skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think you understood his point. It's not about comics. It could as well be monster flicks or romcoms or what have you. The genre, in fact, the entire content, is irrelevant to his point. It's about the creative process that underlies the making of the movie. Let's make a technical analogy.

There's a profound difference in products made by the vision of a single person or maybe two co-founders, and the kind of products that are design-by-committee in big enterprises. The first kind takes risks, explores new ideas, disrupts the industry. The second kind is usually made to fit a predetermined market niche. It exploits market analysis, and usually leverages some existing tech in order to quickly deliver RoI.

And that's what Marvel movies are. They're soulless, because no soul has written or directed them. Every detail has been polished and considered by several other people. But it's just Marvel, it's all franchise movies. It didn't even start with Marvel. It's just the most successful and most prominent example.
Dang it, I completely missed that and now I can't edit it. Doesn't everyone's radio have a volunteer knob?
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The only way Uber works as a service is if you leverage all the people that want to be a taxi driver for a few minutes, so are will g to take less than a living wage because it's extra income that they trade time (and a vehicle) that they weren't utilizing much already during that time, which allows rates lower than taxis.

The only way Uber works as an investment (at the level they've accepted money) is if they somehow kill off traditional taxis and all competition and become the only game in town (where "town" is basically the whole U.S.), and charge taxi rates or above.

Given that the cost of entry I to the market (at least for customers willing to see the cheaper rates) is essentially zero as by the nature of the business your drivers can drive for anyone, making Uber work as an investment doesn't look very likely to me. Not that I'll feel all that bad when those people lose money. I'll just call that karmic justice for investing in a company with such a horrible record (I believe if Uber didn't have billions invested by the elite they would have been shut down or heavily regulated for bad business practices years ago).
As someone raised by two teachers I can say that my parents both had to work two to four different jobs at times just to struggle to keep up. Whatever that statistic is claiming, it doesn't reflect reality in at least some cases.
This doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation, even in the slightest, but thanks for making me smile!
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I think Krispy Kreme will be okay no matter what donut man does. It's worth hundreds of millions, it has 4300 employees, operates in multiple countries, it has been around for nearly a century.

In a "rogue donut man" scenario, I think Krispy Kreme would do fine because it already has employees or contractors who talk to the press and argue with the public on corporate social media.

As for your friend's opinions about grubhub, if his restaurant is a similar size to Krispy Kreme - i.e. international franchise, over $500 million revenue - then I could have an easier time imagining that his fears align perfectly with the fears of c-level execs at Krispy Kreme; right now I just don't know if your friend really reflects the conciousness of Krispy Kreme's high-muck-a-mucks because I don't know if the two companies are equally vulnerable to internet slander.
Not having a bank account doesn't mean that the financial system isn't being used. If I get a paycheck and take it to a check cashing place, I'm still relying on the financial infrastructure and the banks and crypto isn't a viable alternative.
Not in the USA, in general. That’s the core issue - it’s asymmetric warfare.
Personal Programmer?
Decision-makers have personal assistants of various kinds so why not a Personal Programmer? I'm sure anyone proficient in bash/Perl/Ruby/Python could be invaluable for ad hoc automation yet I've never come across this role.
Psssst. Create a 2nd "Person" in Google Chrome and turn off JavaScript for that profile.
The Lion King Full Movie
My money is on the photoacoustic effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoacoustic_effect
An AEI report on 'administrative bloat' in higher education: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/diversity-and-other-administr...
Examples of Non-Profits Using Social Media Well
Can someone explain some soup to nuts applications that would benefiet greatly from this type of architecture? Why is RISC-V becoming so popular right now?
"Closed manifold" means compact with boundary. I think physics might also just mean something with positive "Ricci curvature". Certainly closed 3-manifolds are all equivalent to 3-spheres [0]. I think 4-manifolds are more complicated?

In relativity, the idea is all time-like (basically path of ordinary matter) curves will all converge, while the other case, time-like curves always diverge (so open).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_conjecture
Each time it forks it creates the same supply of bitcoins virtually indistinguishable by anything other than name and mining nodes.

Sure, the limit of Bitcoin Core is still set at 21M, but that limit is quite arbitrary and in time maybe more malleable than people currently believe.
NASA Takes Delivery of X-57 Maxwell – First All-Electric Experimental Aircraft
It's not the same. If the bank messes up a multi-million dollar wire transfer, you have recourse. If you mess up your multi-million dollar Bitcoin transfer, you have no recourse! Period!
Google still can't figure out how to get IPv6 working for containers on GCP, I swear that whole platform is a readheaded stepchild made to check a box.
What are you basing that on? Having source tied to a paper is very common in computer graphics and has been for a long time.
Interesting you say mushrooms. I just saw a show where there was a guy growing shitake mushrooms. They are relatively easy to grow and return on investment is good. You just have to find the right environment to grow them. This guy was growing them in an old iron mine where the temperature is very stable all year around -- 50-60 deg f.
http://archive.is/GluhA
It would be interesting to see if, in a few thousands years, these traits do somehow manage to get passed down. There is a good chance that traits that help with things like Alzheimer's wouldn't be as likely to get passed down because of reasons you've mentioned. Or we might be able to treat it with other therapies as science outpaces evolution as far as longevity goes.

