skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't catch up because nobody is going to pay for 'another netflix'.

One of the things classic hollywood media was built on, was lock-in, control, ads, locality. None of that applies to the Netflix space of things. You get no control, you don't get to dictate when and why and how someone consumes content, and you don't get to schedule yourself between everybody else. Unless you have good, accessible, quality content, people are going to ignore you (and they should). It's why piracy exists and will exist as long as people attempt to force lock-in by making their media exclusive to one service or area. People don't want it and will find ways around it, forever.
The local hairdresser will be a poor client and not pay you very much and most developers don't want to run a small business.
Wasn't there a YC backed company doing something similar with nuclear a while back?
I switched to Dvorak at least 10-15 years ago (and have been enjoying it ever since) so I can't tell you exactly how long it took me, but I'd say to expect to have lower productivity in Dvorak for a month. By then you should be at least near enough to your QWERTY proficiency that the switch will no longer be hurting you.

Advice for learning: Start with basic typing exercises that drill in the muscle memory. Then switch over and keep a keyboard layout visible. Switch back to QWERTY when you need to. When you rarely need to look up letters but still need to think sometimes, switch permanently and try not to switch back to QWERTY.

On keyboard shortcuts: while some such as copy and paste are worse because they involve the right hand, I find many keyboard shortcuts are actually better on Dvorak despite being designed with QWERTY in mind. J and K for instance (think vi navigation) are really convenient. There are a bunch I feel that way about, and that's in addition to other characters used in programming often being more convenient as well, such as brackets/braces and hyphen/underscore.

On fluency: I definitely have a hard time switching back to QWERTY. Funny story: an interview didn't go well once when I had to complete a programming task on one of their computers. It was Windows (I use Mac) with a QWERTY layout! I must've looked like I didn't know how to use a computer. But I'm typing this paragraph in QWERTY and it's doable. Most of what makes me feel slower on QWERTY is just that it's so much less comfortable to type in than Dvorak.
>"Along with healthcare, climate change, the debt,"

There's an interesting parallel with the cost of healthcare. Increases in costs for both seem to outstrip inflation year over year. And there's lots of of people making lots of money in both sectors. And yet nobody in either sector seems to be able to say exactly why the costs are increasing at the untenable rates they are. The only thing Washington ever seems to do is kick the can down the road.
Mini-nuclear plants. 1100 megawatts. These are completely in disagreement. Terrapower focuses mostly on large plants to power an increasingly urban world. The media has gotten that Terrapower does small reactors wrong for over a decade.
I agree some spending makes sense. The F-35 program does not give me a lot of encouragement we’re investing in good places.
Hi. Old grumpy engineer here.

Most young people we hire straight out of the university are at about the level of “apprentice” anyway.

The best just learn faster later on.

The university degree in E.E. is just a ticket to being apprentice somewhere.
There are like 50 advanced reactor companies out there. But I think the one you're referring to is Oklo.

https://www.thirdway.org/infographic/the-advanced-nuclear-in...
> I have already paid my portion of the 'enormous energy expenditures'.

Unless your country has a truly effective carbon-offset plan, then the price you paid for that aluminium likely does not take into account the environmental externalities of producing it. Furthermore, the pure energy costs of producing aluminium – environmental externalities aside – are actually state-subsidized in a few places, so what one pays may not entirely cover the production.

> This is a multi-billion dollar business! This stuff is getting shipped all over the world.

As I said, the market and legislation being what it is, it is entirely possible for companies to make money from recycling, while at the same time an individual’s decision not to aid that recycling has an environmental toll. It may indeed be desirable to enact laws that redirect some of those recycling profits back to consumers, but in the meantime, simply refusing outright to sort your rubbish is still a jerk thing to do.
> either it's a lottery or it's priced out to most people

Exactly. I guess there's a third option, which is that it's simply closed, but that would only be OK if the residents unanimously want it that way and I doubt that's ever the case. The sentiment behind all articles like this is that the authors think access to $whatever should be more exclusive. I wonder how many would advocate for that if they knew they would be among the excluded. Darn few, I suspect.
If only we could "skim-watch" videos ...
I always put another Control in the CapsLock key, just that change makes it far easier to use shortcuts with the left hand only.
No major Linux distro besides arch ships with 3 as it's base either. For app development 3 is good but the base platform ecosystems are way harder to move.
Radiolab: Post No Evil [audio]
This is not a defensible reason to allow the whole system to come crashing down.
Real button-sequence cheat codes! Isn’t it wild how long it took for them to be known?
I learned dvorak in high school over summer break. It took about 3 weeks to be up to my qwerty wpm.

I actually had a difficult time going back and forth for a while. Eventually my brain decided that a heavy mechanical keyboard (my model m at home) was dvorak, and lighter non-mechanical kbs (school) were qwerty.

