skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentive structures around US education look perverse and horrible.

Consider the amount of money locked up in the major American institutions [0]. It just seems improbable that the money is going to be well managed in a system where literally sitting around all day talking about philosophy is an accepted, hopefully encouraged, activity. In that environment the words 'well managed' lose all meaning, the only metric is results a generation or two after the fact.

Then there are the people who go into the system; people who reasonably were born into a wealthy family, went through a good educational institute, learned at a good university then spent a great deal of effort pushing thorough to a professorship. There are going to be many individuals who are completely buffered from having real-world experience in an environment where safety is not guaranteed. Furthermore, the population of a university campus is going to have a large portion of clever but underdeveloped and inexperienced students floating around in it.

So there is an environment where the administration has every incentive to become corrupted by money and the faculty have no guide-rails to prevent the formation of really disconnected world views. It is a testimony to the raw drive and intelligence of the people involved that it all hangs together at all.

There are more Americans being processed through environment [1]. Talking about the conditions of the professorship is an important facet, but it is not wise to isolate that from its place in the greater system - the direction is that most people are going to be university educated and the overall system probably doesn't have the sort of governance structure that can cope with this slow influx.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai...
Too many years are passed, but as far as I remember, only C code was portable between 8, 16, and 32 bit platforms. It was possible to incrementally convert program from assembler to C and then port to different platforms, but it was not possible to do conversion using Pascal, or other programming language.
I think you may be responding to something that I didn't write, because I absolutely never suggested that NetFlix is lying or tricking you.

It's just a matter of fact that, for various (many) reasons, people will get 720p streams. Some of these people are paying $3/month for "Premium" with "Ultra HD" and simply do not notice that they are not getting 4K streams. NetFlix would probably rather keep the $3/month, the alternative would be to educate their users about why they are are not getting 4K (can your TV handle it? can your playback device handle it? are they connected correctly? are they configured correctly? do you have sufficient bandwidth? are there problems with your ISP? does your device have the right DRM?) and this is both time-consuming and likely to create a bit of a support nightmare.
> Fact Checking Tesla's "Impact Report"

> It's no surprise that the electric automaker is having a positive environmental impact, so why does it need to exaggerate the good and gloss over the bad?

I have a similar view of this article as this article has of Tesla: Why does it need to exaggerate the bad and gloss over the good?

The only hard number it criticizes is the number Tesla used for the average mileage of the US fleet (25.4 vs 22) - nevermind that the higher efficiency would work in their favour: it would mean that the same number of Tesla vehicles displaces a larger number of ICE-vehicles.

Oh, and the author doesn't like that the report includes both the to-date solar electricity generated by Solarcity (13.25 TWh) and the to-date electricity used to charge Tesla fleet (5.26 TWh).

There's lots to criticize about Tesla, but this article doesn't do a great job of it, in my personal opinion.
They were touting in their new quartely results that they didn't think they were seeing any lasting consequential negative effects from raising the price again. Which is another way of saying to Wall Street that investors can count on Netflix to hit subscribers in the US again in the next year or two.

Negative $380 million in cash flow in the quarter (vs negative $287m last year), persistently worsening quarter after quarter, year after year. I can't decide who has the worse business model, Netflix or Uber. Their entire business hinges on the ability to hit US consumers with ever higher fees for ever less content.

Either $14 or $15 is where I unsubscribe permanently from Netflix, unless they want to give me a much larger traditional movie library to go with the perma hikes.
I think this reason is very valid. R has warts and issues, but RStudio and Tidyverse authors have shown that R is an expressive language for building coherent DSLs that users love.
Abstractive summarization not yet working (like text generation in chatbots), extractive is ok and better done with RNN/BERT/something else neural network based, that's all you need to know.
It's pretty rare that I watch a movie on Netflix these days. I pay for the original content they produce and some of the documentaries that end up there. For my purposes, there is enough content along these lines to justify the expense. Once in a blue moon I see a movie there that I want to watch, but I consider that a bonus.
The article claims Tesla is incorrect when they say that "the average ICE vehicle gets around 22 MPG", and counters with EPA stats showing that the average fuel economy of all vehicles in the US is 24.9 MPG.

But these aren't the same thing.

The set "all vehicles in the US" contains both ICE vehicles _and_ hybrid/battery-powered EVs. But Tesla is explicitly only talking about ICE vehicles, and Tesla doesn't specifically indicate whether they're talking only about US ICE vehicles or all ICE vehicles worldwide.

I'm not sure what the source is for Tesla's number, and it's entirely possible it's inaccurate, but The Drive's counter-argument makes an apples vs. oranges comparison.
My bad, I missed that this thread was just on the notifications section.
At this point it's understood that Netflix is a service for watching Netflix original content. Anything on top of that is a bonus, and may not be around a month later.
I really like the idea of encouraging health in any form.

