skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>. They should’ve let people link individual Netflix accounts together

Spotify does that and it's a complete deal breaker.

I want to log in to all my home devices _once_, with a single account. Not continuously log out and log in and try to type complex passwords with a remote control. I mean, I can't even play different songs on different Google Homes or different TVs with Spotify, unless I sign in with different account on each - and then each device is stuck with a specific set of playlists. Horrible.

Netflix's system has worked out brilliantly for us - we have half a dozen TVs, and any member of the family can watch anything they want on any TV with their own preferences and profiles with minimum hassle.
> The level of complexity this introduces seems to be way higher than anything in the original article.

I don't find it very complex at all. You send a message to a service. You want to get some state after, you query for it.

> but anything that deals with the cart - things like checkout, removing from cart, updating quantities, etc. Adding to cart has to be mindful of queued checkout attempts.

How so? Those pages just query to get the cart's state. You'd do this even in a sync system. The only difference is that on the backend this might be implemented via a poll. On subsequent pages you'd only poll the one time, since the 'add-to-cart' call was synchronous.

> But by using asynchronous comms you're actually introducing more state into your application than synchronous comms.

I don't see how. Again, with the cart example, there is always the same state - the 'cart'. You mutate the cart, and then you query for its state. If you have an expectation of its state, due to that mutation, you just poll it. You can trivially abstract that into a sync comm at your edge.

def make_sync(mutation, query):
mutation()

while not expected_state(query()):
# handle retry logic/ timeouts
I wonder if they could just flip a sign and penalize seo tactics and make search good again.

I mean all the seo’d sites have self labeled themselves as having worthless content. You really just need a search that filters them out.
That thread also misinterprets the study. The question asked is multiple-choice, so you can't just add up the numbers the way he does (what's weird is that he acknowledges this, and then adds up the numbers anyway…) Depending on how you imagine the percentages to overlap, you can kind of have it say whatever you want.
Didn’t necessarily mean the sentiment itself. Just expected a bit of hate for bringing it up period. Forgot this isn’t reddit.
This great...will be more awesome once I can use touch id as the authenticator
This gets a couple things wrong:

1) People who aren’t citizens are still entitled to public education. Many green card holders go to US public schools, for instance

2) Anyone born on US soil is a US citizen regardless of their parents immigration status
Install uBlock Origin, a plugin for Chrome and Firefox, and enjoy never seeing an ad on YouTube again. Takes like 3 seconds to install.
> If killing-technology advances to the point that one person can kill seven billion, we will have a major problem on our hands.

Don't we already have the technology for that? I see no technical reason that prevents totally automating the execution of launch commands for existing nuclear arsenals (i.e. building literal, not figurative, nuclear button).

The issue is that academics in other countries do not have qualms like yours, which could eventually give those countries a destabilizing competitive advantage. From the OP:

> America’s adversaries understand this. China is tightly integrating its defense establishment with startups, companies, and academia in “military-civilian fusion.” Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

So the question is: will it be an improvement over the current status quo if one or more of those countries gains military edge over the US? Will things be better if, say, the US lacks the military technology to repulse a conventional invasion of Taiwan by the PRC, because Chinese scientists developed better stealth coatings or better missile seekers, while the American ones said "I'd rather not"?
"You loved us so much you broke us."
We use Retool.com with our Postgres & other data sources.

The benefit we can also build tooling and workflows, in addition to the metrics, tables and charts.

Early on you don't necessary don't exactly what end up needing, so malleable tool is useful.
> Of every money transfer service, its the fastest bar none

How is it faster than other instant transfer services, like Zelle or Venmo?
At many scales, nature outpaces any human activity. Even fashion isn't as rapid as a plague of locusts.

I think this figure inappropriately separates humans from nature.
But note that action movies do more in the way of advertising firearms than any picture in a specialized magazine ever could.
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If the company money becomes part of the individual's compensation, I don't see how it matters.

Also, this sounds super speculative. As far as I can tell David Mikkelson has been accused of these things, by his former wife. They may be true, but I don't have any evidence of that, I'm especially sensitive to the fact that in a situation like a messy divorce, lots of bad things start flying around.

I couldn't find any of this coming to a legal conclusion that indicates the above accusations were true. It seems like it would be easy to show if he used company funds for personal trips, etc... the cheating/prostitute purchases probably harder to prove.

I'd be curious to know how you buy anything if you can't spend money at places where adulterers work. I acknowledge that's kind of a sarcastic question, but it seems like you have more of a problem with Snopes than the owner, which is fair (but I acknowledge I'm putting words into your mouth and don't intend to walk away from this believing my assumption).
BTW chrome webassembly is 2 time slower than pnacl.
Evolution doesn't plan, no, but when you're looking at survivorship, can you still call it a coincidence?

