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Netflix expands controversial password sharing crackdown in Europe
The problem I have with some layoff articles like this, is that they ascribe mass hiring during the pandemic to a CEO or single 'throat to choke'.

My experience is hiring decisions are primarily political in nature. Head of a team and salary/revenue ratios are solid? Better make a convincing but ultimately flimsy business case to get more heads. Otherwise, your fellow empire builder in another department will be more than happy to take that headcount. Multiply this by a few hundred teams and you see the magnitude of the problem.

Once you've played the game, grown your team with no real appreciation of thinking like an owner, you can ruthlessly mow down 10 percent of your team or seek that new role while Rome begins to burn.
Its a great read. It bothered me a little that there was an ad at the bottom of the page when it started with a passage about avoiding ads. But i share the sentiment and am especially triggered when those ads are in front of my kids. I'm adult and got over that feeling quickly and it is a terrific post.
Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page
Probably because its corpus of knowledge includes someone solving it like that.
SCOTUS has been ducking these cases for almost 2 decades now. The concept of a meaningful warrant being required is basically dead at this point in the USA.
Exactly my point. Because of social media. It is both the reason people stay at home, and the reason we have nothing to go back to. I'm not suggesting social spaces don't exist. I'm suggesting that the culture and people that exist in them has disappeared. The genie is out of the bottle, and won't get back in.

Sports teams and school clubs haven't changed, and good parents take substantial advantage of them, sure. Community centers are all but dead in my town. The local youth centers I attended as a child have shut down. Churches exist; in my town, everyone who attends them is 60 and over. Libraries exist; they are near empty, or full of people quietly studying. Not a place for a kid to socialize. The local spaces that children used to hang out after school are empty, because everyone is at home playing games and using social media, and kids don't want to stop using them because the local spaces are empty. There's no winning.

These places are different than they used to be. The avenues exist, but there's no-one on them. If I told my kids to go play outside with their friends like people did in the 90s and prior, they'd be on their own. I'd need to start a societal revolution in my town with at least 50% of the other parents to get them to coordinate in sending their kids out as well. It seems like if it's not a validated group activity like sports or clubs, then people just keep their children at home.
> police could just buy the data legally.

Doesn't this still fall foul of existing surveillance protections, though? The police can't circumvent legislation by just paying a PI to stalk you instead. Doesn't this fall into the bucket of turning the seller into an agent of the state?
Why do you complicate it talking of surface vs center of sun. Sun is sun. That's it.
> News outlets have deteriorated because they can't make money.

There are taxpayer-supported, nonprofit news sources. They are not any better, spewing the same type of opinionated stuff (propaganda, really).

The need to make money is not the culprit there.
Increase your life experiences over coming adversity and also releasing greater volumes of work with various numerical measures. This won’t stop other people from being stupid, but it will increase your tolerance for it.
Kinda weird argument. The average actual distance of two planets on some orbits can be expected to be roughly equal to the distance of the farther planet from the sun (because the max. distance is r2+r1 and the min. distance is r2-r1, so this type of 'average distance' is ((r2+r1)+(r2-r1))/2 = r2), of course with some variation because the orbits are not truely uniform nor truely random.

The usual notion of comparing the orbit radii is way more intuitive, I think.
The USSR ceded their claim to parts of Turkey some 8 years before the missiles were deployed there, yet it kept the 13 rifle, mountain and mechanized divisions in Armenia and Azerbaijan, under the so called Transcaucasian Military District. Similarly the so called Southern Group of Forces was stationed in Hungary just across the Ljubljana Gap from Italy.

It is a bulletproof fact that throughout the Cold War the USSR had an offensive stance in Europe, and conventional NATO forces there only stood some chance in defensive. Eventually the insane military production, sometimes amounting to 25% GDP, including ludicrous quantities of tanks, IFVs and SPGs to support the supposed rush to the English Channel, brought the colossus down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_territorial_claims_agai...
Jump-flooding is an algorithm suited for GPUs where you run operations for all pixels "simultaneously" which is why the complexity is often given in number of iterations and not number of operations. Naive flood fill fits this model badly and a GPU implementation would have a complexity of O(N^3) as you expand your fill region border by only one pixel width each iteration so you will need O(N) iterations for sufficiently large regions but you need to look at ALL pixels every time. You could force a CPU-like computation where you keep a stack of visited pixels to expand out from but that would actually end up slower for all reasonable sizes on the GPU unless your regions are much smaller than the image.

You can also modify the algorithm to not jump over edges if that matters to you, sacrificing its advantage in edge cases where there are thin connections between regions.
Awesome video of CGP Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumDHcnCRuU talking about relative positions of planets

Oh and don't forget the followup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIS0IFmbZaI :)

Edit just saw that someone already commented this ^^
I wonder who owns the pole. Most utility poles are owned by the incumbent utility, not by the government. If an ordinary citizen attached a camera to property they did not own and it was, say, pointed at a police officer's home, I think a conviction would be a near guarantee.

