skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Here in Brazil I remember Blockbuster having a fairly limited number of options, mostly the new releases."

This was exactly what Blockbuster was like in New York.

They focused on mainstream, mostly blockbuster movies (hence the name, maybe).

For a really good selection, you had to go to independent video rental stores, like Kim's Video in Manhattan, which had way, way, waaaay more movies available than any Blockbuster store I've ever been in could dream of. There were some other independent video rental stores scattered across NYC and Long Island with similarly good selections.

Also, Blockbuster movies were often cut or censored, so you had to go to an independent video rental store to find uncut films. I've heard some people dispute that Blockbuster ever carried such films, but I'm far from the only one who remembers this happening. Search around on the web, and you'll see others reporting the same thing.
Sigh. So where's your source that apprehensions ~= illegal entries? Intuitively it makes sense to me that more people get in than are caught, but I don't have data. Nor do I see how you can accurately count the number of people you didn't catch...
1.1 is 22 years old.
GPS satellites reset every 1,024 weeks; 2nd reset is this Saturday
He has use of his arms
Yes. I had seen the issue before but now it's fixed.
So, according to the Cities: Skylines wiki [0], cims who move into high-density residential areas are younger and less likely to procreate than cims who move into low-density residential.

That's an interesting way to differentiate them, but it's also something that's very specific to present-day America. And middle-class America, at that.

Kind of odd that Skylines is developed by a Finnish company and published by a Swedish one, given how US-centric that model is.

I've also written elsewhere in this thread about how Skylines doesn't have a concept of class stratification, either, and that's a problem: the only way to create neighborhoods with distinct class implications (e.g. the ghetto) is to use the RICO mod and plop buildings directly.

There's no real concept of medium-density, either: the closest it comes is to zone high-density and put it in a district with the High Rise Ban ordinance. Or, again, use RICO. Oh, and growables are limited to no more than 4x4 tiles... if you want bigger buildings (e.g. a sprawling suburban apartment complex), your only option is RICO.

[0] https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Zoning
It's true to me to a degree as well. There are streaming TV shows I'd like to take a look at but there is also a limit to how many services I'll subscribe to. At some point, I just say I can do without.
> People who live close enough to services get an additional happiness bonus for living close to the service on top of getting their needs fulfilled. The service still operates citywide...

I agree - and here is where things start getting indirectly complicated/irrealistic:

1) e.g. the ambulance or the garbage truck get deployed from the opposite part of the map and then they get into traffic and they needs ages until they reache the target location, which is when my citizen is already because of "natural" causes or was choked to death by garbage.

2) I honestly don't understand how living just next to a hospital should increase the property value. "Nearby", yes. "Next-to-it" no (noise & lights & people in weird situations targeting the hospital walking by all night long? Definitely not an area where I'd like to live, hehe...).
Another way to look at Second-Order thinking is whether someone can understand C pointers intuitively. Joel Spolsky once wrote that understanding pointers is an aptitude, and I believe he was right. It is the same concept as second-order thinking - being able to follow several layers of indirection. Recursion and regular expressions fall into this group as well. I find otherwise very bright individuals that don't have something in their brain that allows them to grasp these concepts. I think it is how the brain is wired, like good hand-eye coordination or fast memory recall (aka being witty). Just because your brain is good at one of those traits doesn't mean you are good at all of them.
You have basically implemented Erlang in Rust.
Some of those 'statistical models' can already play DOTA better than some of the best players in the world.
as an immigrant who came to the US with nothing and having held high paying software jobs for the past 20 years, I still find it unacceptable to drop $5 on lattes.

the reason has little to do with whether one can afford the $5 latte or not.

the $5 latte/day or multiple lattes as most of my Starbucks card toting colleagues go for even when we have gourmet free coffee in the office is a symptom of something else.

usually, it is a classic symptom of consumerism - and not having one’s overall finances in order. of not having a plan in place to save first and spend later.

when one drops $5/day on a latte when a 50c coffee at would do, one drops similar amounts on most everything else - an expensive shampoo instead of a basic one, branded shoes and clothes, ... and so on

at least that is where I find myself today - my habits have changed over the past two decades - from being able to find happiness in simplicity to getting addicted to consumerism.
They don't have HW support for VP8 - This makes a big difference in battery life, so I can understand why they don't support it.

From https://webkit.org/blog/8672/on-the-road-to-webrtc-1-0-inclu...

"We found that, on an iPhone 7 Plus in laboratory conditions, the use of H.264 on a 720p video call increases the battery life by up to an hour compared to VP8."