I had to switch over to qwerty to do pair programming easily a few years back. Finally got to the point where I could type interchangeably, but I'm worried that my muscle memory will lose qwerty again over time, now that I use it less.
>Finally, terrorism, child porn, revenge porn, nudity and all that nonsense will not be welcome on the platform.

I support them not being welcome.

How do you plan on keeping them out if this is open source and supposed to be censorship free?
We're going on holiday to the Great Barrier Reef in a few months. I think it's quite likely to be the first and last time I see it in any state worth visiting for many years.

Irrespective of how successful or unsuccessful the far-rights are in maintaining Australia's CO2 emission levels, I believe it's already too late - we've crossed from 'recovery is possible' to 'rebuilding is the only way' and that will take decades if not centuries.

/opinion
Any amount forgiven at the end of an IBR term is considered taxable income, so at some point you're going to just trade your student loan servicer's payment plan for an installment plan with the IRS.

And if your IBR payment isn't enough to cover the interest as it accrues, your balance at the end might be pretty big.

There was a story in the WSJ about a dentist who currently has $1MM in student loan balances and is on IBR. When the IBR period expires, he'd be likely to have a $2MM balance forgiven and consequently a $700K tax liability.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-meru-has-1-million-in-stud...
Some students experience circumstances that can place them into a bind, only to run into the presumed non-dischargeable nature of student loans. Third year students that are unable to qualify for additional loans to meet expected family contribution and then withdraw due to lack of funds, medical students that are unable to achieve proficiency but are sacked with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. The student loan corporations know this is an easy avenue to maintain a growing list of young people in indentured servitude.

Granted, the government has tightened the rules around private student loans and encouraged students to pursue federal-only loans (which offer a ton of benefits compared to private loans), but if you look at the loan practices in 2000-2008, private lenders were effectively fly-by-night and doing everything they could (including questionable advertising) to encourage students to apply for private loans.
Shared profit can negate shared costs, particularly those brought on by systemic issues that need solving or individuals that didn't do so well in the health/job/birth/intelligence/etc lottery.

Or would you rather a non-society where everyone fends for themselves?
I think using computers is causing me memory loss, I notice it more frequently now - it worries me so it pushes me to read more books. My speculation is that the light from monitors and other devices somehow makes me forgetful.

I am certain the distractability of the web is bad for us and can see myself spending less time on this app in the future.
I learned this years ago and forgot everything. I'm curious - does anyone actually use linear algebra in their day to day, and if so, what's your job title?
Maybe you can go in to specifics? When I graduated in 2005, the cost of college was just heating up. It is now in a full meltdown and it would be ridiculous for me to compare my situation in 2005 to someone entering college in 2018. Cost is way up from then to now.
I have a slightly more convoluted explanation: There are two types of money. Capital money (or seed money) and income money. People don't understand the difference.

When you win the lottey, you get seed money. This money is "worth" 200 times less than you think it's worth, because you can only spend it once. If you put e.g. 10 million in an investment, you get an allowance of less than 50k/month to spend without eroding the original capital. That's the true "value" of this lottery ticket.
I actually agree with you on this.

Despite getting accepted to many top-tier universities (Berkeley, Yale, Rice), I chose to go to an in-state school with a generous scholarship so I could come out of school with very little loans. I sacrificed going to a really great school like Berkeley (and living in California!) so I would save money and not end up in so much debt.

While I fully think that debt is a nondesirable thing to have, and that we do not educate people about debt enough, I don't know if loan forgiveness is the answer. I have personally paid off a close friend's student loans and old medical bills, and guess what? Even after all that she was just as financially irresponsible as before.

As a related situation, I know a few people who come to me asking me for help with rent or medical bills. When I ask them, why don't you have any money, they say it's because their hours were cut, or something else. But when I step back and look at the whole picture, I realize that because they went on an expensive vacation, and went to the bars every other night, and spent lots of money on clothes, that's the real reason they didn't have money. So when they asked me to help pay their rent, they were really asking me to help finance their vacation.

In a similar way, if we (collectively, the taxpayers) pay for the students who can't afford the student loans, we're actually subsidizing whatever the people DID spend their money on, or their choice to go to more expensive schools when less expensive schools are available, perhaps at the cost of those who, like me, chose to save money by going to less expensive schools.
Never mind Snapchat, we all know this is Venmo's moment (if only users hadn't been so foolish as to reject the fun social media experience Venmo offers :/).

https://youtu.be/BWFLztKBrLY
> 1100 megawatts

Isn’t that smaller than the average power plant?
Does $60,000 a year make you middle-class or wealthy on Planet Earth?
The first two options are only viable in a couple of sectors and increasingly (in my opinion) we've seen on the job training for low-experience workers vanish in the software sector. Not everyone is going to want to go the trade school route and again, limiting educational options by wealth is why we're in this situation in the first place.

