skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my last one yesterday. I will be off to ebay and a few other stores to get them. On ebay there are people who sell 100 dvd sets for 100 bucks.

Wonder how many people dumped their collection because 'i can always get it from netflix'.
I can only speak for myself but I block advertising because I find no utility in them in any form. I am curious what others reasons are?
Nope. Which is why I only read HN briefly every day and avoid pretty much everything else including corporate news
The editorialized title here seems deceptive at best. Near as I can tell from the tiny post, the user in question was restricted for something and then posted screenshots of trying to post links after being restricted. Unless we live in a world of time reversed causality, there’s no evidence for that sensational headline.
Just because the public can trade it doen't mean the public owns it.

Just because I can (legally) buy a Ferrari doesn't mean I own one.
Man Arrested in Connection to Tupac Shakur’s Killing, 27 Years After His Death
It's actually standard. Other than significant outliers they just don't have a high second hand value, low variance, not (for the most part) worth selling by name individually.
I think SteamOS has more traction and momentum, it seems at least in my family and friend group most people just use a tablet (iPad, almost exclusively) for leisure computing and not a laptop anymore.

So, that leaves pretty much gamers as a heavy Windows home userbase.

I'm sure there's more to the story, those are just my observations of my social circle.
> I hear the high seas calling...

I found that the high seas are only good for popular films, and that obscure films are very hard to find. I've had better luck at the library.
I have 30T+ data and ~100M files to serve 100k+ users daily.

Two years ago, I tried Minio, but its performance (small files) was very bad in comparison with Seaweedfs. However, you should benchmark it again now, as it may have improved.

Also, our servers only use HDDs.
Well the title seemed like a pretty sensationalist title, so I looked at the linked study to find the actual data. The study has one single line where they write that some participants, at max, had received "over 4,500" notifications. However, the data actually shared in the study only breaks it down to showing that 20% of their participants had over 500 notifications in a day. There's no data provided about what percentage received 4,500 or 5,000 or more. I'm going to just assume that's the extreme outlier, and for the article they just wrote the most sensational title they possibly could. (Note that the "5K" number in the title is never once mentioned anywhere in the study). Typical ad/click based "journalism" here.
The Rosetta Stone is from c. 200 BCE, issued by the Ptolemies in Egypt, ruling after Alexander had conquered Egypt. The first examples of writing in an ancient ancestor of our alphabet writing in Western Semitic are from c. ~1500 BCE where they were using Egyptian hieroglyphs as a model. People were writing in descendants of that alphabet for more than a thousand years when the Rosetta Stone was carved, the Greek script derived from Phoenician which evolved from West Semitic, while the hieroglyphs on the same stone were the model for West Semitic writing a thousand years before.
I wasn't using Parquet, but rather ingested some data - not even a lot - and ran some queries and got severe errors and DuckDB crashed. I can't remember the exact errors since it's been a while and I haven't used it since.
Lol! I guess I'm biased coming from a slightly-more-engineer perspective than Lex, but my opinion is opposite yours.

I find he drones on way too much, and way too many first-person pronouns. "I-me-me-me-I-I-I" - it's pretty narcissistic when the guest is politely sitting there across.

Surprised you also brought up the Kanye interview, that's a great example of Lex getting reprimanded by the guest. Lex couldn't let go at a particular moment and kept injecting his opinion that Kanye had to slap down.
I read it as Rocketman being from 2019 when they "rocketed to 5 billion shipped".
This was not a personal attack, it was a statement of fact. The user in question was obviously either engaging in bad faith or could not be bothered to read back for ~15 seconds to understand the context of my post. When I pointed this out to them, they doubled down. They were not just wrong, in my personal opinion or objectively in whatever sense---they wasted my time and insulted me.

Speaking of pointing the above out, why is this comment flagged? Is this considered a personal attack too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37677835

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You can see from my other comments in this thread that I prefer to engage respectfully with other commenters, even ones I disagree with, and I believe my total commenting history going back to 2016 will reflect that I do in fact take the intended spirit of the site to heart. But if speaking forthrightly to a bad faith and/or willfully ignorant interlocutor like this user drags me down to their level in your view, you ought to ban me right now. Thanks.
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How many packages send untrusted input to the encoder though? It's a vulnerability in the context of a browser because the browser provides to any page, the ability to send arbitrary malformed data to the encoder.

Many applications present images from untrusted sources. I'm having a hard time thinking of a single application that will _encode_ untrusted input, beyond a browser.
Exactly. Once you break into that club, you're golden. You're CEO at one company, you're on the board of 10 others, you're all one big incestuous mess.
This is a meaningless statement without knowing if it was profitable. If I started a streaming service that gave you $100 when you signed up I would get a million users. So do you want to buy that business from me?
Logs are written for those events, and name specific apps, and are accessible without a developer account, on the phone at any time, without installing any additional apps or tools. I assume you’re familiar with them (unlike the tech press, who apparently as a whole is not) and consider them insufficient. What information do you find to be missing when you review them? How could they be improved?
Not sure what the original title was, but when I've had my eyes dilated for eye exams in the past, I have no problem driving home immediately.

