skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix keeps randomizing things: Thumbnails, order of categories, order of shows within. In addition, they keep stuff I don’t want to watch in "keep watching" forever, and keep asking me to rewatch shows I already watched.

They are probably still a bit better than prime (showing shows both in keep watching and other categories, but in the other categories it’s specific seasons ignoring your last watched status; sometimes shuffling subtitle state or language for fun), but all those issues were not a thing a few years ago.
There must be some rose-tinted glasses in the retrospective pipeline here. Even assuming a generous IPC advantage, a 12Mhz ARM wasn’t likely to be competitive with a contemporaneous SPARCstation @ 40Mhz or an Intel 486DX2 @ 50Mhz.
This seems a really important point because it explains why this happens. It’s about power.

Additional one could hypothesize that conspiracies are so effective here because they are (almost by definition) unfalsifiable. Similar to how churches still stay powerful by running on dogma.
Oh, that too. Feature interaction is a killer, isn't it.
I skimmed the article which I don't hold in high regard for its word choice.

I think license choices will bite people, because they have to be made in advance, but nobody's certain of the future. Maybe my thing would not have been popular anyways, but it have been useful for some, so it wasn't a great idea to make it proprietary. Maybe my thing turns out to be beyond useful, so many profit from it, and I still live a modest life while fixing its bugs. The BSD wasn't a great choice then.

So I think, with license choice, a big thing is regret. And each license is also a political statement, especially the case with GPL I feel, with its strong ties to the ideologically driven FSF. These people want to build a world on those foundations, so they think that if people take but also give back, that'll be sustainable.

At the end of the day, Tanenbaum was both fooled and he wasn't. I absolutely empathize with him as a human. But he explicitly allowed for this kind of incident with his license choice.
Treat anything out of Imperial with extreme caution - they are one of the most loathsome core participants of the Great Reset/Coronavirus conspiracy, employing deeply discredited quack 'Professor' Neil Ferguson and his truly laughable 'modelling' (Never Once Right™).
> when it's actually caused by not exposing everyone to contrary viewpoints so that they lose the opportunity to have their mistakes corrected

There appears to be a growing trend that claims it's innately harmful to experience contrary viewpoints.
As far as I know NX is just a layer of compression on top of the X11 protocols though, e.g. it uses zlib for compressing paths, jpeg for compressing pixmaps, etc.. Not sure it'd actually help that much on gigabit ethernet.
Another take is that if workers are able to say no to a shit job, then the burden is placed on the employer to either eliminate the job or make it less shit.

In the Nordics, there are no manual car washes, yet life goes on. Economically it doesn't make sense because of the high labor costs, and realistically it is a menial job that can be for the most part automated.

If you want to live in a world where you can have a cheap hand wash in your back yard, then you have to also admit to wanting structural inequalities to keep people trapped in those carwash jobs. It's delusional to believe that the people washing your car have a path out through hard work alone; my observation is that they already work pretty hard.

UBI is much more about giving workers power than giving them free money. And yes, there will be dole bludgers. Unfortunately any system is going to have inefficiencies, you just have to pick which ones and live with it. Alternatively, you can get tough on crime and house a prison population.
ipfwadm was in Linux around 1996.
> 1. Environment variables are traditionally readable by any other process in the system. There are settings you can do on modern kernels to turn this off, but how do you know that you will always run on such a system?

I think that this would require being the same user as the process you're trying to read. Access to proc/pid/environ should require that iirc. You can very easily go further by restricting procfs using hidepid.

And ptrace restrictions are pretty commonplace now I think? So the attacker has to be a parent process or root.

> 2. Environment variables are inherited to all subprocesses by default, unless you either unset them after you fork() (but before you exec()), or if you take special care to use execve() (or similar) function to provide your own custom-made environment for the new process.

Yeah, this goes to my "easy to leak" point.

Either way though you're talking about "attacker has remote code execution", which is definitely worth considering, but I don't think it matters with regards to env vs anything else.

Files suffer from (1), except generally worse. File handles suffer from (2) afaik.

Embedding the private key into the binary doesn't help too much if the attacker is executing with the ability to ptrace you, but it does make leaking much harder ie: you can't trick a process into dumping cleartext credentials from the env just by crashing it.
There are plenty of companies that give dividends. I own about a hundred different stocks and 99% of them are dividend bearing to the tune of about $200K per year.
While mildly covered in the article comments, I have personal experience and knowledge of ethanol effects on small engines and other vehicles. We had a small boat with an outboard engine. Gasoline with ethanol was the available fuel. Eventually it stopped working. I have significant mechanical engine experience, but called an outboard mechanic. He examined the boat and engine. Fuel tank (plastic) was softened, contaminated. Fuel lines(synthetic rubber) were softened, leeching chemicals into the fuel. Carburetor seals(sythetic rubber, cork, nitron) were eroded, and sometimes dissolved. Solution: replace every component of the fuel system, and rebuild the carburetor. Total bill was approximately $750, in 2010.

