skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a sustainable phenomenon, though. Americans can't continue to pay an increasing portion of their income to healthcare while exporting the benefits to everyone else. That's simply absurd.

It's all right here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/24/this-char...

You can't keep squeezing people for more and more and expect to get anywhere in a sustainable fashion. This is the road to collapse. What does macroeconomics say about that?
Nope, none of todays CGI stuff is memorable.
The opposite perspective also has some value. e.g. If you try to learn a new language and solve a new problem, then when you get stuck on one you can make headway on the other, then return. It is harder to juggle effectively though.
The superhero genre doesn't lend itself to the "don't actually show much to build suspense" style of film-making that horror could lean on back in the day to make up for how corny practical effects would look.

It's not really a rousing endorsement that practical's greatest achievements are cases when you have the thematic luxury of not actually showing anything.
I find cruise control (in a 20 year old vehicle) extremely handy. Means I'm maintaining a constant speed no matter the grade/slope of the road and on long journeys also means I don't get cramp in my right ankle.

I tend to despise most modern driving aids, but cruise control (just the very basic "maintain speed") is extremely handy and makes driving a lot easier. Maintaining a constant speed (to within 1mph) by foot over a 2 hour drive is almost impossible. It also seems to help my fuel economy.
Ada++ makes two changes to the Ada language. First, it changes some keywords into new keywords or symbols, but in a gross way (the case example, is becomes : as a blanket rule, even when it leads to : being paired with }). This could be done by a (tedious) awk program or sed script. The second change it makes is that use will also with a package, that's a nice ergonomic feature. But it's the only thing of modest complexity that it does to change the language. There are no other enhancements to the language that it introduces that make it a compelling thing or an obvious non-joke (it's release date for 0.2.0 was 1 April 2021).

The actual Ada developers are focused on actual language enhancements with the Ada 2022 standard and increasing the scope of properties that SPARK (a proper subset of Ada now) can prove about a program. Including approaching some of the properties that people find desirable with Rust's borrow checker and lifetime analysis. Ada++ should be doing things like that, meaningfully improving the language and not just being a glorified awk program that doesn't change or add any real syntactic or semantic properties of the language. Also, the author should stop doing releases on April Fool's Day if they really want to be taken seriously.
Countries with Free and Universal Healthcare
They don't have the collective bargaining power of a union and are paid much less/exploited, resulting in better profit margins for the owners of the film.
Perhaps people don't like it because they aren't familiar with it? Maybe all it would take is artists slowly incorporating new tones and patterns slowly for people to become accustomed
Haha, for what it's worth, I'm the lead for their marketing, and also an eng who took the job because I loved using Render and wanted a change from working in DevOps.

You don't have to believe me...would expect nothing less : D the product and the way we ship what our users want speaks for itself.
New lightweight material is stronger than steel
> 1. We’re talking about people who have already switched it off.

No, we're talking about accounts who already had it (as part of broader setting) disabled for them, in a context where the data in question can (contractually) only be used to provide the service anyhow.

> 2. There is no need for any tracking to implement this. It can be done on the client.

Pray tell me how you can do client side search history recommendation for the first query I make after logging in.
A after, B before, C context (for both)
I’ve driven 15000 miles in the past year on my Model Y, a large part of it shuttling between the Bay Area and Reno, so mostly I-80. And many miles of autopilot.

So for, not a single phantom break.

So I wonder what it is that makes it not happen for me? Probably half of those miles are in the evening, so that might be a partial explanation. Maybe the direction from which the sun is coming?
In my case it did make me happier day to day, and also waaaay more fulfilled. I wish I had kids earlier.
I am, but at the same time I'm reminded it's always been like this.

But isn't it an entirely separate conversation? Of course CGI hasn't "ruined the movies", that part of the title is hyperbole. But the actual conversation about practical SFX vs CGI doesn't have much to do with originality, I think.
I’m not sure if this is the reason, but the lighting on the painting, and the expression and pose of the subject, change subtly from scene to scene- reflecting the story as it unfolds.
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Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?
ive been reading a lot about progressive enhancement, aria, browser feature support, and as an aspiring bootstrapper, it seems like a ton of work.

can someone present an argument that making a website accessible for a wider audience FIRST makes good business sense?

or alternatively, can anyone vouch for any tooling to make accessibility easier?

also, related, i have a friend who runs an e-commerce business and there are litigious entities suing them because their site is not accessible. they, under a different name, also provide services to update the site so that it is accessible.
Having used many different word processors across the decades, I wholeheartedly agree with the "won't betray me" comment. So many products have risen and fallen in the past forty years that an open and documented file format is essential for the products of our labour to have lasting value. The cross platform support is also liberating.

