skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you need cable/satellite if you're playing the a la carte game of streaming? I feel like the world where you have cable and streaming services is ending and you either live in a world with cable and maybe or two streaming services; similar to paying extra for HBO and Cinemax with your cable service in the past, or you cut the cord and manage bundling the "networks" yourself. Netflix+Hulu+HBOMax+Sports/Local News subscriptions all tally to less than cable used to, you get more content, and all that content is on demand and free of commercials. This notion that service has backpedaled is nonsense. It baffles me why people still cling to their cable service and then expect "premium" channels be free and also share their content with one another. Which cable networks did that? When new episodes of Seinfeld were airing which networks could you watch them on? Just one? So unfair! I prefer the commercials on ABC! Perhaps you felt differently because you had no alternative to buying all the "streaming services of the day" under a single bundle. Now you do. You don't like TNT? Don't pay for it. ESPN never get turned on? Now you can drop it from your bill.
If we're now a fertile ground for pandemics, it really does ask for a response in kind: changing another parameter in the differential equations. And that could come in shortening the response time.

BioNTech had the vaccine weeks after they began studying the virus. Herd immunity is only being approached a full year later. Vaccine approval procedures and production logistics really do have a hugely wide margin of improvement.
> Black folks couldn't vote in the North in 1860, either.

That’s overgeneralized. They couldn’t vote everywhere in the North, and in some of the states where they (and sometimes other nonwhite citizens) could they had different terms than whites (e.g., New York imposed a property requirement on non-Whites for voting that wasn’t imposed on Whites.)
Thanks for sharing your experience man. Sid Sijbrandij is truly a remarkable CEO that almost every aspiring entrepreneur should look up to for inspiration.
Let's be hopeful for once, folks. Maybe too little, too late, but what else is there to do but try.
> On retina smartphones, making the pixels denser wouldn't make the image look any sharper from a typical viewing distance.

If that were true, there would be no reason for Apple to switch from 326ppi to whatever they use now for new phones. The real point where this stops making a difference is likely somewhere much higher, just like with framerates. That doesn't mesh well with their luxury electronics marketing narrative, though.
There are many nuances in how a year is and was determined
Is there laymen's terms risk summary for those of us who worry about this stuff but don't fully understand it?
> “Do you know why a news organization like AP would choose to fire people like that?” a young woman wrote to me after Wilder’s firing. “Why are they so beholden to conservative Twitter?“

In which other instances has the AP submitted to conservative Twitter's demands?
what will users insert physical media into, these days?
The argument is that junk food providers and social media companies should not be held responsible for misuse of their products. The question is whether there is a "safe dosage" of junk food or social media, and whether if people go beyond that dosage they do it at their own risk. If the serving size is one cookie, and I eat 25 cookies, should the baker be held accountable?
can you not compare the brutal practice of slavery (and accompanying rape and torture) to fossil fuels?

it’s deeply offensive to those whose ancestors actually were slaves
No, Shell is going to just take its thousands of high paying jobs from their headquarters to a more favorable regulatory regime. Very little else will change.
Vomit zombies, of course.
Butterfly Me (book against bullying) by, Evon Latrail
That's a lot of open sockets for one host
The jury is out on whether N95's provide any extra protection over a thick bandana or blown plastic surgical masks for the general public, isn't it? The average person cannot be expected to fit an N95 properly.
I did, 3 or 4 times, but was ignored until somebody else did. I don't know how the HN algorithms work.
They just reinvented slavery with prison labor of blacks under Jim Crow laws (and plea bargain scammery) that are still used in the worlds largest concentration camps ever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
You’re saying that a large city was hit less than other less populated areas? How did Tel Aviv manage to mitigate the infections prior to the vaccinations? Complying citizens? Education campaigns?
A slippery slope into what? Accountability?

If you're doing harm to others, profit is no excuse.
Quite. I DCCed Trek and SG1 episodes in the late 90s and early 00s because they weren't available in the UK.

I don't do that with Discovery, Picard, Wandavision, etc, because they are available.

Then they completely cocked up Lower Decks and wouldn't take my money. Bittorrent to the rescue.

There is always competition.
Yeah, one of the options they have is "Incoterms DDP" (delivered duty paid). From what I can tell, they'll sometimes stick the packages in a truck and ship them out from Winnipeg instead of shipping directly from their facility in Thief River Falls. Saves all of the painful customs things that FedEx and UPS seem to screw up on a regular basis.

Edit: also, I generally have a hard time keeping my order under $100, so I guess I've never actually seen what the shipping fee would be :D
> Probably (the “on your property” bit is pretty irrelevant here, the chickens are the relevant property.)

What I read from this is that I'm unfree to even own livestock on my own property, meaning that I hardly have property of my own.

