skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t had any issues with that. However I don’t send any marketing emails, and since people are paying me to send them these emails I think the chance of getting flagged as spam is particularly low.
I have way too many subscriptions for the amount of video I watch. I should probably drop Netflix for now.
IIRC there is at least one paper, maybe around 2005, where they were able to determine what was being typed in an encrypted ssh session, using packet timings correlated to collected human typing statistics. Looks like this adds noise to prevent that.
Correlation does not equate causation. Maybe IQ has gone down because a lot of people literally do not give themselves time to think at all. Every free moment the phone is open dumping junk food tier information into their head. The mind didn’t evolve to be inundated by tick tocks while you pee. Its supposed to wander and be bored.
My suggestion was more for people who are starting out developing a programming language. It's the over-emphasis on the syntax so early on I find to be suboptimal. I also find that slapping on a more human readable or aesthetically pleasing syntax afterwards to be relatively easy.
Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) doesn't seem to include any tracking if how much you've read of a publication. So there doesn't seem like there would be any way to read across devices, which is something I too long for. https://drafts.opds.io/opds-2.0
How can you integrate chatGPT here?
Deming was the man. But being a systems thinker, and seeing the corporate idiocy (just watch his talks on management), I suspect he knew that a system cannot be transformed, it can be destroyed and rebuilt.
Japan was a great opportunity fro him to rebuild a system the right way.
Brilliant, I wonder why no one has thought of this before?
It's not useless tech but they ran out of steam and most likely missed the train.
Does constructive dismissal apply if there was an expectation to work in a traditional office setting when you commenced?

I can imagine it would apply if it’s completely impractical to do so (e.g. during a pandemic), or if they keep changing the workplace location unreasonably, but I don’t think that’s the case here.
This is incredible! Definitely worth the price for me. Thank you for mentioning it!
Amazon Prime app is doing nothing but pushing it's secondary subscription for other platforms for me, especially Freevee. I have to go a few carousels down before I can even get back to my "Continue Watching" carousel. I have go past "ads" for Paramount+, Max, Freevee before seeing the stuff that I'm already paying for.
I think it's correct about the backlash from Deming against the early DeMarco philosophy. As a young business builder back then when the overuse of metrics began to get popular, I always could see the benefit of basic metrics to get an idea about things that actually could be measured meaningfully, but already was aware that things which made the most difference were not the measurable ones.

Since then I doubled down on the unmeasurable (so I could make the most difference), even though I'm a measurement person in a measurement business. In the commercial analytical chemistry lab, with Deming's influence I was way ahead of the alternative labs who were not yet using control charts, nor were they attempting to produce NBS-traceable (now NIST-traceable) results which I considered essential since my results were utilized for some of the most high-stakes commodities. Most of the people in the established labs at the time had never even heard of an NBS-traceable approach. Continuous improvement is essential and over a period of 40 additional years you can make the kind of progress that can not be accomplished in a mere 30 years or so. Eventually you've got alternative labs so deep into the metrics that you can run circles around them without even using control charts yourself, just the internalized learnings over the years applied to the most meaningful elements which are largely unmeasurable if not completely misleading when you try.

A reductionist view might be to consider statistical process control to be helpful but statistical people control to be harmful.

>Managers read his books, make an effort to internalize them, and immediately go and do the complete opposite

In my case I made an effort to internalize then gradually was able to successfully guide the continuous improvement actions over a period of 10 years of less-bold moves as I was racheting up based on accumulating that most-valuable experience. Precisely to avoid immediately going and doing anything really dramatic in what would naturally be so less-informed a time as to end up having something like the opposite of the desired outcome.
I am autistic and doesn't detect irony very well, but if you ask sincerely I can tell you that I at least use it for inspiration on interior design.
No offense intended, but you are more interested in scoring points for your particular world view than using language precisely!
A service may provision an account with a provided ssh public key, so that you never log in with a password, even once.

It's sort of a chicken-egg problem though, presumably you do have a password somewhere along the line, such as in a portal where you created your account and uploaded your public key.
I completely agree (as a UK customer). They are very focused on original content at Netflix, but the quality just isn't there. I feel like the best value service in the UK by far is disney+ as it includes the Disney stuff as well as most of the stuff that would be on Hulu in the US (such as Dopesick etc). Netflix just doesn't seem to be competing on that front.
I was working at a YC startup which was re-writing a portion of their backend to address some scalability and performance issues. The team was already familiar with JS and TypeScript as the initial implementation was Node.

I suggested C# because of the similarity to TS syntactically while being multi-threaded and more performant for the use case but was amazed at the backlash.