Next, my neighbor had a nice gasoline-powered boat, a Bertram, high quality construction. It was manufactured with fiberglass fuel tanks. Construction involved building a hull, installing the fuel tanks, then molding a fiberglass deck atop this. Repairs involved cutting the deck away, removing the partially disolved fiberglass tanks, mitigating the damage caused by leaking fuel, installing stainless steel tanks, overhauling the fuel systems, and replacing the deck. Economic impact: $42k, plus a full season of use missed.

Another boat I was considering to purchase, a smaller Bertram (28ft) had stainless steel tanks already. But the rest of the fuel system eroded causing damage to the twin V8 engines. Fuel system replacement, and overhaul of two engines. Approximately $22k.

Nobody in government, or in the ethanol lobby, or the ethanol production industry bore any cost for these damages.
Other NES games had a similar effect e.g battletoads[1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtDXjhVdkUM
That's not really true though. The SPAC needs to file an S-4 before the deSPAC (the merger), which informs investors in minute detail about the target company and the merger deal. I don't know exactly how it compares to an S-1, but it's extremely comprehensive.

The biggest difference I can see is that a traditional IPO can't succeed without getting institutional investors onboard, and there are strict guidelines about what can be pitched to them. The negotiations between a SPAC and its target company are much less constrained.

I'm not an expert in this, so I'm probably wrong on some of the details, but my company is undergoing a SPAC merger, so I've tried to inform myself on how it works.
Fascinating. I'm not sure if I should chalk it up to my state's tendency to be much more racist than it pretends to be, or it's stubbornly entrenched protestant work ethic ideals. I suppose 'both' and 'neither' are also valid options.
Two things can be true at the same time. Power systems do tend to work for the powerful. But that doesn't mean they can't also be valuable to everybody. Or even valuable to the average person much more than the powerful person.

Look, for example, at food regulation. Anybody who has worked in a restaurant can tell you a) how important food safety is, and b) how much health department regulations contribute to keeping them effective. That's good for almost everybody, but it's most valuable to those who buy food from low-end restaurants, where the incentive to cheat is strongest and where the clientele is low on political power.
In this study, we discuss the creation of high-quality synthetic time-series datasets for one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and the methods we designed to assess the accuracy and privacy of our models and data. The temporal, ordered nature of time series data can help track and forecast future trends, which unsurprisingly, has enormous utility for business planning and investing. However, due to regulations and the inherent security risks that come with sharing data between individuals and organizations, much of the value that could be gleaned from it remains inaccessible.

Gretel’s work demonstrates that synthetic data can help close this gap while preserving privacy. By generating synthetic time-series data that are generalizable and shareable amongst diverse teams, we can give financial institutions a competitive edge and the power to explore a whole new world of opportunities.

Developers can test our methods by following along with the 3-step process outlined in the blog post!
A strong new lead in 'The Betrayal of Anne Frank'
Iptables was the third generation of Linux firewalling: ipfwadm, ipchains, iptables, nftables, ...
They must be in discord of what they are measuring vs. what their vocal audience is. Their vocal audience is probably there to browse around and engage amongst themselves, while they are measuring retention and content engagement. Those user stories are not so subtly different.
They should fix it if they want to become GDPR compliant. If they don’t fix it, they might loose a huge amount of customers over something that’s fixable.
That would indeed be very interesting, but back when I joined Netflix that was almost all they had, and I watched a lot of content. From time to time the special effects are bad enough that it breaks immersion (TOS), but for the most part if the movie/show was any good when it was written it is good today. So why not watch it?

I didn't get to see Buffy until it was on Netflix and I enjoyed it as much as I would have when it was new, I think. Granted the computers and cellphones are obviously dated (but if you think of it as a period show, it is fine) and it is a bit grating how everybody is always fully covered during/after sex, but the stories are as great as they were back then.
I look forward to seeing your math on that. But for a fair comparison you can't just look at "casinos to date" and "Bitcoin to date". After all, as Bitcoin proponents never tire of telling us, this is supposedly the early days.
If I suddenly own 100% of Tesla the stock would crash. I'll extract some value but it would be a pittance.
I've seen people get quite upset when I skip the "hi, how are you" bits. Know your audience I guess.
Agreed, I have a kind-of-live graphviz editor in a webpage, with autocomplete and a few more things. Was fun to hack together
Well, not common. However, I wouldn't say 'nowhere'.

https://misorobotics.com/flippy-2/

Looks like it's a work in progress.
It’s the thinking of someone who has only worked as places that are three years old and the person who built out the network still works there.

