skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't that long ago that every library book had a card, and when you checked something out, your name, or a stamp/imprint of your library card number was placed on that card, when you checked the book back in, the card would be removed from a file, placed back in the book, and the book re-shelved- making it trivial to match to the person... now, you would have to look in each book and see who had checked it out, but still not very private.
I understand it goes with the photo. But the photo doesn't really provide more of an explanation.
Why do you prioritize making things easier for beginners? I mean, it's a system language many people are going to choose to code advanced performant stuff. Wouldn't it make sense to prioritize programmers who are going to build important stuff in it?
you didn't really break even as you said it yourself you would only have paid for two movies out of the 15.

The question is, do you really value the other 13 movies at (70$/13) a piece ? In my case probably not.
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So basically the pivot scene from Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tam7KO4qhUI
Most of you actually don't get it, so I will try to explain it without this marketing-ish language which I used on the landing page - obviously not very well.

Consider you already know English well enough to consume your favorite shows in the language. We all do this to maintain our knowledge, improve our understanding or pronunciation by listening, or just to hear the show in its original language.

Imagine you hear words and expressions, even full, shorter sentences which you don't understand. It doesn't really matter, because you understand the story as a whole, but you obviously miss an opportunity to learn new words. This is the moment when you can pick up your phone and press the bookmark icon next to the subtitle line, to get back to it later. That was scenario (use-case) A.

Or, you might not understand longer sentences, even complete dialogues for a few seconds. This is when you can use the app to see the translations for that actual part of the movie. That was scenario (use-case) B.

The app promises that it "helps you understand your show better and allows you to quickly save expressions you want to remember". It don't want you to learn a new language. Actually, it assumes that you know the language well enough to watch a movie in it.

It wants to help you to learn new words. Do you know why you don't learn new words easily after you reach a specific knowledge level? Because there are less and less of them, and you don't hear them again and again, and you don't recall them. This is how you learn new words in school when you start a foreign language.

So I started to build this app for myself to be able to grab new words out of kontext (do you see what I did here?), and re-read them later again until I finally learn them.
While I appreciate your idea, I think you should also see the other benefits people have from Netflix/Amazon like model.

Library's true customer is the reader and hence everything is designed to suite the reader. For Amazon the true customer (!) is the shareholder whose value needs to be maximised. That is why Amazon has astronomical market value where as libraries mostly depend on charity or taxpayer funding. There is a good reason why Amazon can offer you millions of products but a local library will have only thousands of books. There is a good reason why Netflix can afford to produce so much original content for your tastes but the libraries do not produce anything original. The factors you are citing are correlated.

There is no value judgement here, but I think we need to appreciate the good both kind of organisations are doing to the world and they are not comparable.
No prob. Not sure the safest way to get there, but I'd probably start by taking Stevens Creek Bike Trail to Evelyn ave and then maybe heading up Mary (which is a pretty busy street, so maybe there's a better way.) Strava might be a good app to check.
I guess, but it's really just a poor man's version of blockchain debugging.

/s
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The more time goes on, the more I think we need to nationalize libraries beyond just the ones already owned by the federal government. In the digital age, the framework that is a local library makes less sense than there being a place to pull audiobooks/ebooks from an organization funded through the national endowment for the humanities.
Ok you guys, we've put a question mark above as a nod to the skepticism in this thread.
> Suppose, instead, that while focusing our conscious minds on generating foods, unconscious mental search processes can work away, in the background, unearthing a string of countries. Then, when we switch to countries, we should be able rapidly to download these—they would not need to be found afresh, because unconscious search would have identified them already. ...

The author seems to have a model of "unconscious" as being deliberate or task-oriented or focused, just like conscious thought, except sequestered somehow from the conscious section of our minds.

