skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix makes it too easy to re-subscribe, though.

I cancelled it after one of the price hikes and a round of it suggesting nothing I wanted to watch, only to have it seemingly re-subscribe on it's own.

After a couple of rounds of that, I discovered that any TV still logged in could browse, pick a show, and would get a prompt to "continue membership" or something like that.

It was designed in such a way that the family was instinctively clicking through the message, not knowing what it was.

Anyway, forcing all sessions to sign out before the next cancellation did the trick.
With reasonable encoding settings, you can get pretty nice 1080p at 2GB/hour. 720p will save what, 40% of that? I don't need space that badly.

I haven't really seen much 4k to know how I'll feel about that jump. Though I've definitely seen some split-screen streams where I wished it was 4k.
My god, you weren’t kidding! I’ve been watching his videos since seeing your comment. His intro video immediately signals the fantastic quality of the channel. So far the guy did get me excited about sidewalks.

https://youtu.be/9OfBpQgLXUc
Working part time for Uber won't have less freedom than working as a free lancer for Uber.
If you were to hire contractor from company that was set-up to outsource your work to one of it many sub-contractors which only worked for them and had no deciding power how to do it and for what price, yes they would be employees.
I have previously. I'm currently not seriously involved in a competitive game. Actual serious gaming competitions (the kind with prize money) take place under circumstances where cheating is immediately obvious and gets you disqualified in a public setting. I believe the "understanding" gap is on your end; ranking the integrity of systems above the integrity of gaming is a common sense stance before you realize you don't need to compromise one for the other.
But the same rules applied to all taxi drivers before Uber. In a lot of place taxi driver were forbidden to not accept customer hailing them, and the price is controlled almost everywhere. The logic would be that all taxi drivers have to been employed.
Uh, are you sure that Xbox sub issue is still there? I've recently unsubbed from it just through their web UI. While it was kinda annoying to get through their menus, it wasn't particularly bad either.
Everyone is abusing everything. We've seen time and time again companies abusing employees with hard work, long schedules, unsafe environments and skimping on safety, which is why we have laws for safe working environments now.

Sometimes work is physically hard, and the effect of that type of work usually doesn't show until you've done it for a longer time. So not only should you get money for the time and effort you spend, you should also get money for how hard the work was on your body. Pension and other benefits help with this.
I used the Three.js JavaScript library. And a lot of shaders using the GLSL language. Here's my blog post about it : https://www.jesuisundev.com/en/i-built-the-entire-universe-i...
VaultFuzzer: A state-based approach for Linux kernel
I need to go into central London to do something today... I know I'll drive

A few years ago I arrived in London at Paddington station and was late for meeting on the other side of the city. I'd been told that taking the Tube could take up to 30 minutes (including changes), so I decided to grab a Taxi. I arrived at my meeting 40 minutes later.
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So you use an instructor car's to pass the driving test in Denmark? It's not how the things in the US work. People cry bloody murder if a state requires to show ID to vote because of unmanageable costs of getting a 20ish dollar/5ish years ID, imagine you had to rent a specially modified car to get a DL or not being able to get a job/buy food?
In theory yes. In practice, your test suites are not all-encompassing perfect oracles.
Ireland fails to enforce EU law against Big Tech
I know a lot of freelance software engineers in the Netherlands and quite a few of them do.

BV starts to make sense from about 100K turnover because you gain some tax advantages, it also makes working for larger entities easier and it allows you to charge a higher rate and to be in an easier position to work with subcontractors. It all depends on what you want, there are plenty of ZZP'ers in software development on the low end, but most of the high end will be through BV's.
I don't subscribe to the NYT primarily because of the details I've heard of their unsubscribe flow (they've even built a better one to comply with california regulations, but geoblocked it outside of california)
Quantifiers are what is missing in probability theory but present in logic - while we could potentially write down mixtures of quantifiers and probabilistic symbols, we don't have great ways to interpret them or to reason about them. That is the point he is trying to make.
Does anyone know what is the GUI library on the right hand side? I've seen it on multiple websites but the classnames doesn't reveal anything.
France grants citizenship to 12,000 Covid frontline workers
I wonder if this is because the report includes wordpress web sites.
> Plenty of people working in restaurants work for multiple companies, they're still employees.

And do they cook one food order at a restaurant they work for, then 15 minutes later walk across the street and cook for a competing restaurant for 30 minutes, and then immediately walk back across the street and cook a food order for the other restaurant? No, of course that's not normal.

