skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s possible I am wrong, but everything I am Googling seems to say that more than 50% of new HIV transmissions are among gay men alone. Perhaps this is changing, as I would not be surprised if extremely unsafe sexual practices are becoming more common among heterosexuals - and even a small effect here would have outsized impact given the relative proportions. I would be happy to adjust my prior on this if you have some accurate demographic information you would like to link to.
I’ve seen 30 since signing up at the end of November. Not sure how typical that is, but my friends with MoviePass also see a bunch!
Anisakis is a totally different animal, adapted to live in a stable and warm place inside a bigger animal.
Disney and Fox shareholders give acquisition the green light
The average age of a car in the US is ~12 years has been on an upward trend for a long time.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/09/f37/fotw%239...
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn about compilers?
The Capitol Hill branch of Seattle Public Libraries was the first Library I had been to in probably 20 years and I fell in love with the entire system. It made me read much more than I was in the past and the free events and learning they have are amazing. It is an enormous benefit to the citizens of the city, as well as the low income/poor who can charge their cell phones or use the internet so they can keep up with potential employers who may call them or send them emails, as well as look for jobs or complete online applications (as well as many more things).

They also provide a free subscription to Lynda with your library card.
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>These vehicles have been operating since 1946. That's 72 years, not 20

I only have fatalities for the last 20 years if that wasn't clear. If you want to go back into non-digitized local newspaper archives across the country to find out if there were any other deaths as well as try to figure out how many were operating 70 years ago, be my guest.

That doesn't change that fact that over the last 20 years, DUKWs are much deadlier per hour than cars, and it's even worse when compared to buses and tour boats.

>The reason I gave you the hours and population is because you then figure out 'person hours'

Fine. 1.5 million person hours * 20 years = 30 million person hours

40 deaths / 30 million person hours = ~1.3 deaths per million person hours

The best answer I can find for how long the Average America spends in a car per day times number of drivers times days give me 199,685 million person hours per year, and 37k vehicle fatalities last year = 37k/199685 = 0.19 deaths per million person hours

About 6 times deadlier.

Tour boats and buses are much safer than cars so adjust accordingly. In the UK (only place I could find the data in hours) water transportation has 50 deaths per billion hours. 0.05 deaths per million person hours, Making DUKWs 26 times deadlier than the average UK passenger boat.

>The accident was not caused because the vehicles were unsafe. It was caused because of human error. The things you're talking about are factors that contributed to the sinking. Without the main problem (human error) there would be no problem.

This is completely meaningless. Human error is the cause of almost all traffic accidents as well, yet some cars are still unsafe because of the behavior of the car once human error takes place.

Assume that the NTSB finds that a defect in a new bus called the Explodo will trap all it's occupants inside and cause it to catch fire in the event the driver hits an obstacle at greater than 20 miles per hour. Are you going to argue that the NTSB isn't really saying the bus is unsafe because human error is necessary to trigger the defect? No you're not.

Look, I get it. You pride yourself on making evidence based judgments. However, in this case you did some quick math and misjudged the danger, but now you're digging in and sticking to an indefensible position. You're letting your emotions influence your position--behaving exactly like the journalists you were original railing against.
Thanks for RTFA and reporting back.
> librarians (at least in that system) deliberately avoided keeping long term records of what people are reading, to safeguard privacy rights.

Are you sure that's true? I mean, my local library (like most, I'm sure) has a fully digital checkout log which keeps a pretty decent amount of state for active records.

A pretty reasonable architecture, given the size (small) of the system, would simply keep this data around for as long as needed. Sure, they might not be particularly diligent about backups and preservation for stale/useless data. And no, they probably aren't exploiting it to sell you ads.

But I'd bet anything that they aren't deliberately purging old data. They probably have it all sitting around somewhere, because frankly that's the obvious implementation choice. Designing systems to affirmatively delete stuff (and not break in crazy ways) is actually fairly hard, and libraries aren't given to elaborate engineering.

I'm willing to bet that the quote you got from the librarian was aspirational: she doesn't keep data, she cares about privacy, and she hopes and expects that the people who wrote the backend do too. My intuition says otherwise.
The US government subsidizing Amazon in lieu of public libraries is disgusting.
Becoming movie payola was the way I thought they would go. They could be an avenue for studio to discount tickets to specific films without some of the problems of traditional couponing. This could either just drive buzz, or could allow studios to goose opening weekend sales by paying MoviePass to push films, as well as reimbursing MoviePass the ticket cost.

