skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valid point. Bill C-11 certainly made a mess of the situation in Canada. That said, there are plenty of other international jurisdictions where a server or VPS could be used to host this kind of content, so I think the fundamental point still remains: Yes, hosting content on a large US-based provider like GitHub means your content is available at their discretion. Hosting the content yourself gives you a much greater degree of freedom to control the availability of that content.

Which is why I never rely solely on commercial cloud services like this for hosting my content.
Please don't be a jerk on HN. You owe the community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064005 is another recent example. Continuing to post like this will get you banned here. Would you please read the guidelines and use HN in its intended spirit?
>This is a huge red flag signal to me. A VP of content should be focused on the quality of shows and the editorial philosophy of a platform.

Some of the greatest TV shows and movies were made on very tight budgets. If your show is big budget, but not prestige drama groomed for the emmys then it has to have good audience asap.

For me this is a good thing - it will push showrunners to be creative. After all the whole blackadder second season is literally 3 rooms and 4 suits budget wise - and it blows off season 1 out of the water which was with a bigger budget.
I hadn’t heard of this before. Cool. Going to share this with my team on Monday.
I doubt they will vote in the new policies.
That's pretty much my take too. The F-35 had to be able to do absolutely everything, and that generally means it's not going to any of those particularly well.

For a small airforce, a jack-of-all-trades fighter makes a lot of sense (hence the popularity of the F-16 among small airforces), but for the US, it makes no sense to abandon all specialised fighters in favour of a single compromise.
Given the recent interest in Regex and people being put off learning it because of all the variations I am posting this so that people can see it is easy to learn and use basic regex, which ports pretty well across different platforms and is fairly useful.

This tutorial has a JS bent but most of the tutorial is language neutral with some JS examples at the end.
There’s a lot in Australia
A £1000 car will have net lower emissions than a new zero emissions car. Buying a new car is definitely worse for the environment
My teacher said if you wqnt to reduce violence, the most effective you could do was to start installing surveillance cameras in every bedroom.

I suggest we start there, and we start with politicians homes ;-)
Yes, his prose is terrible. Initially I thought he never took any english composition class. But then I realized that perhaps he thinks he is too smart for such things. That is, he writes the way he think, the way he speaks.
Brain Games for Speed Reading
The Elaborate Yam Houses of the Trobriand Islands
Mind you this system of irrigation and water systems predates the romans! This was an insane engineering and creative solution to a necessity.
It's still hilarious to me that people believed electing Trump instead of Clinton would get him bailed out of this situation.
That's an idealistic argument. Sometimes you just need to delete things and there's no negotiation possible.

Whether that makes sense to you or not as an engineer or scientist doesn't matter much. There are tons of things that humans want that "don't make sense" but that you need to conform to regardless. A great example of this is typically the law.
Do you have any other sources on this matter besides wapo?!
They won't because they don't want to keep their property taxes affordable.
I think I see why you'd say that, but I think it's a very narrow viewpoint.

I'd argue that it's in _everybody's_ interest that a social safety net exists for people like the GP.
Tesla FSD Computer Algorithm Behind the Scenes [video]
And if you don’t want to host this yourself there’s https://IdBloc.co
"easier to understand/remember the meaning of" would have been better phrasing. I can remember/infer what `set -o noglob` does, but not `set -f`.
My wild speculation is that the longer time people spend in the menu the more likely they are to close the app, and the more likely they are to cancel a subscription next month. The streaming services are all about reducing churn.

So for daily content. Show ends, you go back to the menu. Do you pick the next thing to watch? I don't know - but they've tried a number of "daily" or "weekly" shows before, and they haven't appeared to be successful. I suspect it's because they didn't improve metrics. Versus say releasing a show all at once - people binge for 3-4 hours and come back the next night to do the same thing.

I think going with amateur youtubers who produce lots of cheap, short content would be smart for like, Snap or Instagram but very bad for Netflix. Netflix's original content hit it off in terms of quality, long form narratives with dramas like House of Cards, while syndicating shows after air gave them second life (Breaking Bad, the Office, Friends) and absolutely crushing it with "must see" films (recently, the Irishman, Marriage Story, but also in the past stuff like Beasts of No Nation).

Conversely, their cheap shows from nobodies tend to die in the womb, and I don't think Netflix does that without good data to make such a decision.
Prime delivery is nice, but I need to buy a replacement hard drive and they won't deliver it to my nearby Amazon locker for some reason. I don't want it sitting on my porch all day (pirates), but they won't let me schedule a future delivery for when I'll be home either. So I'm creating a calendar event for later this week to try & time the delivery.

Sometimes fast delivery is too fast.
Yeah, it's currently ~5k USD for a (pre-assembled) robot arm that is marginally "useful" (and there are several brands/makers at that price point). I've heard of some that are trying to push towards the ~3k price point, with somewhat poorer tolerances.

