skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Netflix interface is so bad that I've been wondering if they made it bad on purpose. Over a decade ago when DVDs in red envelopes were the standard they had a table view of all their content and you could sort and filter it to your heart's desire. When they got rid of this, I used their API to build a CLI tool that just listed shows ordered by how much Netflix thought I'd like it. All of this was vastly superior to the current Netflix interface. However, I sometimes would decide that I had watched everything on Netflix and turn it off or even unsubscribe for a few months. Now it's really hard to find out if you have exhausted Netflix. It's easy to spend a lot of time just scrolling though the GUI hoping you'll find something and sometimes you do. Sometimes you find something where it's surprising that it didn't suggest it in the first place. I wonder if this is all by design because they try to increase quantity of engagement and not quality and value gained from the engagement.

Edit: I have some sympathy for this. Engagement is much harder to measure than customer satisfaction. They are looking for the keys under the light because they cannot see anywhere else.
Yes, and most of the physics world is very tired of her grandstanding contrarianism every single time something interesting happens in particle physics, but because people here are also highly biased towards reflexive contrarianism these posts always show up. It's extremely tiresome.

If Hossenfelder wants to advance a different research agenda she is free to do so. If enough other people agree she will get her funding. She doesn't need to continuously trash other people's genuine work where the bulk of the field does in fact think this is worthwhile, and her characterizations of particle physicists as villains wasting money is past my line.

She's a great educator outside of that behavior however.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936 Film)
Agree with your rebuttal. I worked for 17 years in the university environment as a Sr. Faculty Research Assistant. Loved it for the most part. Yes, there are assholes (that's DOCTOR asshole to you buddy), but you can choose them as much as they choose you.
Winklevoss Twins Attempt Pivot After Gemini Loses Money and Employees
> I've never had this impression of FAANG.

I have. It was a popular myth when I was coming up. I'm the same age as the OP (40, graduated in 2005). Back in the early 00s, google was seen by most as the promised land. Facebook was too, for a while. Those initial impressions, even though they were formed from afar, can be hard to shake.
Perl5 got sigils wrong, where more complex usages hinted at incorrect human parsing of expressions. That was designed borrowing from natural language, so wd should probably throw out the early part of the post. Now the post says in Raku

@ says “Use me with an array-like interface”
% says “Use me with a hash-like interface”
& says “Use me with a function-like interface”
$ says “I won’t tell you what interface you can use, but treat me as a single item”

I don't use Raku nor used much of Perl5 (only enough to learn it's good for writing, not for reading). Sigils in Raku may be fine and better than not using them. I'll accept that.

However, I much prefer inferred static typing and referential transparency where everything produces a value and it's not material whether it's a precomputed value or something that will produce the value when 'pulled on'. The last part works well with pure functions and lazy evaluation. Until someone claiming benefits of sigils has used this alternative for large, long-lived code written and maintained by many, I'll leave sigils to Raku alone.
Sigils in Perl were awful. They didn't behave concretely. Sometimes it was sort of a type annotation sometimes they were a weird incantation.

Things like implicit scalar conversion

@foods = qw(burgers fries shakes);
$length = @foods;
print $length, "\n";

Yeah it's easy to understand once you know what is happening but it's obscure. There are no easy clues to let you know what is happening.

Then there are situations where you have a scalar but it's a ref

%author = (
'name' => "Harsha",
'designation' => "Manager"
);

$hash_ref = \%author;

So it's not a type its more of a language implementation detail that doesn't add value to the programmer.

Where as with the Hindley–Milner type system the types exist and add value without requiring all of the extra code. You can infer the type most of the time and you get a nice strong type check at compile time.

Sigils seem like a step in the opposite direction to strong inferred types. You have to add a little bit of boiler plate but it's not that strict so it's meaning can still be confusing.
When you make statements like ‘Total symbiosis of corporations and government … is the ultimate goal’ without attributing that goal to anyone, you come off as sounding a little bit tinfoil hat.

Boston Dynamics is no more (and honestly in many ways far less) enmeshed in the security state than any number of military suppliers. Seems like a poor argument that things are specifically bad now or getting worse on this front.

If you’d pointed at Palantir perhaps you’d have had a point.
I wonder what the other three places are that store nitrate film? I would guess the National Archives and some facility in Southern California. Where else though?
> The average Millenial buyer bought their first home at 34, compared with Gen X’s average age of 32 and Boomers at 33.

I’m surprised these are that high. The typical thing people think going back is that boomers and Gen X got married at 24 and 27 and then bought houses. Clearly not.
> Or you can just buy one.

