skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would be nice if the Fox News crowd would read some of those messages to wake up from all the manipulation.

For a lot of people facts don't matter, only culture war. Its no different than sport fans loving their team despite them cheating e.g Astros, Patriots, Red Sox, etc. They just want their team to win.
Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks said he would lie to spin the story in a different way to achieve his desired outcome. There is no journalistic integrity.
I would learn C and x86/arm assembly first enough to bootstrap.

It's usually good to learn how to write ld linker scripts and how to make something bootable from grub.

Then, I would look Rust because it's easier to create correct no_std kernels.

EDIT: Link spew turned into a gist https://gist.github.com/5a1b94e8fde45e37c55c5a13d97c9b3f
That's not true in the US. This was true in the VHS days, where home video and rental releases were separate, but in DVD and Blu-rays, there has never been a distinction. First sale doctrine means you can't limit what someone else does with the product. They can rent it out or resell it. However, studios would only release a limited amount of product on "home video," priced at $19.95 or whatever, versus the $89.95 or higher list price for films that were only available through distributors as "rental" copies. I remember as a kid sometimes getting the local video store to order me a copy of a tape that I would then pay full price for because it wasn't available otherwise (more often than not, this was what two VCRs were for, but I digress).

That changed with DVD, where the studios stopped differentiating and went direct-to-consumer.

The proliferation of DVDs without the need for a distinction between home video and rental is part of what led to the decline of video stores (in addition to the real threat, which of course was streaming) because consumers could buy their own movie collections instead of renting them for $5 for 2 nights or whatever Blockbuster used to charge. I became an avid DVD collector as a teenager in the peak DVD era (1999-2003) and a combination of unsustainable online stores (many that were dead by 2001) selling DVDs at rock-bottom prices (even during release week) and Blockbuster's lackluster selection led to me getting a Netflix account in 1999 (thanks, mom, for the credit card!) and then building my own collection of what would become thousands of titles, rather than rely on the chains. I still have a great affinity for local video stores and support my OG hometown video store (Videodrome in Atlanta) and Scarecrow Video in Seattle, b/c curation is key.

Now, when the DVD boom flatlined in the late 2000s, three of the major studios refused to sell directly to Redbox until 28 days after a tentpole got a home video release because they worried about kiosk rentals cutting into their home video revenues (which at this point, had often started to overtake or match theatrical revenue), but Redbox got around that by just buying through other distributors or buying out Walmart, Best Buy and Costco stock. They also sued the studios that were refusing to sell to them directly. The reason the studios went against Redbox was because Redbox undercut them by offering rentals for $1 a day and most people (obviously not me), stopped collecting movies.

But again, the first sale doctrine means that they can't require anyone to buy a different version. This is the same with book publishers. They try to strongarm libraries into buying library copies of physical books but the truth is, if a library needs a book or needs more copies, they can buy them from Amazon or a bulk distributor all the same.
.... and in the next decade, I saw the Challenger blow up in an elementary school gymnasium.
>It really boggles my mind why is this lang so popular

a lot of problems can be solved well with python.

The frameworks are also priceless. What is an alternative to Django, for example?

Nearly every backend service I create is with python, unless it needs speed or rock-solid reliability. For that I use Go. Dynamic UI/UX I use nextjs with python backend.
I guess I've accepted that it's something intrinsic to the software that's going to make it fail. Bad config push, bad packet segfaults the packet inspection software, etc. (Yup, people still write parsers for untrusted user input in C, and don't fuzz it. That's the state of the industry.) In those cases, all of your replicas fail identically at the same time.

For mere hardware failure, we seem to have moved past that as an industry. Cloud providers will "transparently" migrate your app to a new computer if the one you're running on blows up. (Transparently is in quotes because you'll see the P99.9 latency increase when it happens.)
It can also be positive to amortize r&d and software development costs eg. when you have no revenue this year but expect revenues the following years, you pay less taxes then and overall. In Germany software development and r&d with unknown outcomes cannot be amortized whereas you have the choice with say self developed factory equipment.
Reddit does not own their users' content, however - they would also be simple resellers. All that's happening here is that they have failed to monetise where others are succeeding, and now they are positioning themselves to get a piece of that pie.

