skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would in turn cause a different group of PMs (portfolio managers, in this case) to borrow Netflix stock and sell short. Paying up-front production costs on an asset being provided only to users whose revenues the company has already captured is a suboptimal use of equity capital -- to put it gently.
I personally first heard about the Prime Day strike, figured it had to be some sort of sell-day mania in the middle of summer. Anyway, tactics like this one have been carried out by the biggest webshop in my country for a few years now. The first time it happened most of us thought it was a genuine mistake, the following iteration though revealed the move for what it really was: pure marketing.
This is likely due to anti-money-laundering / know-your-client (AML-KYC) US regulations (similar in many other countries).
As you can see by the downvotes of your comment the crowd here o HN is already for censorship and full of silicon valley and other type of tech lefties who hate free speech and are very PC. This is not the first time I realized that. In fact I had already a account shadow-banned for daring not to have mainstream PC approved opinons. This one already has -6 Karma. I should actually go on Gab. I was never there but I am following it "from the outside" for a while and all the SJW stuff on Joe Rogan and elsewhere. To the point where I am actually not only annoyed by the fact that its going on but by the fact that these internet personalities I follow talking about how bad it is for like 3 years now and its only getting worse and worse.
Their work, their infrastructure, their call.

And a good one as well.

Don't provide nazis with anything.
I've said it before but I agree - Netflix sure adds a lot of original content, but I've yet to see a true masterpiece deserving its place among The Wie, The Sopranos or Mad Men and lately I'm starting to think that Netflxi is entirely fine with producing good enough content which adds and retains subscribers while never really stading out. Of course it's entirely reasonable to do so if it's a successful approach, but I can't say I like it and I don't think it leads to exceptional, high prestige content.
If HBO produced their content mostly according to numbers while neglecting artistic considerations The Wire would have been done after Season 1.

Furthermroe, did you see the other discussion about Netfli/Hollywood recently here on HN? [0]

From the article:

> 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.

Propably a financially sound approach, but I doubt I'll stay a subscriber much longer if that's the direction they are heading.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403587
"F-droid should simply follow US law"

Why would they want to do that? They're a uk-based company. Judging by your typing you're not a native English speaker either. So why pick the US?
My gym is not like this at all. It's owned and run by a real person.

They charge a day fee or a monthly fee or you can pay for 3, 6 or 12 months.

I've never given then any credit card or bank details as I pay cash, but I believe they do offer direct debit.
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Gab allows Free Speech and does not have a code of conduct or ban or censor anyone. They claim this is freedom and the code of conduct is fascism.

Anyone who writes a racist comment usually gets called out on it and called an idiot and mocked anyway on Gab.

You cannot have both free speech and a code of conduct at the same time. You either allow everything or censor and ban things to a degree.

Most of these racist comments are made by teenagers who think the N-word is funny and trolling people. So they post it over and over again.
I figured that was the case, but I would seriously consider paying a reasonable annual fee to use my actual other credit cards, not every thing I buy online is cheap.
> That's the logic behind it.

I think you've misunderstood the nature of rhetorical questions. I'm not interested in the Chinese government's pretexts or rationalizations. The problem is the violation of the basic human rights of people who have done nothing to warrant it.
The traditional loop around a switch has some advantages. That "break" or "continue" is an unconditional branch, so it is a small piece of code and is always correctly predicted. It's almost free. By doing this, you get to avoid repeating code for every instruction. The common code that happens for every instruction thus appears only once in your CPUs cache, instead of being numerous copies.
I make soups or curries in large quantities and freeze them in single servings. When I get home from work I can serve a healthy meal I cooked in six minutes. Why would I get rid of the microwave? What’s wrong with it?
I heard an interesting anecdote about screw manufacturing. A friend of mine was in china talking to manufacturers there.

He asked about standard screw sizes and was told that there were no standard sizes or "in stock", and he should just tell them what size he wanted because their supplier just makes whatever size screws they need.
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If that should be the explanation I would actually be relieved - as said, it didn't fit my mental model they wouldn't have a super slick app with so many Dev resources.
In Europe, this might be illegal:
> Merchants operating in the European Union must give customers 7 business days’ notice before changing the price of their recurring billing plan; 7 business days’ notice is also required before billing customers if it has been 6+ months since their last payment. If you don’t operate in the EU, these notices aren't required (but they're still good practice).

From: https://articles.braintreepayments.com/guides/recurring-bill...
Was the walrus operator really worth "The PEP 572 mess"? https://lwn.net/Articles/757713/

That post makes a few things very clear:

* The argument over the feature did not establish an explicit measure of efficacy for the feature. The discussion struggled to even find relevant non-Toy code examples.