There's currently a promotion running:

https://www.torrentleech.org/user/account/promoreg
This is genius advice.
> I believe this is being reviewed and maybe something will come of it so that the gov is not allowed to cavalierly freeze accounts in the future

The law that allowed them to take these extraordinary measures includes a required independent public inquiry into their use. That has happened.

It found that the use was justified, measured, and rescinded immediately once it was no longer necessary.
You know all those websites use captchas too, right?
I didn't understand how this link related to the argument. It's about the growth of unauthorized immigrant populations, who cannot vote.
Actually, if an llm could become good at propaganda, it could quickly come to rule the world. I never considered that angle before, but it’s legitimately scary.

UPDATE: Thought of a good clarifying analogy. In one of the sequels to “Enders Game” the brother and sister of Ender adopted anonymous online personas and began writing. They were so skilled at politics and propaganda that they disrupted the entire world and the brother soon became world leader.
> I was dead on the street at 15

Big difference between 15 and 85 or 95.
Are there any feed services that would sell an individual (person or business) license? It seems like they all strive to be a backend for a SAAS.
Yes, and that's what automated tests are for. They "replicate" specific conditions and make it possible to cover everything. That's what unit tests are. This has nothing to do with the physical world.
Do you genuinely don't see the difference between 56 copies and zero copies, or just low effort trolling?
"Without bitcoin, you collect the ransom in gold with a dead drop."

maybe you missed the bit about gold.
We are past the point where sigils are useful for a modern compiler or machine interpreter. A limited ability to avoid collisions with "reserved words" ... would be more of a mis-feature than a feature.

The value of a sigil is for the other humans reading the code. And, I agree it can be quite valuable there.
History of a lot of (most?) software.
so yeah, that ^ is why i didn't talk about it lol
Gruber discussed the Apple TV mess they made, sounds like they repackaged a previous failed attempt without fixing it.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/23/max-tvos
Rockefeller and Ford both raised significant investments before their companies practically improved quality of life and irrational speculation is as old as the stock market itself. For example during the rise of Standard Oil 1880s there was a massive speculative bubble in railroads that led to a collapse during the 1890s. Bringing up those examples without considering the failures is survivorship bias.
He probably meant that a compiler is a pure function for a given source file and a set of flags. Of course, if you change a compiler or flags, you can get something radically different, but you shouldn't get something radically different because it's Tuesday, midnight, your username starts with n, you have more than 3 hard drives, or because it reads some bytes from /dev/urandom.

It's bit of a stretch, sure, but I don't expect my performance problems to go away by recompiling stuff over and over again without changing either the code or flags and expecting the optimizer to make a better decision next time. It doesn't work that way.
The Ultraviolet Index, or UV Index : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_index

UV Index - The Sun Safety Scale - Forefront Dermatology (2017)

: https://forefrontdermatology.com/uv-index-sun-safety-scale/

A Guide to the UV Index (PDF) : https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/documents/uviguid...

Ultraviolet Index - External links - 'UV Index Forecast' - 'Real-time Global Ultraviolet Index'

: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_index#External_lin...

The Fitzpatrick Scale (aka) Fitzpatrick Skin Typing test; or Fitzpatrick phototyping scale

: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale

Developed in 1975 by American dermatologist Thomas B. Fitzpatrick,

as a way to estimate the response of different types of skin to ultraviolet (UV) light.

Season : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

Light Therapy : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_therapy

Vitamin D : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D

Vitamin D Deficiency : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_deficiency

Vitamin D Toxicity (aka) Hypervitaminosis D : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D
Fun fact: This also happened with the Austro-Hungarian monarchy for some time, where the civil naval ensign was communicated as the flag, compare [0] and [1].

It can be still found on Amazon, etc, as "Austria-Hungary Flag".

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Flag_of...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Flags_of_Austria-Hungary
That's behind a paywall. In any case the photo needs to be very, very close to see it.

Look closely at this photo at full resolution: https://images.freeimages.com/images/large-previews/2cb/crap...

There is a very subtle North-South bump under the felt, directly in the center, under the words "CRAPS" and "DEALER and PLAYERS" and "Seven". It might be easiest to see at the lowest horizontal line, below the words "Any Craps."

Here's another hi-res photo, you need to already know it's there, but you can just barely make it out if you look very closely right down the center, under the felt: https://i0.wp.com/agrlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC01...
Links:

Everything you Never Wanted to Know about PKI but were Forced to Find Out:

<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/pkitutorial.pdf>

Godzilla Crypto Tutorial:

<https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/tutorial/>
It is amusing that an entity as obscenely rich as the Vatican isn’t providing official high quality images of their own flag. Maybe it isn’t as important in the grand scheme of things?
Gnucash has an ofx client . They can be tricky to configure .
> I'm not really sure why anyone cares about bots. They've been part of the internet at least since search engines were invented.

