skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only because the illegality of piracy increased the friction of viewing the illegal copies (not to mention a history of legal action against parties who view said copies). Make copying legal and the friction would all but vanish (think popcorn time with many more active devs and no legal push to get it taken down), making it easier to watch at home than to watch at the theater.

The theater offers very few practical enhancements to the viewing of a movie that aren't available in your average home theater system.
Good thing that isn't happening then. Except maybe in China where Google and Apple like to operate.
It's a UN-based forced rate subsidy for developing nations that China still benefits from.

"According to the U.S. Postal Service, it costs around $20 to mail a small parcel weighing 4.4 pounds from one U.S. state to another, yet mailing the same package from China only costs about $5."

"The Universal Postal Union, a United Nations agency that sets postal rates among its 192-member countries, dictates USPS's artificially low rates. It bizarrely groups China – the world’s second-largest economy – with developing nations like Gabon and Fiji into its third tier of shipping rates, which are just a fraction of what the developed world must pay."

"USPS loses about $300 million per year on Chinese imports - losing about $1 per small package it delivers."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/04/trump_...
Interesting.

Now, back to my question: Do US sellers have access to this slow shipping option?
For smartphones, I think there's a huge amount of work still needed to make them accessible/understandable/safe for the uninitiated, including but not limited to the elderly and isolated. If, as seems horribly likely, we're moving toward a future where smartphones are not optional, something has to give.

The obvious problem is that it's not a glamorous or technically impressive thing to be working on, and isn't going to be remotely interesting to the people who'd be working on it because, well, they already know how to use their smartphones.
Punitive fines and fees are bad. Abuse of civil forfeiture is worse. But worse still are a minority of towns that not only are dependent on punitive fines, but that levy them in a racially biased way.

See https://www.npr.org/2014/08/25/343143937/in-ferguson-court-f... for an explanation of how this helped ignite the racial tension that Ferguson had a few years ago.
Every time on the 395 between Bishop and Mammoth.
Last time i explained the concept I was even less polite and got downvoted :) but yes
For housing the big problem is it not the cost of construction but real estate prices and those are due to laws
Hi folks, I’m one of the authors of Unison (Programming Language). Didn’t expect to see this on HN, but happy to try to answer questions about our pre-alpha-release language :)
Using a "study in journalism" as an appeal to authority w.r.t. the reputability of a media company is really strange, citation or no.
The end never justify the means.
DNS Negative Caching in the Wild
Busses and commercial traffic also use and require roads. They don’t exist just for those commuting by car.
I'm right up your pizzazz, co-trigger. I agree with everything you've said. Trucking Google, man, trucking Chromium feels like a Prestapo cell too. How the truck are we gonna live man.
Ok, go live in the arctic without any electricity since it's so easy then. Just because we can live in worse conditions doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for improvement, and as may come as a surprise to some people, most people like having parking available and find cars convenient.
That's not what grandparent claimed, though. "Intellectual property" is an umbrella term for copyright, trademarks, patents, design protection laws, etc. throwaway_law's retort seems justified to me.
I see your point about residential being stacked as well. However the marginal increase in supply of real estate by taking 10% of what's used by parking hardly seems sufficient to make a dent in the supply/demand curve of the market.

As for eliminating free parking, I think it would have a disproportionate effect on people at the lower end of income. Everyone else can absorb the cost. Even if that isn't the case, the effect would be to push more people to mass transit. That's not a bad thing, but mass transit is already unable to keep up with needs.

It would need to be accompanied by mass transit infrastructure improvements. That would be a political hot potato, requiring either tax increases or issuing debt via bond to pay for it in the short term until fares could cover the costs in the long term. So add political & public awareness campaigning to the solution. What looks like a silver bullet becomes ever more complex.
Substances don't have a single "color". Air, for instance, scatters blue but transmits more red. So if you look at a light source through a lot of air, it's red (such as a sunset) and if you look obliquely to the light source, it's blue.
There are repeated efforts to advance copyright to fashion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Piracy_Prohibition_Act

This used to be something that NY Senators would announce almost yearly to throw a bone to the fashion industry.
Why were the fines the only way to keep parts of the town alive?
it is also what php did initially :)
I have uMatrix set up to block third-party scripts by default and loads of sites work just fine. I am very liberal in approving things that are necessary for the functionality I want (such as third-party video players, etc) but a lot of the internet doesn't seem to degrade at all.
Ah, I see, so we could abolish IP law by renaming it to Conditionally Shared Secrets and keeping all provisions the same? No, that would be ridiculous. The concept of intellectual property is obviously unaffected by the implementation of the enforcement regime.
Insurance is one of the most popular upsells, especially for low cost carriers, though it's usually only your luggage they'll hint they might not manage to convey to your destination harmed...
I may not have phrased it well, but I wasn't implying that the original poster would have the same problems. I was just saying this change -- which I still think is fair -- may not be only upside for American customers and sellers, if current policies don't change.
Looks like a subjective hobby farmer blog. Not meant to be an expert. I can appreciate the piece, but would rather see more research, and less anecdotal or subjective information.
If they are going to use minor violations of the law as a pretext for revenue collection, they should call it what it is: kleptocracy.

