skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right on. In the times of DVDs, you could get a DVD film for $5 dollars and here in Mexico even cheaper $50 pesos ($2.5 USD). I think the fact that a rental movie (even when you "buy" the digital version it is a rental as it has ben shown over an over) costs around $12 USD today that delivery process has been streamlined so much. That's pure greed.
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or you think you're making a salient point. Poe's law, I guess.

What is wrong with junk food providers considering the impact on the health of their customers? Why should social media companies not worry about the mental health of the user?
You're right. And yes, we could use those laws, but we're also now at a time in history where the combined power and influence of "big tech" is greater (by far, I fear) than the will and character of Legislators (i.e. low-character politicians) to enact any such law to constrain/regulate them, at all.
If by "they" you mean big-studio Hollywood, then there've been about 1500 of those movies in the last 15 years. There are another 600-700 or so non-major-studio films that see a wide release per year, which I think includes foreign films with US distribution, but also US productions outside the major studios.

Yes, at least a few of those 1500 major Hollywood studio movies are quite good.

Looking at the last few years of MGM's output, Creed and The Cabin in the Woods were both good. I didn't like Skyfall but mine seems to be a minority opinion, and AFAIK it's considered one of the best Bond movies by many people (for whatever that's worth). Stretching back closer to the 15-year mark... The Mist is pretty good. Casino Royale sneaks in right at the 15 year mark, and it's really well-regarded.
Already happening: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56758376
>> Piracy was the Easiest/Only way to get content until ~2008ish. Since then; Netflix and (...x streaming platform) made it easier/better to Pay for the content than pirate it.

Fragmentation still hurts this to an extreme, and - worse - God-awful region locks. As a fan of obscure, cult and independent cinema in particular it’s a wasteland of titles strewn across 5 different services, and being Canadian, piracy is just a fact of life for us.

Nothing beats the convenience of typing in what you’re looking for and actually finding it right away. That pretty much defines convenience. It’s what I expect.

I don’t want to Google what platform my current obscure interest is on, only to maybe find out because I didn’t bother with Paramount+ I’m going to have to torrent it anyway. :P

It’s literally just one extra search to find what streaming platform it’s on - which is an inconvenience* - when I can just do a quick Torrent search, and have a nice high quality copy of pretty much whatever usually within (on my connection) about 5 minutes.

By the time I make my popcorn, the torrent is done, I stream it through my Plex on my Roku, and Plex even gets the metadata for me. It’s kinda scary how good it is.

And talk about how inconvenient region locking is to the point where VPNs actually advertise* the ability to get around this inconvenience as a point of sale.

Piracy’s convenience and case for existence has only gotten seriously stronger as more and more competing streaming services open.

If there was a way to combine search results for services into one like overall UI that would then just direct you to the content even that would be better, but anecdotally most people I know are tired of the fragmentation issue.
I think as a consumer, if we are talking about breaking businesses, first in line should be the the cable and telecom oligopolies. Big tech can come next. These companies control more critical infrastructure compared to big tech companies.
>Shell is in the business of producing fossil fuels to burn.

Playing devil's advocate, but what about all of the oil that is not burnt but turned into plastics and other products?
Important off-topic The Expanse conundrum:

In the very first episodes a tall, stretched-out skinny space-born dude is getting tortured simply by making him stand and be subject to Earth's gravity.

Then the rest of the series-- few to no tall, stretched-out skinny space-born peeps anywhere.

What gives? I imagine the director realizing how expense it would be to continue seeking out a bunch of tall, skinny extras...
I've paid for content and watched it on pirate sites anyway because they're better organized - and they don't bury some titles to promote others.
They are indeed very similar - the multi-kernel methods used in Lenia were actually inspired by my works with MNCA!

Furthermore, Bert and I are working to bring our programs and techniques together.

With only minor adjustments to my fragment shaders, Lenia rules can be simulated.
There is a number of 28, 27 and 24 inch 3840x2160 panels, so the LG is certainly not the only one.
You're getting downvoted but I have known a lot of people who will set non-urgent emails to delay send at 7:30-9pm so they look like they are working late. It's silly but most of those people ended up getting promoted.
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Programmers who use IRC seem like a hard group to build a wall around.
Decentraleyes is also very helpful on the privacy front. It will cache commonly included libraries like jQuery from various CDNs like Cloudflare, preventing them from tracking you across the internet. ClearURLs is another one that I install on a freshly-opted-out Firefox, to avoid those ubiquitous tracking parameters in various URLs.
I'm surprised how well NbNW holds up.
What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050
This is an awful symptom of American cultural colonialism. They feed with one hand while slapping in the face with the other. Choke with your sitcoms and superheroes.
Yes, we may be all part of the same whole. But there definitely are divisions – you are manifesting them with your own words. QED.