The right thing for them to do morally, would be to implement content visibility/privacy controls for their users similar to what Facebook offers (strange feeling to be referring to Facebook in this context).
I'm not sure I agree with that title... I just went from 15 (but it was more like 10) Mbps up, to 50 Mbps up.

Twitch tops out at 6 if you're not partnered, so having extra wiggle room means I could potentially stream online games and not run out of bandwidth.
I did.

Which makes the comment much much weirder since there is plenty of outage on Reddit itself about it.
Fast and Simple gRPC Transcoding in Go
I've been working on a library to create gRPC transcoding in Go. It uses the new protobuffers libraries so no need for more code generation and can support loading protobuffers on the fly. Please try it out and leave any feedback!
> One of the core features of Reddit is that any person may create as many accounts as they like for free. Changing that would be incredibly disruptive.

I wonder what their monthly active users look like if you filter out 1 person switching through 3 usernames/accounts for example.
"Hanging chads" is a fundamentally difference system than 'put an X in the circle', and your screenshot here demonstrates a potential issue with accessibility, but not with ballot integrity.
Which is why you can lend people the physical disk for someone to use at home, but can’t stream people the DVD.
To this day, I miss:

- the Queue

- Reviews and suggestions from my actual IRL human non-algorithmic friends

Netflix knows what’s best for Netflix I guess, but those two features are what made the service for me. I discovered so much great stuff with those two simple functions.
I'm beyond Cookie Rage. I'm into Cookie Despair, maybe even Cookie Depression.
Including Netflix content or just 3rd party? I always thought Netflix content looked better.
Physics "breaks up" 4-5 times every year judging from such articles.

Reality being that there have been no major new developments for decades...
In some cases, yes, but certainly not in all of them (or a majority of them) here in Detroit (based on photographs taken by urban explorers).

There are many department stores and theaters, for example, that had wide open floors.

Conversions of department stores to residential units is popular in Detroit since we had so many at one time.

The United Artists Theatre high-rise I mentioned has no divided offices from the photos taken by urban explorers: http://www.detroiturbex.com/content/parksandrec/uat/index.ht...

I believe that the Kales Building did not as well.

It is certainly not clear to me that, in many of these Detroit conversations, that just because the space was divided into discrete, smaller spaces that plumbing was run to them.
That's not really the point, the issue is between AI companies and Reddit, specifically regarding API access.
I sure hope it's counted by more than one human.

What do you do if someone marks something like a Y and it looks like the ink ran out?

(My local elections are indeed a Scantron-style procedure, incidentally. Bubble in the entire circle.)
"insinuating" -- I think you're projecting here. Never said that, never would say that.
I think it depends on the country. My Japanese discs have レンタル禁止 (rental forbidden). My North American discs do not. European discs seem to have "Not for rental".
Good rule of thumb with ChatGPT: you can’t exit loops. Once you’ve gone A > B > A, your best move is to start a new chat. Even then it may reproduce and you should do some similar but different task. Remember that it’s a prediction engine, weighing heavily on the existing prompt. So you say B again, or B1 and it’s like, I know what to do! A! Cause last time was A->B so let’s do it again.

In your case this would be “[]Task1”, “Task1 is done”, “[]Task1”, [here is where you start a new chat or fix it yourself if possible].
> Certain regulations, like the GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, by the European Union, require that sites get consent for placing cookies and data on user devices.

Well, that is bullshit. GDPR requires that you have some form of legal basis for storing cookies. Consent is the last ditch effort if you were not able to find any other justification. So by nearly by definition, denying that consent is in the user's interest.

