skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you’re making a lot of assumptions when assuming the probability is much lower. I’d trust a really proficient small team being paid to produce secure, closed software more than a team of disinterested volunteers. I’d also trust a small group of passionate volunteers over a paid team of crappy engineers. I guess the point is that source being open or not isn’t really the important part, at least in my opinion.
Transit isn't really intended to solve traffic problems, transit is basically a work around to allow cities to scale in spite of traffic.
How much it should cost to put an entry in to database? It shouldn't be 30% of your revenue! The whole business model here is to gain customer eyeballs and once you get momentum, you do outright theft in to fruits of other people's labor.

Imagine amount of work done by a single AirBnB host to maintain his/her property, taking bunch of risks and trying to make whole transaction successful. In what world AirBnB is eligible to get 30% of that labor for merely allowing to insert a database entry in to their system? This whole trend was popularized by Steve Jobs where Apple is somehow eligible to get 30% cut for mere privileged of publishing app on their platform. Much of the reviews they do is automated and tiny amount of labor involved is often housed in India (just like Elsewiser). For adding an entry in to database, there should be fixed price and businesses shouldn't be stealing 30% from other people's work.
Interestingly I came across this article https://thefinancebuff.com/is-home-mortgage-simple-interest-...

I think as the article pointed out we might've different standards in referring to what is compound interest.

But my original point is that I thought consumer loans would not incur interest-on-interest (as in if you're late in payments for your car loan, the interst "compounds" due to higher unpaid principal, but the missed interest would not add to the principal), which seems not be the case for student loans as per the author.
Even right now it's not too bad (although it'll probably heat up over the next week or two)
Bird and Lime, too.
Undo-tree for you emacs folks: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UndoTree
If Movie Pass manages to do well they are at the mercy of a middle man that can turn supply on and off for their cinemas and ultimately crunch them down on price.

If Movie Pass fails it still helps set an unrealistic price for the cinemas who won't be able to match it. It may drive even more people away from cinemas who no longer wish to pay full price.
China launches relay satellite to explore Moon's far side
It doesn't need to be that restrictive. Just a couple of dollars more than a one standard deviation consumer's monthly spend (or whatever they settle on).

The unit cost of one person in a cinema is normally negligible after all, so a specific cinema just need to convince members to spend a little more, and to always spend it at their cinema. Moviepass does neither of these things.

This is definitely a model which can work for cinemas. Just not at this price point and business model.
What would make you say people don't perceive higher/lower frequencies of light better than the others, the way you claim about sound frequencies?
Where did you read that it (the Brightline) stops in Boca Raton and Pompano Beach? I heard that it only has four stops----Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and (eventually) Orlando.
An autoimmune disease called IgA nephropathy. Happens to 1 in 5000 people. Kind of pops up in your middle age without an noticeable symptoms.
20$ a day for a commute is going to block the people that would benefit the most. Only middle and upper middle class people will be able to afford it.
find out if the debt is in your name or your parents' name

find out if you need a cosigner

find out the rate and if its variable or static

find out if theres a prepayment penalty

find out if interest compounds while youre in college

once youve found all that out, take the total balance and put it into a compound interest calculator. if you owe $25,000, you'll end up paying $30,000 or more usually

find out if you'll have a job where you can pay that debt off quickly
From your links, it seems like the London <-> Calais connection was much later than the 11-12th century timeframe of the map.
In Algol based languages ";" ends each statement.

To be pedantic about it, in ALGOL, the original "Algol based language", the semicolon is a separator. There are lots of "missing" semicolons in ALGOL programs. See the examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL#Code_sample_comparisons

I think that is more confusing than what C does. E.g. look at the ALGOL 68 example. One 'od' ends with a semicolon, the other doesn't. I dunno if that example is correct or not, I haven't written an ALGOL program in about 45 years.
I just can't stop wondering: had they been VC-backed rather than a public company, would they manage to raise >10x their current market cap? There are plenty of other examples like Uber and WeWork that get plenty of funding based on speculation of finding a better business model in the future; what stopped MoviePass from riding that wave?
Honestly, I will be happy if you continue to support licenses vs. subscriptions as an option + syncing with the cloud service of choice (I use iCloud). My use case is pretty simple. I don't need fancy integrations. I just want an easy to use solution that protects my passwords and enables me to use it across my Apple devices...which is what my (licensed) 1Password 6 does wonderfully for me now, across two Macs, my iPhone, and my iPad. For that feature set, I am willing to fork over for a new license at major versions. I just don't feel comfortable making my password management dependent on a subscription. Also, I would be more amenable to a subscription for a small amount for the iOS app (as that is more of a convenience than critical to my workflow; I use 1Password on the desktop much more frequently) so long as I can still purchase a license for my computers [edit] and have all the devices work together.
Why do you think that lower class would have benefit from this commute more?
Its possible to achieve substantially higher speeds, but that would require grade separation and electrification, which are much too expensive for a private company to take on.
I suppose if you don't have 55 TB of space to spare, you'd want to pick random torrents from this list to seed, in the same spirit as a torrent program picks random chunks to request.
The icing on the cake in this article is the following picture caption:

"Mitch Lowe, chief executive of MoviePass, in the company’s office at a WeWork in Manhattan."