But it seems that when the health care systems feed you green jello, white bread and skippy peanut butter sandwiches when you are sick isn't a system worth solely relying upon to guide us.

Also, it seems percentage wise, the best results for the investment should be on extreme health risk areas. (like help people quit smoking)
To my knowledge you don't need nepotism to get good jobs in STEM or high paying professions like dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, medicine, or law (well, actually in law if you are only a mediocre graduate nepotism can help a lot).
obvious data harvesting
well yes, but DoD is basically an aberration in the labor market from an economics perspective.

First you have to overcome the moral barrier problem to get people to work there these days (resulting in higher conditions for those who do)

Then you have the fact that its products are not easily measurable in terms of consumer utility or organisational profit/ utility, and its own budget/demand side is not based directly on consumer choice, competition or revenue.

DoD has a specific unique position in most of our cultures and market, and its conditions cannot and should not be extrapolated to other parts of economic life/debate unless you can also bring those other aspects of defense which make its particular environment possible (Which is generally neither possible nor desirable).
Chrome, IntelliJ, Blender, RHEL, AOSP. Anyway, if he had restricted his argument to "polished software is hard with an open source business model" then I wouldn't be posting an unimpressed comment. Instead, the argument centers around Mathematica being a special case.
The simplest place to start, in my opinion, is [0]. If you understand that, then the fact that types are propositions and proofs are values of those types seems pretty obvious.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Heyting%E2%80%...
I’m not stating anything other than this website is owned by Time, inc. Time, inc owners is currently on several boards for the oil and gas industry.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.a...
Nice article about data consistency. While I don't believe its a hard problem, It can easily trip you up and cause developers to have to spend time figuring it out. Nice article.

About the picture of the office - every time I see developers use laptops I cringe a bit. They are always hunched over in the most uncomfortable looking poster because the keyboard is attached to the screen. I would recommend buying another keyboard and attaching it to the laptop so that you have more degrees freedom to adjust your viewing angle. You'll thank me in 20 years.
Someone else can find the source, but Netflix themselves have stated that the lions share of viewing on their platform is aimed at TV shows, so it doesn't surprise me that they haven't invested in quality (and expensive) movies. Why would they if no one is watching them?
I'm in a position where at one time in history it would have been a Grand Good Idea to go off and do a Phd in Computer Science. (When I was a student, I remember a bunch of guys who were at my age / stage that did.)

In that past age of the world long gone... I could have advanced the state of a science in dire need of advancement, I could have done really interesting cool stuff, I could have landed a lectureship and maybe a professorship. I could have written a book or two. I could have even received industry funding to do all this.

These days? Do a Phd in Comp Sc? You're joking.

I'd be in debt up to my ears, no guarantee of a better job at the end, endless academic horseshit in between, and your expected gain from the book is less than from cleaning toilets.

Then we wonder why the state of Computer Science as a Science is what it is.
Well, it depends on your definition of "real"...

The market certainly distinguishes replicas from originals, even in situations such as you describe. For example, modern replicas of 19th century firearms can be 10x cheaper than the originals, even if they are perfect reproductions down to materials used. So, whatever the reason, people do care on average.
Sorry, blame state governments the past 2-3 decades. They've mostly been doing budget cuts and things similar to prop 13. College is viewed as discretionary, vs. cutting k-12 when there's not enough state money to go around, so it's taken much of the hit. That means less tenured faculty. You can vote your preference in your state elections next time.
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I don't think its overplayed, rather re-emphasized over the years using business terms instead though.
> “triggering users emotional responses and luring them into internet arguments”

Oh yeah?! Well... YOU'RE an internet argument!
The state of computer science is actually very advanced if you assume the purpose of science is to get people to click on ads.
Yes they do give you a public IP but don't have static IPs.
The problem isn't the top, but the long tail: where can we legally find the greatest directors films from the world that aren't blockbusters.
~$10/month is still ridiculously cheap for what they offer. One single show in their catalog you like will probably make it worth it. They can still raise prices by a LOT before people stop being interested.
From what I could see from the Soli page, all the video showed people with arms in the air not resting on anything. OK, there’s one quick shot of a resting arm at 3min 36sec on the longer video.

But all this is irrelevant to the original issue, which is specifically about large-scale arm-based movements as exemplified by Minority Report. I can’t see how those, specifically, can ever be practical.

> I’m getting tired of repeating myself.

Repeating what? I asked you upthread if you had seen any gesture-based interfaces which avoided the gorilla arm problem, and you did not answer.

> No affiliation with Google or Soli.

