skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year, I bought a MoviePass t-shirt from the company’s merch site in anticipation of just this event. I’m going to wear it tomorrow.

But more seriously, as someone who has followed MoviePass since 2011 (I was even on a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival with the OG founder/CEO, something I forgot about until I found a photo of myself on Getty doing a Google search), I’m sad that a startup that probably wasn’t ever going to work flamed our this way, backed by a penny stock company that has all the hallmarks of being involved in something really unsavory (I’m not saying Helios & Matheson are con artists or involved in some sort of money laundering scheme; I’m just saying I understand why people might ask that question).

The truth is, the MoviePass model would never work without partnership with the theater chains (and possibly studios — tho that’s gets a little tricker b/c of the Paramount Decree), and even then, that would only be temporary. Even without Ted and Mitch intentionally trolling the theater chains, AMC and Regal would ultimately figure out that If they were serious about a subscription plan, it would make more sense to build it in house/keep it limited to its own brands, rather than paying a middle man for customers that might not have chain loyalty.

Stacy Spikes, The MoviePass founder and CEO (who was replaced as CEO before the $10 plan launched and was then unceremoniously fired) is a great guy. I was glad to read even all of this insanity has helped him raise money for his next thing.

As for the other clowns, well, I’m thankful for the year plus of entertainment.
Are any such companies like this listed on a US stock exchange? I'm thinking this has got to hit some companies with serious risk to sales or profit?
In American feed lots? That's not what I read in the Omnivore's Dilemma. It was the opposite actually.
If you want a database that is arbitrarily horizontally scalable, there aren't really good open source options.

As a former employee it isn't clear to me that Monzo couldn't have used boring stuff for a while and switched to C* or some equivalent later when it was genuinely needed, but it's worked well enough for them that I'm not inclined to critique the decision post hoc.
I suppose what's called welder is not "Schweißer" in German, but a "Schlosser", which would be subdivided by application, and had a lot in common with a mechanic (a wrench is a "Schlüssel", literally a key, compare French "cle anglaise" - monkey wrench).

Welding would just be learned as part of the job, whether as plumber or mechanic, once upon a time even as electrician (who now doesn't even learn to solder).

I say "had", because the mechanic nowadays is taught mostly as a "Mechatroniker", since electronics have become ubiquitious in machines.

The secondary education systems differ from the US, I hear. Nevertheless, most training happens on the job, with one school day per week over 3 odd years in case of these jobs--which ammounts to 6 month of schooling. Pay starts at ca. 15 Eur after graduation (and is miserable, below minimum wage, for the apprenticeship). Several possibilities to diversify afterwards exist, but many slug along without going for e.g. technician or master studies. The exams can be taken out of school under certain limited conditions. etc. p. p.

"Schweißer" is not a registered apprenticeship, but qualification is offered and eventually necessary; job opportunities exist, almost solely through temp agencies, starting at ca 12 Eur; no publically indexed opportunity in Berlin. One adverisement mentions that up to 100 different welding techniques exist (need to be known, as they say) from once a mere five.

I'd imagine kinds of certificates in welding can be optained in crash courses. In contrast, professional-welder does not strike me as an entry level position, nor as a common job. I haven't met any, to say the least.

I do remember a special note about the welding jobs done on the Wendelstein-X project, mentioned in a podcast with the leader of the programm. That was followed by a note about a Swiss specialists detecting defects in custom coils, who was described like the master of an arcane art in the best tradition of swiss watchmakers. (check alternativlos.de if you understand .de)
Yeah, the article starts out describing $150k salaries in Ohio then makes a case study of some guy in the notoriously-poor North Carolina Appalachian region who didn't even become a welder.

What kind of piss-poor journalism is that?
I'd hire pretty much anyone who actually did most of the exercises in How to Design Programs + Types and Programming Languages.
Seems expensive, a flight could be cheaper?
> but not "why is i rotating a complex number at all".

Yes, this part requires getting a good amount of practice with vectors, and is best saved for kids aged maybe 10+ (depends a lot on the kid and their level of preparation).

The most straight-forward approach is to define I to mean a quarter turn rotation anticlockwise in the plane. Then try to figure out what a quantity like Z = a + bI (where a and b are scalars) would mean: if we multiply it by a vector v we get Zv = av + bIv, that is: a part of the vector av pointed in the same direction as v plus a part of the vector bIv pointed in a perpendicular direction.

Now we can investigate what happens when we multiply I(Iv): we rotate v a quarter turn, then another quarter turn. Or in other words, I(Iv) = –v for any v. Because our multiplication is associative and vectors have inverses, we can write II = –1.

The tricky part of the abstraction here is that we can treat scale + rotation transformations of the plane like numbers. Multiplying them corresponds to composition of transformations. Adding them and then applying the sum to a vector is the same as applying each separately and adding the parts afterward.

