skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't all that different from the "Canadian Content" regulations in Canadian broadcasting, which is probably a contributing factor to the disproportionate number of Canadian popular music artists.
Great, now Netflix in Sweden will have about 5 movies, unless they count painfully bad Swedish series as movies, then it will be a billion or so.
Part of that might be the harsh nature of fluorescent lighting used in a lot of offices. Natural light is broad spectrum, but typical fluorescent lighting is a few sharp peaks. Combined with the 120 Hz flicker common in many I find them pretty unpleasant, especially for long periods of time.

I find I don't mind higher CRI and higher frequency lighting nearly as much. You can get that in fluorescent lights and they're not as bad as they used to be, but the really good ones are expensive.
Why has this thread disappeared from the front page? By the way, the link results, for me, in "Sorry, a potential security risk was detected in your submitted request. The Webmaster has been alerted. "
For what I see, it seems to me that hard STEM startups tackling industrial problems can’t work through the lean paradigm, that’s why too much too often their projects are shut down or internalized as soon as a nice acqui-hiring happens. In other words, bigger firms just scoop applied r&d teams in their field before they actually become a commercial threat.
Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-month-olds (2017)
Do businesses always behave perfectly rationally?
I don't think you hurt anyone's feelings, but your comment is entirely beside the point. To say that there are too many startups imitating Uber is simply to repeat the point that savings continue to exceed the investment opportunities that investors find interesting, and therefore investors continue to give money to the government for free, or even in the face of the risk that they will suffer a small loss.
Pretty much what I expected. When I've spoken to engineers involved in Amazon operations, they rather proudly mentioned how aggressively they are automating everything.

Their goal seem to be 100% automation, and the only remaining jobs are those that can't be automated just yet.

I don't know anything about Walmart, but given Amazon's path, they have no choice but to follow suite to stay competitive.

Unrelated: thanks!
It generally doesn't matter that much. If you miss the cache you are going to hit Google's network, which will serve from their own data center over their own networks. That mostly isn't paid for by the ISP, but Google's customers. The problem with wireless is that the wireless part isn't Google's network nor "fixed" infrastructure. So it becomes costly for the ISP.
We get free food and some of the best pay in the world for such a small amount of necessary education. What is it that you really want? Or are you lashing out at the fact that in this world there are wealthier people than yourself making money off your labor?
That's not really true; two people from similar backgrounds and different party affiliations likely have a lot in common in their ways of thinking.
I guess it's a combination of compiled vs handwritten code (maybe certain patterns show up more often in compiled code, while handwritten 8-bit code tries hard to remove any redundancies because of the limited available space), and bigger data types (especially 64-bit pointers).
This is not something that comes (only) from the EU; at least France and Spain have similar local "cultural protection" laws that were not imposed by EU. So it is more of a European, rather than Europeanunionean, way of thinking: local "culture" (as in, cultural product industry) is a public good and thus needs to be protected by the state.

Not that I agree with it...
Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS Act' in the Senate
I am not right nor left wing. As am extreme center and practical I irritate both sides of the political map.
Geez! thanks. Hypocritical much?
Yeah, not gaining weight is possibly believable - losing weight is ridiculous.
If I wanted to write a program that could be run for generations to come I would target a specific piece of hardware of significant historical importance such as the 6502 (for example.) Not only are there already many emulators for it, and not only is it fairly easy to write an new emulator for such a straight-forward system (unlike, say a PS3, which is very difficult to emulate), but because of its historical importance it is likely emulators will continue to be written and maintained for a very long time. Even if my program would not be of historical importance itself, but by targeting the same hardware it would piggyback on other preservation efforts.
The push for forced support of local tv production on the big streaming services is coming mainly from leave type right-wing parties though.
Not weird at all. This is Bezos generating hordes of candidates for Amazon to keep wages down for the next century.
1. "Simplified" is technically a script variant of traditional developed in the last half century or so, only in the PRC - but they are ultimately still the same system. Those who can read traditional chinese script can read simplified with ease.

2. Only ~2000 needed for normal vocab. Compare this with 10000+ for english.

3. Mandarin in particular has a lot of homophones but it's practically not a problem since terms are comprised of one or more sound and thus easily disambiguate.