This will ultimately accelerate the ability of the strongest companies to destroy their competition and potential competition. If Uber doesn't bleed to death financially first, that will be Uber due to their global scale.

Uber may not realize it because they're stupid, but this bolsters survival of the strongest in the segment. They can easily kill off competition using this by eating the labor supply. Someone that would have previously worked for multiple companies - trivially flipping between services as it was most ideal for the driver to grab a fare - will no longer be available for multiple companies at the same time. They'll now largely hold a normal job and will not want to work for multiple companies, pulling two shifts per day. Sure, there may be exceptions of drivers that want to pull a weekend job with another service or work two jobs per day, but exceptions is all they'll be. This will narrow the market winners dramatically and quickly.

Monopolize the market, consume the labor supply, raise passenger fees, lean in to killing off the competition. It's super simple.

If I were Uber I'd abuse the stock market for funding to pay artificially high wages to the labor supply (get all the best drivers), and I'd hire more drivers than I absolutely need (deprive the competition), and begin this killing process immediately. I'd go one market to the next, using Uber's market cap as the funding base to monopolize each market. This type of ruling makes labor supply a competitive advantage to whichever company can acquire the most and best drivers. A global ride hailing app will be advantaged over the smaller local/regional competition accordingly.

The next ride hailing app in the market that wants to get started will find no available labor supply to compete with. Welcome to competition stagnation.

And of course then the moronic regulators will come back around, having created a monster, and they'll have to pursue anti-trust (or the equivalent) against the market winner they helped to cause.
Good luck with that, if you pay for all the mandated services, you will run a deficit.

Yes people laugh off drivers as a no skill job, but it's a craft. Shift work, passenger safety and so forth, they need to pass a test, sure that's a bit outdated in the time of online maps.

But I can not simply open a dentistry just because I feel so due to lifestyle choices.
I wonder how much the results of this are skewed because PHP reports via the server response header that it is being used. Other languages like Elixir, Go, etc aren't so public about their usage unless one of their web frameworks adds it.

I'd also love to see a study like this instead focused on "How much of the active web is wordpress?" and "How much of the inactive web is wordpress?".
No talking during lunch and other joys of Covid schooling
Turn Any Surface into a Touchscreen
> Artificial Intelligence is simply a broad term meaning 'the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines'.

Sure, but if so, Machine Learning is not AI, because the way a model "learns" is nothing like how humans learn, and gets radically different results.
> In a lot of place taxi driver were forbidden to not accept customer hailing them

I've hang out with my fair share of taxi drivers around the world (mainly Europe and South America) but never once heard of them being forbidden of not accepting customers, and heard plenty of stories when someone really fucked up tried to hail them but they declined. It doesn't mean it's not forbidden, but hard to reconcile my understanding.

What places are you specifically thinking about where taxi drivers are not free to chose their customer?
Looks good-- my only question is-- there is no price. Is it free forever? Ad supported?

I know you can host your own instance , but what happens if I use the hosted service? How do the devs pay for running costs?
I'm curious how this changes if you remove PHP being used for WordPress (where the people using it probably didn't choose it). Do lots of companies still choose PHP for brand new projects? I know Facebook has a dialect they still use, but you don't hear much about it anymore.
To be honest if there was government provided universal healthcare, basic income, and housing guarantees I would totally agree. It would create a ton more mobility, and take a lot of power away from employers.
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Firmware Modding Your Vintage Nokia Handset
> My own opinion: do code reviews. They are a good thing.

Being a solo dev at the moment, I sorely wish I had someone to review my changes. Have only had one major mistake slip through in ~2 months (and it wasn't a bad one) but still, someone else could have caught that.
'They' are controlling you. 'They' are silencing you – Washington Times
PR review time and effort is hard (not possible?) to track by project managers with tools like JIRA and doesn't contribute to a personal performance metrics, so naturally developers are trying to come up with a way to avoid doing it.
The core of the problem here is not so much politics and science, it is the fact that this science is directly tied to people living or dying. That ramps up the emotional load to 11 and when that happens logic and reason often take a back seat.

This is a big flaw in human psychology

Emotion is where cults live, and we have science worshipers that attach themselves to an "Expert" like one would attach themselves to a Cult Leader, instead of being rational actors looking at the data the experts are presenting and using their own rationality and logic to understand the situation
A "is_facebook" function may not be much easier. Smart contracts like Compound, Uniswap are complex functions; much more complicated than sorting which has an objectively correct answer.
Hopefully you are a proper software shop and you do more than just run test suites to see if something is working :)

And if you discover that "hey, changing X broke Y but we didn't catch it before", then obviously you rollback the change and start working towards how you can prevent it in the future.