Obviously it's not like that, and I don't think anyone thinks it is like that. So the article can be perhaps summarized as "man has obviously wrong idea of how phenomenon works, tests his hypothesis, finds that it can't work that way, declares the phenomenon must not exist at all."
I hope someone from Microsoft can adress this problem asap.
I have office license + 1 tb of onedrive pictures and important documents which have no other backup. Also other online accounts are tied to the microsoft account. If Microsoft shut people down without reasoning I may plan to "decentralise" my services.
you should learn vulkan/cuda or deep learning at this point, in my opinion.
Maybe it's just me, but 'negative' politeness has always been my default conversation mode. I didn't even know what it was until a few months ago, or that people studied 'politeness strategies'. Being deferential with words leaves open the opportunity for dialogue, and doesn't bite you in the ass if you're mistaken. Of course, it can be appropriate to be more direct in certain circumstances, and tone can change the perception of modal statements from sincere to patronizing very easily. Still, to me, it seems like people are more willing to seriously consider direct statements when it's not your usual attitude. "This person is very careful about making definite statements, and they seem very confident about what they just said". When what you want isn't to manipulate people but to have them open their mind to the possibility that what you're saying is true, that train of thought (and I know this exists because I've thought so myself several times) is very valuable.
No but if you teach that like calligraphy it could work.
Make education status into a protected class
Beginners to Rust, not people who are new to programming, sorry that was ambiguous! We are putting basically zero effort into "learn programming via Rust."
My boss was a screamer/yeller/banger. (There's only one person in the world who's allowed to use that tone of voice on me, and I am married to that person.)
He also uses `_proto_` (should be `__proto__`), `(‘b’, ‘c’)` (should be `('b', 'c')`) etc. in the inner text.
In my professional experience with gyms, the most expensive thing you can do, is use the treadmills a lot. They are the most expensive machinery, and most prone to breaking down.
I highly recommend Fastmail. Not affiliated other than customer since 2002. Best email out there IMHO. Paid, but worth it.
Yes, there's active research into this sort of thing.
Amazon does the same thing from experience. Google too from what I've read here. This is the dark side of tech companies. In this respect they are all powerful. Makes it impossible to truly rely or trust any of their services when they did things like this. We're seeing more and more of these cases and without proper regulations, what's to stop these companies from abusing their customers? Nothing. It should really make one think twice about depending on such services, especially for running a business.
Interesting, I did not know that this was a thing. That document lays out some of the potential advantages quite well.
They might accept donations ;) I'm only half kidding - there's a local library in a place I used to live that has a very solid collection of epidemiology books thanks to downsizing my collection.
If MoviePass represent let's say 50% of your customer and suddenly they remove your theater from the list, I will bet you will lose about 90% of those MoviePass customers, so you will lose about 45% of your customers.

I have a MoviePass, and when they removed a big AMC theater around my place a couple months ago, I simply drove two more miles to the Century theater. I have zero loyalty to a specific theater//chain, I care a little bit about better seats though.

So yeah, their goal was to get that bargaining power by getting as many users as possible.
> I get spammed every time I start a game with little popups telling me various keys I can push to access Windows features while I'm in the game. (_Every_ time. The same notifications).

you can disable that, and it might actually improve your performance as well!

I think it was in Settings (the windows 10 settings, not the old control panel) / Gaming / Game Bar [disable] && Game DVR [ OFF ]

> I get spammed _during_ gaming with popups telling me to install Skype or some other Microsoft product. Plus all the spam on the lock screen about using a Windows phone (I haven't even _seen_ anyone with a Windows phone in five years).

never experienced that, nor do i use the lock screen @ home, so no clue there
> ”I download ebooks, why would anyone need a library?”

The "I'm alright jack" mentality
Little anecdote.

At my dad's old company, where he'd been for almost 25 years, they still used Lotus Notes. About a year ago, he moved to a new company that uses Office, and he hates it (old dog, new tricks, etc.). His old company is still the only company I've ever personally had experience with that still uses Lotus Notes.

Is it that bad?
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Assange overstaying his welcome.  Time to face the music
So the studio gained audience but (excluding the MoviePass susididy) not any money so what’s the benefit of that? In fact they might be setting an expectation that film tickets should be lower in people’s minds!

If you give me free tickets to the cinema I might go. If you say now I’m in the habit can you charge me $1? No thanks not worth it now.
Thus begins the "peak s/oil/cobalt" soothsaying for the next 10 decades or so?
https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/proceedings/ and start at the bottom, from when the Internet Engineering Task Force was an internet engineering task force.
Why did 'opening a business without an ever working business model' become a thing? Investor-money can only take you so far if you can literally not ever become cash-flow positive.
The answer is because many libraries provide not only free access to ebooks, but you can also often time get actual e-readers on loan from them.
It's simple: the comment was unsubstantive and snarky. Bad combo, especially on flame-prone topics. We're looking for thoughtful comments here, as you know.

The issue isn't just the quality of a comment in its own right—it's the quality of what it leads to. These things compound.

Thanks for being a fine HN commenter and user!
That's a good point! Most of the funding does come from the lower levels of government, and is worth bearing in mind.
As opposed to the happy and risk-free world of every man operating his own e-mail server, I guess.
In such case, I'd expect the reply to include "unfortunately, we're legally barred from providing any further details".
>Mastodon is like email.

Then why did you write this sentence and not "ActivityPub is like email"?

Mastodon would be like Hotmail, right?
> that's not clever, and makes the submission inaccurate.