4. This is a good thing, vocab is much lower (see point 2)

5. Same with any language?

6. All humans use context
Shut down FCC. That's all it would take.

Sure, your FM radio would stop working, but that's a small sacrifice to make, to get actual competition in something as important as telecommunications.
DOJ meeting on whether social media co's 'intentionally stifling' free speech
You mean "The lives of others"? "Run Lola Run"? "Goodbye Lenin"? "Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo"? "Fack ju Göhte"?

I know there are bad German movies. But with the biggest film studio in Europe being right next to Berlin, I think saying "there are no good German movies" it's a bit too much. The fact alone that there are decent German movies for children seems to me like a plus - I probably won't go see "Das schönste Mädchen der Welt", but I'm not opposed to it.

Disclaimer: I liked Danni Lowinski, and would like to watch Deutschland 83.
Bernie Sanders Introduces the BEZOS Act
I agree that workers should be treated with privacy and respect, but please don't overlook how important managers are.

The good thing about capitalism is that profitability wins. If a company can be more profitable without managers they will have a competitive advantage in the marketplace and that organisational structure will spread.

As humans we see leaders and a hierarchies in most of our organizations. They seem to be pretty helpful.
Please note I am saying this as a fellow "free spirit" type. It isn't intended to disrespect you per se. I appreciate your participation here. It's just an interesting thought experiment you've injected into the discussion and it's a thought experiment near and dear to my heart and these are some of my thinkings about it.

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Jesus said "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's." IIRC, this was in reply to someone wanting to use his teachings as justification to not pay their taxes.

I'm kind of a hippy tree hugger type. I'm also a former military wife, so I'm a pro military, pro government hippy tree hugger.

The world needs hippy tree huggers. But they are more beneficent when they take the position "I'm not part of the government, so I'm free to live this way in part because we have functioning government." rather than acting like government needs to go.

It is not lost upon me that hippy types only ever exist in secure spaces. You don't find them wandering around in active war zones trying to give people a hug who are pointing a gun in their direction.

There is some story about "Don't remove this wall in the middle of the street unless you understand its exact purpose and are sure it is no longer needed. Do not remove it based on not seeing its use. If you don't see its use, assume that is a blind spot in you, not proof that the wall is doing nothing."

Not to say there isn't room to improve on what we currently have, but I think the "anarchist"/free spirit types are their most helpful when they recognize that freedom is bought with the blood of patriots and disrespecting that fact is inherently problematic.
It does to a great extent. You provide more towers that each has a smaller coverage area.
>India managed to overcome this allegedly insurmountable American influence and have "the world's largest film industry in terms of film production"

India never had that American influence problem because it's a much more insular culture, and had many illiterate people in the near past, who wanted to just relax with a movie that shows people in their likeness and plays some nice local songs. Their average popular movies are even more formulaic and explosion/romance driven than Americans. They're also quite large. This created and maintains a stronghold against foreign movies. African countries have also managed the same feat (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nollywood ) and for much of the same reasons.

>European countries would just rather take the easier route and bully companies into trying to force the matter instead of creating conditions that would allow it to happen naturally

In Europe we don't consider companies "people", so we don't believe in "bullying" them. Seems that some cultures care for companies and their profits more than they care for culture and people.
Have you tried open windows + a light breeze + background sound from outside + natural light with the inside lights dimmed a bit? That's the good stuff, whether it's 60 or 90F.
This point might make some kind of sense if there were comparable service in areas of the US with approximately 196 people per square km.

But service like this isn't available anywhere in the US, for any population center, at any population density.

It's a red herring. Crappy US telecoms services have little to nothing to do with the population densities of the areas they serve.
I have followed Terry for a few years now and from my limited understanding he had a lot of support from family. He lived with his parents and while taking medication he was "okay" however he was a grown man and unless hospitalised there is no forcing him to take his medication. I can recall a number of times he clearly came off his meds and went off the rails. He has said both that his parents kicked him out and that he left because he wanted to. It was very hard to know what was true and what was the illness with his rants.

The sad truth is that while he had family that cared about him that wasn't enough. He should have been hospitalised imho.
Interestingly, I looked up the symantec CEO. He was previously the ceo of Blue Coat. Blue Coat is a maker of man in the middle proxy appliances for businesses to spy on their employees. They controversially got root certificate authority. Which could of course be used to mitm SSL sites (which they promised and crossed their heart they would never do).

