skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the final state of attempting to maximize profits? It feels like it's converging back towards the cable model [0]. Especially now with ad-supported streaming plans on Hulu [1] and increasingly more and more service exclusives [2] (same site as OP).

Streaming services are slowly but surely becoming cable "Channels"/"Packages" now, and of course that's going to increase piracy - we've seen it happen before. If you make something people want, but make it overly expensive or inconvenient to consume, piracy is an attractive (albeit morally grey) alternative for many.

Sure you can buy the disk set for whatever shows you like and skip out on the streaming services, but that in itself comes with a level of inconvenience (and cost) - why use physical disks when you can just download the content, share on a NAS/Plex server, and have it on any device? Once you've made it more inconvenient than people are used to, you've again made piracy an option.

I wonder when we'll start seeing bundles of streaming services for a single price!

[0]: https://www.itproportal.com/features/is-streaming-in-danger-...

[1]: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/how-much-does-hulu-cost?lang...

[2]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190627/11202942488/strea...
Put another way, they’re giving their part time workers a massive pay cut.
I've spent way too much time thinking about how to sate desire and I've come to the conclusion that you simply cannot satisfy most desires by feeding them. You can see this food, money, sex, drugs, travel, etc... the more you feed a desire the stronger it gets. You may satisfy it temporally but eventually it comes back. Eventually you have to learn how to temper and control your passions otherwise they'll eventually come to control you. And happiness comes from being in control not by being controlled.
I would add F# to that list, which is an ML language as well.

It works on almost any platform, be it web, mobile, desktop or server via Fable, Xamarin or .NET Core.

It can work as an object-oriented language as well, which makes it easier to interface with C# code, but the documentation makes it very clear that functional is the way to go for F#.

For UIs there are libraries like Fabulous and Elmish, that provide a very similar programming model as Elm does.

You can even share code between all your target platforms:

https://github.com/retendo/FSharp-CrossPlatform
Absolutely. The headline does Amazon a favor by distancing corporate greed from their actual brand. E.g. this brutality would make me think twice about working as a SWE there.
I think that distinction is strictly connotative. From pure definitions, human trafficking and "people smuggling" are synonymous.
Ask HN: What are some architectural decisions that improved your codebase?
Dear senior developers on HN,
What are some examples of design choices that helped you reduce the effort needed to change your code according to change in requirements?
What are some of the architectural choices you made that made your codebase easier to work with?
Someone mentioned the Aswan dam nearby; that would provide a good counter-controllable source of power. But in general it's going to be predictably sunny in the desert and align well with AC usage.
I've found many great sites recently using https://wiby.me/ which definitely feels like a search engine of old
Is it brain or Brian?
> Somehow it worked fine with everything under one roof for low price, until Netflix streaming contracts expired.

a) That literally never, ever happened.
b) Netflix has to take out billions in debt bonds every year.
i can read Cypher having almost zero experience with it, i have no idea what a slightly-more-than-trivial SPARQL query does.
What Google services are you talking about exactly? Recall that KaiOS doesn't run Android, so just becomes it comes bundled with Google Maps & co doesn't mean that Google receives any kind of data if you don't use the apps.
>It would appear that it was easier for the hotel to get these negative reviews taken off TripAdvisor than from other sites.

Did you mention anything about the 150 pounds in your review?

IMHO, "complaining about price" in any arguable fashion seems to be reason enough to get something removed.

If you would have said "I really disliked their checkin process", the review would probably stand.

I have done consulting for an extreme micro-manager of a small business who was on the phone to trip advisor with every single negative review she received. The only time she was ever able to get a review removed was if it mentioned her prices in some fashion.
Yep. I've run Barnacles for a few years and became the Lobsters admin almost two years ago. They use the same codebase.

https://github.com/pushcx/barnacl.es
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
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> And in the end it did not matter much.

I'd have to disagree with you there.

I spent time in Israel and in Brooklyn, and I've personally met at least 3 Jews who were alive when I met them because of good Germans/Austrians who broke Nazi law to help them escape.

I think HN often concerns itself with whole populations because a lot of what we're talking about is public policy, and policies at large corporations, which do affect large populations. But the fact is that for most people, the ethical choices we get to make only touch a few people at a time.
I'm not going to defend KPMG, but spreadsheets are how things get done when you're in your cube and you just need it done.

Spinning up "a webpage form" in a corporate environment has A LOT of overhead and complications. It can't be done on the fly.