I found it to be clever and funny.

Which one of us is right?
"Bing, their competition, has 2% of the market. They have 90%."

Who has the other 8%?
So they should charge more (read: any price > $0) for parking.

It baffles me how much of the most expensive real estate on earth is dedicated to free car storage.
No, LiPo (which really means li-ion with gel or polymer electrolyte) has a lower specific energy (kWh/kg) but higher specific power (kW/kg).

> I don't know of any laptop today that's using a nickel cobalt battery. Those ones usually allowed you to remove the battery pack from the laptop. Now there all based on lithium-polymer now. Same with smartphones.

They all use NMC (nickel manganese cobalt) cathodes. LiPo batteries have the exact same cathodes and anodes as normal li-ion, just a different electrolyte.

> I did some research in lithium polymer batteries a few years back. I distinctly remember there being almost 10 or so variations of lithium polymer mixes being used in battery production.

There are ~10 main chemistry families, but hundreds of mixes.
Don't forget IRQ and DMA!
To anyone who may be discouraged using subtitles, for most Romance languages, subtitles for native rate speech allow you a fighting chance of a general understanding of what was said, even if they are not word-for-word. Without subtitles, if you are like me, you are still frustrated in your ability to figure out what exactly was said. I've heard that focusing on pronunciation first helps a lot, and I may need to go back to learning the IPA for real.
Orange you glad that etymological histories are studied so in depth?
I make all my graduate students make an appointment with a research librarian when they start working on their dissertation.

I may have told one of them, in a fairly serious tone, that "Librarians know the deep magics." Because man a good librarian will solve all kinds of problems you didn't even know you had.

...I have a meeting with one on Monday to talk about archiving a government website that went down due to budget cuts, taking one of the most comprehensive collections of clinical guidelines down with it.
A different kind of string theory: Antoni Gaudi (2007)
> The thesis of this article is presented without evidence

From the article:

> I carried out an experiment some years ago that tested whether unconscious memory searches can help out the conscious mind. ... Across a wide range of test stimuli, the results were unequivocal

That's not conclusive proof, but it looks to me like evidence?
I like twitter, I don't really tweet that much though, don't really have that much to say.

I follow a lot of people, but I'd imagine if I looked at the stats, probably only the top 25% of those tweet regularly and the rest probably just get lost in the ether, or just don't tweet at all
I'm really loving Rust. I've been 100% C++ dev for work, and Rust is starting to gain internal traction. Go fell over as a replacement for our less resource intensive applications because the lack of generics killed interoperability between it and C++. Rust wins in that area. My only fear would be Rust continuing to tack on features without every removing anything and turning into C++ 2.

C++ 17 is still really nice, the language is just old and C compat + lots of historically bloat makes it crusty. A better type system with more FP concepts and more safety is a win-win in my book.
> My message is just: "It's overcomplicated. I quickly found an alternative. I don't buy the meme".

That's exactly my point though. Your proposed alternative does not solve the problem.

We didn't reject your alternative because we think you're incompetent. We didn't reject your alternative because we think HTTPS is fine.

We rejected your alternative because it DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM. AT ALL. And rather than admit that, you keep defending a point that nobody is arguing against.
>The opposite is true; removable batteries almost entirely end up in landfills.

Right now, that may be the case, but that's because those batteries generally have zero scrap value, so you're just hoping users will care enough about the environment to not do this, and take them to a proper recycling bin (like at the entrance to Target).

But the parent was predicting that batteries would become significantly more expensive as these materials became more scarce. In that future, a dead phone battery would still have some value, so people would generally want to take them someplace where they can get money back for them.

The other factor is that, in this possible future of expensive batteries, it'd be much more important for them to be standardized and more easily replaced. If your phone costs $500 sans battery, but the battery for it is another $500, you're going to want a standardized design that you can swap between different phones or other devices.
I very rarely have an issue with a sparkfun product. The "Dents and Dings" boards are boards that failed QA that they sell cheap as-is without warranty. After examining a couple hundred "Dents and Dings" boards I'd say they are very strict when it comes to QA.
Here's how bad it is: In the mail editor you are lucky if you can undo one change. Multiple undo is out of the question.
If you don't remember ordering GNU software on 9-track tapes, vampire taps for coax ethernet cables, and the dimple on the Sun 3/50 then get off my lawn...
The takeaway for the rest of us is that you should never depend so much on one big company. Put your eggs in multiple baskets, preferably the smaller players (but not too small, as that might mean incompetent).

