skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still the best among the major streaming companies.

Amazon's is designed to sell you episodes, meaning that it's complete garbage for actually trying to view shows. Instead of coalescing all the seasons and episodes for a particular title, they'll break them up into individual seasons that are usually NOT in alphabetical or chronological order.

Hulu? I tend to watch a couple shows on Hulu when I'm not viewing live TV. It is ALWAYS a giant pain in the ass to find those two shows. If I were at a computer it'd be one thing, but I'm sitting there with a remote trying to input text into a search bar.
Because not many people go to art school and pursue that route.

You'd be surprised how many high-level creative positions are available, especially in games. It's kinda political to get a position of course. But being an artist is pretty sustainable if you're willing to put out work for a studio of that sort.
I'm sure such ageism exists, but you also need to consider the nature of software development. Just over the past decade, we transitioned from one model of deploying software to a totally different one, evolved into a somewhat widely accepted orchestration platform etc. The nature of software developments seems to required that one be capable of learning new technology and be comfortable with understanding new frameworks and such.

I've encountered engineers older than me who are just as excited by new technology as I am and are willing to learn about it and offer their perspective and wisdom as to how its different from what they were used to before, conversations which I find fascinating.

There are also those who I will call less-enthusiastic about the changes; and quickly get overwhelmed by change and either move into management positions or into roles or companies with less change.

I don't think there is anything fundamentally better about one kind of engineer v/s the other. The problem is only when you place an engineer who enjoys the change in a role that doesn't involve much of it, or vice versa.
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Democrat [poltiicians] represent the ruling class just as much as Republican [politicians] do (evidenced by the fact that except for a few exceptions such as Bernie Sanders they go about fundraising in the same way: primarily from large donors). Given that, taking a more moderate stance regarding minorities is one of the few ways to differentiate themselves in a way that looks good to their base. In their ideal world 5 CEOs still own 95% of the country's wealth, but 3 of them are black, and maybe one's a lesbian.
That’s because other developed nations barely have militaries. Of those who actually do and deploy and do the things we do the numbers are probably about the same - very low.
Vimium extension for browsers allows Vi-like movement and mouse-free navigation. Things you learn from sysadmins ;)
The worrying thing about those rates for veterans is that the spike is in younger people, which is not the normal pattern.

There may be a "cohort" effect. See this tweet for an example of this happening in the UK: https://twitter.com/ProfLAppleby/status/1161940914308300801?...

If this is happening it's potentially really worrying, because risk usually increases with age. So we'd see an increase in rates of death as this high risk group ages into a higher risk group.
Fair :-)
China’s Government Is Letting a Wave of Bond Defaults Just Happen
People are so stuck on the acronym that think of MS as less of a tech company than Netflix? Microsoft is much larger than Netflix no matter how you measure it.
VScode ate everyone's launch, even Jetbrains must be cursing Microsoft every day.

That said, as emacs user, I see vim users switching to emacs/evil by the day.
Here's the tuition fee table for KULeuven.
https://www.kuleuven.be/inschrijvingen/registration/fees

This university is located in Belgium (where people speak Dutch, English and French), and ranks quite well.

https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2019/ku-leuven-rises-t...

Travel time from NY is about 7h. Sure, you might be in for a culture shock, but someone coming from Alabama will have a shock going to MIT or Caltech too.
I put RV ownership in that same category. A bunch of my neighbors own RV's. If I had to guess I would say they are parked about 350 days out of the year, in some cases 365. So, at the best utilization rate we are talking about being parked 96% of the time. In some cases they have to park them off-site and pay monthly storage fees. I now people who have had their RV's for over twenty years. I can't understand the math.

We've rented RV's three times in the last twenty years. The cost ranges from about $100 per day to a few hundred per day. That math I can understand. We even have a favorite RV camping spot we've been to where you can order an RV to be delivered and setup for you. You just show up and start your vacation, no need to drive an RV around at all!
One big thing is that, at least from anecdotal experience, the bottle or metal deposits are dedicated to bottles and metal cans, and so theyre pretty clean. People in the US are bad at not contaminating their normal recycling, which is part of why China stopped accepting imports of US recycling.
the other aspect that i just realized as I thought about this is that in evaluating Trump in grey thinking -- one may have him as light grey or dark grey...

but this depends merely on the prioritization of the factors that is assigned.

People who are benefited to an extent by Trump's impact/policies/actions have him at a light grey.

