skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Searching for Atlantis is as non-crazy as it has been for even longer.

I'm pretty sure that Atlantis was found a long time ago.

As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_hypotheses_of_Atlanti... summarizes, the historical evidence of Atlantis is in Plato. And if we assume an easy to make factor of 10 misreading of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Plato's description fits the known destruction of Minoan civilization by the Theran volcano.

Yeah, not as glamorous as space aliens. But it fits all known evidence, including archeological.
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Netflix the once great hope, the central video store, the one-stop-shop-for-movies is now just a channel.

prime, another channel.

disney's thing, another channel.

so, if this is now the norm, what is the next next thing that will "disrupt" these old guard?
"Here we have a climatologist, and for balance, someone who believes the Earth is a computer simulation, and another who is certain it's flat and was created by the Illuminati who are alien lizards."
If by impact you mean the very very very few AP crashes
Oh you mean "do some yoga" (F500) won't help?

Paint me surprised!
> I worked at Blockbuster toward the end of their run, it was about $4-7 dollars for a single rental. Current streaming rentals on Amazon range from $4-8 as well.

Blockbuster at that price isn't a great example. Redbox Blu-rays are $2.12. I live in an area with a relatively low population density and there are three Redbox machines within short driving distance. Each with a solid selection of new releases (Aquaman, Glass, The Mule, Into the Spider-verse, Green Book et al.). Redbox has ~34,000 locations.
More like AR, if you can run a computationally complex AR environment in the cloud and stream it in realtime to thin client devices it reduces the requirements for portable glasses etc.
I watch some movies on there, and it's mostly because I find that Netflix has the smoothest streaming even when my internet isn't great. But it's really about the shows, and even that is taking some serious hits.

I love that I have the Office on demand always, but that used to be true about It's Always Sunny, which is no longer there. So I can't even trust that the shows I keep Netflix around for will still be there. Including their original content like the Marvel stuff. Nothing is a safe bet to stay on Netflix.
I'd argue that their product is credentialing.

If the product is actually education, there exists an opportunity to take all of these underpaid but overtrained adjuncts and all of these overcharged but undertrained students, match them up together, and put all existing universities out of business.

If the product is actually research, there exists an opportunity to take all of these underpaid adjuncts, hire them in a private research lab, and profit from their discoveries.

The fact that neither of these business models appears to be viable indicates that the true product is something adjuncts can't provide by themselves: social signaling.
same for me, but that's beginning to get tiring. most tv shows I am already caught up on or dont want to currently move forward in, and I do not want to commit to a new tv show just yet. sometimes I just want to watch a quick movie and be done with it, but that's very hard to do on netflix these days
The other problem is that netflix physical had both a better catalog and better quality so digital is a massive regression for them. Their physical system was a hack that exploited existing systems (retail pricing for dvds, cheap postal service) so it was too good to last but it is disappointing to see products regress.
It's common knowledge among PhD track and Post Docs, but that's the group after they've been scammed... the dreamers stay for the adjunct positions and perpetuate the oversupply and perception of possible demand.

It's a bit like the people who get scammed on Amazon by highly rated products that don't exist, but fail to rate/return or buy again anyway. There's more suckers born every minute.
I don't care. If I buy an electric car, it will be because it goes faster than a petrol car.

Get ready for the dated South Park reference.
There is enough smug people who like to smell their own farts.
Why would you pick cursive over print? Making kids practice cursive is insane enough to me; making them only learn cursive is a virtual non sequitur.
>I don't mean that in a bad way. Rather, I don't think it's in our best interest for any single company to own the entire catalog that would appease these demographics.

Well, best best interest would probably involve mandatory, open-to-all-interested-parties licensing terms/fees in order to enjoy copyright protection, and outlawing vertical integration of end viewer distribution with production. Also I'd like a pony.
A gentle introduction to text summarization using a python NLP library.
You can do GPGPU stuff via WebGL, right?
Why don't I have a home-based line? Are routers illegal now or something? Are the receivers locked down and proprietary? Is someone taking my computer away?
You can also enter Cucumber-developer double jeopardy where you need to meet with the PM for an hour to write Cucumber specs, and then meet with the QA for an hour to implement them.

When you could have just written a simple integration test in 15 minutes, but the Scrum master thought Cucumber would be a good idea.
True, but Netflix competes with nobody who can offer that either. And Netflix's coffers clearly aren't losing to piracy.

