skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, even if it's a huge time investment, if it's perceived to be easier and cheaper enough than subscribing to all the content providers (Hulu, HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Netflix and Disney+ just for TV content), people will do it.

Piracy was more complicated in the past and lots of people, even people with 0 technical knowledge did it. The only reason people stopped is because Netflix and friends made the legal alternative easier.

If piracy once again becomes easier than legal streaming, people will simply switch to piracy. It's as easy as that.
Cool, but having to manage postgres doesn't really equal 'Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists'
Is there any hope for childless couple in Kenya?
I had a similar problem with Lloyds - every time I wanted to transfer money using the mobile app, I had to type in the password manually as they had disabled the "paste" option. Given my password was auto-generated and 16 characters long - and the password field wiped every time I did an app-switch, I just gave up.
RFC3514! So basically a “Please reject my visa application” check mark.

Even if you were willing to answer this honestly it can even become extremely hard to actually answer: what it is deemed a “terrorist” organisation? Maybe your home country would not consider some group as such but the US does? What about drug usage? It’s not even consistent across US states, let alone a different country.

To properly fill this you’d have to be a law expert in both US law, your home country’s, and probably international law too to resolve the impedance mismatch between both.
Hitting `ctrl/cmd +` solves that whole issue for you. But I am sure you already know that.
The verb is used in normal daily conversation amongst us without the negative connotation ( as yet, given a general context ), as explained in a previous comment.

It's basically just staying home when you could do otherwise. A normal reply to "what did you do last Sunday ?", etc.
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Sounds ridiculous, especially the angle of "a fittness product", because you could just walk, or run.

But maybe the fun/innovation option is reasonable? Think of it as rent-a-toy... all kinds of fun things strewn in the streets, costing only cents to have a play on. Even, with a try-before-you-buy aspect, but everywhere, no need to visit a store.

The theft issue has been kinda-solved by the e-scooter pioneers.
Any time you have market timing rules, you get picked off by more sophisticated investors looking for structure.

Think of it like this, imagine you had an hour to build a rock paper scissors AI going up against entire teams of people building RPS AIs for many years. If you build an AI that just returns rand() every single time, you're guaranteed to win about 1/3rd of the time, if you attempt to code anything even slightly more sophisticated, you're likely to get murdered by the other participants. You would have to build something exceedingly beyond your capabilities complex to even get back up to that 1/3rd performance figure.

Same with Passive/Active investment. Either you are 100% Passive or you have to be incredibly, incredibly Active to even match the performance of being Passive, there isn't a middle ground.
It's called "Last Breath".
1Password allows me to share specific credentials with a person. And these credentials can include the generator for one-time-passwords.
Oh man q3osp dm17 all day. You just really took me back. I really miss rocket arena and the first LAN parties I went to. Right as broadband had really started to be available. Still have not found anything close to q3. Maybe it’s just my nostalgia.
The cellular network being totally insecure is much worse than passive surveillance. Calls and texts can be rerouted and altered in transit, and mobile identities (eg: your SIM) can be impersonated on a whim.
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People don't spend the majority of their money on TVs or laptops.
...or is it that taxis have lowered their pricing to compete?
Is there anything similar for swotching from Wordpress.com?
Almost every website in existence except the most security sensitive like bank websites will allow you to reset your password with email.
Deadwood, Westworld, True Detectives and The Wire are some series I like. There is also Game of Thrones.
Needs peak (not averages) latency measurements
They took a perfectly good website and rewritten it as an SPA.
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They explained that pretty clearly. The US insists that you are entering their country if your route of travel passes through US territory. So sensible routes to lots of other countries that don't themselves have obnoxious rules are off limits if you don't want the US nosing thorough everything.
He seems to mention purposefully creating an air bubble in the enclosure (by letting a few drops of the oil drip out) — why would he want to do that??

> "I slightly loosen two screws, to let out a couple of drops of oil (which would allow forming a bubble inside the box)."
Strings of everyday words are better than the passwords most people choose, they're memorable, and they're often good enough from a practical perspective. But if you're using a password manager and don't have to remember passwords, you might as well use truly random passwords, which have more entropy.
So fed up with these stupid clickbait headlines for good, interesting, useful articles. Here's the subtitle blurb in case you weren't sure whether to click: "Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally"

As for the policy, it seems eminently sensible to me (but then I'm a UBI supporter as well). I note that the article doesn't seem to say how people pay rent if they have no income. It does mention housing benefits, so maybe those cover everything.
Oh wow my suggestions are nothing like that!
Fits nicely with the Southpark creators views on Pot: it makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative.
Yet Japan's current GDP is lower than that in 1995, and has only been over 1995 level in two years.

