skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then, you might also like: Think Python [1] and related interactive course [2]

[1] https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/

[2] https://runestone.academy/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.h...
HN lambasts audiophiles every time stupid expensive audio gear comes up, yet here we are paying $hundreds for gimmick keyboard stuff.

SF developers making $100k or two a year just aren't in the same money league of the audiophiles spending $thousands on speaker wire.

EDIT: I'm not mad at any of the above groups I've mentioned; everybody gets their kicks from something, as well they should. I'm just mentioning what I see.
Actually, most of the advice to clone the drive was Linux live-cds that boots right into a cloning tool, like Clonezilla Live.

The only reason I didn't jump at it was that I by a fluke didn't happen to have a USB stick or CD to write to handy to install it when I needed it, or I'd have done that.

Windows System Image wouldn't have helped - before applying the patch I had to dig through forums to find, nothing on Windows recognized the device at all.
This problem seems compatible with a permaculture approach: Shape your land and crops to form a synergy with the environment and local flora and fauna.

I have no clue on how to keep elephants out, though. Chicken wire?
Can't see any company information, or location of domicile anywhere. It's a financial product and some admission of propriety is required

Furthermore is this a rebrand of a product? https://www.cryptonaut.org/
There is a third way. Suburban single-family zones full of cul-de-sacs are designed to be metaphorically put under glass and never changed. Building massive towers, on the other hand, is very drastic and has the potential to destroy the character of a community.

I like the approach advocated by the Strong Towns movement: allow the next increment of development by right, everywhere. So a neighborhood of mostly single-family homes should allow accessory dwelling units (mother-in-law apartments) and conversion to duplexes by right. A neighborhood of duplexes should allow conversion to triplexes or quadplexes by right. A neighborhood of those should allow conversion to even denser development like townhomes, and multiplexes, etc. This allows a town or city to grow gradually and naturally.

The way they put it is, "No community should have to experience extreme change... but no community should be exempt from change". Wanting to build massive towers to address housing shortages is not ideal, but it's an understandable reaction, when it's illegal to address the shortage by having every neighborhood in the city "thicken up" a bit.

This is how the great cities we love all over the world became great -- through gradual, incremental change and intensification.
If you assume an all peaceful, restraint police who use violence only as a last mean, then yes.

But in reality, there have been plenty of peaceful protesters beaten to hospital or caught up in tear gas clouds, just because the police decided to dissolve the demonstration with force, because a handful of protestors were aggressive (sometimes not even that).

But and this is a big but! The german police in general is actually quite restraint and uses deescalation tactics. But sadly it is getting worse again.
Shouldn't this be an easy hypothesis to test?

Or a cohort that has taken some sort of anti-fungal med and we could look at their outcomes?
Chernobyl is so different from a modern reactor, that it's not really useful to judge to current risks with existing reactors, let alone planned new Gen III+ reactors which are orders of magnitudes safer.
Homeopathic isn't the same as folksy. Folksy may or may not work, but at least there could be some potential method of action beyond the placebo effect. Homeopathic treatments are just placebos. They have been diluted repeatedly to the point where they don't actually contain any active ingredients.

For example, you put garlic into water, then take 1% of that water, mix it into another container of water, take 1% of that etc... Until the "medicine" doesn't actually contain any detectable garlic. The water supposedly retains some kind of "memory" of garlic.
The cable industry spent decades discovering the absolute maximum value they could extract from the consumer.

Netflix/Hulu have become successful in part because they undercut cable with lower subscription fees and fewer commercials.

It makes sense that once streaming becomes the dominent mode of television consumption, with traditional cable pushed out, that they begin to adopt some of the more aggressive value extraction mechanisms as did traditional cable service.

I predict the same will happen, or perhaps it's already beginning to happen, with Amazon in the retail sector (Amazon is providing more value for less money compared with traditional retail, which is causing retail chains to close shop, which will lead Amazon to discover new ways to extract new value once brick/mortar chains are gone and no longer competing).

But, that is capitalism.
Then those lights aren't going to take a feed from Waze to adjust themselves anyway. My point is that if analyzing traffic flows would let cities adjust light cycles to manage traffic, they could already do it -- they don't need a data feed from Waze.
I've had good success using Postgres' built-in CSV import/export command (COPY) in the past — depends on one's workflow, obviously!

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-copy.html
The article points out PR firms in Nigeria, Egypt and UAE.

> Increasingly, we're seeing more PR firms or strategic communication firms offer computational propaganda as a service for all sorts of clients, including governments.