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/27/blue_coat_ca_certs/
Amen. If I knew something like ColdFusion I would be making web apps and starting businesses constantly, I love to solve user problems.
You don't have to be a mustache-twirling villain with no integrity to be subtly influenced by your sources of funding.
It appears that there are a lot of things that Symantec should have done, yet here we are.
I do like mixing subjects together as you propose. A couple things to watch out for though:

It can lead to slowing down your learning of the main skill. For example, I might try to include TDD in any coding tutorial. While that's great, it slows down how fast the student can learn the new concept.

Being forced to write essays that are X words long for your History report, turns most people into terrible writers who are unable to explain a concept in a fewer amount of words and are typically full of very long run-on sentences.
True. The old 911s were really small. Now everything is way too big, including the Miata. Mine was a 2000 which was already much bigger than the original but the current ones are just way too big. That's not the point of a Miata.
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FWIW, the loneliness epidemic has taken place while college enrollment has increased. Which kind of implies that the college experience isn't really an antidote.
Phones shouldn't have an expectation of privacy if they're over analog lines as you have no control over the content once it leaves you. I, personally, think that they're both overreach but, legally, I think it's the difference between someone listening to a conversation you're having in a public park vs. one that you're having in your bedroom at home. If someone can hear me in a public park, that's on me as I clearly didn't put thought into how accessible I was. If someone can hear me in my bedroom, though, then I have to question the integrity of my home.

Encryption was specifically created to guarantee the integrity of an A->B interaction. If we're compelled to break that, then the whole system is no longer able to be trusted and its integrity is shot.
> Bootstrap trains Math teachers to use the curriculum. Again, the school doesn't have to hire a CS teacher.

My school decided to have random (STEM, mostly math) teachers teach computer science classes. It did not go well–not because the teachers were bad at teaching, per se, but because they had not had enough training. It turns out that you can't really learn to teach Java over the summer.
I obviously have no way of knowing but I would imagine a combination of: To keep the course "vocational", and relatively straightforward e.g. Working through CLRS wouldn't exactly be a walk in the park.

There is also a - annoying - confusion between programming and computer science, which is probably unavoidable but still gives the wrong idea as to what computer science actually is (Or isn't)
Pst, Moz and Mozilla are not the same thing.
> Build more towers.

Not always doable and never free.
I find this understanding unlikely.

One of the rules of EU is that you should as much as possible not treat foreign europeans any differently than national ones. So german, belgian, french, whatever content should pass the bar for local content anywhere in the EU.
My office recently knocked down a dorm room so that the team sitting in the corner could get some sunlight. Made the area so much more pleasant to work in.
Apple¹ and Mircosoft² are doing the same. Additionally anything that uses Chromium's trustlists (Vivaldi, Electron, etc) will also distrust old Symantec & co's certs.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208860
2: https://knowledge.digicert.com/alerts/ALERT2562.html

EDIT: Its also worth mentioning that this isn't just limited Symantec certs but also will include GeoTrust, thawte, & VeriSign certs. Symantec's cert business has now been taken over by DigiCert so there is a means for valid reassurance.

EDIT2: Also it will effect RapidSSL. Totally forgot about them.
At the same time, completely ignoring systemic effects and saying "it's no justification!" certainly isn't the most effective approach.

There must be some sort of practical balance that we can look for.
This is a common pattern with all good ideas. You start with some hard-won ideas and principles that make a lot of sense. The ideas resonate and so they get picked up by a broader and broader set of people. Before long you have second and third tier advocates who are heavy on the Dunning-Kruger effect and short on actual insight. Now you have tons of straw-men for wannabe thought-leaders to rip apart mercilessly.

I don't blame Eric Ries for staying out of this fray, there's little to be gained by battling the tidal wave diluting the core idea.
For all those that assert gov't is inefficient, and that businesses are better at optimization, then shifting equivalent public costs to private company scope should be an economic win.
When good shows are made, everyone wants to see them, and streaming services jump to offer them. There are a lot of examples of this working, such as Netflix buying Spain's "Money heist / la casa de papel", or german "Babylon Berlin", or belgian "Tabula Rasa".

Also Netflix is actually opening a European production hub thus investing in local culture the good way.
I pointed at the lack of source code as a starting point for proof of complete insecurity. I pointed at the ease of the existing protocols in active use as an example of that insecurity. That insecurity is the basis for Stingray fake towers. If you can fake the tower then the cellular modules can’t be much better.