There was plenty of innovation, new methods, product launches and new companies during the great Depression, even in the peak year of decline, and in all countries affected.

GDP and GDP growth is a decidedly modern invention anyway.
I once spent 15 minutes trying to register in a local Domino's website which kept bugging me about lack of a special character - even though I had one in it. Turned out to be that the app truncates the entered password after the first 20 characters and only considers the first part. Thankfully the special character was after the 20th position so I noticed the error and fixed it, but if it wasn't I'd be wondering the next time I'm logging in why it's not letting me login with a valid password.
Could please somebody provide some kind of motivation for a non-mathematician on that? I tried to start with reading the previous article, but I have no idea, what I should be doing to find myself in need of the tool I'm trying to understand here.
I couldn’t get into westworld or the wire. Currently watching Dead To Me, Punisher, Bad Blood, Good Girls. Not seen deadwood or true detectives.
So it is absolutely and obviously not true that generational terms like 'millenial' and 'Gen-X' only apply to the USA, because the same characteristics apply (and are used) in all of Europe, most of Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and so on.

Africa is a very big place, though, in varying stages of development. Several places have burgeoning middle classes, with access to similar amounts of consumer goods as the rest of the world. Is there any reason to think that these middle classes don't face similar generational shifts?
Because if the watch is waterproof, why not wear it in the shower?

You get to forgo taking on/off the watch and you get to wash the watch at the same time, instead of wearing a watch with residue sweat etc back on after the shower...

From your question I take it you don't wear your watch when sleeping either?
Service Reliability Engineering is on OReilly press. It's a good book. Up there with ZeroMQ and Data Intensive Applications as maybe the best three books from OReilly in the past ten years.
Another weird corner case is when you want to watch a foreign language film, but because I happen to be in a country where I don't speak any of the local languages I also can't use subtitles (they don't provide English subtitles universally). This is probably an incredibly rare thing for most people though I admit.
Or as D. Trump likes to say, "IEEE backtracks so fast it makes your head spin."
> Last month, a hyped debate between psychology professor Peterson and philosopher Slavoj Žižek had the former spending his opening remarks stumbling around Marxism, having only just read The Communist Manifesto for the first time since high school. As Andray Domise wrote in Maclean’s, “The good professor hadn’t done his homework.”

This is a little bit harsh on Peterson because a lot of Marxists themselves haven't read Marx. You could say that the intellectual history of marxism (at least in the second half of the 20th century) is comprised of a large majority of "marxists" who haven't read his works and a small minority who have done so and who at least have a general idea of what marxism really is about (if it matters I do believe that Žižek has indeed read Marx and he knows what he's talking about).
I think that's a fair notice. I have reduced my reliance on digital tools for passing time and I'm starting to remember boredom and why I was avoiding it.

Many articles portrait boredom too much as being good instead portraying it like the necessary rest you need between work outs.

Allowing yourself to get bored is good but you should understand why and what's a good/bad way to stop being bored.
> Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?"

> CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT.
I have ADHD. I have bad ADHD that is being treated, and the treatment is NOT WORKING TERRIBLY WELL.
I cannot focus on writing blog posts. it will not happen.

> if I try to make a blog post, it'll end up being abandoned and unfinished, as I am unable to edit it into something readable and postable. so if I went 100% to blogs:
You would get: no content
I would get: lots of unfinished drafts and a feeling of being a useless waste

> but I can do rambly tweet threads. they don't require a lot of attention for a long time, they don't have the endless editing I get into with blog posts, I can do them. I do them a bunch! They're just rambly and twitter, which some people don't like.

> so given this is a choice between two options, I can either: 1. make rambly tweet-threads that some people hate and wish were blogs 2. make no blog posts

> I am sorry that I am picking #1, but it's really best for everyone.

... and so on. So, it's apparently due to ADHD...
"Our initial, more restrictive approach was motivated solely by pulling something out of our goatse ass."

More seriously, I'd like to understand what legal liability they thought they were exposed to, and how they made that decision so fast, and who.
It is hopefully obvious to everyone that a plant does not suffer in the same way that a cow does.

