jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Many films originally printed in color for theaters had their delicate color internegatives lost or destroyed or decayed. Often only archive mono prints manages to survive, because of better or more stable chemistry.

Ted Turner wasn't all crazy. He had history on his side, for some movies. But then he also got a huge upsurge in viewing, of the films he colorized. I think there's fair argument that more distribution, more viewing, of a art form, is a good thing.

Also, what's dismissed as SD is so often truly awful SD, not clean and heavily compressed.

Like the commented above, I often wish for just a decent SD copy. Really well transferred DVDs are pretty good to watch.
My family did a test at a Christmas party just a few days ago. We did a blindfolded tasting of four cheap wines, two red and two white. The goal was solely to distinguish between red and white wines. On average, each person made one incorrect determination (n=8, avg=1.1, mode=1).

It wasn't very scientific - it wasn't double-blind, each person knew the number of reds and whites, and it's pretty clear the order in which the wines were presented made a difference. In any case, I think our findings were reasonably consistent with the article.

It was also a fun time.
The horse and the automobile were used in two world wars last century.
> So you are willing to trade ~1GiB of your RAM and ~5% of CPU cycles just to be able to send/receive some text messages?

Yes. Also, I'm curious, do you find the webapp forms use measurably less resources than the electron version? I would've imagined they're pretty close (with Electron possibly even being lighter than a full browser tab), but I am not confident and could be completely wrong.

> Imagine using VSCode, Discord, Slack, Matrix, Spotify, some markdown editor and now you have 6 browser instances chipping away your machine resources

I, and surely tons of others on this forum, am doing this right now without issue.

Sure it's not perfect, especially if you're on battery, but most of the time it just doesn't matter to almost all of their user base.
I'm pretty sure most people would agree the structure of your face is much more than an "extra," and belongs in the same category as physical fitness, grooming, etc.
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Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or ideological battle comments to HN? You've done it a lot and we ban that sort of account.

Fortunately you've also posted about other things, but we need you not to keep breaking the rules here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The point of the F-35 is to be so technologically superior that you do not get into a war of attrition where you are bleeding planes at the same rate as your enemy. If that was the case it would mean none of the technology upgrades actually gave an advantage, which would be strange given their fundamental nature.

What really matters is how many F-16s or cold war era aircraft an F-35 could take out before being shot down. There is a discussion of such numbers below.
> Kids were raised differently 50-70 years ago when one salary was enough for a family.

... in the US. Meanwhile in Europe in the fifties, in some of the countries devastated by the war, both parents had to work 6 days a week to barely make a living (e.g. my grandmother had to take a loan to be able to afford a coat for winter).
IoT has no meaning so I ignored that part.
For me "Rockstar" is now a shibboleth.

If you have to call yourself, your company, your product or your programmers "rockstars" then none of you are real rockstars. If you have to ask "what's different about rockstar's lifestyles compared to the small people?" then you definitely have no idea what you're even talking about.

It's just like being called a "hacker", or a "gangster" or similar. You either have legit street cred, and thereby are automatically included amongst an elite, meritocratic subculture, or you don't.
I remember real ads in similar style (for a Commodore machine!) from the mid 80s, much less the 70s.
What Will My Girlfriend Think is a non-trivial issue for some people, too. This was mentioned at a conference in Tokyo this week.

My advice, for Japanese salarymen and other folks who have to worry about this: it may be easier to sell her on the startup as sort of an extended interview process for Google than it is to sell her on the startup qua startup. (Substitute Microsoft or another "solid, stable job appropriate for the kind of guy who is dating me" if required for your area.)

