skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ living in the Golden era.”

If you actually lived in a Golden Era entertainment would be free, quality, and meant to enrich the people instead of advertise and moralize to them.

I really don’t understand how a DVD collection is an “essential service” either. Or why you would effectively choose not to look at your watching statistics and then simply buy the media you watch the most.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/134503468553

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/285243804109

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/145050977289

Why not just buy what you like?
I think the same applies for F1 in the US. F1 is still quite popular in Germany, although they pulled the trigger on that when RTL (German TV station) quit broadcasting F1 races in Free TV after 30 years in 2020, simply because it was too expensive. As GP stated, Sky Germany took over, and they are charging 30€ per month. It's eye-watering to see that the F1 Pro subscription costs just under 10€, but is of course not available in Germany. Last year, it was possible to register via VPN and sneak your way into the subscription. Not sure if it's possible this year, as I didn't renew it.
- the bg image takes ages to load & queries also slow to come back (not the feeling I when using a SE)

- my adblocker blocks the results because you're redirecting to viglink.com first

- it's not clear how is this different than other privacy focused SEs like DuckDuckGo (or other SEs in general)

- did you guys built your own web spiders or are you using existing SEs?
Wow, I never heard about that and I suspect it's not well-known at all inside the EU.
The answer to these questions is the Riemann hypothesis. John Baez just wrote a related paper about "motives" for beginners (undergrads?) [1]. It's worth a read even if you squint at the equations like i do, there's plenty of interesting commentary as well.

[1] https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/motives.pdf
I mean even if they drop subscribers their usage costs should drop as well so it might balance out in the end profit wise.
Very much in the same boat. In my case my family is in Spain while i’m the US. Wonder how that’ll be policed.
I had an MLB.tv subscription for many years, paying like $140 a year. In the UK, so nothing was blacked out... great... except last year find out they sold post-season rights to BT Sport so nothing in the post-season was available live AT ALL on MLB.tv in the UK. Forget it, did not renew this year.
What kind of agenda/propaganda is it? Which values are promoted?
I ship containers to customers. Would be nice to run tests against them before releasing a container and it would be nice if those tests themselves could run in a container in order to have a clean test environment.
summarizing the article's important points with vicuna-7b:

* Modern AI systems require large amounts of data to train, much of which comes from the open web, making them susceptible to data poisoning attacks.

* Data poisoning involves adding or modifying information in a training data set to teach an algorithm harmful or undesirable behaviors.

* Safety-critical machine-learning systems are usually trained on closed data sets curated and labeled by humans, making poisoned data less likely to go unnoticed.

* However, generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 rely on larger repositories of data scraped directly from the open internet, making them vulnerable to digital poisons injected by anyone with an internet connection.

* Researchers from Google, NVIDIA, and Robust Intelligence conducted a study to determine the feasibility of data poisoning schemes in the real world and found that even small amounts of poisoned data could significantly affect an AI's performance.

* Some data poisoning attacks can elicit specific reactions in the system, such as causing an AI chatbot to spout untruths or be biased against certain people or political parties.

* Ridding training data sets of poisoned material would require companies to know which topics or tasks the attackers are targeting.
LibraryThing 2023 Poetry Month Hunt
It was two-hour work (with the help of AI, of course). I was inspired by Midjourney (credit to them). But, yeah, as a nerd, I do not know how to bullshit. So I thought it's easier (for me) just to put the demo video and a tagline. Didn't even bother to write a description.
I'm one of those users. Went back to Plex and private files.
Sometimes some shows are not available or you get different voice languages if you watch your Netflix from a different country.
South Korea and Japan had severely malnourished populations -- which was also reflected in their heights.

Are you claiming that African-Americans are similarly malnourished? Would they become giants if, somehow, they could be properly fed?
I read it last year and I think it's still relevant.

I had planned to write on the topic. In his book, Steve McConnell advocates for PPP = Pseudocode Programming Process

Basically, he says you should outlines the structure of your code first, before writing your actual code.

IMHO this is even more relevant in the age of AI assisted programming. Pseudocode Programming Process is becoming Prompt Programming Process.

The process is the same, it's just the tooling around it that has evolved.
An integer.
> If they close the door to account sharing, maybe the subscriptions will start falling like domino pieces.

If people turn out to not watch that much content to warrant 3-4 subscriptions per (strict) household, I wonder if this could lead to a Highlander-like streaming showdown: There can be only one. The thing there is that Netflix should try to avoid the showdown, not push towards it, because they are the least equipped to win:

- Disney+, HBO Max (Warner) -> Own/produce AAA content.

- Prime Video -> Deep pockets, bundled as value added service, own distribution infra.

- Apple -> Very deep pockets, customer loyalty.