So the movie company selling dollar bills for half price is leasing their HQ from a real estate company that owns no physical asssets but has $5b in upcoming leasing liabilities as they proudly arbitrage 15 year triple net leases into 1 - 3 year terms for startups.

At some point the gas on the fire will stop and it may be awful cold for a while.
I don't understand it either. I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale. The Fort Lauderdale stop is in downtown Fort Lauderdale. If you work there you probably live in Broward. I suppose it gives people waaay in the future to live near a station in Miami and Palm Beach and commute down on the train.

My guess is they are banking on ridership to Orlando. It talks of connecting to Atlanta, and other cities, which would be nice. I've transplanted to Atlanta and would take a train over driving or flying (at a reasonable cost) in a heart beat.
Unfortunately lots of public projects seem to skyrocket in prices as they progress. Look at the high speed rail in California. Originally I think it was priced $10B and now it might be approaching $77B.
> This author would serve himself

*herself.

Maybe you're one of the tech bro's she's talking about.
I base64'd a torrent file containing the HTML index and all 690 current torrent files and stuck it here: https://pastebin.com/p1nN6veK. Would appreciate if you could upload that in a binary format somewhere.

Magnet link for simplicity:

magnet:?xt=urn%3Abtih%3A97fc8218775e3a1e5b90607435c0581f839e0f1d&dn=repository_torrent&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.open-internet.nl%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.skyts.net%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.piratepublic.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker1.wasabii.com.tw%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.xku.tv%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.vanitycore.co%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.mg64.net%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fp4p.arenabg.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Foscar.reyesleon.xyz%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.facedatabg.net%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fmgtracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fipv4.tracker.harry.lu%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Finferno.demonoid.pw%3A3418%2Fannounce

I am currently seeding this small file and will do so for as long as I am able.

(Edit: updated magnet link and torrent to include trackers)
'[d|c]iw', to delete/change the word your inside of is another small improvement.
Yeah, if it is (and stays) like "memberships get all apps + cloud sync + can still use dropbox sync" I'll happily switch. But I've asked them this question like 4 or 5 times now, and each time I've gotten a slightly different answer.

It's completely ridiculous. And it's burning trust, in a fairly inherently distrustful crowd like you get when you're in the security / crypto field.
Yes, but this is passing through developed land at this point. I've yet to see a european high speed train hit it's top speed in a populated area. Even TGV doesn't do it's namesake while in Ile-de-France.
Jobs founded Apple. After being ejected, he founded NeXT and purchased Pixar. Then NeXT was purchased by Apple. So, uh, no.
Does it make sense to get MoviePass while it's still alive?

On one hand, the subscription costs less than a single movie ticket where I live, and even as an infrequent movie-goer I'm pretty sure I'd save money.

On the other hand, they're obviously going to crash and burn, and who knows what they'll do with my account at that point. What's the worst I can expect? Spam? Robocalls? Identity theft?
It's interesting how similar that is to the type of optimizations gamedevs do today. E.g. sub out "floppy disk sector" for GPU memory and crank up the numbers a few orders of magnitude.
Ask HN: Explain Bird and Lime to me
Because it seems tome that their pricing is temporarily perfect. Sort of like Earth's distance from the sun.

The Xiaomi scooter is rare in the US and somewhat expensive ($400). It it a novelty.

And last mile transportation is expensive because it's humans being paid (Uber). Super expensive, although eventually made robotic.

So, OK, SF, richest city in the entire world, can pay $1+$0.15/mi for a Bird/Lime/Whatever.

That price will halve in any other market.

That price will more than halve as more entrants saturate any given market. There is nothing proprietary in the scooter itself.

At the same time, the cost of an Uber trip will also halve over a slightly longer timescale.

Also at the same time, the Xiaomi scooter will undergo Moore's Law, and eventually will be $100 to have your own personal scooter, and it will last for more than 100 trips.

It looks like these companies are threading a needle that is getting constantly narrower.
Compared to Sonoma County Smart Train, in my area, which takes an hour to get from Santa Rosa to San Rafael (Google say 38 miles by freeway so I assume less as the crow flies) in an hour, this seems quite good.
It's fairly amazing that goods managed to get from China to Europe, and vice versa, without any Chinese people visiting Europe for hundreds or years, or any Europeans visiting China.