Ironically, this was pretty much my tact with my parents up until this year, when (prior to going full-time) my mother said "So are you still planning on quitting the bingo thing and joining Google? Because that sounds stupid. You should totally go for the business instead." There is no easier idea to sell someone on than the one they thought up for you, right?
Well, if 'login' is still missing in the dictionary, then it is time to add it. Maybe as noun at first which can be verbalized later?
Interesting. In America we don't expect anyone to know anything so there's just signs all over the tunnel such as "Turn on headlights" and of course at the end of the tunnel "Check headlights" in case it's not night time, and "No Parking" every 100 meters, and "No hazardous materials in tunnel" and so forth. Maybe we spend a lot more money on our signs.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8486413,-122.2424951,3a,24.8...
I'm not going to answer your question, but I'll just comment that moral hazard is real. Debt financing is not required to operate a business, but when liquidity is guaranteed through a lender of last resort companies will inevitably leverage their balance sheets far beyond what is justified by the underlying risk of the business.

Also, is it really accurate to call a company "clearly creditworthy" if a 2-3 month gap in cash flow results in bankruptcy? Surely the CFO can get down on his knees and find some spare change under the couch cushions to get through this.
Growth Hackers | GoingMeta.io GmbH, Vienna Austria Europe

Tech we're using: React/Redux, Typescript, Node.js, Kafka, Python, Postgresql, and AWS.
That's interesting, but not a solution. It's inefficient to raise an animal for years and feed it plants (and have to deal with feces and other output) for a few million calories of output.
Would public libraries still be open? States are shutting down businesses every week, and SF has a "shelter in place" policy. For some students, libraries and other sources of public wifi are not available at the present moment.
Natera | Full-Stack & Back End Software Engineers, QA, SDET, Project Managers | San Carlos, CA + Austin, TX | ONSITE (remote during isolation) | Full-time, visa ok

Natera operates genetics lab testing for healthcare in the reproductive + women's health, organ transplant, and oncology spaces. Engineering builds all the internal and external software that makes that process flow and gets diagnostic results to the people.

We're looking to expand engineering capabilities in San Carlos, and build out a new engineering team in Austin.

Stack includes Java, Spring, Hibernate, Docker, AWS, MySQL, and the typical myriad other things.

See the full list and/or apply here: https://www.natera.com/careers/job-openings
Cool project. If you need help cleaning up those large methods let me know.
Sagri | Lead Programmer/Developer | Tokyo (Remote-First) | Full-Time | $70K - $90K + Stock

> Sagri is an Asia-focused AgTech Startup, helping farmers live a happier life. We help farmers with easy-to-access credit and educate them in increasing their earning potential. We leverage satellite imagery and our proprietory soil sampling technology.

We are a remote-first Startup. We do have our offices in Tokyo and Bangalore. Our current website (Japanese) is at http://sagri.tokyo/, which is being replaced by the global site at https://sagri.co/. The information on our website is, at best minimal and still work-in-progress. If you wish to know more, please contact me at brajeshwar@sagri.tokyo.

More Details at https://github.com/sagri/jobs/blob/master/lead-programmer.md

__Salary, Perks__

We have a maximum budget of ¥10,000,000 per year with some wriggle room. Roughly about ₹70,00,000 or $90,000 per year. We do have Stock Options or ESOP for you. We are new and still working on the details, but you do get a good number.

__Apply__

Tell us a story at jobs@sagri.tokyo with a cover letter, links to some of your best works, highlighting contributions to open source projects. We would love if you can include your LinkedIn, Github/GitLab, Website (your articles and writings), and optionally, a resume.
My friends and I had the same question. I did a little searching and found an interesting paper[0]. The oldest reference it has is from 2009[1]

[0] https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

[1] Kelso J,Milne G,Kelly H (2009) Simulation suggests that rapid activation of social distancing can arrest epidemic development due to a novel strain of influenza. BMC Public Health 9: 117.
Nothing wrong with this (big fan of vim myself). I can see the appeal and simplicity.