Probably not enough to become profitable though.
>in the wake of 9/11

Patron privacy has always been a bedrock of librarianship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoia_Horn

>Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for contempt of court after refusing to testify for the prosecution in the 1972 conspiracy trial of the "Harrisburg Seven" anti-war activists.
Speaking from a perspective of working in [one of the nicest libraries in the world][0], I think there's definitely room for technology to continue improving libraries and offering additional services, while continuing to maintain the heart and soul of what a library is. My library mentioned above may have discovered an insanely innovative way of storing books, but that allows the staff to help us more, not be reduced or replaced by computers. I think if all libraries strike this delicate balance, we'll be in good shape.

[0]: https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary
Actually, you can filter out explicit songs, but the option is only visible in the mobile app (I have Android). Once you turn it on, it also works on the desktop client signed in to the same account.
You keep up by being better.

Those kids can code 15 hours a day if they want. I'll code 8, and I'll still produce working code faster than them. I won't waste (as much) time with flawed designs. I won't write nearly as many bugs that then have to be fixed. My code will be more maintainable.

In short, I'm more valuable than those kids. If an employer can't see that, then the employer is still at the kid level, and they aren't someone I want to work for.

But if you're going to try to compete with the kids when you have just the same skills, well, that's a hard road. You have to have gotten better over the years.
The fact the piece was taken down from the web supports the need for physical libraries where access and preservation trump spur-of-the-moment reactions. It's much harder to deep-six elements of collections from IRL libraries.
Kind of apropos, this struck me.

"Venture Capitalists decide not to make capital calls to their Limited Partners, sometimes as a courtesy, other times the result of a directive. They know their LPs have been heavily impacted by the market collapse and don’t want to stress them more."

It's interesting that when it comes to financing insiders, obligations seem to be a lot softer and more negotiable. Margin calls and capital calls. Interbank trading, where long term loans to customers are funded by daily loans to banks.
Agreed. I think their general conceit is that people enjoy the movie-going experience, but they are put off by the price. There is truth to this.

That said, they really botched the strategy - they could have bootstrapped the whole thing and slowly come down in price.
The problem with this idea is that (at $9.95) someone in my area needs to see one movie in the evening and they're ahead. Two movies, and MoviePass needs them to not see a movie for a full month to almost catchup, and they'd still be behind by $1.50. During the big movie seasons, it's easy to see 2-5 movies in a month. I've only seen 2 movies (since April) that I wouldn't have seen without MoviePass. I've seen 15 movies.

MoviePass has paid $137.00 for me, and I've paid them $89.95 (I bought the annual pass, joke's on me now, but I did get enough in to be better than break even). If I'd done the monthly I'd have spent $38.80 over that same time, they'd be out $100. They'd need me to idle for 10 months to catch up.
I bet it would be framed as an investment by the bank. Could even look good from a large enough distance.
GMail is starting to close off compatibility with other email providers, in small ways. AMP for email[0], and GMail's Confidential Mode[1].

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/amp-for-email-is-a-terribl...
[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/between-you-me-and-goo...
>More people have been moving into cities since remote work has become possible than the opposite.

More people have been becoming surfers than leaving surfing for skateboarding since it was invented.
> No libraries would never be invented today.

They did reinvent them, but in the spirit of the times they're mostly located in neighborhoods that are already more educated, more wealthy, and already have public library access.

https://www.treehugger.com/culture/little-free-libraries-rai...
What leverage do they have to strongarm? If a theater is popular, that means MoviePass customers like the theater. MoviePass needs the theater more than the theater needs MoviePass. If MoviePass chooses not to pay for tickets at the theater, that’s a MoviePass problem.
If only social media was the worst.... see Juul Labs: https://om.co/2018/07/25/juul-stinks/
Libraries cache significant bits of history, especially local history. This history conatins source material not found anywhere else. The Internet is amazing, but Internet companies have no incentive to retain our history in perpetuity. All others benefits aside, this is enough to justify libraries in every community.
First rule of any hardware system: Something is always going to go wrong.

When your system is one giant 62,000mT cable with the kinetic energy of 62 Hiroshima bombs, I think you'll lose your $30B investment pretty quickly.
It's a pretty cool idea I think and is a great adjunct to traditional language learning. Maybe there could be an API so that open-source media players would be able to show the text on the screen together with the video. Hope you make it.
Community input is different though. Communities need a leader (or small set of leaders) who's responsible for judging whether something fits into the overall vision of the product. If a whole community agrees that something should be this way or that, then sure, that's darn good evidence that it's a good fit and probably inherent to the usefulness of the product, and it would be unwise for them to ignore it. But sometimes you have 50/50 splits and a leader is there to make the ultimate decision based on their expertise and understanding of the problem-domain and how the product fits into it.
Why We Created a Git-Backed Content Manager
or just buy a Kobo or some other non-Amazon ebook reader if you don't want to support them at all.
Compare internet to library:

Free: Transportation to go to your library (2x train ticket, or car + gas): minimum ~$5 / day so $60 a month, plus library card if not free

Instantly: ~30 minutes to go, 30 minutes to get back home, depending on where you live. Worst internet connection need a few seconds.