This was not just in the middle ages, but reaching as far back as the Roman Empire.
It uses JSZip to open the zip file, goes through and if the filename matches '__MACOSX' it removes it. That catches the hidden folders and files.

If you want go to JSZip's demo 'Reading a file' https://stuk.github.io/jszip/documentation/examples/read-loc... and drag your original zip in there to have a look at the hidden files and folders, and then the generated zip to see what was taken out

EDIT: updated link
How many of us would take the risk of associating with the trillion dollar pirate when the feds make their case? I really hope it’s enough to be a help. Would the ACLU or EFF take the case?

It’s going to be ugly. We’re talking about billions in profits being threatened here with the law on their side. The only defense I’ve heard is with regard to research funded by the US federal government and that’s a long shot argument that applies to a minority of these articles.
FWIW I follow your argument but my perception is not visual at all but “grammatical”. Do you read punctuation out loud in your head? If not then whatever you do is how I chunk “fn”, which if it has to be verbalized gets pronounced by inserting schwas wherever convenient so like “fun”
The Secret of Monkey Island (2018) – Documentary about Adventure Games -
In China, HSR can hit full speed in urban areas, but they are also on viaducts.
Both Okta and 1Password are officially supported tools at Buffer
Right, there is a real and serious problem with public infrastructure costs massively ballooning, worse than any other developed country.

But on the other hand, if you don't build and replace infrastructure now, you're going to have tons of problems that have real, tangible costs. Imagine you're a patient with a disease, but you don't have health insurance and you know the cost is for treatment is high. You wait several years to get treated but the cost for treatment hasn't changed or is higher and you've suffered all that time.

That's our conundrum. We can choose to not treat the disease and that's been the choice of a fair number of public officials but it's only cost us.
This reminds me of the subway system in Sydney Australia. Lots of private lines branching off.
Here's the problem, or at least part of it; executives don't usually give a damn what the most reasonable option is. This comes across their desk and they want to know how much they can get away with. It may not need to be that restrictive, sure... but the question they're looking at is how restrictive it can be while still netting a profit.

The other problem is that I think the cost of someone using a subscription service will be higher than the average moviegoer, simply because going to the movies often is cost prohibitive for a lot of people.
If code is inherently sequential, do you think that there is no such thing as "code" in functional programming languages?
I recently signed up for Cinemark movie pass for $8.99 a month. What's amazing is that their commercial[1] seems to strongly suggest the tickets are a discount. It never explicitly says so.

It's hilarious because a weekend evening ticket is $7.75 a ticket, and if I buy an IMAX ticket, the "premium upcharge" is exactly $1.76, the price needed to cost the exact same as a normal IMAX ticket ($10.75).

The only reason it makes sense for me to get it is how often I buy several IMAX tickets online, and there's a $1.50 per ticket in "online fees" they waive for movie club members. There was a cost neutral way to avoid online fees before, but they removed it when they launched this to push signups.

I visit the theater enough that it makes sense to do this, but it's sole benefit to me is removing penalties... not gaining any sort of positive discount.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIfdw2XgPXs
... as if I didn't write enough in the last comment, something came to mind that bears mentioning, as well.

It occurred to me that I didn't inquire about the size of companies that you're looking at. You mentioned hiring managers, so I assumed the target is 500+ employee outfits, though the place I'm at is not that large and we have hiring managers. If you have a person dedicated to negotiation and you're not doing negotiation directly with the manager that wants to hire you, make sure to have these discussions with the right person.

At the place where I did a large amount of interviewing (as the interviewer), the separation in this area was very strong. The hiring manager would do the initial negotiation and if they could get you to agree to terms that were within the typical range for the position, the manager wouldn't be involved at all. If a candidate had unusual requirements[0], the hiring manager operated as a middle-man with the manager. The hiring manager is simply "doing their job". You getting hired doesn't reduce their work-load or their team's workload. You can use that to your advantage by saying "Would there be any issue with me reaching out to (manager) to have some questions answered about the position?" Don't come out and say you are trying to work around the middle-man and when you talk to the manager, bring up the office situation somewhat casually. This prepares them for when the hiring manager reaches out and might improve your chances. I've seen this play out twice -- once in the footnote and once with a guy who was brought into a team as a remote employee reporting to a manager who disallowed remote work[1]. YMMV, though.

[0] We had one guy, that we hired, ask for $50,000 more than the position paid, for example.

