skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find strange about this is that, given how Netflix accounts are all attached to a billing instrument, and how it is generally at least "very annoying" to get a bank account in a different country, it seems like Netflix should not care at all about VPN usage: they "should" just use the country from the billing address on your credit card to decide what content you have access to... it not only seems like it would be a lot less work for Netflix, but would also be a much tougher region wall to bypass. (And like, I do see the commentary about using a UK card with the wrong IP, but that's a different backing argument involving credit card fraud and clearly something you are already past due to how you have a Netflix account somehow.) I can only imagine that the underlying contracts with the content providers are "written stupid" in some way (in ways that are needlessly difficult to enforce), limiting the location of the viewer instead of the origin of the viewer. (FWIW: I am now seeing 7ewis mentioned this same idea in a different thread.)
I’ve seen people use vpns to sign up for Netflix and other utilities to pay those rock bottom prices.
If you present yourself as equal to one of your role models, you are an imposter.

If you present yourself as the BEST (in the world?) at something, then you are an imposter.

If you present yourself as a perfectly rounded engineer, then you are an imposter.

But if you present yourself as good at the billion things you are good at (even if you find them easy), then you are not an imposter.

5 year old little brother looks up to 8 year old big sister, and turns to her for guidance and protection - and it is right that he should do so.
Stanford to Reinstate Weekly Covid-19 Testing, Regardless of Vaccination Status
Yes I always considered reenlistment to be committing to 20 years minimum. I got out after 4 years, but some of my friends stayed in because they were lazy and institutionalized lol. Then of course they decide to get out later because they hate it. Two of the worst decisions they’ll make.
That incentive misalignment has been present for as long as people could purchase goods that have both utility today and resale or income-producing value tomorrow. It's why NIMBY policies and zoning exist ("Your home isn't just a place to live, it's an investment"), and it's why people drop hundreds of thousands on college and still often end up unemployable ("It's four years that are totally unique, and necessary for a good job" - except that you get that good job if you study an employable major, and actually study it, and you probably won't be partying a whole lot if you do that).
>The financial hoi palloi also don’t seem to notice that their revenues are deemed income for tax purposes while for corporate persons revenue remains revenue and is untaxed. Corporate persons only pay taxes when they fail to ensure that there is no income at the end of the year. If only the rest of us could treat investments in couches and Xboxes as capital expenditures!

That's because a person can consume food, entertainment, etc., but a corporation can't. It's strictly a entity that passes on profits to its owners.
As a finance person and someone who grew up poor and economizes by default - I mainly agree. An investment is something that (has a shot of) paying you more than you paid for it.

From that point of view, a house is a speculative investment (there's a chance it will go up but also may not) while a car is definitely not an investment (short of very crazy things happening, value declines very quickly with time.)

So I agree with the author that saying something like "I invested in a bottle of booze because booze will make me happy" is an abuse of the term investment.

However, now that I am a bit grown up and have a wife and kids, I look at the concept of investment in a broader sense. To me investment is anything that will give me/my family something important and less nebulous than happiness but not as concrete as money.

For example, we just paid more for a house than we would have because it's walking distance to family. There may be some minor financial benefits to this but is not the point - we didn't do it to save gas money visiting them.

But I see it as an investment of a sort. I care about my kid, and I think it's good for him to grow up seeing his cousins every day. I know my wife is very happy to be near family. So while it's not a financial investment, I do see it as an investment into my child and family and that feels kinda like a real thing.
Why not just enforce the laws already on the books.
I was totally unaware of that, thank you, have an uptick!
I seem to recall there being an fbdev-based terminal emulator that does just take over a VT, maybe it was this one: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-fbterm/ but searches show a couple of possibilities.

I'm not sure how it works with systemd, but back in init land you could just replace the getty lines in /etc/inittab with whatever you wanted to use on that VT, or replace the default login command. What you wonder should be possible.

Source: Quite a long time ago I believed that the Linux framebuffer was the future of development, and spent a lot of time making animated bootup sequences, custom login screens, writing libraries (in collaboration with others) to make development easier without having to go into a "framework" like DirectFB, and using elinks (or was it links2?) for browsing and fbi for image and PDF viewing.
On the other hand, if everyone looks like they're running a VPN, then maybe the companies will be forced not to discriminate. (Although I suppose the same disclaimers about running a Tor exit node apply.)
My observation is that it actually accelerated said brain-gain.

There was a crackdown on fraudulent H1B applications, with more RFEs being issued. That freed a lot of spots for legitimate applicants that were hogged by questionable bodyshops. It also incentivized attorneys to start looking at O-1 (and they are easier than people think for real engineers to get).