Getting comfortable with this algebraic system is certainly not trivial.

Then there is a neat insight that when we take a pure rotation’s logarithm (a.k.a. “angle measure”), that turns out to have magnitude proportional to the arclength between two rotated points on a circle.
Why bother with actual definitions when you can make up your own? This has been a common thread I've seen going around in my different groups lately. I don't know if it's the start of a new trend or a temporary resurgence of the fallacy. It's not like it's uninformed zealots either, many of the people I interact with are generally decent, logical people with serious flaws in logic. While I'm comfortable with cognitive dissonance, I'm not comfortable with blatantly twisting facts by people who should be aware that they are doing it.
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You're right, I didn't say I lost weight at the same rate. Oh well.

Cool? It seems you're mostly interested in your own opinions - both with regards to my empirical evidence and your connotation of the word. I'm not interested in either.

Also, your analysis of my losing weight on 3500 calories requiring my TDEE to be >3500 is drastically marred by your clear assumption that a calorie = a calorie. You're incapable of accepting anything that doesn't fall into line with that assumption. Strong bias.
"1.6x smoother than a maglev bullet train"? There aren't even any "maglev bullet" trains in service. (Unless they're referring to the Shanghai Transrapid, which is bumpy as hell but takes only about 10 minutes.)
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Flights in Canada are very expensive. If they could perfect the experience and expand the market I could see this working well. They could sell "Travel Across Canada" all while you sleep. Wake up in a new location each day. All of Canada in a week. No going to the air port and all that mess just meet back at the bus at a certain hour.
Yeah, which sucks as someone living in LA. The last thing I want is a Sun -> Fri trip to SF..
> Inflation of the lungs happens immediately after birth, among a cascade of other events that happen quickly following birth, clearly distinguishing an unborn baby from a born baby.

But like literally none of this happens in the case of premature enough babies who often need intubation, and yet who -- if intentionally killed -- would trigger a murder investigation
> I'm not against Facebook moderating their platform, but they should have all of the editorial responsibilities and liabilities that come with that.

I read the first part of your post as an argument that the actual definition of neutrality is prone to bias and corruption, and that politicians can't be trusted to define what is and isn't neutral.

Given that reading, I don't understand how adding legal liability would help keep Ted Cruz from subverting moderation efforts or redefining what neutrality means. Wouldn't that just give him more ammo to throw at Facebook when he claims that they need to to adhere to a constantly changing standard?
> In a world before multi-core processors, these threads weren’t actually running simultaneously, as the underlying processor could only execute one instruction at a time.

This is not true. Before multi-core processors there were many computers with multiple CPUs.

Is the author under 30 or something?
The Meritocracy Trap
Oh, it's not that I find it controversial, favor an alternative or object to any of it. It seemed quite compelling, and I'm open to it. It's just that I've only read a single book on the topic, and health and physiology are fiendishly complex, and I long ago discovered that a single book, even if compelling and seemingly supported, may still not represent the whole picture.
JavaScript or TypeScript don't have the problem (except for globals, but those are usually few and far between).

Python doesn't have this problem (unless you use wildcard imports, which is often recommend against [1]).

Java does not have this problem, except for protected/internal classes which have only local use anyway (yes there are wildcard imports, but they are rather rare [2]).

Go has this problem for files in the same package, but not from other packages.

C and C++ are far from a hallmark of readability. Though there is at least a common C++ practice to at least always use the fully qualified name [3].

Ruby shares this issue.

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What makes Scala worse is that wildcard imports are strongly encouraged by libraries and in very frequently found practice, for things such as implicits whose whole purpose is to not be explicitly named.

Plus in Scala, object, classes, fields, methods...all of these can be imported into the scope. So in practice this becomes a more common problem.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3615125/should-wildcard-...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/147454/why-using-a-wild-...

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452721/why-is-using-nam...
What are the alternatives?

Since you all like car analogies,
then you would have only 2 car producers Ford and Toyota,
Ford does work cars and Toyota city cars, so your choices are limited to the extreme. Then say you buy a Ford and want to put a cat sticker on your car, you can't do it yourself and you go to a Frod store, then when you want to buy the cat sticker the store people direct you to buy dog stickers made by Ford, you insist you don't want the Ford sticker but a cat sticker so they send you to search in the back where the lights are dim because only Ford products get illuminated and put n the front of the store.

The people that make stickers don't like it at all when you want to buy a cat stickers but Ford are not showing them to you but instead pushing you to get the dog ones made by them. Then you ask some respect from Ford and they say if you don't like it don't use it you have so many choices (in fact just 1),
MOVIEPASS4EVER

Probably my favorite startup yet. If you're going to burn through millions of VC money, may as well let everyone come along for the ride!
It gets sold of course. Unfortunately you need to be involved in the right circles to have a shot at grabbing any of the IP. If you are lucky enough to be in those you could grab it for as low as USD 1000.
I'm all for high speed rail, but why is it so expensive and why does it take so long to build?