It is commonplace for eye doctors to hand out these ugly sunglasses to patients who have their eyes dilated, so they can continue on with their day: https://www.proopticsgroup.com/cdn/shop/products/G100_New_20...
Are you sure? I would be astonished if Erlang didn't have a way to export environment variables for child processes.

In a language that provides nothing beyond a function that lets you run system commands, you can control the child's environment via the env utility:

system("env FOO=bar command arg ...");
> When you consider the potential implications, and possible scenarios, from a security perspective you have to assume that they're not just "possible" but a reality.

No you don't. You definitely don't want to assume otherwise and you spend the time derisking and investigating, but if you have zero evidence to support the situation you don't just consider it the case anyways.
I always feel like I am a prisoner of sunk cost fallacy
Japanese study detects microplastics in clouds, potentially altering the climate
Show HN: Managed API for processing, querying and chatting with documents
It's absurd given how much money Google makes. They can easily afford to support these products but they refuse to.

This company needs better management. It seems like its being run entirely by MBAs with zero vision or guts.
If on youtube, does it count?

https://youtu.be/E69QMFzHEt8
Refactoring Nginx Worker Processes to Be Multi-Threaded
So every time a 0day is released you buy a net new device? Cause there are 0days like... every day.
This falls into the class of "proposed bill" (or regulation. etc.) - these are super common and mostly just lead to generic threads. For interesting-thread-purposes, it's better to wait until something actually happens and discuss it then.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I'm in a fairly rural area. Our library system doesn't have much. However, just across the county line is a much more populated county with a lot more ... of everything in their library system. Turns out I can 'join' their library for $25/year. It's somewhat more convenient, because it's about an 8 minute walk from my office, and open more. The local one to my home has cut back hours. I'd like to find a way to 'support' my local library system more, but short of donating tens of thousands to them on my own, there's not much I can do. I've started to use them some more (which may help activity numbers for future budgets) but the $25/year access nets me probably 10x as much stuff.
It'd be especially great for a hip and cool corporation with a burgeoning browser to automatically set that header all the time, helping ensure nobody actually listens to it.
Not at all. Screens only break if you drop your phone in a very unfortunate way.
I just remember the Microsoft 2fa flow was very janky. And that there would be a pointless prompt that would popup everytime replete with a don't ask again checkbox. However none of the options actually did anything it was a pointless thing you had to click through every time. That corporate pastel coloured jank. That inattention to small details to help out the user. Classic MS
Some of my large enterprise clients require us to use Microsoft too, so that decision can radiate outward beyond large, conservative companies.
My - few years old, mid-range - Android phone shows that it is using 5 of the 6 GLONASS satellites in view as part of its fix. (In California, USA.)

Edit: Using GPS Test: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chartcross...
Worldwide mobile data pricing: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 237 countries
Spoiler: the US rates horribly.
Scrapping the phones for spare parts would still be possible. This is usually standard practice for electronics recyclers, but the recyclers working for Apple are (were?) forbidden from doing that.
Lol such obvious propaganda bs, their logo even looks like a wojack. Russia really is all about the disinformation hype and fake superweapons.

The site is written in bad English and trying to seem like a legit defense industry bulletin, but they can't fake a .mil tld
I wonder if Netflix will sell their older dvds.

I remember when video stores went under, I brought a lot of vhs tapes, a few that never got launched on dvd or blueray.
IMO, a good leader is someone who can set his ego aside and turn the other cheek against such vitriol thrown at them. It seems like Stallman does a good job at this.
and hug of death
I am using Seaweedfs with 40+ TB data and ~100M files.
Serve 100-200k+ users daily with servers that just have HDD.
I’m not sure exactly what role in what sort of deployment pipeline you’re suggesting for ephemeral root certs here, and you may well have a solid handle on how to do this safely.

But one reason I might initially look at you with alarm if you suggest self-signing or symmetric keys as part of a solution in general is… while it might reduce the attack surface, attack surface is not the only thing to worry about. Another thing to consider is the ‘fuckup surface’ of a particular architecture.

And one problem that self managed key distribution strategies tend to run into is that they massively increase your fuckup surface. Losing the keys to everything can become a real danger.

I’m a big believer in building security systems that also reduce the blast radius of dumb errors (accidentally running rm -rf /* is harmless if you religiously run with least privilege).