Academically, a lot was written (by foreign universities) about how the US was going to lose it's edge have a drop in applicants but the rankings didn't change during the last 4 years. I wouldn't be surprised if more people applied simply because they (erroneously) believed that admission would be a little less competitive with less applicants.
Off topic, but as a seth myself, i shook my fist at the air when he snagged that domain. In retrospect, he has done much, much more than i ever would
If you're not using features on the bleeding edge, you won't have to worry about browser differences nowadays.

And even if you want to use those features, you could just use (even automatic!) polyfilling or a library that abstracts any differences away.

No application I've got my hands in nowadays (and there are some with a total of more than 100k LOC) contains a single line like "if (isMicrosoftEdge) { ... }". If you're doing that, you're not writing idiomatic JavaScript.

Of course you can do things that aren't portable, but writing open("/tmp/mytempfile.txt", "a") in python isn't portable either. Avoiding that is just knowing your job.
Systems design meta-advice from the writer of a blog known for bite-sized insights. Hmm!

I would really like to read more of his takes on systems design, in part because I like bite-sized stuff,

but also in part because I want to see aspects like complexity and modeling either embraced or ignored by someone like this. I want to watch that particular bout and see what happens.
‘Abolish these companies’ what would it take to break up big oil?
It sounds like you're hitting a Firefox bug affecting Cookie AutoDelete. Something about the recent changes to cookies has prevented extensions from clearing partitioned cookies.
Do YOU think that a CS grad can call upon his CS background and magically be an expert on Windows domain management on par with people who do it for a living? Because THAT is what we are talking about here.

Rand Paul is an eye doctor, not an infectious disease specialist, and not an epidemiologist. The experts on this topic have spoken AND written AND researched the subject. Any credible information about it would have come FROM them, and THEY say that masks are something that we should do to stop the spread of an infectious disease.
Well, there are quite a few ways of moving lots of stuff out of the gravity well without turning the Planet below into the Fallout franchise.

The already mentioned reusable chemical rockets will loft quite a bit as long as they are really reusable and durable.

Space elevators (there are still material challenges for Earht, but IIRC existing materials would be enough for Mars):

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

Launch loops:

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

Space fountains and active structures in general (are crazy but have high useful potential):

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

Heck, there is a dedicated article for these in the Wikipedia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch

Still, I would say ideally you would want to move most of the heavy manufacturing to space & from space resources anyway. Then reusable chemical rockets might be good enough to move people and other compact high value cargo between Earth surface & space infrastructure.
I'm a happy and paid user of bitwarden too.
On top of being open source, what made me choose it is that the desktop client downloads my vault locally in an open and secured format. So I can make an automated backup of this file wherever I want.
Whataboutism special on aisle 4.

EDIT: I also feel like you're (believe it or not) politicizing this as conservatives and libertarians in favor of controlled burns and arson (yes, that is exactly what you sound like), and hippie dippie out of touch leftist urbanites being the real root cause of all this because of their supposed intolerance of controlled burns.
This is pretty much exactly what Cookie AutoDelete does. I love it. Although there's a Firefox bug currently that's preventing many cookies from being deleted which has been annoying, but should hopefully be resolved soon.
I use nuclear option in the sense that in a functioning legislature, strategic denial of quorum should be an unneeded arcanity. We are not in those times. I'd actually be curious to research how frequent the act is. Intuitively, one would hope it only happens in exceptional circumstances; but it's definitely something that with increasing frequency, we should be taking as an indicator of disunity and severe divisiveness. As a hypothetical legislator (on the majority side), this should be a signal to deescalate. Instead? All speed ahead is the traditional response.

You can argue it's normal; and preferable to actual blades and bombs violence. I argue that if you have a group shoving a stick in the spokes of Government that hard, the violence is well under way.
i'm assuming from the subject matter and the capitalization of 'Q' in "Quality", that you have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? (if not... let's just say you are in for a treat :^)
I had an anger problem as well. It did great damage in my life and to the lives of people I loved and still love.

For me it was helpful to get therapy for a few years from a “No More Mr. Nice Guy” therapist. You can search for information on Nice Guy syndrome & Dr. Robert Glover.

I’m definitely not saying that this is your issue. I’m only saying you might want to check it out.

Joining men’s groups helped me, too.
> Not that I want to give them any ideas, but surely the best solution would be to just lock the account down to the region the billing account is from?

I'm pretty sure (based on dealing with DRM/geoIP restriction requirements in other spheres) that it's because the media companies are incredibly anal about enforcement on strict geographic lines. They don't care if your account is linked to a US credit card at a US billing address, despite how effective that is at ensuring that you are a US user (and how difficult it is to spoof). They are hellbent on the idea that no US-only content should ever be streamed to an IP address terminating at a non-US location. For them it's absolutely not about people or accounts - it's entirely a matter of geography.