China has been able to build out a high speed network fairly quickly. Why is it that? Is it just because they're cutting corners?
No, bioavailability of the nutrient is the only real thing that matters when it comes to fertilizers. Most organic fertilizers are not as bioavailable as even the most basic hydroponic fertilizer.
I don't think the lack of minerals in food explains obesity issues. In fact, I'm pretty sure we know what causes obesity. Significantly lower levels of activity and increased sugar consumption are two of the main culprits.
The limited amount in multivitamin/mineral supplements is actually a legal restriction, to boot.
Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

If you're disagreeing, frankly, almost everything you said sounds like a bunch of platitudes... and I don't understand what you disagree with.

If you're agreeing, frankly, almost everything you said sounds like a bunch of platitudes... and I have no idea what your central point is.
You didn't answer the other question, which is just as important. What are the consequences of it ending? Not just to China, but to the US and the world? The article doesn't address that except to say "Beijing may retaliate" and "USPS wants to establish agreements with foreign posts."

You can't weigh two options if you only know the weight of one of them.
America’s First Taco Editor Says That Burritos Are Tacos
> "Trump invented tariffs" is the the current media narrative, but it's not even close to being true.

That's not the narrative. The narrative is the Trump idiotically thinks he can win a trade war through escalating high tariffs if his demands aren't met immediately. He is looking for short-term benefits instead of long-term benefits.
> have people associate poor quality with Chinese goods

Nobody is going to associate poor quality with Chinese goods while iPhones and most luxury continue to be made in China.

> keep up appearances

Nobody should know what drugs I'm on, much less the brand I take.
usmle step1 exam scores are a determining factor for whether students can match into certain residency programs in the US. Typically individuals who score high on their step 1 match into competitive residency programs (which include surgical specialty residencies, dermatology, and radiology)
You mean the US should've rather pushed within UPU for fair rules?
Sorry, no. I have a "least effort" approach. Browser plugins and use DDG. I assume everything about me is still being recorded by someone somewhere.
Good and bad.

I find it quite useful to purchase parts and goods directly from China at 1/10 the cost of buying the exact same Chinese made goods from a middleman for 10x more.

Now if I was buying non-Chinese goods that would be a different issue of course. But such are not available, nor will changing shipping costs make these goods made in USA.

Going forward we will be able to buy the exact same Chinese goods as before, but at much greater cost. However it will enrich middlemen whom we didn't need before.

In any case this will mostly affect small shipments. Larger shipments than China Post air packets (let's say 2-20kg) currently are sent through services like DHL and SF Express. SF Express is able to handle mid size (>1kg) packages economically. They send a container load of Chinese goods to the US at which point they are broken out and dropped into the US postal service, paying full domestic rate at that point.

Pulling out of this treaty will also affect our costs of shipping overseas. Granted we don't ship to China so much but we do ship other places. Also things like buying books from UK booksellers, and selling books to the UK, is feasible under this treaty. That will be less feasible. Prices will go up. Which has its advantages and disadvantages.
Same, and I feel that half way through its lifespan I felt I had already missed the boat to get enough out of it.

I also don't go to the movies enough anymore. I watch so much on flights now that more and more things are moved into the "I'll just watch it on a flight in a few months" territory. The flights themselves being pretty cheap or free - subsidized by the merchants that paid for my points.
Organic particularly means "no roundup". Non-organic crops tend to be round-up resistant strains. If the seed engineers for said strains weren't being careful, they could have affected other aspects of the seed's physiology while selecting for round-up resistance.

One concrete example is how certain modern strains of apple seeds have weaker dormancy, causing imbibing and radicand emergence to occur prematurely, usually before the apple is even eaten. Such changes are an unintended consequence of human selection for size. It's possible that the tinkering required to increase plant vigor in the presence of non-organic pesticides has a greater adverse effect on mineral content. Though there are lots of other variables to consider as well such as soils, fertilizers, storage and transportation, the positioning of plants, whether they are able to share nutrients.
Because China can tell you “hey you don’t live here anymore” and plow right through neighborhoods and farms. Our property rights in the US are pretty absolute.
Psiga seems to be a person named Patrick Murphy (based on the recent change history: https://sites.google.com/site/psigamp3/system/app/pages/rece...) and they've uploaded at least one other phosphor test such as this one from 2011:
https://sites.google.com/site/psigamp3/phosphorsim-gettingcl...

They also uploaded something as recently as 2017 so it might be possible to reach out to them and get a response?