* The communication over the feature was almost entirely over email, even when it got extremely contentious. There was later some face-to-face talk at the summit.

* Guido stepped down.
> Just don't install the app, and you won't see what people post on Gab.

False. Gab recently became Activity-Pub compatible by forking Mastodon code, so now either your Fediverse instance's administrator or you must ban what Gab people post.

So, obviously, you can see what Gab people say even without installing the app, which contradicts your implication.
At least NYC is finally fixing that with Omny. Full rollout won't be for a few years but it'll support the entire regional transit system like Clipper in the Bay Area does.

https://omny.info/
Because they can.
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No need to feel ashamed. If you share your code, people know what they run and can learn and improve from there. One of the awesome benefits of FOSS
Fair point. My comment was only in response to GP's sentence about quelling protests on the Mainland. I doubt any such tactic would be effective in a highly educated and already distrustful population like that of HK.
I once worked at a large company, where half of the IP addresses in use were personally owned by one of the infrastructure guys
Come on, are these people who live in terror of tesla succeeding even trying? There's no truck announcement. One day they'll have one, it will probably be about the same as the other cars,for good or bad.

I can't understand the insanity. They make cars, apparently some people like them. When they make a truck it will probably continue on as they have so far.
The basis of free markets is that on balance people with radically different preferences will make better choices more aligned with their preferences and local knowledge than other systems do.

Markets perform better than other allocation systems for many things. It's an observed principle rather than something that was directed from above.

Some economic models assume people are rational because on aggregate it works for those models.

Mostly market systems have substantially outperformed centrally controlled systems.
It is more of a denial of service for Gab because they allow anything on their site instead of policing it like Hacker News here and having a code of conduct.

Gab went to Mastodon to be part of the federated universe but federated apps block their URL now.
There's no reason to keep her around either. Every time there's a new protest, the first demands are: 1. Full withdrawal of the extradition bill, 2. Carrie Lam resigns. The bill is politically unviable for the foreseeable future, and Lam is its figurehead. If they want to take steam out of the protests, they need to address these sticking points.

If they have a new CE come in, fully drop the bill, and actually set up an independent investigation into police brutality, it would take a lot of wind out of the sails of these protests before people dig their heels in on other issues (abolish the functional constituencies, establish universal suffrage, etc.)
I agree, except for when you’re staying in someone’s spare room. That seems like a genuinely good idea, and I’ve met some great people and had formative experiences through that.

But booking out entire apartments is the problem. My friend lives in London and the block is being overtaken by Airbnb, and it’s making him miserable. Too much noise, too little sleep.
> To get things working comfortably I ended up porting the game loops to use Clang's support for the C++ coroutines TS, with a simple scheduler that yields control back to the browser after every screen flip.

Oh nice, is this code (or a write-up) available anywhere?

A couple of years ago I was working on porting Wesnoth and got it working...except it was too slow with the Emterpreter.

I'll try this new asyncify, but your approach sounds like an interesting backup if I were to resurrect my efforts.
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I was in China last month. Running out of gas is not exactly the analogy I would’ve chosen to describe the most thriving economy I have ever seen.

As a side note, I have visited many companies while there and the Tencent HQ was the most awe-inspiring building, leaving the Bay Area architecture and building amenities looking incredibly dull.
Was it against a bank (ie, debit) account? If so, it's a pre-note test, fairly standard in the industry to ensure a direct-debit or direct-credit can be assumed safe.

This unit tests both the debit (of e.g. $.01) and a credit of the same amount against the target. They can also vary the amount, then ask the recipient to report the amount posted (so you can prevent additional fraud that way - attacker may have your bank account/routing details but no login to your statement/transaction listing).
I’m certainly not arguing that it was an enjoyable or desirable profession. I was simply responding to your “a lot of whippings” comment. It is a common falsehood on the internet that the pyramids were built with slave labor. They would be better described as peasants with no political power and few other options. This would also describe the overwhelming majority of the population until at least the renaissance.

There is a consensus among Egyptologists that the Great Pyramids were not built by slaves. Rather, it was peasants who built the pyramids during flooding, when they could not work in their lands.
The author, tenox, is a retrocomputing enthusiast with an inordinate amount of technical knowledge. I guess it scratches some itches and gives him some good fun.