The next thing it leads to is a demonization of the group in light grey by the group in dark grey - instead of white and black.

why not the groups just agree to disagree and move on?
Having sold our Contessa 26 last year for cheap, I can say it has been the happiest day. I no longer worry about what is happening during a storm. We just got back from vacation aboard someone else's motor (sailing?) yacht where our bed, food, navigation, and boat maintenance was all done for us for less than it would cost just to haul out our old sailboat. I'd rather be sailing than doing any boat maintenance. As beautiful as that all that wood looks in the pictures, it is not fun to maintain unless that is what you like doing.
IMO, Netflix is at the stage where it collects mass preference to produce better movies by themselves, which creates a virtuous cycle for their bottom-line -- addiction to the platform of the mass & quality production.

I would think they will start charging more if the growth stalls AND enough stickiness of the platform is proven. Currently, they are making profits and growing in terms of revenue, so as long as the founder keeps the control and the company is profitable, I think it might make sense to pursue more subscription at the cost of short-term profitability.
> There should be a happy-clicky thing that non technical people could set up and it would force them to do it the right way, because the right way is the easy way.

Absolutely! There should be a default configuration path that is easily accessible. That is to say, the non technical user can basically just click Install and answer maybe one question and everything else is automatic with good defaults. Any additional choice will just cause pain, because non technical people won't have the knowledge to make informed choices.

> By happy-clicky, I mean, they create an account on any VPS provider, then click "add service", say how big to let it scale to, define what domain name to use and they are done.

This is crazy if we're talking about non technical users. A non technical user won't know what a VPS even is. They won't know what a service is or why they should add one. They won't know what scale means. Is it the one in the bathroom? What's a domain name?

Supporting federation of hosting with various VPS providers can be useful for advanced technical users but any mention of it should be avoided for a non technical audiance. There has to be a sane default choice made already for all these questions.
On the other hand, they are ~50 million.
If you have the means to build libraries and universities there's a world of things you can hardly do worse.
You are not a moderate if you are “left of the left” or “right of the right”.
RE slippery slopes, I think we need to talk about the "slippery slope fallacy fallacy" at some point. Slippery slope argument isn't invalid when there's actual slippery slope involved.

Or put another way, if you look at the dynamic behavior, there's plenty of structures around us that are metastable[0]. You can push and push on them, and they'll settle back roughly where they were - up until you cross a threshold, after which everything goes downhill very fast (and, at least in physics, releases a lot of energy in the process).

For instance, tragedies of the commons are such systems in real life. One or few actors abusing the commons a little bit can be tolerable. But the more actors discover that this behavior is tolerated, the more still start to do the same, and at some point a threshold is crossed and everyone starts doing it, the commons gets exhausted, and everyone is worse off.

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability
I guess ME modules are a kind of plugin for Intel's management engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Module...
Could someone explain what kinds of things this loader could be used for?
These people know it's wrong but still won't reassess because there are incentives not to. Greed is a hell of a human trait
> And this is why Debian exists.

I would say you have that a bit backwards, Ubuntu exists because of Debian - not the other way around. This would be like saying children are the reason parents exist.

Ubuntu has given me PTSD for anything that ever slightly resembles it so I will take a pass on Debian - many other distros out there.
I would suspect its true that most successful startup founders fall into the 80+ hour bucket, but I only have a handful of personal anecdata to support this (and for technical founders in the early days probably only 1/4 of that would be considered work, the rest being just an intense form of play!).

Re: Thiel, wasn't the point of that power law section meant to say that each founder should focus on what gives them leverage? I don't recall correctly.

"The Search" is the discovery of those things outside of your normal circles of concern, which makes it doubly-difficult to find _on purpose_. Felix Dennis describes the process more akin to an aware predator waiting for something to enter its kill-zone.
earning is a misleading figure anyway, a lot of these high paying jobs for graduates are in big cities where the cost of living offsets the higher income
I'd be open to that but a lot of literature on the internet basically says something to the effect of it prevents dreaming
A programmer as a job doesn’t exists because programming is in great majority of cases the easiest part of software development and/or engineering. Unsurprisingly it’s the people who are the most challenging at this job and the term ‘programmer’ is completely orthogonal to dealing with people.
It's not about whether they are equally right and wrong, but if they are equally far from the median or average viewpoint.

And I'd say it is very likely that they are. Almost by definition, in the sense that right and left are relative terms.

That being the case, I think PG is correct that accidental moderates should tend to average in the middle. In general.
>My pre-diabetes status is now gone.

Congrats. I hope you continue to be inspired and inspire others on your journey.
“Or more precisely, you have to be independent-minded about the ideas you work with. You could be mindlessly doctrinaire in your politics and still be a good mathematician. In the 20th century, a lot of very smart people were Marxists — just no one who was smart about the subjects Marxism involves”

I’m wondering if all the science heroes from that era were pro-Eugenics from a science or political position.
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All inconvenient truths shall be wiped under the carpet. Capitalism is a great thing and has brought us very far but you have to wonder if at some point it isn't going to undo all of that progress and put us back where we started or worse.
I have nothing against Capital One, but I must say that Netflix published this article in November 2018: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-information-secu...
I would expect folks to be prepared for this kind of vulnerability. Anyway the repo is for educational purposes and it's sarcastic name is, well, saracastic. Cap One is a great technology company.
OK, thanks, that makes some sense.

