skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I used to buy a DVD in the second-hand books/new dvd's shop round the corner every Friday for a Friday-night movie viewing. He knew our tastes -- it must be sweet, funny with a happy ending and no adultery or rape -- but the shop closed.

We regularly ask each other "Where's Roman Holiday but with a cute girl instead of Gregory Peck. Audrey Hepburn can stay."? Why all the drama in movies these days? We just wanna see two girls kiss and walk away in the twilight, hand-in-hand. But all we get is drama like Ammonite.

Why isn't there yet a Poser or Daz3D/Blender/MakeHuman/$GAME_ENGINE that combined makes it easy for people to tell tales as movies yet? It should be possible to put everything together in an interface that even a movie producer could understand, which would make it a doddle for ordinary people.
> Didn't decades of that policy at Microsoft prove that it doesn't work? People then optimize to make sure they only work on projects to keep their score up.

So? It's the kind policy that appeals to the prejudices of an aloof executive with a low opinion of his peons. That trumps facts.
(2) And (3) aren't strange and are very likely the main drivers. It isn't hard to imagine that humans, and really any intelligent life, have evolved to enjoy problem solving and structure incentives around being good at it.
Has any of you Basic Income enthusiasts bothered to read the PDF and find that this finding is based entirely on a research conducted among government employees?

Ridiculous!
A Diet Coke in a class is indistinguishable from a rum & coke.
Yeah. Two potential options to fix sitting on unused patents are to increase annuity fees until they hurt, or to enact a compulsory licensing scheme.

I'm pretty ambivalent either way. I do think that compulsory licensing schemes are hard to manage but if done right would be extremely valuable. Compulsory licensing of patented pharmaceuticals saves lives.
Don't forget phonons. Same thing, but with sound (i.e. mechanical oscillation).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon
The testing suite for the JDK, which allows you to tell if something is compatible to Oracle Java.
It's not a hope, it's reality in other countries, like the UK.

We banned letting agent fees charged to the tenant. Miraculously, landlords didn't find paying £250 for a contract renewal value for money.

Rents continue to go up and down, but now tenants know they are spending money on their flat or house, rather than paying inflated fees to a letting agent/broker.
Sea Org
I really like JetBrains IDEs and I think they are based on Swing.

Although I haven't used it for more than a decade, I still have some fondness for Java. I like Workflowy but am not crazy about it being in the browser. I contemplated writing my own outliner and Java + Swing is one combination I'm thinking about.
Interesting lists, although I think maybe books based movies are more towards original side if we map this as a spectrum instead of a binary value :)

New books with great stories are written every year, and I would rather watch that than spider man reboot #4 honestly.
Shameless plug to the Rust GUI framework I'm working on: SixtyFPS

https://sixtyfps.io

https://github.com/sixtyfpsui/sixtyfps
The parent poster is specifically asking about native images, which Twitter doesn't use.
No, but you can earn more per year and earn much less per hour of work.

That’s the problem with Tesla in Germany: annual salary is 10-20% higher, hourly salary is 30% lower.

My friends quitting lost in yearly salary, but won huge in hourly rate.
Interesting data. What’s holding me back from going to the theater is that my child is not vaccinated (too young), although I suppose the delta variant is also a small concern. I wonder how much difference it will make when the under 12s can get vaccinated. I’d love to go to the theater again if it felt safe for my whole family, but it doesn’t yet.
> Perhaps what I'm missing is that clouds emit some radiative heat back to the surface, whereas a clear sky emits very little, so the net heat loss from the surface under a cloudy sky would be lower.

This is exactly it, yes.
The score is a masterpiece though.
> "It helped me learn how to learn" …

Raised in the USA, I was extremely fortunate (so many students here and abroad miss out on the sheer good luck of getting several really great teachers in back-to-back succession in school) to have been exposed to some really amazing teachers early in life who taught this exact lesson. Their view of teaching was that if they taught students how to rely on rote book-learning without teaching an accompanying "thirst for knowledge" and the tools to gain that knowledge, then they'd failed at their job as teachers.

When these universities first started releasing so much of their courseware openly like this, I viewed it as one of the great triumphs of the modern Internet, and a huge boon for humanity. I am glad that humanity now has such an abundance of great learning materials available so readily, and saddened by how few humans choose to avail themselves of such opportunity.
I see, so when I need to travel from Los Angeles to New York, deciding whether to fly on a commercial airplane or ride a bicycle, is a political decision? Reducing travel time by 99.99% isn't an intrinsic feature of airplane travel?
If only it were so.

