skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> average joe ( from a devops perspective)

That's a whole different kind of average joe. A mediocre tech person is still an order of magnitude more qualified to take care of a machine than a mediocre user.
Sure you can definitely create an OOP-style architecture that allows only 4 functions to exist on any object (create, read, update, delete)

Programmers have had the ability to do that since the 1960s and guess what... nobody ever wanted to do it.

With the advent of HTTP (and it's fixed set of verbs and return codes), that didn't somehow invalidate all the prior decades of OOP. lol. However RESTful fanboys disagree with me on that.
As long as Google allows installation of apps outside the play store this will not happen.

Moreover Google devices are the most open modern mobile devices out there now (I am intentionally excluding Librem5 and Pinephone). That is because on a Pixel you are allowed to relock the bootloader and load an image that you self signed!! This has spawned a niche ecosystem of android forks on pixel devices (look for RattlesnakeOS, GrapheneOS, CalyxOS).
Honest question: why do big organizations do this?

I mean, I get it: you're making people pay for stuff they don't need. You can charge a higher price despite users not actually watching everything they buy. Clearly, this tactic must work at some level, or else they wouldn't do it.

On the other hand, there are users like me who take one look at that and say, "ew", and walk away from TV completely. And it's not like I'm unwilling to pay for content, I just want to get what I want when I want it and not pay for the privilege of wandering through this ridiculous maze of content that no one cares about.

Maybe I'm being naive, but it just seems to me like this is a strategy that's going to kill the cash cow on the long run. Am I wrong?
When you prevent people from communicating with each other, it doesn't make them start thinking the way you want them to think.
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Sort of related:

I've noticed that regular Youtube has been cranking up the ads quite a lot lately.

I view most of my youtube on the TV, via their crappy HTML-based Apple TV app. So many ads to suffer through, suddenly.

On the desktop, it seems like they've suddenly started work against that one chrome extension I've loved the most: The one that blocks the ads from youtube.

I can't see myself subscring to youtube red or whatever they call it. Just not going to happen.
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Everything I need to know about vi is contained in the following two quotes from Bill Joy, its creator:

... vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore.

... programmability and the modelessness. Those are two ideas which never occurred to me.
this is interesting. thanks for sharing! these guidelines seem like they would apply well to science papers, or really, any writing where the objective is to prove an argument or perspective.
I'm in France, and switching channels is faster than on DTT!
some people like to live dangerously.
Depends on the site, some repacks are probably nicer than the average DRM dump from ubisoft.
https://try.philo.com/ is $20 a month is great. It is missing some news stations, but Pluto tv is free and has a lot of news and a mystery science tv 3000 station.
What kind of scope level do you think works when talking about that list? Like project level instead of tasks, and then engineering figures out how to deliver the prioritized project? Otherwise it kinda just sounds like a backlog to me, just curious how you see the difference there.

Also, I've seen product orgs that focus a lot of energy on not being burned, regardless of the scenario. They use their position at the crux of many communication channels to subtly shift blame around. Which is relatively easy to do when your role is complex and many-faceted.
Those are some intense mental gymnastics.
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No climate forecast that I'm aware of predicts human extinction; much of Earth would still be habitable by humans even at +20 C (although that would trigger a huge mass extinction among other species). There's a big gap between "pretty bad" and "literally no survivors".
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It's how kids get into multimedia content creation using real tools without paying real money
It's worth noting that this is a bit of an unusual, even unnatural situation - where you have people who have been in isolation from any relationships for almost a year, may have a natural desire for romantic relationships and it's part of her specific role and duty to ensure that this stays suppressed throughout the team until the expedition is over. In those circumstances a strict "no-touching" policy for the whole team (not just her) may be quite prudent. You need to ensure that even someone who after many months of loneliness desperately wants to notice and misinterpret something as a sign of romantic affection is unable to do so.
I would love to work for Mozilla on this effort full time. I have experience in voice data collection / annotation / processing at 2 FAANG companies. Anyone have an in? Thinking of reaching out to the person on who wrote this post directly.
Same here, and then i discovered EVIL, the vi layer for emacs. The best of all worlds: Vim text manipulation grammar over the emacs engine.
If I had a shop and everyone that robs me has a hoody I would damn well point it out and ban them. That doesn't mean every person with a hoody wil rob me but it's a very effective and filter. It's not emotionally charged it's completely logical.
Given that vim has never been more popular, I think those quotes are of historical interest only.
ESPN is an outlier. Among normal mainstream cable channels, nothing else is more than $2, only a few are more than $1, and the cheap ones are $0.10 or less.

Even paying extra in lieu of bundling, prices like that could work out if you make ESPN a separate $5-10 option.
How would it kill us all?

