skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix per dollar is about the cheapest entertainment you can get. Frankly it should be MORE expensive for the amount of high quality content they release constantly.
I would suppose OPs argument is that this is like how much sawdust can you add to food before people notice and choose alternative media consumption. There's presumably a lot of deadweight loss and collusion that play to these results.
There are three shows with ads on Hulu without ads.

https://help.hulu.com/s/article/hulu-no-ads?language=en_US#s...

The additional shows you can get on demand without Hulu Live TV have ads. But that’s more akin to traditional cable.
GP's comment screams XY problem which seem to be increasingly common these days.
Ask HN: How do you prepare for inflation, if there will be such?
It seems like governments are printing money like crazy (current example from front page: https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-to-subsidize-100-of-salaries-at-small-companies).

I'm not an economist, but in my simple understanding and experience of growing during xUSSR fall with crazy inflation, I want to ask HN: how do you prepare for inflation risks?

I don't own a house, alas. I have my cash stash that will help me to go through rainy days for a 1-1.5 years, (based on current spending level), if there will be any.

I know that I'm more on risk-averse side, and with recent first baby in the family, I can't help but think what may happen to our family savings.
Coronavirus tracking app privacy – an introduction
> My only worry is that Google, Amazon and Facebook will use this time for huge land grabs in all niches.

That is exactly what I was thinking of while reading the grandparent comment: that one of the worst things to fear from this crisis, is coming out of it into a world with further consolidation of global power into a handful of entities, and even more authoritarian governments.

The pieces are already being put into place, like contact tracing APIs, however well-intentioned they may be.

The stratification between the rulers (who can already still go anywhere and comfortably wait out a global crisis on private estates or islands) and the ruled, the monitors and the monitored, could end up being worse than any fictional dystopia.
Thank for you reply.

Do you have any suggestions on design or building sites with that aesthetic?

Great work!
I think it is totally futile to try to predict these things. Of course, making pronouncements as in the original post is insane, but enough people delight in this misery to put it on the front page of HN.
That could indeed be the case. I have, however, another explanation; most people just do stuff without thinking, planning or any forethought whatsoever just because 'it is normal'. You get married, you have kids, you buy a house, you get a job, you go to an office 9-5, you mingle with your colleagues (and you like it!) etc and everything else is weird or not for them. When confronted with major change, like this virus and as a result, working from home (getting laid off, health issues etc), they are forced from the path and realise that they do not like it. I 'zoom' with friends in my home country who have kids because 'it is something you do'; they love them when they see them 1-2 hours/day, but now they hate (big word, probably not true, but that's what they use, and not jokingly; they are getting burnt out) them, quite openly. They didn't think it through and that works because normally the kids are in school, sportclub, piano lessons, sleeping etc so you don't have to think too much.

A big issue is that people are not taught and don't teach their kids to enjoy things without outside stimulants. If I have a computer that works (it can be, and actually I prefer, one from the 70s or 80s) and a manual, I can be alone for years. Now with internet it is even easier. But I was taught by my parents to enjoy myself with minimal 'stuff'; books, pen & paper and just my own thoughts. Many people seem to lack that resulting in decisions that are unwise and don't work long term.
What appears to be the potential danger of a high false positive is the narrative that it's safe to end stay-at-home because everyone already has/had it. Which seems to be the story being pushed with any talk of a lot of positives.
You're right there's no way. CRA isn't React. You can still use React by just adding react and react-dom to a page via two script tags.
You are right, that's one thing I missed. Water bottle prices are determined on a country-level (I assume average bottle prices are higher in Moscow, I should show them ideally on a city-level) and I'm assuming people are buying 1.5L bottles for simplicity's sake. I am planning to provide a calculator soon to add more flexibility to the savings calculations.
Dude -- awesome. Thank you so much for writing all that, it was extremely fascinating to read. I'll watch the video now... thanks again. And also that makes perfect sense.
I live in the city struck by the earthquake and I can tell you that what the article states is not correct. The scientists went under trial not for a wrong prediction but for downplaying the possibile risk after thousands of smaller earthquakes were recorded in the area.
You won’t use Hulu because three shows have ads - Greys Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder and Agents of Shield?
The article isn't clear enough for me but upvoted anyway.
> if there's something I really want then I will do what it takes to get it.

Ominous...
It's still there! I'd recommend gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ as a starting page these days, it has links to SDF, Veronica 2, and a lot of other Gopher resources. It's pretty easy to spin up your own Gopher hole with pygopherd these days as well - I re-hosted mine a few weeks ago and could't have been happier with the ease of setting it up.