Humans are in a very unique place with our sentient minds and understanding of the world. It'd be nice if we could compare ourselves to other species, but we haven't found any yet, and they're likely to be billions of light years away, or extinct, or both.
I disagree, but I think I mainly put the agency on film producers / investors, and not on viewers. Super hero movies tend to be either sequels or in a series, and producers have recognized that these are low-risk, pretty decent guarantees of a good movie. So they've been highly motivated in cashing out that trend.

In the 00's and 90s we had a lot more variety, but the movies also had more variance in their investment return.

For the last few years I've only been watching superhero movies when they hit netflix or when I'm on a plane, and I think there's a growing trend of people being tired of superhero movies.

And I'd say that there are times when a predictable superhero movie is great. But the best movies probably won't be marvel ones.

[Hypocrisy disclaimer, one of my top 3 favorite movies is The Dark Knight, and IDK if that qualifies as a superhero movie.]
That OneBusAway existed first and provided its technology to Google makes this all the more obnoxiously arrogant, but that’s to be expected from Google these days.

OneBusAway should cut off Google’s data feed in return; it would only be fair to.
I was an intern at USPTO a few years ago, during my failed attempt to become a patent attorney. What I saw and experienced there was a closed-minded agency with a very narrow bureaucratic focus. The only "prior art" that normally got searched was the database of previously submitted patent applications and issued patents. There was no room for bringing in outside experience or common sense. Search the database, stamp the application "accept" or "reject", move on to the next application, get as many done in the bi-week as possible.

This, I realized, is how we got so many garbage patents on well-known, obvious software techniques - if nobody thought software was patentable at the time, they wouldn't have bothered filing a patent application. Years later, when software became patentable, the first vulture to think of filing could snatch up the patent and 20 years of exclusivity even though they didn't invent a thing.

Given how hard it is to make any lasting change to organizational culture, not to mention that we're under a different administration now, I expect that absolutely nothing came of this 2014 roundtable and nothing will until somebody really powerful gets burnt.
> Students absolutely expect good WiFi, good Internet speeds, Google Apps-quality e-mail, and that's just tech stuff.

My personal internet with Comcast is ~$60/month, so assuming universities have greater bargaining power due to scale that shouldn't make much of a dent in tuition. And my college email interface was clunky but I just set it up to forward everything to Gmail, which is free.
Japan wants to go cashless, but elderly aren't so keen
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> Where does "Joker" fit?

Well, Scorsese considered directing "Joker" (but ultimately didn't) and calls the movie "a remarkable work":

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/martin-scorsese-joker-dir...
Cool subjective opinion.

> No one should be “allowed” to enjoy something that thinks so little of its audience.

Bugger off Maggie Siebert.
It was “solved” by the wholesale bloody massacre of those who lived in the upper strata of society and their families. Not the sort of solution you’d want replicated.
Outside of those who are fearful of the PRC, mainly its own citizens and direct neighbors, will any nation take seriously any Chinese IP claim when they have spent nearly two decades of demonstrating complete disregard for anyone else's?
I find it interesting that a lot of people here are referencing how they wish they could have been separated very early on. That the "smart" children were nicer and the rest were just bullies. I'll hedge that some of that is true. Sure - at my schools - some of the worst performers and bullies were in lower tracks. The worst moved or never went to the normal high school though. They ended up failing so hard and/or getting too many out of school suspensions. However - gotta say - plenty of assholes at the top marks. I can't remember any high(er) performers being very nice. Most were jerks outright. Bullying then was usually more psychological than physical but it wasn't foregone to see physical issues.

I was quickly shot in and out midyear due to my rather unpredictable performance (go figure - regular bullying, alcoholic parents, harsh punitive measures, and high neglect never fared me well). I never noticed the bullying change beyond the superficial. (Physical vs psychological - but, even then, that wasn't off limits really much either)

If the goal is to increase test scores - maybe fix the core issues that get in the way of students learning the material. But - I get it, that's basically impossible. Shit parents are ubiquitous. They seem almost universal.
> I'm not going to pay for 10 different news websites, and thus I will pay for no news websites.

I don't see how second statement follows from the first.