Netflix could easily apply a rule based on the region of the billing account, and I am sure it would be vastly more effective than playing whack-a-mole with individual IP addresses. However, the media companies would undoubtedly still insist that they do strict geoIP restriction as well. And if Netflix did both, anybody who is traveling outside of their home country would find Netflix to be bereft of content; anyone who travelled frequently would find Netflix to be perfectly useless. By going all-in on geoIP, Netflix keeps the geoIP-fixated media companies happy, while ensuring that users see plenty of content even as they move from country to country.

I'd guess that Netflix is only upping their game on residential IPs etc now because the media companies are no longer happy and are leaning on them - VPN services are simply becoming too brazen about advertising the ability to bypass Netflix geo restrictions by clicking flags. Whenever it becomes this obvious to the media guys that anyone with a pulse and a credit card can circumvent Netflix's controls, they'll be pressed to 'do better' or lose their rights to content. Netflix takes some steps, catches some backlash, and the media companies are placated for a while.
So many stereotypes that are just flat wrong.

Nebraska K-12 education is ranked 13th in the US according to US News and World Report. (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education)

Nebraska spends the same per student (K-12) as California, not that spending is necessarily indicative of education quality. (https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-s...)

In fact, one of the most common things heard when you inquire about private schools is "Sure, but why pay twice for the same education?"

And trust me, there are many many developers in NE who are making far more than 65K. Companies like Hudl, Spreetail, FiServ, more banks and insurance companies you can imagine, all needing good IT people. Sure the pay isn't as high as FAANG, but business isn't as volatile either.

The same can be said for many "4th-tier" towns like Madison WI, Des Moines, IA etc etc.
It’s obvious they are different. It’s not obvious what differences would render guns useless, which appears to be your position.

I’m not asking you to arbitrarily explain how they are different. I’m asking you to explain how and why the differences you are thinking of make guns useless for civilians to own.
Apparently The Guardian considered it worthy of their closing paragraph.

I don't know if there's much to be understood from that, except the benthic depths of journalism which they are plumbing.
Inko: Safe, Concurrent, Object-Oriented Programming, Without The Headaches
> short of very crazy things happening

A colleague of mine bought a relatively new car back in 2019 and resold it for the same price a few months back.

So we are currently in the world where crazy happens.
Thanks for the suggestion. I believe you're referring to "Up To Date Lol Meta Champions With Tier List" title on the League of Legends page. We'll work on that.
Lockbit have started dumping data for Accenture (~6TB)
And do you know what's more insane (and even more cool!) - Nuclear Salt Water Rocket!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket

Riding a continuous nuclear explosion for fun and profit! :D
FWIW, the "high-tech solution"--if we are already giving up any pretext that we are doing anything "by the book" (which simply isn't going to be allowed any way you slice it)--is to just scrape the movie someone wants out of Netflix and let them download it from you... it 100% "solves the problem" ;P.
I am not looking to argue which country is objectively better/worse (although I disagree with your view, it's not important to disprove it for the point I am making.)

Whatever that is, I live in the US and so do many TikTok users. As a point of view of someone who lives in the US, being dominated by a foreign adversary is a bad thing. Giving that adversary control of what we see and think about is therefore very dangerous.

I totally understand that if you're in China your perspective on this will be backwards but here's one example: let's say China invades Taiwan which is our ally. Should the US defend our ally? Would china use its control of social media to make most Americans not aware/not care/be misinformed about the situation to ensure that the US does not get involved?

Again, not expecting you to agree, but do think that someone who lives in and likes the US to care about this
Quality, aka other naughty things like "subjectivity" and "introversion" (Jungian).

Seth is also breezy and appropriately shallow in the quantitative sense. He strikes a nice balance.
I find it so strange to punish the diplomat in that case rather than the the parent country, — though I assume it will sour relationships.

I doubt the diplomat had much of a say in it.

Are spies in general treated as prisoners of war, I wonder, or are they simply treated as criminals and punished to the fullest extent for breaking the host country's laws.
Diplomatic immunity exists for the benefit of other governments, not the individuals. If there’s any sort of coordination, the guest nation will waive their representatives’ immunity right before official charges are filed.
Of course it's going to be not the same for everyone.
That's right, it is largely out of their hands, but as time goes on, they will have more control over it.

For example, say they want to license a show, and they get it for one year for $50k, usa-only.

Okay, but we want it world-wide. Alright, that will be 3 million, world-wide, except Australia. Okay. wait, what?

We have a 7-year contract on Australia right now. We can't give you Australia.

Now netflix has to decide if it's worth it for the 350 people who want to watch this in Europe and Asia to take the second deal.

