skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The air combat in the Falklands was largely interceptions, not dogfights. The British used Sea Harriers and the GR3 Harriers, both of which have surprising agility. They were challenged with stopping attacks from the Argentine Navy and Air Force that were targeting the RN ships transporting the RN Marines.

There were three primary Argentine aircraft used in the conflict; the Super Entendard, the Dagger (an Israeli Mirage derivative) and the A-4 Skyhawk. The Super Entendard gained fame because of its successful use of the Exocet ASM. It never engaged in A2A combat with any British forces.

The Daggers and Skyhawks could have tried to engage the Harriers, but that wasn't their mission tasking. They carried nothing but bombs and attacked the RN ships (sinking 7 and damaging many more). They were operating at the very edge of their range, and didn't have enough fuel to do more than skim in, drop bombs, and flee. The Skyhawks had airborne refueling capabilities, but this was very limited since the Argentines only had 2 tankers.
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>he was tracking the movement data of the boss to avoid him whenever possible.

Wow, imagine hating your boss so much you go to so much creative and illegal lengths (that can backfire against you) to track him, instead of using same skills legally to finding a better job.

I just don't get, something doesn't feel right about this being the true reason. To me it looks more like he wanted a covert backdoor in the company network for IP-theft, black-mail or other such data exfiltration purposes.

If only he knew that in a year he could avoid his boss all the time thanks to covid-WFH.
Likewise! I have used it to easily visualize dependency graphs at multiple employers. The pictures can get a bit messy when they're very large, but they were amazing for detecting incorrect/missing dependencies.
> false positives

It's not a false positive. The filter needs to be tuned to what your users think is spam, that is what spam filters are for. You are not the gatekeeper of what other people are allowed to think is spam.
Thank you!! We are fans of Wordle and had a lot of fun building this variation and play testing it too
It seems quite possible it might end up offending, if people just start blithely adopting its suggestions in situations that aren't right to do so. A variation on the Scunthorpe problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

And while Microsoft did consult for regional variations here, as someone who speaks and writes non-American English, I am also reminded of all the red squiggles under words like "colour" when I use American software. Microsoft's definitions or ideas of what is offensive are not necessarily my culture's definitions or ideas of what is offensive. There's a certain amount of prescriptive dictation there (uncharitably, one might call it cultural imperialism).
> A tree-based file-system is optimised for doing a search from the users perspective, finding a file takes log(files) steps and finding related files is trivially cheap. It is likely hard to outdo that with a relational model.

A tree structured file system is effectively conflating an index with relations. Another way to look at it is that most FSes are like databases which only allow one index, and expose the index to users.
I agree with your point. Netflix is in the custom content business. If anyone is confused about that and thinks their engineers will ultimately make or break the business, a rude awakening is inbound.

The Netflix tech lead, if it matters much at all at this point, is perpetually shrinking. There's only so much that shuffling what-to-watch-next algorithms on the Titanic deck will do for you. Disney has an epic amount of money to throw at anything they want to, so do Apple and Amazon. Netflix stands zero chance of keeping a magic lead via a couple thousand very highly paid engineers; there is only so much those engineers can do to make a difference, only so much to optimize in that product, and they can do absolutely nothing to bolster the biggest value proposition: content wins out.

I've been a Netflix subscriber for a very long time. I can't name anything they make that I care about or have watched recently. I can't name a single mega show I permanently associate with them (like I might the Sopranos with HBO etc). I agree with most everyone else in this thread, Netflix is first on the chopping block, because their content sucks. A streaming product has to be exceptionally bad to lose in the market if you have superior content (with a reasonable price); the largely tech superior streaming product that Netflix has had isn't going to be enough to beat their competition unless their content is stellar too.
Ye Netflix subscribers are paying more for less.
Most IPFS gateways allow you to pin content, plus they will automatically pin popular content to keep it available.
That’s why they don’t always create from scratch. Netflix originals doesn’t always mean they commissioned and produced a show/movie
Investing in their own content would not support them being a technology company.
Not really. Those are on loan, which is not the default state of a piece of art.
I couldn't believe how loud pachinko parlors were. I tried to set foot in a few and could feel my hearing being damaged by the second. The closest noise i've heard elsewhere is the ball mills used for grinding coal in power plants.
Well, no. In 1987 VGA card for PC was introduced. EGA card was introduced several years earlier, with PC/AT.
There are a lot of e-mail systems out there with not very good spam filters. And spammers do change up their methods to get around filters. You might not notice them, but people with less effective spam filters do get them. (And some people are dumb enough to read e-mails in their spam folder)

It's always been an economic numbers game. You might send 1 million spams that costs you $100, but you might get $400 in return from whoever paid for the spam campaign. If you're running your own spam operations for your own "products", you get more profit, but the risk and difficulty is higher.