I would feel the same.
What is an example of a 3-space embedding or interesting literature? I'm having difficulties googling the term.
It could be the tip of a trend. For every one person suffering the full Paris Syndrome psychosis, there are probably a thousand Japanese departing Charles de Gaulle thinking to themselves "What a horrible dump, thank god we are leaving." -- Paris Syndrome-lite?
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Old school web users must be gob smacked with these new rounds of supposed web activist sites that oppose free speech that they fought so hard for. People easily forget the attacks on the web during the 90's.

Points to F-Droid for not lying and being truthful, it makes them marginally better than most of the organisations.

"F-Droid is taking a political stance here."

"a website joined the fediverse only half a month ago that is well known to be a “free speech zone”, meaning it claims to tolerate all opinions. While in theory this might seem to be a good concept" .....
Getting things done is overrated. You're just spending more of your pollution quota. Watching TV is remarkably low on CO2 emissions.

(I'm only half tongue-in-cheek)
That is a great question. Kubernetes and docker and the recent addition of service mesh layer definitely do make things easier for micro-services. However as another commenter mentioned, Microservices are typically an organizational rather than technical feature. We do use pubsub pattern for distributed processing widely. Regarding the http boundaries point that you brought up, we use gRPC instead of HTTP for most services.
The clock-face scheduling system is really neat and convenient for many people, but sometimes really tight. A bus in Papiermühle (near Bern) leaves 1 (one) minute after arrival of the train. This works because the bus is waiting at the train platform.

But sometimes you would like to buy something at the railway station or there are older people or families with small children or you need to find out where to walk to first. Then you are out of luck. Mostly you just wait 30 minutes for the next train, but there are lines with one hour cadence and very rarely with two-hour cadence.
Indeed, and what's happening in Hong Kong is already affecting Taiwan, giving additional support to the pro-independent camp.

BTW, the ruling party of ROC was pretty authoritarian back then too. IMO, the contrasting political development of the ROC and PRC in the last few decades is worthy of further evaluation and consideration.
Typical politician-think..
Thing is, people in major cities rarely need to travel to other major cities, and people outside major cities most often need to travel to the closest major city.. (dane, works in nearest major city, 30 km drive from home)
The premise of the article is a little weird. Like, nobody's suggesting you should abandon your blender or toaster or dishwasher. Why this?

A microwave is exceptionally safe, and highly efficient at heat transfer. There really is no device that can compare for its specific set of use cases. Sure, it's not so great for making toast or grilling a steak or whatever, but it's a device that serves a purpose and does it well.
Exactly this. Plus there's a PLA garrison in Hong Kong anyways. The bridge (and high speed rail to Kowloon) are about creating better links through the region, enabling further economic growth and creating a stronger sense of "one country"
What do you expect from a slack alternative?
If I were to sell you an alternative for Slack, what kinds of slack's problems do you expect to be solved?

For me, I would want it to be an app in my system with very low resource usage and definitely not electron based. Similarly what will be yours?
Is there anything similar to BabelJS for Python?
Now after 3.8 I start to feel there are a need for a tool like that.

More compact code at the cost of higher learning curve.
It's also just safer. You want your default string type to have as few gotchas about what can be put in it as possible.
Can you elaborate? I'm no longer US based, so it's not about me travelling.
Not to mention that money (as in USD or any other fiat) is mostly backed up with houses on banks' balance sheets. Perhaps it'll push down the ridiculous prices on US equities too. Whoever has much of their investing time left should cheer for a good stock market crash - to buy stocks cheaply.
And why not? It's one of the more decent alternatives if you want to run a stable Windows install on old PC's, so it's just as retro as, say AmigaOS 3.1
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China collapse has been predicted by china expert for at least 2 decades. I don't understand why people can still be this delusional at this moment.
The deep metrics, as you call them, get vanishingly irrelevant the larger the system gets, at least for the use case you mention.

To put it unscientifically, something always goes wrong, but that does not mean SLA is violated. As a corrollary, you will be alerted constantly about something that might go wrong because of some signal that someone thought might lead to some outage.

At face value it seems proactive, but it's really not. Better spend time actively making the system more reliable (e.g. look at your or someone else's postmortems, or do premortem exercises).
Absolutely. It is a tiny fraction with significant publicity effect. It's even here on HN discussion.
Wow that’s useful. Worth reading the article just to learn that.
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If you're ever back in Auckland, pay a visit to Coffee Lab's cafe in Wairau Valley. Very unassuming looking place in an industrial district but absolutely amazing coffee.
Very good guilt trip of Elliot. I wonder if his father shows up again in season 4, now that he is a hallucination.
This isn't that good of a metric for code utility. Sure, very-long-lived code probably solved the problem well (though it can also just be a first-mover kind of thing), but a lot of code is written to solve specific problems in a way that's not worth generalizing.