If you’re hired because the old person didn’t follow basic maintenance procedures, you’re still ignorant until you rewire or trace the whole company’s network.
The case for updating Covid-19 vaccines for the Omicron variant
It helps in quickly improving your understanding of the data by being able to answer simple but important questions quicker. In this contrived example I would want to know:

- How many events by type

- When did they happen

- Are there any breaks in the count, why?

- Some statistics on these events like average, min, max

and so on. Terseness helps me in doing this fast.
Netflix also won a pile of awards with The Crown, Orange is the New Black, Narcos, The Queen's Gambit, and others.
https://archive.fo/wVnDX
For anyone on an M1 and feeling nostalgic, PPC versions of OS X run quite well in UTM/QEMU: https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html
"This reads like a political advert from the US weapons industry to convince people that 20% of national spending on warfare is perfectly reasonable in peace times."

Because you go to war with what you have, which has long lead times to design and build and position and train and maintain and employ and resupply.
You are correct. But as the Mincome report itself noted, some of the people who were most likely to decrease hours were young parents, especially single mothers, and students who returned to school. At least some of that decrease was a positive social outcome, probably.
Just looked at the press release and there doesn’t appear to be any misrepresentation involved. The press release clearly talks about the benefits of vaccination even after a previous COVID-19 infection, just as the study did.

CDC credibility seems intact here, but online anti vaxxer credibility continues to decline…
Thank you, those look really nice, appreciate the links :). I have used processing before so atleast some of it should be familiar.
People can have different opinions about the generalizability of the lessons from a single experiment.

So let's not be quick to call others' views "stupid".
We didn’t lose our entry level employees and warehouse workers because of the checks. But we did lose them to the increased unemployment benefits.

We had guys working for $18 quickly so the math and figure out they would make $24 an hour not working. And they did. Our CFO took covid very seriously and laid them off or did whatever we had to do do they could take advantage of this.

We’re still having trouble getting people to fill those positions now even that the rates are back to normal.

Three guys I know of all started working construction and were being paid cash under the table. So making the $24 plus the cash, and are still doing that. So… I’m not sure about this whole thing.
this is a really good point

enrolling in a study is not at all representative of how people would behave if the same were a permanent
My graphviz-fu got so much better when I started using invisible objects for the grid-like layouts. At that point you're just using graphviz for positioning/spacing/styling instead of creating the overall topology.
Well in the US governments should do more to ensure cheap housing exists, and that groceries are available.

But providing it for free is less optimal than a basic income.

Either way it's a pretty direct tradeoff. Basic Housing and Basic Food would mean that a much smaller Basic Income would do a similar job.
Zig already does this with its current documentation and example code.
I don't know, I'd argue that in the simplest cases—a bump allocator followed by a memcpy—string concatenation can be significantly simpler.
I regretted quitting my job in 2017. I left for 9 months and came back, but for less equity than I originally had. (The equity I walked away from in the first stint would have made me a few million dollars richer than I currently am.)

There, now that number is 1.
People think Google bought Doubleclick. But no: Doubleclick bought Google with their own money.

This is exactly the sort of thing Doubleclick would have done.
That is the thing. My definition of UBI is suppose to keep people alive. You wont die in starvation and live on street. But it is not suppose to give you Netflix, movies and popcorn. If you want those you need to work. Which is why

>> ‘It’s sometimes said that people will sit around doing nothing if you give them free money.’

this never make sense unless people have different definition of UBI. You will need to work to borderline enjoy life.

And it also shift the power to workers. No more shitty jobs like what you describe just to put food on table. The level of abuse people will tolerate before they quit will reduce. It will fundamentally shift ( or lift ) the power in bottom half of the society.

But no work on UBI have ever provided a solution how they deal with "living". If I have a small flat of 6m2 ( unless you want to live in a cage like Hong Kong, I think 6m2 per person is bad enough to be the absolute minimum ) , enough for a bed and bathroom, and zero rent. Getting yourself fed is easy enough.

Which shift the question from UBI to something else, our biggest problem isn't UBI, but property. How it is both an investment as an asset as well as a fundamental need by human. You could always pop up the property prices so UBI will never be enough. And every time we have a discussion about UBI, it is always about tax, equality, willingness to work and nothing on actual "living".
A labour of love by the poor man rather than an exhaustively-researched magnum opus, and clearly the interesting focal point is how resilient complete nonsense can be.
Maybe? I'm not claiming there's no way to have a good intuition about 4D space -- in fact articles like this make me want to figure out how to achieve such a thing. But it seems likely to me that even if your brain is somehow capable of visualizing 4D things, it would be just as weird to move to 5D as it is for normal people to move to 4D. Did Stott have any special intuition about 5+D? And we're talking about making that cognitive jump five more times to get to 10D.