That said, they make their own chips. They could certainly add it to the iPhone n+1 if they were so inclined.
Don't think it was a jvm though, more like a cross-compiler.
He Bought the Fencing Coach’/
Seems reasonable to look more heavily on Latinos. Not that I agree with it but if your jobs success is determined by metrics, then you're gonna go for the lowest fruit. We're not that concerned with illegals from halfway around the world were concerned with the southern border, hence us building a wall just ok the south.

Again I don't agree but it's not hard to see why an agent would make that particular decision if they did.
And the much more stringent error checking, as I don't want a null pointer making my quad mow people down.
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>they're MASSIVE but they run just as well as any other native desktop app

Not for me. They're starting up long, UI is laggy. In comprasion to native IDE like Qt Creator they're really slow.
The quote about chemicals makes no sense because it's just promoting fear by association. Phosphine can be used for n-type doping of amorphous silicon layers during certain cell production processes. It never leaves the manufacturing site. It's not used or produced in any module recycling process. Hutzler is smearing solar technology because his institute aims to promote fossil fuels and fight "climate alarmism."

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/tag/climate-alarm...

I think that the point about 13.5 million tons of solar waste in China by 2050 is fine by itself. That's still orders of magnitude less waste than would be produced by sourcing equivalent electricity from coal. For comparison, Georgia's Plant Bowen alone has 21 million tons of coal ash sitting in unlined pits and leaching into the water:

https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed...

Reading the pie chart from the Sixth Tone article, it looks like about 3/4 of the solar waste material is aluminum, glass, and steel. Those all have efficient, long-established recycling processes. The polymer backsheets and encapsulants, silicon cells, and minor metals used in cell contacts and wiring (copper, silver) are more difficult to deal with because of their heterogeneous nature. The only valuable part of that ~3.375 million tons of heterogenous waste is the copper and silver content. Silicon is low-value and non-hazardous. The polymers need to be treated as plastic waste. Like most plastic waste, they can't be effectively recycled.
here you go https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
I assume that the Suze Ormans of the world would tell you to be not just pennywise but poundwise as well. The $5 latte is emblematic: once you start thinking about that $100 monthly expense, you sit and look at your $90 cable bill or your $200 car lease and think whether there are ways to cut back on that as well. The value of cutting out lattes is that it's easy to ask, on a regular basis, "is this making me $5 worth of happy?", whereas a big car payment you can more easily justify as "I need it to get where I'm going", even though a cheaper vehicle could do just as well.

I agree it's more efficient to start with the big expenses and work your way down, but it's sometimes easier, especially if you're just starting to turn your finances around, to start with the little stuff and build your way up.
>I have wondered if maybe Hollywood is over-represented by LGBT persons (not that it's a bad thing) and thus gay screenwriters/investors/producers are of course going to include their own stories in the things they create.

I don't know about being "over-represented," but I don't think it's unreasonable that there is a newer generation of LGBT writers and showrunners interested in writing the sort of stories that represent them, or that they never got to see when they were younger and struggling with their identity. That's not an agenda so much as writing what you know, though.

And let's not beat around the bush - if all a show wanted was token representation, "teenage lesbian" is the most palatable form it can take in a heteronormative, male-dominant culture.
Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed
Miracles are not the root of why I consider Christianity to be rational. They're a possibility; a side-effect, not a proof.

One of the foundational arguments I have is - our existence. We have no business being here, the mass we're made of, the energy we use, the time we experience, the big bang that started it all, the heat death that is coming, the couple-dozen constants that make our reality possible, and the very credible answer to it all found from one tiny nation in which one man claims to be God, and more perplexingly, does the exact opposite of what any other man claiming to be God would do - rather than climbing to the top, he surrenders his life and dies. The unexpected answer to the thousands of accounted years of animal sacrifices that the Tanak was pointed to. Despite being written over thousands of years by dozens of authors, the Bible is consistent in its message.

I'm simply leaving the possibility of their being more than nature open and finding that opening filled. That's part of why I find it rational.
This is a great point - there's going to be a lot of used lithium car batteries available x years after electric cars go big, and I don't know of any better use for them than grid storage. So it seems like those will be priced at their value for grid storage. Which means that once there's a sufficient supply, they will almost inevitably become a major force in grid storage.
Where can I learn more about this perspective on OOP? I would really like to understand it in a way which is orthogonal to FP. In particular, do you think this perspective allows you to write better code in "multi-paradigm" languages that claim to support both FP and OOP? (I'm specifically thinking of Scala and OCaml here.) I have always felt that languages that try to do both end up being worse as a result, but maybe if I could understand the two concepts in orthogonal perspectives then I could make it work.
> Netflix, Comcast, Amazon Prime and other video streaming service charge you the same as the DVD rental, but force you to watch the entire video within 48 hours from 1st starting it.