And the military is a no-go. We already use it as a welfare gate for poor Americans, creating a society where the poor have to serve in the military to survive while the rich skip out. This is a dystopian ideal to me.
it was a rewrite of the compiler in a pre-1.0 language trying to find its preferred API. you shouldn't be surprised it broke stuff, especially when literally every thing about native explained it was a private unsupported API.

calling this a minor release is idiotic and you're just mad because they took away a thing they promised to take away and said you shouldn't use.
I'll be honest, I have no idea! I can't remember the topic of trade schools ever being brought up in class or otherwise. I think you could probably do it, but it would be very unconventional.
Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think
In many ways taxes do pay for it. For example around 50% of state school tuition is paid for by taxes. Yet sky-high, emphatically unpayable debt persists and is getting worse.
As far as I understand it recovery was never possible by the time we realized what was happening. We have no good way to capture CO2 and no actionable way worldwide to reduce CO2 production fast enough. Even if we stopped producing CO2 right now the levels in the atmosphere would still continue to have detrimental effects for dozens of years.
Check out nbstripout. It sets up a git filter so that your output is stripped as the notebook is committed. But you keep the output locally.
And a healthy smuggling market...

> Alvarado and Sanchez were arrested and charged with felony recycling fraud, attempted grand theft, filing a false or forged document, and conspiracy, officials said.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/men-smuggle-000-empty-bott...
The best books I read were written by scientists, people who think they are scientists (sociology, and mostly due to failing rigorous approaches), and books written for teens (I no longer read fiction). All have in common that the reader has an aversion to fluff, by way of not finishing it/not buying another book by the same author. These also don't really work for making you feel intelligent among your friends, who will likely not understand much of it anyway.

Some of the papers I read recently, like the "Instant field meshes" one, also exhibit this careful balance of concept density without going to the point where you need Kant-level mentality to comprehend the conveyed concept (referring specifically to Kritik der reinen Vernunft).
thanks that is informative. It doesn't mean that deterrence is the most ethical stance though, but it is the most pragmatic.
I have doubts you’re going to be able to remove enough regulation to get nuclear near the same cost as storage backed renewables (which will continue to decline in cost each year even further).

Without storage, renewables are already close to or below 2 cents/kWh (unsubsidized). Can nuclear startups make generating units as fast as automated fabs can spit out solar panels?
I can't express how wrong this response is.

Term limits are necessary, there should be no such thing as a "career politician". A politician should be required to have actual skills, and not just a nice smile.

Experience with politics is meaningless, there should be NO establishment. It is always the new guy who reveals the truth to the people, which is a good thing. Experience only results in being able to lie to the public, to further the establishment. Otherwise it becomes us vs them.

People will do anything to maintain power. It should be one year and out, nobody should be able to get rich by becoming a politician.

A good first step would be to get rid of Diane Feinstein.
Oh, the often neglected powers of rested brains!
Stars memorize rebirth of our home galaxy
I heard Bill Gates on a ted talk a long time about talking about some sort of nuclear power that would burn waste and was like a candle. I think this isn't that.. but anyway, it'll be nice if we have excess power.
> Why are concise explanations better?

Because they require less effort to work with. Note that concise is only better all else being equal. Being consistent with the observed data is necessary, but not sufficient. We can only ever have a finite amount of data, and any finite dataset is consistent with an infinite number of theories. Conciseness is just a heuristic we use to select among the infinite possibilities. It just turns out that in the universe we live in, concise theories consistent with the data have a lot of predictive power. No one know why our universe is this way. That's just how it turns out to be.
Default usually occurs around 120 days after the last payment has been made.

Federal student loans typically have mechanisms (deferment, forbearance, income-based repayment plans) that make it nearly impossible to truly default on the loans.

Private student loans are similar to unsecured consumer debt. Once the unpaid mark crosses 120 days or so, the loan is effectively collected like any other debt (though debt collectors, collection attorneys, and lawsuits).

Student loan debt is presumably not dischargeable in bankruptcy, unless the debtor can prove that the debt would create an undue hardship and other factors which are very difficult to achieve (see the Brunner Test for most jurisdictions or the Totality of the Circumstances test for the 8th Circuit).
Skim reading is definitely a art and skill. At the highest levels of that skill, you're basically trusting your subconscious to alert your thinking mind that a phrase or passage is worth putting in that extra few seconds. It's also something I automatically do just to get a sense for the piece of writing once, whether or not I choose to read it deeper. It makes deep reading that much easier.

The way out of the problems caused by skimming is to skim more.

I skimmed the whole Atlantic piece to digest the point, then decided it wasn't worth a deeper examination. My own experience with the concept is probably way way better than the author's. And the stated thesis of the article just isn't important to me.