If those places are dying out, it's probably best to let them turn into ghost towns because they have succumbed to corruption as a way of life.
This is where scavengers and decomposers come in.

It's relatively rare that living organisms die without being part of some further biological change, though that does happen. Fossil fuels are formed through lack of biological decomposition, as are precursor materials: peat bogs, kerogenated biomass, abiotic methane. Deaths in desert, arctic, or alpine conditions may simply dessicate and degrade rather than being eaten.

The entropic channel may pass through biological mechanism, but there's no obligation that it must.
They are real minimalists, Lol.
So basically you just described LA as it already is: a number of independent city cores that are part of a larger connected sprawling urbanized area, except without the high-speed public transport between independent city cores (though the public transport is now being built).
Of course this is bad for eBay, and perhaps etsy, shopify and others. The flood of direct-from-China sellers selling cheap products and shipping for free (on USPS's dime) will stop.
I use an adblocker and support the developer of ThreadReader. So I don't see the ads.
"we should turn 10% of all current parking spaces into low-income housing" wasn't a proposal on the site. It was more of a demonstration that, if we could do that, we would satisfy the entire deficit of low-income renters that currently exists in LA. The actual policy proposals were at the end:

1. No universal parking minimums. Developers choose how much parking the market requires.

2. Parking Maximums in Transit Oriented Communities.

3. All new parking garages must be built with a flat floor and a high enough ceiling to allow future conversion into office, studio, or living space.

4. 20% of parking spaces must include EV charging, with the rest install ready.

5. Garages must include an equivalent number of bicycle/micro-mobility parking spaces.

I would say suggestions 2-5 get progressively worse, but suggestion 1 is really good and backed up by the data presented.
That was the town with one cop per 50 residents, wasn't it?
But doesn't one mode of creation exclude the other? How many patrons will pay to have something made in the current world, knowing they could just recoup their money? I think you could even argue that patrons would care more, because who wants to be the guy who creates crap? Versus the current "if they think it's good enough, I guess everyone's happy" attitude.

It seems to me that content will get created regardless. Whether it's better is as you say a matter of taste, but both worlds have existed.

You can't be serious that Avengers is on par with the epics.
You can do this by using linked in + Glassdoor + levels.fyi smartly.
I'd agree we're in a fallow period and have been since 2015 or so.

I was thinking recently about the nature of fallow periods in tech and wondering if they're actually tied up with emotional cycling in the general public. It's impossible for millions of people to remain excited forever. Instead, we get bubble years where new innovations are coming out fast and furious, sentiment is rising, people are happy and excited, prosperity will go on forever; hype years, where the public unconsciously knows the innovations being hyped aren't useful but companies still have money to burn; and then we get bust years where everyone gets disillusioned, there are predictions that everything useful has already been invented, much teeth-gnashing about the decline of innovation, and an increased focus on politics, social ills, and gaming or other distractions (none of which ever get solved or go away, we just forget about them during bubble years).

Thinking about tech cycles in my own lifetime, we had bubble (1981-1987, driven by the PC & GUI), hype (1987-1991, driven by AI, 3D graphics, CD-ROMs, speech recognition), bust (1991-1995), bubble (1995-1998, Internet), hype (1998-2001, dot-coms), bust (2001-2004), bubble (2004-2007, Web 2.0), hype (2007-2008, when everybody and their mother had a social network), bust (2009-2010), bubble (2011-2014, mobile), hype (2014-2015: AR/VR, AI, smartwatches, self-driving cars, Theranos, Juicero), bust (2016-present). Bust cycles seem to last 3-4 years, so we're probably nearing the end of this one, but it's still unclear what round of innovations will kick off the next bubble.
"Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" is a more modern book to OS concepts, explained with real source code as opposed to algorithms, and is regularly updated.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

(Online version above, you can also order a print copy).
In case anyone else is confused by the term "Vox-Popped"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vox-pop
"a broadcast for radio or television in which people going past in a public place are asked their opinion on a particular subject"
> This project is hugely inspired by Glassdoor. As this information starts to become more freely available