(Yes, I can see that. I apologize for asking, implying you might have been, when I could easily have looked it up. I deleted the question from my text.)

> I keep repeating it because you seem to to be hung up with the extended arm motion and “gorilla arm”

Well, you’re the one who specifically wanted “a Minority Report interface”. Which I can’t see ever being practical. Google Soli, perhaps, if used in the small, like you describe, with armrests. Maybe. But not Minority Report or Jarvis.

> MIT has done some gesture UI work

From what I can tell, that work looks like it’s all 10 years old. Also, from what I have seen in the past, all efforts like those are essentially about creating nifty-looking models for interaction (with stunning visuals and huge wow-factors), and not ergonomic interactions made to be used for any length of time. Indeed, the entire “gorilla arm” jargon term was entirely about how people simply forgot about how different something is if you’re using it for doing real work for 4 hours as opposed to doing a 5 minute demo (or, as it were, a two-minute movie scene).
There are thousands of them in India.
“ Tesla also compares crash statistics for Autopilot which, in addition to the comparative distortions mentioned above, is only supposed to be used on divided highways that are about twice as safe as non-divided roads.”

This statement about Autopilot is flatly incorrect. AP has worked on every road and street I have driven on for at least a year without caveat. I’m not sure where he gets the “supposed to” from, but I have never seen such warning, nor does the car itself seem to have any significant problems navigating non-divided roads.

This is a terrible article that smacks of fear-lingering.
Her % would be the same as Jeff Bezos at pre-IPO
Wonderful book, read it years ago, and read Grahams Common List the Language, and before that the little lisper, and before that ansi Common Lisp. I don't remember very few of any of those books but hopefully something beneficial remains.
Yeah could be the antenna or something else that is making the difference.
Yeah don't worry you'll be paying that for the same Netflix you have now within the next 5-10 years.
You are looking at IoT the same way some folks looked at the internet and smartphone at its inception.
Demographics will change and so will the perception of people. It is possible that IoT will help refrigerators be less energy intensive depending on the produce inside, that heaters in cars and homes will turn on only when a family member is arriving at home, that food will be heated before you arrive home. The list of possibilities go on and on. The individual/companies will have to decide the amount they will trade for the IoT benefits they get.
link to the book - https://amzn.to/2IpTNw2

Going to read it. thanks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?...
Except their top streamed show is The Office which isn't a Netflix original. Nor is Parks and Rec or 30rock or A.D., etc., which all get plenty of views. https://www.recode.net/2018/12/21/18139817/netflix-most-popu...
their catalog keeps shrinking... soon they will only host what they produce... but even if I pay for Netflix and something I want to watch is available on Netflix, I download it from some other sources, most of the time.
Philosophically I would disagree that lying assumes malice. We don't really have a word in english to describe "lying without malice", and I suspect the reason why is because we don't recognize a significant enough difference between them to warrant its own word.
> posts from the individuals I have selected, interleaved in chronological order

You have just described an algorithm, I believe.
depends on what you call a good job: 6 figures as a grunt or 7-8 figures as an "entrepreneur."
Huh. So I wonder if some stone from the Temple of Jupiter got recycled into that basillica. And then into that Romanesque cathedral. And finally into Notre Dame. It seems pretty likely, from what I remember reading about other cathedrals.

This rebuilding would be a great opportunity to document that.
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SQL joins,
SQL aggregates,
Table schema modifications and which ones lock tables,
Transactions,
Indexing,
Replication
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Disney+ has the potential to seriously hurt Netflix, at least in the US.

I currently go through phases of Netflix and Amazon Prime. Once Disney+ launches, I can see us moving to Disney+ while keeping the Amazon Prime. Not 100% sure, but it's likely.
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Interesting idea. Paying for the service/hosting could be a problem, but is not insurmountable if users take on moderation.
Automated house construction certainly seems like a possibility once it costs less than just paying someone to do it.
Blockbuster is irrelevant. They had to pay for real estate and retail employees, and had a much better selection. Streaming is a completely different business.

Netflix disks are a better comp. They cost the same as streaming does and while the selection is far better, the limited capacity is far worse for most people.

The real competition will probably end up being piracy, eventually. Netflix streaming is getting worse content. And if this decline continues, piracy will become much more favorable.
Interesting tangent: the correct demonyms are either Afghan or Afghanistani. Afghani is their currency.
wouldn't it be incredibly easy for this kind of system to be abused by opposing cliques? erroneous mob reporting is already common enough, giving aggrieved parties the ability to do cumulative damage to someone seems like it would only amplify that behavior.