Let me try differently. Your premise seems to be that "base reality" (your words) is a single teeming interconnectedness, indivisibly unique, from which it follows "there are no discrete systems", no categories, from which it follows that counting discrete things is an "artifact of human cognition".

Correct? Did I get your position right?

I simply pointed out that human cognition / imagination, including language and categories and logic and numbers, is as much a part of the base reality (that same teeming interconnectedness) as anything else. You manifest your words = they capture a pattern, patently recognizable from other patterns, transmittable (e.g. to me), with a potential to affect me and others and our future.

The world being interconnected doesn't mean it's undifferentiated. All work is still ahead of you in showing that categories and words are somehow "not intrinsic" (again, your words). Yes they may be a teeming that refers to other teeming, but you haven't shown that's anything special, worthy of singling out as extrinsic.
I haven't viewed the site on a desktop but on the iPad at least you tap on an image and then swipe to see the next ones. Also there's a close button in the top right to get back to the article.
Amazon Buys MGM for $8.45B
Because the copyright industry is worth literally billions of dollars and they invest a good chunk of that money into lobbying the government. They essentially buy the laws that they want. There's no way any individual can possibly hope to compete with that. Better to make subversive technology instead. We neutralize their ridiculous laws by making it impossible to enforce or punish anyone violating them.
It’s not that weird if you consider that despite the negative externalities all the CO2 producing processes delivered huge upsides to literally everybody.

It’s not just Shell to blame, it’s all of us. We did this, we had good reasons to do so and now we should probably dial back.
> Watching older movies and TV shows is much more pleasant all around.

My girlfriend somehow grew up completely unaware of Star Trek, so I introduced her to The Next Generation last year and we've been watching it (rewatching in my case, but for the first time in over two decades) one episode a day.

It's so relaxing, in a way that almost no modern TV is. No end-of-episode cliffhangers or other mechanisms trying to make you binge-watch. We can just watch one episode to unwind, discuss it a bit if it's one of the better thought-provoking ones, and then go to bed.
Asking for a friend of course, but what would be the best setup for a Netflix/Prime/...-like experience for own media for a family of not-too-digitally-savvy users?

That friend uses Kodi (and a NAS) now, but it's still a bit arduous to use for his family. She wants profiles, availability on any device over wifi and 4G and movies and series only.
High Tech Genesis Inc. Is Hiring a Threat Researcher
Well, I don't know about succeeded, but they did have two more movies that take place after SG1:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929629/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942903/
this is amazing, from 1999?
> Yes, that’s the difference. There used to be a gatekeeper to reaching your audience, but now there is none. A kid can take their 4K phone and make their own TV show with their friends and distribute it worldwide, or a company can get a professional crew and spend a couple billion dollars and distribute it worldwide.

Until Google or Facebook decide that your content is objectionable. Don't worry, punishment is instant and Court of Big Tech appeals process is even slower than actual due process [1].

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/05/fucking-facebook-4/#comment...
It's equivalent to adding pages to the history every time you scroll.
I don't think anyone can churn out, overnight an entire new line of products, while simultaneously scrapping their old line. I think it would be wiser to work with Shell to see if their timeline can be compressed, their investments expanded etc. rather then throwing out unreasonable demands.
Can you point me in the direction of finding more about Portugal's 0% corporate tax for the first 10 years?
They just changed their logo and primary brand color slightly. Although I agree it is worse, hardly can call that "UI changes"
That could also be, and there's not one shred of evidence that historically conservative FL had any less to do with it than Disney.
Investing vs. usage...The crypto argument still does not pass a cost/benefit analysis.

*Carefully examine the bias and incentives behind these comments, oppositions in this thread seem to be from people invested in cryptos.

People also censor information that run against its views (this will be downvoted)
> I mean, just imagine, you go the the slave market and they tell you that the court ordered them to stop selling slaves on the basis that some laws say that you cannot do so!

I'd be pretty pissed off too if one day [item] were legal and the next day the courts declared them to be illegal because of some vague law (ie. because of a tort or "the right to life and the right to family life"). In your comment the [item] was something most people would find objectionable (slaves), but you can very well substitute this for other stuff you enjoy, eg. beef, coffee, chocolate, etc.
I can't see anything you've written about why this virus is different; that's what I've been asking you to do, but you haven't addressed it, from what I can see.

Nevertheless, on the way in which it is widely regarded as being different, I just addressed that in a reply to another commenter here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290964

For what it's worth I'm not really saying it's "like the flu" - more that we should expect it to be like other coronaviruses, unless there's significant evidence to the contrary.
Cable providers were charging you $80/mo for commercial laden network aggregation. You cut that cord and complain when paying less for more content, without commercials, and is on demand, because it is unbundled and you need to manage each $5-15 "network" fee individually, instead of a single itemized bill.

