skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix won't even let you change which account "owns" the account - my daughter was very young when we first got Netflix, and there was multi user (or whatever tablet she used didn't support it) so my account was full of children's videos. Once Netflix added multi user, I renamed the first user to her name and made myself a new name same as the old name.

If I want to look at DVD queues (hah) I have to be on her user to do so.

I'm actually surprised how easily everyone forgave them for the bait and switch they pulled that essentially put brick and mortar video rental places out of business, though.
Is the basic input still “pixel” and have we dropped these and maintain our neural network in …

Yes it seems we do not see and think in pixel, but are we really not think in pixel even though we are not aware of them ?
> expecting your employer to pay you to undermine them. I could be wrong.

This is a good point.

There's likely a huge amount of content on Netflix that offends a lot of different people and groups. It's your choice to not watch, not subscribe, or not work for them.

There are constructive ways to work with your employer but if you're going to go this route, you better be ready for them to dismiss you.

Maybe I'll start checking Netflix open job boards. There my be some openings soon.
Looking at using systemd to just run a binary automatically on boot (which some smart person on HN told me was the easiest way). Just looking at the systemd landing page overwhelms me.

Boot Loader Interface, Discoverable Partitions Specification, etc.

I’m sure the implementation details are very interesting.

But where is the “Configure and Start a Service” option? Which is arguably the most important.
After 9/11, China grew to a superpower as a distracted U.S. fixated on terrorism
The first part of this piece seems weird because this is not anymore about developing "nuclear vs fossil" but about developing "renewable sources or/xor nuclear".
It’s funny how such a little thing like one-handed lid opening can add up to such a big factor in user experience. I have used MBPs for years and recently switched my personal machine to a yoga c740, which has … ok build quality but not great. One handed opening is hampered in two ways: first, the front of the machine is beveled in a way that makes it impossible to get your finger between the top and the bottom, which is infuriating. The framework has a notch for this, so it doesn’t seem to have this particular problem. The second is the obvious one, which is that the friction from the hinge is large enough to defeat gravity because the base isn’t heavy enough. I’d welcome a heavier base to overcome this, since it will also allow the case to be stiffer.

I feel like a total idiot at least a couple times a week while I’m holding my phone in one hand, saying “hang on, let me check” and doing weird contortions to get my laptop open with one hand using my belly to hold the bottom down.
It is explicitly legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

The people they terminate would even be ineligible for unemployment benefits since they admitted to slacking off at work, easily substantiating a termination for cause (and hence saving a Netflix some money by keeping their unemployment insurance premiums lower).
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th... --

"Pinkertons and militia at Homestead, 1892 - One of the first union busting agencies was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which came to public attention as the result of a shooting war that broke out between strikers and three hundred Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike of 1892."

Maybe not "hitmen" as such, but certainly the violent enforcer arm of capital hired to attack striking workers.
What about freedom is speech. This is ridiculous.
> So the attacks are mainly about the exploitation of drivers

Did you miss the part about taxis not picking up minorities or going to poor parts of town? The drivers aren't the ones being exploited...
What is the memory model for Python after removing the GIL? Will it introduce memory barriers and atomics with different memory ordering?
lol - News at 11: people who can afford to find ways to avoid laws often do so!

Taxes are a regressive penalty on the poor. Here's a radical idea - how about limiting government spending so we don't have as big a need for taxes?
The poison is deep. China and Europe are going to eat the USA alive, lol.
I think something regulatory changed about 1995, such that there were instantly tons of ISP startups, and I think that 33.6k modems were available about then.

I had a 14.4K Zoom modem, but I'm pretty sure the ISP I worked for around '95-'96 was buying lots of US Robotics 33.6 modems.

I agree that 56k came a bit later, and didn't necessarily work on any particular phone line.
For me, calling comedy offensive isn’t even an insult.

I am always prepared to be offended by comedy, and if I am, I will keep watching, but only if it is funny enough.
LOL, I just had the same thought. I'm not college aged anymore, or a 10x developer, but I won't whine about content and make threats, that's for sure.
How Time Series Databases Work, and Where They Don’t
Just like Zuckerberg and Gates and jobs they all stole their code. Such a shame
I wonder what the reasoning for open sourcing it now. And why not from the get go instead of decades later. Licence choices are obviously up to the authors. But at this point it is more a museum relic than anything practical
> The missing context in this article is that two trans employees were suspended for attending a zoom meeting they were linked to by a director

Were they invited to the meeting, or did they just acquire a link? Just because I find your conference call number doesn't give me any inherent right to sit in on it.
I'll check it out, thank you so much!
My Marathons are nice and fast, but slippery on the curves and I'd watch out in the rain
There’s thousands of skits about brown, black, white, asian, men, women and every other diversity box possible which everyone has loved laughing at for forever and continues to do so till this date.