If an ordinary citizen cannot do it, I don't think police should ordinarily be permitted to do it; there should be a review. Given this lasted for months, there clearly wasn't immenent danger.

People have a right to be secure in their houses under the 4th amendment. People have a reasonable expectation that others will not install cameras on property they do not own for the purpose of surveiling a house the other does not own. Secretly installing a camera seems like a violation of that reasonable expectation, thus making it a search.
Relevant, non-obtrusive ads are kinda sort of fine, or at best bearable. What sucks is inability to opt out of specific ads due to inappropriateness or irrelevance. I need to to tell YouTube every couple of weeks that I don't want to see betting company ads just because I watch NBA and soccer videos. No matter how much I say this is "Not Appropriate" or "Not Relevant", every two weeks, there is Emmanuel Adebayor telling me to use some betting app (it's always the same ad). I finally caved and installed Smarttube on my Android TV.
For projects like this you could easily search something like "rss feed selfhosted reddit"
Is it like a tailscale?
Why aren't these people walking out in support of the warehouse workers who are in much worse straits?
So it's being characterized as stealthy, but it'd be really interesting to know whether it correlates with any readily measurable markers, CRP, EGFR, etc..
But doesn't snooping/modifying that traffic still require breaking TLS, which is only possible if you can install a root certificate on your device?
I've read it before. It's a bit of a rant and is also probably a bit unfair--but I'm not sure it's wrong either.
“Rentals” are not a product. “Housing” is a product. Buying a house to rent it out doesn’t increase the supply of housing, any more than ticket scalpers increase the number of seats in a stadium.
> Propaganda’s working very well if you actually believe this is the first war since WWII to redraw land borders.

I was talking about annexation wars. Not about countries fighting for independence / collapse aftermaths (like the former Yugoslavian countries or the Vietnam war).

But yes, you're correct, I forgot about the first Iraq war where Iraq tried to annex Kuwait and the US (and others) responded under UNSC authorization. And I completely ignored Africa, because honestly I don't have much knowledge about these and to be frank they aren't really relevant.
What was the WTF lifetime issue?
This is a fine, absolutely trivial, example. But LLMs are simply not all that.

IME GPT-4 can't write a bug-free 10 line shell script. It's particularly poor at inferring unstated requirements - or the need to elicit the same.

There's a general problem with LLMs: they're too eager to please. It shows up as confirmation bias. Embed a perspective in your prompt, and LLMs continue in the same vein.

You can, with careful prompting, try to provoke and prod the text generation into a more correct shape, but often it feels to me more like a game than productivity. I have to know the answer already to know how to ask the right questions and make the right corrections. So it feels like I'm supervising a child, and that I should be amazed it can do anything at all. And it is amazing; but for productivity outside tightly constrained environments (e.g. converting freeform dialogue into filling out a bureaucratic form - I think this is a close to ideal use case), I struggle to see it scaling up much, from what I've seen so far.

For creativity - e.g. making up a story for a child - it's not bad. One of my favourite use cases, after discovering how bad it is at writing code.
Well you tried. You really did. But there are already people trying to form religions around LLMs. Some people can't be reasoned with.
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to hide history in ChatGPT
Would you date someone really hot if she worked in a supermarket, and wasn't all that clever?
The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape
> Nearly 60% of the post-pandemic inflation was due to the profit price spiral.

Any chance you have a source for this? I haven't seen that stat before and an not quite sure how we'd know that, or if the profit spiral was itself a side effect of monetary policy throwing new money into the system.
Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes
Presumably the money isn't good for a reason, i.e. there are actually enough people to get them by.
> Concatenate a semiprime with a Fibonacci number to obtain a palindrome with at least two distinct digits.

For some reason, the thought that someone worked on this makes me very happy :)
Nitpicking is unkind. Saying that you're kind about nitpicking doesn't make you kind. If you want to be kind, I recommend not nitpicking.

Language is driven by users with skin in the game, not nitpickers with dictionaries. Word use and meaning will shift naturally over time. If I say less and, given the context, you understand it to mean few, then the mission was accomplished, the mission being communication. That you understood me is an example of word use/meaning shift in action. It happens.
As a Millennial, I haven't ever seen/touched/used a mainframe. And I work in a modern Data Center.

What are the pros/cons of mainframe? What makes them better than a rack housed with necessary hardware? Well, I can see cons - not so accessible as regular hardware. Impractical/impossible to have at house.

