skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Once I simply changed my home address to some random location in New York I suddenly had access to hundreds of thousands more titles. The Internet never delivered on its promise."

You hate the market, not the internet.
The simple idea of “the political faction I don’t like did more unmoral things” completely disqualifies your argument.
In the case of Barcelona and Levante the lack of a strong Spanish State during the war and the prevalence of anarchists had as a result a lot of “experiments” around governance. These “experiments” lasted from a few months to years, and ranged from forbidding private property to killing the land owners and businessmen. It was not the land of freedom and peace described by some Anglo journalist and writers. It was a hell on earth because it was a Civil War.
Being a logical course of action and being a dick measuring contest aren't mutually exclusive. There was certainly lots of national pride and patriotism involved, in addition to it being a tactical necessity.
As someone who drove many miles during the early period of lockdowns in 2020, but only to get out of the house, never once in contact with anyone, I crumbled inside every time I heard the news report metrics from mobile devices of miles driven away from home. It is just not a good proxy for number of minutes spent sharing air and surfaces with others without further graph analysis.

I have not read the linked paper, and assume those reporters did not either.
I fully support launching billionaires in to space.
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New update for my scientific and engineering calculator app
I've just released an update to TechniCalc - my scientific calculator app.

The new date mode lets you calculate the years, months, weeks, and days between two given dates. You can also do the same in reverse - finding a date a given distance away from another.

The unit converter now supports composite units - like meters to feet and inches, or vice versa.

The memory screen has been merged into the constants screen. You can now see all your custom constants and physical constants in one place.

You can now see the count, median, upper, and lower quartiles in the statistics mode.

Programmer mode now supports left and right bit shifts.

When you press and hold on the constants button in the keyboard, you'll see a popover showing your most recently used constants - making it super fast to insert them. The same thing also happens for the variables button.

Decimal separators and digit grouping will now format according to your device's locale.

New (and very late) Easter-themed app icon.

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TechniCalc is every bit functional as it is beautiful.

The modern interface that makes a clean break from traditional pocket calculators. Equations are entered in a natural way, adhering to every detail of hand-written maths.

The advanced maths engine also makes this the only calculator you’ll ever need.

You’ll find your garden variety logs, sins, and cosines — but for when you need it, the engine has full support for imaginary numbers, vectors, matrices, sums and products, and differentiation and integration.

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https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/technicalc-calculator/id150496...
Pros: you don't need to load/maintain/tune a database; the Lua scripting makes it easy to pull features out of OSM tagging; free with no non-commercial restriction (OMT charges $2000 for a one-time commercial-use download of Europe, for example).

Cons: generating large areas require a lot of RAM; you can't just top it up with OSM diffs for the latest data; OMT has more corporate support; you don't get all the wizardry of PostGIS for geometry manipulation.
True story, I just recently bought a DVD box set for a old TV Show from my teen years, that was not found on any streaming service, or on any unoffical download source....

I had forgotten what a pain in the ass it is to transfer a DVD to something usable in modern times like Plex or Emby, it is something like a 8 dvd box set I think I have gotten like 2 of the DVD ripped at this point
What are you talking about? What $100? It costs the same as rpi3 rpi2 or rpi1.
Its no problem! I'm sorry if it came across as harsh
I was born and raised in an African country. My father had a salary of 500$ a month. I could never afford a 50$ book about resiliency engineering or about Java Concurrency when I was 17 years old, neither could my father.

The reason I love computer science and tech and excel at some parts of it, is simply because I could access any book, pirated. I have a huge will to learn, and piracy was quite literally the only means to learn. Once I worked and got on my feet, I started buying a lot of the books that marked my learning (because nostalgia and also great resources), and if and when I can, I always buys the books.

Let's not talk about movies. My town STILL has no cinema. Nearest one is 100Km away, and costs about 15$ for a ticket. So if it wasn't for piracy, I would've probably never watched Iron Man, and never dreamed of having my own Jarvis, and hence never taking up speech recognition and deep learning. Again, now that I can, I had periods where I watched 3 to 5 movies a week in the cinema, because I have the means to.

I believe people are more likely to buy books/movies when they can. But for those who can't, I believe it's almost always a net positive to society to give them access to those resources.
I cannot watch youtube. The quality of image and sound is just terrible. 4k videos with compression artifacts? Where you can see the how the image is divided for compression ? Best sound quality: opus 176 kbps ? Maybe my television and media proffessor was right: everything is negociated at the level of first telephony multiplexer: 64kbps.
"Right to repair" doesn't exist.

There are property rights. If something is yours, you can do whatever you want with it. (If you're leasing or licensing someone's property, you may not have rights to do whatever you want with the thing).