I also have a theory that spies use spam as a form of steganography. If spam naturally contains a lot of variable information, and it comes from random places and is sent literally everywhere, it's not hard for a spy to receive an encoded message dropped into their mailbox without anyone even knowing what their e-mail address is.
Reminds me of this sketch from Enfield and Whitehouse

https://youtu.be/ZiJa9diJOMk
Ha ha, I'm a bit like you but I instead scour YouTube for even older shows like "Route 66" or the old "You Bet Your Life".
> He knows more than I do, is surrounded by people smarter than I am and has a track record of success and overcoming failures.

He's also got a track history of being massively wrong at times on things that aren't inside his wheelhouse, like confidently predicting the end of COVID by April 2020.
Wish it was possible to know how they define a Covid hospitalisation. Here in the UK, it literally means "someone admitted to hospital who tested positive for Covid".

It sounds plausible, as the AHS definition of a Covid death is:

"A death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death identified (e.g., trauma, poisoning, drug overdose).
A Medical Officer of Health or relevant public health authority may use their discretion when determining if a death was due to COVID-19, and their judgement will supersede the above criteria.
A death due to COVID-19 may be attributed when COVID-19 is the cause of death or is a contributing factor."
Not OP but thought I could help :

Usually you have to use (or create) an unpinner frida script. In my experience it's been easier to just write down custom dumpers to avoid having to deal with that and also modifying the request (at least some time ago mitmproxy downgraded http/2 to http) which would result in the endpoint being able to detect the tampering.

As for the emulator, I haven't ever used the official one to work, I know some people who used Anbox in Linux but I don't have much to say because I use a real device most of the times (although I pleayer with ldplayer, bluestacks and genymotion all of which behaved nicely to some extent).
That indicates leadership which is overstressed and has a poor understanding of the nature of software engineering productivity.
The bad thing is, it directly influences also the price of other coins, especially the top 5. Only Tether is "stable" in all the senses
It's even possible to be concerned about things like losing your sense of smell without that concern justifying the label "scared".

Putting on sunscreen, not because I dislike the discomfort associated with sunburn but because I am scared of the Daystar.
Huh, second time today that this specific Garry Brannan has entered my… feeds? I guess I can call Hacker News a feed.

And I thought the work video from 5 months ago was surprising coincidence, given I otherwise only know him from The Technical Difficulties: https://youtu.be/3rEEnjA1_eA
> Regardless of whether or not high rates of change happened in the past, they're not good for stability of life.

Let the moving goalposts begin.

If the last 10,000 years of relative climate stability is unusual--and it seems to be at least within the context of the last 100,000 years--then how can you argue it's "bad for life"?

This is the point of my comment: people have a warped view of "normal" as being the first thing they experience.

For example: sea level changes in the last 20,000 years are massive [1]. Over that time the Sahara was a desert, became tropical and became a desert again (~6200 years ago) [2]. Climate change is viewed by many as a significant factor in the Bronze Age Collapse [3].

> So I don't think you can shrug it off and say "pah, this all happened before". So did WWII

Seriously?

[1]: https://judithcurry.com/2011/07/12/historic-variations-in-se...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara#:~:text=By%20around%204....

[3]: https://www.latimes.com/science/la-xpm-2013-aug-15-la-sci-sn...
I haven't touched pandas in months, but I also found quite tiring to deal with pandas.

Does your setup allow for an end-to-end solution? I mean, can I sink time into that setup and feel like I have everything I need to for regular data-wrangling?

I'm sure Pandas is amazing, but as a newbie I found myself doing many transformation logic with python data structures because it's just so much easier.

Maybe I'm dumb but going around the docs sometimes was like :/
This looks really cool!!
Thanks! Docker makes my computer so slow... And it would probably be an over kill for me. But it is nice to know that it exists.
For ECS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...
Typical startup play: charge almost nothing for a decade or longer, then raise prices or reduce offerings later on after killing almost every competing offering in the world. This time, there are still several competitors left though. One day these services that aim to replace cable will be basically identical to cable but more expensive, or else there will be a bunch of walled gardens

It’s like YouTube will the ad spam. YouTube wiped out every competitor who played ads or tried to monetize. Now that it stands on their corpses with a monopoly, they are pushing subscriptions and ads extremely hard, sometimes 3 ads in a 15 min video now
These days spam is less about selling you viagra or other crap, but probably more trying to phish or infect you in some way. They ransomeware you via some drive-by infection vector from email links, and then they get paid when you realize you're screwed.
I remember this issue being raised, I think on the graphviz Discourse, and the graphviz developers responding to it as if it was a hard to solve limitation of graphviz for some reason. But I can't for the life of me remember the details.
your dog might also be more reliable
That if they're processing EU website visitor traffic, they're in violation of the Schrems II ruling, and violating the GDPR. Very messy situation right now.
If we're stressing the analogy, Marak put food out in a park with a sign "Take the food, just tell everyone you got it from Marak, quality not guaranteed".