Co-evolution uses happy accidents all the time, but then some of those accidents get baked in, and what's left over is the result of that accident.

Peppers became more likely to be spread by birds because they became unsavory to mammals. Then what happened? And then what happened? And now we had pre-agricultural peppers, and now we have ... something else.
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And that, ladies and gentleman, is the awesome side of the USA.
If you're in Astronomy, you may be amused to read that there is some intriguing history on virtual authors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...
But unless you inform the audience of those times, they will continue being ignorant of when to use your advice, as if you'd never given this advice at all.
Yes, but I actually think primary authors in title actually being grant proposal writers and middle managers is far more destructive to academia itself.

I think it is the norm that a lot of people get primary credit on papers for doing what managers in every field do every day, and academia is busy obscuring their own processes as a result.
> Openshift 4.x is open-source.

That's great to hear. My mistake then, last time I've opened http://github.com/openshift/origin, I saw OpenShift 3.11 even though latest release was 4.2 at the time. From that, and given the fact that all other RedHat products are upstream first, I've made a conclusion that OpenShift 4 is no longer open-source.

> From my understanding, most of it's been blocked on Fedora CoreOS being at a state that it can be used for OKD and just putting resources onto setting up the automation for building everything for OKD.

What's the difference between OKD and OpenShift? Why does OKD use Fedora CoreOS, while OpenShift doesn't? Is it not the same code?

> Remember that Openshift 4.x fundamentally changed how Openshift does updates and that affects OKD a lot. Claytons email touches on this quite a bit.

Don't know Clayton or seen his email. I'm confused why would OKD use a different code than OpenShift. I though that the only difference between OKD and OpenShift would be the subscription.
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But they don’t need to take you to court to refuse you entry and put you on the first flight back home...
It is run by a non-profit as opposed to a government. Granted the SAT would also qualify as non-public so that just confuses things further.
And I'm surprised no one in China is worried about the government surveilling their financial transactions.
Thats exactly what I'm talking about, thanks
ESPN's streaming is one of the worst ones I've ever used. It is constantly buffering on my 275 Mbps downlink and every other time it has issues with authenticating to my provider.
I agree. I think judgement is a learned behavior, as most parents constantly judge their behaviors.

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched my one niece judge her little sister for a behavior that she herself had been admonished for a few minutes before. She just learned that bad girls do that, so now she’s informing her little sister that she’s a bad girl.
I'd love one that had just a standard headphone/mic input. Maybe even separate headphone and mic jacks like on a PC. No camera, no built-in mic.
And if they tell you stuff it? What are you going to do.

The best approach is to know your rights, remind them of them, then let them do what they are going to do.

Bad searches get solved in court, not at the time of the search. You may get lucky and have them back down if it's clear you know they have no right to search, but I wouldn't bet on it.
It’s funny I remember reading an article maybe 15 years ago saying bookmarking was dead because search had gotten so good.

It was kind of believable at the time.
Disney owns the controlling share in Hulu.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/business/media/disney-hul...
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Apparently it doesn't work well if it takes users multiple seconds to open an app. I have heard many complaints about iphones becoming unusablely slow after a few updates which is unacceptable since much older phones were able to run much more responsively.
Please drop your inevitable BER jokes below so we can recylce them properly later.
The US and its coalition partners went to conventional war to stop Iraq from developing WMD. How well did that work out? WMD development is mostly done in secret so we'll usually never have hard evidence of what any country is doing. It's just a totally unrealistic proposal.
Ah, like requiring down-voters to comment.
Only because the Supreme Court decided in 5-to-4 decision that the states don't have a "substantial state interest" that would allow them to deny it. See Plyler v. Doe.

Which is to say, the constitutional rights of non-citizens are hardly as obvious as they are for citizens.
> Now you've got to monitor your queue size (and ideally autoscale when the queue backlog grows), and have a dead letter queue for messages that failed processing and monitor that.

These are both trivial things to do though. I don't see how it's any more complex than monitoring a circuit breaker, or setting up CI/CD.

> Tracing requests is harder b/c now your logs are scattered around the worker fleet, so debugging becomes harder.

Correlation IDs work just as well in a queue based system as a sync system.

> You need more APIs for the client to poll the async state, and you need some data store to track the async state (and now you've got to worry about maintaining and monitoring that data store).

Not sure what you mean. Again, in the Amazon Cart example, your state is just the cart - regardless of sync or async. You don't add any new state management at all.
> Has a terrorist attack ever been carried out by a couple with children in the history of the world?