What you can't do is mess up a product that's under warranty and then ask the manufacturer or their service representative to fix it for you for free (or at a government-determined price). But this is what the fake right to repair is - simply a tax on all buyers and manufacturers, meant to subsidize techno-socialists. The same group of people who think web-and-mail users should subsidize their symmetric 25G Internet connections.
If all one must do is the storage, then the "answer" is RDF triples. [1]

Breaking everything down makes the data storable.

As long as understanding the data is someone else's problem.

"A problem moved is a problem resolved."

(Not really)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framewo...
It was as much about science as Napoleon's invasion of Egypt was. Sure, plenty of very important science happened. But that is not why Napoleon did it. The legacy of that invasion however is remembered in the West pretty much only for the breakthroughs in our understanding of history that followed it.
When I was growing up I remember paying like $5 to see a movie. Used to see movies often. But as I grew up I became too busy with school to go. After I moved to Australia is went to see Avatar. The tickets in Sydney on the imax screen were $48 each…

Now I just rent them from iTunes when they are avaliable.
It's interesting thing to consider really. As solar gets cheaper also the cost of electricity generated when solar power is available gets cheaper. So it might even make sense not to install it yourself, but instead buy it when there is inevitable over production. And price at those times might as well be zero.
We get algae buildup in our systems if we have exposed water, especially in slow moving water. Any loose algae gets taken away in the Drumfilter.
I could be wrong, but I thought Starship's booster is reserved only for orbital flights.
Right, NASA is spending public funds to buy services from these companies, they are not exploring space out of their own petty cash
E INK spent 16% of their revenue on research in 2020
The AWS Application discovery is for on-premise server inventory. This information is used as base for on-premise to cloud migration.

CloudYali, on other hand does the Cloud resource discovery. The cloud resources include EC2 instances, RDS, Lambda functions, CA Certificates and many more.

CloudYali, is comparable to asset inventory functionality of AWS Config. In fact the limitations of AWS Config and similar such tools prompted us to write this service. I had previously collected information of such tools in a blog post: https://heldsteel7.medium.com/aws-cloud-scanners-10024e4bb16...

The problem, with AWS Config and other tools is that the coverage is very minimal. In fact AWS Config supports only ~100 cloud resources. Considering that Cloud resource inventory is basis of security (resource misconfigurations), cost (orphaned/unused resources), it is critical that we have a comprehensive inventory. With CloudYali we are attempting to do that.

Another issue with existing tools is usability, which we are trying to address by bringing the information from multiple AWS accounts and regions at a single place. At the same time we keep the change history, which could be useful during troubleshooting.

Please do let me know if you have further queries/doubts. You may also reach to us: support@cloudyali.io
Will it reduce T&D? You still need some capacity for times when solar is not available. And cost doesn't really come from use, but infra existing. Just like Internet, after you have hardware and lines the use is somewhat marginal.

Ofc, local storage is an option, but will it be cheaper and safer than what we currently have? 20-30+ year old battery installations left to operate and just hang there don't look too promising to me...
No, you need to update your knowledge on that topic.
When they did the animation of intercontinental flight, they used it.

There isn't that much difference between getting to orbit, and getting almost to orbit but falling back out and landing in Tokyo.
The problem might be that you have a 7-8 mbit connection and the content providers use bandwidth scaling. I have an actual gigabit connection and Spotify is indistinguishable from uncompressed audio. Of course there's Tidal and probably some others that have lossless compression if you think you can hear the difference. Some sources claim that everyone else than Spotify pays the artists better, which might be also a reason use other services (unless you believe that the artists' work should be free).
Could you/someone post the link to the article or her name?
It was the software that was awful.
I bought a DS flashcard to play Pokémon Black with a translation patch early and then bought it day 1, don't remember using it for much more. I modded my Wii but still bought games like Skyward sword.

How old were the people back in the day? In high school I pirated a lot more because I literally had no money.
Young blood transfusions are hypothesised to slow down and reverse aging of the brain.

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2020/11/10/searching-for-th...
Poll: San Francisco Residents Consider Relocating as Crime Worsens
I agree. But I already said that.
As a US-living Japanese, I was deeply disappointed when I stopped by a KFC on a Christmas day (not as planned, but just for curiosity.) Even though it's not for everyone as other comment suggests (KFC density in Japan isn't prepared for that.) It's still something. Here in US it's nothing!

Note that it's not that common to see roast chicken in grocery stores in Japan. So KFC isn't the worst option if you crave chicken for some reason.
It's not guilt that's the problem. Just because you're in a remote work situation doesn't mean you just stop thinking about the boring shit that you do. Meetings also don't stop. You get angrier and angrier about the whole situation. It nags on you and actually spend more time thinking about it than you would normally spend on it outside of work.