If one can’t stand jokes against their diversity box, then they aren’t seeking equality, they are seeking supremacy.
That’s not run by the US Navy.
The symlinking is one of the things systemd actually gets right on traditional distros. The files in /usr/lib are immutable data files shipped by the packages that you're not supposed to edit. The symlinks to them in /etc are configuration that you can change.
LGBT+ is imploding.
Obviously they'll always be in the minority.
Not to mention their biology is anti whatever they want to be.
They'll never taste peace and so are lashing out.

This is not good for their cause long term. I don't care what you do in your private life, but you're clearly not okay. Lashing out at other people's views even though don't impact you in any way shape or form.

Lashing out would be one thing but trying to cancel their livelihood.

With all due respect, FU.
I’m still an advocate of hg. I wish they had won the dvcs wars.
Re: Bush-> Obama -> Trump....Your position comes off as very emotive, focused on feelings and sentiment. I looked at Obama's election the way Padme looked at Chancellor Palpatine declaring the First Galactic Empire in Star Wars. [1] Obama ordered an American citizen killed without due process [2] while bombing more countries than Bush OR Trump but hey it's ok, he made people feel nice. Thankfully more black veterans are waking up from the fever dream, and running for office.[3] We have 330 million people, facing a country of 1.3 billion people that are aiming to eat our lunch in this century. The most capable adversary we've faced since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Of course the future is pessimistic.[4][5]

Chapels in the military are non-denominational, and while Christians are prevalent in the senior ranks, leveraging their religion inappropriately is a quick way to be subjected to an Equal Opportunity complaint. The military is ~2 million people strong. Racism and intolerance incidents will be non-zero in any population that size. Compared to the general population in 2021 and America's disintegrating social cohesion, I'd place a bet that the military has fewer per-capita incidents than the general US population. The military is also better-educated than the genpop.[6][7]

Look into becoming an Air Force National Guard or Reserve officer. Part-time military service is the most flexible way to contribute without completely destroying your civilian income stream. Being a Reserve officer is the closest I've found to having my cake and eating it too.

[1]https://youtu.be/VqVSt0_Zmuk

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki

[3]https://youtu.be/vTxeHZtbXHo

[4]https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-seeks-become-worlds-next-025...

[5]https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/china/china-world-biggest-nav...

[6]https://facethefactsusa.org/facts/tanks-and-humvees-caps-and...

[7]https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2017/07/29/report-you...
This is hardly the most offensive comedic content around. In my experience it's actually harder to find less offensive comedy than very offensive comedy.

Ever wonder why "clean" comics are so rare?

Comedy is offensive by it's very nature.
Huh. I had the opposite. I never wonder what’s on my PC. If I can’t even remember the program exists I clearly don’t need it.
> you must first cast the user value to milliseconds

Incorrect. You must cast the user value to a time.Duration, since Go is a type-safe language, and like most type-safe [1] languages, its numerical operations generally require their operands to be of the same type.

You might be thinking of multiplying a user-provided value by a constant (of type time.Duration) defined by the time package, like time.Millisecond or time.Hour. I’m under the impression this is a very intentional choice to require user-provided values to be explicitly annotated with their units. Some implementations/variants of durations use nanoseconds, some milliseconds, some seconds, and requiring this assumption to be explicit in the code helps avoid critical bugs like the Mars Climate Orbiter failure. [2]

The time package (and other stdlib packages) definitely has some warts, especially the time format parsing, but I’ve always appreciated the approach taken for durations.

[1] We could get into more advanced type inference here like Rust’s From/TryFrom traits, but the debate between simplicity vs. expressiveness in Go has been retreaded here tens of thousands of times and I doubt either of us has anything new to say on the topic.

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
It's been disappointing to see that Beto O'Rourke doesn't get asked more questions about his present-day commitment to the Cult of the Dead Cow's agenda.
> If millions of people were using IPFS

You criticize that people have unrealistic expectation, and then you are making an unrealistic claim...
Something said by a comedian doesn’t make it a joke. And something being a joke doesn’t shield it (or the teller) from criticism.
The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
> where, mind you, the value of that contribution is often questionable anyway

Examples given in another post included: graffiti cleaning, litter picking, cleaning other outdoor areas (e.g. derelict land), assisting in a care home or home for disabled people.

Which of those is remotely controversial? Even graffiti removal isn't controversial per se, even if prosecutions and lack of venues for legal graffiti are controversial.

> Would you pick [things from the above list] right when getting what you believe to be an unreasonable sentence?

Absolutely, in a heart beat. I spent $700 of my own money and five weekends on graffiti removal along last year (in a local state owned forest with a heavily tagged cliff face... this wasn't art on the side of a drab building, it was ugly unimaginative tags on trees and rocks). I also volunteer at park litter cleanups very regularly and volunteer with several different organizations that focus on improving the quality of life for disabled folks.