> the government would require the enterprise employing labor outside of the individual worker/owner (or possibly family) to be either public or collective ... The penalty, if any, for a prohibit wage-labor contract (besides the contract itself being void) isn’t really a matter of general Marxist theory but of the praxis of the particular society in its context.

What I read here is essentially maybe and maybe. The government would take my land and/or my chickens away because I needed help with the chickens, or at the least, the employee I choose to hire after all my labor and investment will receive half my business.

Additionally and more importantly, it's not really a concern of your theory whether I'm executed or disappeared into a labor camp. That just depends on each society, so punishment can vary. (As a Russian, I think it especially eerie you don't find this problematic or view it as a gaping hole in the theory - this is why people perish in it, and the deadly conclusion seems to logically follow from your general theory which necessitates giving the state oppressive power).
But that's not fake federation, that's just federation and the reality that most people that can't be bothered to set up their own federated server? You can say that a fully distributed chat system would be better at this (like SSB [1]), but that's a totally different beast from a federated system.

Matrix's federation is no worse than any other popular federated system I've used (eg. email and xmpp). I'm not saying it shouldn't be better (I dislike the matrix.org centralization, too), but that's not something inherent to Matrix, and I think it's not honest to bring it up as 'fake federation' in this context.

Additionally, Matrix is significantly better at this in one way than the alternatives: even if matrix.org goes down, all rooms can continue working, even ones with a :matrix.org label. The same can't be said about XMPP MUC, IIUC.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt
There's a difference between prohibition and regulation or taxing. Taxing and regulating alcohol seems to be working quite well.
Penguins make cruel masters.
Could it be some pictures or sound or some firmware blob or something like that this is in that particular ISO is the actual content they consider to be pirated ?
E Corp
they should just move out of netherlands
>go to webpage, click button, now you're chatting

Kiwi chat does this. In fact IRC offers this better than slack and Discord because it doesn't require creating an account (which is why so many of my friends stick with imessage and mms.)
They've learned nothing from classic films.

The would-be empire is tightening its grip, and more & more channels are slipping through their fingers.
Monarchies ruled by billionaires sounds horrid.
Curation, which you may be including in UX. I’d pay $$$ for decent curation. As it stands, I apparently want to watch every low quality period piece known to man because I enjoyed Downton Abbey.
I find this explanation a bit dishonest - mass ban of people talking about topic to push them to another server is not "the most reliable way" of communicating anything.

The whole point of IRC is that people can create channels and talk about things without those channels being owned by someone. If team members want to go somewhere else that's completely fine - but preventing people from staying and talking about a project goes against core of IRC and IMO Freenode ircops are well within rights to prevent channel squatting and forceful bans.
I worry that it would get abandoned rather quickly given how Valve has released hardware in the past.
Launching Forth: original reporting with the look and feel of social media
It could also use a look-ahead scheme. That is, cloning the compression state, compressing the current line for each of the different filters, retaining the state that lead to the highest compression and discarding the others.

This could be trivially extended to multiple lines of look-ahead, though at exponential memory and CPU cost.

Probably dog slow though.
As I understand, the Dutch royals own a major stake in Shell.
Yeah, I did not like the change but it was a tiny change so I agree with that it was an overreaction.
Forced by whom, the Netherlands?
But CFC prohibition did. It's not as simple as just "prohibition doesn't work." It depends on the product and people's needs for it.
Ask HN: Show me some most beautiful fonts
Serif, Sans Serif or Mono , Show me some most beautiful fonts that are unique.

Open Source or Free fonts are appreciated.
Thanks for correcting.

Some cross-platform text editors like Textadept require GTK on Mac and Windows, but Gnu Emacs does not, is what I meant to say.
Centralization is convenient. I'd rather have one account on an IRC network and then be in a dozen channels than have a dozen different accounts to manage on a dozen different IRC networks and then be in one channel on each. This is especially true when you're PMing users over IRC.

So looks like I'm leaving FreeNode as my one network of choice and joining Libera.
No that was a scientifically incorrect meme spread by health authorities (which historically have been anti mask pre pandemic) and people motivated by altruism.

Studies are clear though. This one found non-N95 masks filter 20-80% of particles. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

It defies common sense to say that won’t help the wearer! We haven’t done challenge trials, but the burden of proof is on those saying that a material covering the face and which filters out 20-80% of virus sized particles somehow won’t stop viral infections.
This makes complete sense. It’s really just like having the courtesy to use a tissue when you blow your nose or cough.
Its too late for that and as it turns out it’s very hard to accomplsh. If a small group doesn’t comply they can re-spread it when the lockdown is over or eases
Surgical masks are mostly about protecting the everyone else from the weaer, yes, but do provide a small benefit to the wearer as well as least with virions for influenza and coronaviruses. Depending on what study, rates of transmission reduction were 10-20% for the wearer, which doesn't sound huge but greatly reduces transmission at scale.