Then one day the food had laxatives because he felt not enough people put money in the tip jar.

I think that would still be actionable. Most people wouldn't bother, just like I don't think anyone is seriously thinking of taking Marak to court over what is mostly broken CI builds, but maybe the park staff won't let him offer food there anymore.
> the cost of creating TV series is ridiculously high nowadays

I disagree with this claim. Their problem is that they enjoy losing money - a fetish if you will - in an attempt to draw and cater to a very particular and very young crowd. Its like they forgot that somewhat mature people over 35 actually do exist and are usually the ones paying for the service.

Its a pity because with all that talent and resources - they should be well above everyone else of they werent so damn focused on everything but good storytelling. I've seen stick figures on youtube tell better stories than Netflix.
Got a bug report about an app I did nothing about (used by some partners to check certain kinds of tickets). No one else knew anything about it. I couldn't find it on our Gitlab nor in our legacy Bitbucket. Turns out the source code was lost a long time ago, but a partner still had the APKs (there were two versions, one in English and another slightly more advanced in Italian).

Using APKTool I managed to decompile the app, add some printf logging to figure out the issue, fix it in the Italian/more advanced one, merge it with the English one and rebuild it.

The only issue is that the signing key was lost too, so partners had to uninstall and reinstall, but nothing I could do about it.

Oh, and another time I cracked the in-app purchase for the password manager I was using on a spare Android device while my Lumia was in RMA (it had separate purchases for each platform). Of course I bought it once I let go of Windows Phone and moved to Android permanently.
> You could make a relational database that was managed with a language other than SQL, right?

Other commenters have shown examples of non-SQL relational databases. However, all the alternatives were also examples of Structured Query Languages. Languages designed to query a data store with _Structure_.
Electric stoves have a negative impact on my food quality.

I guess there’s no winning.
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Fast for a week, then hit an all-you-can-eat buffet.

It won't work for me because I loathe binge watching.
I loved Aqua, particularly after they toned down the pin stripes and transparency, so, yes, around Tiger (and up until around Snow Leopard). It was indeed a great step forward in terms of UI, which cannot be said of many more recent releases.
As a consequence, it can also require expensive maintenance/repair to an engine that has such gasoline left in it, such as a lawnmower sitting idle over the winter season, or a portable gas-powered generator kept for use during power outages. Here in California, I can buy a gallon of real gasoline in a can for about $25 retail, to use for such devices in storage. (So, for example, after using the generator, I have to run it to empty to get all the ethanol out, then put a little of the real gasoline in the tank for storage purposes).
> As far as I can tell they've succeeded at becoming HBO.

Have they? Have they really? As far as I can tell, nothing that Netflix has ever done in-house has ever come close to the best of the cable channels. Like, The Witcher is fine, but Game of Thrones it is not, neither in quality nor buzz/cultural significance. House of Cards is no Succession and Ozark is no Breaking Bad. Nothing they have could even come close to comparing to stuff like The Sopranos or The Wire in terms of cultural impact. The closest they've ever come, in my opinion, is probably with Making a Murderer, and they've spent the last couple of years churning out pale imitations that make Netflix look like "True Crime TV".

You're paraphrasing that quote from the Netflix CEO that goes like "We want to become HBO faster than HBO can become us". To me, HBO has won that race handily.
Graphviz is another "heart bleed" / "log4j" / ...

Because a lot of big companies use it (and they spend 0 €/$/... in the project), and it is broken from several years...
It would seem luxuries have gotten more accessible while necessities have gotten more dear. Not sure what that says about global versus local inequality.
Hasn't Google Guice been superseded by Google Dagger? [1] As far as I know Guice seemed to be in maintenance mode for quite a while now.

[1] https://github.com/google/dagger
Basic cable in my area is really just all the free over the air broadcast channels but with a reliable connection. Cable with all the channels you would expect (VH1, MTV, ESPN, Disney, etc) is $100 and HBO is still extra on top of that.
> But in the last ten years, something seems to have arrested this direction of travel and reinstated local bubbles of thought, insulated from outside challenge.

Been going on a lot longer than 10 years. I saw the same thing in the late 90s, and the only reason I didn’t see it earlier than that is that before then I wasn’t really looking.
Thanks! I couldn’t handle the tension and jumped to the end of the article to see how it unfolded.
Because email is essentially one of the oldest internet applications and also essentially has never changed.

That means, as has been stated in this thread a bunch of times, that sending spam is essentially "free", especially since they like to use exploited email accounts to do the sending if possible.

I am all for a re-envisioning of email from the ground up, tbh.
Only if you think of other code in the same function as 'a completely different piece of code'.