I just want to add that in Intellij you can do Ctrl + Shift + R "Saver" and it will search in all files (as dumb text matches, not usages), plus optional checks on extensions, etc. This is pretty fast too, and quite convenient, since it has a preview for each file.
Not saying it is better, but it is an alternative.
I didn't read it as arguing against or for anything. Rather, I read it as "I really want <this>; extended to its logical conclusion, that would also suggest <this> which I don't want. Conundrum!"

It even says at the end, "I’m not here to make any grand pronouncements about globalisation… My only point is that, when it comes to “location-based pay”, maybe we should be careful what we wish for." I take that as a pretty explicit "hey, this is difficult and I don't have a good answer".
Companies have no business telling me how much they think my life should cost nor how I should spend my money. If they're paying "lifestyle" choices, based on bullshit cost of living make believe metrics, they should reward my lifestyle choice to travel constantly and pay that cost of living accordingly.

I'm not surprised tho, remote work is still an embryo, I'm gonna keep pushing for what I want but we can't expect too much.

When I'm rich and successful I'm gonna pay a standard global rate for the each role. No bullshit country adjustments. The market will just have to eat it
Cool game!

Headline here might be a little grandiose. Author has "A puzzle game inspired by functional programming" on the project's Github. I find this more apt
As a 17 year student from Germany in his last year of school, I only now realize that school was - and still kinda is- a rather positive experience.
Homeschooling is downright terrible(though it's no ones fault)

A lot of us like to think that the sole purpose of school is to educate kids, so they can go into society with a portfolio of knowledge and practical skills. While in reality it is just a part of it. I would argue that "kindergartening" kids, so parents can work a 9to5 job, and socialization are just as - if not more- important.
The pandemic gave us no time to prepare, so education is the only thing that we are able to do. Kids are left to do homework, and nothing else. They do the shitty bits of school without the fun part stripped away.

Currently some teachers VASTLY overestimate how much work can actually get done within 45-90 minutes. Do you really think that kids actually do 90 minutes of work? It mostly boils down to 15-30 minutes of truly productive time, a good chunk of time is spent with chitchat and ... _I don't even know_ .

A skill school never taught very well is time-management.
Any deadline you give to students WILL be procrastinated by most students to the very last second. Thanks to the wonders of modern online-platforms, such as Moodle, you can have deadlines at arbitrary times, such as 12am at night. Late deadlines are made with good intent, but are horrible in practice. Believe me that some student indeed do their homework at 11pm to turn it in at 12 am. Which undeniably is terrible for a kids mental-health.

As a student who gets through school without any effort at all, I am now forced to do repetitive and _stupid_ homework for the sole purpose of being busy. Before I could simply participate in class and show that I understood the material, while others were doing their work I was tolerated to just read a book (as long as I participated in class).

I truly miss just hanging around with my friend :(
Discord just can't replace face-to-face interaction.

The only thing positive aspect is that I have a lot of time to spend on personal projects. I finally feel comfortable with IDA and x32dbg and my C-programming (and Golang, Python) skills have improved greatly :D
Although I often feel unmotivated to actually do personal projects and go through depressive phases :/

Although not entirely related, I suggest reading Paul Grahams essay on nerds: http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
> While schools and colleges are sounding the alarm about declining knowledge results, joy grades are rising, as grades have become a competitive tool on the market.

This in my opinion is the main problem. Take this "marketing tool" away from the private schools, and the rest of the problems are fixable (e.g. with diversified pupil compensation). But when you let a private business both grade themselves and sell entry to (free!) university, you will quickly have massive problems...

Up until the 70-ties or so there was a separate government agency responsible for final exams and grades. If we want to keep private schools (and I think we should at least try), then we need to reinstate that separation of education and evaluation, urgently. Problem is we now have a large swath of middle class parents who feel that they've been very smart and ensured a great future for their children by choosing the right school for them (and at least subconsciously they understand that the main reason is the inflated grades). They don't want that privilege taken away. There is no limit to the hypocrisy many people can accept if they feel it benefits their kids.

