skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why is IBM still around?
I don't get it. They haven't put anything useful or successful out of the door in decades and they are still around. How do they do it?

I mean, more successful products and even market leaders such as AWS are feeling the pressure of the downturn (e.g. even AWS ached with the loss of many startups that downsized or went away due to recent SVB crisis). And yet here you have a leader-to-nothing dinosaur that despite all the crisis in the world is still alive. I honestly don't get it.
I wonder how much this affects the public not talking about the shows and this leading to less engagement. And thus snowballing into even less users, as there is less people to promote shows etc.
Indeed it's not, it's just anything coprime to P. This explains why there are always ±1s, and in particular why e.g. 210±1/210±209 are viable, even though 209=11*19.
Big-time VCs link arms for climate coalition
QED -- thanks!
Also, spanish content was better years ago, now everything looks copy paste of the same agenda. Not worth it.
Not even close.

The use case for "Stingray" like devices is to determine the proximity and or ID of a device|user based on the IMSI | IMEI.
DNA Lounge has a bunch of events. Mostly night club stuff, but tonight (Wednesday) there’s a game development meetup featuring Magic Leap: https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2023/04-26a.html
Civil defense missile warnings vs. commercials on Japanese TV
> [1] Or, more specifically, the consumer dollar is impulsive.

This exactly. When folks buy the idea that their primary identity is as consumers, they loose the ability to resist all the psych-ops marketing constantly thrown at them (at least at those living in Occidental countries).

In contrast, people who consider themselves first as creators---those who work to produce something of value, out of a desire to serve others through one's work (this is broader than just the 'creative class')---may be much more restrained and selective in their purchases. "Will this tool enable me to work more effectively?" "Will this item last long enough?"
Why focusing on “climate change denial” is counterproductive
It has already started, as has been documented also on this site.
Is UV 400 necessary? I don't think anything under 380nm goes through glass.

But for the most I believe it vastly more practical to put on sunglasses if there is too much light than needing floodlights in the night. Because then you want every photon get through your windows.
Yup, if it weren't for my parents Netflix would spend most of the time suspended because outside of a few things very occasionally, I do not watch it.

The value proposition isn't there for me, I'm just being nice to my mom.
Nibbled to death by ducks. I’ve been putting off the move to Apple’s password ecosystem for some time. I think it now supports secure notes - though probably not as well as 1p, but from my pov their trajectories are going in opposite directions. Obviously ymmv, Android, walled garden, freedom etc.
"I feel like standardized tests encourage conformity in thinking. By relying on standardized tests, you are selecting for individuals who are primarily motivated by external measures of success and approval. "

Totally agree
Are you running the multi-container apps under App Service?
The problem is that these function only work with numbers. If you are trying to use functions that take or return objects or strings you start running into trouble.

So either you end up making a JavaScript engine that does all of the heavy work in regards to interfacing with the browser (including APIs like webgpu) or you come up with some serialization scheme to allow for wasm to work with these functions.

My point is that if you are making a big chunk of JavaScript already there is a benefit to just doing most of everything else with JavaScript if you can get away with it. I'm not trying to claim that in all circumstances WASM will be slower and I will encourage people to check for themselves, but I will stand behind the claim that performance should not be the reason you choose to make your web application with WASM.
I think this still seems trivial with a 5th grade algebra knowledge.

Additionally, for the 4k+1 / 4k-1 topic, it is just a complicated way of saying 2k+1 (as parent suggested).
Love Golang for its documentation. It's clear and straight to the point.
https://insights.greyb.com/ibm-patents
You can fast path an userspace mutex (or any blocking primitive) on top of pretty much any blocking system call (semaphores, pipes, poll, sigwait, whatever). The nifty thing with futexes and hashed waitqueues in general is that they consume kernel resources only when actively being waited on. It is not obvious (but certainly possible) that's the case with the UNIVAC implementation above.
I am so confused that both next and svelte seem to be entirely fine with x identically named files being concurrently open, which directory based routing has given rise to by design.