I haven't encountered this behavior in Netflix; under what circumstances are you experiencing it?

EDIT: A cursory search informed me that this seems to apply to viewing streaming movies which have been downloaded to a device and watched while offline. The expiration timer is reset when the viewing device has a WAN connection. I guess this is a mechanism to discourage hoarding a large number of movies, then cancelling your subscription? Not sure.
When the federal government comes asking for your help, I think it's pretty normal for people to provide that help.

It depends on whether you are in a demographic that believes law enforcement is just or corrupt.

I’ve told my sons if they ever get questioned by the police to not say a word until I get there. Even if they don’t have anything to hide.

I’ve told them how to react when they get stopped by the police and always keep their emotions under control. I’ve told them never to expect fair treatment. All of my paranoia is backed by statistics.
Would be cool to see more up front in the privacy policies/terms in conditions (or, source even) to get assurances that an app that can access all my browsing data is only doing so when I actively enable it (e.g., for the video I'm watching).
More recognizable in casual use might be “ad infantum", which I think is grammatically correct but I don't Latin much.
that's exactly what I said. Approx 70k per month comes out to approx 840k per year. THATS ONLY THE ONES WHO GOT ARRESTED. You can assume less than half got away without being arrested and you get a number that passes a million.
But it can become known/popular much faster, I would assume.
Check out https://www.getflowlingo.com - you can upload any epub and get translations when necessary to help you practice with a book.

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and while they don't update chips, they could just allow the user to give their batteries to see the content if they choose to. So condescending to limit user agency like that.
> so one of the main benefits of Rust is irrelevant

Not sure what you mean with this comment. Even in a context like this, Rust has a lot of safety benefits, but yes you don't have access to the stdlib, and are restricted to core.
i.reddit.com (the old mobile site) doesn't have a single advertisement for the app, and still seems to work pretty well (although videos will redirect you back to the new site).
I wish we have this rule in the US. So many times I start getting spam from random companies that after closer look it turns out they are owner of some servicev I signed up years ago.
Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology
If any other revenue generating entity was bringing in $4500/hr of labour, it'd be rapidly scaled up and funded to capture the maximum possible upside... crazy how that doesn't happen here.
Asking "can modern monetary theory work" is sort of like asking "can I recreationally use heroin and not get addicted". The answer to both of these questions is yes, in theory both are possible. But look at the realities of these situations.

Historically governments that primarily paid for services by printing money (as opposed to taxes) have rarely, if ever, done so responsibly. In theory it's possible but MMT lacks the economic pushback caused by taxes. Traditionally, when government spending is too high people and businesses complain and the government sees the economy suffering. In MMT, the costs of government spending are essentially hidden. Or in another perspective, the cost of government spending comes in the form of inflation. To the everyday person, government spending is free because they don't see how much of their paycheck is being sent to the government. They only see the cost of government spending once their savings are wipes out by inflation.

Could the government maintain restraint and not spend much money? In theory yes, but in practice I am very confident politicians would give in to the temptation to try and carry out utopian policies that are insanely expensive. Just look at what proponents of MMT are promising: a government job for everyone that wants one, free University education, and more. I trust politicians not to abuse MMT as much as I would trust myself to use heroin responsibly, which is to say not at all.
A lot of proof-of-concept code renders to memory (and putpixel becomes screen[y*width+x]=pixel) and then saves the memory to a graphics file. If you've already been motivated to work with graphics you probably already know how to save a PNG file. If you have ImageMagick you can even render to a raw, uncompressed, non-standard graphics file and describe the format of the file in the 'display' command when you want to view the file. Also standard formats like BMP and TGA can be pretty easy to use without a library.
What's the selection of Redbox DVD's at grocery stores like? I have a hard time believing it's anywhere close to Netflix's extensive DVD selection.

Also, Netflix has various plans: you could rent one DVD at a time, two DVDs at a time, three DVDs at a time (and maybe more). If you have three DVDs out at a time, and watch one DVD per day and mail it DVDs back as you watch them, you won't have to wait long before your next DVD arrives in the mail, possibly while you're still watching the rest.

In my own experience, watching a DVD per day is pretty ambitious. Odds are you'll be watching way less than that, and there'll be multiple days between watching DVDs, in which case waiting for your next DVD to arrive in the mail won't realy make any difference.
One of the possible benefits of the increasing use of refrigeration in the United States during the early 1900's was a rapid decrease in the stomach cancer rate, which appears to be largely due to the decreasing use of nitrate-based salts for meat preservation. Stomach cancer was the leading cause of US cancer mortality in 1930. The stomach cancer death rate dropped by a factor of 2 from 1930 to 1950 and kept on dropping until it is now about one-tenth of the 1930 rate and isn't even in the top-ten list for cancer mortality. In countries where highly salted foods are still prevalent (e.g. Japan and South Korea), stomach cancer remains a leading cause of cancer death in spite of the increased use of refrigeration.
Why is Piedmont a separate city from Oakland?
I don’t want to live in that world.