[1] Incidentally, both of these circumstances played out very badly for us. The overpaid individual left after 4 months to an even better paying position and the remote guy did as well as remote guys do when the rest team practically sits on top of each other in one office -- out of sight, out of mind, until quarterly budgets get discussed and the manager sees one more employee than he remembered having.
The maglev in Changsha between the airport and HSR station runs at 100km/hour. It is on a viaduct for much of its path, however, and isn’t very urban (goes nowhere near downtown Changsha). It only averages 57km with stops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changsha_Maglev_Express
Depends what outlet you plug it into ;)
Any action by anyone will be objected to by some if the audience is large enough.
This is one of the reasons of why traditional businesses are failure in driving disruption. They simply don't get statistics and long tail.
Electric Scooter Charger Culture
I think this is a perfect example of what the people want I'm home all companies are too blind to see it. Of course we want to go to the movies, but with the current pricing and alternatives such as Netflix and torrents (where it is legal) why would we? Some companies are just too stubborn to survive, trying to maximize current profit while destroying their long-term viability.
What’s dumb about their pricing? As far as I know the $1 plus 15c/min is profitable for them and yet not discouraging users?
>You can buy a car (or truck) for $3000 that will last several years without requiring any huge mechanic bills or exotic maintenance - heck, I’ve done it.

I've done it, too. The thing is, even if the car is perfect, a car 10-20 years behind in safety features is dramatically less safe than a new car. On top of that, a $3000 car is not going to be perfect. Your suspension will have a lot more slop, etc, etc...

I mean, I'm not saying that a $3000 car is necessarily unsafe, just that it's less safe than a new one, and if you carry adequate liability insurance, the tco might not be that much lower than a cheaper new or nearly new car.

Now, most people only carry a few tens of thousands of dollars in liability insurance, and don't really concern themselves with risk to other people above and beyond that, if nothing else, out of financial necessity, and in that case, yes, the $3000 car is the clear choice.
Has anyone with uni lib credentials done random hash checks on some of the PDFs from sci-hub?
First and foremost this is just another social sciences study. Most of everybody is aware of the reproducibility crisis yet seem to fail to connect the dots to new studies - it's not going anywhere which means that science, particularly in the social and physiological sciences, is somehow deeply flawed. That said, this study confirms my own biases so I want to believe. One big reason is to consider the academic output of schools in places such as Korea and China. Learning is extremely structured and more analogous to a factory line than a school, in the US style, and their output absolutely dwarfs ours. The typical argument against this system is that mechanical teaching leads to mechanical thought, which is is supposed to support things such as the fact that China has an abysmal rate of Nobel laureates.

However, something missing there is that Nobel Prizes are frequently rewarded long after something is first done when its relevance is proven or otherwise becomes more clear. For instance Stephen Hawking never received a Nobel prize, yet if we observed Hawking Radiation - he likely would have been awarded one for a theoretic hypothesis dating back to 1974. The point there is that as recently as the 1950s Chinese were starving to death by tens of millions and they had little to no academic culture to speak of. Their riveting success is a very much a new thing and so the lack of Nobel standard achievements is something that's not [yet] a reasonable indication of much.
Nice. Looking forward to trying this out.

Reminds me of http://openrefine.org/.
That's what VPNs are for.
To sum up what I'm asking about: why won't competition and many even larger outside factors conspire to reduce the market price of a scooter ride to what it probably should be....like $0.50+$0.10/mi or something? If that is what ends up happening, we'll just have thousands of little local scooter shops. Like all bike rental shops.
On a societal level, we externalize most of the costs associated with auto crashes. I suspect that if we better rolled the true cost of injuries into the cost of car ownership (say, by increasing the minimum liability insurance to the cost of several statistical lives) the cheapest cars to own would be small and fairly new.
I could have sworn that I read about a station being planned right in between the two cities, but I can't find anything about it now. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like that in the future though, along with some of the cities that are heavily lobbying for stops (St Lucie/Fort Pierce, Palm Bay, Cocoa, and possibly even Jacksonville and Tampa)
The hardware makes it more impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC
if you're going to a school worth bragging about (read: Ivy League) then those are actually the ones that provide pretty good financial aid to those less well off. If you don't meet the qualifications for financial aid but still find yourself unable to pay, perhaps you're parents are holding out, and/or living above their means.
In most counties you would not go to prison at all. Even in the US, you wouldn't get more than 10 years max.
True, but my point is that many accounts imply (but don't prove) that there's a concerted effort and organized strategy that is bigger than a one-man operation. And that may be what they want to avoid giving away.
Sounds just like the SF<->LA drive along I-5, traffic, then nothing for a long time (western edge of the San Joaquin valley), then more traffic. Yet people still do it. Currently the coastal train route is very slow and expensive, the inland train stops at Bakersfield, hours from LA. The best option is to fly until the eventual high speed rail.
Nobody I know wants this thing speeding through our town 30 times per day, filled to the brim :/

Companies like this team up with the government to steamroll, figuratively and literally (IIRC, this thing has killed 3 people already), small towns for the benefit of nasty cities like Miami.
Hard disk sectors were 512 bytes and remained that way up until about 2010. ITYM the FAT cluster size?