It's interesting to me that many teams that are already comfortable working full stack with TS reach for Go or Rust instead of C#. I can understand Rust if a team is doing systems level programming, but C# is an easier lift than Go (IMO) for teams building APIs and apps who are already versed in TS because the paradigms are very similar (async/await, try-catch-finally, generics, inheritance, tuples, deconstruction, anonymous types, general syntax, etc.)
https://developer.chrome.com/articles/css-nesting/

CSS nesting explained
then I have to pay Azul for the faster JVM and I may still not sufficiently cut my server costs, or the cost of the JVM paces the reduction I have in server costs.

2 million a year is several developers compensation saved every year. It also opens the door to more savings down the road, potentially, as existing workloads may discover they can use the same approaches to reduce cost / overhead.
John Oliver explained this topic well. I recommend to watch the video.

https://youtu.be/jtxew5XUVbQ?si=oYLWIhuD0srg13hN
Depends on the place, depends on the method, depends on the scale.

Beef and dairy can be a way to convert grasslands to human-consumable calories or be used to convert overproduction of grains (necessary as insurance against crop failures) into high quality protein, but it can also be a way to degrade marginal ecosystems and convert groundwater into an unhealthy national diet.
Came to the comments for this. A pollen API smells exactly like the sort of product that Google will rug in a few short years when it inevitably turns out that nobody is building apps that need pollen data.
The (IMO) illegal destruction of that airfield is the reason I've vowed to never again voluntarily spend money in Chicago. I only flew in there a handful of times, but it was amazing to fly in and walk 10 minutes over to the Loop.

Mayor Daley decided he didn't have to follow the law and his city doesn't want my money, so I don't want to force it upon them...

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ten-years-later-daleys-...
> There's Elite Dangerous and No Man's Sky, as well as Eve online depending on what you're looking for.

None of those offer all the things as SC even at it's current state. Elite Dangerous is closest and even then they're just different games inherently.

> there are obvious alternatives to StarCitizen out there that's not vaporware.

You can download and play Star Citizen right now. It is, by definition, not vaporware.
CVS isn't hard to learn; it's not a barrier for someone who's interested in working on OpenBSD in the first place.
Guide to Service Level Objectives
The states do not control their own water, because rivers (and aquifers) cross state boundaries.

The states have formed various compacts, under the supervision of the federal government, the detail how water will be shared among them. These cover, for example, the Colorado, Rio Grande and Pecos rivers.

And if Kansas drains the Oglalla aquifer, that severely screws the other 4 or 5 states that draw from it.
Google’s Duet AI can now attend meetings so you don’t have to
Yep, agreed, I am just listing possibilities. More often than not a performance loss in Erlang/Elixir is caused by GC pauses but you can do a lot to reduce or outright eliminate those.
There is already a great way to do this: prices! The market isn't perfect, but with commodities it really does seem to function. We don't need artificial usage limits, we just need to charge for water on the open market. Reserve whatever is needed for residential use and sustainability and auction the rest. Or allow it to be sold freely.

Right now many pleases have a tragedy of the commons situation. If you don't use up as much water as possible, and dig deeper wells to use it up faster than your neighbors, then you can end up with no water and out of business. If you could secure specific water rights you could plan your business. Farms _would_ go out of business with crops that are too water-intensive relative to the price, but that is actually a desirable property of the system. Those crops will raise in price until the demand lowers and the cost of higher water is sustained. Lower water-utilizing crops will replace the previous higher intensity usage.
Cable tension systems are very tricky to engineer, and Arecibo was built quite a while ago. If you use fixed, non-adjustable cables, you still need to tension them again after installation to allow for settling to balance tension on all the wires. I don't know much about Arecibo, but having strain gauges on each wire, some can be built into the assembly, would allow monitoring and possible automatic tensioning systems to balance the loading. Even in a system of many cables, the load shifts with wind and geological shifting of foundations, and sometimes for brief periods a few of the many cables take the majority of the load leading to differences in strain or stress.
Simply having the information that they maybe have cancer, people are not great at just living unstressed because it may or may not be a false positive. And stress is known to cause a lot of problems including weakening immune system.
You might not but more microwave meals come in plastic trays, as do most other microwave foods. I use mine mainly to reheat leftovers, which are in glass of ceramic but that doesn't appear to be the majority use case judging from what I see at the houses of friends and family. Plastic and the microwave seem to be madly in love with each other.
Cyber security experts lament west’s failure to learn lessons from Ukraine
https://archive.li/do3C7
Every now and then there's something I want to see on Netflix, Disney+, or whatever. I'll re-sign up for a month and immediately cancel. I'll then watch whatever new content I've missed over that month. I imagine this pattern is pretty common, but likely some percentage of customers forget to turn it off for a few months.
I don’t understand this from a goals perspective. What is an “AI compiler” - and why aren’t they comparing benchmarks with technologies more commonly used in AI?

I think I should be impressed, but I feel like I’m missing the point.
> The rush to just shit on everything is so tiresome.