Depends on how you define "children". E.g. see https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/terror-attacks-the-inhum... but we're talking 15-year-olds, not 5-year-olds here (and note: 75% girls).

There is definitely an instance of a pregnant white woman trying to bring a bomb onto a plane (albeit unwittingly); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair

You are, of course, correct that the frequencies for the various things here are not uniform.
That is not my argument. My argument is that supporting this one form of monetization does not justify the existence of copyright. Tons of creative work exists outside that system now and existed long before copyright was a thing. Additionally, the negative aspects of the system far outweigh any monetary benefits creators may see from it.
An interesting spin-off I’ve witnessed here in the United States is putting a younger sibling’s name on papers and research reports submitted to things like the Intel STS and the Siemens Competition. It’s hard to show that there’s evidence of unequal contribution here.
> publish new information as a new post, don't silently update old content.

But the new post likely wouldn't rank as well as the old post, so you are less likely to find it using search. It would be a better user experience if the original post had a clear indicator stating that it was updated with new information on X date.
Venmo is just a frontend for PayPal.
Well, the Germans ARE world famous for their factories...

Edit: I was definitely referencing the Shoah where Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered six million Jews with brutally inhumane and genocidal efficiency.
Alas, a metric they just don’t care about is passenger feelings. The power tripping is real, and most people would consider being detained for hours to be a big issue, even if it never even goes to court.
This is a great article.

I've worked for defense contractors, but most of my time has been spent at a very conservative, results-driven, constantly-in-ship-mode commercial corporation.

It has taught me to make software that actually works; not software that looks like it works.

I don't give pitches; I give demos. I quickly learned to never try selling a pig in a poke. It had better work.

The problem with that, is that it takes more work and time to get to that phase, and, possibly, more risk.

It taught me to carefully evaluate projects, and plan for the long term.

I'm often painted as a "naysayer" because of this.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. I plan to succeed. That means shooing the unicorns and pixies out to pasture, and concentrating on the raw materials, and how we will get from here, to there. That often requires resource husbandry, and compromises.

I also NEVER assume that the MVP will be a "one-off." It WILL be the seed of the product for the long term, so it can't be rushed, and it must be of the highest quality that can be reasonably achieved. I generally optimize for quality over features for early-stage releases; knowing that we probably will never be given the chance to "go back and fix it later."

In that respect, the corporation was very much like the defense department. There's a story about Hyman Rickover, and how he'd deal with tech salesmen, coming to his office with sample kit. I'm not sure if it's true, but it is fun:

He is said to have taken the kit, walked over to his second-story Pentagon window, and dropped the device out onto the ground below.

"If it still works, I'll consider it." He is reputed to have said.
I'd really like to make a service that's like a fail-safe for company values. Something like:

The CEO/management puts half (or more) of their salary into some account, and at the end of every month the employees decide whether or not the company is going by its values. If not, certain charities which represent those values are given the money.
In an interview I watched on youtube Jim Simons says their trades provide liquidity and efficiency to financial markets, as to say they are effectively contributing to the economy, and not just earning money.
Heller vs DC: https://s3.amazonaws.com/oyez.case-media.ogg/case_data/2007/...
> There have been Christian terrorists, yes, but those strike me as exceedingly rare compared to Muslim terrorists

In the USA??? I think the opposite is true. How many terrorist attacks have you had on US soil this year, and how many of the perpetrators identified as Christian vs Muslim?
Right, which is why I was surprised they went with a big-bang launch, as opposed to bringing smaller cohorts of users online. However, from what I read, they tested it in smaller countries first, so maybe that wouldn't have helped much.
Sorry I meant the Korean one (CSAT?) which is indeed run by the government. That's interesting that American SAT is not run by the government directly.
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The "well-regulated militia" does not specify the minimum head count.
Have you tried talking to universities or university video providers (e.g. Echo360)?

A lot of universities are part of networks (e.g., the one I teach at, UNE in Australia, is part of the Regional Universities Network.) So they seem to fit the pattern of organisations that produce and host a lot of videos (course videos), don't like YouTube (we sometimes get told off for putting course videos there) and are part of networks that might like federated access to each others' video collections (while we mostly produce our own - it's not tv it's a teaching course and students usually want to hear from their teachers - sometimes we'll want to include something like a guest talk from industry).

Universities may be less interested in the bittorrent streaming aspect (they already successfully stream video and don't face the ridiculous peaks in demand because most videos aren't public) but ActivityPub to be able to search selected videos from each others' repositories could be interesting.
I don't understand how people can criticize the price of Netflix. Remember, just 10 years ago, the price of a single DVD ?
Hypothetically if it weren't appealed would it be the final say?
No.