The filter masks like N95s (which are usable for all kinds of non-medical purposes like working around airborne particles of fiberglass or metal debris or whatever) offer a high degree of protection to the wearer as well.
Well blockbuster itself no longer exists, so don't count on that one.
Get her on an iPad. It’s easier to use and isn’t as vulnerable to the nasty scams that target seniors.
Oh, really? And how exactly they tested their predictions?
Ditto. Anecdotally winter 2020 was the healthiest I've had in years. It became a personal expectation for me that I would be vaguely sick from November to March which was not the case in 2020.
So what is the goal of living then Bob?
This is a great summary, though I'm not a fan of the emotional commentary around it.

What surprises me is that commenters in this thread seem to expect anything different. In a democracy, the leaders we end up with are necessarily ones that are used to balancing competing interests. Every highly politicized decision making process I've been near has been like this. Leadership will 1) favor delaying to get more information over making fast decisions 2) treat contradictory sources of information as equally valid because validity is hard to judge for them (though the status of the advice-giver plays a big role) 3) try to find a compromise between competing interests instead of strongly benefiting one over the other, for as long as possible. That's not even mentioning the general disempowerment of individual actors in a bureaucracy.

And this is generally a good thing! This is what you get when you optimize your governmental structures to have broad-based support. And yes it has failure modes in extreme scenarios, but the opposite is also true, it prevents extreme responses when they are unwarranted.

In more general terms I'm not sure how reasonable it is to expect a democratic institution, or any institution to find a policy global maximum. This means that policy outcomes should be weighed against a reasonable counterfactual outcome, not the ideal outcome. Given the complexity of the situation, most countries did about as well as can be expected.
Basically removing the current ops (controlling users) and replacing them with their own people (who will stifle conversations the new top dog doesn't like).

I'll not go into more detail as existing threads here cover it far better than I could.
This is a PR for a shitcoin that was launched in 2017.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dubaicoin-dbix/

It spiked at 41 and 33 during the previous bull run 2017/2018. It is worth 86 cent right now, and should eventually be worth 0.

Don't gamble with shitcoin. Bitcoin is the only coin worth hodlin'
That depends entirely on how far away you sit. There are also ~32 inch ones that are 8K.

Given the cost of these things, it might be more feasible to just sit further away and use a bunch of the 4K ones.
Atomic rockets did some math on the Epstein drive and it's theoretically possible, though well outside known engineering. It's supposed to have an exhaust velocity of .036 c and the theoretical max for fusion drives is well above that.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/engines.php#id-...
Not sure what you mean. It’s definitely glamorized, just like working a high paying finance job is (but I don’t think many would call Wall Street ethical or moral). Lots of people want to be VC backed because it’s great for you, but it’s more complicated whether it’s great for anyone else
Lessons from Contact-Tracing and Exposure-Notification Apps
Scientists and governments lied about climate change as well. Go back and look up the many, many wrong predictions over the decades.

You have no argument.
> I went to Vietnam a few years ago. The locals I spoke to had a very dim of view of their government, saying that it was deeply corrupt.

I feel like if you asked random Americans on the street how they felt about their government the sentiment would be at least as bad.
Wow, that seems incredibly hostile to everyone involved.
Yes mRNA gives us some good weapons against future viruses. More important than that would be to react quicker when a new pandemic looms. Make sure that all air travel is checked (the US banned travel from China, while infected people would arrive from Europe...), be quick with local lockdowns while the virus isn't spread around the country. Especially, watch out early for local outbreaks.
Normal or surgical mask, yes. N95 mask protects oneself very well, too.
How about we make the platform exclusives illegal instead?

What is and isn't legal is not an unchangeable property of the universe. These things can change. Piracy for personal use was (and still is) legal in many places before the RIAA/MPAA started exerting political pressure. Heck, piracy was the primary selling point of VHS recorders and tape decks. Only recently have we shifted to read-only media that's hard to copy.
All this superficial cooperation is a front to hide the anti competitive and price gouging that’s happening. Joe average doesn’t understand that the marginal cost of delivering a 4K stream is a few cents, nor does he think critically about why it costs 9.99 to “buy” a decade old movie that’s liable to be removed his account at any time.
> Where do we draw the line

Good news, we don't have to! We just need to tax harmful things to cover the cost of their externalities, e.g. junk food should be taxed to pay for the burden it places on the healthcare system; the same goes for cigarettes; carbon emissions should be taxed to cover the cost of subsequent extraction; and so on.

> It’s hard to judge them for making money while operating within the laws we design.

Erm, what? You started by arguing against stricter laws (framed in a JAQing off manner); then blame weak laws for not preventing the damage. How does that make any sense?
AFAIK nothing there violates known laws of physics or mathematics. Very far fetched? Yes. Impossible? Maybe, maybe not. Keep in mind that the protomolecule is apparently the work of alien intelligences considerably beyond our intellectual capacity and far older.