Source: I'm Swedish, but I don't have kids so not super knowledgeable. Just my impression after following the debate and talking to friends with kids.
This was a pretty good interview. Really wish he didn’t create the === implicit equivalence function. And made JavaScript stricter from the beginning.
The first video has the lion scratching his ears when on the poles.

I thought they made a good impression of a live and cute giant quadruped.
That is a revolutionary post on the time aspect. What about energy, or was it even an issue? I work about 45 hours a week, but it sometimes seems like that's all the work I've got in me. Working 70 hours a week would, I'm assuming, be almost twice as draining.
Given that there is an oversupply problem in the humanities, why don't humanities professors get paid substantially less than science professors? In my experience, there seems to be little difference in pay between humanities professors and science professors.
Information overflow causes people to ignore even the most dire and well recorded parts of science (see climate change). Why would this be any different? Its socially taboo. Its also scientifically taboo. There are lots of ways to fake imagery these days. People prefer to believe what they already believe even in the face of massive amounts of evidence to the contrary. Thats well proven.
Startup idea, free for the taking: create a service that "ossifies" dynamic websites into static HTML.

(By ossify, I mean to take something dynamic and make it static).

For example, that WordPress site you commissioned for a movie 3 years ago? Its a huge liability, but you don't have to take it offline - just ossify it. No one is updating that blog anymore!

Under the hood, it would basically be a crawler, and the deliverable would be a zip file containing a 1-to-1, static copy of their website with all URLs still working. I suspect most folks here could whip up a shitty proof of concept in 48 hours.

If someone does this, email me! I have a couple of potential clients for you (I'm a former consultant, with lots of WordPress sites in my history).
Am I the only person that finds testing rushed vaccines on adolescents who are at practically no risk from covid wrong?
This came just in time. My Firefox was crawling with ABP. Now it's flying along again.
Not sure what’s going on but it says my number is not part of the leak, but I’ve checked myself and it is actually leaked. Just be aware that it may not be complete.
It sounds almost identical to a platform which went bust in the UK recently, FootballIndex, which allowed you to buy ‘shares’ in soccer players, with the promise of a dividend paid out over a number of years. You could also in theory sell the share to other people.

What happened is that the platform became almost completely reliant on new customers joining to pay out the old. If you’re thinking, well that sounds a lot like a Ponzi scheme, you’d be right.

When COVID hit snd football games were cancelled, ‘investors’ withdrew their money to spend on other things and the stream of new customers died out completely. The platform collapsed snd nearly everyone lost their money.

Won’t be going near it, and the fact that Clubhouse has been so quickly completely overrun by MLM hucksters who use it to pump each other’s products is a big strike against that platform for me too.
Usually this has a tendency to propagate, in my experience. The deadlines come from above and/or externally dictated. So even if you have balls to say a), your boss (or your boss' boss, etc) may not, or they might have different agenda, that has nothing to do with the quality of the deliverables.
Good question. Here I meant it in opposition to the 'fake' kind of value that gold and bitcoin have, where people value them purely because other people value them. Of course gold and bitcoin do have real value in the sense that the market is willing to buy them for a certain price, but the social network effects that give them value are different from how the dollar obtains its value.
Sorry about that, I thought the ;) would have made it clear that this is a joke.
120 items on my average delivery, assuming a driver or stacker is infected that could mean every item is contaminated. I touch them 1-2 times to put them away, 3-4 times as i open and use the items.. So that could be 720 'touches', and that may be cheating as i am counting my many fingers as 1 and i don't live alone. So each contaminated delivery could risk infection as much as 1 in 14 (10,000/720). Through this pandemic i have had 21 deliveries. The twenty minutes it takes to wash them seems a very reasonable precaution.
I'm using AWS for my side-project and while I enjoy how cheap it can be, I'm also terrified of it and always have the Cost Explorer opened in a tab that I check every day.
No, I don't worry, mainly for two reasons:

First, it's extremely difficult to predict how a company, product, or idea will evolve. What seems insignificant now might be world-changing in the future.