Not sure if that helps find / reach out to them but I can hope.
I eat potassium chloride (usually sold as salt substitute for people on low sodium diets) on occasion, like when fasting or working out. It has this awful, stingy metallic taste, but I’ve noticed I tend to have less fatigue and soreness from strength training afterwards. Might be placebo but YMMV.
It's actually even worse than this. I'm on the fringes of a community that does a lot of metal art, so I know a few welders who make good (but not great) money doing welding. But they all are artists, and they all have college degrees, and couldn't attract the art contracts they do without their college pedigree. It's disingenuous to say "Welding makes good money" and "Welding doesn't require a college degree" in the same breath, because many of the higher-income welders actually do have college degrees which increase their income, which skews the statistics.

There are three people I know who weld but don't make much money. One makes most of her money on banking software, and the other two don't have degrees.
Fellow former neuroscientist here! The proliferation of pseudo-neuro explanations and analogies is infuriating. I envy people like theoretical physicists who work in a field where laypeople don't feel like they have an intuitive understanding of their subject area.
The last time I saw my doctor she mentioned Calcium supplements can cause kidney stones(1). They can also be bad for your heart(2). Also, it often is not clear how pure supplements are. She advised me to get as many nutrients as I could from my regular food.

1 - https://www.webmd.com/kidney-stones/news/20151013/calcium-su...
2 - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-attack/...
Segment tree that behaves just like Git
There's another similar service for concerts and events.

Pay $40 a month to attend 3 concerts, sporting events or events in general. I used it here in the DC/Baltimore area for concerts..live it. Though do wonder how me paying $13 for a concert ticket vs. $50 to $60 they'll stay in business?

It's called InWeGo...available in select US cities.
> because they are among the worst polluters

[citation needed]

Another thing: this isn't an issue where it is soley about personal carbon footprints. It is nice to do something on a personal level, but we are in deep fucking need of big political measures. Don't get me wrong, I cycle everywhere. I don't own a car, the wood that I own makes my carbon footprint negative – but that isn't going to save the planet, because only very few people are lucky enough to even be able considering adopting such a position.

So if we critizise people who professionally lobby for stricter climate measures, I fear we should show them how to do it better or remain silent. Armchair experts and all that jazz.
I agree. Even when writing cloud formation templates you have to sometimes create what basically consisted of locks to ensure that one resource doesn’t get created before another one and ensure that certain resources don’t get created in parallel to avoid throttling (parameter store).

And if that’s not “real programming” sometimes you actually do end up writing custom resources in a “real programming language” that get called from CF to create resources.

I’m very much up and down the stack any given week going from the front end, middleware, databases and infrastructure not to mention building out CI/CD pipelines.
You could make the same argument about China. Why shouldn't they just agree to no longer be subsidized in exchange for keeping the US in the trade agreement?

Either the price different isn't a huge deal, and China should just pay the cost of the shipments, or the price is a big enough deal that China finds this extremely unfavorable, and "the US should just keep doing it because it's not a big deal" no longer applies.
See also Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

TLDR: RoI (capital) > RoI (labor), with the expected consequences.
>The most straight-forward approach is to define I to mean a quarter turn rotation anticlockwise in the plane

Like I said originally, if you're just defining i to work this way, you're not conveying any of the insight behind why this is a natural extension of the existing rules/definitions of i, sine, exponentiation, etc.

All your latest comment is doing is meticulously spelling out the concept of rotation in a plane. Again, that's not the hard(est) part of proving this result or of conveying the intuition. You're handwaving away 90% of it. It's not reasonable to characterize someone as "understanding" it because they get rotation, the last 10%.
Because it is inaccurate.
Creating an API from HTML: Scraping Amazon Reviews into Google Sheets
Judging by families I've known - even if you ignore the still common stillbirths (something that's heartbreaking for those it happens to) - it's still pretty high.
My own family lost one, another family I know lost some, know others who lost some too. It's still too common.

I've known too many people who probably wouldn't have survived childbirth either, if it weren't for modern medicine. (particularly including my own mother)

This is all changes within "recent history" - my great grandparents were born before any of this were available.

I came close to dying too, of a disease that now has widespread vaccination. That vaccination wasn't available when I was little, and that disease still kills many where such isn't available - and most particularly children.
And one will live the rest of one's life with the complications in a bad case.
"But I don’t see why organic food would actually have more minerals."

It could be the opposite too. There's some evidence that, in some cases, purely hydroponic greenhouse-grown produce, which often qualifies and is sold as "organic", has fewer nutrients than soil-grown produce.
Right, and it's almost impossible to eat so much fruit that the fructose causes harm.
I agree. While reading, I keep thinking of pydantic (https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/) which FastAPI utilizes.
> says should not be questioned

do you have examples of this happening?
Eh at least those merchants still made money on it, moviepass basically never made a cent
aha, I see what I did there :blush:.
Did you miss the graph? It looks like \___. But then they have asterisks because the historical measurement methods are probably not accurate.

I like one of their references, suggesting it's due to modern farming practices: https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/44/1...