I'm excited for the time in the near future when a useful robot arm costs roughly as much as a good laptop i.e. ~1k USD.

At that point, it'll become feasible for hobbyists to get one each and start playing around. Which will lead to an explosion in the variety of things tried, and will positively feed back into creating a healthy community, tons of software which makes it easier for the next set of people to get involved, etc. Much like the PC revolution in the 80s/90s.

At the moment, they're kinda like overpriced toys (for a home user / enthusiast point of view) without a killer app.
More often than otherwise, I’ve found code duplication preferable over abstraction. I only abstract code when I understand the problem space really, really well (I.e. have solved it before), or when I can have some certainty the wrong abstraction won’t cost me too much time to fix.
Well the law applies to all EU citizens, at home or abroad, in one of the weirdest jurisdiction overreaches I’ve ever seen.

So the company could have one or more EU citizen customers who even live in the US.

But I clearly like the one cookie for sessions approach better, and most of these alerts don’t actually fulfill the requirements anyway.
FWIW I think ShellCheck is great and the state of the art, but Oil is partly (negatively) inspired by ShellCheck :)

Somebody integrated ShellCheck into Google's code review system about four years ago, right before I left.

So the result was that every code review I sent with a shell script was filled with red squigglies -- "add double quotes here". Most code reviewers don't really know shell, but if they see red squigglies, they will say "fix this".

The double quotes are of course technically correct, but when you're writing a shell script in a subdir 8 levels deep in the repo that only operates on 3 files in that subdir, it's overkill and makes everything ugly.

In other words, it was the typical "static analysis has annoying false positives" issue.

Most of the shell scripts I write deal with "trusted" filenames -- i.e. those checked into the repo. If you want to deal with untrusted filenames, then there are a lot of ugly techniques to do that.

So Oil is basically meant to make the default thing the right thing, and the common thing the short thing (Huffman coding, as Larry Wall calls it).
I’m the same way.

His cadence and intonation is intolerable. It’s as if he’s every every syllable needs to be as dramatic as possible. He also slips into a half-whisper sometimes that perhaps is supposed to be soothing but I just find unsettling.

Not to mention, the constant interjection of hmms, huhs, and ahs as guests are speaking.

As much as I appreciated the content, I found the delivery so incredibly grating that I had to stop listening.
I'd say more that the majority I've seen have been proper, and the nonproper ones I've just not looked at and backed out. Not like I'm starved for reading choice.
> "OS running like a VM" is a wrong summary.

I think it is a fair summary, because the implications of running in Docker are often the same as running a real VM.

To exemplify, a common mistake is to run a server as the entrypoint of the docker container. The server will then run as PID 1, with all the implications and responsibilities an init process has. This causes a lot of subtile and annoying problems.
Self-managed email means using SES? The dream of the 90s exclaims “ouch”. It’s a realistic choice and I am not judging it, but still, ouch.
provocative blanket statements like "the real world is immutable" (or otherwise) aren't correct, nor healthy.

Some problems are more easily dealt with using tools like immutability, or mutation for that matter.

as with all things in software - it depends.
That’s a bummer about the locker.

Ship it to your office?
AWS Robomaker gives you simulated Gazebo environments to play with. It aims to be an industrial-strength CI/CD environment for PR testing in simulation before deploying to hardware (where bugs can have kinetic consequences) so it is reasonably featureful.

(Not affiliated, just have friends that work there)
glob expansions don't have issues with spaces. the shell just patches every full match as its own entry in the argument array.
I feel like you are trying to paint a neat, ethical line where none exists.
>I don't believe a show is defined by its widespread popularity. I don't think someone on the content side should believe that either. TV and movies are forms of art, and good art is good art.

You are alone in that, since it seems that everyone on the content creation site is stubbornly insistent on getting a paycheck. So if for actors, writers, camera men, set builders etc both great art and money go together, why should be different for the corporate overlords.
This feels... backwards, but it's probably because I'm indoctrinated to external configs.

Do you have references to companies that are developing software this way at scale?
But it's guaranteed to arrive by tuesday! I've chosen not to renew my Prime for exactly that reason. Why pay for premium shipping if you don't get premium shipping?

This in turn has lead me to not order as much of the small stuff, things I can also buy in a local store. Buying those while doing my grocery shopping has taught me something else: Amazon isn't cheap, they were pretty much always similarly priced, for items below 10 Euros, Amazon was slightly more expensive in about half the products I checked.
fwiw, I never even heard of BoJack. I did read Netflix recently inked a 275 million deal with Adam Sandler for four movies [0]. I am not sure if that includes movies released to theaters as well.