With global type inference, the whole program is inferred for example.
Apple Arcade games have neither ads nor in-app purchases, it's the whole point of the service.
I built a decently widely used mmo chat client, Cocoa was very well documented in books. Zero NeXT knowledge from my side. IMHO QT still lacks the amount of information that was available at the time for Cocoa.
I think because we already have too many new shows. Name recognition might help make a sensible niche to own.
15" or 17"? I have a PowerBook G4 from the same era, and I think the keyboard is the same as that. Indeed it has better travel, but I find the keys are slightly wobbly and a bit unrefined. Having torn one apart a while ago, I'd suspect it's due to looser tolerances than more modern designs. I think ThinkPads from the same era have significantly better keyboards. They're less mushy and have a better texture.
defer is nearly always 'I want to clean up this resource acquisition'. When it's not you should probably be using something else anyway. IMO destructors on objects representing lifetimes specify intent even better than defer does.
This guy apparently runs a company that has millions and takes advantage of inefficiencies. He's not creating the fake articles but he's using what it creates to his advantage. From what I understand, he will run the price down if there is low liquidity and trigger your stop losses and somehow make money doing it.
Haha yes. I’d totally forgotten about that episode. Thanks for the reminder :)
Seems trading firms largely facilitate trading it btc and other cryptos. If they’re not legally regulated as securities then it may be time for that regulation. Or simply being disallowed for such trading firms.
> I can understand that dubbed audio might not be available on other country Netflix' but the subtitles?

Subtitles are absolutely limited by region by the studios as part of stopping people VPNing around to access titles that haven't been paid for in that region.
> Engineers have very little say in what to build.

That entirely depends on the company. In my experience, the higher the quality of engineers a company hires, the more influence those engineers have.
It was Netflix's Chief Content Officer in 2013 who said 'The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.". I think this gent's now co CEO.
Would there by any interest in an imperative language with a basic Standard ML type system?

Personally, while I find the imperative paradigm more intuitive than the functional paradigm, I believe functional type systems are simpler and more "right" than imperative ones are (which have been taken over by OOP). There are multi-paradigm languages, but these have large numbers of features, and complicated type systems, and I want something simple. Is there interest in this? Thanks.

By SML type system, I'm thinking:

- Algebraic data types
- Anonymous functions
- Pattern matching
- Simple generics
- Type inference
- Simple modules and implementation hiding

combined with some approach to operator overloading (which SML doesn't consider at all). And to remind you, the paradigm should be imperative, not functional.

I'm thinking a use case might be in numerical linear algebra, but with support for multiple different scalar types including floats, ints, complex floats, dual numbers (for autodiff), "codual numbers" (for better autodiff), bignums, quaternions, symbolic algebra, etc. The functional paradigm is not suitable here, but Julia is perhaps overcomplicated.
I was a confused by a screenshot in the article, with the caption:

> Not the actual site but a similar one

Looks like the article, when speaking of tracing down a wrongdoing suspect, used a screenshot of a Web page of an uninvolved Web site. The screenshot included photos of actual people presumably uninvolved, and a name, phone number, and email address also presumably uninvolved.

While I'd guess this probably reduces Internet vigilantism and accusations of libel (at least involving the actual suspect), I suspect that a journalism professor, editor, or lawyer would advise not to do it that way.
Yeah I guess it depends. Most of Netflix movies and series are boring so I usually just want 1-2 of them. One month is too long for me already.
I read them. "Insightful" is not the word I would use.

For example, one of the points is that the current financial system is problematic because it runs on COBOL. There's no actual criticism as to why running on COBOL is bad, other than the indirect insinuation that COBOL is old, not modern, and therefore it sucks. Basically, it's futurism for the sake of futurism--new is inherently better than old, and anything that is old is attacked as being bad without analyzing the relative benefits of new and old (see also Musk's comments about Hyperloop and Loop, which are severely lacking in the 'mass' department compared to the 'mass transit' options they are notionally competing against).

It is possible to be insightful about issues with the current financial system. You could point to issues like the reliance on unsecured FTP of text files to actually do settlement in SWIFT. Or you might point to issues like the fact that ATH doesn't have protections against unscrupulous users stealing all your money. That kind of information would be insightful, but instead, we get mere castigation at the age of COBOL, which is completely orthogonal to any actual issues with the financial systems.

Outside of this dismissal because of COBOL, the only other main point that Musk makes is, well, the standard libertarian viewpoint on economy that inflation is a hidden government tax. But even here, it's not fully developed--perhaps because the "benefit" of dogecoin over bitcoin is that the former has more inflation than the latter, and if you think about it too hard, you might be poking holes in his argument.

In any case, "insightful" is not an adequate adjective to describe Musk's comments here.
Tiger looks over a Snow Leopard core. What more could anyone possibly want?