However, it's clear the "starfish" intuition is simply not accurate. That's not what N-cubes look like. The point of this post is that we should have cognitive dissonance when we try to think about 10-cubes, because it's weird that (A) the "inner sphere" pokes out of a shape that is (B) convex everywhere. You can resolve the cognitive dissonance easily by simply ignoring or rejecting B -- sure, it's not weird that such a sphere would poke out of a starfish. But you are wrong. It's not a starfish! It's convex everywhere! So you can't say "why do y'all have cognitive dissonance about this?"
You could "just"

1. stand up a private package mirror that you control, that uses a whitelist for what packages it is willing to mirror;

2. configure your project's dependency-fetching logic to fetch from said mirror;

3. configure CI to only allow outbound network access to your package mirror's IP.

The disadvantage — but also the point — of this, is that it is then a release manager's responsibility, not a developer's responsibility, to give the final say-so for adding a dependency to the project (because only the release manager has the permissions to add packages to the mirror.)
Not necessarily. Society is made of people; some things can be automated in a non-capitalist way (e.g. free software) even by capitalists. Though, of course, we will have to struggle to avoid the dystopia.
I did indeed miss the examples.

(Another UX nudge... the logic tool uses a folder icon to get to the examples, while th graph tool uses an "Open" button)
Realistically speaking, it sounds like introducing UBI would require a plethora of fundamental reforms (political, taxes, housing, job market) to be successful. While I enjoy thinking about that as a mental exercise, I consider it a complete fantasy - seeing how American politics work.
So wouldn’t we expect the market to make those jobs more attractive, either through better pay or better conditions?
It's a nice aphorism, but it's too defeatist to be of any use. Yes, you have acknowledged human nature. Now what?

The simple truth is that most people do not pursue evil as a goal, but are opportunistic: they take the easiest solution that won't harm them personally. If we're serious about building a better world, reducing opportunities to be evil is what we should be focusing on. Not raising our hands and acting like there's nothing to be done about it.
I have a feeling that Zig is sufficiently different to most other languages in the space that developing a mental model for the way things are supposed to fit together is something that involves "aha" moments - the sort that are tricky to produce for everybody via a single piece of documentation because the thing that makes it snap together in a particular person's head varies widely between people.

Similar to the process of getting the concepts of git when you've come from other version control systems.

(I have a horrible feeling that the solution to this is mostly going to be "lots of people writing tutorials that approach it in different ways until there's at least one tutorial out there that will work for (most values of) any given person", and having been there on projects of mine I sympathise with the unsatisfyingness of this conclusion)
Companies are free to direct list without underwriters and even issue new shares in the process.

I'm not sure what a "pop" (the idea that prices often go up on listing) has to do with anything. It generally means that the company underpriced its equity but by no means does this always happen.

Are you referring to a greenshoe? There's some misinformation there too, but it serves a purpose, too. [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/08/gree...
The Report Spam button informs both the ISP (i.e. Gmail) and the ESP (sender, usually someone like Mailchip or Mailgun) that I do not want this message in a process known as a Feedback Loop [0]. This allows the ISP to ding the ESP a bit on the reputation of their IP address (assuming enough spam complaints). It also allows the ESP to tell their customer who is sending on their platform that they are sending badly, and potentially dial back their service or shut them off entirely.

If you are sending good mail to a double-opt-in, highly intentful marketing list, then you will receive minimal spam complaints. If you are sending to people who don't want it (they didn't check the opt-in button), it doesn't muddy the water because it is spam.

That being said, there are legal requirements (CANSPAM) [1] for mail senders around the unsubscribe link, but there are no legal requirements around the report spam button, so either kind of works.

[0] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6254652?hl=en
[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
The idea that UBI alone solves anything is silly and not a realistic policy proposal.

UBI is the government distributing money to people. Normally the government spends money on behalf of people who are expected to contribute toward repaying it. A simple way to reduce the cost of UBI is to have it reduced by the cost of ALL government services you elect to use.

Assuming such a UBI covers basic needs, eliminate minimum wages. Wages no longer need a lower bound as everyone has sufficient income.

The root problem is an unfavorable distribution of wealth and income toward asset holders. Stop taxing labor.

Companies need to broaden the distribution of wealth gains- the plumbing for this is still uncertain.
This[0] is probably what you had in mind:

[0] https://youtu.be/XTN_-pRZjoU?t=415
uLisp on the Raspberry Pi Pico
> In the Nordics, there are no manual car washes,

This is simply not true, at least in the more densely populated parts of Norway. They are simply very expensive.
A great place to work will take you back if you regret it.
This sounds very interesting and potentially quite fun. How would one get into this? Is there a specific tool chain you use?
It doesn’t reduce willingness to work, it just reduces peoples willingness to do the cheap shitty jobs that society depends on for us to live comfortably. Like it or not, if you enjoy your current standard of living that is a problem.
I had a 2 year old and a newborn. I was working 80-90 hrs a week. I was in grad school part time.

What social life?