I think there is some other EU regulation that requires cookie banners. But don't blame it on the GDPR!
A 4K blu-ray film is usually over 80 GB in disc quality.
FWIW Googling "kaggy search" has "Did you mean: kagi search" at the top and kagi.com as the second hit.
I consistently have issues with Prime failing to stream at 4k quality. Netflix works great typically.
heh, I would actually be curious about that environment claim when one balances the amount of power consumed by compiling rust; i.e. the savings for its users balanced against the horrific amount of wattage drawn on the developer's workstations or cloud or ci servers

I now have to compile Firefox overnight because I can no longer compile it and do something else with my (core i7) laptop simultaneously
Would Reddit also be open to paying the people who created all that content?
Who says they're from the US?
I can definitely see how instead of viewing a device as an extension of a suspect's mind, you can view it as just another piece of property. If you had a dairy noting where you buried the bodies, or some receipts for your illicit arms deals, locked in a closet somewhere, the cops could reasonably break in and search it, or more relevantly compel you to hand over the key.

Now, I definitely prefer the US's stance of a password being illegal self-discrimination, but I don't think it's unreasonable to have built legal precedent around that other view.
Unless they use the Ludovico technique
Not only reddit, we need a new social contract for all the people contributing their data to the AI models. Google's advertising contract is rotten and broken long ago. If they are not going to do that , then we need legislation preventing them from scraping content when it s disallowed
Makes me sick to my stomach.
Oh definitely. It was like a slightly visible victory that didn't actually make much difference to the murdoch empire. I remember seeing murdoch in that select committee having to answer questions. That was something unprecedented(and almost a custard pie that arguably swung things in his favour). But no long term difference

NOTW closed but then I think they started publishing the Sun on Sunday instead?

NI/BSkyB merger was scuppered but now its back on the cards I think?
Another warning, I’ve noticed that this update breaks the adblock package.

Not as significant, but annoying on Netgear hardware that’ll (soft-)brick itself if you reflash it with a different or lower version.
I'm not expecting RedBox to last much longer, personally.
The costs are usually capitalized until the asset is put in service and the amortized expense of the asset plus any maintenance can be matched to the revenue in that period. This is not different than a building that takes years to complete, or even completed in stages when you could have construction and occupancy going on at the same time. The accounting treatment as an asset doesn't require it to be completely built in a year, but until there's revenue to which expenses can be matched, you capitalize the construction/acquisition cost.
>rotations are about axes, not points

Well, in 2D it's about the same. In 3D it can be the same, as long as the rotation happens on a 2D plane.
I'm being snarky because Reddit wants to get paid while already profiting from free labor.
> Windows 7 was better, but still an UI downgrade.

I thought Win7 with the Classic theme was the best Windows UI.

Side note: maybe it's a typo, but why would you use "an UI" instead of "a UI". Whether you pronounce the letters or say "User Interface", it's still going to be "a", unless you pronounce "UI" as "ooey".
Differentially Private Heatmaps
A micro-sized number of "elite" couples, talking their baby-making activities up as if that was some OMG Incredibly Awesome New Thing.

The article's featured couple has 3 kids, and aspires to have 7 kids.

Meanwhile - my lower-middle class grandmother, whose parents were very ordinary rural farmers, had 11 younger siblings.
Pretty much, iOS jailbreaks were common and free, now they’re worth millions (assuming they can be exploited remotely).

At some point, if you have physical access and the device pin, you should assume it’s game over, but there may also be a point in time where we no longer care about physical security as much, if at all.
It is not a problem. The solution to running high-trust elections is:

* Use paper ballots with fill-in-the-oval results. This method has very little chance of user error filling out the ballot (modulo concerns like two-sided sheets, etc.).

* Chain-of-custody the ballot box the ballots get fed into at the polling place. Keep a roster of who voted, which lets you count how many ballots should be in that box. If that count is incorrect for the number of voters, you have issues. (This is rare.)