I guess there are quite a lot of people that can just tune out things they don't like, but I'd wager most people are not capable of that trait. I think the more competent you are the more it bothers you not to produce anything. And it's not related to guilt, at least it never was for me(and looking around in this thread I'm obviously not the only one).

Just because you are paid doesn't mean you want to pass your life without perspective. This is basically someone sucking your life away without drive or mission and only compensating in money. And if there is any truth to the "Drive!" book, then the money is almost secondary to the other two factors.
Piracy is showing that the business model for products being pirated is supposed to be freemium.
From the article:

>Later, after the water had run off, you could see that down at the bottom, where the boys walked in, there were much larger gaps. But the divers couldn’t attach anything to the muddy bottom when laying out the guide lines. They had to follow along the ceiling. The only path they found was through the narrow passageways.

As I understand it, they had to use the narrow passages at the top because they were not able to discover the wide gaps near the bottom. I assume some equipment could help with that making the transport easier once a more comfortable path was found.
> The fact that e.g. Netflix offers different movies for every country is something that honestly does not make any sense yet everyone accepts it.

It does make sense when you know distributors still have to strike deals with cable TV operators.

> When I got my first Kindle 12 years ago my Amazon account was registered with my local European address so the books available in store were all complete trash romance pulp novels. Once I simply changed my home address to some random location in New York I suddenly had access to hundreds of thousands more titles. The Internet never delivered on its promise.

At least it did since you have access to the books you want.
I don’t understand what you mean here. On the last engine I worked on, PQ encoding was done in a shader in the last rendering pass, which then ended up copied into the back buffer. That’s what I call output.

Did we miss a magical hardware feature somewhere so that we could have kept output linear and just let the hardware do its thing ?
Every computer I bought had a windies license fee tacked on wether I used their operating system, or not.

To this day, I try not to give Microsoft any money.

I have never really cared for Gates, nor his nonprofit that gives less than 1 percent back to the country that allowed him to flourish.
> they also live on the coast.

That's the delta.
Do you have any info on what is actually new in Teslas? The only hard problem of electric vehicles is the battery - which is third party in Teslas. So what exactly is novel there?
The dam has been under construction for over 10 years now. The motives for these two men are different but when it comes to the Dam, they are aligned

Moreover, the west has a vested interest to keep el-sisi happy. There is a suspicion about the recent political instability in Ethiopia is partly because of Egypt

http://nemozen.semret.org/2021/06/pay-any-price-bear-any-bur...
- Could the tile format be easily modified to a custom one that I'd develop for my embedded project? (Protobuf is too much overhead on the lowest end).

- How would it compare to converting relevant layers to GeoJSON and then generating with tippecanoe? It seems to have very advanced options for tile size reduction.
Gstreamer, Cairo...
I wouldn't bother with Berlin. Its filled with cheap startups that pay low and dont offer equity for devs (in my very limited experience of job hunting there).

Moving to west or south Germany instantly means 30% pay raise for a solid dev.
More like a space PR campaign, acting like rivals to play up the drama, get more viewers etc
Not leet. Gnome is unusable in any machine older than 2015.
Also, CWM flies on my 2007 netbook.
I was born in Poland in the end of the 80s and lived from the 90s in Germany. Back then the only way to watch Polish Media in Germany was either via Satellite TV or VHS.

Around the 00s I was into Polish Rap. Buying a CD in Germany from a polish Artist was something that you just couldn't do. So the only option I had was to download it.

Later when I wanted to buy the CD I couldn't because either the store did not had it or it was sold out.

If I wanted to watch polish tv shows or cartoons I either needed to later download them or my family needed to record them on VHS.

In this regard the Internet helped when it comes to Music.

But when it comes to tv shows and movies... Its a mess and you will end up with 10 subscriptions and hope that you find that show.

I also think that with movies and tv shows, piracy and will come back because of that reason alone.
You probably can't do it fast enough. Also without water, you'll likely have more serious problems than educating the population or creating high-tech stuff.
Cuckoo filter is the one I thought it would be compared to since I see mentioned on HN a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

And the title seems to be a reference to it too, "Cuckoo Filters, Practically Better Than Bloom"
I am unsure of your reasoning that private companies have any incentive not to absolutely destroy the thing they are exploiting. It's exceedingly rare for any quarterly growth based company to not do whatever to maximize profit in 3 months. Good examples might be the ocean being on fire recently, leaded gas, the tobacco industry, the sugar or corn industry, oil and gas (obviously), facebook, cable news, the panama/paradise papers, or Ticketmaster.
From the article:

> There was even a discussion about leaving the 12 kids and the football coach inside the cave for the whole rainy season and providing them with food and supplies from outside for months.