> As part of the relief sought, Plaintiffs seek expungement of all information gathered from, or copies made of, the contents of Plaintiffs’ electronic devices including social media information and device passwords. [...] Although this is not a criminal case, considering the remedy for the unconstitutional search in the criminal context is illustrative of the extraordinary nature of the remedy sought here. Even where law enforcement officers have conducted a search in violation of the Constitution, the “fruits of [the] search need not be suppressed if the agents acted with the objectively reasonable belief that their actions did not violate the Fourth Amendment.” [...] even where criminal proceedings followed a border search that exceeded the bounds of the Fourth Amendment and the fruits of same were suppressed, expungement of the border agents’ files would not necessarily follow. Nor should it where other deterrents to border agents’ unconstitutional searches remain in place. [...] In light of this other relief, including declaratory relief, the Court DENIES the request for expungement of information

https://www.aclu.org/sites/all/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.h...
> Yes, but

One fraud doesn't justify the other.
> suspicionless
> There isn't anything fundamentally broken about government.

The government is simply the extreme version of "too big to fail."

And governments should be treated as "too big to fail" entities; a failed government is a very, very bad thing.

But it's also inevitable that government has the same problems as any organization with that label: misalignment of incentives, stagnation, tendency to corruption, reduced customer choice, inefficiency, etc.
It looks like a great story. I wish movies these days were as imaginative or risky.
You'd lose a lot and I'm not sure what you gain
So gaining java, ruby, R, python, etc support for the web are no gain ?
But the added value of graalVM is far beyond that, it revolutionize programming by allowing true polyglotism.

In economic terms, it would mean making accesible to the web millions of libraries which have a human/hours development cost of hundreds of billions of dollars.
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I believe disney has every advantage in the streaming wars so i decided to see if they have any open dev positions and i also decided to check what reviews of working there were like. Seems like Disney does not have an engineering culture and software engineers are at the bottom of the totem pole.
A US federal court finds suspicionless searches of phones at the border illegal
Hulu is so buggy on my TV I regularly think of cancelling it. I'm not sure how valuable their technical infrastructure is.
They are in some ways. Governments can respond very quickly to natural disasters or wars, for example. Sometimes they don’t, of course, and they’re roundly criticized for it.

And sometimes governments respond rapidly in very negative ways, such as when the Nazis passed the Reichstag fire decree [1]. This was the first major step to elevate Hitler to dictatorship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree
> switches are expensive

Uh, no they aren't.
It is "dead" in the sense that you are more likely to comment on the post on a third party site like HN or Reddit. A decade ago the conversation would be happening on the author's site, in the comments section. That died off because bots and click farms flooded comment boxes with spam and chased away legitimate visitors.

Authors of popular blogs didn't want to handle comment moderation, and once they started encouraging discussion directly on FB, Reddit or HN, it was game over.
Except travelers are not "on us soil" until granted entry by customs. Customs could just deny entry if foreign travelers won't voluntarily consent to search.
I have a recent note that says (from HN id=21495338), try makepad.github.io/makepad . My recollection is that this is such an example.
For what it’s worth, there’s a picture of me wearing a MAGA hat out there on the internet too. Ironically, of course, but I do sympathise with the guy. I do think it’s out of order for the Linux Foundation to ban him for this (although they claim there are other reasons).

That aside, this doesn’t mean I think he’s a good guy. From what I gather he seems like a normalish dude, maybe a little troll-ish, but I mean we all enjoy a good troll every now and then. I can’t hold that against him. But there’s no chance he wasn’t aware of the symbolism of posting that picture when he did. He pretends he doesn’t, but you’d have to be a fool to accept that.

I doubt he’s a Trump supporter or a racist, but even if he was I don’t think that’s good enough grounds to ban him unless there was good reason to think he was going to be a disruptive presence.

I decided to put all my cards on the table here because I’m a bit disturbed by the idea that you think that he was banned because he’s a white man? Banned by an organisation that is run largely by white men? Just trying to figure out how this works in your head.

Is it the white men on the board that hate him for being white? Is it the Asian men on the board that hate him for being white? Or is it the white women on the board that hate him for being white?

If you could clear that up, it’d be cool.
> Shouldn't we ALWAYS strive to get better at everything? Isn't that the point of scientific research?

…no?
The 'Peak Google' based on Peak Microsoft estimate I'd say missed it's mark because Google hasn't been smacked down with an anti-trust yet.
Someone made a joke last week about 'dogs domesticating us' and I pointed out that may not be quite as ha-ha crazy as it sounds.

There's also a thing about jackfruit and elephants? Aside from tool users they're the primary consumer, and they'll grab one while they're on the march and eat it when it's break time.
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