skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read about 2 articles per month from each of 5 news sites. Each site wants me to pay a $10/mo subscription. I'm not paying $50/mo for 10 articles. They need to figure out a way to fix their pricing model as a group.
I doubt anyone's heard of the first 2, the last one might have a few other users.
that's something quite different.
This map that shows how fast it takes us to travel from days in 1900s to hours in present time

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3385856/amp/...

Eventually it will be minutes
I'm not sure what you're saying - it sounds like you're agreeing with me, then?
While I agree that $10 umbrella subscription make metric tons of sense even if it was not the only way online newspapers could work, I don’t see competition in it. A whole industry without competitions is generally not a good thing……
Nor am I -- that's why I asked what it was about!
Every time I hear "freedom fries", an interesting bit of trivia come to my mind: the guy who forced the capitol cafeteria to add Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast to the menu, Rep. Bob Ney, was one of only three republicans in the House to vote against the Patriot Act.
They form most of the anti-vax movement in Europe (there are documented case of a presumed-extinct disease killing children in Steiner schools) and are also deeply sexist and homophobic due to their beliefs in a mystical balance between "Man" and "Women". They also actively infiltrate medical institutions in France, Germany and Switzerland to favor meds from their official medicine (and private labs), and some country allow them to be officially sold as medicine with reduced controls in regard to efficacy.
Oh and they successfully lobbied the French state into shutting down it's own observatory of derives in cults, known for having rose many alerts against Steiner schools to the govt over the years.
Agreed, and sorry, I wasn't trying to do that. However, in that scenario, I'd claim the news site is the actual victim.
I don't know about your condition, but for obesity a lot of doctors are not even recommending people to lose weight anymore. The data shows that so few people actually do it, permanently, that it's not even worth bringing up. USA fat people are overall uninterested in being thin.
A million is not much for a flat in many major cities worldwide, but it is a lot for most places in the US.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27800602.
Netflix is a rental platform. Like the old DVD and VHS rental shops. And regularly some content gets pull off the shelves because they don't have the licensing fees. It's a pretty well known fact some movies and TV shows come and go on Netflix.

And for what ? Pirating "culture" that is not available on Netflix ? Star Trek Voyager ? I am huge Trek fan but come on.

This is entertainment we are talking about.

> He/she wants to watch a series on a service he/she pays for.

It's like complaining a vegan restaurant doesn't serve meat.

Netflix has very few of the shows, movies and documentaries I can watch on ARTe. Do people complain that ARTe doesn't stream every Netflix shows and vice versa ?

There are a lot of comments on HN when this topic comes up that feel like people want their cake and eat it too "or else I'll just pirate, there's a gun to my head, they give me no choice".
> But blaming the printer, really? That's like blaming an intern...

To clarify, I mean the printer as a company, not the device .. and yes, it indeed is as bad as blaming the intern.
As far as I know most laws that are 'pushed' are based on providing equality, protection of minorities and avoiding discrimination (i.e. LBGT). Basically things like these are not okay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_anti-LGBT_law
They provide solid scaffolding, which seems to be his main point. I wouldn’t call that dead wrong.
And as far as community support, when I was on the R user listserv, Prof Ripley from Oxford would explain why your question was using the wrong analysis for your data, explain what analysis you should use, shoe the sample code for the right way, and then mockingly show the dumb way you could have your question answered,. Like twenty emails each British morning. I learned a lot about stats from reading it. Not so much R syntax but stats and stats reasoning.
Based on another article written by the same author that features stories from South Asia, I would want to believe she is also from South Asia.
If you haven't heard it yet, 15.ai had a ton of voices. IIRC it was a single person team, and they were working on an mechanism to build a decent voice model from minimal training.

They had trained on just about every character in "My Little Pony: Friendship is magic" and various characters from other games (Portal 2, etc), and it was remarkably good.

It's been down for months though, claiming that they're having a hard time training the latest iteration of the model :-/
Whataboutism. A) cargo ships are also a problem, and B) a private vehicle carrying a half-dozen people creating “only” one tenth the pollution of a ship carrying hundreds of thousands of cargo goods for hundreds of thousands of people is not bragging rights.
Systems that federate over ActivityPub (AP) produce JSON blobs that other systems choose how to present. For example: an AP blog might show a blog post and comments like a traditional blog, while Mastodon could show the same data as a toot and replies to it.
"Contemporary Advaita provides many pointers, one of which is to observe your choices and try to find a force independent of observable causality chains."

How can we observe causality?

We can observe a sequence of events, but that one event causes another is not something we can observe.