I suppose it could lead to a Venus like atmosphere if things got really crazy. Realistically the worst case scenario would just lead to coastal areas being uninhabitable and widespread famine and unrest while the worlds farming and population gets redistributed to more habitable latitudes. I don't think it would ever wipe out EVERYONE even if it's a sizable percentage.
you back up the data - the security model for an HSM (e.g. the T2) is that secrets cannot be extracted. Once the key can be extracted it then that security model is broken.
I wonder what the cheapest way to do so would be? Something through YouTube would allow easy account management, consistent interface people are familiar with, no concern regarding bandwidth and scaling - but I'm entirely unsure if there's a way to do so within the TOS and YouTube structure.

Planet Money had an episode on starting a small cable TV channel. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/471633490
I wonder the origin of that story, I've heard a version of a painter who holds a brush and pallette, falls asleep, drops them, wakes up and paints.

And I do love my lucid dreams, at some points of my life they would ruin my sleep but I found them a good trade off.
It's not perfect, but for a lot of smaller projects it's fine.

Also way easier to send someone a web link to something in a discussion to have them look into it, especially if it's in a different branch then they may have.
That's why I learned vi initially years ago, because I was told it was the only editor that would always be available anywhere you went. I only ever use it in ssh sessions these days, but I still feel like learning how to use it has paid off many times.

I was playing with Haiku recently and was surprised that vi or vim wasn't included in its base install. Granted, Haiku (like BeOS before it) doesn't ever claim to be a Unix-like or POSIX-compliant system, but I found the CLI environment to be very Unix-like overall. I guess it's a testament to the ubiquity of vi that it never occurred to me that it wouldn't be there. (If anyone's curious, emacs is also absent but nano is there.)
Sounds like a good move, you may check other Mozilla threads for employees open to chatting - I did that when I was curious about a position there.
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The machine learning community has a toxicity problem
> it would technically be an AR system

I think the head tracking is not as forgiving for an AR system.
I never understood what the business interest of the tv stations was in preventing streaming online. They already give away for free the stream over the air. What gives? Do they make money on the antennas or receivers or something?
Correction: The brand is Cascade Platinum
Ask HN: What Keeps Actors from Devolving into Pandemonium?
We're thinking of deploying an Akka-based actor network to track developments in various scientific domains, but it looks to me like actor networks are just going to end up either in massive chaotic pandemonium, or else that we'll end up having to hand craft the same filters that we would have to program anyway in order to find the needles in the haystack that we're after. So, aside from, perhaps a bit of code encapsulation cleanliness, what advantage do actors offer over just a bunch of crawling and filtering code?
Already did a remote screening and the current thing is a referral. The symptoms are definitely real and not in my head, but my doctor said the chance of it being something serious like cancer is "small".
Similarly, a cracked version of Photoshop probably installs less junk than a legal version of Photoshop.
I notice that my macbook pro stays "warm" when plugged into my screen, even if it's closed. I think it might have something to do with powering the USB or displayport connected devices.

I now unplug my computer when I'm done, which is kind of annoying.
We also do fine w/ meddling w/ our own elections (Voter suppression) take for instance the fiasco that was the Louisville single precinct during a primary w/ 600k people coming out to vote in just two polling locations in the state.

Then we have our own leaders bullying us into believing masks are for 'wimps', which almost appears like they're trying to weaken Americans (literally make them sick and die) so Russia or China can just walk in and make us fascist and give them a good place in the new hierarchy.

Doesn't hurt that most of American's act like whiny brats and children who just learned the word No, and they do not like it.
It's hard to disagree with physics.

However, please read what I wrote here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23694479
This sounds great, but reading the fine print:

>Although most microG components are far from complete, users are amazed by the results.

What users are amazed by what results? And if you read this carefully, it clearly states its missing swaths of the APIs, so its not 1 to 1 compatible and is very likely out of date in at least one reimplementation, per this [0]:

>This is alpha-grade software and not yet ready for production use. Do not use if you don't know what you're doing.

I don't think this would hold up to being what I'd use as a daily driver. I just want my phone to work not fiddle with troubleshooting weird edge cases for apps I want to use.

I applaud the project, but its hardly a simple as saying 'you can replace it' and that's the last you'll have to think about it.

[0] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki
Suppose that the popularities of everyone are p_1, p_2, through p_20. Then, if you write "~" for "is proportional to", you get a bunch of equations like

0p_1 + 8p_2 + 4p_3 + ... + 4p_20 ~ p_1

7p_2 + 0p_2 + 7p_3 + ... + 9p_20 ~ p_2

...

if you assume that Person #1 is rated 8 by Person #2, 4 by Person #3, and so on, and that nobody rates themselves.