In many places, creating "a webpage" means putting up something on Sharepoint and possibly dealing with it's BOFH. That's a rabbit-hole I would not wish on my worst enemy!
If you go “off contract” with Frontier it goes up quickly. My bill reverted to $200 / month and I didn’t have premium tv channels and only 1 cablecard and 150Mbps.
Made some changes to get to Internet only at 500Mbps for $50/month. That includes the modem I don’t need and can’t not pay for.
gandi.net offers them, though they're significantly more expensive than what has been mentioned in this thread already.
Because America, the country with mostly native English speakers, is 4x more populous than Germany.
In criminal cases involving leaks, agreements like these often cited in complaints as foundation the defendant knew and acknowledged the sensitivity of the information.

- Jeffrey Sterling: https://fas.org/sgp/jud/sterling/indict.pdf, https://fas.org/sgp/jud/sterling/

- John Kiriakou: https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/documents/kiriakou-compl...

Like Snowden's case, they tried to work around the Publication Review board and all spoke to journalists.

There are mechanisms for people in the situation to file complaints without going public: House and Senate Intelligence Committees, or to the CIA's Office of the Inspector General. (Jeffrey Sterling's case mentioned this, https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1639333.html#foot...)
No, they used arm.

Also, there are x86 android devices but I wouldn't expect them to be any more friendly than arm-devices.
I have seen managers thinking the best thing about "agile" is enforcing staff discipline and maximal productivity ("stay on track", "press you ahead", "can not be too lazy"). It usually leads to a process that it really is still waterfall, but with, like, total surveillance and constant stress and developers being treated as interchangeable widgets.

It is sad to me to see a non-manager saying this is somehow the part they _like_.

The best experience I've had with agile processes was also one of the least stressful and most relaxing workplaces I've been in. I knew what I had to work on, I could trust that it was the _right_ thing to work on that wouldn't be a waste of time, and I had no pressure to "push myself", what could get done in work hours was what could get done in work hours, and sometimes you had to schedule some R&D/exploration time too. (The analogy of "sprint" is actually alarming when you think about how it's used -- you can only "sprint" for a short distance, you can't do back-to-back springs for 20 miles, the human body doesn't work that way!)

I think that may actually be one of the fundamental divides in "agile", whether someone is trying to use it as a productivity tool to "press ahead" developers who would otherwise be "lazy", to squeeze out the maximum possible work out of them, being unconcerned if you burn them out cause you can just replace them with another commoditized developer slotted into the "scrum".
Less so on desktop, but Ive been arguing for a while that Microsoft could ship the Windows shell+Bing/OfficeGraph on top of Android and instantly reenter the Mobile Phone arena. It's something they could ship that installs on existing phones. People could "convert" their Android experience and "fall in love with Windows all over again" or whatever BS marketing wants to put out. The important part though would be a unique visual identity, and pushing people towards Microsoft apps and services, away from Google.

Google made this play easy by splitting off Play Services. Now all Microsoft has to do is essentially replace Play Services with Windows Services, Microsoft Services, Azure Services, or if Microsoft names it, Microsoft Windows Azure Team Site Foundations Forefront Services.

I know they have the Launcher, but to actually put a dent in Google Android, Microsoft needs to play more like Amazon and Fire os, including their own curated store.

Microsoft has embraced Android, if it Extends it, it would be logical to think that Microsoft Services would end up being a single package of cloud services that transcend Android and Windows, with the same servers, and Client implementations that best fit the OS capabilities.
Why? GraphQL is about modeling business domain objects in graphs [0] and querying them.
Isn't that basically what Graph DB languages do too?

[0] https://graphql.org/learn/thinking-in-graphs/
This is a very good point: the compelling value proposition of AI isn't that is accurate; it's that we need no human tweaking.

I mean, it HAS to be accurate. But once it can replicate the accuracy of humans (which isn't 100% in many use cases), what I demand from an AI is that it removes the need for day to day maintenance.

This post focuses entirely on where AI research is going, and indeed we need the bread and butter of human intelligence to get us there; but from a business perspective, what I'm trying to do is outsource my non-core business units (and some core ones) to someplace called AI, that upgrades what companies used to do when they outsourced to India: a good enough alternative that becomes cheaper.
What does the social science research say in precise terms?

Are you sure it doesn't just say that external factors created or create pressures against taking extant opportunities, rather than those opportunities don't exist in the first place?
.in-addr.arpa is widely used for reverse dns
This makes me wonder if there's a luxury service somewhere providing the kind of access people want at an expensive, but reasonable price. So I don't have to go about building and maintaining a public resource.
But to be fair R. Kelly is being accused of pretty awful crimes which I don't see an equivalent from Disney...
JPMorgan's Python code won't be updated to Python 3 in time
If you accept the premise that Facebook is hemorrhaging users (or worried about hemorrhaging users), these sorts of products makes sense as a means to ensure you ALWAYS have a active Facebook account.