Of course there will always be fuckups, but this strategy wouldn't make it harder/easier to rollback those changes.
Maybe I'm not meant to see the change as I'm an adult but the only change I saw was Google Suite repeatedly telling me that under 18 year olds weren't allowed to use the service. So just denying them access to things has changed.
Decades of cold war propaganda have confused the issue in the US. When you say socialism, they think you are talking about USSR-style authoritarian communism. It's asurd and exasperating, but it won't go away until the boomer generati on loses political influence. It's also highly partisan, and in today's atmosphere of cultural warfare, that makes it a non-starter. Half the country won’t wear a mask because Donald Trump wanted to deny the pandemic during his reelection campaign. What hope is there for something as radical as changing the entire foundation of society?
As mentioned on the IEEE comments section:

> MicroVision already has made this and it’s available for sale to OEMs,

> https://youtu.be/X_3iyuE7-bI
What I take from this approach is that you might want to leave an option for automatic merge/change application after CI green lighting. So a documentation change could be tagged as such and go live directly.

But do you really need a framework for that? Should not every developer be able to bypass the code review any time when necessary?
I agree, I've started to demerge those sorts of changes. Infra code moves slower (over the long term) than app code. So having seperate pipelines is IMO better.

Though on your final comment, I'd say doing something like a no down time api migration is actually pretty complicated if you're not doing it a lot.
Yet language still takes time to adapt. Formally, it takes years for words to enter the dictionary. Informally, it takes time for new vocabulary to spread. For example, in the early days of computers, it was very common for terminology to be used incorrectly.

Of course, there is more going on with C than the use of new "words" introduced through libraries. Even though it is viewed as a portable language, most of that portability is between hardware architectures and operating systems of the same class. Almost everything above that is handled by vendor specific libraries so there was likely less of a drive to standardize on library management. This has negative consequences in today's environment, but it would have taken foresight to predict that outcome.
Too bad it isn't a stand-alone system and relies on the cloud. It won't get crap from me. I would buy one otherwise.
Minilinux
> What GPT-3 is doing is equivalent to me giving you a book in Chinese (without any further context, translation or grounding in the physical world) and then expecting you to produce articles in Chinese. This is plainly impossible for any human and it's amazing that it can do this at all.

It is generating readable texts, but not _meaningful_ texts in Chinese. It's a fancy madlib from the existing corpus.
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> In an editorial on STAT published March 17, 2020, Ioannidis called the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic a "once-in-a-century evidence fiasco" and wrote that lockdowns were likely an overreaction to unreliable data.[14] He estimated that the coronavirus could cause 10,000 U.S. deaths if it infected 1% of the U.S. population, and argued that more data was needed to determine if the virus would spread more.[28][5][14] The virus in fact eventually infected far more people, and would cause more than 600,000 deaths in the U.S.[29][28][5] Marc Lipsitch, Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, objected to Ioannidis's characterization of the global response in a reply that was published on STAT the next day after Ioannidis's.

> …In March 2021 Ioannidis estimated the global infection fatality rate from COVID-19 at 0.15%, in an article in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation where he also wrote unusual ad hominem criticisms against a co-author of a higher estimate who had criticized his work on Twitter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis
Correct. With a BV in the Netherlands, you get immediately the fiscal Calvinism of the Dutch tax office at play. Despite the fact that:

- You work for yourself so you get 100% of the risk

- You have no benefits

- If you are sick you get no pay, unless you make a very expensive work sickness/income insurance

the Dutch tax office, judges that they do not want you
to be in a "too advantageous fiscal position" ...( Not making this up...these are their own words) so, forces you to pay yourself a minimum yearly salary that is updated every year so they can tax you. It is currently at 47,000 EUR per year I believe...and is independently of you making money or not...
As per the title, you are right that it is not strictly about climate change — they were often environmental activists fighting against destructive land use conditions. You can find more details on page 12 of the official report I linked.
Of course I would ban all advertising if it were up to me. There's no question about it.
I've recently started using the new .NET 6 templates and honestly I don't miss the OOP boilerplate. Yes it's a bit of a shock at first, but you quickly realize that having your ASP.NET Core startup code split into two files and three functions has no real-world benefit.

I'll still be using traditional controllers for my endpoints, however the syntactic sugar in C# 10 does improve the experience by reducing nesting and noise in general (file-scoped namespaces & implicit global usings).