I do those things by choice, because I care about my community and its people.

> I'm pretty sure my only thought in that kind of moment would've been "No, fuck you".

It's pretty sad that you'd rather sit in a cell than improve your community, but whatever.

BTW, most of those activities can be as social or isolated as you want... scrubbing graffiti can be done in an entirely solitary fashion, and if you're using a sand blaster talking to others isn't even an option! Anti-social community service kid with a bug up his butt doesn't want to talk to anyone? No worries at all; here's the sandblaster, go at it -- I hate wearing the PPE on a hot summer day anyways :)
> So .. if we plot the electricity demand curve, baseline would be a level line going through the (weekly) bottom of the curve. Baseline power is below the line and the rest is above, correct?

Correct.

> the part that is below base line is currently served by gas (and some coal/nuclear) and the part that is above is delivered by renewables without need for storage?

Pretty close, but a bit of an over simplification.

Exactly what percentage of the grid is renewables at any given moment depends on the installed ("nameplate") capacity of various generation sources, and their mix. Even today it's not uncommon for the vast majority of a grid's demand to be met by renewables for short periods of time. The issue is that we can't do it reliably enough yet.

Some sources of power are very slow to change their production (coal, nuclear), and therefore are designed to produce constantly[0]. If your grid has a lot of these, then your description above will be correct; your baseload plants will produce a constant level of power with renewables and imports handling demand spikes above that need.

On the flip side, if your grid has a lot of natural gas or hydro, then you can spin these up and down to cover the difference between what your consumers want and what your renewables are creating (plus or minus big industrial loads that can be shed on demand). Batteries fit into this category, and theoretically a grid with a ton of batteries wouldn't need anything other than sufficient renewables and batteries to meet demand.

Until such a time that we have enough batteries to make a fully renewable grid possible, your grid must have a mix of nuclear, coal, or natural gas[1] to keep the lights on.

For a direct illustration, consider California's mix right now. If you read carefully you'll notice that nuclear and coal power remains extremely flat in CA (16MW and 1140MW or so respectively), while natural gas and unspecified imports tend to move in inverse correlation to the amount of power generated by renewables. If the renewable production were bigger, it possibly would have eclipsed demand mid day and enabled the export or shutdown of that Coal power. On the flip side you also have to note that currently solar power is dropping off in CA right as demand is spiking. A true renewable grid would need enough batteries to provide 26,000 MW of capacity or so for for hours, plus enough renewables to cover demand + charging. It's doable, but it'll take time.

Also, right now CA is producing a mere 459MW worth of energy from its grid scale batteries, which is roughly 1/3rd of what CA's one nuclear power plant provides. They're planning on shutting this plant down, rather than building new ones.

http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html

0 - Confusingly these are called "baseload power plants".

1 - Or hydro, but that's really region dependent. The power coming from the utility company here is 42% Hydro, but that's because I live in a mountain state.
I used lophtcrack to get the windows admin password to the computer lab PCs in high school :)
Do you have any good links to Skynet? I could just find an old GitHub repo. Is it in active use ?
Such is the psychology of the outrage machine and the continuously angry and offended operators.
I will be impressed by whatever vehicle exists that can travel thru space, climb rocks of uncontrolled steepness or terrain, traverse fluids, and do it all with a human survivable cockpit with safety guarantees. Much more impressed than with a rocket like spaceX already has today, say
Wrongfully Accused: The Swastika Is Not Hitler's Hakenkreuz
Under 30 here and have only ever seen Hashcat as the predominantly used software for cracking hashes
HTTP was invented in 1989.

Netscape was founded in 1994.

So, if you’re comfortable with either of those a starting point, 6 years is somewhere in the dot com boom.
Firing them would have a very positive effect, like when Regan fired 11000 striking air controllers ( https://www.afacwa.org/reagan_fires_11_000_striking_air_traf... ).
There are offramp/VTA/Highway 101 junctions in Sunnyvale (roughly near the former Blue Cube) that humans can't decode, let alone any car.

As a pedestrian, I had to watch for a couple of light cycles to figure out where the lanes were.

There's multiple versions of roadway markings in seemingly random directions, some leading to cement columns.

I think the new Apple Tesla driver got killed near there.
Yes, Communists were killed, and that's a good thing for the world.
For those of us unfamiliar with FPGA work, can you elaborate?
Retromation on YouTube introduced me to that game - and it is indeed a blast with a great set of powerups and levels.
In many cases the very reason why some places aren't populated is that living there is difficult (lack of water/arable land, weather conditions...), and in many cases they are useful (as forests, grasslands...) for living beings thriving elsewhere.
I agree, but would point out that "Try every option based on how credible it seems" is also an insufficient or under-specified answer, because the viability of each option depends on how much resources are invested in that option.