E.g. my email, calendar and contacts are at FastMail with my own domain, cloud storage is at Dropbox but looking to migrate to pCloud (after their recent fiasco). For notes I use Evernote, but investigating Standard Notes. I also don’t buy DRM-ed books or other products, e.g. I buy DRM-free audio books from Downpour. I have a Spotify account but I regularly buy the music I like. I have an iPhone but I’ll be damned if I’ll let Apple dictate my web browser therefore I use Firefox and apps that play along with it.

My Google and Microsoft accounts are basically unused. I use Docs at times but I regularly back them up automatically. I don’t even use Google’s Search anymore. I have some apps purchased for Android but I stopped using Android for now. If they block me for anything, I couldn’t care less.

These companies that have products in multiple markets are after lock-in of their users by any means necessary. Don’t fall into that trap. The alternatives cost more, but your freedom and privacy are worth it.
Well, then, in that case you've basically just told them you closed the account because you suspected it of being involved in {money laundering, funding terrorism, fulfilling the drug trade}.
IMO Thorium reactors are too late. In some decades, there will be enough solar power, wind power and fusion power anyway.

But there is enough Uranium and Thorium for many centuries, even millennia.

The most important problem to solve is climate change; besides aging as the most important reason for misery and death today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6HyNk5Duvk
Yes. Yalp is free software, and yalp is getting them directly from the play store. Yalp is doing the bookkeeping for you. You also don't need to have chrome as an allowed source for installations.
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Off the top of my head: Yahoo! and DuckDuck Go might be ahead of Bing.
> No, because it's far cheaper to mine it.

OK, question answered.

> As mentioned above, you've been fooled by the name of the technology and are looking at the wrong part of the periodic table.

I asked about lithium recycling. How am I being fooled?
I, a real, active user that discusses a variety of topics, says something someone doesn't like and twitter decides to ban/shadow ban me.

Citation needed. Has this actually happened to someone in real life?

Also, if you use Gmail to threaten someone, yes you should be blocked from using the service. Twitter is not email, Twitter is Gmail.
And for a while now, even numbered years released in April are always LTS. No surprises.
Moviepass is not available in the EU.
Think about coming up with the phrase "the psychological ontogeny of sibilant speech impediments" in an era with no world wide web!

Today if you just search for speech impediments, you instantly gain access to the vocabulary without leaving your seat, so you can slap together lines like this without that much effort.
According to [this](https://netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?o...), Baidu and others.
This is becoming much more common. A YouTube channel I created to poke fun at rap music was brigaded after I submitted it to a popular group on Reddit. They reported so many of my videos so quickly that before I could finish the appeal of a single community guideline I had 3 strikes and my channel was permanently deleted before I ever received any feedback or appeal.
>In Europe, audiences prefer more avant garde films (read: bad films which pretend to be about something) so theaters have significantly more leverage overage distributors

Wow, sorry that somebody on earth wants to watch something other than comic book movies
http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

Has some interesting numbers. Claims 3.9% bing, 2% yahoo/Verizon, 2% baidu, .6% yandex, .5% shenma
Many libraries keep several copies of major course textbooks available. They can't however maintain potentially hundreds of copies of each book, so demand swamps them pretty fast.
So if Google is a monopoly, what should be done about it? Split it up into separate, competing mini-Googles? Keep fining them more and more money until they stop anti-competitive practices? Split off Maps/Android/Drive/etc into separate companies so that Google can't use their search monopoly to dominate those fields?

I'm genuinely not sure what the best way to go about this would be.
You have a point, but there's little alternative.

I wrote about this recently, if anyone cares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17494243
On the plus side, the synchronization is explicit on newer consoles because they couldn't rely on constant timing. Caches and multiple bus masters meant that they couldn't cycle count like the used to be able to.
Ah, missed the responses on this thread due to some work stuff - this looks like it, yeah! Thanks for digging it up. :)
Did you perhaps leak an API key?
Fastmail sounds alright, but realistically whoever your e-mail provider is you're in trouble if they go away.
> Steve Kroft: Were any of those acquisitions questioned by the antitrust division of the Justice Department?

> Gary Reback: Some were investigated, but only superficially, the government just really isn't enforcing our antitrust laws. And that's what's happened. None of these acquisitions have been challenged

Granted, most of Google's 200+ acquisitions would not trigger any scrutiny, but this line is mind boggling.
This is probably not true at most libraries. I used to work at one of the largest library systems in the country and they had patrons' checkout logs for at least a full-decade (in a poorly designed, insecure database system, now outsourced to a managed provider at a great cost $1M+ per year). I also don't believe they had patrons' privacy or data security as their priority -- most libraries simply never had the kind of technical competence to protect such data.