There are are lot of defunct Gopher holes, but a couple times a year I still get lost browsing through a mix of old and new ones. Install OverbiteWX in Firefox and take it for a spin sometime!
I'm of mixed feelings about all the Greek letters used in physics, math, etc. Eventually (after years of hard learning how to understand the underlying equations physically) I got over the hurdle of them always instantly making any equation more complicated and hard to understand -- and instead seeing them as just constants that could be basically ignored for most of the procedure (in many settings).

I do still feel though, that they are a legacy of when all these fancy old Greek-reading scientists could flex their knowledge of unfamiliar symbols and choose to make it hard for people who couldn't grasp it immediately. ("Now to simplify the equation let's introduce the zeta function into this expression!")

Lowercase Xi and Zeta were the worst. Never mind that they were the rarest and always most complex (visually) of letters to be used -- but also always horribly written by students/teachers, and made it even more incomprehensible.

I have similar feelings about the bra/ket notations in QM.
Indeed, just looking at the data on a country-level misses a lot! I am working on providing city-level data, which by the way is substantially harder as the data for most places is hidden deep on some government websites as a PDF, sometimes outdated, sometimes not available at all!
This is dangerous. Don't take advice from Youtube celebrity doctors.
Good luck vendoring node_modules.

Why are these threads filled with people who know nothing about node?

npm and yarn both have lockfiles for this purpose. Vendoring only bloats your repos.
There is Hulu with no ads where there are three shows with ads.

Then there is Hulu Live TV which is like traditional cable. That gives you shows live and on demand that would usually come with a cable package. This is in addition to the regular Hulu offering.
Even bigger issue (measured in future loss of life years and ethics[1]): cars, there's so much driving. For environmental reasons we should heavily discourage that.

[1] smoking mostly is self inflicted harm, GW kills others
US's Treasury Dept. blocks, seizes website of 'Iran' newspaper
Especially if they're singing or talking non-stop.
HBO is completely different than ESPN. You can choose to pay for HBO. You can’t choose to exclude ESPN.
Creating a Simple ModelForm – Django
I have a hunch that once the severity of the pandemic eases, we may see an increase in car journeys for holidays, particularly for continental Europe. Why? Many people will remain cautious about travelling with strangers in closely packed airplane cabins or even train carriages. The alternative is to travel by car. But people can only tolerate a certain amount of time in the car and so this may affect where people travel. Will densely packed cities lose out as holiday destinations?

Governments want people to travel because tourism and hospitality employs thousands of people and brings substantial money into the economy for almost every country in the world.

I'm sceptical the airline industry, which has thrived with low fares, particularly in Europe, will raise prices. I expect they will do everything to tempt passengers to return to the air with low fares. Will that be enough to tempt us back on board?
They do. But it’s been broken for 20 years or so.
> How are you going to know if you have an improvement if you don't have something to compare your treatment to, though?

Historical data? Past experiments? Sure, they might have biases, but the higher sample size of historical data can help with that.

I think (specific) control groups make sense when you're talking about small effects or very specific cases (for example, the control group will undergo the standard treatment instead of the new treatment)
Labour may have done much better than expected in 2017, but they were still 55+ seats behind the Tories, which is nothing like very close to winning.

The Tories won 317 seats (318 including the Speaker), while Labour won 262 seats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_el...
How is removing features "for the greater good"?
Try a used 6S. You can get very good condition ones with a good battery for less than 200$ and it’s still very fast on the latest iOS.
The relevant quote actually concerned the collective infrastructure in the US, including health insurance. The actual quality of care in the US is great, particarly for specialty cases... for the few that can comfortably pay for it.

Relevant part of their tweet:

"This applies if you are staying in a country with poorly developed health services and infrastructure and/or collective infrastructure, for example the USA. The same applies if you do not have health insurance."

As well as a message, now apparently removed but archived by others, on their website:

"This also applies for countries with poorly developed collective infrastructure, for example the USA, where it can be difficult to get transport to the airport if you don’t have a car. The same applies if you don’t have health insurance."
> you'll always use a dot

No, often you will use nothing - simple juxtaposition.
GoT was in 10-20 million in final season worldwide. Seinfeld finale was 70-80 million in US alone. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-16-ca-50143...

The numbers don’t even compare. With Seinfeld that’s literally 1 in 5 people in the US. GoT is what, maybe 1 in 100?
Note: This website only supports 33/180 currencies.
Not financially, but mentally. I was married to a woman who was and still is incredibly petty, emotional, dishonest and all around an awful person. I developed sleep apnea, depression. I would drive around after work so as to not come home earlier than I needed to. I tried to block her out and focus my energy on my autistic son. Lost all friends as I didn't know how to talk to them about my family problems. Stopped talking to my parents and sisters because any contact with them would cause more fights with her.

I started to go on hikes and travel alone just to escape proximity with this woman. Started drinking regularly.