What is being purchased is the right to feel that they worked hard enough to deserve what they are certain to get anyway.
>No, what we’re saying is, regardless of what you use to charge your phone — you could use a banana to charge it — just give us access to be able to purchase that charge port so that if the charge port in the phone breaks, we can fix it for customers rather than tell them, “Your phone is now a brick.”

This you? I literally just pasted this from above. How is that not suggesting that people are telling customers that their phone is a brick when the charge port breaks?

Also, puhleeeeeeze... it's a good thing for society? There are any number of people for whom this won't be a good thing. I don't doubt that your business will go on just fine and that's why I think you're reticent to talk about it. The repair shops that "aren't run by c-list YouTube celebrities" can't do what you do. The majority of people running repair shops can't do the repairs you do. You may think it's easy but you completely ignore the number of the mall kiosk "repair shops" that do shoddy work and can't put a new screen on right and expect them to do work that requires soldering and component-level surgical operations.

You know how auto repair shops have a really, really poor reputation and how it's usually a joke about how taking your car in for an oil change results in all kinds of "upsells" for people who aren't savvy with their cars? This is exactly why. Also, before you make some kind of straw man up, I'm not suggesting that there's no middle ground or that the current situation is the perfect situation either. I'm only saying that you pretend like everyone else is going to get the same experience from every repair shop and all we have to do is pass these Right to Repair bills and the free market will take care of everything and that's just a bunch of bull.
And combine this with NewPipe[1] and there's no reason to miss YouTube app at least on android.

[1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Free intraday stock data API no secret key required
> Like I see teenagers wearing t-shirts with NOFX or Van Halen on them, instead of Billie Eilish.

Same as it always was. (SPIN magazine, April 2005):

https://books.google.com/books?id=3ftHVmAonmoC&lpg=PA107&dq=...

> A few days after the Orange Bowl, I saw the video for Simpson's "La La." In one segment, she wears a vintage Adam and the Ants T-shirt; later, she wears a Motley Crue shirt. I suppose it's theoretically possible that Ashlee Simpson honestly likes those bands. But within the context of this video, her identification with them does not feel remotely organic; it feels like somebody put a lot of thought into whom Ashlee should align herself with. All young artists do this, but some are less subtle than others. I once saw singer/songwriter Leona Naess perform in Cleveland wearing a ZZ Top T-shirt. "I don't even know who this band is," she said between songs. "I just like this shirt." Naess played Minneapolis on the same tour, but this time she wore an Aerosmith T-shirt. "I don't even know who this band is," she said between songs. "I just like this shirt." Obviously, this was an attempt at cultural positioning: Leona Naess wanted to appear like the kind of girl who (somehow) had never heard of ZZ Top and Aerosmith, just as Ashlee Simpson wants to appear like the kind of girl who's intimately aware of Motley Crue and Adam Ant. Yet both artists failed in their attempts, and that's because even a child could tell they were trying way too hard. And people hate that.
This is also Foursquare’s business.

Their opt-out page is interesting:
https://foursquare.com/data-requests/

“The California Consumer Privacy Act gives California residents the right to direct businesses from selling their personal information. If you are a California resident, you have this right. If you are not a California resident, we may, at our discretion, grant you this right.”

(Emphasis mine)
And likewise it's unethical for a candidate to attend an interview if they have no intention of considering a potential offer.

This resonates with me and I'm also conflicted about it the same time.

I'm currently happy at my job, and don't think I'd like to consider another job any time soon. However, historically, in previous jobs, I usually don't notice that I want to move on, until it's too late, and I'm too burnt out to do well in interviews. It's been recommended to me, by multiple people to interview frequently, even if not interested in changing jobs, to get some practice in. But doing that feels unethical. I frequently consider it, but have never done it because it feels dishonest and unfair.

But then by the time I want to change jobs I'll be burnt out, and and out of practice interviewing, creating a very depressive loop of failing at job interviews, depressing me further.
In the small section where they quote Amazon’s perspective, it says:

> tell the employee that their performance is not meeting expectations

Then the rest of the article is all quotes about employees who are not sure if they are meeting expectations or not. Are managers just not following this guidance, or is there some other rule that says the opposite of this quote?
So, the traders did something explicitly forbidden and didn't get penalized for it; that doesn't sound like being "kept in check" to me.

Never mind those manipulations that make it through the regulatory filter, a la mortgage securitization circa 2008.
> sometimes the performance of native APIs is poor and hard to improve (Apple has this problem frequently).

Compared to the alternatives (especially Electron, where you oddly forgot to mention this), the performance from native Apple APIs is often the best you can get.

Have you looked at stuff like TextKit 2 etc.?
Where did they state that?
Having senior people write all of the code shuts down your ability to create new senior people. If you have a bimodal distribution of employment longevity for your devs, this may be why. If nobody gets promoted for three years because you can't trust new developers with the code (until they've memorized everything) this is probably why.