I’m sure various agencies are quite frustrated by their inability to use the cellular modem as an entry point into Apple’s phones. That by itself is another pointer.

I didn’t claim to have proof other than that.
You know I might not. You may very well be right about that. However I really don't know, so I spoke to what I do know.
> This makes it extremely hard for French language films to compete.

This assumes some zero-sum level of media the public can support and that money is enough to control it. I don't believe in either of those things wrt the arts and patronage can come in many forms, but restricting amounts of art in any direction by fiat is wrong.
Like many of the other commenters, my point was that labeling yourself as broken and assuming the victim mindset is what's unhelpful.

Everyone has issues, literally everyone and understanding that it's normal and not what defines you is what's important. This allows you to acknowledge, embrace, and seek help if needed.
Working conditions are directly related to pay: they are paid less not because Amazon is going against the letter of the law on minimum wage but because the agencies providing the workforce use extortionate techniques.

They make sure not to hit work-hour thresholds to owe employees full benefits. In some areas, they demand that employees use a work-van to get there, and they have to pay the driver absurd amounts to use that “service”.

Working conditions are so dire that the temp workers can’t offer suggestion on working conditions, conditions that would help Amazon integrate better automation in their current system, and make paying workers more comfortably more sensical.

You can’t extract work problems from their context.
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The KL divergence is also called relative entropy. Unlike the ordinary entropy, relative entropy is invariant under parameter transformations. The maximum relative entropy principle generalises Bayesian inference. The distribution relative to which you're computing the entropy plays the role of the prior.

By the way, I find the following way to rewrite the entropy easier to understand because all quantities are positive:

sum(-p_i log(p_i)) = sum(p_i log(1/p_i)) = E[log(1/p_i)]

log(1/p_i) tells you how many bits you need to encode an event with probability p_i. The more unlikely the event, the more bits you need. The entropy is the expected number of bits you need.
This is the worst solution posed here. If we had no FCC, large companies would be thrown into an arms race to pump as much RF as possible into the air while smaller ones (radio stations, anybody?) would simply be drowned out and crushed.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does "BR" stand for?
Comparing Google's workforce to Amazon's is an apples-to-oranges comparison. The labor required at each is completely different.

Instead, compare Walmart to Costco: similar operations, same skills required of their workforce. Yet Walmart, which makes much more money than Costco, pays its employees wages that require many of them to rely on government assistance. And Costco provides not only living wages, it also provides benefits even to part-time employees. And it does it with much less money. Why should we be subsidizing Walmart's workforce, when we don't have to do the same for Costco's?
Question - how would this even work in small countries with limited local content? Is Netflix Latvia going to be just a small handful of movies/TV since they can only add 60% international content (aka a tiny part of their catalogue) to whatever few movies/TV get made locally?
Thanks, I hear Vancouver is beautiful. I'm planning on taking a west coast trip next summer so hopefully I'll be able to check Seattle out, along with Portland and SF, though I don't want to have to choose SF.
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Out of curiosity as an American looking to learn more about European cinema, which countries in continental Europe would you say produce the best movies?
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Damn socialists
It's the old HN shuffle: Flag controversial thread off the front page, mark unflagged as dupe of flagged/aged thread that can no longer surface.
Especially when they're talking about the AP exams given in American high schools.
The day I moved to Houston, I witnessed vehicle A attempt to merge into vehicle B’s lane multiple times in slow traffic on a 5 lane stretch of 610. Vehicle A finally pulled ahead and proceeded to pull 90 degrees across 3 lanes to stop traffic. The driver got out walked over to Vehicle B and started punching the window for about 30 seconds then got back in his car and proceeded with his day.

My neighbor later shrugged & commented “Welcome to Houston”
> For as much as the Democrats have been screaming about a need to return to civility

Democrats have not generally been screaming about a need to return to civility, they've been screaming about a need to return to estsblished substantive and procedural norms.

Republicans have been demanding civility as a means of deflecting the increasingly strenuous objections on those issues.
Ah, well, I was assuming that one already had the degree debt free.
Follow up question: Doesn't this just screw over Latvians by limiting their content over other European countries?
Something I would miss as a user is interoperability. There should be ways to read from/export to numpy arrays, pytables, PIL, OpenCV, ImageMagick, basically all the mentioned and widespread libraries so far.

(Edit: There is in fact: https://github.prideout.net/snowy/reference.html#load , haven't noticed, very good!)