Saying ‘I’m going to build my own trust root’ generally seems to me like it probably increases the blast radius.
No matter if the language is Great or bottom line worse if there’s no ecosystem and libraries to promote productivity is all moo, hey we hate JavaScript but before I think of wasm I would have written most of what I want in JavaScript, this is why Go was so productive that it took just 5 years since it’s creation for the software tech world to feel the impact, that’s why rust ecosystem pushing for more high level library sugaring or “one click convenient macros” and I kinda like where ocaml is going it really needs to remove the tag “Jane street programming language”
I'm sorry to say that paying more for a Windows laptop only makes the number on the spec sheet get bigger, it doesn't ever seem to actually change the build quality.

https://www.acer.com/us-en/laptops/aspire/aspire-7-intel/pdp...
Dear drivers, steady as you go at 20mph. And welcome to the future
The new people in the next cycle are the freshly graduated high schoolers and new grads who weren't following the news previously and have their joining bonuses and RSUs waiting in the bank.
Well, some of the shelves had stuff. I did say mostly. I had gone in to grab a beer on my way back to the hotel and one fellow I remember specifically was sweeping chex mix or something off the shelf. He just kinda looked at me and moved down the aisle.

I was staying at the Hyatt Regency in SOMA, so I think it was probably the one on Pine and Montgomery.

Anyway, I figured if they were stealing chex mix and snacks and stuff the place was probably out of beer so I didn't stick around long. The security guards were on the phone with the cops watching these people. That's all I know. Maybe it was a freak occasion. I view the videos online with skepticism too, which is why it was kind of jarring to see it in person. If it's like that all the time, then I don't know why they still operate there.
The voting age is 18. Children shouldn't vote.
Weel, is not a disaster if was a planned demolition but the Russians.

Disasters are when you dont plan for the stuff to happer.. It was an ecoterrorist act.
Surely Elon's brother is diligently looking out for the best interests of the average shareholder...
YubiKeys.

Just use FIDO2. I have no idea why OP is trying to use the YubiKey OTP protocol, which is legacy.
I really don't know why it's so hard to get basic competency in public sector to use bcc or restrict send access to large groups. That said, I enjoyed the drama when an email devolved into requests to stop replying all and requests to be taken off the list.
Hagoromo ended up not going out of business, so there's no longer any worries about finding Hagoromo chalk. It's worth the cost.
I think the initial impractical prototypes for the core techniques were in the literature for a while but there's really no comparison between eg interactive ZK protocols and the succinct non-interactive proofs used by the cryptocurrency folks. The latter are computationally general (you don't have to roll a new one for each program) and many orders of magnitude more efficient.

I think it's important to give the cryptocurrency industry credit for the few corners in which it makes real (theory/tooling) contributions even if they're motivated by nonsense
Similarly, I think there's something poetic about how elephants aren't blocked as much by fences--even if those look more significant to us humans--compared to trenches.

With a fence, the mass of the elephant helps to knock it over. With a ditch or a hole, the elephant's mass works against it. It risks getting stuck or breaking important bones that are already under a lot of stresses.
It's the new peerage system.

Once you're made a peer of the realm, you are not longer in the group of commoners.
I've gotten good deals searching for one company and getting an ad from another VC-funded company in the same market offering a large discount.
Establishing that ability costs money (i.e. having snapshots & co.), and actually executing it costs further money.

Absent either customers paying for it, or regulations requiring it, Microsoft certainly won't sink money out of the goodness of their heart. I don't believe there are a lot of regulations for this — and how many customers do you think would pay for something like this? Realistically? :-(
From what I read, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant can’t be restarted unless the dam is rebuilt.
You're in the wrong ocean sailor. Hoist your anchor and sail towards the large scale plex appboxes. They regularly have over 30k whales breaching the briny deep and a hearty request system to track down those rare guppies as well.
Many. I know several in my friends group that tried to offload theirs when streaming became mainstream. I had thought about it but couldn't get enough to justify getting rid of all of them. As things are getting pulled off streaming and some films never making it (Dogma), I'm glad I kept them
The vote by text for someone I don't like thing is a meme. I've seen it 100 times in reddit. Do you think it was never tweeted by anyone else and widely disseminated? I think the platforms scrubbed the meme off the sites but I'm positive I've seen it on Reddit front page and Twitter a lot
The purpose of this announcement is to muddle the search for "microsoft key," since for some reason it is finally making the news how catastrophic the Microsoft key breach was. It is similar to https://gizmodo.com/did-boris-johnson-ramble-about-model-bus... .
The business was shrinking and shrinking, and I don't see any meaningful growth in that area. If you know that one of your business avenues is eventually going down do a level where it makes no money (or might even start losing money since warehouses, personnel, logistics, dealing with delinquent non-returns, etc. all cost money to run) - why would you maintain it?

If someone believes there is still value in it, they can try filling it, but the only other player I see in that market is Redbox (whose business model is kiosks rather than postage), and they probably don't need anything Netflix has to offer.