Anyway, you can combine these into a matrix equation

Mv = cv

where M is the matrix with all the popularity ratings that students give each other, v is a vector which says how popular everyone is, and c is a constant. M is known, and you have to solve it for v and c.

Anyway, v is an eigenvector of the matrix M, and finding them is a standard problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors

The same idea shows up all over the place in linear algebra.
> My personal opinion is that macOS privacy protections are mainly security theater

I really disagree. This feature has revealed that Google Drive by default spies on my ~/Downloads folder - something it has no business doing, nor did I ever intend for it to do.

I actually love the many things Apple are implementing to improve user privacy from third-party apps and services right now. To an extent, their privacy brand actually is real, and helpful.

Just don't expect any privacy from Apple themselves (and by extension the government). At least they help reduce Google and Facebook's rampant surveillance. That's some good news, in today's era of tech.
> do you think our government is better than theirs? For how long?

America has problems, but your order-of-magnitude calibration is way off if you think a concentration-camp operating (i.e. the real kind with over a million people who committed no crime and are held just for their beliefs and culture) expansionist (Hong Kong, Tibet, Taiwan) totalitarian (speech is monitored and punished in a "go to prison, right away" manner rather than "twitter deleted my racist shit and nothing else happened to me" way) government. So yes, occasionally ineffective democracies that value human rights and freedoms (i.e. the west) is better than the CCP government, and will continue to be better now and into the foreseeable future.
They host the site on Notion.
Yeah, unfortunately what I go to is a "medical center", which I don't believe counts as a "hospital" in terms of having emergency rooms and such, but it is a large medical complex including lots of GP offices; not just a one-off specialist's building.
The district attorney, being an elected prosecutorial position, can spend money during the election; I chose the candidate who did not have a political action committee funded by the police union.

Yes, it's stressful being a vigilant voter. But what's the alternative? Not caring?
I grant that it would have gone over 15 minutes, but it's a pity that such a pithy summary doesn't cover coroutines or environments at all.

Coroutines are what elevate Lua beyond "a better Javascript" into something truly great, while first-class environments, although something you won't reach for often, allow for some things which just aren't possible any other way.
Many people have mentioned mathematics, but I'd like to add philosophy to that list. Things like logic and set theory very much overlap with philosophy (and many mathematicians can be considered philosophers). The main reason, however, is that philosophy is thinking about thinking. So if you'd like to think abstractly, while also covering a broad range of topics, philosophy is great!

Good luck.
Luajit + sol2. It rocks.
Yes, but the other half of that is that Google will require that new uploads to the Google Play Store target newer Android versions. That is, older applications will not break, but newer applications (and newer versions of older applications) will not be allowed to use that loophole anymore. (Of course, you can still sideload...)
Bitcoin does not fall under the definition of a ponzi scheme. And in general, there's no reason why a ponzi scheme couldn't have an open spec. If the incentive structure sounds appealing then people will participate even when they understand something is a ponzi.
Why Kudos? Do you not believe in it's reality?
I signed up for YouTubeTV quite recently (at the beginning of last baseball season) at $40/month. I'm pretty surprised to see in such a short span of time it has gone up to $65.

If things were normal right now I'd probably just shrug it off, but between no sports and quarantining with family instead of at my apartment I have basically been paying for nothing for 3 straight months now. This is definitely pushing me over the edge to cancel.

Maybe next spring I'll reconsider, but this doesn't seem like a great move to me right now?
Gives me the feel of when I first read Phrack. Nice work
Because people work with virtual servers a lot these days and vim is the easiest editor to throw on there and use without changing the defaults, is my answer.
I can't find it now, but could swear I read somewhere that educational institutions are specifically allowed to redistribute TV signals. My high school, for example, had a system where a single cable box / VHS / DVD player in the library could be made to present as channel 3 on all the classroom TVs.

If there is such a rule I highly doubt it's intended to cover distribution to the public, more like within campus facilities, but that could be what Stanford is trying to exploit.
This is not how China persuades Taiwan to join the mainland...
Theft does deprive the victim of something. As I've written above, piracy is theft as it deprives the victim of potential sales.
I really dislike that many languages still allow you to do strings with single or double quotes. Why not just choose one and stick with it? It’s another pedantic thing that allow people argue about the “best way”
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Unless you must have live sports/CNBC or can’t have your internet slow down, how are YouTube TV or cable packages attractive? We have Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Apple TV+. Even when the free/promotional periods are over, they would still end up costing less than a semi-decent cable package, but with way more useful content (in fact, more than we could ever hope to watch), and little to no ads.
I've noticed a significant uptick in ads as well. The ad quality is akin to ads on streaming-specific apps.