See Hume's critique of causality for more on this.
USA today favors those with money and power. It does not accurately tell stories from the point of view of the poor.
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I've worked remotely for a long time. I've always had this dream of pushing through my work early in the week so I can fit in a round of golf or a few hours of skiing on a Friday morning. It's panned out less than 5 times because something always comes up on a Friday morning.
The British civil service has London and National salaries.

I think based on your home address but not sure.
I think a 70 year old has less to lose and more incentive to take a risk on things he really wants to do than a 57 year old. No matter how rich you are, you can't stop aging (yet).

And when you risk sudden catastrophic death, I'm not sure that the wealthy person really has more to lose than a poor person, we all only get one life. His heirs will be taken care of either way, how can his life be valued higher than, say, one of his pilots?
how do we know its not? if not a super deterministic clockwork, at least a probalistic one
It’s not cutting out the middle man - it’s replacing the middle man with a software middle man. The only way that doesn’t lead to a monopoly is if there are multiple software middle men competing. Like, do you actually believe that uber is just a platform connecting buyers (riders) with sellers (drivers)? It’s a taxi company. It replaced a dozen taxi companies in each city with a monopoly or an duopoly (when lyft is also present).
This math seems wrong. In particular, I can't tell whether your $6000/mo is meant to be interest: in which case you expect to be paid forever and die without ever touching the principal.

If you earn no interest and expect to spend $6000 a month forever without ever gaining any passive money accumulation on your principal, you'd go for 27 years before you'd spent your two million.

There are also many things you can do with your life if you have $2M (or indeed $1M) that aren't available to pensioners. I'll grant you, they've got some pretty sweet pensions: that seems unusual, but hey, collective bargaining gets better terms for workers and that certainly qualifies.

They're not poor unless they're catastrophically bad at money management, but you are indeed a little out of touch: the idea of living off the interest on your wealth is pretty insane and unattainable to any remotely normal person.
Then we go spend a week of vacation on another planet.
>Well this is the most jumbled wall of text I've seen today. You seem to be saying that someone complaining on the internet is bad? You seem to also be trying to insult me? It's highly immature and petty, whatever it is.

If you feel insulted, then that's something you've read into that isn't there. My whole jumbled wall of text (no worries, I'm not insulted) was to show how ridiculous the concept of "I can't stream a show that I feel like I deserve to watch so I'll do whatever I want to see it". There will always be people that justify whatever they want to do whatever they want, but the rest of us can just roll our eyes at it. You want to complain about something as petty as not seeing a TV show, then you can expect some people to tell you how that logic just makes no sense.

>I'm still not sure why it matters that someone on the internet deigned to complain about Netflix as opposed to the content owners. Can you clear up why that distinction is necessary here?

Because it's okay to blame someone that's not at fault while not blaming the person that is at fault? How does it even come close to being acceptable? Netflix did not make the rules. They need content on their platform, so they make deals with the content owners. It confounds me that you are confused by this.
100% this - I encourage junior data scientists to get more familiar with Excel when they start - R/python are definitely more flexible, but if Excel can sort you out it's always the quickest way.
Would love some recommendations on anything architecture/design related that had HN’s format (unless the subreddits for those topics are as good as it gets)
Sharing knowledge is the first technology.

It's driven by necessity, and then curiosity.

They make a lovely triad.
I use Fennec F-Droid with a custom addon collection for true extensions on Android. (There is a view source one, btw, and I now have an entry for it in my menu.)

While I have used custom ROMs before, this is all on a stock ROM Android phone. Any can do it. That's the beauty of it.
I remember Brandson talking about this in a podcast (I believe it was 'how I built this', not sure though), he said it was his worst idea but the best name he ever had given to one of his companies. I must agree with that one!
> What's new and mind-blowing is that space travel can be an experience that people will pay for. You're not taking a suborbital flight, you're becoming an astronaut.

This is like saying being a passenger on a plane makes me a pilot.
> that contemporary red rubber bands are designed to be more biodegradable than previously used brown bands, so as to lessen the environmental impact

Doesn't this mean less reusable?
> If God's conception of morality is not equivalent to the human conception of morality, then what does it mean to claim that God is good?

Nothing I would describe as meaningful, but from what I recall of what (admittedly little) I've read of it, theological philosophy that's concerned about proving that God must be good comes disturbingly close to unironically destroying the concept of goodness. Because when you try to derive it from first principles like "something is good if it fills its intended purpose" or "something is good if it brings something closer to its ideal essence" you end up making it vague enough that the black plague might actually be good, you know.