- Netflix -> ???
That would give way WAY too many false positives. If I'm watching on the bus while my wife watches at home it would trigger. Similar if we have 2 homes etc. It would also rule out anyone using VPNs etc. Seems like a complete no-go and would see a huge chunk of paying users go simply because the product is now much worse for people who are not sharing accounts. That just can't be it.
At least they were greenlighting interesting things as well back then. Now I think the main metric that gets you greenlit is being cheap to produce.
Because the damaged pipe was only IIRC used to drain fuel on the launch pad and had no in-flight role. The subsequent explosion happened because the drain-fuel workaround they used on the ground had the unfortunate side effect of melting some wiring insulation in an oxygen tank
Netflix have really dissapointed me. I've been a subscriber since before streaming, and have even been content paying the subscription fee during the "breaks" of not using their service for up to months at a time because I so badly want(ed) them to succeed. I also understood the difficult situation they were facing when the producers of content were makkng ridiculous demands on their distribution, or worse, just pulling their content because they were opening their own service or some fuckhead like Murdoch threw money at them to keep an exclusive lock on it.

Their streaming model of watching on-demand (i.e., not a weekly release, here's the whole show to watch at your own pace) and their investment in shows that were not the usual low-brow trope-laden predictable shit meant I was actually excited when a new show was announced. My favourite TV-watching moments have been getting lost in shows like Narcos, The Ozarks, or even the seemingly polarising Orange Is The New Black.

Now I log in and see nothing but nostalgia tv, trash telly like Love Is Blind, or inexplicably 1/3 of my screen is listing mobile games that Netflix think I would be interested in.

.. and I'm genuinely concerned shows like The Diplomat are just going to leave us all hanging.

Meanwhile the other streaming services are at least as bad, but typically worse.
What sort of agenda are you referring to?
Used to use sbt at work, then someone came in with the idea that we should migrate to gradle. To be fair to them, they did most of the migration work by themselves, which was impressive.

I haven't really noticed any improvement, just that some workflows I was used to with sbt stopped being available.
Trivial correction:

> 6k+3, or 6k-3.

These are the same collection of numbers, you meant to put 6k instead of one of them :-)
A weird way of writing n?

More seriously, it’s an integer variable. By convention, letters from the middle of the alphabet are used for them (generally n then k).

Here, the commenter uses k because that’s what’s used in the article and that’s what’s used because n is already used to designate the class in the definition of a residue class.
Only if ignoring all externalities. If the panels could be manufactured in space, or on the moon, via some ultrasmall in-situ-utilizer bootstrap gizmothingy, which would then use material from the moon, or asteroids, we'd save much mining and manufacturing here on earth. Which has its own costs. As we all should know, meanwhile?
>As someone who's in Asia who loves to watch baseball, it is so hard to subscribe to live stream.

That's not just a problem outside the US. In order for me to watch my local team's games (well, 130 out of 162), I must have a cable TV subscription (minimum package that includes the specific channel ~$100/month) -- even to watch the games on the channel's streaming platform.

MLB.tv is worse than useless, as those with local broadcast rights require MLB.tv (as well as other channels) to black out games that they carry.

I'd happily pay MLB.tv (or anyone else) to watch my local team's games $24.95/month. But I can't even do that!
I read it. And as I wrote, things are improving so it seems some things discussed are taken into account. But regarding the general criticism of many bystanders, including journalists, it seems that the industry throughout the world is ruthlessly rushing half-baked things prematurely due to the usual hype/VC/first-mover/monetization/etc. reasons without any considerations of the implications.
> What's with Germany and bureaucratic enterprise software companies?

German here. There aren't that many things we are world-famous for... but other than Oktoberfest, being experts in bureaucracy nightmares is definitely one of them.
No library, built it from scratch
You can't disable chat history & decline training. It would be good if you could keep the chat history and decline the ability of data to be used in training.
JavaScript eval security best practices
This happens with a lot of modern media. There's a lot of indie authors that keep starting new series which get dropped or continue getting written based on sales. But once you know an author is prone to dropping a series without finishing you stop picking up their books.

It's actually really frustrating to see an author continue starting one new series after another rather than finishing any of their existing works. It's probably not as fun or exciting, but it feels like an integral part of bulding trust. If I'm going to get emotionally invested in a series I want it to have a real ending.

In Japan it's very common for a series to get a single anime season, but if you're really invested in the story you can continue reading the light novels. But if a story is a Netflix Original, there's no source material you can turn to when the series gets cancelled.
It sort of means what you mean by "independence"; in this case it feels pretty strongly like "independence from Google", which I think is ambitious enough. I think this is a pretty good guide for that (once email gets added), everything else you might want (some kind of notes sharing, some kind of messaging service, some kind of streaming audio/video service, some kind of file storage and backup) is less ubiquitous than contacts/calendar/email. Also OpenBSD + FDE is a strong choice.
iPad Pro and Raspberry Pi = Portable development environment on mobile (2020)
I've just discovered zstd! The cpio archive is 34M.