I also get that feeling. It seems it is now fashionable to take down anything that might change things (I'm not saying that all change is good). Change resistance is something that always existed and we are already used to, but somehow this looks a bit different, more ideological.
Some day we have to use packets which are pre-filled by random data to hide our keystrokes in. Not quite steganography, but close. Could also be used to make traffic-analysis harder/impossible even?
I am a cluebie in this field, but I guess working your way through some Lean tutorials [1], and/or reading the introduction to the HoTT book [1] might either scare you off, or get you enthused enough to continue.

[1] https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean4/

[2] https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
> Improbable is basically a joke in the games industry.

More so than Star Citizen?
As a US customer, it's the same way here.

P.S. I may be biased because I just watch Channel 4...
It seems you know the project, do you have an idea how they are financed for so many years ?
Trans people make up a pretty small proportion of the population and are easily controlled for in medical studies.
Why is the drop attributed to the shared account crackdown and not the price increase? Of course they lose subscribers in the short term when they offer less value for more money.
Any idea what percent of it irrigation it accounts for?
> And especially given that a whole lot of these apps aren't built by scrappy underdog devs but massive firms that could extremely easily afford native developers

I understand why someone would think that, but in my experience the economics for product owners aren't significantly different between scrappy underdogs and massive firms.

First, most new products start as a web app. If the product is profitable (or convinces someone with money that it will be profitable) the product owner is granted additional headcount to allocate.

In my experience, adding more user-requested functionality almost always has a higher expected return on investment than making fully native versions of the product for iOS, Android, or Windows. (I have no experience making software for Mac.) As much as I like using native apps myself, there are plenty of cases where I couldn't make a case that creating native versions would have a positive return on investment at all.

In summary, the number of products that are profitable enough to afford native development teams is small, and the number of those products where the native development team would pay for itself in increased profits is smaller still.

There are plenty of exceptions like games, legacy software, realtime systems, libre software, low-level utilities, Mac-only dev shops etc. But otherwise the economics don't seem to work out.
I don't understand the play here for Modular. If this is a worthwhile improvement that is broadly applicable, won't it at some point make it's way into Python, numpy, etc?

In Java land we had a bunch of other JVMs over the years offering better performance. Most important things got absorbed into what is now OpenJDK, and the other JVMs, if they even exist at all, are niche players.

Performance is a huge focus in Python and ML lands right now, so why would this be any different?
Random Load Balancing Is Unevenly Distributed
Fan of these interesting APIs, even if they feel experimental. Google also used to have a Flu Trends API [1], based on search query data in 25 countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Flu_Trends
Sorry, but this is absolutely false.

> Over a third of the country’s vegetables and three-quarters of the country’s fruits and nuts are grown in California.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/

> California is America’s food-producing powerhouse. Despite being home to just 4 percent of the farms and ranches in the country—83,217 of them, according to the most recent United States Census of Agriculture—the state generates 11.04 percent of the U.S. agricultural value. In 2021, that meant $54.5 million in cash receipts from agriculture poured into California. In fact, California is the fifth-largest supplier of food and other agricultural products in the world.

The Central Valley alone—the 400-mile-long, 50-mile-wide region starting just south of Bakersfield and extending northward to Redding—produces 8 percent of America’s food supply though it contains just 1 percent of the country’s farmland.

Half of all fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S. come from California, and the state effectively produces all (at least 99 percent) of America’s almonds, pistachios, pomegranates, and walnuts. California is also the nation’s leading grower of lima beans, lemons, kumquats, raspberries, strawberries, and spinach—to name just a few.

https://californialocal.com/localnews/statewide/ca/article/s...
I usually use them to drink, but yeah… So can forks, knives, and if you’ve seen Kateshi Kitano’s _Fireworks (1997) - Hana-bi_, chopsticks.
I’m probably going to get downvoted for this but Netflix is geared towards women. Everything is a female protagonist, the males in their shows are effeminate and there is next to no nudity that isn’t accompanied by some sort of feminist screed. It’s unwatchable.
if im not mistaken you can also use Cloudflares nameservers for other registars domains
Rust screams Erlang influence, but maybe it's just me. IIRC, in the beginning they even tried to put in a green threading VM for tail calls, which seems insane for something that you want to be a systems language.
I recommend you do set up key authentication. You'll get more convenient logins and better security. This page should document how to do it: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/copy-id
"Touting itself as one of “the world’s most ethical companies,” Booz Allen..."

Isn't Booz Allen the same place another infamous whistleblower worked for? Not really sure how ethical this place can really be
I feel like you're discounting the importance of syntaxes. Python is as popular as it is because the syntaxes is so simple. Lisp isn't as popular because prefix notation doesn't make intuitive sense to beginners. I would argue that syntax is probably the most important feature of a language
What exactly is the underlying data in this chart measuring? I'm not sure how to interpret "paid and non-paid subscriptions". If 1 in 3 Australian users share an account, and Netflix users in general are down just 3%, that's fully consistent with a story where the crackdown succeeded and paying subscriber numbers are up.
> All of these reasons boil down to "if it ain't broke" and "that's what we're used to".