> Saying that God is good in some unknowable and incomprehensible way that would allow for human suffering to exist just isn't a very satisfactory answer for a lot of believers, who continue to believe in a benevolent God who's good in a very human way.

You're absolutely right, this is a non-starter for believers, because their faith is marred with self-interest.

On the other hand, from a purely intellectual standpoint, it has to be a consideration. If the only options are atheism or belief in a conventionally moral supreme deity, that sort of suggests that the only reason to believe that God exists is if God rewards us, which is suspect, because reality doesn't care about our self-interest. This kind of blind spot can corrupt our reasoning.

For instance, a lot of theistic arguments, like fine tuning, the cosmological argument, the ontological argument, regardless of their intrinsic merits, basically say nothing about God's character. They couldn't. They don't operate at that level. But if you work under the assumption that a morally indifferent God is not an option, these arguments appear to imply far more than they actually do.
I'm also curious about how what architectural similarities there might've been between NES/SNES and Gameboy, since there were quite a few common releases.
They must take into account the loyal subscribers who are already paying the current fees. Introducing lower prices can mess up with this income stream.

It’s not easy to differentiate the product enough to collect maximum money from the both groups.

But I do agree with your thinking. For me it would be almost enough if I could get access to just those articles posted on HN for $10/month (across many newspapers and with no risk of falling to some subscription trap).
space is short for outer space, as opposed to the inner space between earth and it's atmosphere. Nice try!

EDIT folks this is just a benign and playful post, the downvotes and flagging is completely unnecessary
Another link, that I picked up from some other HN thread: Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers https://c9x.me/compile/bib/
It's probably one of those major papers (I'd include a few others like The Washington Post) but which one?

There is precedent for the major papers working together in markets where it makes sense to do so, see the International Herald Tribune.
From western Europe: I pay for Netflix and Amazon. Getting titles on them seems easy until you run into localization, while Netflix seems to support dozens of languages with its own titles I still run into too many videos that only offer a subtitle instead of having the English language dub to fall back to.

Can we please throw all copyright lawyers into an active volcano and try to set up a system that doesn't make it intentionally impossible to legally watch the English language version of a video hosted by Amazon while in a non English speaking country? Also throw the Amazon execs who signed those licensing agreements after them.
> the ideologies that are currently being forced on them are very much the product of corruption and oligarchies on a much larger scale (just better hidden). In fact, none of these ideologies are what claim to be. This is all about powers who have essentially hijacked the EU project for their own greedy gains. The ideological criticism in reality just attempts to crush the (relatively amateurishly organized) local competition to their own hegemony. That isn't propaganda. It's an organization who cleverly knows how to abuse the general ignorance of most citizens regarding these countries and abusing it to frame reality into a conveniently useful picture/justification.

care to elaborate? Is it about german/france hegonomy? About keeping the eastern countries for cheap labour from western coorporations?

There is lot's to dislike about the EU - would like to hear more details.
US has the worst of both worlds. It's very expensive and the wait times for specialist visit are not particularly fast.
Forbes says it takes 24 days on average to set up an appointment with an specialist in the US - https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/03/19/doctor-w...
I'm not sure what are they trying to sell exactly but I'm sure that this product is long past its expiration date.
I would have been surprised and intrigued if the title read "Why we use R instead of Python". I've used Excel myself as a student in 2003-05, when R or Python weren't known. And now I sometimes teach Economics students, and they all work either in R or in Jupyter Notebooks. Many of them routinely do what was unthinkable -- process 100s of thousands of records, do geospatial queries and joins, etc.
I think that what's rubbing so many people the wrong way in this thread isn't the technical accomplishment. That was incredible. On the other hand, the self-congratulatory rhetoric was thick. While I was watching it, I said to myself "their video probably isn't working because they knocked the antenna out of alignment when they pat themselves on the back so hard."

It didn't help that the narration was just awful. When the stream buffer finally started playing and we got a mashed up snippet of Branson talking, she (the narrator/commentator) commented that it was late because it was really far away... what!? I know it was off the top of her head but that's just stupid.

So: Congrats on the technical accomplishment, but the rest of the dog and pony show made it look like the worlds most expensive carnival ride.
>worked with the US government

Aka collaborating with the invaders. I know Afghan tribal factionalism doesn't reflect Westphalia state mores, but purging traitors post war is the norm. US should have done more to extract these folks.
Pretty sure everybody who dies loses 'everything', for all practical purposes.

They lose the universe. I don't see a distinction, to the person. To the outside world it's bound to seem very different, but they're the ones left behind to care.

