongdoing and nobody seeks it out.
In the US, link to survey is sent by text, or through automated voice prompt.
There is a plan to add proper dependent types to GHC: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/dependent-haskell. No exact timeline on when it will be ready though.
What Should/Do/Can LSTMs Learn When Parsing Auxiliary Verb Constructions?
I was wrong about point 2 being a spec issue. Linux just needed to be told "yes, this is one of those": https://github.com/groeck/k10temp/issues/12
This is for Skia devs to easily exchange code examples in the manner of JSFiddle.
This happened to my friend too. I shared a link with him of a Youtube guy who analyzes classic rock songs, and my friend's entire recommended feed was overtaken by this guy for weeks. My feed isn't nearly that sensitive. I think you and him are in the same experimentation bucket or something.
I'm not really sure, but the thing I do most different is that I don't really trust anything. For example, in a mathematics class I wouldn't trust what they taught, instead I always tried to disprove it and I didn't use formulas I couldn't derive myself.

This is a lot of extra work, but it meant that I always had an extremely strong foundation to stand on. When I know something I really know it, and having learned this way since early school I have spent a really long time doing it so it covers quite a lot.

Also when you learn this way you don't forget, so it just compounds. There is no way a person who "cheated" by implementing for example algorithms and data structures without deriving things themselves can compete. They have spent their entire lives learning how to apply things without understanding, they would have to redo all of that to catch up.

When you know things this well then being much faster than others is not very hard. Also creating original solutions is not something scary or time consuming, it is something you've done throughout your entire life.

Anyhow, I am not sure if others can learn this way, I just know it works for me. I've tried teaching others to do it, but it didn't work that well. It might be that it was too late, I just naturally learned mathematics this way from early school so I already knew how to think about algorithms before I even started programming. I mean, calculating things by hand or in your head are the original algorithms so if you can confidently alter those as you wish then you already know the basics of programming.
>Similarly insurance and healthcare businesses must also be on a transparent block chain

How is blockchain the answer to this at all?
San Diego Comic-Con Is Turning 50: Here's Its Origin Story
It doesnt matter, since Microsoft recently started embracing things, rather the duplicating - e.g. you can perfectly well run Kubernetis on Azure.
There are a lot of elements in that story that don't quite make sense to me.

Taking care of the best planet around is always going to be easier and better than packing everybody off to some other planet, even one that's just as good.

They way I see it, it's even going to be possible to even collect all the mercury out of the ocean and clean up other seemingly impossible messes.
This is one of those stories that goes around in certain communities. I don't know if it's true or not; it may well be. I've heard of it several times, but only ever second- or third-hand. I've also heart it's happened to more than one company. The thing is, you can't really verify this sort of stuff: if it's true, whoever developed it would throw its full weight behind it and hit as many targets as possible. It would probably be under tight investigation by some three-letter. Companies also probably wouldn't want to disclose this. I don't know if It's not unreasonable to hypothesize N. Korea or Iran put together a kit, though they'd probably relegate it to a certain stack (too much technical debt otherwise).

Of course, it's also possible it's not, and I wonder if that's more likely. Every industry has such stories; maybe this is the white whale of forensics.
Ex-NSA Contractor Who Stole Secret Documents Is Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
I roll an x1. Works great.