Kind of like everyone has a Google account, either through personal gmail-esque services, a google-for-education account, an android device, a Google IoT device, their work account, etc.
>Do you trust Facebook to adhere to their publicly stated privacy policy?

Yes. Definitely.

> Do you think they have honored those policies in the past?

I believe they have though I have not been at Facebook very long so I don't have full visibility on this. But I don't think that's the most important question. The most important question is: were these policies strong enough? The answer is definitely no and that's why the company is pivoting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtxPdezclYw&feature=youtu.be
That's the standard excuse when archeologists find something they can't explain.
If there is some geographical last mile type issue to bring internet to these buildings that are surrounded by fiber, it could be helpful to pitch the church/hospital with a wireless link from one of the fiber pops. I have brought service to medical and hospital buildings in this way before and it's always worked out well.
It certainly did in 1765. Do you really think the government should have a monopoly on force? Might = power, you disarm the population and they are rendered powerless. I just don't understand putting that much trust in the government
I sure hope you mean Mbps otherwise I'm moving there!
Why would religion prohibit consumption of pork, or cooking meat in milk?
nato.int is the coolest domain in the world for me.
> In contrast, the rigidity of the waterfall process is frequently used as a bureaucratic weapon to prevent these discussions from even happening. Decisions made in the project's initial stages are held to be settled and unalterable, and those seeking to overturn them usually have to fight a horrendous, uphill battle to do so, even when they're in the right.

So much this. I can't count how many times I had a client tell me "We want the delivery on the proposed time, on budget, I don't care" even when analysing the client's design it shows obvious flaws and won't work as intended. Most of them usually gets fired from doing this, months later, but even so they just get another same-level job on another company, and the cycle goes on.

There's no development methology that will ever work on irrational business demands, and that happens all the time. Sometimes I think HN's users are just too entrenched at product-driven companies, or B2C ones, and never get to experience the amount of BS and CYA that happens on B2B, large-business deals.
Edward Snowden has been hitting on this point for a long time. This is from an article from 2014[0]:

“It’s no secret that we hack China very aggressively,” he says. “But we’ve crossed lines. We’re hacking universities and hospitals and wholly civilian infrastructure rather than actual government targets and military targets. And that’s a real concern.”

I don't think that you can in good conscience argue that the NSA has been open and clear about their attacks on foreign civilian targets. The Obama administration repeatedly attempted to draw a line between the sort of hacking the US performed, for national security reasons, and the kind of "cyber espionage" that China and Russia were undertaking.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
Let's recognize that the headline should read:

Amazon Will Cut Health-Care Benefits for Nearly 2k Whole Foods Employees

I am guessing that due to the food perspective of the blog they focused on the Whole Foods aspect of the story, but this is clearly a dystopian corporation story, not a grocer story.
What about non-ASCII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
Yes, that's what I was suggesting
Absolutely, it's a highly effective tactic that has resulted in success across continents and centuries. It's nice that peace is so taken for granted in developed countries, but it is an outlier in the human experience.

And to the commenter who said modern militaries could never be stopped by small militias, you have only to look seriously at our adventures in Afghanistan and the fact that we're still there. The AK 47 is a less accurate, high-recoil stamped out piece of garbage compared to the AR 15, and it's all you need to stop a modern military in its tracks for decades.
That's weird. My SVGs do not get rasterized when resizing. I just tried (Powerpoint 2019) and I can resize, move, turn, mirror, cut etc. and they stay in vector form.
In my experience, architects who are valuable to their teams tend to be the ones who rarely do any "architecture" themselves; instead they work their arse off trying to smash apart every last blocker to the engineers in a team being able to own architectural responsibilities themselves. (This may include asking smart questions to help a team who don't really do systems thinking start engaging with it). This inevitably ends up off in the EA realm grappling with Conway-type questions: not so much "how should we structure our software to make it good?" as "how should we structure our organisation so it naturally produces good software?"

Sadly these people are also rare as it requires a combination of sufficient technical skill and the ability to effectively navigate the people side of the equation.

The "white paper" style of architect is very frustrating in comparison, not least because they are too removed from the context and impact of their decisions. This results in a situation where a team views their architect as merely a source of additional work, much of which is frustrating and pointless if not outright damaging to the system being built.
How much of that is also a tax write off for the Telco?
Huh, well that's my new thing I've learned today. I only ever heard it in conjunction with curry-type things (katsu chicken, which was always served with curry, for instance).
I have an Alcatel GO Flip stuck on KaiOS 1.0. It's terrible. I have to reboot the phone at least once a day or it slows down to the point where the UI doesn't respond to certain events, such as initiating a call.