I would also answer the 'as a mega-rich person he has much more happiness and satisfaction to lose than a poor man who is just poor and wanting to die!' question by asking: how do you think these hyper-achievers get to where they are?

I think it's possible that the relative angst level doesn't change, either. It's just that the poor man punches the guy on the adjacent barstool and gets thrown in jail. The rich man punches a COUNTRY, or a class, or a demographic, and typically gets cheered for his trouble.
What are contrast baths?
See also "Punk Punk" on TV Tropes:

> https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunkPunk
> IMO the actual problem is you want to interact with the people reading what you write.

What about email? I.e. put together a mailing list for your blog and host the archives online?
I would add testing, collaboration, and complex use cases.

There's no good way to check if you've made a mistake in the logic of your excel spreadsheet. You can easily test your R code.

If you need to work with multiple people excel is a nightmare. It works fine when one person needs to build something for themselves or just to show to someone else. When you get two or more people working together it's like sharing a keyboard with someone else.

Excel can do a lot of things, but there is a limit to what it can do. R or Python is typically what you would reach for when you need to do something beyond what excel is capable of.
For front-end dev - some older developers are really tired of the constant churn. This can be a good thing if you can / already are off the endless new frontend bandwagon. But since a lot of junior folks are into the "latest and greatest" it can be very hard internally (and cement a perhaps resistance to change stereotype).

I'm a bit tired of folks saying older devs are not resistant to change. Reality - with experience some stuff just seems faddy at times over the course of longer career arcs. So yes, older devs can be bit resistant to jumping onto the latest bandwagon.
In terms of kg/km, cargo ships are very efficient, even in terms of pollutants. The only things better are slow trains.

I'm not sure how spacecraft compare if you measure km as in maximum height reached.
Very interesting idea.

If you or anyone else feel like expanding upon that idea and do a ”back-of-the-napkin” diagram or something, it would be very interesting to see that!

(I started dipping my toes into FaaS[0] literally yesterday, so I must admit I can’t yet imagine how one would actually host a blogging service in such an environment.)

[0] Function as a service
All the Greek patheon have dual Latin/Greek names. Mercury/Hermes etc.
In a revenue sharing scheme, they would be able to command a larger share than the others. With enough people subscribed, it could possibly give them more revenue than the status quo.
If you have a high-capacity, constantly running power source, you can subtract that power from the demand curve, up to the minimum power demand.

That means the winter renewable production troughs on dark, windless days become more shallow. Since the requirement on installed wind and solar capacity is driven by how many Watt-hours you need to overproduce so that they can be stored for sunless, windless days, that ends up drastically reducing how many solar panels and wind turbines you need.

You can test this in the model.energy simulator that you linked by simply subtracting a value from "constant electricity demand". I just did that using realistic values for Germany - reducing the constant electricity demand by 20GW from 66 to 46 GW (roughly the peak capacity of nuclear plants in their heyday) leads to a reduction of peak renewable capacity from 537 to 358 GW, basically exactly a factor of 1.5.

You'll still need a flexible source of course to get rid of the oscillations over the minimum demand.
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Of a specific region from a very specific country in fact. Is postwar propaganda.
It seems like it might have been workable if they tried it out in a practice presentation beforehand, but they seemingly didn't even do that.
Didn’t Branson already go to space in one of his Virgin Galactic craft years ago?
Most senior engineers expect to be out paced by juniors in terms of raw throughout.

But what the seniors have over the juniors is several years of experience making mistakes.
The linked article presents the theistic counterarguments to The Problem of Evil, such as those espoused by C.S. Lewis.

Here is an example of what C.S. Lewis has to say in his book: "If the universe is so bad… how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps, but hardly so foolish as that."

Perhaps I am a small-minded engineer, but that seems like an incredibly weak argument. The linked article, on the other hand, presents the best of the counter-arguments; I don't think C.S. Lewis adds anything of value.
If I were to pay $10k or more for stitches anywhere else in the world, they would come with a set of top shelf breast implants and a hollywood quality facelift. In Cuba, they would give you a bonus hip or a new knee. There is no quality case for the price of the majority of routine american health procedures.

An Uber for medical toursism would even be more cost effective.
At my first tech job there was a guy who had a ball made from the rubber bans the postie would leave every day. He had been doing it for 2-3 years before I joined. It was twice the size of a baseball.
> there is enough demand that they don't need to work for shit-shows like this.

See, people keep saying this, and insisting that it’s a sellers market for programmers, but stories like this one continue to be the rule rather than the exception. If we’re so in demand… why is the treatment so poor?