This is like complaining you have to pay for NBC to watch Friends when you'd much prefer to watch it on ABC so you can avoid paying for both.
If they need that, they can use Matrix. There is really no reason to move to a closed ecosystem.
With the possible exception of the Ori, the villains in SG-1 weren't usually the "like the last one, but MORE POWERFUL" villain trope we see in most series.

And the evolution of the replicants... that was a complicated adversary.

Also, golfing through the Stargate.
Internally there was a battle in Shell between execs arguing that the company needed to double down on its green investments and the old school faction arguing that they should double down on traditional (i.e. oil/gas/lubricants/plastics/etc.) investments.

From what I heard the former group kind of lost. Shell is still making green investments - just way fewer.

You might argue that I'm being a hopeless optimist and selfishly ignoring the needs of drivers here but I'm hoping the outcome of this lawsuit will add some power to the "green" faction (already responsible for the world's biggest wind farm) in future arguments about upcoming investment decisions.
But the bet people to share knowledge will be gone. The channels will not be of nearly the same quality. People may stick around not realizing that, but when the usefulness goes down they will leave.
nah, if you look at this app, they use the exact same wording and interface
This is my take too.

I don't really have any feature requests for Express. I guess I'm curious what people think it's missing that I don't really know about or think about.
THIS.

Forcing consumers to sign up to 10 platforms to watch 10 movies will no doubt lead to a shift back to torrents.

YouTube is pretty good in this regard, as it allows paying for renting a single movie for a weekend for a reasonable price.
I see discord links in a lot of places you would once have seen irc links.
> Milieudefensie voor Veranderaars (Friends of the Earth Netherlands)

For anyone wondering "Friends of the Earth Netherlands" is not a translation of "Milieudefensie voor Veranderaars" (the name of the organisation). It's apparently the name of a larger alliance they just happen to be part of.

The literal translation of their Dutch name "Milieudefensie" is basically "Environmental Defense".

The "voor Veranderaars" part is their slogan which translates to something like "for changers".
Here is a link to the actual full court sentence (English version):
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:...

(As the news article does not include it.)
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Obesity and related metabolic disorders are serious risk factors for COVID-19.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm
My office uses IRC for communication. Actual realtime communication. Announcements and any communication that you need to read at any time other than "now" comes over email lists.
How does Horvath measure DNA methylation?
> I kinda recommend the Stargate movie first... [...] But I will say that if you kinda dislike it, continue on to SG-1 anyhow.

Thanks for pointing this out. Watched the movie as a kid, didn’t like it, and thus never even bothered to check out the tv series.
US has also not recognised Taiwanese Sovereignty.
There is a scene in S02E03 where Miller chides a Belter about the music he's listening to, so the Belter picks up his mobile device to turn it off. When he picks it up it must be in the wrong orientation, because he flips it over in his hand. You're telling me there's no autorotate in 2300? Worst. Episode. Ever.
Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transform can be complex to implement, if you want to optimize it. A basic version is surprisingly simple, I implemented it for fun in Python a couple of years ago:

def fft(x):
N = len(x)
if N == 1:
return x
assert N % 2 == 0
E = fft(x[::2])
O = fft(x[1::2])
X = [None] * N
for k in range(N // 2):
tf = np.exp(-2j * np.pi * k / N)
X[k] = E[k] + tf * O[k]
X[k + N//2] = E[k] - tf * O[k]
return X

The Wikipedia article describing it is surprisingly decent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley%E2%80%93Tukey_FFT_algor...
When the pixels are so dense, that using the monitor at its typical viewing distance makes pixels indistinguishable. But not just in the sense that you cannot see that your view is pixelated, rather in the sense that packing the pixels any denser wouldn't make a difference.

Quality desktop monitors viewed at their typical distance do not look pixelated, e.g. you rarely are able to see individual pixels especially if proper antialiasing is used, but they do still almost always have a lack of sharpness that could be corrected with a denser display.

On retina smartphones, making the pixels denser wouldn't make the image look any sharper from a typical viewing distance. Once you achieve that, I'd say it's "retina-grade".
> Especially when it's extremely necessary.

Your assumption is flawed.

> you go to IKEA and they tell you that the court ordered them to stop selling so much wooden furniture, so no more shelves for you

They’d either tell me they’re not selling wooden shelves anymore and offer me an alternative or lose my business to someone who does. This is happening to car makers.

> I'm not sure people would accept that. I'm very, very cynical about this ruling.

Change takes a bit of time to get used to, especially if it’s abrupt. Necessary (i. e. without an alternative) things going away or becoming more expensive is unpopular (and some people just irrationally rage at any new responsibility affecting them), but subsidies a free market & regulation are quite efficient at creating those.
I reluctantly agreed for extension that can edit the page. Or only use open source and install yourself to disable autoupdate
Does the colony itself have to be owned by the transport company?