I compartmentalize everything in my life, but my family life started to affect my work life. I started fantasizing getting a job in a foreign country to escape. Contemplated suicide many times, but I couldn't that to my kid.

Luckily, I met an incredible woman on a hike in Norway. Came back home, filed for divorce and moved out. I am getting better slowly.
I was with you up until this point:

"Usually ... it's not possible to measure the impact of your work in relation to achieving a real company goal"

You say a few things here:
1. Earning money is a worthy goal if you can measure your personal contribution towards it

2. It's not possible to measure that way in a big company

3. Too many people working towards different and even conflicting goals at big companies to do so

4. Because you cannot practically do so, your work's use value is not objectively measurable or provably useful

I don't think this is wrong in a statistically significant number of cases. But I also don't think it's helpful for thinking about the bottlenecks, release hatches and self regulation systems that tend to dominate a corporation's behavior. Your day to day experience being an engineer at a company has everything to do with:

1) how customers buy what makes the company money

2) how the company's continuing operation is funded

3) how executives and founders have structured leadership and management

In some companies, the customers are other businesses. In others, they're directly consumers. In still others, they're imaginary, or planned to exist in the future. In some companies, the continuing operation of a company is funded by present and future sales. In others, the continuing operation is funded by successive rounds of seed and growth stage dilutive fundraising. In some companies, leadership and management is structured around loose confederations of business units, lines of revenue, and product subdivisions. In others, it's structured around research domains, manufacturing pipeline stages, geographical market regions, or intellectual property holdings.

In any case, that's a far cry from "it's not possible to measure the impact of your work in relation to achieving a real company goal" -- just because it's not possible for _you_ to measure or argue the impact of your work doesn't mean that it's generally not possible. In fact, I would argue that learning how to credibly and objectively plan, measure and articulate the impact of your work is a huge part of what makes for a senior individual contributor. You will obviously come across challenges and inaccuracies in the exercise, but it doesn't invalidate the use value of it for both you and the firm. If personal goals are trumping company goals every time, then you work at a company with weak executive leadership and vision and should find one stronger at those areas if you can.
Is it possible to install multiple versions of node with snap, for multiple projects of (possibly) multiple customers? That was not possible with apt. I've been using nvm or asdf for ages because of that. Not only for node but also for ruby (rvm or asdf), elixir (asdf), python (pyenv), php (asdf) and probably something I'm forgetting about. I used docker for that sometimes but mainly for databases (multiple PostgreSQLs and MySQLs.)
Australia releases official Covid-19 contact tracing app
When I went back to school I had to take math again, which wasn't my best subject in school. I was determined to figure out why I could understand the material, yet consistently never quite did as well as I thought I should have on tests. So I kept a journal of every mistake I made so I could categorize them and understand them. Most of the mistakes were very specific handwriting mistakes, but they were very particular to how I personally tended to write things. By changing how I wrote a few numbers and letters, I eliminated all of those mistakes. I didn't have to come up with an overly elaborate system that puts way too much thought (and not enough evidence) like in the OP. It was quite surprised that I tended to mistake 7s, qs and 9s (if the loop is too small and there's another character written above it, you can misread some of my more atrocious attempts at writing 9), or that I would fail to properly coil the 6 and make it look like an overly spiraled 0. Meanwhile, I never once mistook a 1 for a 7 and my solution to the letter O is just to never, ever use them in math.

My advice is actually that mistake journal: it was the single best thing I ever did for a math class. Figure out what mistakes are actually happening and develop a system or habit to avoid that actual mistake.
Tech giant briar patch. You want the gov to decide what can be remembered a-la GDPR? Maybe some Article13 after?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20141283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22072801

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21481197

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21249878

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815778

The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
25 years is roughly one generation. A new generation grows up, has no memory of the old problems?

Same with Covid, is roughly 20 years ago and people forgot there was SARS.
Taste/appearance and safety are not really the same thing. Many places have water that people find unpleasant due to mineral content or other factors, but which is safe to drink.
"Growth" is now one of my most hated overused business lingo, after "innovation".