Add to this that many plants actually rely on being consumed for reproduction. Sure, our sewage systems prevents it from actually working, but it is clearly not a crime in any metaphysical sense to consume a fruit that contains seeds.
do you post anywhere else? traditional forums seem to have died with reddit getting big or I just can't find them anymore?
<sarcasm>Proper vacation time? That's communism!</sarcasm>

edit: added sarcasm tags
>I feel bad for people older than me that never got adjusted to the smartphones when they have to wait staring blankly into space or trying to start up a monologue to random stangers because they can't stand how dull the inside of their head is.

Looks like you have it backwards. You should feel sorry for them for how "dull the inside of their head is" -- not for not being used to having smartphones to compensate.
It's very disturbing to see that your worst passwords are for your bank accounts. Each bank I've worked with has some weird limitation like this. Not to forget that the only form of MFA that most banks allow is SMS - assuming they even offer MFA.
Yeah sure but if you have the ability to time the market then you wouldn't ask this question in the first place. You'd spend your day working 40 hours a week managing million dollar portfolios. Therefore telling people they can't time the market is perfectly good advice.
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>Maybe I'm just too old for it, but what is this "being bored" thing you're talking about?

Something for people that lack all of: personal life, friends, interests, goals, and curiosity.
>> Have you ever committed, ordered,
incited, assisted, or otherwise
participated in torture?

Aw man, I wouldn't have hired that dominatrix for my buddy's bachelor party if I'd known it makes me ineligible to enter the United States.
Factory activity in Asia is a good indicator in a world where none of us can easily see the wood for the trees. Shame the article wasn't big on actual numbers.

We all have our local bubbles to contend with. In the US there are tariff taxes that affect the world but are a US thing. Then, in the UK, there is the joy of Brexit. You would not guess there was a problem if you were to be out and about in the UK this last weekend, however, read the papers and you will see stories about how that there is no inward investment, auto manufacturing is kaput and the High Street is losing many shops. Speak to some people and these indicators can be seen as unimportant, after all, isn't everyone buying online these days so the High Street demise is more of a shift to other fulfilment means, with no net loss involved? It can all be handwaved away.

With the example of Brexit the predicament can be blamed on Brexit and is therefore not part of a global recession, even if the frozen UK economy contributes to the big, global picture.

I am sure that in every market there is some local whataboutism, an ability to blame a local recession on silly politicians, a business scandal or some other local factor. In this way we could all walk into a global recession without anyone seeing it, thinking it was just us that was feeling a bit skint.

There are always people thinking we are on the verge of some mega crash. Personally I have been expecting the housing bubble to collapse for many decades but it has not happened. I have given up on that one now. I once worked in weather forecasting and, if you listened to me, then you would always have expected rain (I didn't understand low-lying clouds too well). Because of this tendency and bias that we all have it can be hard to make sense of media pundits and their forecasts of the economy. We also only listen to those that we are inclined to agree with.

There are always some indicators that are fact oriented and helpful, I think factory activity in Asia is one.

What I am surprised at is that there isn't a good indicator based on internet search activity. For instance, with the housing market in northern climes there is what the mortgage industry says for PR and then there is reality. Sales of flooring products, and by proxy, internet searches for flooring products may be a better indicator. Nobody fetishes over getting new carpets or laminate floors, people don't overly window shop for it, they just buy that stuff when they move home or have money to upgrade their existing dwelling. It is a purchase that can be easily put off. I need a 'basket' of these indicators and some Google Trends 'fu' to see the wood for the trees.
I mean, sure, any new product faces some friction, but that's a slender reed to support monopoly ambitions, and it's not the same as claiming drivers won't install it if there are no riders.

The reality shows otherwise: my city already has three competitors to Uber, and all of them have enough drivers (the waiting times are similar), without any having made massive ad campaigns. And there's no reason to assume we're a special case.
OK, OK, thankyou!

I can see that working, particularly part 3 there being key.

Seriously I've been asking for years and this is the first time anyone's actually spelled out a scheme that allows the person to go back and prove the vote to themselves and have genuine plausible deniability to others who may seek to coerce them. Thanks :)
What does NIH stand for?
Eh, thanks for that (offensive) question, you're the first in my life who ever asked me that question. It is a good question though, so I'll address it (from my PoV, n=1).