It's all fun and games until foreign agencies are controlling who wins in your elections through misinformation and propaganda.
Because a function can be assumed to work one or two ways and nodiscard can prevent you from assuming the wrong thing. Imagine a fake string::concat(other) that does what it says on the tin. You can assume it appends to s but what if it allocates a new str instead? You label it with nodiscard because there is literally zero purpose in ever calling this method but ignoring the result - if you ignore it, it’s as if it was never called (since the existing variables were not modified) except you paid the price with the allocations. So either use the result or drop the call.

Using it to enforce that every return value is handled is stupid as it can lead to error blindness and you’ll ignore it when you actually need it.
Its all just an overheated market that has zero ability to project the future tech landscape yet suffers enormous FOMO

Will AI be "big" business? Under what business model. And who will benefit? Will Nvidia be the only one selling shovels? And how many will be buying shovels and to what end?

Does Mr Market project that AI is going to get "democratized"? Who will be running AI models and what have they being doing until now without high end GPU's?

Everything is up in the air and that includes the stock price
Apparently not. It is crazy that they delete a random line of code and don't update or add a single test at the same time. Absolute madness. I wonder what they are doing instead that ensures the Kernel mostly works.
For people who use QuickBooks, what's the main barrier to a viable open-source competitor? Does QuickBooks offer a ton of necessary integrations or something?
I bet you have a lot of good perspectives on how software could better serve doctors and healthcare. Keep practicing medicine, but give coding a try in your free time. Web technologies are the easiest places to start and have pretty good resources on starting from scratch.
I'm getting a lot of down votes so I suspect people might not be aware of the (unofficial) Enhance Your Calm HTTP status code that Twitter coined

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
Not much more difficult. In case of a crash first responders break the window and unlock the door.
Ask HN: What Prompt are you using ChatGPT and Browser Plugin?
I daily use the chatgpt browser plugin to read HN, my prompt like:
"""Summary the HN page, list 5 top news, score more if AI related, in {my native} language"""

Would like to know how you are using?
thanks
My Visa card doesn't cost me anything to use, because I don't carry a balance. It costs the merchant money to process the transaction, which would get passed on to consumers in general as higher prices. So, if this happened, what you'd see is people complaining about "inflation."
They probably don’t want to deal with individual subscribers but if enough open source users wanted feeds you’d create a niche for a SaaS that does nothing but provide bank feeds for a few bucks a month. That’s the kind of micro SaaS one person could run.

There are some things that are “natural SaaS” and interoperability with ugly services run by huge banks that are probably moving targets and probably have administrative overhead to use is one example.
Okay, I lost it on the second audio challenge. That was something else.
Not a bad idea… alpacas and goats could serve a lot more of the west coast eating up a lot of flammable brush. He could even starlink a small office setup and get paid to be on call.
Useful Resources for Security Newcomers from FAANG Companies
Cool, career bureaucrats who get paid by the government and can’t be held accountable by the people. Nothing could possibly go wrong there.
There are essentially no "normal payments" being done with Bitcoin.
Your accountant knows it. When you're on other software, it's a challenge for them - and that costs you extra money.
A short update for everyone who might see this in the future:

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We served an insane number (well over 50k) badges with a 0% error rate, and have since added support for NPM, GitHub and crates.io!

And for those of you who've been waiting for icon support:
We now have 900+ beautiful icons built-in!

Thanks a lot for all your positive comments and support!
Which point release will have this? I have xfs root on Linux 6.3.1. Am I affected?

Edit: it looks like 6.3.3 is the first broken version. I would _guess_ 6.3.4 is also affected. Presumably 6.3.5 will not be.
For me it is if my CPA and bookeepers can and will use it.
Surprised the Patriot missile failure during the Gulf War wasn't mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...
There should be no central bank.
We have a developer contracting in South Asia. It's going well the only tricky part is money transfers. A lot gets eaten up in the conversion and transfer fees.
No, it means helping him understand how certain types of contributions he makes are perceived by engineering leadership and giving him access to mentorship that would help him better channel his efforts in ways that would be seen as more productive and something to be rewarded.

If, over time, he continues to introduce more problems than he solves then he might be managed out but I'm hopeful that won't happen.
Torrent peers are too random so it's hard to restrict for IPs.

If the problem is hosting malicious websites, they may able to provide limited port forwarding. Browsers' restricted port can't be used by browser so it's a way to avoid web hosting I believe. A problem is that there are only 80 ports now (for Chromium). https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...
I'll preface this by stating that I work for a large bank, and the opinions I express herein are my own.