Sucks.
Not only that, some VPN providers run through actual residential IPs acquired through browser extensions, apps, and smart devices.
Was about to reply, but this basically sums up everything I was gonna say. Well played, my friend.
This is pretty common with developing stories. As more facts surface the story can be updated, or even withdrawn.
I had the impression idempotency was the way to go in distributed systems and not differences.
It's also fairly straightforward to strip escape codes if you need to using sed or similar[0], and there probably already exists a tool that will do just that specifically and more robustly than my example.

[0] Here's a basic example I wrote in Ruby: https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-util/blob/5616cc4ce6218...

str.gsub(/\e\[[^A-Za-z~]*[A-Za-z~]/, '')
Not a diplomat. This was a contractor, a locally hired brit rather than a civil servant brought from the uk. He may be a spy, but he doesnt have dimplomatic immunity. These distinctions matter.

It looks like he worked as a security guard and may have shared security-related material. I doubt he had wide access to anything properly classified/dangerous. At 57, he was probably looking at retirement and wanted money. (Russia doesnt pay much;)

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

This guy, who had access to very classified material, reputably was paid about 3000/month.
I’ve used Maestral a few times and find it works best with narrower folder limits—I ultimately went with the official Dropbox client for my M1 but I use it on an x86 machine in which I only need a handful of folders.

The creator is doing good stuff.
Agreed - we just bought a new car and it was out of the question to buy used because the prices were almost the same.

But I think the point stands - your friend likely did not buy this car in 2019 planning to sell it for more so it's not an investment.

(on the other hand, if he had anticipated covid and the chip shortage and bought cars expecting to sell them for more, that would be an investment - but that's not what people are doing)
Honest question, how/why is this news article making it to the top of Hacker news?

Is this community really that interested? Or is there something nefarious going on with bots and upvotes due to Russia being involved?

I wouldn't have ever thought to suggest something like that, but read here recently on a different thread that Russia could be influencing HN through propaganda accounts. I was surprised by that, if true, how would we know? Is an article like this making it to #2 evidence?
But the location only matters because of where you sign the contract. No one loses money from allowing this to happen, no rights are interfered with. If a resident of Australia vpn’s Into Germany to watch an Aussie programme then an Australian network loses a viewer for at least that content, but a German who’s paid for it in Germany?

I pay for UK Netflix still because where I live the local Netflix only gives me subtitles in the local language. If they lock me out of my VPN then I’ll cancel and just pirate stuff instead. This “edge case” is going to lose them money and retain the viability of the pirate network.
The UK is no longer in the EU.
An Alabama Woman’s Neighborly Vaccination Campaign
Perhaps the assumption that there is a sharp, discernible, cutoff in the first place is incorrect?
> The people who run prisons in the US are literally evil.

> There may be literally nothing to be done about that.

That isn't true, you can limit their influence. Prison owners and operators can be evil and do evil things because of legislation that gives them power and wealth. That legislation can be changed.
I think the example given in this is ridiculous. How about someone who is instead not a criminal, but actually has zero evidence of their efficacy in a job or is constantly told otherwise, by means of losing their job or failing to get them, but does feel capable at performing some of the core duties. There is zero to think about after reading it, because apparently if I'm not deliberately trying to steal from my company, then I'm brilliant.

I ask myself this question constantly, because I haven't landed a job in over a year, but I rarely compare myself to others because I don't really believe in it.
>>Having a bunch of private actors potentially run a huge experiment in which the economic fallout will not be born by them if it goes sideways is entirely unreasonable

The experiment is entirely opt in, with no one being affected that does not choose to be.
It is clear to me that the people closest to you will pay dearly for your immature selfish lack of awareness and consideration for anyone else but yourself on planet earth. You are a time bomb and i pity those caught in the inevitable explosion. Good day sir.
Sounds like an amendment that Tesla would have lobbied for.
The only hope is massive political pressure on our leaders. If enough people force our leaders to force change on all of us, then we stand a half a chance. I wish this was a hopeful situation. It is not. If this were a war, we would be badly losing. We are effectively sending our children into the deadly hands of our enemies.
> Maybe they're changing the title as they learn more of the situation?

A possibility, but we shouldn't forget that BBC is an official government broadcaster which is sometimes gets very visibly influenced by the British state despite the claim of editorial independence.
I bet grandma has email and a phone
It is helpful for realizing how much it costs to buy back your time.

I could go grocery shopping, or I could use Instacart for about $8 or so (as long as you use a store with in-store pricing).

I could drive for 7 hours and spend 80 on gas or spend 200 on a plane ticket and for the most part use the time as I please.
Is the hate around Electron just due to bloat? TBH, I don't care if there's no security ramifications.
Huh. Glad to read what you wrote. I trust you over actual scientists, because you wrote it so well in a short few sentences. Thanks for the info!