Surely, this issue can not hand waved away by the entire team of two major web frameworks, while they are currently trying to establish directory based routing as a new paradigm?
The Moon landing would have never happened without racing to meet deadlines.
This trend may be masking the fact their Spanish originals are overall pretty poor. In my opinion, Money Heist is the only high quality Spanish show they have produced. These days their non Spanish output is not that good either, though. Netflix should study World of Warcraft's player exodus after 2009 or so, as an example of what happens when you offer too much low quality content to the masses.
Netflix axing incomplete shows has become like Google killing products: people are starting to become aware of it, and that puts them off picking up new products.

It's also self-sabotaging behavior from the point of view of a back catalog. If people know in advance that a show had an unsatisfying ending, they're not going to recommend that people go back and watch it. But then Netflix and everyone else seems to treat shows as disposable these days, as if nothing mattered six months after it came out. Yet people still talk about The Wire (first broadcast 2002)
> Every pump has always been 24/7 operations?

You don't need every pump to be open, just one.

Living in the west coast of the US I spend a lot of time driving around desert areas which are pretty remote. Many times I've rolled into remote gas stations in the middle of nowhere at ~3am where everything was dark but the pumps were operating.

You are either supremely unlucky, or vastly exaggerating the issue. It is very difficult to not find a working gas pump in the US, they're everywhere.

Anecdotes are anectodes, but I've been driving 35+ years and I have many cars and I drive a lot including much time in remote areas and yet, I have not even once experienced any of the problems you assert are common.

In order to promote EVs it is important to be honest about the advantages but also the disadvantages.
From the comments in this thread, many are not understanding that password borrowers are typically contributing to the account owner's monthly subscription, and many account owners, when faced to the full price of the subscription will eventually unsubscribe as well.

5€ month for what Netflix has to offer is one thing, 18€/month, for many, becomes an instant no-deal.
Boo hoo.

$NFLX brought in customers with the Sharing is Caring campaign. If at that time they patted themselves on the back for customer growth, they should hold themselves responsible for the about face and customer exodus when they have changed their stance to Sharing is a crime.
This really was excellent and just what I was looking for to explain what LLMs are to non-CS people. Thanks!
Gradle suffers the same issue I had with Ruby codebases some 10-12 years ago: people want to be clever, the tooling is very powerful, people use the powerful features to create idiosyncratic tricks: auto-loaders, reconfigurations, and a multitude of action-at-a-distance clever tricks which are inscrutable after it gets large enough.

The ergonomics of Gradle allows to create monstrosities that are extremely hard to reason about later. I've lost countless hours in previous jobs using Gradle where someone at some point of the project tried to engineer the build system as an application, an application that is hard to read, reason about and actually know what it is doing.

Build scripts should be declarative, simple to read and follow. Not a plethora of imports and reconfigurations happening under the hood creating a massive cognitive load to simply understand how the fuck a JAR is built.
Reheat the core? The Sun will expand, oceans will evaporate. It will be too hot here, like today’s Mercury.
Row-level database permissions on NotionApps
When we started building NotionApps, we saw a constant problem across the Notion communities about the need to limit the visibility to rows based on the logged-in user. For example, in a Task management application, the logged-in user should be able to see only the tasks assigned to them.

We are trying to solve this through database permissions on NotionApps.
Absurd that HN of all places has been so dismissive of AI, shifting the goal posts constantly.

Meanwhile, Reddit and Twitter AI community is beyond giddy with excitement.
Huh, can't I get this service for free or at most $1 a month...What are you saying? :)
This is an extraordinarily bad take. :)

- The biggest threat almost all users face is in the form of remote attackers: password phishing, database leaks + password reuse, tricking users into installing malware, etc. Local attackers are so far down the list of concerns that, really, using unique passwords and storing them on Post-Its is, for most people, an improvement in security!