Why not: I'm not going to pay for 10 different news websites, instead I will pay for one. ???
The only companies worth fining are rich as F, unless you plan to take 10% of market cap they won't care. The other companies will just go bankrupt, which might be desirable.
I think it's that "bubble sort" has come to mean "a simple O(N²) sort implementation", of which there are many. But the selection sort just feels more natural than the actual bubble sort. At the very least, selection sort doesn't get my face to scrunch up in a scowl at all those memory movements.
Uber Rewards [0] is, though. Basically airline status.

0: https://www.uber.com/us/en/u/rewards/
Variola virus samples are pretty scarce too. It doesn't make them a hot commodity.
the point is that you cannot go and watch his preffered kind of movies, because as it stands, they are getting produced less and less.
Details about the ethics complaints are in the original Project Jengo blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-b...

See the section titled: "Step 4 — File complaints against Blackbird attorneys by bar association disciplinary counsel in Massachusetts and Illinois"
Is there a Docker equivalent for FreeBSD? Jails are only part of the equation. I can orchestrate networking/volumes all while accessing a breadth of remote images through Docker/docker-compose
> I think a lot of disruptive boys can really benefit from a strong masculine teacher that forced them to see that there's a better way.

Absolutely. They're hungry for a leader who wants to lead them.

> Also, there are some kids which are just going straight to jail. No idea how to deal with them.

Those kids need serious individualized attention, which we normally "can't afford". Yet the cost of fixing it then and there is so much less than the cost of their future crimes and imprisonment.

It's both moral and economical to do the right thing, yet we kick that can down the road. Sigh.
How do you think he'll do his taxes? Do you think he'll hire someone? Or maybe he has a CPA in his family?
This again? All this over adjusting the font on your logo? How many people in SV are getting six figures to blather novels over using the Bezier tool in Illustrator on a few graphics? Are there really people paid for this? Wow, guess everyone else can feel better about how much they pretend to work.
Are we ready to admit that government-backed, non-defaultable student loans are a bad idea?
> Ideas are cheap, execution is where companies need to compete

Have you thought about how this could mean the wealthy are almost always going to win?

Patents are helpful when you are small, and cannot win the scale war. Big companies + Rich People will always win in a world where they can copy ideas.
I agree it's high, but these are all state schools. You're picking the out-of-state tuition number that's not supposed to be subsidized by local taxes. It's far easier to raise tuition on out-of-state kids so that has happened in recent years as well.

I still don't consider it shockingly expensive - it's been the top value public university in the country for 18 years in a row.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article233110061.htm...
Looked like raw trade to me.
Robinhood user exploiting margin loophole to turn $4k into $1M position
I just stop the page from loading after it finishes with the content.
RISC-V is popular because it's a clean RISC design (unlike IAxx) which is not controlled by any for-profit company (unlike Arm). That means anybody can use it, enhance it, or fix any not-yet-identified bugs in it without paying license fees.
This was probably just the usual case of the article title failing the describe the content. The word obscure isn’t used in the article itself, which actually makes an effort to explain the concept for people who haven’t come across it before. And wsj published a much shorter piece in on QALYs in 2015

wsj.com/articles/what-is-a-qaly-1449007700
The universe is the dream of an enormous sleeping Pokémon called Slumblord. If it should ever wake, all of our reality will disappear in an instant and be forgotten.

“Worship not God but Regigigas, on whom the world rests.”

— Henry David Thoreau
Sounds like a good school.

In my home town, sports were incredibly divisive, and football was the worst. Teachers were expected to go easy on football players. Football players got mostly ignored for shoplifting and other misbehavior. Football players even excluded other football players if they seemed too nerdy. Football players dumped a swimming pool full of sand on student body officers during a school assembly. Every student was forced to attend pep rallies to promote the football games.

Not every athlete was an athhole, but the general tenor was violent and rude to anyone not in their peer group.
It’s not the schools permitting it, it’s the justice system making getting rid of disruptive students impossible.

https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/public-sch...

> Wonder what allows a school to at least consider permanent expulsion? The student has to be convicted of:

> murder drug dealing aggravated assault rape possession of a deadly weapon

> But expulsion can be permanent if and only if he or she is over 16 or older. And of course, forget all those criteria for the disability manifestation exclusion–if the student was convicted but disability is the reason for the behavior, no action can be taken.
Been a programmer for 20 years and doing the interview dog and pony show for the first time now. Tons of algo questions out there. Apparently memorizing algos is more important than actually knowing how to build an app front and back and knowing how a web browser, http, tcp works. And knowing dev ops and server admin and how to write maintable code. None of that matters as long as you can say which easter basket has the most eggs in O(1) time and constant space.
I disagree that they have zero brand loyalty. Yes it is a price sensitive industry but you're doing something right when your brand becomes a verb. I'm in Melbourne, Australia and I generally pay the extra few dollars for Uber rather than dealing with Didi, Taxify et al's inferior interfaces and slower pick up times. I think Uber take 28% commission vs Didi's 15% and that is reflected in the pricing eg. a $25 Didi fare is usually $30ish on Uber.
Fireo – An ORM for Firestore
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Yep. I feel so damn spoilt that I grew up here now that I'm back after years of frozen, car-centric Seattle.
Thanks for posting @stephth.