First of all, every parent in the world has this problem because as parent your time is limited. More so than non parents. There are some parents who outsource their children to (day)care. We don't have the financial means for that, but we'd also limit it regardless because contact with our child is important.

Second, yes I've been wondering about that various times in the recent past, but for very different reasons (I have autism and get over-sensitized from children because of the unpredictability and the noise).

Third, you don't know beforehand the exact problems you're going to face with your child. Not from your part, but even less from your child's PoV because you don't know how their personality is and how it is going to develop. Furthermore, you don't know for sure how your situation and the world is going to develop.

Money and time are both limiting factors. While in The Netherlands the doctor visits are reimbursed via insurance, the limiting time factor remains.

I would make time for my kid when required. The problem is that you never know for sure when it is required. Because you don't know for sure when your kid is really ill. Its a risk assessment, in the end. Right now, she has the sixth disease (Roseola) which is the first time she got really ill, and it seems like a harmless virus.
You can accomplish all kinds of things with your mind.

Not to mention most people fight "boredom" with endless surfing at places where they have all the tools to accomplish tons of things -- in their home, in from of a screen.
Because then at least you and your colleagues has a chance to get some work done.
> a statement of fact with respect to information preservation of the vitrification process

That's not a statement of fact, it's a statement of belief. Personally, I think it's highly unlikely that any current vitrification process preserves sufficient information for the patient to be revived. We're nowhere near even understanding what "sufficient information" would be, let alone how to preserve it.
Isn't everything these days a promo for something?

And this or that technical post is an advert for the company whose devs wrote it.
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I think this is correct, and answers the common question of "how do we expect growth to go on indefinitely?" It follows from this that as we get to the stage where the global population starts to shrink we will not require constant growth. Of course then we will have the serious issue of how to fund people past retirement age as population shrinks.
> I do wonder what the legal implications are of Mauritius accepting the money to begin with.

Foreign relations go by their own rules; the legal framework they operate under is paper-thin and is constantly being rewritten, often under "might makes right" principles only vaguely masked; but the last century was supposed to mark a shift towards a system of "justice" between nations that works under more humane principles.

For colonization in particular, the validity of this sort of transaction is typically discounted by the self-evident disparity of knowledge and wealth between actors: if I buy gold with seashells while pointing a gun at you, am I really doing something "legal"? If I promise not to do X as part of the buy, then I do it anyway - simply because my guns are bigger than yours - doesn't that void the transaction? If I buy land where people live, then I break their human rights, am I not infringing moral laws that transcend any specific legal framework?

In this particular case, the problems are well-documented.

> I suppose what this really comes down to is the question of colonial ownership, but the implications of this are huge

Only to the untrained eye. Please read up on colonization and decolonization efforts, there is plenty of material. The short story is: if UK and US really believe the principles they have been using as basis of international law since WWI, they should just accept they are wrong in this case, and make amends. Otherwise, we revert to the pre-WWI situation where the world is a jungle and the only thing that matters is the size of any given tiger.
> I did always think that piracy was more about convenience than price for people who aren't broke college students.

True, I would pay 1 or 2 streaming services (as I do the right now) - but more? No thank you, this becomes cluttered, confusing and inconvenient.

Today, I still torrent stuff even if it's available on a streaming service I already pay for (which I don't see as piracy), for 2 main reasons: guaranteed quality and ease of use.

My Plex server is the go-to place for most of the better quality shows we follow, and Netflix is for a lot of the 'meh' content you browse when you're not sure what to see, or what I call 'throw away' content we would never watch a second time. I do want to encourage them to keep making good content however, so I don't mind paying for it.

So far, Netflix has been rather consumer-focused and as a company has - afaik - done nothing to damage my trust, but that's not something I can say about all those companies having or planning to offer streaming services.

I would gladly pay for an HBO subscription if it were available here, since they produce some serious quality content - but it isn't. I would however most likely still torrent their shows.
Some people have the opinion that colonial acquisitions in general should be relinquished, even if they were legally acquired and there are still treaties permitting them, such as Gibraltar. I think they see who they go back to as a secondary issue and it's the principle that they should be relinquished that is most important.
There is also a very similar thing that we have in sports: betting.

Independent sites exist for esports betting. In Dota 2 there is also betting on pro games with the in-game shards that are earned only by playing (if the player is subscribed to this program with a fixed fee).
If you set up a business, instead of just burning the loan, shouldn't that new business expand the economy just a little?