Now consider this, if this happens at this scale for the small cost of $150.000 how many pr-firms are engaging in propaganda against some commercial target right now without your ever noticing?
It is if you're someone that only wants 1 or 2 of the services.
Do/did people regularly pay that much for cable without live sports? My understanding is that it’s usually the live sports channels (or HBO, etc) that would bump the cost into the higher tiers.
> Additionally, the maximum clock speed, accessible in Linux via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq, is not available in cloud-based or other virtualized environments.

Why? To prevent side-channel attacks?
Assuming you’re writing sarcastically, I don’t understand how that isn’t improvement.
Don't you dare to fire me from your hypothetical company! In a more serious note, where did you find that drinking Tejeva is making them more productive? It sounds like an mild addiction wish I suspect is doing the opposite.

The infinity was to make a point about resources, you put much focus into it and is just a silly hypothetical scenario to state a point.

In organizations there is always problems with people and always problems with the system, pointing out the former doesn't mean one doesn't acknowledge the later; and like I said their solution for the future of just buying more stock is correct, so I agreed the system is flawed, their previous behavior is _also_ on the wrong and the one that raises red flags in a personal level.
Hulu shows commercials even if you pay.

I'm sure Netflix will start once revenue starts slipping.
Watching the content on 10 different services sounds like a full-time job. Who could possibly have time for that?
There are commercials on all of the "cable replacement" steaming services. I use YouTube TV and it's worse than cable. They prevent me from watching my DVR content for certain content, instead forcing me to watch the "on demand" version with unskippable ads. Comcast/Xfinity DVR never did that. The only real benefit is that it's slightly cheaper and supports multiple "profiles".
Guns can be used for crime, including child sexual abuse and terrorism, so why shouldn't we ban them too?

Right to bear arms is in the constitution, and so is the right to unreasonable search/seizure.
It amuses me to hear you say that, since for years people complained about bundling from the cable companies. They wanted to pay a la carte for exactly the channels they'd consume, in the belief that the price would be lower by removing the channels that they didn't want.

The situations aren't exactly parallel, but in a lot of ways we got what many people always wanted, but that doesn't make everybody happy. I draw no conclusion from that observation, other than to note it.
This. Cable television at least has bundling economics going for it [1]. In most cases, streaming services don't. (Save, perhaps, for the forthcoming Disney+ bundle with ESPN+ and Hulu.)

[1]: http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...
How to protect your ERP system?
It's more likely that I turn back to pirating. I'll lazily buy 1-3 services and whatever else I really want, I'll just rip those from the interwebs.

Streaming is only convenient when products aren't siloed. If I need to keep track of more than n services (different n for different people), piracy just becomes the more convenient option.

I'd like to pay the hard working people that produce shows I really like. The middleman is just making it really difficult to do.
Why minus sports content?
This has been said many times but it's worth repeating it. Piracy is coming back and is coming back hard.

The last piracy boom didn't have highly scalable clouds, gigabit download connections, mobile, commercial VPN services, mainstream machine learning, etc. This fragmentation is going to lead to a situation with a high demand for pirated shows and movies and there are plenty of folks in this world willing to capitalize on that.
With Comcast cable TV we had a rather large "on demand" library of content. Almost every network offered their content in this manor.
"A company can easily stock more stuff."

The creep's behaviour isn't different from the multi-billionaire who has a scheme to shift his company profit-centre to Luxembourg to avoid paying corporation taxes. If everybody behaved in the same way, the employer would eventually end up providing the entire locality with free chocolate-milk.

And the creep's response is the same as the response you hear from those avoiding corporation tax: "Hey, it's perfectly legal, it would be irresponsible of me to pay more than I have to, why should I buy my own if $EMPLOYER provides it for free".

If you extend that fully, you get people sponging off the taxpayer-funded health and social security systems, which results in taxpayers voting for cuts in funding for those systems, which makes everybody happier (hang on, musht be shome mishtake).
> It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.

Why is that?

For years, I heard people saying "I just wish I could get ala carte cable". Well, the future is now.
I’m not a huge fan of nukes for various reasons but dams have a number of problems not well appreciated by the general public. There is often an ecosystem issue (as they cut of migration of animals and plants) which can have cascading fissures, and can build up a reservoir of heavy metals, farming runoff etc behind the dam.

These problems have lead to dam removal (in he western USA at least) to restore fisheries and other resources.

Nothing is without consequences of course so it’s hard to praise or condemn any single approach.
In fairness, the same is probably true for dams, as well - we've gotten a lot better at engineering them.
I am working on an application that will allow chat and a shared file system (cross-OS). It will feature end-to-end encryption through key exchange and it will be mostly peer-to-peer.