Nobody wants to touch the lead's code. The more of it there is, the slower things go. Or the more workarounds/end runs (duplicate functionality) you find in the code. It's best if the leads only stick their fingers into code that absolutely has to work, has a low expected rate of change, and relates directly to architectural or (better) operational concerns. Everything else they should keep an eye on, insist on quality, but otherwise butt out.

People write code that seems obvious to them. Very, very few of us make a conscious effort to do much more than that. You can write a great deal of solid code that is still write-only. Too much of this, and it makes it difficult to improve your bus numbers, and grooming people for growth is a huge investment of time, energy, and social capital (if you can do it at all). Rather than bringing the whole team up, people play favorites, because that's all they can afford.
Added. thanks!
teaching is a very effective method of learning. in one community that i am part of it is emphasized that most of the benefits of teaching go to the teacher.

as for a school model, montessori groups children in age-groups spanning 3 years, and older children there routinely teach the younger ones.
Its a very big question - we almost need some sort of level of detail about the commenter, to understand their expertise, backgrounds, experiences, abilities, etc - but once again, how would you quantify it? For all topics, not everyone's voice should be considered equal
I'll bite. Where I live and where I shop, I can understand. But how does my cell phone know how much money I make?
Which manager came up with this brainwave of an idea to make themselves appear useful?
This seems like it could be better than Docker when you need to manage dependent images. Like if I want to build a simple base image for my backend that is then used to build images for both a prod deployment, a testing image, etc.
Find someone who is more into movies than you are and talk to them regularly. :)

I got introduced to a bunch last year by making the acquaintance of a film grad student who ran a movie club that met via Discord every Saturday night to discuss a film of the week.

I think this could also probably be approximated by finding someone into film on social media, or watching entries accepted into well-regarded film festivals, or if you happen to have an active mom & pop video store in your area, talking with the clerks.
Not if its on your own time, your own equipment, and using no company IP.
I feel you. I’ve tried a ton. Athletic is one of the better ones, O’Doul’s is decent compared to the cheap domestics it’s replacing but that’s not my style, and wheat is my style, where I’ve found some satisfaction with Well Being and Weihenstephaner NA.

Half of drinking is the ritual of cracking open a cold can/bottle of something a little sharp, and so while I don’t need the sugar, I find that nothing has worked better to replace beer than a Reed’s Strongest ginger ale.
I usually have a couple cases in my place at any time. I just wish it was cheaper. It's a bit stupid that a 24 pack of Coke costs ~$8, but 24 Topo's cost ~$20.
It is nice, however, when it's an option at a bar and you can have something kind of like a beer, while not incurring the usual "What, just a water?" conversations.
I would think that Fronk is actually Google, but I doubt that Google would ever put an expiration date on any of their NDAs.
This is more common than you may think, but is carried out by state-sponsored actors because random people and corporations won't have the time, resources or even a real need to plan a decades-long operation. Also whether the position is physical or remote has very little bearing. Moles can be planted either way. Heck the Manhattan project had Soviet agents working for it.
That only makes it worse.
I started out buying into them being different, but then the description of protocol selection, tradeoffs and restrictions sounds very much like developing a distributed software system.
White shelled eggs are selling in Tesco for the first time in 40 years (2020)
Optimization is eating the world.
Apparently they even cultivate species that aren't dioecious naturally to become so :) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/16/how-urba...

And of course some species are cloned because it faster and cheaper, so then female saplings aren't a problem. You clone what has higher demand.

> I would imagine that we can actually do a lot to accelerate the process of trees spreading over an area.

Yes I was a little facetious. I don't actually plan to persuade people not to have kids or not to do gardening. But when I see people gathering millions of dollars to use drones to plant trees I can't help but think it's focusing on the wrong (but cool) part of the problem.
That is just for the USA, patents are extremely expensive in EU, they got a great feudal system going on there where you cannot get a patent without spending at least 40k EUR, whereas in USA a single inventor can get it as low as 500 USD.
In essence, yeah - it really targets a few previously underserved markets. There are a few non-obvious appeals over beer for some:

- For one, the most popular brands are a very easy amount of calories to add up per can. White Claw, for instance, has exactly 100 calories per can, so it's very easy to calculate how many calories are consumed per night by counting cans. So it appeals to calorie counters.

- Along the same lines, the carbs in the can are straightforward and easy to count. People doing keto are usually trying to stay under 30g of carbs per day. White Claw again has an easy-to-remember and easy-to-count 2g of carbs per can. So it appeals to carb-watchers.