Busybox is 521K and udevadm is 572K. ext4.ko is 2.4M and libsystemd-shared-253.3-3.so is 3.5M. usr/lib has quite a lot of file in it eg libc.so.6 at 1.9M.
At the time, it must have been the straight reading, right?
Ed Sheeran appears in NYC court for start of copyright trial
To be fair, this was proposed but not accepted by the state legislature (in 1879)
IMO this is what happens when you create data-driven series. Being a good producer of shows is a different business than being a tech company.

Plus losing the old catalogue rights that they got for cheap. Once other companies saw it was viable they were not interested in selling the rights for cheap.

On the other side, every time I use another streaming service (channel4, any German tv, even hbo) the basic player experience is much worse than netflix. I will miss them but, like Blockbuster, it is a matter of time.
They provide a lot of services to governments. For example, here are the contracts for the Czech republic, mostly software development, worth tens of millions of dollars every year. And this is just one tiny country.

https://www-hlidacstatu-cz.translate.goog/verejnezakazky/hle...
Think it's great
Building containers within a CI system, for example. CI jobs run as images, with a DinD service attached, which they can use to build images themselves.
<doh> my bad, skimming too fast, reading too little.

To the best of my recollection, with some links I see that back this:

Futex appeared in Linux circa 2002 ( late kernel ver 2.5 series ), (Net) BSD _lwp_park() appeared circa 2009 but ... I have an inkling it popped up earlier in sources I don't have online access to right now (archived drives | tapes in a shed some distance away)

This post 2000 era is right when I moved away from heavy Sun workstation usage and low level tinkering and into other domains.
They say the dip is temporary until users get their own passwords, but is that the case ?

If people were sharing the cost,maybe they won't come back.
It was basically a more complicated version of this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68809885/how-to-select-f...
Do they expect your fingerprints to have changed?
The book is at least a decade or two out of political fashion.

For thousands of years, certainly in European culture, the default human entity, when not specified, was masculine in gender. By which I mean grammatical gender, not the current politically vogue meaning of "gender."

We don't need to disregard thousands of years of knowledge because the authors were unaware of what would be PC in their future. That would be puerile. ("Childish," from the Latin word for "boy.")
Do you think most sharers are contributing to the price? I really don’t think that’s the case. I’ve never heard of anyone charging family members for access to their Netflix account.

There might be some friend groups who split the cost of an account between them, but I suspect far more common is that parents have an account that kids (who might be independent adults) use, couples who don’t live together sharing passwords, or more well off siblings letting less well off siblings use their account.
As an old movie kind of guy: I don't get why nobody wants me to have a big economical catalogue of all the movies. If you want to watch stuff from before about 1990 your best bet is pirating it off Youtube, oddly. Or hoping it's part of the 20th Century Fox that ended up on Disney+.

The most generous film studio is .. Mosfilm. I suppose it's fitting that the Communist movies are available for free.

(Criterion looks promising but is a long way from all movies and US/CA only)
It would be all better (for the customer) if video streaming services were like music streaming services.

Want to hear an album? it's on Spotify / Apple Music / Deezer / Qobuz...

You pick the one that offers the best user experience (or unique features like HD songs).

Exclusives are basically non-existent.
I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier.

Either way, it will be done. Ask IBM. What's the use case for running OS360 VMs inside OS360 VMs?

We repeat the same patterns IBM discovered in the 1960s, but with more building materials.
I'm from Germany and hearing about them for the first time as well.
The buttons and text inputs being virtually indistinguishable are a slight negative for me, but nifty otherwise. (Also the button appears to have no feedback on hover or click, that would suggest it's a button.)
I think "anti-feminist" implies it expressses some opinion about the feminist movement, which it doesn't, to my recollection.

That said, it is somewhat sexist in its assumption that all programmers are men, which is not a surprise given when it was published. That lack of gender inclusivity is right there in the title. But it doesn't really take away from the value of the writing unless you're trying to be offended.
This is a really cool project. A serious amount of creativity and love obviously went into it.

BTW If you kids are interested in space, consider trying some model rocketry. I bought my son an Estes kit some years back, one thing led to another and he is now competing in a UK national model rocketry championship (UKROC) and planning to do a degree in aerospace and astronautics.
> I'd take their recommendations about code style ... with a grain of salt though

IIRC, this book started me on the "meta-rules" of code style, the "what makes good rules", specifically

* aim for readability

* the role that "mere familiarity" plays in readability

* Team style over individual style, org over team, industry over org.