My first issue with Netflix is that that damn auto run of previews you get when trying to sort through the available content. My second issue is compared to D+ they are grossly over charging.

[0] https://apnews.com/d52fbcbd99b9506efdf06eb9bc8540ec
The Worst Videogame Ever
Amendment XIII

Section 1 : Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
My parents in France get spam calls on their land-line phone almost everyday.
It almost never occurs with mobile phones though.
Size of the resulting container is my understanding.
Not sure if it is an option for you, but I've resorted to using a PO box for these cases. So far, everything seems to be able to be shipped to the PO box address when a locker won't do.
iOS supports this too: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207099
Warcraft 3: Reforged Has a Record Low 0.8 Score on Metacritic
One hit wonder - thanks I’ll introduce this concept to my boss and see if it helps us: we accidentally lost some caching due to a bug but there was no measured performance penalty on our production performance tests. Hence we didn’t notice until someone looked at the code. Could be a one hit wonder! It’s a nice concept to think about in any caching code.
I changed a boring linear telemarketing script into a flow chart (with lots of clever jokes in it) that instructed the marketeer to thank people and terminate the conversation slightly prematurely. (in stead of trying to force people though the linear script) The mood in the call center changed from wanting to die to perpetual laughter. It seemed to increase productivity slightly but people called back years later when they needed insurance.
Comments about downvotes are among the lowest-quality comments that get posted here. Requiring more of them would be a big mistake. If a user has something meaningful to say about how they disagree with another comment, they already can—and do—reply. If they don't have anything substantial to say, and downvoting prevents them from saying it, that's a feature not a bug.

It's tempting to imagine that placing hurdles in front of users could solve the quality problem, but IMO that's a fantasy. There are no easy ways to do that and no technical fixes for it.
This is what most of my coworkers do. Order on Sunday to the office.
Exactly. That's why I'm adding lots of features a default WP install won't have. I should probably also support export/import from WP...

I also plan to write a WP plugin.

Edit - yes the 1:1 reaching out will happen soon. I suck at sales, and it's super hard not to just focus on writing code. But I will do it!
Since the quoted comment was about corporations, you'll want to focus on the last 400 years.
Nothing much in the UK, maybe once a month if you’re unlucky
I agree with that and therefore think immutable is not a useful abstraction as it does not approximate how things appear to be in what we perceive as real.
No, it isn't.

>The reality of life is that the real world is not immutable. I mean that at two levels. The first is that sometimes people make mistakes and publish things that they very strongly wish and need to change or retract. Pretending that they do not is ignoring reality. Beyond that, things in the real world are almost always mutable and removable because lawyers can show up on your doorstep with a court order to make them so

That's not about what the world is. That's what some people think it should be, and systems (e.g. legal systems) have been created on top of real world to feature this mutability.

Real world is immutable with respect to time. What happened, happened; you can't change it without a time machine. You can't just unpublish something, you have to actively work to destroy all practically accesible traces of it (and fight the people with interest in preserving these traces).

So a better, more accurate way of phrasing GP's point would be: systems designed by humans are mutable by design. Physical reality is immutable with respect to time and causality.
A good manager will try to get their team to “just do it” and take initiative. They shouldn’t need to be like an orchestra conductor. The team should be like a Jazz band.
I'd say getting $4 of revenue with zero expenditure is a profitable endeavour, yes.
Question: does any app (yours or others) block such calls in a manner that prevents them from ringing at all? It's extremely frustrating for me when I use a call blocking app only to find that it still rings for a split second before suppressing afterward, and I have no clue why that happens with every app.
The obscure Japan-only language Hot Soup Processor used backslash as mod.

http://www.onionsoft.net/hsp/v33/doclib/hspprog.htm#EXPRESSI...

I also hate it (along with HSP in general). Anything that exists outside the grain of programming language conventions so baked in as basic arithmetic operators throws me off.
I used to be a prime member, for quite a number of years, but I cancelled it as I didn't feel I was getting the value out of it that I originally thought I was.

There's a break even point somewhere where the cost of shipping vs. number of orders made makes sense with prime, but I wasn't using the service enough to warrant that. Additionally the other services you get with a prime membership (Amazon Video, Amazon music etc) didn't really have that much appeal.
hi ibobev, we will think about in the next month. we have much work to do. thank you for your feedback.
> You'll never see an amazing talk/brief/speech like described above, follow the formula outlined in the "How to organize a presentation."

I strongly disagree, and I think the "How to Speak" lecture by Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrates this very well:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F536001A3C605FC

This is an example of a very structured presentation, but at no point did I feel bored or out of touch with the presenter because of it.
Weren't the original corporations basically perishes that had independent assets that were supposed to go to the officeholder instead of normal inheritence-sort of as a legal system hack?