I assume by "freely available" you'll make the information publicly accessible and won't require an email to access?
Fully funding pensions out to 50 years in the future goes beyond "fiscally responsible". Consider that the nominal working lifetime of an employee is only 47 years (18 - 65) -- they're being required to fund pensions for hypothetical employees who are still in high school.
Sure, discursive thinking is useful, but doing it as an unconscious habit is problematic. That's what meditation seeks to help address, for example, and cease the endless 'chatter in your skull'. Like, when you're thirsty and see a bottle of water on the counter, why think to yourself "I'm thirsty. There's some water there I can drink." Who are you talking to? You know you are thirsty, and you know you can drink it. The discursive thinking to echo it to yourself is just a bad, clutter-some habit.
There was a banana shortage in Australia. All the banana plantations were too geographically concentrated and were damaged by a cyclone. I remember a peak of AU$16 per kg bananas, circa 2006.
Microoptimizations performed by someone else is only really a problem if they sacrifice something else to acheive them. So if it meant that writing Elm code was a horrendous buggy experience in order to achieve that extra 50kb, then sure that's a problem.

But when its added on top of a really pleasant development experience then you don't really need to to think about it too much. All it really is saying is that you aren't paying for it with extra code bloat.. Which is a great thing!
So you've still made the whole experience less convenient in absolute terms but made another option more convenient relatively. That is not a success. It's like dumping a pile of venomous snakes in the upstairs bathtub so now I have to go downstairs, thus now the downstairs bathtub is more convenient.
What about the use of taxpayer funds to enforce ownership of ideas? That seems like putting wrong incentives in place. If the state effectively enforces ownership of ideas, then the cost of enforcement is paid by almost nobody who benefits from that enforcement. It's going to distort markets big time.
According to Quora [0], ad revenue from YouTube is about $1 per thousand views. I doubt that programming live streaming is mainstream enough to be sustainable from ads alone.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-YouTube-pay-per-1000-vie...
I think it's the word "rabid" that carries a certain cartoonish meaning. But I don't think I mentioned authoritarianism.
(note for posterity: the survey was just of Eastern Oklahoma voters, not nationwide. I don't know if the same held true outside Oklahoma.)
I would be happier paying for media if I just received what I wanted. Instead, I see ads I don't want to see, often disturbing ads since violence is so much a part of media these days, or just sloppy guesses based on guessificial intelligence. These interruptions are focused on distracting me at any cost, with the belief that's the only goal ("killing time" is a phrase that's often used). As well, all the media companies are biased toward their own offerings, so it's inherently filtered. From what I understand about well-organized privacy, it has none of these issues.
>So it does seem to be an opportunity you can exploit.

There are effectively zero opportunities you can exploit by simply purchasing the stock of publicly traded companies. The probability that they bounce back after a recession is incorporated into the price, the professional investors and hedge funds you're trading against aren't idiots.

>Your second paragraph seems to have shifted to a completely different asset class. No doubt there was fantastic prices on model aircraft kits, but you need to know the market, and it isn't apparent to me whether the model aircraft kit market will behave the same the next time. Plus it's more risky. If I buy a stock, I don't have to worry about it being fake, getting damaged, I can sell trivially at the touch of a button.

The point isn't investing, it's to get the hobby gear you want at a good price. Any potential resale profit is very much a secondary concern.
From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Transient Fn Containers [pdf]
What's better - high quality and enjoyable, but derivative entertainment, or a substantial drop in the amount of available entertainment?

Have no doubt, even truly creative works would suffer, since there's no incentive for investors to invest even in truly creative work, since there's no monetary return on investment - just a movie which they can't monetize.

Imagine if George RR Martin had to hold a day job in addition to writing - how many books would he have actually written by this point?
If you've driven between LA and SF you'll most likely be very aware of Kings County. A notorious speed trap that requires you to be on site to contest their questionable infractions.
Sure, and that's what a lot of smart libraries are evolving towards.

One of ours locally has a tool library and 3D printing, which I think is awesome. Performance spaces for poetry, music, etc.
> For instances, I believe Portland, has lower property taxes closer to the city center than the outer boroughs to incentivize people/business to move there.

Unless this was written down in law as guaranteed for a certain number of years, I am not sure I would trust it. In leaner times there will be a lot of pressure on politicians to bring those taxes in parity with other areas; especially if it is a success and property values climb. It's pretty easy to imagine a totally unfair 'pay your fair share' campaign.
Ask HN: Are You Returning to Wow Classic?
So WoW Classic launched last night and it looks like over a million people were in the login queue (going off of various Twitch streams and my own 1.5 hour wait in the queue). I don’t know if this is a one off or not yet, but seeing that many people on a product launch made a good impression on me.

Anyone on HN returning to WoW Classic? What made the original game great to play? How does it compare with the current expansion?

And before someone asks “WhY iS tHiS oN Hn????”, WoW Classic is still a product launch that we can all discuss and learn from.
So how does this thing work? Does the private cloud only exist when the storage device is plugged in?