* the small amount (but not zero) of actual data i.e. studies here.
>meant to enrich the people
>not to moralize to them

I feel the current crop of writers employed by Disney, Netflix, Amazon etc. cannot tell the difference between these two.
I dont know what implications you are talking about, but the mode of operation you described has been how start up are created for ever no?
What's a "civilian" in your context?
Most likely no! Do you really need to read a 900 page book to understand how to write good code? There might be nuggets of wisdom here and there, but you'll most likely pick them on your own as you code and grow. Problem with these books is that you tend to over-apply whatever you read. You read the fact that configurations are good, so you create a nest of abstractions to make code configurable, even when it doesn't make sense. This is the stuff that I have seen happen over and over again. Over-engineered crap resulting from programmers trying to make future-proof code.

The best way is still, reading and writing lots of code. You'll pick the right way quite naturally.
That's correct, it's based on PG
Pietro Nardini
You would have to loose your phone simultaneously.
Damn dude, use a different analogy, please. You do not have to be this indecent and insensitive.
Anyone who hosts an illegal stream website (which usually makes them thousands of $$ per day), would immediately try the following:

1. Stream the video game fifa 2023 for the first 2-3 streams until my account gets onto your allowlist.

2. Stream illegal football content, not triggering your n8n flows, due to the allowlist.
Not according to Netflix:

> We see a cancel reaction in each market when we announce the news,” Netflix said in its first quarter earnings release on April 18, expecting the dip to be momentary before users that didn’t pay start signing up for their own accounts. “In Canada, which we believe is a reliable predictor for the US, our paid membership base is now larger than prior to the launch of paid sharing and revenue growth has accelerated and is now growing faster than in the US,” Netflix said.
As an American living in Germany, can confirm :-)

I affectionately call my mailbox, the 'box of pain' for all the form letters I receive for various steps I need to take vis-a-vis the government, my landlord, utilities, and on it goes.

Great bread and beer here though - no complaints.
>Sure a Christian will say God works in strange and mysterious ways but ultimately they rely on being able to reason about his benevolence and then use that as proof they are 'good' and you aren't.

Have you experienced this? Remind them of Mark 10:18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good —except God alone". Remember there are many people who are clueless about Christianity including Christians sadly.
Nah, it opens a whole new area of research. Everything is a great opportunity for new fun in maths.

You just have to properly define what you mean by "imperceptible" and you are good to go. Now you can look for a bounded approximation. See how it changes as things get bigger. See if it can be improved.

Bounds and approximation are generally a very useful tool. Properties simplifications and working on sub parts can also yield interesting results.

Generally I would say that if you can’t prove something, trying something close but simpler is nearly always a good idea.
Richard Stallman. You may not agree with everything he says but definitely he had a unique vision of the world and values and stood by them.

Getting a free C compiler and the rest of linux userspace was a massive deal.
Thanks :)

No self host option so far. I'll give it a thought sometime next week.
What is the benefit of stripping viewBox? (3+ years discussion)
This is why expressive programming languages matter. If your language is expressive enough, the sketch will be executable.
I'm not familiar this much with MySQL then: if you upgrade your MySQL database, can you still roll back to the old version? If you can't then this is the same restriction when you use the `pg_upgrade` tool in link mode.

(Note that one approach if concerned about the potential for downtime if it goes wrong might be to `pg_upgrade` your secondary in a hot-standby replication setup, then failover and `pg_upgrade` the former primary. In practice, `pg_upgrade` runs very quickly — seconds even on multi-terabyte databases — afaik it doesn't touch the actual data but just the metadata, but read the man pages for more intricate details on that :)).
For Your Phone and EV, a Cobalt Supply Chain to a Hell on Earth
I can understand the outrage over content, wokeness, the direction, etc. But being angry over having to pay for services rendered? Come on. Don't use Netflix (or the alternatives) as a comfy Piratebay. Get it together, we're not children.
People? It's banks, who all insist on SMS, not people,
Words that worry me in AI
But even if I run in a container e.g. a Github actions runner I can use buildah to build my image right? So no need for another container. Why is there another layer needed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wys2Ot4yLTg
I used to use a very similar looking/functioning keyboard way back on my Palm organiser and then on my Pocket PC. I don't recall the name of it now, but I got be being quite fast with it. It didn't have any autocomplete IIRC.
No they cannot. And I am not just speaking in abstract terms, in the 1960s and 1970s (and even before) many shows were made that had a moral core but did not moralize at the audience.

Shows like Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, etc. which would question or discuss complex ideas without turning them into soap operas or basic dramas.

The only shows that I can think of like that now are Black Mirror or perhaps your odd HBO offering, but those are not shining examples, and often, even if they do discuss or engage with deeper concepts or ideas, it’s not handled in a way that allows for nuance.
(Black Mirror is happy to be quite crass at moments, same with HBO and other “top-tier” shows.)
"Elite on the C64 did not have filled polygons."

You are correct - I was conflating it with the later PC effort. When you get to my age (etc).

Sadly, nowadays the plain text of the legalese bollocks that you don't even realise you've signed up to is larger than entire games of yesteryear.
Convenience and discoverability?