I write a lot of python for astrophysics. It has plenty of shortcomings, and much of what's written will not be useful 10 years from now due to changing APIs, architectures, etc., but that's partly by design: most of the problems I work on really are not suited to a hyper-optimized domain-specific languages like FORTRAN. We're actively figuring out what works best in the space, and shortcomings of python be damned, it's reasonably expressive while being adequately stable.

C/FORTRAN stability sounds fine and good until you want to solve a non-mathematical problem with your code or extend the old code in some non-trivial way. Humans haven't changed mathematical notations in centuries (since they've mostly proven efficient for their problem space), but even those don't always work well in adjacent math topics. The bra-ket notation of quantum mechanics, <a|b>, was a nice shorthand for representing quantum states and their linear products; Feynman diagrams are laughably simple pictograms of horrid integrals. I would say that those changes in notation reflected exciting developments that turned out to persist; so it is with programming languages, where notations/syntaxes that capture the problem space well become persistent features of future languages. Now, that doesn't mean you need to code in an "experimental" language, but if a new-ish problem hasn't been addressed well in more stable languages, you're probably better off going where the language/library devs are trying to address it. If you want your code to run in 40 years, use C/FORTRAN and write incremental improvements to fundamental algorithm implementations. If you want to solve problems right now that those langs are ill-suited to, though, then who cares how long the language specs (or your own code) last as long as they're stable enough to minimize breaking changes/maintenance? This applies to every non-ossified language: the hyper-long-term survival of the code is not the metric you should use (in most cases) when deciding how to write your code.

My point is just that short code lifetimes can be perfectly fine; they can even be markers of extreme innovation. This applies to fast-changing stuff like Julia and Rust (which I don't use for work because they're changing too quickly, and maintenance burdens are hence too high). But some of their innovative features will stand the test of time, and I'll either end up using them in future versions of older languages, or I'll end up using the exciting new languages when they've matured a bit.
Same applies for the stock market (foreign money is pushing it up, increasing the costs at which retirement funds purchase equities). But yeah world's finance is heavily interlocked.
You are HN as well. Don't be so dismissive.
So you're saying I can use your service to make sure my hidden cameras are well hidden?

(Sorry for the negativity.)
> AFAIK this wouldn't work because MAC addresses don't get forwarded to the next network segment

Finally! I was scrolling down the comments, starting to think nobody on HN knew networking enough to notice this.

MAC addresses never "leave" the local network segment, so can't be used for tracking tethering unless the phone has code to forward this info on. But, at that point, the MAC address isn't really needed anymore ;)
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I'm assume that you say 'only two options' as a rhetorical device to deny the validity of third option. It's different thing to say that worker activism is not proper than saying that it's not effective. I think your opinion is former but you try to argue the latter.

Creating larger bargaining unit from current employers is more effective than working as an individual. As these big tech companies have increasing number of workers who do not fear losing their job, it will create political power that is most effectively used collectively withing companies. This can work as traditional unions or just plain political activist groups.
Probably grandparent's point would apply in this case too, it would be nice if they did.

Although, arguably, punishing employees of 3M or something because the government misbehaves is not obviously good.
I'd go with "set to" but sure that sounds easy enough.
My first thought was “next year i have to dig into all of amazon’s offering to find such ‘mistakes’”. It immediately had the effect of gaining me as a new customer. Excellent marketing indeed!
I lived across the street from the Charles Dickens Museum in London for years. Never once went as "it'll always be there later". Still haven't been.
I'm politically left leaning, and despite all of the following quotes from your rant, I don't think you're a Nazi.

They literally call everyone a Nazi nowadays who is not aligning their views with them

They call gay people, Jews ... Nazis

They Dox and harass people who dare to disagree with pumping up children with hormones for gender change or those who do not want to have late term abortions legalized

A lot of what you say strikes me as the stream-of-semi-consciousness rantings of someone only familiar with one side of an argument. There's disgusting behavior on both sides of the fence, and what you describe as the behavior of the entirety of "left leaning groups" is, in reality, only a very small percentage of people, and the same is true for "right leaning groups". And that's part of the problem of "open platforms" combined with "freedom of speech": a very small number of hateful bigoted types, or trolls wanting to portray that, end up being used as exemplary mascots for "the other side". It's a tactic the media have been using for years, to a less extreme degree, but "we, the people" need to be smarter about not falling for it.
China is still doing well. You don’t need official numbers! Just look at Chinese tourists if you live near a tourist destination.
They travel more than any time and they spend a lot. While this is not anything like a real economic metric, it is a reflection of what is happening there.