* Count the ballots with a ballot-reading machine. Verify the machine's counts by doing hand checks of samples. (The US runs too many races not to use machine counts.)

* For mail-in ballots, use envelope-inside-envelope to preserve secrecy. The inner envelope contains the ballot, and only the ballot, while the outer envelope contains the information needed to verify the voter.

At that point, the only real question is determining who is eligible to vote, and it turns out that it's not really a question about the security of the voting process, but rather about how to prevent the undesirables from voting. Aspersions on the security of the voting process are really about trying to justify changes to laws to keep undesirables from being able to vote.
Show HN: Database for analyzing US companies, visualize using Apache SuperSet
My main motivation was that I wanted to be able to drill down and filter across all the available stocks, look at the data for myself, and narrow down on the stocks I am interested based on my own sets of criteria, and make data-driven analysis for my personal investment strategies.

I used PostgreSQL as the backend database for ELT data pipelines, and used Citus Data cstore_fdw for columnar compression for the final dataset. All financial data is coming from SEC Edgar, https://www.sec.gov/developer. I used Python for downloading most of the data.

I also run the data load development locally on my home Ubuntu server that I built 5 years ago. I bought 4TB of M2 disks for best database performance, with PRIME B360M-A motherboard and Intel Chip Coffee Lake S.

I built the website simply using WordPress, and I run Apache Superset using gunicorn via Apache Webserver reverse proxy.

The registration form I had to build myself with PHP and some JavaScript, because it needed to automatically create a SuperSet user upon registration. Otherwise, I would need to input everyone manually. I used Python again for the data integration.

Please don't use the database directly as an investment tool, as its in Beta, and the data still needs to undergo heavy data quality checks, please confirm all the numbers yourself, as I provide a link for every company to the SEC filings.
Why was/is the Apple II so good?
That's an interesting take. anyone have a counter to this?
Well shit, this was my reason not to ever visit the US, but I live in Britain so I'm fucked anyway.
Great! Now the reviewer will say you should've used GPT4.2, the version released on 29th August, not the version released on 22nd August.
> Lisa which arguably began the day Apple visited Xerox Parc to demo Alto

"arguably" doing a lot of work here. Your argument is wrong. Lisa was already underway then.

His statements are well-grounded and correct, while you apparently just read a couple articles.
"Is that an X?"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/06/vote-with-a...

> The official body supervising the British general election on Thursday has said votes should be counted if support is expressed by the drawing of a smiley face, instead of a cross, as is requested at the top of the ballot paper.

> Also permitted is writing “yes”, and drawings that may well be accepted are those of a flower, and sketches of naked people, though best if they are smiling.

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/204c.22

> If a mark (X) is made out of its proper place, but so near a name or space as to indicate clearly the voter's intent, the vote shall be counted.

> If the names of two candidates have been marked, and an attempt has been made to erase or obliterate one of the marks, a vote shall be counted for the remaining marked candidate. If an attempt has been made to obliterate a write-in name a vote shall be counted for the remaining write-in name or marked candidate.
Surely you must mean after Windows 7? Windows 8 was the beginning of the pile of poo that is Windows on the PC-playing-a-tablet and Microsoft just dig deeper and deeper with every new version down the awful tablet design they have going on.
Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5M, avoiding trial
I think your distrust is probably wise. Even if things are trustworthy today there is always a chance of that changing with a new government tomorrow and history provides too many examples where that didn't end well.

Unfortunately part of the problem is that different types of people experience these systems very differently. I'm unremarkable and unlikely to attract the interest of the authorities by association either so most of the ongoing problems you do see in the news don't tend to affect me or those close to me. I remember how one similarly unremarkable person I know was shocked and quite upset when they were challenged by a huge scary-looking guy to show some kind of ticket while travelling in London even though they had one and hadn't done anything wrong. And then I wonder how often a mid-teens black kid living on the estate 25 metres overhead has been "profiled" by the Met and what their experience of being challenged by authority must feel like.