Writing a lot helps with reading. Spending lots and lots of time putting together arguments and points sets yourself up to recognize common patterns extremely quickly in recently-written prose. When dealing with older prose, or poetry, especially something like the Bible, my mind slows way way way way down to an almost glacial pace, the subconscious just isn't primed to understand the writing as the culture in which it was written is long long gone.
That's basic economics of lending. If X% of people default then you have to increase interest rates to cover the people that default. The increased interest rate will dissuade students from taking on degrees with lesser economic prospects.

It's like adding back pressure or load shedding to a distributed system. It is better to drop or delay requests than let the entire system collapse under it's own weight.
I hated having student debt. It was abysmal. Dave Ramsey got me healed up though.
The actual reason is probably "when people use primes, they post code that gets syntax-highlighted by tools that don't know about primes, and this results in Elm code looking broken and stupid."
Or killed. Guidebooks are developed as guides not only for the good, but also the bad.
Eli Shouela
It's not going to come crashing down. The national Debt is a much bigger deal.
I think the sense in which you use it is fringe. the term is valid without political connotations. Also , the article was not about keeping up with the joneses, but about being perceived as doing so.
I mean to answer your first question: yes, modern computer vision algorithms do have a concept of spatial and object tracking. But if your definition of “seeing” requires metacognition and agency... I suppose no algorithm I know of does that. Although that rules out most animal visual systems from “seeing” too.
I imagine it has more to do with habits than anything.

On my desktop I'm very prone to skimming and eagerly multitasking, but any text on my phone has my full undivided attention.

Incidentally I've spent a lot of time reading books on my phone, while I do most of my web browsing at a desk.
It's the compensation some expect, not the one they get. And if they took a student loan based on those calculations, they end up being the subject of the article.
The sci-fi writer in me envisions a story about a future where humans exist, and there is only one species of fish in the ocean, and everyone is sick of eating it.
I suspect many of the people in this thread would benefit from reading about the Typical Mind Fallacy:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/baTWMegR42PAsH9qJ/generalizi...
Methodologies for measuring open source project health
There is the trend on so many articles linked from HN to not get to the point until 8+ paragraphs in. They don't even reference the headline and the main point.

Then when the address the point briefly they flashback to the subject's childhood and talk about some formative event that shaped everything to put him into the place where he might take on this problem.

I skim because I trust very few sources to actually deliver on the promise of a headline and I don't care to invest a page or two reading before the article actually starts and I can make a judgement.
Indeed, now that I look, some airlines allow higher per-luggage limits. I wonder if it's new, and it's due to more automation of the handling.

Anecdotally, I flew Norwegian recently and I was the only one that handled the luggage. I had to figure out how to attach the label, which was mildly intimidating.
I think there's "productivity" from two standpoints. In the worker's eyes, she's more productive if she's paid more, by definition. In the employer's eyes, she's more productive if she produces more for the company, by definition.

A classic "efficient" market should close any gaps between these two definition, but it doesn't work perfectly in practice.
These are all good points, but if Netflix's content quality continues to erode (licensing expirations, crap original contenT), people will leave Netflix and use that money elsewhere.
Think of Netflix more like a channel

What sort of channel? For example, would Netflix ever produce something like "Blue Planet" (eponymous or 2). Probably it would eventually but I can't help feel that there is a place for the likes of the BBC to keep the rest on their toes. I pay a decent amount in TV license fees to fund the BBC (currently about £150 per year). In return I expect that the BBC will respect the wishes of the UK elected govt - sadly that involves respecting the wishes of my country's elected govt. I'm also happy that anyone should be able to view the BBC's output for a reasonable but ideally a minimal fee.
The submitted article seems to be mostly cribbed from the DoE's tweet; this link is much better.

dang or sctb, could you update the link to the energy.gov one?
1. It's only one data point, but here's a chart of my typing speed while learning a new fully custom layout:

https://xsznix.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-...

2. I use QWERTY on mobile devices, Dvorak on standard keyboards, and RSTHD on split ergo keyboards, and I can switch between all of them without any hassle. It helps if you use a different keyboard form factor for each layout, but even if not, I don't think it's difficult to maintain adequate fluency on QWERTY when you need to use someone else's computer.
It is justice, not greed, that people have to pay back money they borrow.
there are 99 nuclear reactors operating in the US, producing about 100,000mw. So about 1000mw/ea.

Many of the plants in the US have more than one reactor.. but you can see on this page, plant capacity/units is about 1gw/ea [edit: corrected, thanks], and many of the single reactor plants are about that size also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_nuclear_po...

Note, that page has the largest plants.. about ~45. There are only 61 in the US. So there are a few smaller ones not in the list. If you built a 1100mw reactor, it would be ~#42 largest plant.