The issue I'd still raise is why we dance in time, several people organised with music, when dancing solo would seem plenty for such a display? That's what lots of animals do. But none of them synchronise it.
> There are several other related datasets that were "retired" around the same time, and those seem to be truly gone.

This is bad. Another reason that we need to demand that all public data should be available in a machine-readable raw format, not just a web frontend for access, and that we need to systematically upload datasets to archive.org.
I suppose that as long as you ignore both their methods, goals and who are they fighting against, there would be similarities.

I'm not convinced of the usefulness of such excercise, though.
AWS IAM is a hot mess. Even setting up an S3 bucket with an access key for uploading is a 15 step process, minimum, with a lot of opportunity to fuck up.
Revamped Apple Maps Expands to the Southeast and Central US, Completing Rollout
They are deliberately not providing the tabular list, categorization, and other features that most people would find useful. Most likely reason is, it would quickly reveal to broader audience how much content they really have and also how quickly they disappear.
What was working there like? Does the whole "this is a professional sports team you might be cut at any moment" culture impart fear or undercutting or blame shifting?

I worked at Amazon and I found that the horror stories were generally not true, but that if you ended up with the wrong manager could be very true. Always been curious about Netflix.
Thanks for scanning that! I used to read Computer Design back then, but I haven't seen one of the old issues in a while.

Coincidentally, the theme of this August 1983 BYTE is The C Language, with a dozen articles on C.

As always with these wonderful old BYTE magazines, at least skim through the whole thing. The cover art and the ads are a real treat. Hit the Home key and start from there!
A few years ago I read a National Geographic article about "microchips" that was written in I think 1983.

It was probably one of the most useful articles on the topic that I've ever read. Unassuming, and full of direct explanations (and detail).
Hah; no; nothing that odd.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dicking%20of...
shift+Home/End, ctrl+Home/End, ctrl+shift+Home/End

What does this ones do?
I hope we can archive websites as well as magazines and newspapers. I feel that although so much more information is available now, large portions of it will be lost over time.
What's missing from this model is a variable rate of turn. You want to turn so that your front bump stays at roughly a fixed distance from the bollard line. As you go, you slowly turn the wheel sharper and sharper until reach your maximum turn radius or you are lined up with your space. You can slightly vary that fixed distance as you go to adjust for minor differences in your initial position. You can also aim for a bit to the right/far side of the space (, and then re-center on the space once you are lined up.
Right and left are arbitrary constructs necessitated by a first past the post voting system. Change the electoral system and you will see much more diverse and meaningful party affiliation.

Diverse, yes. Meaningful, maybe. Look at Israel right now. 17 parties with seats in the Knesset, none with over 30%, and, after two elections, still no agreement on Prime Minister. Third election coming up.
Almost nothing people say is true for all. What said is true for a substantial number of companies though.
'So Far' is the key. They also used to all be on Netflix.

Money isn't an issue, it's mostly just annoying to have N services to juggle. Pirating's really easy - I use exactly one pirating website, and it's free. Way simpler.
I have strong feelings on this and am almost afraid to post because of, I suppose, the stigma of being a hard worker. But this is what I’ve seen & experienced:

1. Hours worked & productivity are interrelated variables but they do not equal each other. So you have to explore the other variables involved in your productivity equation if you want to control effects on productivity.

2. The brain works on solving big problems even when you’re not actively focused on it. Anyone who experiences the effect of coming back to a problem they were beating their heads on for a while and quickly figured out a path forward has experienced this first hand.

3. If you’ve bought into this, then also consider that your output is solved problems. That’s what other people will see about your work. If the outcome is that you stayed at the office for 12 hours solving a problem, versus at work for 6 hours, said f this, went home, came back the next morning and worked the problem out in an hour, then what was the difference?

You kinda keyed in that a lot of work is not creative, so I think that kinda fits into this framework too. I find that doing rote work is a nice warm up or wind down block of time. So having scheduling awareness can help boost your productivity. But yeah for all of that, I’ve never been able to buy into the idea that 60/80 hour work weeks are at all a necessary idea, or a very proper one either. And this is how I’ve tried to make myself feel better that I could never personally do that kind of time, lol.
People tailor their political views to fit the groups preferences on either the right or left, so why not in the middle? It's a matter of wanting to please people and fit in, either within their political tribe or, for "intentional moderates", it's a matter of wanting to fit in everywhere, which is pretty futile unless you say different things to different people.
Pretty good idea actually. I think I will try this!
Temporary link to associated CCC talk: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/36c3/relive/10694 (starts around 15:45 mark)

Proper recording will be available at https://media.ccc.de/c/36c3
It's not a position you're put into with WhatsApp or any other app.