So the learning curve for hobbyists/tinkerers/curious are missing first steps.
I live in a former eastern bloc country and I think that. That doesn't mean I think the US hasn't committed crimes of its own. I wouldn't live in the US either due to its social issues. But between the US or Russia, I'd choose the US any day.

Russia's been in the wrong not just right now but for centuries.
I've also seen this discussed on Swiss national television about more girls going to college (getting a "Matura"). This is also true for the "Berufsmatura". I don't know for sure but I would assume that this would directly correlate to the disproportionate amount of women attending a university.
> LLMs get labelled "intelligent", but they're "just" spitting out word/symbol patterns.

I think the word you are looking is knowledgeable. They have huge knowledge repository and can remix it in whatever way they please, but I don't think if you gave them a novel problem (outside their realm of knowledge) they could solve it.
Assuming Mullvad are benevolent then they IMO did a lot to gain credibility. I liked their articles.

That being said, none of us were there when the audit happened.

And since VPN is used a lot to mask criminal activity out there then if I was Mullvad but was malicious then of course I'd do every right PR move to gain trust. We all heard stories how certain VPN providers were basically intelligence agencies honeypots.
They found an astonishing number of animal bones here, too- https://molaheadland.com/murder-they-croaked-investigating-a...

Not quite on topic, but a bit of Bar Hill Adjacent history- the local news mailer is archived on Archive.org dating back to 1967- https://archive.org/details/bar-hill-news?&sort=date

And there’s a screamingly quaint 1980s documentary about the village on YouTube- https://youtu.be/qIovK-4yq9I

Good effort for a place that’s 50% Tesco and Golf course.
Which planet happens to be the closest to us right now is the metric most congruent to people's notion of closest and is often important for things like time delays in radio communication. By that metric it's currently Mercury, closely followed by Venus[1]. But it will change and keep changing.

In terms of how hard it is to get places you really want a delt-v map[2]. By that metric Venus is the closest at 640 m/s from Earth intercept to Venus intercept.

It's sort of interesting that, over an indefinite period of time, Mercury is closest on average but that doesn't really correspond to our intuitive notion of "closest" nor is it a particularly useful metric for anything that comes to mind. So the whole gotcha here is really pretty silly.

[1]https://www.theplanetstoday.com/

[2]https://i.imgur.com/AAGJvD1.png
I've had several SO questions get flamed, down voted and closed. I don't think this is great advice. What I would say is read the rules, search SO for duplicates try to think of near duplicates, try to Google the answer, then post.
I would be more interested in studies on the people that “opt out” of this kind of hypergamy system and the personality traits that correlate with opting out, because I personally don’t know many people that fit this model (assuming the data that the article presents is correct and that there is a subset of the population for which hypergamy actually applies; I’m not convinced there aren’t confounding factors here).

The author says:

> I know many rich male Google programmers, but I have never seen any of them […] marry a beautiful hillbilly from West Virginia

Ok, how about a Facebook engineer who married a woman that grew up in rural East Tennessee? Is that close enough? I would say the author’s observation is more due to the limited crossover between FANG engineers and the rural southeastern U.S. than any sort of innate principles of attraction.

Curiously, my wife is four years older than me and had no interest in moving to the west coast for a so-called “higher status” job. I realize this is anecdata, but already it contradicts the two main premises of hypergamy (men marry younger and women want higher status). In fact, it took quite a bit of compromise for that move to occur, and from my perspective it had nothing to do with class or status either—my motivation was that I am interested in tech and the Bay Area is (was?) the geographical location of the most interesting jobs in that industry.
Congrats! This is awesome!!
But most people staking out your home are somewhat obvious. A car parked across the street would be noticed, as would most permanent cameras. Getting permission to put something on a utility pole that is so small as to not be noticed is different, and whether or not that makes it illegal is exactly the question at hand.

Think about it as if it was a person -- while it might be legal for me to stand on the sidewalk and look at your home, I sure would get a different reaction if I stood there for days with binoculars looking through your windows 24/7.

So yes, viewing a home from a public space is legal, the question is not only what criteria would make it illegal, but what criteria should?
I would concentrate on modern JS without frameworks and TS initially. I can't recommend a book really as the last ones I read are 10 years old now e.g. JS - the good parts.

You mention devops stuff e.g. networking / routing that I've never been great at - would you be able to recommend a "real" book on that stuff?
>Which would interfere with Go's philosophy that zero should be a valid (usable) state for types. What would be the default value of a reference type without nil?

... but nil is not actually a usable reference. You can't do anything with it that you can do with a real reference.

The whole zero values for every type might seem neat philosophically, but never struck me as sensible.
Elm reduces work and makes it a lot easier to work on (refactor) someone else's code. Some people may be threatened by that.