Until we fix the glaring inequalities in our society there will always be big problems lurking underneath sadly.
> In 2017, Democrats recognized it as a problem

In 2016, Hillary beat Sanders by up to ~12% more than exit polls would have suggested in states without paper trails. [0]

The fact that this only happened in states without paper trails raised some eyebrows among Sanders voters, but "Democrats" bent over backwards to explain how this was just a quirk, and 'probably the fault of Bernie Bros somehow anyway, who gives a shit about them, they're not Real Democrats TM'.

And then we stopped doing exit polls at all. Because apparently that's a sensible thing to do when there's no paper trail, and indications of systemic fraud - remove the only remaining tell-tale sign.

So, yeah - this is a problem, will continue to be a problem, and will be completely ignored by media unless it serves them to associate questioning voting machines with the far-right.

0 - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stanford-study-proves-elec...
Sounds like "do not copy" text on keys that are not meant to be duplicated.
there's a chrome extension which I think is called "I don't care about cookies" :)
Oddly defensive. Why not answer the question?
No. And that's basically the point of the concerns everyone has.
Obviously. I'll just quote my link directly for you, then:

> First, election officers open the ballot boxes and count the ballots.

Note the plural.

Safeguards for Counting Votes and Reporting on Results: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=int/co...
I feel like there's a whole world of information theory that either astronomers or (I suspect) people making arguments on behalf of astronomers are unaware of.

Long-duration observations can't be disrupted badly by a quick satellite jaunt across the sky. That's just a noise blip. Less than 0.00001% of the data collected. Isolate it and scrub it.

Similarly, wide-field observations have a lot of data to work with to figure out what the field is supposed to look like vs. what it looks like with a satellite-pass event. Isolate them and scrub them.

Satellites and deep stellar phenomena are different scales of event at different ranges and speeds. A Fourier transform should make them show up as obviously separable.

(... and again, all of this is assuming you have to scrub this data without a-priori knowledge, when the disrupting event is a well-documented passover with clear ephemera. If it is mandated that satellite companies publish the ephemera, which I think is a perfectly reasonable burden upon them, it should be even easier to separate signal and noise).

I do see your point regarding (b) though; space telescope science may require a wholly new approach relative to terrestrial science.
I refuse to use software as intrusive as the anti-cheat stuff, just not worth it.
Exactly firmware shouldn't protect the hardware that should be done in hardware as firmware can go wrong.
Are they going to pay for the traffic from Google also?
> Now, I definitely prefer the US's stance of a password being illegal self-discrimination

Is that true though? Never heard that before.
I don't know about you, but the "bogus propaganda" matches both my personal observations, as well as my peeks behind the curtain. If you say you're not a conspiracy nut, then you're simply mistaken. (On two counts. Out of 3 randomly sampled Guardian front page articles, only one appeals to fear.)
One of the reasons I refuse to install the thing. Another being it no doubt it requires me to setup an account (making up personal details as I do so) like other BBC properties do. There are some things I've stopped listening to as they are not available elsewhere (or are available 28 days later but have time sensitive content). At some point, if this keep moving this way, I'll use BBC content so little that I can just disable it on all my devices and stop paying the license fee (unless by then the licensing arrangement has changed so I'm still liable to pay in that circumstance).

Interestingly the image host you link to with that screenshot refuses to remember that I don't want to install their app on my device.
Totally totally insane. A revolution is coming, and it will be bloody.
A lot of people don't remember Blockbuster reacted pretty fast to Netflix. They let you rent a couple movies out at once for something like $20/month. The killer part was when they added playstation games for a little more.

I was probably a bit bias because I was in college and taking a date to blockbuster was the norm.
> GDPR requires that you have some form of legal basis for storing cookies.

Not even that. It requires a legal basis for storing and processing personal data.
Tech industry principles to curb cyber mercenaries