That kind of thing doesn't bother me. I don't think a dog could even comprehend a wheel. Even within the same species, major advances can look like magic to earlier generations. A top-tier scientist from the 19th century may well have pronounced just about all of today's digital devices impossible science fiction. "Billions of calculations per second in something in your pocket that runs on a battery you can recharge?" Lots of stretches there for a scientist from 1820. There are still people (who are not stupid) who don't believe we went to the moon.

Hard sci-fi just means a story that doesn't instantly fail undergrad physics and whose speculative physics are credible enough that a typical physicist won't roll their eyes.

Wormholes and warp drive, for example, have not been conclusively ruled out. Most physicists doubt you could build them in the foreseeable future (or maybe ever), but nobody's shown a reason they would "break physics."

Faster than light motion or reactionless drives that generate conventional momentum are however believed to be impossible.

It leads to some counterintuitive stuff. Giant massive ships that silently hover in the sky without blowtorching whatever is beneath them are strongly believed to be less plausible than something superficially more far fetched like the Alcubierre Drive. That's because reactionless drives that create conventional momentum "break physics," while so far we have not been able to rule out altering space-time curvature. If I were writing a hard sci-fi story with an Alcubierre Drive in it, I'd still have the astronauts going up to their warp ship in chemical rockets. I'd also have my warp ship using chemical or ion propulsion to move around when not using its warp drive, and the thing would have to have massive heat sinks that would glow red hot when warp is powering up to discharge all the power plant's waste heat (second law of thermodynamics).

Credible speculation in physics usually means that there exist mathematical solutions or models that suggest the possibility of something, but where we do not yet currently know if that math is "real" let alone "engineerable." There may also be things that are technically possible but that are so hard to do that they recede behind a kind of "probability horizon," becoming effectively impossible. An example might be a warp drive that requires so much energy and is so hard to build and control that the probability of someone doing it anywhere in the universe between now and heat death is near zero even if you assume that intelligent life is common.
Are drugs a technology for supporting peasants?

Is there something I said that you would claim to be untrue? If so please present your counter-evidence instead of making baseless ad hominem attacks.

It doesn't matter how biased someone is if they're still correct.
> which happened to be on different channels because physics.

So why do we see wars for who gets to stream Friends/Seinfeld/The Office/etc now? The networks don't own that content, it was just physics?

> Let each channel decide if they want to buy a given show at a given price.

That's not how this works now, nor has it ever worked this way. If Network A is paying for the exclusive broadcast rights, then Network B doesn't also have an equal Right to also purchase the exclusive broadcast rights. This has always worked this way. If Disney produces Disney Mouse Club Cartoon it has no obligation to allow any network purchase the exclusive rights to broadcast that show because it already purchased them in the form of owning the original production, and therefore copyright, from its inception.
All the cryptocurrency channels bitcoin monero etc the ones I care about migrated to libera.chat ASAP
> I don't think anyone can churn out, overnight an entire new line of products, while simultaneously scrapping their old line.

If you cannot adjust to clearly visible, external requirements or demands, you honestly don't deserve to be kept in business.

Everyone knows fossils are at a dead end. Shell has known this for over 60 years now; they acknowledge that themselves!

Requiring the change that apparently a corporate moloch is not able to make themselves is neither unreasonable nor overnight. As I point out elsewhere in this thread: competition manages fine to pivot to renewable fuels (diesel, ethanol, kerozine etc) and beyond that, in far less time, as can be seen in action with e.g. Neste Oyi
I thought they seemed like trivial changes as well, although not being a user myself I couldn't really form an opinion.

Still, it should serve as a wakeup call that the users really aren't in charge and that it can potentially suck. It's a taste of things to come whenever Discord decides to more aggressively monetize themselves for instance.

But apparently the conclusion was more that they should insult the devs on twitter and reddit instead.
Should companies be liable for knowingly putting poison into food they sell? Yes, obviously.

> It’s hard to judge them for making money while operating within the laws we design.

The laws should include not knowingly causing harm to the people if there are alternatives available.

> This seems like a slippery slope.

Courts are there to weight the obligations put on companies and rights of individuals. As long as judicial system works, there is no slippery slope.
This shop also does tremendous sci-fi UI design.

https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/
They were poisoning planet for decades, so now we have to pay them to find other business.
Postgresql simply just links to their site which mentions Libera, and that community is enormous.
Show HN: Codesearch
Watch Australian TV during, lot of gambling ads during prime time.
Let’s be real though, semantic html5 mostly describes an article on a blog site than a robust web application.

Paragraph tags are first class versus a Modal in HTML.
There's an argument for storing carbon as finished wood products.
Letter from California's Department of Education to SFUSD [pdf]
What's old is new again ( Apple )