The basic idea is that users should have privacy. Real privacy would disqualify a service in the middle from intercepting and retaining user traffic. There must be some compromise though because the current internet model makes actual peer-to-peer without a middle service incredibly challenging. This is the problem I am attempting to solve, a client-to-client model instead of a client-server-client model. There will likely have to be a service in the middle to provide routing via DNS and tunneling via port 80 to get around things like firewalls and non-routable addressing, but traffic should be encrypted so that the middle service only provides a tunnel for encrypted data.

When I get far enough that I can turn this into a business I would not be able to serve advertisements to users, because their traffic would be encrypted. The disadvantage there is that I would have to find an alternate revenue model. The advantage here is that law enforcement could issue legal requests for user data and the only thing I could give them are account or billing details. I could not give out user contributed data, because you cannot give what you don't have.

I have also thought of a scheme to anonymize users in the system so that users are known to each other, but to everybody else the user ID is just some 128 character hash string bound to a private IP address. I haven't really thought through discovery yet, such as a user looking for their friend to exchange keys. With an anonymous user scheme in place user would have even more privacy. Users should never be anonymous to each other, because should be anonymous to those without access to their encryption. I will solve for this once I get to it.

As a service provider I would retain the power to disallow traffic via certain keys or anonymous IDs provided a proper legal request from a legal authority. If there is evidence of illegal activity gathered from regular police work I should be able to discontinue access to specifically identified accounts in accordance with the law, but it would require evidence I could not provide to law enforcement.

So far the shared file system operations are mostly built. I would like for this work as a Window-like GUI in the browser, which is built, and a command driven application from the terminal which is half built. I haven't started work on the security model or key exchange yet but I have a plan on how these should work. Once I debug copy/paste/delete from a file system on one computer to the file system on another computer from within the browser I will move on from the technical tasks to more revenue worthy tasks. I am almost there, but still have some work to do. This is taking long to write and test than I originally imagined.
I use Linux as my daily driver, so I’m no stranger to wonky interfaces (although thankfully, I spend a lot of time in a terminal). I consider myself a fairly learned software developer who knows their way around a computer, and it’s not that I can’t learn awkward interfaces. But Calibre makes it just difficult enough to figure out how to do what I want that I avoid it all together. Maybe this isn't your experience, but it’s mine.
For a family of 5, it is just 2 services each.
Hulu does offer an ad-free tier, it's like double the cost of the basic plan. I haven't sprung for it yet, but I'm sorely tempted.

I can see Netflix looking to a similar model in the future. What are they at now, $12.99? I can see the current base subscription going to $14.99, while simultaneously launching an ad-supported version priced around $7.99.

Edit: Netflix actually DOES offer a cheaper $8.99 plan currently. This one is restricted to one screen at a time, and does not offer content in HD. So if they stuck ads on it, maybe they could bring the price down to like $5.99.
The day that I see "Netflix Animation Studios" in the Cinema or online is the day that Disney Animation and Dreamworks will be shaking in their boots.
Wasteful.
> Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine fame once wrote a piece called Better than Free which I think kind of distills key points against competing with anything that can be had for free on/from the internet [0], which are:

Or maybe, you know, just have a better product. Case in point: NLEs. There are a whole bunch of free and sometimes open source NLEs, most of which just aren't particularly good.
I wouldn't mind going back to buying stuff a la cart if it weren't for the fact that buying access to an individual season of an individual show costs more than an entire month of service at the buffet.
Indeed, it is progress:

- No ads

- You can watch on demand

- Orders of magnitude more choice in what to watch

- Writers have a lot more flexibility. They don't have to be advertiser friendly.

- Writers don't have to write cliffhangers every N minutes so you come back after the ad break.

- Writers don't have to worry about sequence like they did with TV/Cable, because they know you'll be able to watch the show in order. Meaning that their worlds and characters can change and have real consequence.

Just pick your favorite 2 or 3 services. You don't have watch everything.
> There are commercials on all of the "cable replacement" steaming services.

No commercials on Netflix.

I"m sure they do product placement and other marketing stuff, though.
It's incredible how much mindshare ideas like this get. If you could cure pancreatic cancer by mixing garlic with water, diluting several times, and then drinking it -- nobody would possibly have pancreatic cancer.
I kinda prefer that... it's not ideal, but I like it better.
That is still piracy: you are knowingly taking part in unlicensed distribution. The networks don't care if you are downloading for later watching or streaming live, they just care if you are paying or not.
The phrase is a literal translation. I suspect they choose this wording to misslead, to be able to implement the law.

Just like they passed a new law in recent times, that increased the punishments, when firefighters and medics etc. gets attacked during work. Sounds good as well, I mean, what asshole would attack medics and firefighters?!?