- It's gluten free, unlike beer. Obvious appeal for people who have some sort of gluten intolerance

Wrap all of the above together and include the fact you mentioned that it functionally works like beer (you buy it in single serve containers in packs, it's relatively low ABV so it won't get you trashed immediately and you can drink it casually and it's served ice cold) but isn't beer from both a taste and feel perspective and it's pretty clear to see why it's really taken off as quickly as it has.
Some Reflections on Being Off Social Media
I'd use a lot of screenshots for workflow.

I'd also embed a lot of shadow knowledge, the knowledge that one acknowledges and answers the "why".

If technically possible I'd also setup a monthly notification so that the whole team can sit together and review all wikis created 30~60 days ago. I'd aggressively truncate anything that is wrong, irrelevant or confusing.
Chinese diplomat voices concern over Australia's human rights violations
China is deeply concerned about Australia's serious human rights violations, a Chinese diplomat has said at the ongoing 47th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
1 Billion Sea Creatures Cooked to Death in Canada in Record Heat Wave
They are no more obtuse than one letter options for command line tools. The author of function just forgot to write a man page.
It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us
I think the simple answer is that movies tend to reflect the world around them. Not to get too political on HN but I think no matter your political stripes we can agree that the general mood of the country has been not great since at least 2015 or so. You could argue that means we need more escapism, not less, but somehow that doesn't happen.
Not really sure that is a proven advantage. I have always been self-motivated and had teachers who just left me to get on with it and marked anything I handed in to them. You still have to send out the right signals to people who don't know you.
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> ELIZA is clearly a toy,

That's a red herring. The "Eliza effect" has nothing to do with how toy-like ELIZA actual was, it is a lesson about how humans were very bad at evaluating its actual capability and insight. This continues to be true today, and is an effect with at least some impact on essentially any AI/ML system that people interact with.
There was a flagged submission about a year ago about them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22704138

I’ll go on a limb and say that apps don’t even have to integrate Placer’s sdk directly. If an app uses any monetization/tracking/ad tracking system, that tracking vendor may collect the geo data and then re-sell it to Placer (i.e. talk to Placer via a server to server API to let them know about the end user)
Ideas being cheap and execution being everything applies mostly to businesses that laypeople people can think up and start. Because they are not usually in a position to do new research, but great execution is always scarce. In pharma (which I’ve worked in) and I guess other industries like semiconductors, materials etc good ideas are everything and competitors could copy the invention that took years to decades for just single or double digit millions so patents arguably drive a lot of research there.
You are arguing too technically here. How people feel and what they like is very subjective. If people don't like air blowing unnaturally at them, no amount of arguing will change that.
Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
I never understood the secretive nature of these Amazon "devplan" / "FOCUS" lists. If an employee has a performance issue, they should know. Period. If they are on a formal list, they should know that too.

The only "positive" here is that it can affect the individual's moral to know you are not meeting expectations - but that has to be communicated regardless. If it's understood it has to be communicated and there is a list specifically including the individual, it's up to the company to manage that communication in a supportive manner.

And the consequences of this secretive list are a culture of fear and uncertainty and doubt. Especially with the harsh consequences such as - if you leave while on this secretive list (which you cannot even know you are on) - you are ineligible for rehire.

The solution is not to maintain a secretive list of employees who have performance issues - it is to be fully transparent about those performance issues and destigmatize being included in this nebulous secretive list in the first place - through a culture of support and shared success.

Honestly it boggles my mind how Amazon managers accept this status quo at the scale that Amazon operates. It is so on it's face a recipe for having a toxic culture which breeds stress, doubt, and only serves to reinforce poor performance outcomes.

Out of all the things I've heard about Amazon culture for its software organization - this single thing (secretive lists of employees with performance issues with "never rehire" consequences that employees can't even understand they are on) symbolizes for me all the reasons I would avoid them as an employer. There is no way to have this process without creating a toxic culture.
Does this work with GitHub Actions?
Funny. I've watched quite a few movies, indy and studio, foreign and domestic, and The Fountain is the only movie I ever immediately re-watched the second it ended. I thought it was absolutely a masterpiece.

But that's art for you; affects people differently.
I'm assuming in this 20 -> 5 transition that would be 5 years after the patent is granted rather than the current 20 years after filing? Part of the issue is that a patent can take 5+ years form filing to grant, and frequently take 3+ years.
I gave up every type of drink except for water 10 years ago.

After about 1 year of drinking only water I lost the desire for everything except water.

After about 2 years I've found that I got significantly more enjoyment from water than I ever got from any other drink previously.

I now find that trying to drink anything other than water is not enjoyable.
No sources beyond pseudo-sciences... according to my first page of googling.