I'm guessing you found this through PostgREST, which was at the top of HN recently. We use PostgREST extensively, happy to answer any questions
I mean, they already always win? Although it is kinda a tautology, since rich people and big companies are by definition the ones who won.
How to Scrape the Web Using Python's ScraPy Framework (Scraping Reddit)
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To think about it someone paid American college money to write meaningless stuff like this.
AAaaaaa, all the links from articles that far back don't work :(

...And they're not in the web archive either :S
Best use of the stop button ever.

I also "discovered" that "trick" after some websites had the balls to put some kind of block IN FRONT of the content AFTER loading it.

We live in a world were pages are larger (stop the down early! hit stop!) to purposefully remove features.

I feel sad some people think adding such "features" is a good use of their limited time on this earth.
My daughter did this and it wore on her. She complained that she spent most of the math period helping the other kids, she liked it a little but doing it every day is a bunch of work & responsibility on a child.
Your "nearly" identical is why they are completely different. Only bitcoins are valid on the Bitcoin network. Any clonecoin's token will be rejected since nodes on the Bitcoin network validate transactions and blocks that are mined.

Take any of the past 2 years' forks of Bitcoin (e.g. Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Super Bitcoin, etc.) and try to submit a transaction to the actual legitimate Bitcoin network. It will fail.

One of Bitcoin's main technological achievements is solving this type of digital duplication problem. If anyone can just copy-and-paste new bitcoins into the system, it will fail.
It's bullshit to say that only individuals can makes things "with soul." Why is having multiple people polishing and examining details a weakness?

Marvel did disrupt the industry when the MCU came out. Look at how many cinematic universes have been attempted now. The MCU is the largest and most successful.

This is just pretension, not insight.
Interesting... both my parents were teachers, and we lived comfortably enough (not rich, but never felt deprived)
Remember when Roger Ebert said that games aren't art?

I think most of the Marvel movies are kind of lame or even actively bad (Guardians of the Galaxy and it's sequel especially), but this is some real Old Man Yells At Cloud stuff and it's sad to see someone so prolific in film (oh wait, CINEMA, excuse me) say something so needlessly elitist. It didn't even need to be said.

edit: Sorry it was even more obstinate

"VIDEO GAMES CAN NEVER BE ART"

https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/video-games-can-ne...
Good lord, the level of discourse on this site has absolutely plummeted. We're in /r/conservative territory now.
These, and most movies, are business products of the movie industry. He's talking about something different, works of art, and the movie industry isn't funding those much at all...because it's a business sector for making money.
Scorsese probably has a point. Marvel films aren’t “art”, in the way he (or most auteurs) would define the term. The question left unasked here is whether that’s bad.

I had the good fortune to visit the Prado last year. It’s an amazing place. Visiting it made me a better person. But when it came time to redecorate my office this summer, it didn’t make me want to hang Old Masters paintings on my walls. I hung some pretty pictures of Athens that my daughter took on our vacation there instead.

Why? Because Old Masters paintings are terrific, they took tremendous talent and decades of training, and you can see something new in them every time you look — and that’s not what I want in a space where I have to crank out code. What I want is something that I can glance at and be removed from where I am — cranking out said code — and immediately go to my happy place, which is walking around Greece with my wife and kids. This should not take a lot of brain power. The fact that it doesn’t does not make me a philistine. It just makes me a human.

Movies are the same way. Sometimes you want to see a Scorsese film. And sometimes you want to see Iron Man kick some ass. Why? Maybe you just want to spend two hours being entertained without having to pull out the genius-level IQ, because you’ve been using that IQ all day cranking out code and you just want to give it a rest already. Or maybe you found refuge in comics as a kid, and watching the films takes you back there. None of those is the “wrong” reason to watch a film. What would be wrong would be insisting that there can be only one “real” kind of film, and that anyone who likes the other kinds is insufficiently discriminating. Just as it would be wrong to insist that everyone everywhere should take down the pictures of their kids and replace them with Goya’s black paintings.
I am skeptical that a project management tool like JIRA can be as effective in communicating status as a conversation. One huge benefit that PMs provide is making sure you are on track with the timeline. I would have to think that every time your PM is asking you for an update they are using that information to communicate with management. Having them act as a buffer can be a huge help.

I definitely feel your pain on having too many meetings. I would rather have one too many meetings than one too few meetings though. Its definitely a tricky balance to hit.
Have you ever, like, talked to any teachers? Because that's total bullshit, which isn't surprising being from the Good Ole Boys Propaganda Office.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/heritage-foundation/
This is wrong on so many levels. This is anti competitive behavior. Google built their business by scraping data from other websites.