The natural result of this is then everyones rights would constantly be violated. Police would ask and every company would roll over and give out any info that is requested. And when we talk about personal information getting out, the damage is sort of done once it happens. And your only recourse is to then sue the government or get your state AG to possibly do it for you?

If you want to operate a business that takes personal information, it is your responsibility to protect it. Nobody is forcing anyone to start a business but there are inherent risks.
Pretty much stopped using reddit and found other things to do. Still go back of course but if they're gonna make my exp shitty for more money then I'll take my attention elsewhere. Plus it's helped me realize how shitty reddit has become anyway :/
Are you seriously asking me for evidence of my claim that homophobia is a big problem? Do you need similar evidence of racism being a big problem?
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It's not victim blaming to say saving money on discretionary purchases might improve your financial status and therefore quality of life. This is true regardless of disability status, life situation, etc. If you don't think that's the case, and the discretionary purchase is worth the cost to you, then the advice doesn't apply and you can ignore it.
I really wonder if the missionaries hadn't "worked out" they were religious, or if they were misrepresenting it to HQ in order to work their way into the local groups?

If you fight against the tattoos, you lose out. If you accept the tattoos, then you can make friends and still sell religion - which clearly worked in the end :)
I really should get a Blu-Ray drive and start getting doing Redbox or Netflix delivery for movies.. I'm pretty unsatisfied with the quality of almost every streaming service. They are basically optimizing the bitrate and encoding for the worst they can while keeping people from screaming about it. I'm frequently shocked how terrible the quality of Youtube movie trailers are..

Used VUDU when it first came out and recall being super impressed with its quality though. They have an HDX subscription that uses double+ the bitrate as their HD apparently..
We have more income inequality here lately than in The Gilded Age. Lots of middle earners are being squeezed by a combo of high medical costs, high housing costs and high transportation costs because it's nigh impossible to live without a car for many Americans.

This is why we have expressions like "The 99 Percent" -- because a stable, secure middle class lifestyle that you can reliably build a secure future upon has largely gone extinct.

If we are going to find a way out of this mess, it won't be by acting like "The 99 Percent" need to stop being undisciplined slobs pissing away potential trust funds for their children because they spend too much on coffee.

When millionaire rock stars end up in rehab for the umpteenth time, we don't try to insist they don't deserve to be wealthy. They just need to make the right noises about how drugs are bad and they are working on it, but, wow, it is hard to beat an addiction.

When poor (say, homeless) people have an addiction, the narrative is always that their poverty is due to moral failing and they just need to try a little harder, have some self discipline and quit the drugs.

Even when the drug is just overpriced caffeine.
It could very much be a function of town size, and year. There was always a prominent and large section dedicated to recent releases but once you wandered off into Sci Fi or Action or Horror, there were a lot of classics and quite a few B movies available.

It's important to keep in mind that there are some Dark Patterns in Netflix to try to fool you into thinking there is more back inventory than there really is. And now they've started flipping the cover art even in My List every time you wrap around. If it happened once in a while I'd think they were A/B testing on different cover art to see what happens, but the fact it happens in your List and every time you navigate is pretty damned sketchy.

Also as someone else complained, their UI has sucked sucked sucked for a while now. I think the only reason people don't complain is that Hulu has somehow created one that's substantially worse. Honestly the whole management chain for the UI team at Hulu should be fired. How that abomination survived so many approvals is shocking.
Reading Nietzsche is like breathing in cold mountain air. Some people can handle the cold, others can't. He's not for everyone, as he makes it intentionally clear.

He was a stark individualist that put into question a lot of the building blocks of liberal democracy, such as the notion that all men are equal. I don't agree with all of what he puts forth but he is without a doubt one of the most dynamic and influential thinkers of the 19th century and still relevant to read even today.

If you're interested in reading him, start with Twilight of the Idols and Beyond Good and Evil. If you like those two then you can delve into some of his other work such as the Antichrist, On the Geneaology of Morals, Human, All Too Human, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Copyright is different in many respects from ownership of tangible assets. You and I can both read the works of Shakespeare at the same time (with millions of other people) with no conflicts, but only so many people can 'use' a house at the same time.

The original point of copyright was to encourage creators to create (if their creations could be immediately 'used' for free by others, they would have much less reason to create in the first place). It has little public value otherwise.