> ... how do you square that with one category of business causing way more chargebacks than average?

Simple: Liability shift.

The liability shift is what spurred merchants in the U.S. to finally, albeit begrudgingly, modernize by upgrading their terminals to take chips and NFC. They did so because the cost of not doing so was too high. Some hold outs exist, but they are quickly realizing their error in calculation.

Liability for card-not-present transactions and your typical our-word-against-theirs dispute has always been entirely on the merchant. The card issuing bank just facilitates the dispute resolution. Banks pocket the interchange fees either way, so who cares about the rest? About as neutral as you can be, setting aside the fact that the cardholder is the bank's customer (because they are also the merchant's customer).

Liability for fraudulent in-person (card-present) transactions was on the bank, which is why banks make such a big deal about fraud detection. There's no liability for a transaction that is denied. However, since the liability shift, fraud liability for card-present transactions is only on the bank if the merchant is using a new chip or NFC terminal when the customer presents a chip- or NFC-capable card. Swipe a chip card, and it's back on the merchant.

In the end, theoretically, you have merchants and banks both interested in quality of service and fraud prevention.
> Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based?

> We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human.'

I'm extremely hesitant to give any State the ability to track an individual user's online activity that intensely. It's been extensively documented that any State will fully utilize its size to violate an individual's personal privacy, with this often being done on a grand scale.

> Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control of the Internet because the spam and AI bots have made it worse for everyone.

The alternative is relatively straightforward: Utilize compute-intensive & memory-intensive tasks in CAPTCHAs.

https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha

What would only take a few seconds for a single user would take hours for anyone seeking to establish a bot network spanning thousands of pseudo-users. With such tasks, it adds additional friction to the bots at minimal frustration to the user. these can be placed as periodic silent challenges when trying to watch an episode, taking up only a few seconds at the user's end where they wouldn't notice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339902
Why do they do that? It is legitimately awful and makes me hate ever having to access Microsoft resources.
How is this not intentional? Is there some meaning with the additional red? I know Occam’s razor and all, but this is really suspicious to me.
As a non-accountant, I used GnuCash for a small consultig business (including hours tracking, invoicing, and AP), and now mostly really like it for personal finance. https://gnucash.org/

One thing GnuCash doesn't currently do, but this Bigcapital apparently does, is inventory management.
Banking integration
That excellent writeup reinforced something I've become convinced of: decades of "shut up and calculate" have created gobs of contradictory analogies and false intuitions that pedagogy hasn't caught up to. When I hear:

"In the jargon of field theory, physicists often say that “virtual particles” can briefly and spontaneously appear from the vacuum and then disappear again, even when no one has put enough energy into the field to create a real particle. But what they really mean is that the vacuum itself has random and indelible fluctuations, and sometimes their influence can be felt by the way they kick around real particles."

I can't help but immediately question every jargon word I see, especially "random", "particle" and "wave".
I don't think Rust has an equivalent to C++17 constexpr, it is more limited.

Zig may be a better option when it comes to compile-time evaluation.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spiny-mice-armadillo-arm...
People say this all the time, but of course the WebPKI has Certificate Transparency, requiring every issuer to register every certificate issued in a globally monitored tamper-proof log, and DNSSEC doesn't. Moreover, the WebPKI got CT because the browser root programs were able to force the CAs to join it. They have no such influence over DNS registrars, many of which are de jure controlled by world governments and will never consent to transparency logging. This very much includes the US, which actively manipulates the DNS for policy ends.

If Comodo knowingly misissues a Google Mail certificate, Google will nuke them from orbit, as it has done in the past with other major CAs. Google can't do anything about .COM mis-signatures.

Thankfully, practically none of .COM is signed.
Re: Captchas: Have you had any luck with PrivacyPass? https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy-pass
Why would you do this when you could hit a supercharger, conveniently next to a Starbucks or a Whole Foods, stop for 15 minutes and get a full charge? These look ridiculous and give EVs a bad look (Plugged into a big ugly yellow cord science experiment for hours). My back hurts just watching the lady in the promo bend over to plug it in.

It’s like techies never bothered to consult a normal person, or attempt basic marketing.. which pretty much describes most electric cars and EV infrastructure, unfortunately.
The first point is more important. The second point mostly helps with getting the first point done. When other things get stable you can adjust things at your job, or just quit and do something else entirely.

Someone in their 20s often believes bullshit stories about productivity, and understands very little about the social practice of allocation of resources and rewards (aka politics). This can be easily observed by hearing statements like "you know, there is politics at place X!". Gosh, well I hope so, otherwise it would mean there is nothing valuable at place X (i.e. nothing to allocate), or there is exactly one person there.