Anywhere: you have to physically go to the one library and hope you find the book you're looking for. Nowadays you have internet access pretty much anywhere.
It's putty's own fault. They used to (and perhaps still do) have a section on how they don't want your donated domain - they like their current one.

From their FAQ:

> No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into google.com and we're the first link returned), and we don't believe the administrative hassle of moving the site would be worth the benefit.
Have you looked at public librarian salaries lately? A senior-- senior, mind you-- librarian at the Colorado Springs Library District is being offered $25/hr. I don't recall for certain by now, but I'm pretty sure I made more than that my very first year out of school and I'm practically decrepit by this site's standards.
I think it might be a net benefit if we rename libraries "community resource centers". The argument against the old, narrow function of libraries falls apart if they're named in a way that reflects their current purpose.
I think your loan idea has some merit, if instead of replacing libraries they acted as the delivery boy for libraries, free of charge and didn't take the tax right off, that would be a net win. Because my guess is the biggest cost for that interlibary loan was the shipping.
Houston actually does have zoning laws, but they're called something different: parking minimums [0]. While there might not be any restrictions on what you can build, the fact that you need a certain amount of parking will naturally lead to certain types of housing being built.

[0]: https://empowertexans.com/around-texas/the-burden-of-parking...
My wife and I are so frustrated by the movie going experience in the US. In Taiwan, everyone is permitted to bring food and drinks to the theater and that's pretty common. In the US I'm forced to pay an absurd amount of money for awful junk food. No thanks, I want to drink tea while I watch a movie. We always have to smuggle in drinks because the theater just doesn't provide any good options.

None of the movies is the US are subtitled. I am a native English speaker, but I really prefer to watch every movie with subtitles. Reading the dialogue while I hear it helps me remember the content of a movie, helps to understand what characters are saying while there are explosions going on in the background, let's me lower the volume for the sake of those around me, and so on.

And then there's the friggin' cell phones... but I suppose this isn't really a US specific problem.
That's why we have the small language teams who have to sign off on things. It's not democracy.

I think the ideal situation is when the community develops a solution that works well for them and then leadership steps in to shepherd it through the integration process. Leadership isn't there to force their ideas onto the community. When done properly, everyone is empowered and nobody comes out of the process frustrated. This is something we have had to learn over time, but I truly think it is the right way to develop open projects like languages.
I would argue for a more holistic approach.

Sure, optimize current resource consumption and even bring technically inferior but more practical batteries to market, but also do not assume the electric vehicle end-state = swap electric for internal combustion.

For instance, would we have a possible resource crunch if US car ownership went from >1 car / person to 0.1 car / person or lower? That could happen in a few years now, with Uber / Lyft running on fossil fuels.

What if self-driving, electric vehicles come to market not as personal transport, but instead as transportation-as-a-service?
My family does airborne mineral exploration, and it's the same for thorium (we look for three types of radiation to determine whether a certain spot is likely to be uranium: uranium, potassium, and thorium)

the benefit is that you can directly tell that it's uranium due to it giving off specific wavelengths, vs with diamonds, you need significant interpretation of the data to look for not-diamonds and hope that there are diamonds there too
IME we put far too much gravity on 1.0 and 2.0. If you’re building a team to last, you’ll be at 3.0 before you know it. If you didn’t, you’ll be out of business before it happens. I know which team I want to work with...
I mean, in the case of MoviePass, their pricing was so obviously stupid that people sort of assumed that they MUST have a trick up their sleeve to make it work, because no one could be that dumb.

And it turns out, they don't (or maybe they did but it didn't work). Not everyone is playing 9D chess.
Interesting, I alt as control on Windows and Linux. I wonder if there is a way to map Space to Control when tapped on Windows.
It might help if shelters wouldn't throw their charges out at a 7:00 AM
It's near impossible to hit many military bases without drastically impacting local civilian population with fallout.
HN can be pretty schizophrenic. It often seems to switch depending on the topic, and topics where the various 'groups' collide can be very interesting (or frustrating).

I like that kind of diversity as long as it doesn't lead to flamewars.
Fun read.