As much as I dislike the modern tech/business sector, I think this makes perfect sense, even though I have a lot of nostalgia for it, so many good memories from the DVDs I rented over a decade ago.
"Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games" by Lásló Polgár, father of the Polgar sisters.
This has largely held true for AWS and I think it's still a meaningful argument in a broader discussion when determining how you want to build your company infrastructure.
Apparently you are in the minority. Her constituents had no problem voting for her in the last election despite her advanced age. They either don't care or value experience over other concerns.
What happens to all of the remaining DVDs? Surely Netflix has enough to fill a warehouse or two?
It's still popular in certain corporate settings, where you're dealing with workflows that don't have easy support for FIDO2. For example, certain embedded browsers for logging in to VPNs.
Recent and related:

Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37632096 - Sept 2023 (282 comments)
Adobe Launches Photoshop on the Web
There has only been one film I've been unable to find in our library system. It's an out of print foreign film and impossible to buy new or stream so I periodically would check eBay. Finally I found a copy at a good price and bought it.

The seller sent me a DVD-R in a case with an inkjet printed cover. I went out of my way not to pirate it and ended up doing so anyway. :(

In general though, our library has completely replaced Netflix for our house for ages. It's great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always:_Sunset_on_Third_Street
Sure I can. I can add filters for that or use hckrnews dot com
Of the five people listed, Paul Eggert is the only one I would consider candidate for "LBIP", although I also note that he's the only one listed with "Need: Unknown" (which to me suggests the answer is actually "no"). Admittedly, I am simply not knowledgeable about the projects the other people work on.

ESR listing himself is... egotistical (to say the least), especially since there's only one of his projects that I've ever tried using (cvs-fast-export). A look at his software page (http://www.catb.org/esr/software.html) indicates nothing that's in wide use (contrary to his assertion, giflib isn't actually the GIF decoder used by any large web browser). The other person he actually links to mentions inhabiting ESR's basement periodically, which doesn't give me vibes of impartiality.

It's also interesting to note that the list doesn't appear to have changed for over three years.
Nobody wins every single time against the most sophisticated attackers in the world. Microsoft put up a very respectable fight here. When a random small-to-medium enterprise IT department gets owned, it’s for some braindead stupid low-hanging-fruit reason. Attacks like this don’t happen because they are unnecessary.
> that’s not true if you’re a huge fan or partial to high-res soundboard recordings, and if you’re archiving for a larger group you’ll start to exhaust what capacity you can get for free.

But hard drives are cheap. I have a multi-TB hard drive that is used exclusively to store my music. When that fills, I'll just get another.
Mao's Bookshelf
For me this is like when someone famous yet really old dies and the first thought is, "Wow, they were still alive?"

I'm honestly surprised there was a viable DVD business that lasted this long.

I do actually miss some of the moments of strolling through my neighborhood video store with my brother and discovering staff-pick movies an algorithm would never put in front of me today. Heck, there were some days where the browsing of movies on shelves was more satisfying than watching the actual pick at home later.

Neflix DVDs became a total lifesaver for me when I originally binged BSG. I became a solid fan at the time.
Microsoft obviously cares about its stock but it also relies on long term contracts with large enterprise and government - those aren't rolling overnight, maybe not at all, but there will be immense pressure from these massive organizations to fix things.
I heard it's still out. last I heard the Ukrainian army was shooting ballistic at it. I dunno
The concept of Microsoft-y admins supposedly unable to work with other tools is insane. There is not much in common between let's say Windows and MS365. Even within MS365 the integration between various tools is often not seemless and when you start using powershell admin common there are completely random differences between the way you login, plus where some features are implemented is also completely random (e.g. tons of non email things in exchange, at least accessed through the exchange ps connector)

If an admin is able to navigate in all that shit, I don't know why they would not understand e.g. random unix tools.
I highly doubt Netflix DVDs were a high source of P2P rips. By the time something's available on DVD, it's already been ripped by scene groups from pre-release sources.

If anything, DVD ripping probably helped Netflix, as subscribers used it to build their own private archives.
Answer: the world rules money. It's a complex system, a feedback loop. Money is just a signaling protocol.
One thing that bugs me about the "140% improvement" PR is that even the author only has some hand-wavy theory as to why that change from local variables to an object with those two properties made such a drastic improvement. V8 performance (well, let's be honest, any JS runtime's performance) is just a bunch of guess and check work.
> She's now literally the only person who cannot be affected by vitriol.

You feel like heaping vitrol on a recently deceased person is an acceptable thing to do?

My point was about reacting with class.

You don't have to live that way, but practicing it makes your life and the lives of those around you better.

I agree with your other points though.

One of the unintended consequences of term limits is the strengthening of the bureaucracy.