At Musk’s target price for Mars flights, someone as rich as Bezos could pay for half a million people to go to Mars. (That said, if I had Bezos’ money, I’d buy flights from SpaceX to build a factory on the Moon to research space-based mining and manufacturing, and launch loops, with a view to expanding that into a full-blown colony over time).
As others suggest, simply opt-out of these destructive monopolies. I’m in Europe and have been immensely enjoying MUBI[0] for the last few months.

Many classic and new films, updating all the time - and I’ve had none of the streaming problems that some AppStore reviews have mentioned. Also supports new independent film-makers (which piracy sadly does not do).

Thoroughly recommended.

[0] https://mubi.com/showing
Whatever your opinions on Apples policies and behavior it's just ignorant to call the M1 'crappy' when it absolutely annihilates any processor in its class and doesn't at all get embarrassed when compared to high end desktop CPUs.
> it is a bit silly that distributions don't update CMake more aggressively.

this would actually worsen the problem.

Main issue is the message "Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of CMake" that appears so often when compiling older codes (not that old, written three or four years ago). When you change the version requirement on the offending CMakeLists.txt, the compilation breaks subtly and then you have to spend a very romantic afternoon with the build system and its beautiful language.

Backwards compatibility. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
>I think a lot of people can't see through the noise.

What if it's not about noise, but about complexity?

We live in a world that is orders of magnitude more complex than any other population of humans has ever experienced.

This complexity means that it's more difficult to know what is 'true' or not, and even that truth is not as universal as it once seemed. Are eggs good for you or bad for you? What's the best way to raise your kids? How do you deal with homelessness? Every single one of those questions have answers that are simple, obvious, and wrong. Every one of those questions needs to be answered starting with "it depends." We cannot treat truth in these cases as absolute, because we know better than that now.

Perhaps it's not surprising that we are not well adapted to dealing with that complexity.
> Nothing beats the convenience of typing in what you’re looking for and actually finding it right away. That pretty much defines convenience. It’s what I expect.

You can do this for most items. For example, go to apple’s TV app or play store and purchase or rent the item.
I’m being pedantic, but the 2 Flash series ran during the 90s and mid-2010 :)
Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter
Salmanella, E.Coli, Avian Flu, Swine Flu...
Shell has always countered the argument that they should to more to reduce CO2 emissions by making the government responsible for forcing them. They say they even asked the government to intervene, as it's unrealistic to expect a company to do so of it's own accord. Of course, they don't mean that, but it is an integral part of their greenwashing campaigns.

The proper response would be to rejoice that they finally got what they wanted and lobby for the same judgement for their competitors, then get on with it and finally reduce their emissions.
If you're interested in getting more quickly and WANT to write software, you can have the Raspberry Pi control most televisions over HDMI-CEC using libcec [0], and then you just need the voice recognition stuff mentioned above (Rhasspy [1]).

I had to do something similar (minus voice controls) to keep my existing remote's volume controls working with an analog volume device [2].

[0] https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec
[1] https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy
[2] https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/cec-volume.cc.htm
Is there a good resource for how to practically start doing robotics? Specifically how to do it safely?

I was putting together a 6 motor toy robotic arm and realized I didn't know enough.
Mobile App Development master guide: How to take your App from an idea to the
This page is full of 'fallacies' that are technically correct — they are sometimes used fallaciously, but simultaneously, many are fair considerations that are often used correctly.

It is fun to read and healthy to be aware of these, but I hope that, in reading these, one doesn't paint broad brush strokes and declare that any appeal to nature, or pity, or tradition is fallacious.

As one example:

> 12. The Appeal to Tradition

A lack of any respect for tradition is a serious issue for a society. It's not fallacious to give credence to tradition, meaning to tread carefully around it.

If people before you designed a system in a certain way, it's important to be able to fairly note the advantages and disadvantages of their system, and why they designed it the way they did before changing it. Use the principle of charity. Assume that they, intelligent and resourceful as you, had considered your option and decided against it. Why? Is there anything you're missing?

In support of it being a fallacy, there are people who cling to clearly disadvantageous things based solely on tradition regardless of objective consideration, but there's just as many people who think through the pros and cons of the new and old and use tradition healthily. These days they're often labelled as fallaciously appealing to tradition for even giving the past consideration.
Black folks couldn't vote in the North in 1860, either. In fact, when Lincoln started the war by calling up 50,000 volunteers to "put down the rebellion", there were more slave states still in the Union (DC, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware) than there were in the Confederacy! Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded only after they realized that Lincoln intended to wage war on the South.
Just because it's an ID doesn't mean anything at all
TL;DR: A while ago some dude with questionable motives and ethics gained control over Freenode and recently he started to actively destroy it.

This could be a good starting point for further reading: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...