It is bad for your messaging to be made by the same company as your phone. Some really problematic conflicts of interest.
With the inordinate amount of time Musk spends on Twitter, I'm gonna go ahead and assume most of those 90 hours are not productive.
For languages? That's a dead end really. That's why whatever Apple will produce will also be dead, as long it's proprietary. Apple is stuck in that mentality and has hard time getting out of it.
"Turkey has infinite amount of engineer supply"

That seems unlikely.
Exactly, it is similar to my position at some previous company: as a tech lead I reported to a Director of Engineering who also managed a few engineering managers. The top IC tech guy - “Chief Architect” reported to CTO.
I think drawing a line near the median is really the only thing that makes sense. These concepts are relative by nature. Generally, when speaking of how far to the right or left someone is in the US, I think of it as relative to other americans, not to the rest of the world, and especially not relative to some absolute concept of right and left (which falls apart quickly if you give it some thought, as norms change over time)
While I agree somewhat, most decent officers will follow up if you give them enough info and make a point to keep updating them. We got a stolen phone back this way by being the "detective" and having the officers knock on candidate doors. Took about 4 hours, and their knowledge of the suspects history, family, and whereabouts was invaluable.
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I think the word you're looking for is "incorrect".

But you're wrong actually, I'm making a very valid differentiation, bossing people around is not a creative task the people who does the thing you tell them is the creative: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_professional
Thanks for pointing it... I fell for this
yeah because the average dev guy can run marathons, right?
Goals and values, sure, they are obviously different. Methods? Not so sure there's a big difference.
It's almost like the people behind these machinations don't care about sustainability and only about their immediate rewards.
I can cook at this point, self made recipes and sauces and delicious foods.

But I find google (or ddg in my case) to be shit for finding recipes.

Too many results, lots of filler content about someone’s grandma and yada yada yada.

These days I just pick up a few well rated cookbooks (or I receive them as gifts) and go from there.

Let someone else do the curation, it’s very rarely the fun part of cooking, and I enjoy cookbooks because they have recipes for things I wouldn’t have thought to even look up.

Plus, there’s something very calming to me about looking through a cookbook. Maybe it’s the same for others.

Cooking and baking shows are similar. It’s just hard to be stressed watching someone make food.
Agreed about the swap partition but Debian has supported sudo out of the box for many years, the UI is just unintuitive. If you leave the root password empty the Debian installer will install sudo for you.
This is a very good text written by
Daniel W. Savin, the leader of "The Savin Group" from Columbia University (1) (2)

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(Note: the bug in Firefox Reader View shows, when the http://nautil.us/issue/79/catalysts/before-there-were-stars-... is viewed in that View as the author whoever is at the moment inserted in the "Also in Physics" ad inside of that Nautilus' text body, which is wrong -- on every refresh a new person: Gregory Laughlin, Sarah Scoles, Amanda Gefter, Michael Segal...)

1) http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~savin/index.html

2) http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~savin/dsavin.html

Edit: reformulated to make clear that the bug is visible for the main Nautilus text and, not connected to the bug, added the link to Savin's page.
it doesn't.

Right above that code is this block

# If we're not forcing an update, and we have a cached motd-news file,
# then just print it and exit as quickly as possible, for login performance.
# Note that systemd should keep this cache file up to date,
asynchronously
if [ "$FORCED" != "1" ]; then
if [ -r $CACHE ]; then
echo
safe_print $CACHE
else
: > $CACHE
fi
exit 0
fi

None of that code in the tweet actually runs at login.
Why deep voice?
“The better way to do it is to refactor code as you go. “

Agreed. It should be part of the normal workflow and not much talked about.
And despite all that they’re still unprofitable. How would this be feasible as an open source project?
My biggest issue with it was that you are in the "too well-off to get aid but not well-off enough to pay cash" gap, then you should be expanding the number of schools you are applying too, not reducing. In-state and out-of-state public schools, and a wide mix of small to large private schools in both the "reach" and "safety" categories to see what kind of financial offers you get. With the caveat that if it turns out you hate the school that offered you money and end up transferring out, you lose all those other offers and you will be pretty much limited to public schools.
Everytime I update ubuntu the MOTD gets readded. No matter what options I pick it readds a file in the motd folder. Stupid.