- Leaving a Yubikey in the computer is, in fact, the normal, intended mode of operation--that's why Yubico makes low-profile keys that you can just leave in your USB port. Yes, an attacker can just steal the key, but the key alone is insufficient to authenticate in most uses; almost all relying parties using keys that don't support user verification will also require a password.

- The article was about passkeys, not FIDO security keys. Subtle difference, but, importantly, passwordless authn using passkeys requires the authenticator to support "user verification" mode (like a PIN/screenlock/biometric).
Absolutely agree. I also had a family account that kept instead not watching anything anymore. In the end I felt like paying for watching propaganda that I could see for free in national television. This came at the perfect time as an excuse.
You get my point, on the grand scheme of things, we can’t stay here.
They didn't call the Space Race the "Space leisurely jog". The Kennedy speech really was treated like a deadline.
But they're not paying Mux. Why so angry at Mux for shutting down abuse of their system?

The whole comment section is weird. Is people not realizing Mux has nothing to do with sports rights? They're just a streaming provider that gets misused and have to foot the bill when people use them to stream stuff illegally.
That's not how people use Gradle though, it's a footgun, it's happened over and over in my career that Gradle build files were extremely hard to parse and understand as a human. That is a failure of the tool, it allows people to do that so people do it.

Same issue I had with Ruby and Scala codebases...
Ah. Ok. That's an explanation. So they morphed into patent-trolls.
Interesting you say that the content doesn't appeal to you anymore. I feel the same way. My observation is that, for the most part, most of Netflix's original content is reality TV and comedy specials.

They don't even seem to be bothering to create great content like Stranger Things anymore. We are at the enshittification of Netflix stage.
Ask HN: Is "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell still a recommended read?
This book is considered a classic but the latest edition was published almost 20 years ago. Is it still relevant? Does it still succeed in its stated goal of bridging the gap between research and commercial software development?
Great list! I'm going to lose a day looking through all of these :-)
> The firmware on the SOC does not connect directly to the 'net, it interfaces with Android to do so.

Do you have any documentation on this? Even firmware such as Intel ME or UEFI implementations connect directly to the Internet itself. So I have a hard time believing the firmware on a Qualcomm SOC does not directly connect to the Internet itself.
Looked into it and they cite this study:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Which explicitly states that the link is unclear. So it seems to me like they're really grasping at straws here.
With energy prices shooting up, that scanned server cost is more significant now than it used to be, and per-user bandwidth costs don't drop forever due to economies of scale, so there may be more cost efficient promotion methods than 700,000 non-paying users.

There was a study a while back (can't find it ATM, I'll have another look later) that suggested those using other people's accounts were more likely to be heavy users in terms of bandwidth than average, so perhaps this sort of thing has been factored in to the plan.

Having said that, I can't imagine they expected 300k dropping their account now they can no longer share it. Perhaps there are a lot of friend groups clubbing together to share the cost of subscription services like Netflix.
I have been using Gradle for more then a decade and for the most part it works fine but occasionally there are situations where I have no clue what went wrong.

Onboarding junior developers onto a big multi module projects that use Gradle can be really difficult. Understandably they are unable to grok the mental model (sometimes I even doubt if I do after all this time).

One thing that has helped though has been switching entirely over to the Kotlin DSL.
> Meanwhile, you can get a similarly sized desk from IKEA, with legs, for $370. It's particle board with a glued on outer surface to protect it.

A NACKANÄS table is solid wood (they call it "acacia" which probably means false acacia) for 250€ (including tax).

For a more classical desk, HEMNES is also solid wood (probably pine) and 299€ including tax.
AI Doesn't Plant Trees
> I think the issue is that people who are paying for an account they are sharing are likely to keep the account active so their family members can continue watching, even if they are also using a competitor. When the family are cut off, they cancel.