Is it too naive to hope that this pandemic will make us collectively question the value of creeds like growth for growth's sake?
Germany: Police arrested more than 100 people who protested against the lockdown
I agree with your points but they don't really support "luck isn't random". I would say the argument is more "if you increase luck surface area the expected outcome will be higher". Not as catchy.
I've lived in many places where the tap water is not safe to drink, and in all those places, nobody except tourists was buying 1.5L bottles of water.
Related:

http://www.capstone-engine.org/

http://www.unicorn-engine.org/
I’ve been thinking along these lines, but with a twist. I’m half British and half Italian, raised and resided in the latter most of my life. As I’m sure you know, both of these countries have been hit very severely by the pandemic, and Italy in particular is probably the epitome of the “hard lockdown” — or at least, it’s been one of the more prominent cases because it was the first Western country to make that move and the example everybody else seems to have drawn inspiration from. People are clearly very deeply affected on all levels by this. People have been locked indoors for, well, months now and society has become more regimented than it had ever been. Italians, a stereotypical gregarious population (though that of course varies from person to person and has some regional variation — I’m from the slightly less personally expansive North) have become accustomed to wearing masks in public and keeping strict distances from one another. ‘Touchy-feely’ has been revised to standoffish. There’s reports of people having panic attacks if they see somebody without a mask. Stuff like that (of course it’s hard to tell how prevalent that is, because broadcast & social media tend to blow such episodes out of all proportion).

And now for the twist: as chance would have it, I am working in Malta (a small independent island off the bottom of Sicily, the EU’s smallest member state), so I’m actually abroad in this crucial time and experiencing a very ‘light’ experience: 440 or so cases on a population of half a million, three or four confirmed deaths. We’ve been in a “light lockdown” since sometime in late march. People basically started working from home of their own initiative and/or businesses decided to implement this ahead of governmental recommendations to that effect; bars, restaurants, and non-essential shops are shut and those that are considered essential admit only a few people at the time. People largely give each other a wider berth and aren’t seen congregating in more than the governmentally mandated three people per cluster, but it’s all rather lax, and seems to have worked (fortunately).

So I can’t help but speculate about how odd everything will seem when I will finally go back to visit Milan: everybody back there has gone through a perspective-altering collective trauma that I haven’t experienced. I can imagine myself ending up doing something that has suddenly become a faux pas (or at the very least outmoded) such as putting forward my hand to give a shake, or something gauche such as (comparatively) ‘looming’ over somebody in a queue. I’m quite disturbed by this prospect, to be very honest. There might also be a bit of “survivor guilt” rolled in too (by a quirk of chance, I avoided the ordeal everybody else had to go through).

We’re not five months into the Twenties yet and things are definitely very different from what I had anticipated.
Wow, what a gem I loved Liero back in the day!
In Europe some Netflix programs start with a warning that it contains placed advertisements. But it's rare.
Just make draft versions without much effort involved to test the waters.

Nobody actually know what they really want before they see it.
The GP is talking about prices falling after, not before, the purchase.
This is correct. Many tools are split into multiple packages for — hear me out — convenience.

I regularly extract features from my apps into new npm packages. This way they can be reused by other apps.

Troglodytes can keep copy-pasting code between apps while npm users publish once and update everywhere.
Come on, Paris is almost flat and everyone with no medical condition should be able to bike up the small hill of Montmartre.
I hope we remove cars from city centers in Europe and replace them with more bike lanes and public transport. Ie the small particle pollution from cars is making pedestrians and cyclist sick. I hope we put car parking centers outside the city center and offer good inbound public / private transport.

I would say clean air is an example of Tragedy of the commons, where the pollution is an externalized cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Example...
It's of a high standard, but I wouldn't say extremely high. Many places with lower population and large amounts of deep aquifer water have much better quality water than the UK.
Your number is highly suspect. About 16% of the US is 65+, or roughly 50M.

Where do you get your 50M worldwide figure? When a new flu appears, Neil Ferguson claims his 3K lies of undocumented C code forecast 200M will die. These numbers are all speculation and worse predictors than throwing darts at a board behind your back.
I guess the tip with the "hooked x" is not so perfect because the result can be confused with a chi (which is in fact rather a hooked x than a slashed wave like in the article).
You are right, I should have specified that tap water quality doesn't include the taste of it.

Apart from that Belgium tap water is perfectly safe to drink! I don't know specifics about the tap water in Belgium but something as simple as a carbon filter removes Chlorine and a lot of the bad taste!

I have been to Belgium before, to Brussels and Leuven, as far as I remember I liked the tap water better in Leuven, but that's just anecdotal. What I want to say with that is that tap water usually varies from area to area.
Wikipedia says that "The problem was heightened by the fact that only a small fraction of the Soviet Union was able to be farmed"

Really? I though that, until the mid-century at least, the vast majority of the population of the USSR were farmers.

I mean, ok, of course they grey other things as well, but still - that sounds strange.
Not sure where we stand with democracy these days.
> Yet it is hard to believe scientists would be the ones who only ship flawless software.

I mean, most of them don't even pin down their dependencies. I don't want to touch a lot of python code in the open written by scientists.

Thinking about software reproducibility is the last thing I have noticed on repositories submitted with a paper on arxiv and other places of publishing.

Not even a requirements.txt or mentioning what they used.