>Instead they rely solely on blacklisting

twitter has implemented very heavy handed throttling as well in order limit the reach of users deemed unsavory. whether this is a good thing or not is up for debate.
in some sense i wonder if these networks have simply become too generalized to be moderated effectively in a manner that satisfies all of the different facets of the userbase.
I’ve watched all the movies on there that I was remotely interested in. Once in a while a new one comes on, but most of the movies are crappy ones.
In the vast majority of the country outside major west coast metro areas and corridor from NoVa to Boston, 6 figures is a pretty good job
> I remember being delighted by all the weird stuff it came with, including a small packet of fuzz, and other artifacts from the story. I didn’t know why they were in the box but it was weird and that appealed to me.

These were called "Feelies", and they were there as an awesome form of copy protection. They provided hints that were necessary to win the game. Often the hints were subtle (what exactly was that fuzz for?) and were puzzles in themselves. Sometimes they were completely obvious (a paper map revealing the room with a secret door, a translation guide). You'd usually realize when you needed them.

This was an awesome and creative way to copy-protect the games. Many people who pirated them found the games impossible to complete, and it was often because they didn't have the feelies to provide critical clues. Even with them, most of the games were very hard.

Infocom games are timeless. The writing is better than anything today. They're creative and challenging. How many companies today would release a game that most of the purchasers would be unable to complete?
Whenever I see "Fact Check" I think Hillary.
Good job Hillary.
No doubt there is profound racism that the housing issue is bundled with. Does that mean there isn't a problem stemming from high amounts of foreign capital of any source?
2010 document.
Or paying 4x price for 4x services that have more content in aggregate.
> Readers will never, ever pay. That's not sustainable and you need them to attract posters.

You guys on HN keep saying this.

I keep paying. I pay for the local newspaper that I disagree wildly with. I pay for one of the big national ones (that I could mostly read for free anyway). I pay for Spotify, for Linux magazines, a couple of donations to the Guardian and sometimes I pay for Netflix as well (rarely have time to watch and they "forget" to copy half their content to European servers.) In addition I've supported Wintergatan on YouTube lately.

I could even pay more if it wasn't that almost every newspaper and what not seems obsessed with the subscription idea, I cannot subscribe to all of you but I'd be happy to pay 1/4, 1/2 or even $1 for a single story that I want to read.

Am I alone? Is everyone else so "smart" to sit back with their adblockers, torrent clients and what not and just complain about how it seems to get worse?
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30 Rock wasn't on Netflix anymore, last I'd checked.
Part of the problem is often people want a specific thing. If I want to listen to a specific song, Spotify almost always has it. If I want to watch a specific movie...
That's incredible! How is each robot getting so much grip to pull that much weight with those tiny legs hitting the ground?
It's definitely possible to build small rooms with power and a single exterior wall for very cheap. Usually you can rent a storage unit in most cities for ~$30/month.

Personally I'd be happy living in something like that. I spend most of my free time in coffee shops/parks/bars anyway and usually take a shower at the gym. I just want a place sleep and keep a few things.
PhDs in CS don't accumulate debt, as they're paid to do it (I bought a house while doing my PhD), are in huge demand and have no trouble getting relevant industry jobs. I don't see what you're seeing at all.
"That increasing tendency to embrace methods and models for their own sake rather than because they can help us answer substantively important questions is, I believe, a misstep for the field. This trend is in part the result of the otherwise normal and productive workings of science, but it is also reinforced by less legitimate motives, particularly organizational self-interest and the particularities of our intellectual culture."

Perhaps they are becoming another tribe of the Econ, as described by Dr. Leijonhufvud is his 1973 essay 'Life among the Econ' - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1465-7295....

edit - here's the full text, unpaywalled - https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/ax...
That tiny convenience would likely come at the monumental cost of a single corporation toll-boothing all content and monopolizing the production industry with divine levels of clout.
Yes, that is correct. It's been a very long time since I studied statistics, so I'm not sure if the variance of a mean has the same confidence interval as the mean. I suspect not. So you would indeed need to have a very large number of samples to get good error bars. It's a good point which I hadn't really considered. However it will never really get that far anyway because hopefully you'll intervene before the long tail hits you.

I think those really long tails are more of a problem when you are working with "features" that are much longer. If you have 1 day stories and you've been working on the story for a whole week, you know you have a massive problem. It's time to back up and see if there is a way to break it up, or to do it differently.

If you have a feature that is a month, by the time you get to 5 months, you have so much capital invested in the original plan that it's very hard (politically) to say, "Nope... this isn't working out. Let's try something else". Of course, it is very hard to get your organisation to plan to a 1 day level of granularity.
It's not even a traditional vending machine. It's three super automatic espresso machines, hooked up to probably an arduino or something. A 1970s coffee vending machine would be cheaper.