Definitely the case for me. I am able to help out 10-20 family members across 4 countries, and all I have to do is pay a measly $17.99/mo. If that goes away, I will be cancelling my subscription.
Silver Lake to buy Germany's Software AG in $2.42B deal
They offer products and services, companies pay for their products and services. When everyone else was inflating massively, they didn't, so now that the markets have turned they don't have a lot of deflating to do.
Doesn't plant trees... YET!
Just wait until robotics is in a better shape and see how and AI disassembles the whole world to create a terrarium to plant trees.
> If the entire polar ice caps melt sea levels will rise approximately 230 feet. That's the end of every coastal city in the world.

Here's a better solution than glass bubbles or whatever geo-engineering stunt people come up with: how about we adjust our culture and attitude to value the biosphere instead of feeding it into a meatgrinder; to encourage companies to make things that last instead of making things that break and need to be thrown away; to look at our energy use and just stop using so much of it.

How about that?
That may very well be. But now, their engagement metric on hours viewed [1] is going to drop like a brick and the analysts who started tracking that for the past several quarters will be scratching their head.

[1]: https://top10.netflix.com/
If they're not paid and you still wanna do it, make it into an interesting problem you wanna work on and have it be presentable enough to include in your portfolio.

At least, that way you might get something out of it instead of nothing, although I definitely do agree that being paid for it is the only way to solve the skin in the game problem.
I thought the point of having something GPL licensed would be that you actually get to enjoy/enforce the copyleft clauses of the GPL. By just relicensing an existing non-copyleft project and not following up with any significant development you only get the illusion of a copyleft project. If you are happy with this license mirage you are essentially saying you only care about the GPL name and not about copyleft. It's just nerdy virtue signalling.
Hi, great product.
Was curious often in data exploration we need to right complex SQL queries (multiple joins and operations to get the desired results) where a lot of context is required in terms of how data is stored in these databases and get some metric for visualisation.

I am curious to understand is your product able to create automated visualisation which were created by writing complex queries on Metabase or BigQuery
Lookin kinda fire! I love those minimalist CSS frameworks, they are perfect for small pages
I appreciate this. A lot of people think your tech is between you and the provider, but they forget about the governments that have power over those providers.
Thanks a lot for the guidance/tip, I've learned something new. And you're absolutely right about the cause of the mentioned crash -- I've updated the Github issue with a bit of new info I've gathered.

Regarding the function, here it is: https://github.com/dreamstalker/rehlds/blob/master/rehlds/fi...

Interestingly, strdup gets compiled into:

89 04 24 mov [esp+101Ch+name], pszContentPath ; s
E8 82 DC 00 00 call strlen
66 C7 04 03 2F 00 mov word ptr [pszContentPath+eax], 2Fh ; '/'

Which is basically:

*(_WORD *)&pPath[strlen(pPath)] = '/';`

and would explain why Valgrind says it goes one byte over.
Never.

And bash is an abomination, I would much rather use brainfuck :D
The sum of information I take in is way smaller (by a magnitude 8 or 9) than what the AI takes in. Partly there are clear trails of what I learn (browser history), and also partly my learnings come from the circles I am in - colleagues, friends, education... I can't regurgitate the whole content like a machine, but can constrain the options strongly and also most often say "I am 100% confident this is true, this probably sure but not fully, and this I don't know".

In the case of the GP, checking where something has been learned or inferred by AI is something I learned from reading articles as well as participating in discussions with colleagues over AI explainability/transparency, as well as reading articles and listening to podcasts over journalism and truth in the age of AI. In fact I know what my 3 to 5 biggest influences/sources on that topic are. They might not be the one who invented the topic and answer, but I know who passed it to me.
1. 30s

2. House mortgage

3. 401k, some money for emergency fund floating around in index funds

4. 200k+

5. See 2.

6. My plan is just to secure minimal income for free. I could live off of 30k a year if I have no other expenses.

7. Cash from a house sale.

8. 24%
This is not evidence of bias at all.
> per-user bandwidth costs don't drop forever due to economies of scale,

Can you explain why? I'd have thought they absolutely do and on top of this their caching strategy becomes even more effective.
Yeah I cancelled my Netflix. 3 of my friends also did.