Overall I'm pretty happy with it.
MuLinux was better. Floppy based, from 486 and up.
Nudge techniques like any tool can be used for good or bad. It doesn't inherently make the tool bad.
Personally I go with ngircd, it is an apt-get install away every time.
Wordpress is just a content management system built on top of php. It would be silly not to include everything that is built in php. Most php developers do not code in raw php (when avoidable). Most modern websites that are custom built tend to be a php framework.
That's what I'm talking about though. The government thinks people should have these things but doesn't have the political will to implement them so they demand that employers provide them rather than just paying cash. This is the reason that the category 'employee' exists in the first place.
Yeah the quote you pulled is a really unhealthy take. Requiring reviews is not lacking trust in the dev team, it's acknowledging that we are human, fallible, and that these systems are full of complexity that one person seldom understands on their own.

If you view a code review as the reviewer seeing you as untrustworthy, you are likely some combination of sensitive and arrogant.
Zero trust and multiple eyes on PRs is a good thing. No one’s code is 100% perfect all the time.

And of course this doesn’t apply to side projects or really small startups. Any mature company with a product where stability and security is important should have mandatory peer reviews in place.
Document classification with NLP based Text classification and OCR
affero? dang.
I agree that it's amusing the first time one reads it. But it is posted here a lot and has become very trite; it probably competes with Hanlon's razor in terms of frequency. After just a cursory search, here are some other examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372163

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995167

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127845

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14417296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641031

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266452

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476984

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628716
Again, agree that architectural/technically speaking, NPM and it's registry is horrible.

But that NPM was a grift, std lib was a farce and everything designed to fuel growth of NPM Inc is gonna need to have some more evidence behind it than you feelings.

And please, I really wish you do have proof of this as I'd like it very much if NPM Inc got put into their place. But I find it unlikely they designed things for this purpose. In the end (at least for me), the quest for truth is more important than what I think is right.
PHP is my bread and butter. Yes there are still shops that use it. It doesn't really deserve the bad rap.
Related discussion on a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28505103
Employees also set their own prices? "For me to accept a job offer, you have to pay me at least $150k" - that's setting your own price.
Obligatory reminder that this isn't saying rideshare drivers must be employees. It is saying the specifics of uber, how it controls its drivers, and how it runs its business is an employment model per their laws. You could almost certainly build a new rideshare business that is not employment based.
If you are listening to a top 40 station, then of course they will keep playing the same songs over as they are confined to the Billboard top 40. Other stations will constantly play the newest songs from the biggest artists on repeat because that's typically what people want. I really don't think there has to be a conspiracy involved.

If a listener is "seeking" through stations and catch a song they love, they are more likely to stay on the station. The best chance of choosing a song people love is using the most popular songs as often as possible. It's the same exact reason why radio stations try to runs ads at the same time. If a radio station you like starts running ads, but you hear other stations are running ads too, you are more likely to end back at the original station and stay. It's all a numbers game to hook station surfers.

Every movie theater will want to play Disney movies, but that doesn't mean Disney is paying the theaters to play their movies -- in fact, Disney demands theaters to pay far more for their movies than any other movie, but theaters will pay it because they know it will drive people to come and pay for popcorn and other concessions. Same for radio but with ad space. They may pay a lot in marketing to hype people up over a song or movie, that doesn't mean they are paying the theater or the station.
I'm sure it does, but that then mostly changes the meaning of "most used...language" to mean most used by end users, versus most used by developers.

Which I suppose you could argue, since it's likely passing through apache/nginx, which is fronting wordpress. So maybe 'C' is the most used.
Coming into a "enterprise" organisation this is a decent generalisation of the pains of opening a PR.

Any reccomendations of how to implement this? Tags would work but only if you understand the context of ship/show/ask.

100% opening a PR, regardless if its literally just merge this badboy ends up being a "show/ask" instead of a "ship" where i am currently working
Consultation on a change of ownership of Channel 4 Television Corporation
Hong Kong is chinese at the end of the day.

Sure Xi is breaking agreements of backing of for few decades, but in the end HK was to be integrated.

Not a lot of interest in fighting china on this as they have 'colonialism' card ready.

But not acknowledging Taiwan as a country, denning them flag in the Olympics is a worrying creeping level of Chinese soft power. Eastern countries should be working on decoupling as much of their economies from china.
Lambas, the famous Elvish mathbread?
There is, Nix :)
I love the US car culture. I’ve lived in places where car ownership is more restricted and I feel well…poor.