And, if you look at piracy for the lay person, it's not all that attractive. You have to somehow be able to sift through the bullshit streaming and torrent websites will throw at you. Somehow click the right links along the way that don't dead-end in a fake paywall or ad. And after torrenting something, you might get a scary letter from your ISP which happened to my sister in Austin with Comcast.
I think they're implying that you use a Python web framework and server-side rendering.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Mathematica is quite big in scope already, but then there's "The Wolfram Language" which is a f!%ing big vision of the world. Take a close look at it some time. Not to mention the audacity of "A New Kind of Science"! Whatever you may rightly accuse Steven Wolfram of, thinking small is not* one of his faults.
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> Why is this a bad thing - I'm genuinely curious?

First of all I admire you for finishing a Master's and PhD while working.

I personally think about going back to school all the time (I didn't finish undergrad) but am pretty confident that if I do I would want to go full time.

My reason is just that working full time is exhausting and I can't imagine being able to give 100% to my studies if I'm also constantly fatigued from work.

I certainly still am able to learn new things after working, but compared to when I was focused on school completely I learn at a much slower pace. There's a lot of cognitive overhead in having to context switch, at least for me personally.
> You've got a good product

They have a product their buyers like, but the car doesnt have buttons or a center console. "Good" is in the eye of the beholder.

Tesla has a weird situation that despite a product that breaks often and doesn't have niceties, their customers have a high satisfaction.
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Sometimes it shows me stuff from users I've blocked, which I find really irritating.
This can be done voluntarily in the bill at the time it's written. If you want to make it compulsory, it'd need to be a city charter amendment, a state constitutional amendment, or a federal constitutional amendment. Doing something like this doesn't just magically happen. It's in fact a kind of law that would be much harder to pass than it just being what it is, which is sometimes used and sometimes not used, on a case by case basis.
The Netflix DVD catalog is still pretty good although less so than it used to be. Your local library is one option. A la carte from iTunes and Amazon is another. Or, as a last resort, buying off Amazon or a more specialist selling site. By and large, if something is available on DVD (or VHS), you can probably buy it for a semi-reasonable sum.
Which is ironic, as one of those two videos has a specific section about it legally not being defamation. The Indian courts granted an ex parte injunction against pewdiepie though because he didn’t show up in court in India.
Just booked a flight. Price between two major carriers was about the same. One was a Boeing, the other Airbus. Guess who got my business?
True. Even better is flying for the airlines and taking a reserve flying gig to get the reserve retirement. Wasn’t for me.
It is bad, but I’ve seen one worse: metacritic. That site is hot garbage.
What's sad is I happily pay for HBO Now at a $15 price tag, but Netflix wanting 13 pissed me off. And I am absolutely on Netflix more often, because I use it to keep shows running in the background (no other service does this as well as Netflix). With HBO though, they have amazing content and a lot of it. And they own most of it, and rotate out solid movies that I probably wouldn't buy or rent myself.
I've been thinking it will only take a couple more subscription price bumps. I've already lowered my subscription to the lowest available and will likely just get rid of it altogether in favor of other means of procurement. If they inch towards the 20$ mark for basic I think they will start to decline.

I've already seen many people who I would never believe could pirate anything reliably turn to sharing Plex libraries.
I forgot to take into account that it was a foreign company...
Actual title: "I kind of hate Twitter" (2013)
After my PhD, I intend to work for a while in a "real job" while saving money so I can eventually "retire" and go independent. Or something like that. The costs for me (theoretical fluid dynamics) is pretty minimal as I don't need expensive equipment or what not, so I think this is doable.

You're right about the constraints. Even when the constraints aren't there, many academics are used to thinking that they are, so they seem blind to possibilities outside of the constraints.

As an example of the latter, consider Scott Aaronson's discussion of a quantum-inspired recommendation algorithm: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3880

On that page he wrote "On the Hacker News thread, some commenters are lamenting that such a brilliant mind as Ewin’s would spend its time figuring out how to entice consumers to buy even more products that they don’t need. I confess that that’s an angle that hadn’t even occurred to me".
The FCC have a commercial partnership with Best Copy & Print Inc, who can manually search through the FCC archives on your behalf to retrieve and duplicate old licensing documents. A fee is charged for this service, but it's quite reasonable.

http://www.arrl.org/call-sign-research

If your grandfather's callsign is not in current use, you may be able to apply to use his old call sign through the Vanity Call Signs program.

http://www.arrl.org/vanity-call-signs
I signed up for Netflix once because I wanted to test how it worked on linux when chrome first added support for it and I had it for about 18 months (never watched it) until my credit card expired because they require you to call to cancel. Don't underestimate how much money you can make off of subscriptions like this. $10 a month is not a lot of money and not worth potentially spending 30-60 minutes on the phone for a lot of people.
I'm really curious to see how they will compete with VSCode. I hope they'll let us make plugins for it.
Yeah, but at that point, we're already another step removed...okay, partial credit.
I'm still not sure I made the right decision turning them down. On the one hand spending $5000 per month on rent feels crazy in Vancouver. On the other hand it is an incredible deal.