"Works for us". Which is a pretty good argument.

> The claim that "it is unlikely that any alternative versioning system would improve the developer's productivity or quality" is absolutely laughable IMO.

Why is it laughable exactly? I mean for me I can't use CVS due to the lack of atomic directory checkins, but if they don't need them or they have already a system in place which may even better tie with their development/release style than any generic VCS could, why bother?

> This is especially true nowadays where CVS support in modern tooling, if it even exists, is usually legacy and poorly maintained.

You make that sound as a disadvantage...
With most databases, a `SELECT * FROM tblname` has to serialize a copy of the query result and let the ODBC or similar database driver unserialize, so the query result unavoidably gets copied at least once at query time.

Plasma and e.g. DuckDB do zero copy so that there is no: unmarshal of the complete database file into RAM, table scan in order to unindexed query, and then marshal/unmarshal (serialize/deserialize) of the query result for the database driver (which could allow access to a DB/DBMS over a local pipe(), a TCP socket, HTTP(S), protobufs over HTTPS)

If the memory is held in RAM by the plasma store, I'm not sure which queries are possible to service by handing an object reference to where the full non-virtual table is allocated in RAM (on only one node)? Presumably if there's no filtering or transformation in the query, and the query does not access "virtual" or "materialized" tables
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of C# for web stuff. I'd take it over Rust any day, unless there are strong reasons to want a systems language.
It appears to be that paper straws have more PFAS than plastic. Seems no matter what we do we are boned.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/28/paper-...
That’s incredibly expensive, and is just going to drive people to explore local LLMs. I’d be curious to understand how the feed in costs marry up, as I’d normally expect initial pricing to be at a loss?
$150
https://archive.is/lTQp2
Just got a transaction alert for the service billing this morning and it did make me realize I haven't watched anything of consequence on Netflix for so, so long. My house has four kids plus my wife and I, and Disney+ sees constant utilization. Apple TV+ sees constant utilization. Pluto, Prime, YouTube, Crave (this is in Canada) fill out the mix.

Netflix...I did turn on the Johnny Manziel thing in the background a while back. That was it. They've had nothing that has interested anyone in the household.

With the content dearth that is going to be ahead given the strike, it's probably time for a lot of people to cancel their Netflix, having nothing at all to do with their crackdown. The crackdown if anything is reminding people that they're paying for a service they seldom use.
In general, a really good write up on the strengths of C# (would you like to work on an article together? I've had one sitting in the back of my head for a while).

> But, Microsoft is so shitty that it binds .NET Framework to integrate with Windows heavily

However, this is my point: C# and .NET are sorely misunderstood. Yes, the .NET Framework is Windows-only, but .NET Core and beyond are not. For the last 2 years or so, I've been doing .NET exclusively on a Mac M1 and deploying to a mix of Arm64 and x64 Linux servers.
So a statistically insignificant drop in the bucket to Netflix?
Convenience. Keys are more work.
I've been bit by this. In reality you need to know your shit when it comes to tuning the Beam and GC to achieve decent performance under load without triggering OOM.
DeepMind creates watermark feature to determine AI generated images
The game is the meta-experience of playing an early access game at this point.
The plug is an issue but so is the socket.

What keeps a kid from sticking something metal into it?
Flojoy: Open-source, Python-based alternative to LabVIEW
Python is coming for Scientific Instruments.
I think that of the two, Elite Dangerous is the only one that scratches a similar itch, especially in terms of the spaceship mechanics. But it too has suffered from severe mismanagement (pursuing features that got advertising hype over those that made the game fun, abandoning features and leaving them in a broken state, taking forever to fix bugs but being quick on exploits, poor communication and of course the general brokenness of the way they designed their multiplayer in the first place).

I suppose Elite's one saving grace is that it doesn't claim to be in alpha.
> .NET doesn't have discriminated unions

Class hierarchies are discriminated unions. .NET doesn't feature general unboxed discriminated unions (although it can do this for simple blitted types using [FieldOffset]):

https://sourceforge.net/p/sasa/code/ci/default/tree/Sasa.Bin...
Why do people still read and upvote Forbes blogspam?

Netflix revenue, net income, EPS, operating income, cash on hand and share price are all up quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. They added 6M subscribers last quarter while the password crackdown was in full swing. They are doing just fine.
I’m really dismayed that I can still log into my PS5 and watch Netflix on a shared account whose main is 3,000 miles away, I check every other month or so

Anybody from Netflix please fix