For all its headaches, today's were still trying to replace the mobile offline-first capability of Lotus Notes in the 90's. It's too bad IBM got their hands on Lotus.
Everyone’s probably read it by now, but second part of Seveneves there’s a lot of great non-rocket systems for getting stuff into space (like skyhook also mentioned in Wikipedia article) there’s one part of the story where a bolo-type setup is used for an emergency extraction from earth which still makes me gasp in amazement to think about :)

In conclusion: if you liked the launch loop idea but haven’t read Seveneves then go buy/download it right now!
How is this news? I guess it is one of those things most people don't really hear about that the military made pretty efficient.

It's a useful technique because it's almost as fast as freestyle, but you tire less and don't splash as much. It's also easier to adapt to dragging someone or something, which is why it's taught to USAF Pararescue jumpers. Finally, you are a little less likely to seriously hurt yourself when you run into something.
Libraries aren't so much about books, they're about a place where the homeless people can gather and read them.

Seriously, I love libraries. I think we should apply the same idea for gyms.
I'm pretty sure sentencing a man to 15 years in prison for stealing a poster is torture enough.

I can always spot the pro-Trumpers as they'll always make defensible anything related to his decisions; in this case, "hey Kim's not a bad guy because look Otto wasn't beaten by a murderous regime, he merely attempted suicide. So maybe it's not so bad we're getting friendly with Kim's regime."
Trump is a tough call. For all I know, there is a decent chance he actually is a deplorable narcisstic idiot. It's a hypothesis that fits the evidence available to me. There are other hypotheses that do this as well.

Re: refugee crisis, I haven't seen much about it on HN, so cannot comment here.
Nearing the summation, the author uncritically quotes a "senior-level American official." --"The North Koreans have never tortured a white guy physically. Never.” Earlier in the article, "The 82 American sailors captured on the Pueblo were beaten and starved for 11 months before finally being released."

Conclusion: either none of the 82 American sailors were white guys, or "beaten and starved for 11 months" doesn't constitute torture.
Ask HN: Great books for transforming how I approach conflict?
I’m looking for a book that will transform my perspective on interpersonal conflict from a scary, painful thing to a constructive, good thing.

To help you gauge what type of content I like: I found The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem to be profoundly helpful.

Thanks!
> Please do share screenshots.

Of?
>>> try going to one

>> This is probably the best hint that they might not be so useful. The truth is most people never go to libraries.

> "Most people," huh? Got a source for that?

His real name must be "Most People" and what he said is entirely an anecdote describing his own personal habits and preferences.
They still keep thinking that people will eventually treat it like they do gym memberships - buy them, but ultimately not use them. But there is a certain social expectation to have a gym membership and at least pretend you are doing something about your physical fitness. I have one through work and the last time I've been to that gym was over a year ago. But I can't be bothered to go to HR and actually cancel my account. But going to the gym sucks - and going to the movies does not. There is no reason to not use the movie pass once you have one. I'd be shocked if anything but an absolutely marginal percentage of their users were actually paying more than they were using.
It becomes the theater's problem if the customers have alternatives. In my area, they don't. There are 2 theater companies and 3 theaters. But say you're in Atlanta, there are tons of theaters, and often not too far from each other. So the decision to go to theater X or theater Y could easily be determined by which one accepts MoviePass.

Customer's line of thought: I've already paid for this service. It'd be stupid to see a movie without using it, because I'd be double paying (not entirely accurate, but this is the thinking). I can go 2 more miles and see the same movie at a similar time and not have to pay for the ticket. Sold!

The problem for MoviePass is the customers will do that, and MoviePass can't actually afford the tickets (since most of their spending, now, seems to be from borrowed money).
I get where you’re coming from, but I think that title was part of the joke. It was such almost like an inside-joke reference to clickbaity Buzzfeed articles.
This post makes absolutely no sense, and reveals nothing.
Via Bloomberg...

"Terms of the loan are onerous. Investment firm Hudson Bay Capital Management can demand repayment of more than $3 million of the loan on Aug. 1, and the rest on Aug. 5. Proceeds from a planned stock sale must also be used to repay the debt.

If Helios and Matheson Analytics fails to pay, it will be subject to a 15 percent annualized late fee until it makes good on the obligation. If the company is 48 hours late in its payment, Hudson Bay can require the company to repay the debt at 130 percent."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-27/moviepass...
How have you been using it?
> I'm sorry but everyone here is completely ignoring the congestion arguments

What is the congestion argument? How about all these people that make SoHo a living nightmare trying to get through the Holland Tunnel at 5pm? I don't think any of those are Ubers.
This really hit me when I watched The Force Awakens. I was so weirded out when I realized I was expecting Han and Leia to sound the exact same as they did in Return of the Jedi. The difference in their voices is really stark. I was much better prepared for hearing Luke's voice in The Last Jedi after that.

I knew they had gotten older, I knew their voices were different, but it never hit me until I saw them playing Han and Leia again.