In the end what kept me from renting it is the likelihood of needing to move in a year or so. I prefer a bit more stability for my kids.
I remember reading a (Golden Age fallacy?) account of the historical university of Nalanda in India, which was an historic Buddhist center of learning. It was not limited to religious and philosophical education, anyone could lecture and anyone could interject. Free board was available for all comers. It grew to become a well known international center of learning, and at least that part is factual. There are parallels in many places (eg. speakers corner in London, Greek and Roman popular history, etc.) but apparently voices and the general public are apparently not scalable. Now we have Youtube.

Amusingly, recently corrupt bureaucrats have attempted to re-instantiate Nalanda. Despite gathering a huge amount of dirty money and land they've only put through a handful of postgrad students, and already have weathered multiple substantive allegations of corruption, sexual harassment, etc.

Perhaps people are the problem.
At least the conspiracy theories have moved on from “the shorts” to a more typical group.
Being a landlord is a choice. Discrimination based on age is a thing. If you don't like certain types of people, you can choose not to take advantage of people with literal rent-seeking behavior, then stop being a landlord and sell your property.
That statement was always a lie:

Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one.
The difference is in the visitors...
I think a lot of factors come in to play, and this finding does not surprise me for an employer such as BJs wholesale. Compare that workforce vs IBM, where employees remain with the company longer and have much more sedimentary jobs, and wellness programs are probably providing better ROI.
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Don't forget that a substantial amount of fuel is burned while parked. Lights and other electronic equipment consume a lot of energy.

"In one recent report about police vehicle fuel consumption, the cruiser studied was found to idle 60% of the time during normal operation and used 21% of its total fuel while parked. While the engine provided 250 horsepower (hp), together all of the accessories needed less than 2 hp. (Air conditioning consumed the most power, followed by external lighting.)"

https://afdc.energy.gov/files/u/publication/idling_emergency...
The problem with this is Netflix appeared as a one stop shop. That was what people wanted. Now that the streaming market is splintered you need 3 services for all the content a typical person wants to see. I can see this contributing to a comeback of pirating. Now the primary reason for keeping Netflix around are its originals which I don't think will keep people on the hook as they continually bump the subscription tiers.
> - bring on the 5G iPhones now, perhaps this makes Samsung the biggest loser out of this as apple is now ready for the nextgen cell service and Qualcomm is no longer negotiation from a position of weakness

Funny you mention Samsung, because just a few days ago I read a blogger with contacts in S. Korea claimed that Apple asked Samsung to supply 5G for iPhones. But Samsung answered no as they are unable to meet the volume requirement as they are already busy with existing orders. Completely unsubstantiated and could just be some random rumor, but I find it interesting this news comes out days after that rumor.
You're right to separate those products, and that the high paid, permanent positions go to researchers. This contributes to the information imbalance in the education side of the market because universities trade on the reputation of professors who barely teach to attract undergrads who pay heavily for classes taught by adjuncts.

The choice to isolate these functions without clarifying the education proposition isn't a market equilibrium, it's a choice by universities to optimize their information advantage.
Products are never finished; they mentioned a few issues.
Netflix generally has movies around about the time the sequel is coming out, as a kind of marketing tie-in.
>Personally, the industrial 5G IoT applications are far more interesting.

Which are?
> That is perfect! The customer wanted to put in production on Monday, so we can now confirm.

Here you can see the exact moment when an estimate became a commitment.
in fairness, when netflix spends money on developing new content, they are building up a library. viewers in the future viewing that content will be very high margin.

Thats sort of a huge advantage for one of the long time content producers. say DIS spends 10 bil on original content and netflix matches, DIS has decades of previous content already built up.
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... it would be impossible (without creating a back door that would potentially weaken the entire line). Though it's undisclosed what the consultancy had done.
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Maybe the university is bloated and as always those who should move on are finding it hard to leave their comfort zone and do something customers are willing to pay for.

Thankfully I'm unlikely to ever spend a dime with universities again but even if I had a reason I'd look really hard to not to, because institutions of high education, their staff and students seem to be most interested in doing whatever they can to promote anti-freedom agendas. I'd rather throw my money away than give it to such folks.

Enjoy your newfound irrelevance.
Hate to pile on but D3.js is the goto for treemaps these days methinks.
Wellness programs don't need to have positive outcomes to make sense for insurers. Instead, they need to use enough superfluous technology to discourage older people from signing up for them.

Hence, from a linked point in the article:

> AARP, the consumer advocacy group for older Americans, sued the federal government in 2016, arguing that the rules governing the [wellness programs] violated anti-discrimination laws aimed at protecting workers’ medical information.