None of us are interested in the kind of content they are pushing anymore.

The drop in the stock price was expected news for everyone familiar with the service, at least in my circle.
Not at all. I have everything I need from my job income. I really just want something that generates minimal income and I don't have to think about it.
Energy prices in Europe are dropping significantly. Spain's pricing is down to 2021 levels again last month. No idea where they host their data in Europe but it's much the same in other European countries.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267552/spain-monthly-wh...
I'm watching korean drama and fantasy, also chinese or spanish, they've got a different way of story telling, and I find the aesthetic appealing, can recommend sysyphus, or so, sci-fi and time-travel
>force of habit sometimes has me do ctrl+w in a browser and we are back at the topic at hand

ctrl + shift + t should fix that for you
how does it compare with react?
do you mean that this Arc browser enables that?
What is the use case for a container in a container?
> - USRP B200/B210 ($1200-$1900!)

If you think that's bad just wait until you hear what an FCC band license costs.
Netflix’s current plan makes people pay for four devices even if they only want to enjoy 4K videos by themselves. That creates an incentive for them to share their passwords and split the costs with others. Wouldn’t it be more effective to limit all plans to one device and tier them by quality? That way, password sharing would be less appealing.
Ideally sail effect would be used for position keeping, and to reduce loads needed to keep the assembly together. I suppose that would reduce amount of area available for soaking the sun, but might still be lighter than trying to build stiff enough large structures, plus you wouldn't constantly need to ferry more fuel.
> also makes them a significant security risk on-par with writing your passwords on a post-it note for anyone looking to burgle...

May I humbly suggest you RTFM before posting FUD.

You can set a PIN on the Yubikey (or on the Yubikey Bio's, your fingerprint).

Further, the PIN will block after three failed attempts, requiring the PUK to reset the PIN.

Key loggers are of course defeated by the Yubikey's touch requirement (which you can make mandatory for all actions irrespective of time between actions, i.e. a no temporary cache policy).

Hence your "security risk" is non-existent.
But 1 User is (probably) a Premium user. If you remove 3 users, the Premium user could downgrade to Normal. Personally i share with 3. The 3 watch from time to time Netflix, they will not buy an account, only 1 oder 2 Month a year.

If these 3 go, i can downgrade my package to 13 Euro (in Germany) and i will only order it 3 - 4 Month a year. Currently i pay every month 18 Euro.

The time changes, Netflix is not the only player on the market, we can choose now from many.
In my opinion it is no coincidence that the great uncle of the founder is literally Edward Bernays.
Let me add a couple 100 more to that count. Did you know that netflix doesn't support resolutions higher than 720p on windows/linux? You could subscribe to the 1080p plan (like me) and the players will stream 720p videos to you with no indication whatsoever. The only way of checking the netflix video resolution is `document.querySelectorAll('video')[0].videoWidth`. There are FF extensions but they don't work for every title.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

I only noticed when I got to the third act of annihilation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsJgceM0KI&ab_channel=Prime...
Thank you, a great angle and explanation I will remember.

So I guess the fractionality is used by quantum mechanics as a simple convenience that allows probabilities to stay close to related attributes.
Originally drivers, but the point stands for both - especially something time sensitive which a taxi journey tends to be.

For the record I have been stranded, messing around with drivers accepting then rejecting fares and then given up and taken either a street hail taxi or another app. I have even gulped down the fee for cancelling on a driver who drove off in the other direction for 20 minutes.
> despite Netflix investing in Spanish content

They are obligated by law to create this content

See: https://www.innovationmcc.com/post/spain-will-now-protect-it...

> "Towards the end of 2018, European Parliament approved a law that requires all platforms that provide audiovisual content throughout the continent to have at least 30% European productions within their programming."

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