I suppose building the equipment for few weeks is better than waiting for months to end of rainy season.
My dumb, barely related question - how far away is VR/AR from having the necessary pixel resolution to be able to have a fake emacs/vim floating in space three feet from my eyes?

At that point there is a change in the ergonomics and location of coding / most desktop work.
At least you get them eventually! Imagine never getting them.

I've been studying Japanese for about 15 years. Japanese media almost never comes to the US, and if it does, it's usually dubbed. Anything that isn't dubbed is forced subtitled. The one exception is anime, but even that has no JP subs. The best you can do is JP audio and no subs.

But if I buy media from Japan (at a huge markup over their already-insane media prices) I can get JP audio and subs.

And this is pretty much true for all foreign video, except certain British shows like Doctor Who. Even a lot of Canada-specific shows don't make it here (Canada's Worst Driver), though there are a lot of shows/movies produced in Canada with the US in mind from the start.

It's ridiculous. Sell digital goods to anyone willing to buy them. Period.
That's changing. Apple Music offers Lossless and 24 bit as part of the normal subscription price now which caused Amazon Music to do the same. I personally find the quality of the AACs/MP3s fine. It's not like they are serving up 128kps files or something.

Yeah, streaming Netflix doesn't look as good as a Bluray but it looks better than a DVD or cable TV which most people are still happy with.
I played pirated games when I was a kid (actually I didn't know it was pirated, I bought them off CD shops).

Growing up with more money to spend, I bought legit copies of those games (and more) from GOG just feeling nostalgic. Heck I don't even play them.

Now I don't play pirated games, simply because the potential problems (virus etc) outweighs the cost (I usually wait for Steam/GOG/Epic sale anyway).

Same thing for software.

For books.. during uni time I usually borrow books from uni library, and make a copy for personal use (so I can highlight the pages). I guess that's piracy.
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Steroids to keep your body strong.

Antidepressants to keep your brain young.

Laxatives to more easily get rid of your fast food dung.

β-Blockers for making sure your blood pressure isn't wrong.

And of course deodorant: fresh as a daisy, even without a shower because you were too lazy!

Pharmaceuticals, for when you just can't.
Hire a freelance editor.

Here’s the big secret for free: Deliver what you promise, listen to your customer, communicate frequently.
That's my experience too.

As a student, I didn't really buy the "piracy increases sales" studies, since I went from buying one thing a year to zero. Clearly, sales were lost.

As an adult, I can casually swipe my credit card and buy similar things on a whim. How much less I bought as a student is a rounding error.

Most people or organizations are either rich enough to not bother with piracy, or poor enough not to buy especially much in the first place.

I'll mention this is doubly true with industrial software. Ain't no way an individual will drop $5k on a CAD program. On the other hand, ain't no way a serious business will pirate a $5k CAD program. Having people know how to use your tools, though, drives sales.
I’m not justifying the coup. Once the war started both political extremes believed they had the mission to prevail whatever it took. That’s why it became a Civil War and the end of the Republican Spanish State as the way to keep law and order. That’s when the butchery began.
The Civil War atrocities came when the Republican Spanish State collapsed and a plethora of “experiments” started to pop up around the country driven by local communist, socialist and specially anarchist leaders trying to do the revolution on their own. The atrocities from the National (rebel) faction started from day one of the coup and they were driven by a centralized and unified alternative “national state” that prevailed because it was better applying law and order, even having very low support from the Spaniards.
The Anglo journalists and writers saw how some of these “experiments” worked. It’s not strange to see how they enthusiastically supported it at the beginning and how they changed their mind of even became critic with socialist mindset.
You can make PHP throw on notices if you like.
> You're pretending that a woman who divorces and remarries is considered to be guilty of adultery.

A woman cannot divorce a man. So the situation you're describing is a woman who doesn't divorce and remarries.

This is a fallacy: you're just "misunderstanding" a situation and then describing the outcome of a different one with strong wording.

> And this quote shows your agenda and incentive

And I suppose you attacking me shows your agenda. What is it with people defending 1500 year old texts? They are backward. All of them. Including your favorite one. Including my favorite one. Is that really so controversial? We know better. On all fronts. Better than every religion. Including your favorite one.

Even if I'm indeed a bigot, and perhaps I am, it doesn't pertain to the argument.
Assuming the rates weren't abusive on that credit card, I'd have no problem if it appeared in the game as product placement, even prominently.

I also have no problem with product placement in tv shows and movies. At least, so long as they don't force a change in the plot of the movie. Creative integrity has to be maintained.

Ads, on the other hand... Ugh. I hate them so much. They are incredibly manipulative and it seems like they all border on straight up lying now.
Those are wonderful. I listen to quite a bit of audio books and while some voice actors are superb, some are just terrible for my taste and ruin the book.

If I can dial in the pace of speech then I would almost prefer this to real actors, right now.