Second, the universe will die a heat death someday, so in some sense nothing matters "in the scheme of things." However, that perspective is depressing and unproductive, so I prefer to try to find the good in everything; that is, everything matters.
I have what I affectionately call The Capitalist Hippie Complex. It means that I have hippie ideals and want to save the world, but I enjoy the challenge of creating wealth and having nice things; and, these two conflicting ideals cause me great distress.

What I one day realized was, donating 10 hours a month doesn't compare to what Bill Gates can now do for the world with his money. It's important to give your actual time, don't get me wrong, but with millions of dollars you can feed a substantial amount of people, pay others to help distribute that massive food allocation, and so on. You can fund disease research. You can do things that create lasting change.

The important part is remembering to give back when that time comes. In the meantime, you can also help with your time, but if you truly have the skill to create more wealth than others, your best contribution may be doing so and then giving back generously. There is nothing wrong with that. It's a remarkable and noble goal, even if it seems more self serving.
I would encourage you to make that a priority. Every time I see something about SproutCore, I'm interested but end up not doing anything with it. I keep hearing about the demos being out of date.

Things like this: "we have a great new default theme called Ace 2.0"

Sounds great, how about a screenshot or two, if not a demo?

And this: "looks at home on ... mobile operating systems"

More info please? I'm interested but I see no examples, screenshots or other info about doing mobile dev. Device, browser and OS support?
At age 19 I quit my burgeoning career after a similar realisation in India, where I had been sent to present a satellite surveillance solution to their military. Similar trips followed to other asian governments, R&D on surveillance systems for national police, etc. I quit instead of take the dirty money. Some people are happy to do that, but I always make sure what I work these days on can only be used for good or is relatively harmless at worst.
This has been going on for awhile. TorrentFreak reported on the law firm Davenport Lyons doing the same in 2008[0] and later ACS:Law[1].

[0] http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawyers-start-protecting...
[1] google "site:torrentfreak.com acs:law"
I'm not the author. But I believe the O'Reilly researchers claim that the co-ordinates logged are of the device itself. It is not clear at all that this is true and the author of this post presents some evidence that would suggest otherwise.
That's false. I am from a so called 'developing country' and and lived in Europe (lived in UK and Germany, travelled around lots of countries) for more than 7 years. In no way did I felt as bad as the original post. Moreover, there's no way to compare the security theater in the US (take your picture, hand digits and questioning) with the approaches in Europe (sheesh, even in Germany when I go stopped by some kind of officer during my entry to the country once... even counting for the fact that my German was very limited... imagine that in the US).
> I'm very bothered by how much of today's art is based heavily on photographic reference.

There's a big difference between photographic reference and copying a photograph. For instance, Ben Aronson (https://benaronson.net/), a contemporary impressionist painter I very much like, heavily uses photographic references to paint cityscapes that he just literally couldn't paint live (because, say, its in the middle of a busy downtown street, or way up in the air between buildings). But his paintings are far from "photorealistic", not only utilizing an impressionist style, but also often moving or adding buildings or landscape that don't actually exist in the photo.
Steganography or the dancing pigs problem? :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs
The Forbes article goes on and on and never really gets to the point. And it had to load for ~3 minutes for the cookie banner to set my preferences.
You can’t redeem Tether — that’s a core part of the fraud, they have “banking issues” and had them for years. You can sell it on an exchange but the Tether organisation have prevented any redemption of USD from USDT for years. Anybody turning USDT into USD is selling their USDT.
> A human would have seen it as a promotion for a line of obscure TI products.

You'd think that for all the cases in which data sheets get taken down. Unfortunately TI doesn't seem to.
If you are the rare individual that is actually capable of building something worthwhile by putting in only 4 hours a week, imagine what putting in relatively excessive time could accomplish.