I see "smart TV" as a host option, does that mean the storage devices can use unaware USB hosts to be a communication mechanism?

Interesting idea, I'll have to try it @home. Whitepaper on how the tech works would be nice.
Perhaps! But for now, we're limiting access to those who are willing to contribute to the community. For those people, the information will be "free as in beer".
Code from the paper: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg

Source from another HN comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20795154) -

This work was led by my student Sadjad Fouladi. If you liked Salsify, you might really like Sadjad's talk in June at USENIX ATC about "gg", his system for letting people use AWS Lambda as a rented supercomputer (e.g. he can compile inkscape and Chromium really fast by outsourcing the computation to 8,000 Lambda nodes that all talk to each other directly over UDP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc_MVldSijA (code here: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg)
Before emojis: the utopian graphic language of Marie and Otto Neurath
> developers (incl. Nintendo themselves) often chose to rely on the OAM-object "components" of a entity as the canonical handle for tracking the entity in the game physics

I don't know how the SNES worked, but AFAIK most NES games did not track objects in this way. Instead, the game engine maintained its own buffers containing object state and copied necessary information to OAM every frame.

OAM only stored graphics state for the rendering hardware, which is not a convenient form for the game engine for a number of reasons. For instance, objects are nearly always composed of several OAM sprites placed next to each other, objects that are not visible during a given frame are not present in OAM, and a single animated object can switch between so many different graphical forms that it would be complicated to identify which object corresponds to a graphics tile from OAM. Additionally, OAM doesn't have extra room for non-graphical object state (like behavior timers or velocity information).
Morgan Stanley also has its own proprietary programming language
I'm not familiar with the "rfs page"- what is it?
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I mean... people have been using the internet for porn for a long, long time. We've never expected our email provider to also happen to collect analytics on our less public browsing habits. "Private" mode was originally just to keep your porn out of your browser history, not to defeat trackers.
so sounds like this will be bad for alibaba. Has anyone seen any quantitative numbers on this?
That's a fair point. Come to think of it, hit singles seem to be a lottery - most of the successful ones aren't much different from the unsuccessful ones, except that they reach the threshold of popularity (after which it becomes a positive feedback loop for a while). Spending money on promotion increases the chances of a single to win the lottery.

So I guess I must concede the point. At least in pop music, it could be argued that the value of the work alone is small, and almost all of the value is created by third parties. You gave me something to think about.
> Only one clearly neutral noun exists: homo = “person” (cf. French homme = “man”). Even the affix ‑ul, although glossed as “person”, is widely treated as male by default; if it wasn't, “young people” would always be junuloj instead of junuloj kaj junulinoj!

The language evolves. The gender system of modern Esperanto is remarkably similar to English: pronouns are he/she/it depending on the gender and animacy of the referent; nouns don't have grammatical gender, but may refer to a gendered class of people or animals (mostly family relations, but also a few relatively rare terms like duke, duchess, abbot, abbess, steer, cock).

The vast majority of nouns are what the Complete Handbook of Esperanto Grammar (PMEG) calls "sekse neutraj radikoj" (sexually neutral roots), and most speakers today treat these as completely gender neutral, referring to any individual, and many have done so since the early 20th century, in contrast to the "traditional" use of the "-in" suffix when referring to an individual woman or groups of only women.
If it doesn't exist, it's because you haven't created it.

Wanna help me with the task of redesigning government to focus on well-being from the very bottom by rewriting the Declaration of Independence as a Song for Autonomous Interdependence, changing the unrealistic concepts in it?

It'll be easy. I give you a song lyric and you tell me if you think it's a lovely sentiment or not. If so, we're probably on the right track because the things we need can be the hardest to imagine.
Which SaaS company has the most variance in price?
I don't want to move every time I change jobs. I thought no most people share my preference.
I'm genuinely surprised not to see any Rhode Island cities/towns on this. Speed cameras have shown up like a plague in Providence in the past year and are expected to spread throughout the state.

https://www.wpri.com/news/providence-speed-cameras-were-a-mo...
With business software it's more complex...it isn't just a download link being sold...it's support: help choosing the right products, getting things set up, having someone to call when things go wrong, continued updates, possible customization, etc. The actual "fair price" depends quite a bit on what the buying company looks like.
People are asking 'why does speed matter?'

If you use nix then you'll know that a “nix-shell -p” is basically the url-bar of the browser.

If a browser is a VM in your OS then why not run distri in a VM and speedily launch native apps, horribly useless example.. for now.

If the browser is eating the world anyway then incentives to have native apps be incompatible between operating systems fade away and throwaway envs like nix-shell (and to a lesser extent nixos-shell) become even more interesting. . So long as they are fast enough to feel as effortless as opening a web page.