That lawsuit against Kaiser was over individual coverage. Kaiser realizes all its savings by carefully maintaining very health (i.e., young) pools. The medical information stuff is the legal argument, but it was really a lawsuit about making people do stuff that disproportionately negatively affects old people.

If you try the wellness program for people whose enrollment is through their employer, and your employees are disproportionately not college educated or young, the wellness program of the kind you and I are familiar with will not be effective at either lowering costs or improving health outcomes. That's why this program was sort of doomed to fail.

There exists an as-of-yet unobserved program that gives people money in exchange for behavior modification with positive health and cost savings outcomes. It will probably look more consuming entertainment--stuff that has evidence people will do over long periods of time. We're a long ways off from finding the appropriate design of such a program.
That is no doubt great tool. But imagine even one guy like me has manny gpu card for trying some large memory ai model (not even production). It just can’t work on the cloud during development.

What the appeal of this is Standardise on certain way to do things and we can share with others. So far all python and r notebook. Is browser an option?
Yeah and I've been pretty good at estimating what to expect. I mean you'll always find surprises but personally I'm more inclined to quote a lower estimate and come back explaining the situation than to overcharge. But if you know of any clients who are throwing money around like that I'll gladly accept your 220% estimate for a few referrals ;)
Credentialing is the moat. The flywheel depends on critical mass in several cohorts believing that the credential is attached to a strong education.
Oh, we'll definitely have that though -- the year of the linux desktop will usher us into that era.
I am a habitual pirate. I'm the kind who wants to pirate media because I believe that the media system is a lifesucking waste exploiting the rest of society. If I can drop their profits then maybe they will spend more on the cheap stuff (good writing and ideas) and less on the eyecandy and marketing. At best, they fade out of existence and we go back to swapping stories orally.

So at some point I decided that a subscription service with almost everything I was interested in would socialize things appropriately and reduce the transaction costs so that piracy and this anarchic tendency wouldn't be worthwhile. After a few years of using the service, I feel that it is only a moderate convenience. In the end my watching habits haven't changed. I am saving some time downloading random things from random horrible websites. But the selection is horrific. There is no way to actively decide to watch something. There are just a handful of options. There are no classics. It's worse than the selection on an international flight. And it's getting expensive.
Yeah you can have all the channels you could want with nothing to watch... How's that? Only 66.60.
Please stop showing me other people's likes! That's what retweets are for. This is the only thing twitter needs to fix.
Luck isn't involved as long as you can ensure your sampling noise is uncorrelated with the incoming wave, either by direct insertion of dither or characterization of environmental noise. Regardless, your point still stands, just a fun tidbit.
I said that May's deal (the WA) is dead because of the degree to which it has been rejected in Parliament. I said customs union as a possibility in terms of CU minus the non-CU parts of the WA, that is, something rather distinct from the WA. I said it remained as an option because I didn't know enough to rule it out.

Now, you could be right that either May (or her successor) would never be floated as an option. Or it could be that it is not possible to get an agreement on those parameters (CU minus the rest of the WA) with the EU. Both those could be perfectly valid reasons this would never fly. I was just trying to list the possibilities, and rule out the ones that looked to me like they were dead.

> I can easily see both main parties disintegrating soon

Parties can disintegrate when they aren't well aligned with what becomes the dominant issue of the day. This looks to me exactly like what's happening in the UK, especially with the Tories. But maybe new parties that actually correspond to positions on Brexit would be better than the incredible muddle that currently exists...
I once was tasked with writing a script to generate the cucumber implementation boilerplate, from the cucumber tests themselves. Because the tester would constantly mess it up if he did it manually.

Needless to say, it wasted a ton of time and never produced any meaningful value.
Reposting from Eugene Wei's take on Twitter from a couple of years ago:

I believe the core experience of Twitter has reached most everyone in the world who likes it. [...]

Sometimes, the product-market fit with early adopters is only that. The product won't go mainstream because other people don't want or need that product. In these cases, the key to unlocking growth is usually customer segmentation, creating different products for different users.
...
The problem is that for those who don't use Twitter, almost all of its ideal attributes among the early adopter cohort are those which other people find bewildering and unattractive.
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It's not surprising to me that Twitter is populated heavily by journalists and a certain cohort of techies and intellectuals who all, to me, are part of a broader species of infovore.

source: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptote...
you can find the primary publication here

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/15/7214.full.pdf [PDF]
https://iplayif.com/?story=https://github.com/historicalsour...
I'm looking forward to try out Pyodide in Electron so that I can make use of all the great Python scientific and signal processing libraries for data processing.