The UI and functionality would be nice if not for the bugs. Maybe they have fixed a bunch of them in later releases, but my provider isn't providing updates.
Hello there, montmorillonite is good for removing different things, but if you simply put that into a cup of coffee, you will be drinking muddy coffee. The Decafino team has spent more than 3 years developing the Decaf Pouch using plant extracts and earth minerals and did hundreds of coffee tastings to make sure that the coffees taste great. There was a lot of knowledge, time, and effort put into the development of this decaf technology with health and sustainability in mind. Their goal is to make the product more affordable and available to everyone in the long-run, and hope you can support them.
You made an email "feeder", ready to suck every mail from any developer and sell the data back to some marketing company.
If he spent a morning conspiring to profit at his employees' expense then he earned more while dreaming of their demise than he actually saved by clawing back their healthcare. AWS alone nets something like a million in profit an hour. This is why we should stop using AWS. AWS is disproportionately enabling this horrible person.
Or Venezuela. As part of consolidating power, often authoritarian governments implement an arms buyback or confiscation program to minimize armed uprising later on.
I like the hardware camera covers. My latest desk phone came with one, and it's a good feeling to know that this camera that's pointed at me all day is physically blocked. Tape works, but is ugly.

Of course, given a choice, I'd prefer to have fewer cameras pointed at me.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is some users might consider subscribing to a more expensive (like $20-$70/mo) streaming service if it has content-sharing deals and a promise of no ads or availability windows. There is definitely an enthusiast market out there that wants the best quality and experience, and having to use several different streaming services that may not have what you want to watch when you want to watch it is not a great experience when compared to some of the less legitimate options.
Damned socialists! How dare they try to undercut good patriotic americans like Comcast?@$!?#@!# Who are they to want to pay less for better service on a utility that costs 1/5 as much to run than it costs to use?? Go back to Russia!
> It was processed because we didn’t have the ability to process lactose after weaning.

I understand that this is the assertion made by the article. I'm saying that the article presents this as the only possible explanation, which it isn't.
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Not exactly, his job as CEO of Amazon is to drive shareholder value.

You can complain about the system but its silly to call names at the people who play the system best.
This is the message I hear very consistently about Inkscape. The people who love it most are the occasional users. It's good enough for small, infrequent work.

They seem to keep pushing it as a professional alternative to Adobe Illustrator, but no matter how many individual features they add, it just doesn't seem designed for that kind of user.
I believe the previous poster was talking about ethnicity and you are talking about race. Race=biology and ethnicity=culture. The census mixes the concepts of race and ethnicity. That is why if you total the census percentages in your wikipedia article they come out to 110%. Some people are double counted in two different groups in the census.
FLOPs is probably not a very sensible measure for measuring hardware from 1985, nothing had FPUs back then.

Novix claimed that it achieved 10 MIPS at 7.5Mhz drawing about 0.35W. Kind of hard to verify how accurate their claims were with the chips being impossible to find though.

Also from 1985, a 20Mhz MC68HC000 drew 0.38W[2] for 3.5 MIPS (going by 0.175 MIPS/Mhz[3]).

So if you believe Novix's claims it had really good power efficiency for the time.

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/w/images/a/a6/nc4016.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second
How does gun ownership not make sense to farmers, hunters, and most people living in truly rural areas, e.g. Appalachia?

Look, I'm all for stricter gun laws, but at the same time not everyone lives in a (sub)(ex)urban area and a blanket ban simply will not work.
Disney owns wayyy too many different subsidiary companies and IPs to just focus on wholesome, family programming. Like they own Fox, FX, ESPN, National Geographic, Hulu, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, huge chunks of other networks like A&E and Vice Media.

You know that hip, edgy Vice News, the one with stories about doing drugs in war torn Africa? Yeah Disney owns like ~16-20% of that.

Disney is EVERYWHERE; be afraid of The Mouse.
Gremlin traversal language is a piece of a complete database query as run by TinkerPop's Rexster database. You can see it as a lazy sequence or stream API (think srfi-41 or r7rs scheme generators) with sugar syntax optimized for property graphs.

To take complete advantage of TinkerPop Rexster you really need to embed the Gremlin DSL inside a Turing Complete language (like groovy) and execute that.

I think Gremlin failed because a) the similar look to SQL of cypher queries b) long running and massive marketing campaign by the company behind cypher. c) since tinkerpop developers were hired by the company behind Cassandra, tinkerpop (and Janus graph) have lost momentum.

All this narrow data expert systems that persist data on-disk (!) are doomed to fail! The future is ordered key-value store and multi-model databases with ACID transactions.
That reads as extremely biased analysis (to put it lightly).
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Aha. When you wrote:

> This really set my alarm bells ringing

I interpreted this as "red flag", or "something fishy going on".
Anyone who believes that the US Government is committing terrible acts, but also wants them to take away firearms is in a really indefensible rational position.