I could say that how many resources an option has is a part of how credible it seems. But I didn't really specify an algorithm for choosing options, I just wanted to point out that "try it because it's an option" isn't argument in a world where one generally has unlimited hypothetical options.

Edit: all that said, different energy production methods have different capital intensity levels. You get zero for a ten dollar or even a ten million dollar investment in nukes today. Solar has lower capital intensity but can still can scale to meet needs.
They mention insect detritus impacting laminar airflow, so the collisions are at the blades.
A hydro lake is exactly like a battery - potential energy filled by a river.

Also if Germany sends excess wind/solar electricity to Norway, and the hydro lake is emptied slower because of that, then the hydro acts exactly the same as battery storage — no pumping required. However some lakes have a minimum rate of outflow: when rivers need a minimum flow for sports, ecological, or downstream dam capacity reasons. Also during dry periods when lake capacity drops, the ability to be used as a battery also drops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28898426
> That would be a pretty awesome outcome...

Even more awesome if they filmed it and had Dave Chappelle standing outside to roast them as they were escorted out.
Hm, my understanding is that powdering it tends to homogenize the stuff enough to mitigate most of those risks, assuming you do it in large enough batches.

Personally I prefer a lesser processed product than something extracted using solvents and who knows what other industrial processes/opportunity for toxic errors...
If it's pure Javascript and canvas (2D or WebGL) and no HTML/CSS (often the first thing you'll reach for when drawing and styling text) then it's pretty straightforward to render to JPG/PNG using node-canvas. WebGL on the server is a bit more cumbersome with setting up an X virtual frame buffer (xvfb).

SVG is a lot more finicky, but I've used React to generate SVG that imagemagick can then rasterize. If you limit yourself to primitives, you can have an interactive React UI and be able to render any state snapshot to .svg, .jpg, and/or .png.

I think things just get tricky if you want to use a browser-only library or something that mixes canvas, svg, and/or html+css.
I tried it out. It doesn't get temps, as I expected. But it does switch down into power save mode on battery and switch back to performance on AC. Battery life has improved by over 50% from 4h to over 6h. Thanks for making this!
I should clarify that this is not the only reason. It’s one of several. And yes, we did discuss the reasons and it was always something more interesting.

But as best I could tell, if we did hire them, we had 12 months tops. Remember, I only have the past record to go on and hiring is the most important and hardest decision to make.
There's nuance to be sure, but Chappelle's quotes aren't really very far out of context. He's been banging the anti-anti-anti-cancel-culture gong for years now, dancing constantly just shy of outright hate, deliberately. And this really was no different. The fact that he personally had a trans friend who was herself in a complicated relationship with the LGBT community[1] is interesting and notable. I'm not sure it's "context". Chapelle wasn't talking about Dorman in those quotes, and he certainly wasn't "mourning".

[1] And, again, "cancelled by the mob" is a pretty poor summary.
My mom used to tell me a story about how she watched Pulp Fiction in theaters when it came out. Some of the scenes were so gross, offensive, horrific and bland that they drove the audience away in waves, until she and her friends were the only ones still there, laughing at how one film could make so many people upset.
If you care about the history of the scene you'll know the name regardless of your age.
Why seaweed over algae? Hey bonus you could use the waste in cow feed to reduce methane.
Fwiw, you can’t even trust the browsers to handle HTML5 media spec behavior the same way.

I just dealt with cross-browser issues in how setting currentTime on <audio> is handled because I needed a player to resume from a preset time.

On WebKit browsers, including desktop safari and all iOS browsers, you must wait for the ‘dataloadded’ or ‘canplay’ events to fire before trying to set currentTime.

On desktop Firefox / Chrome, you must set currentTime immediately prior to .play() or it won’t pick it up.
I used fixed-point for all the 3d code in The Virtual Reality Playhouse (1992). That was the last time I wrote any significant assembler code. Good times.
Just like any other human made structure even outside of programming I've known. Admittedly I think the foundation is mostly independent from .NET and is around open source projects in the ecosystem limiting the damage this could cause. Even if it is changing hands, or even collapses its role is limited and I argue doesn't affect the adoption or usage of the platform all that much.

On the other hand as an example I have experience first hand where this stuff can matter relating to some other comments on this thread: the confusion around which JVM distribution to use is directly tied to the JVM and its different builds. That doesn't seem to be the biggest problem for people in that ecosystem, but just like this .NET foundation topic confuses people outside the ecosystem as people are cautious and don't understand the implications. (i.e. do I have to pay Oracle for support if I need to limit my liability?). If I'm choosing between two tech stacks and only one has this question mark in a time limited fashion I might choose an alternative instead.

Other languages requiring significant investment (e.g. Corporate Languages) have their issues too. The appeal of Java and the .NET platforms to me is their longevity and their seriousness in keeping it alive over the decades.