While there is a long history of corprate charters being to make money for the shareholders, i think there is a long history of other goals as well.
The problem is not shows designed for, say, six episodes only being six episodes long, that's perfectly fine, just like 90 minutes is perfectly fine.

The "limited series" format is a very good match for flatrate streaming and there are lots of very good examples, mostly from the UK.

The problem is shows designed for >30 episodes being cut short. Do that too often and you'll see massive reluctance to start watching any new show that isn't a limited series. When was the last time you considered using the Google chat system du jour?
It does seem that this lesson takes at least a decade to internalize, and as such one can usually estimate the level of experience a person has based upon how much they embrace “DRY” as a hard rule vs a guidepost.
From their 2000 S-1 filing: “Our goal is to be the definitive online intermediary for choosing movies and other video entertainment”. Why would they want to become that if not for the money?
Seinfield wasn't a hit in it's first season either. The whole premise of the article is that Netflix is no longer giving shows a chance to come into their own like they once did.
I love the downvote with no explanation.

Nobody has answered the question "why diamond?" authoritatively yet. If you know the answer, let's have it; otherwise, fuck off.

edit: according to the "Observational Techniques" section of [0], "one of the tremendous advantages of the DAC over many other high pressure techniques is that the diamond anvils are transparent to so many forms of radiation. The sample may be viewed at pressure and temperature using an optical microscope. Lasers, of various wavelengths, may be used to measure optical Raman, Brillouin, or IR spectra. X-rays may be used to measure nuclear resonance scattering and diffraction from both single and polycrystals."

So if you haven't already fucked off, I cordially invite you to do so now, and let the grown-ups talk in peace. Thanks.

[0] https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mineralogy/mineral_p...
That has nothing to do with physical reality - it's only about feature set of human-designed systems.
Yeah, most of that comes from the verbose process needed to invoke a process, right? That's something I noticed when going back and forth between PowerShell and C# - that if C# had clean support for invoking a process and collecting the results as an IEnumerable like PowerShell does, PS wouldn't really need to exist, since 90% of the time you're dropping into C#/.net objects to get anything done anyways.
iOS has a setting to send numbers not in your contact direct to voicemail and those never ring.
Yes, I was assuming some cash as well. Appropriate currency, dollars in particular most places, is always useful when traveling. But if you’re at a supermarket checkout and your card is randomly declined (has happened to me) it’s nice to be able to pull out another card.
Really thank you, myrloc. we will check it.
Readers of this thread may be interested in lower cost options. I built a middle school robotics curriculum around Dexter GoPiGo robots: https://www.dexterindustries.com/gopigo3/

While you can do visual/block based coding on these, it also has built in Python support and the whole curriculum I ran was Python based.

My criteria for selection of this platform included:
- support for Grove sensors
- flexibility in machining own parts if desired
- Python support
- rPi based

(no affiliation with this company, just a positive real world end-user/educator experience)
Interesting view - what do you think would happen to free user engagement?
Show HN: StarTrack – GitHub star history and stats
> I don't want it sitting on my porch all day (pirates)

Assuming you aren't constantly claiming this is happening with prior orders, Amazon will probably just send out another one free of charge.
This is just what I was thinking in the shower....
> They won't because they don't want to keep their property taxes affordable.

The tax rate has nothing to do with building houses.
Living in Germany I have received a total of 0 spam calls over several years.
There are many domains where immutability makes intuitive sense. Accounting and bookkeeping for example, which is a huge domain within software development. A Git history is essentially a model of the world as a history of immutable states, and what we care about is the transition from one state to the next and its difference, as well as an accurate representation of each past state. But one name or ID is only ever associated with one state.

It would be really horrible practise if accountants or version control systems would mutate state and overwrite history. Another domain where immutability is useful for this reason is concurrency, where it avoids a lot of conflict.
I prefer to have my blog and newsletter as separates...
hi purplezooey, it support Spanish as a mark language. thank you.
Why not correct the misinformation then? Docker is nothing like a VM. It uses cgroups to reserve resources like CPU, memory, etc, and namespaces to isolate containers and their respective processes. VM applications will have to emulate hardware, so the kernel running under VM is able to enumerate hardware devices. Virtual machine emulates a computer with a full ISA.
In the Netherlands, I get called unsolicited and for marketing purposes maybe once a month. The call is always by a human, I’ve never been called by a robot.

As soon as I notice it’s a marketing call I just hang up and if it’s not a hidden number, I add it to my “blocked numbers” contact, which I have blocked from incoming calls on my iPhone.
I like the idea of having a pin.

I wonder if overloading the “extension” field in existing address books would be reasonably ergonomic. Eg:

(555) 876-5309 ext 1337

Or similar syntax should work with legacy systems to share your phone number (and maybe autodial the pin).