Also: many do not like anything they are not accustomed to.
Most people install cameras to monitor their own property. That is where reasonableness begins. If some installed a camera to surveil their neighbor on their own property, and that was the end of it, no one would know. But if as a result of that surveillance, one neighbor began harassing another, it would be problematic. This seems to be exactly what happened here, only the spying neighbor worked for the government and used the power of the state to conduct such harassment.
Maybe centralizing or decentralizing but i hate the word 'democratize' for things that aren't politics. If you are selling a new flavor of cheese puff then you aren't democratizing that new flavor.
Is the problem solved?

I mean, who measures at which point "women and minority groups" are not subjugated anymore? Is there any incentive for this moment ever coming to pass?

By the way, I'm not even against whatever progress was made. I do question whether the progress created actual improvement, but in truth I do not really care.
Ha! No, probably not.

I don't mean to be flippant. But I recently had to convert Phillips proprietary DS2 audio format file to MP3, and purchased Phillips software to do that. And then financials came down hard because it wasn't on the approved software list.
Or you can just write the code yourself instead of praying something else can do your job for you better than you can...
Work from home hunting for the family, then

Work from home farming the fields, then

Work from factory away from home, then

Work from home away from factory,

(We are here)
As far as I understand it, the ether was supposed to be matter, ultimately made out of some kind of particles that obey laws of motion.

Conversely, the electric field is just a potential. It's not made up of anything, it just describes how charged particles interact if they are in a particular place in space-time.
> It's not hard to make the network produce output that was never in the training set at all, in any form.

Honest request because I am a bit skeptical, can you give an example of something it is not trained in any form and can give output for? And can it output something meaningful?

Because I have run a few experiments on ChatGPT for two spoken languages with standard written forms but without much of a presence on the internet and it just makes stuff up.
We already have a PoC/code working of WireGuard peer discovery/connections without a central VPN gateway.
Soon we will publish that module, and you will be able to deploy *your own private tailscale*.
Disagree on that one. Radiohead and Greenwood specifically are very well known for purposely using obscure music scales and forms. Greenwood’s film scoring approach sort of proves this.
This has convinced me to add prepossessed fill areas on my kids colouring book for iOS. (no IAP, subscription, no ads, etc, like the general sentiment here)
Been thinking about this for a while, but things are fast enough on an iPad that it took a back seat, nice to be inspired to go that extra mile :)
Just wondering if you think this type of bug hasn't been covered at least 50x in many online forums, I'd be very surprised?

I'm not trying to say this isn't impressive, but seems fairly obvious and more like something a linter / analyzer would pickup ?
Faking Depth Occlusion for Better Augmented Reality
A beginner should use expect instead of unwrap.

It makes you faster because you still don't have to handle errors but allows you to add context.
Great discovery ;)
Denizens of HN are great as long as they're mystical internet creatures I don't have to interact with or talk to in person.
Show HN: AI Memory Overflow – testing AI model context lengths with long prompts
Yes, play of words. And with a choosen weight function.

If, e.g., the weight function would not be ‘sum over all distances in a given timeframe with the same weight’ but for instance ‘… with weight 1/(distance^2), the results would be different (mercury would not win for each planet).

I guess if someone asks, ‘which neighbour’ is closest, I would say the neighbour living literally next door, even though on workdays our distance is much larger (as we work in different cities) then that other neighbour three blocks down who works in the same city as myself.
I find Lamdera cool from theoretical perspective.

> They are too uptight to do open source properly.

It's not an "open access innovation project", so they did not get that bit of open source "right".

Comparing Lamdera with Rails is near impossible. But one is certainly resulting in less runtime errors!
And, considering that many devs only support for Chrome, will mean that it will be implemented without any second thoughts.

Users will see a page that only works in Chrome, and a few more users and devs will move over.

And the Chrome team will become ever more entrenched in their belief that they control the web, and Google will faithfully look to use that power against us.

Google already tried to move the web to their servers with AMP. They are not on your side.
We all go for looks fundamentally. I wouldn't believe any guy that says he wouldn't go for a good looking girl because she only had a high school education. It reminds me of the 2/10 would not bang meme.
It's more like 38% of time. Mars is also in picture and it's about 18% of time. Mercury is about 44% of time.
The "paper" looks like a science fair project to me (a very good one though!) They don't really come up with a new method of calculating the distance, more like an explanation that might be more intuitive to some.

The average distance is pretty straightforward to calculate over all times using integration.
I wanted to compare function pointers, but that's tricky due to unique function types, disallowed non-primitive casts, plus apparently not allowed for types with higher-ranked lifetimes (for<'a> fn(&'a)). GPT-4 came up with using a type alias (type FnComparable<'a>) that added necessary coercions and gave them equal lifetime.
Your writing made me think of the fact that purestorage is designing its own (flash based) drives for its storage appliances… I wonder they’re doing what you’re saying, in their own stack at least.