The thing is just, that the law also applied to policemen. So when you are in a demonstration, peaceful and are about to get hit by the police who decided to end the demonstration with force, and your reflexes push back - then you can get prosecuted with a law that was advertised to protect firefighters.
I don't see the trust issue here. Indeed, upthread I saw somebody complaining about there being too many services, which would seem to be the opposite of a monopoly (to my not-legally-trained mind).
If you're looking for another source, Apple released iOS 9.3.6 and iOS 10.3.4 to fix the same bug: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210239, which will stop working correctly on November 3rd if not patched.
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I'm myself going back in time and just last week got my first Blu-ray player. They, and the discs, are quite well priced now, often below streaming prices. I'll keep Netflix though, but won't be getting another service.
i'm going to go against the grain here and propose an alternative arrangement

medium term, i don't see how democracy can function if E2EE becomes the norm (esp in the context of cryptocurrency). influence-buying, disinformation, collusion, bribes, bullying, etc become much much easier, and policing would become nearly impossible

instead, ban E2EE but allow each person to have multiple identities (with technical means to prevent them from being tied together or expose personal info - a nontrivial but solvable problem), ie Privacy via Multiple Identity or PvMI

this scheme would provide many of the benefits of E2EE (eg, preventing an employer from punishing your for political speech) while allowing policing of many illegal activities. one exception is that if the people became fed up with the govt and wanted to stage an armed rebellion, PvMI wouldn't help (though it would help get to the point of consensus that rebellion is needed). I'm not sure how practical the concept of armed rebellion is today, but I haven't written it off either. So this is a downside.

Can anyone think of any other not-harmful-to-society activity that E2EE helps with that PvMI wouldn't ?
Well, that will be the moment I leave Netflix.
And none of those $10/m services provide local news coverage, so give over to social media to find out what's going on in your community. Or pile on another subscription for your local newspaper.

And that's not even getting into sports.
Yes, good faith has to assumed otherwise a dialog is not possible. I was thinking that even with all participants acting in good faith, some may unintentionally "slip".
Not exactly. Being able to choose "Netflix" is a lot different than choosing a specific channel which is what people were referring to at the time.
I see, thanks, I read EU in the headline as short for Europe, not short for European Union.

The OP comment was about the headline being wrong, not the contents of the article, and I couldn't see where that was wrong.
My setup is the white version of this with the tenting kit but no wrist-guards (don't need them when its tented).

https://imgur.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards/BjycwBN

Here's the link to the keycaps alone with better pics. Unfortunately only available aftermarket now.

https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-oblotzky-gmk-space-cadet-key...

And here's the original:

https://www.rcsri.org/collection/symbolics-keyboards/symboli...

There's a bunch of extra function keys that extend the modern standard of CTRL-ALT-DELETE and supposedly enabled 8k command combinations that were useful for lisp machines. However, the later versions of them didn't have the same color scheme and dropped many of the additional keys for simplicity.
These days it seems people are doing one of two things:

1. Sharing account details. eg four people in a circle of friends, one will have Netflix, another Prime Video, someone else will have Now TV and so on. And each of them will use the others account so all of them get access to all of the services.

2. Some of the more well off individuals or less socially connected will sign up to two or three services and pirate everything else.

Whichever way you look at it, basically consumers have gotten fed up with the vendor lock ins and have gone back to sharing content.

It has always been this way though. Even when VHS's were a thing, you'd get families which would share videos with each other. Sometimes those films and TV shows were just recorded straight off the TV. This is also why I think there is a culture where people don't care about downloading content because there has always been an understanding that it was fine to record stuff on the TV and radio for personal consumption back before the internet was in every home. The daft thing is the TV and film industry had a massive opportunity to disrupt this culture but instead their own greed has just encouraged people back into old habits.

I know regulation isn't a popular topic on here but I do wonder if it's time someone stepped in and said "You guys need to start cooperating together!"
Because sprawl has enormous externalities that the proponents thereof refuse to pay for, and likely couldn’t actually afford without massive subsidies. I know lots of people have a homestead fetish (which I don’t deign to understand), but it’s not sustainable.
If we’re talking subscription tiers with commercials, the cost per month for a bunch of services is much cheaper than cable equivalent.
I think Robert's Rules should be treated like our dev team treats Batsov's Ruby Style guide (1): Use them as a starting point but forked and modified as appropriate for our use case. And then maybe another teams likes ours better, and uses it as a starting point and forks it to make changes. Recurse as needed.

Too bad it wasn't published initially on github in 1876. What were they thinking.

(1) https://github.com/rubocop-hq/ruby-style-guide
As we have seen many times over, cars and other civilian vehicles have been used for criminal purposes on many levels.

You will live and die before we get into banning things just because there are bad, or mentally unstable people in this world.
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