It's not uncommon to only have ~4 different ads shown to you on something like CBS Mobile. They have the potential to target ads, they have an app installed (and all the privacy implications that go with it), but somehow they're showing the same 30 second ad 4 times in a row to make up a commercial break.

Others are far better. For a time, ESPN's app would simply show the logo and repeat the same ~4 second music loop until the commercials were done.
Maybe she didn’t shake hands for the same reason we no longer shake hands, to avoid catching or spreading disease. I often forget that shaking hands is no longer socially acceptable, but fortunately with two people, one of us always remembers in time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child
I'd imagine they've done the studies and found that they'd lose more money overall. The gain in new customers who only want a specific channel must not outweigh the revenue they'd lose by customers downgrading to less channels.

It's also possible that it would produce the secondary effect of killing channels that are more niche and not quite as profitable (maybe not profitable at all). Maybe there are channels that people would never pay for individually if given the choice, but would watch if given them as part of a package, and the aggregate value of which provides enough additional benefit to justify paying for the package as whole.
Right, but vim is a popular, easy-to-package implementation of vi.
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Fwiw I think everything you're saying makes perfect sense. Regardless of the plaintiff and defendant's cases, the lawyers are there to ensure the judicial system is fair to the best of their ability. IA might be wrong, but EFF and their legal team are there to make sure they are fairly represented.
youtube, no longer the loss leader of the internet?
I'm in a similar situation: My bridge/homeserver is in Germany while I'm in the USA.

I've been hanging out in the mautrix-facebook room for a while and as far as I can tell it's different for almost everyone. Some people have no problems, some people just can't use it. Personally, I had minimal problems at first, then no problems for a while, and then after upgrading am in the current state. Other people simply logged into facebook normally from their remote server (i.e using SSH tunneling or something) and then their problems were resolved.

I'd give it a shot for a few days and see if you have a lot of trouble; It's not hard to disable a bridge if it becomes too much hassle. Personally I just add another character to my password and off I go the races, so the occasional five minutes of work for not having to deal with the app on my phone makes it worth it.
No self-hosted option? Passing this one.
Really not surprising that old media still has pull like this.

I enjoyed using YouTubeTV during this past college football season, but I won't be renewing this year. It was already iffy at best with Coronavirus, but now with this price hike YouTube can forget it. Probably exactly what old media wants from us anyway so we go back to cable. Forever a cable cutter.

If needed, I'll go back to Sling despite it going up as well when it first got started, but not as dramatically as YouTubeTV. Sling Orange + sports package will be $40, which is good for the few months I need it. At-least we still have some other options out there instead of having to go back to cable.
Couldn't you run the Mac equivalent of a Windows Sandbox to restrict access if you had concerns about an app?
It would turn into what every review system on the web is: a place to get petty revenge. Make people use their real identity and have criminal liability for lies of commission and omission, then you might have something. But probably just one more mechanism for idiots to go to jail.
Oh man, I’d have loved to hear how that turned out as a business plan! There’s so much free advice on whiteblaze to compete with, some of it even good :-)

If you have the time, an AT thru-hike is a wonderful, affirming, and life-changing experience. If you can’t conjure up that much time, Vermont’s Long Trail is a great hike.

If you do a long-distance hike, please write it up! I enjoyed this and the onion piece quite a bit.
But it's a fact the situation, while serious, was massively overblown and became politicised. We may all be killed by climate change one day, and we need to act now, but we aren't going to die in ten years if nothing changes.

Making the situation out to be the end of the world, short term, is how you lose the support of the general public.
If the user emails them they can certainly reply. It's just a matter of showing their email somewhere. The ID can be shown before the user logs in. That would not be less secure then relying on the email to reset the password. If someone is able to access the user's unlocked phone, they probably can access their email account too.
On some level, I kind of wish the entire cottage industry of "issue tracking systems" would just go away. What's wrong with a simple Kanban board? What has ever been wrong with that? It seems to me like, in a lot of cases, engineers just lost their nerve in terms of confidently talking to sales people and the business side of the company, and couldn't deal with the (imo, healthy) tension any more. I understand that people want estimates and timelines and stuff like that, and those are totally reasonable. But flagellating ourselves over absurdly small timelines, and hand-wringing over tiny pieces of features of projects as the core driver for engineering productivity, just seems crazy to me. It seems a lot more like purely signalling to the business side some vague ideas about "commitment," or "hustle," or whatever without having to speak to "those obnoxious sales people."
The rights to distribute a program on different media and in different geographies are sold separately. The broadcaster itself is likely not authorized to distribute the show online, so they can't authorize you to do it either.
The whole streaming platform war is beginning to resemble the Stone Soup parable. At some point, no platform will have enough content for anyone to care to subscribe (arguably now). Someone needs to come along and convince them all that sharing is in everyone’s best interests.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup