skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a misconception that Netflix is an online movie library. They have a constantly changing selection, so it's more like a random access TV channel.
Im surprised you missed it.

Businesses solve this problem by hiring and training programmers in their business model and domain.

Coders, are worthless. Coders with business acumen and domain knowledge are invaluable.

This is also why I will never work with anyone with a job title of BA. They are trying to do my job but can only do one half of it. They're a pointless bottlekneck in the system.

And no, there is no place for BAs who can code only those who do. They're called software developers.

At this point I don't know if software engineer, developer, programmer or coder is really the right term any more.

I'm more of a systems analyst. The amount of time I spend coding is miniscule and I don't think I'm alone in this.
Good luck repairing the level 5 drywall finish these mansions tend to have.
That's the tragedy with streaming and pay-per-view online systems. Piracy is still has the better catalog.

I would gladly pay 3, even 4 times more for a Netflix that would have everything.
If you haven't seen this series: https://archive.org/details/The_Mechanical_Universe_and_Beyo...
(it's a bit outdated, but the part around 23 minutes is still mind-blowing to me, especially in the context of the video)
Indeed. The minimum skill required to find long-term employment becomes a much higher standard. Entry-level office jobs are going to vanish before most people realize. Many low level processes that are currently done by clerks/bookkeepers/analysts will be replaced by scripts.
In Brazil I got Fargo, Twin Peaks, and Legion on Netflix and Preacher on Amazon Prime Video.
I recently created a Twitter account, mostly as an experiment. I just followed some programmers, stuck to programming content. Immediately and every day after, I was constantly being displayed Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Justin Trudeau, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, etc. Not a single politician or voice not on the left. Considering how powerful Twitter has become, this is troubling. I know this is just one anecdote, wondering what the rest of HN sees...
Not that I know of. As long as what you publish isn't defamatory, there is no law against publishing pii.
I don't think wolfram is a special case, it's just a complex end-user product that's polished and innovative.

I struggle to think of open source end-user product that has:

- technical innovation
- polished UI/UX/documentation
- a problem domain of moderate to high complexity

Can you name any?
Readers will never, ever pay. That's not sustainable and you need them to attract posters.

Content producers on the other hand are an assorted mix of businesses (make money from attention/clicks), personalities (make money from attention), influencers (make money from attention), academics (no money). If you have an audience many of them would pay.

You could charge the top 10% of content producers/businesses for better tools they would use and ask for all the time (moderation, blocking, shadowbanning etc), and also sell the public data of a popular service like this (for sentiment analysis, trending topics etc), and have a very healthy business model.

There is no need for advertising, it is actively harmful, and it results in misaligned incentives, but if you try to make it reader funded it would IMO fail too - several services have, I think I saw one on HN a few months ago, but the now defunct app dot net is the most prominent example.
I always use exiftool to check for metadata in images I upload. I also compress my PNGs with optipng which has a nice ''-strip all'' option that rids the image of metadata, which you can then doublecheck with exiftool.

For file types you're not familiar with, you can simply open the file in a text editor and check for the presence details you don't want in there. This only works for checking, though.
Clicked link. Saw notification request and Google sign in. Left.
Right, and the best argument I've heard for letting T-Mobile and Sprint merge is that there's a real question of whether Sprint continues to exist absent a merger. Could be better to have 3 strong carriers competing than 2 strong ones, one weaker one, and one on the brink.

Granted, this is part of how TM/Sprint are trying to sell this to the DOJ, so worth taking it with a grain of salt.
The earnings for college graduates are very misleading because virtually all the children of wealthy people graduate from college, and they get high salaries, but those high salaries are due to nepotism and exploiting their parent's networks, and have nothing to do with their college degree.

For poor/lower-middle-class students college is mostly b.s. and you can be doing the exact same job for half the wage because you don't have the connections to get the high salary.
I think the "antique model steam engine refurbishment" is where we go off the tracks with social media.

If you are single mindedly contented with some obscure niche you have so many wonderful options today because nothing is easier to advertise to than groups with really specific interests that require buying things.

What's lacking is well rounded, pleasant experiences. I'm not a collection of discrete interests and I definitely don't want to become one nor am I interested in meeting one.
https://gigarama.ru/notredame/
Modelica is an object-oriented language specifically created for simulating physical systems. It is used to formally describe and simulate complex mechanical (or even electrical or thermal) systems with multiple interacting parts (automobiles, flight control systems).

OpenModelica [https://openmodelica.org/] is the most popular free IDE for Modelica. You also have commercial IDEs like Dymola (I use this), SimulationX etc.
It's a pity that Kratos didn't recognize them in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(2018_video_game)#P... .
Once a week? Lucky you, I have to set it to "Latest Tweets" almost every time I open the app. It even reminds me to set my "Content Preferences" every time I do it, just to ignore them over and over again. Helpful.
Why use this service instead of finding a expat forum where past discussions are available and you ask new questions?

I think this should make the advantages more explicit. What's the catch?
Zstandard v1.4.0
Thanks for the hard work in the Mathematica SQL area.

I know y'all have lots and lots of database documentation, but I've had trouble commenting from Mathematica to Oracle via ODBC. It's a tad confusing, but I'm sure I'm doing something simple wrong. In R, this was really easy, but surprisingly complicated in Mathematica. Do y'all have any kind of step by step doc in that arena? SQLite was of course easy, but I think Oracle requires the use of JDBC with Mathematica and that's where I get lost.
Since you're a student and enjoy using Mathematica, I would recommend taking a look at this http://www.wolfram.com/company/careers/ambassador/. It's an opportunity for student enthusiasts to share their use and interest on campus, in return Wolfram provides access to tech and other stuff noted.
Can it run cuda? Otherwise not that practical.

Minor interest. Can this approach run j/k or more important lisp?
I second the recommendation for Practical Common Lisp, even for complete beginners and newcomers to Lisp. It covers the very basics, and the writing style is accessible and patient.
It is dependent on supply/demand and business model. You could have asked the same thing when Google/Yahoo as a search engine came into play "why do you think the knowledge of millions would be widely available and relatively cheap/"free"?
You're talking about 802.11g and 100Mbit links, while I was talking about cellular data -- two completely different things.

A cell tower has more than a single channel and a city with a thousand traffic lights is going to have many cells, so using existing cellular generations is not going to run into problems with collisions from 1000 traffic signals trying to send data at once.
Those shows are on HBO, except Preacher. They have both the old and new Twin Peaks.
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> an account has to have a track record of demonstrably harassing someone or sharing violent imagery to be banned

I wonder why it is that so many antifa accounts are still active then?
I remember it as being in the $3 range or so though someone upthread wrote it could be as high as $7. And there's gas/time and late fees. And no guarantee of availability.

For current content, there's also Redbox today.

Personally, I'm basically fine with 1 or 2 streaming services for a combination of general content and exclusives and renting/buying the rest in some manner. I should cancel my cable though because I never watch it even though it means that leaves me without live TV. Yeah, I know there's YouTube TV but I really don't watch enough for it to be worth it.
Maybe not immediately, but isn't this what Pandas' new array interface[0] should facilitate?

[0] https://tomaugspurger.github.io/pandas-extension-arrays.html
> just followed some programmers

Well now you know why you're seeing what you're seeing.

Are programmers supposed to be some apolitical hyper-rational cohort?
Programming/Technology or otherwise, if you spend that much time worried about 1 interview, you will end up just like Hyde that is, out of a job. You have to send out hundreds of resumes (pace yourself maybe 10 to 15 per day is good) and you have to do many interviews.

In the tech industry you are going to meet many people who believe they are God's gift to tech. Do the interview, ignore them, move on to the next. The goal is landing a job not validating yourself against the 27 year old so-called CTO who wrote the first line of code of a robo-dialer. Don't get caught up in the "feel bad" game. Keep applying.
5g will be so pervasive that it will be abnormal for a device or appliance to not be online. That 5G will be the aether and devices will expect to be able to access it, whether it's tied to your personal connection/identity or not.
> I want to read about politics from the political analysts I follow, but don't care about their cooking adventures on the weekend. I want to read about tech from the software folks I follow, but don't want to hear about their politics.

This is the biggest reason I end up unfollowing people.

Say I follow a person because they post interesting technical articles. Over time (as their follower count increases, usually...) they drift toward making 80% political posts and only 20% technical. I'd still like to see their technical posts w/o having to sift through all the political posts. Usually I just end up unfollowing, depending on how bad it gets, but I wish I could still see and participate in their topics I care about.

This is true even in real-life relationships. There are some people you just don't discuss certain topics with.

I don't discuss politics or medicine with my in-laws. I don't discuss religion anymore with my cousin. Or history with my grandfather. I avoid talking about money with my brother. Why? Because over time I've realized there's nothing to be gained from participating in a conversation with them on that particular topic.
Of course ;). Although I’ve spent hours Googling/Redditing this topic and it’s indeed an opinion held by n>1. Not to mention the 40 or so neighbors that I’ve chatted about this with over the years.

I’d really, really like to have the latest hardware iPhone that handles cellular services in poor signal conditions. I don’t have a skin in the game as to Intel vs Qualcomm. I just want it to work well.
I did wait 2 weeks without following anyone, just searched for programming languages and such. But yes, I wondered that as well.
We weren't lied to about college being the pathway to a good job; industries just took advantage of that fact and found ways to profit from it.

There is a reason why so many people don't want to learn a trade: because they know it sucks. For every anecdote I hear about some tradesman living the good life, I can give them three about miserable workers who can't get out. Work is inconsistent, you lack much of the security and benefits that other jobs offer, it tears up your body, and working conditions are often poor. My dad had to do carpentry for months with a broken hip, because he couldn't afford to take the time off after surgery. My uncle--another carpenter--lost his job, found work in a factory to pay the bills, and lost three fingers in a machine. I briefly worked in a sheet metal shop, and many of the workers had carpel tunnel in both wrists, arthritis, and bad eyesight from all of the welders in the shop. I saw a flare from a TIG welder as I walked by someone's stall with the curtain halfway closed, and my eyes burned and watered halfway through the night. In another job, I cut off the tip of my thumb on a circular saw while building a deck. I'm a statistician now.

Learning a trade, along with the almighty STEM fields, are not the solution to the college problem; they are a red herring. The real issue is that a college degree is used to screen applicants for almost every good paying, secure job in the US, regardless of whether or not a degree is really necessary to do the job. College became more available, and any entry level worker with a degree had an edge in the job market, which forced everyone else to go to college to stay competitive.

In my mind, telling people to skip college and learn a trade because someone they know makes good money at it is like telling people to skip college and start acting because they know an actor that makes good money.
That looks really nice - thanks for trying to fix this. I really like your straightforward home page.

In case this is useful my concerns would be on seeing your home page - Is this going to go out of business in 2 years and lose my stuff? Do I want to pay to post drivel about my life, and retweet the odd thing?

I don't really use twitter for personal blogging, and don't think I'd pay for it, but it's really interesting to see that there are probably several different audiences using twitter for such different things and your service is aimed at a different segment.

The value in twitter for me is the posts from prominent people in various industries who expose what they're really thinking, their foibles, interests and links to interesting research they've just read. I put up with all the drama, nazis and ads for that alone. I use several accounts to follow/promote different interests, and for some businesses, but wouldn't pay for personal use.

Personally I'm really skeptical of a federated network, it's a solution to a problem I don't have, which introduces other problems, but it's not a blocker, I just think it's a distraction to the real problems of social media.
I am an engine mechanic for a chain of diesel shops in the Midwest. I hit trade school after age 17 and slid into a nice apprentice program for aspiring automotive mechanics. I can confirm my trade school, a state school, was one of the best decisions I'd ever made.

I can also confirm that some of the heaviest weight on my heart is the friends I have that struggle to maintain basic health insurance and employment despite having a biology or chemistry degree. I don't know what the solution is, but I feel bitter about the kids sold down university avenue with nothing to show.

So if I could say anything to the kids its this. We are hiring. We are hiring for work you'll be paid well for and a job you can be proud of. Welder, plumber, mechanic, these cannot continue to be four letter words. Talk to your vocational tech schools or your guidance counselor.
Wikipedia's costs are extremely small relative the service usage. They don't have a lot of active development (relatively), and they don't need a ton of expensive infrastructure (relatively). Twitter's annual operating costs are in the $2+ billions. Wikipedia's are in the ~$60 millions. Not to say a non-profit twitter couldn't exist - this just feels like an unfair comparison. Just because two services are popular tech services doesn't mean they are apples to apples to operate.
I really like Telsa's mission, but stuff like this is why they get a bad rap. I don't understand why they try to oversell everything. You've got a good product and are making a positive impact, don't squander it by making claims that can't be backed up.
i dont think thats been the case for the last gen. i thought they made profit early. but i could be wrong.
What a web-developer should know about databases and how deep?
Only main things like SQL, transactions, about ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) or deeper knowledge like how Postgres works inside. About b-tree, relational algebra PostgreSQL etc. ?
It seems pretty obvious to me that any way to "completely and correctly specify a system" is going to look a hell of a lot like a programming language, and be no less complex or hard to understand than one... it's almost a tautology.
I made a Twitter and tried to follow just programmers for some wisdom, but it’s just left wing politics, humble bragging, or bashing of some sort. Just not worth the time.
Dr. Destroyer isn't the main villain of Champions or of Champions Online. He does have a somewhat strong arc in the central hub city of the game, that was briefly played up in one of the versions of the tutorial.

Part of the problem with the IP is more that it doesn't have a main villain or follow a central storyline. It's decades of tabletop adventures that go in all sorts of directions (some light almost parody, some power fantasies, some mixtures in between).

Paragon City of CoH/CoV had the opportunity of being designed as a singular place with a natural story flow built to roughly coincide with player level flow. Champions Online is much more a loose association of vignettes and interesting settings with less of an over-arcing story. As a player you could see some of that problem directly too in the way Cryptic kept rebalancing the levels of zones to try to offer more variety to early players, more introduction to other plot lines in the game in the idea that maybe you'd fine the one that most interested you/your player faster.

One interesting thing Champions Online attempted (and didn't quite succeed at) was letting players build their own main villain. It's a shame that the Nemesis system still takes far too many levels to unlock, because had they found ways to wrap that into even low level storytelling, that would have been a big deal. That should have been something more of the game was built around. Most people don't even realize it exists because it comes around at a very high level and is basically optional at that point.
Qualcomm's biggest threat to their current level of profitability is that they could be forced to stop seeking a percentage of the retail price of a cellular device directly from the device makers.

Qualcomm's strategy has been to refuse to license their standards essential patents to their cellular modem competitors, and instead go after device makers.

Judge Koh in the Qualcomm vs. FTC antitrust trial has already issued a ruling that Qualcomm may not continue to refuse to license it's standards essential patents to it's competitors.

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/ftc-v-qualcomm-standard-...

Apple sought a ruling in this case that once Qualcomm's rival modem makers received a license to Qualcomm's standard essential patents on FRAND terms, Qualcomm's patents would be exhausted, and they could not continue to seek additional fees (a percentage of the retail price of the entire device) from the device maker.

This has a huge effect on profitability because the courts have already shut down Google's attempt to price gouge Microsoft for a percentage of the retail price of Microsoft's XBox over standards essential FRAND encumbered patents back when Google owned Motorola.

>In a closely watched case, a federal judge has determined that Motorola is entitled to millions -- not billions -- of dollars in compensation for Microsoft's use of certain standard-essential patents.

U.S. District Judge James Robart ruled Thursday that Microsoft should pay Google's Motorola Mobility unit $1.8 million a year in royalties for use of wireless and video coding patents it used in the Xbox and its smartphones.

Motorola had demanded Microsoft pay royalties of $4 billion for use of patents that are part of the H.264 video and 802.11 wireless standards, which is baked into Windows and the Xbox video game console. Microsoft was willing to pay a royalty, but not at the 2.25 percent of the product price that Motorola has sought.

https://www.cnet.com/news/court-sides-with-microsoft-over-mo...

Given the percentage of Qualcomm's bottom line that comes in as licensing fees, getting paid a FRAND appropriate licensing fee set by the courts instead of a percentage of the retail price of the whole device would have been absolutely disastrous for Qualcomm's bottom line.
You might be able to get Kanopy free through a local library. Limited number of views per month—mine's 12/mo, dunno if it varies. Tons of documentaries, art film, lots of classic films and Criterion stuff, a fair amount of popular recent-ish material too. Works on Roku, so probably most other platforms too since most are less weird to develop for than it.

Second time I've shilled for them on here recently, but I'm in no way affiliated. Just discovered them a couple months ago and really happy with the service. Especially for free.
Make the posters pay and you'll lose your content.

I think that's only true if you try to charge all posters.

Advertising is actively damaging our social networks, as it did newspapers before them.
as usual we are staying up all night here: https://ycombinator.metachat.com

-> this has no affiliation with ycombinator, it's just a chat, set up by some enthusiasts who like to build things
I feel like Julia is probably the thing that solves the technical / performance issues with R.

That said, R’s strength these days is about expressive power through the Tidyverse collection of libraries and DSLs.

If I were to pick an “R Next” project, it’d be to focus on a better, more expressive Tidyverse for Racket that plays even more nicely with relational databases and frameworks like Spark.
I think most developed NA cities have pretty strict tenant protection laws that, even if failing to actually protect tenants, at least guarantee you'll take some loss from tenants that don't pay and therefore make such activities undesirable. This seemed to be a thing with the slumlords of the past but I bet it's just not profitable enough right now.
It's great to see how far WebAssembly and Emscripten has come and this is a really cool app!

> If you haven’t already tried Pyodide in action, go try it now! (50MB download)

I wonder though how ready is it for production usage. At Repl.it, years ago[1], we moved away from browser-based execution to the cloud because it excluded many users who don't have the client-side firepower to download/parse/execute this much JS/WASM.

Repl.it can already run a lot of the examples here [2] but I gotta say the DOM-integration is pretty neat. We could do interactive stuff on Repl.it using our new Graphics infrastructure (GFX)[3] but there is always the roundtrip delay. Here is the same matplotlib example running and streamed down on X11: https://repl.it/@amasad/matplotlib

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16578943

[2]: https://repl.it/@amasad/pyodide-example

[3]: https://repl.it/blog/gfx