As for the unintuitive UI, it is a complex product that is designed to meet a multitude of needs. In that respect, it is not all that different from Microsoft Office. (If anything, I find it to be slightly more intuitive than Microsoft Office since the means of achieving some things in Microsoft's product is downright quirky.)
I don't know, the crash last week was from and LTS Ubuntu on a supported Dell XPS with 32Go of RAM. Seem like ideal linux conditions to me.
Try driving for 4-hours or longer.

Your foot gets physically tired pushing the accelerator for that long. Cruise control prevents that tiredness from occurring.
>Yet, 94% of Medicare recipients "report being very satisfied or satisfied with the quality of their medical care

I think the part you are missing is that 83% of Medicare recipients have supplemental insurance to cover their medical needs. The recipients know specifically the scope of Medicare and what they would loose.

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-snapshot-of-sourc...
While it is true just some chinese EV manufactures use LIDAR right now (Nio, Xpeng), Volvo[1] and Mercedes[2] are on board. I believe once the sensors become cheap enough, people will just use that rather than bet on cameras.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2021/06/24/next-g...

[2] https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovation/product-innovatio...
For those who love deep reading there is annotated hypertext Ulysses:
https://www.joyceproject.com/
AFAIK Chrome behaves the same. You can't update a browser cleanly while it is running. In Windows is is handled correctly because both browsers are updated in the background when the browser is closed, but in Linux-style environments this work is done by the package manager. When the package manager stomps over a running instance of Firefox, the old behavior was to crash. At least, now Firefox can detect what happened and keep the active tabs running while instructing you to please restart the browser.

Regarding private tabs, one workaround would be to store the whole window as a bookmark folder (right click on empty tab area, select all tabs, store as bookmarks).
A key factor here is if Deere and others can at least know if folks are doing work themselves and then be allowed to deny warranty coverage. If so, fair trade.
There's good digital effects and bad digital effects. Sadly, most digital effects are in the bad category. Compare say Pleasantville's use of digital color changes over time to make the story come alive with the changes the main characters experience. It really sells the story properly without looking out of place. Whereas stuff like what's listed from Justice League and The Force Awakens fails because they don't fit well with the story. Like Cyborg wouldn't need to be a CGI overladen presentation if they did subtle practical effects backed up with equally subtle digital effects. Steppenwolf is a whole separate problem of visualizing the character. Making him completely CGI was a mistake. For The Force Awakens, the same issue is apparent with Maz Kanata in that she should've been partially a practical effect prop such as what John Favreau did with Baby Yoda on the Mandolorian and then augment the practical side with digital effects to make it pop.

Also, I'll say that there's one area that digital effects beat out old ones: matte paintings. Digital matte paintings are far better than what came before and allow for greater degree of flexibility for shots. But they've been abused for replacing location shoots for them entirely.

Edit: I would also put Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion in the list of good digital and practical effects blending along with some location shots. It's really one of those things that once you notice who does it better you begin to realize that CGI and green screen alone isn't sufficient. You have to mix all the methods together (practical, digital, matte, etc) to achieve the look you're after rather than pretending someone using a 3d modeling tool can magically whip up the look in post-production.
Vice's value proposition was extraordinarily cheap labor straight out of university due to its authentically "cool" branding. That's over, so they've just got to be Ozy now, but with a head start. Not quite over, I guess, because they're still cool in Saudi Arabia, or other underdeveloped countries with a wealthy elite whose children idolize Western things and can't wait to go to university abroad.
I understand why pages disappear. I'm just saying the expecting a search engine to return a result from 5 years ago is kind of a bad metric to be using in whatever point was attempting to be made.
I'd love to learn how you are handling media/photo storage from both a technical and practical perspective. Some questions that come to mind: are you using a dedicated service or did you build it yourself? Are you using a CDN? How do you plan to deal with abusive content and the liability that comes with storing photos?

I am also working on an app where hosting photos would be a nice feature - but the risk/undertaking without proper and potentially expensive infrastructure is daunting.
The media began describing the site as a ‘mass grave’. A Manitoba politician who said the residential schools were founded with good intentions triggered a meltdown. Not only did he apologise, but two weeks later he said, with a straight face, that the residential school system was part of a genocidal plan devised by John A. MacDonald, Canada’s first prime minister, to kill off indigenous peoples. Nobody dared to object.

Probably because it's almost quibbling to say GoC's policies at the time weren't genocidal because, strictly speaking, they didn't seek to literally kill off the entire population.

The bugger point is that on the whole, these policies do come under the definition of genocide per the UN Genocide Convention (basically: "policies designed to bring about the destruction of a people - in whole or part"). And yes, the Residential Schools were a part of that system.
Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
I've never heard of that happening, but yeah, if the neighbor calls 911, and then EMS calls me for some reason, I'm not going to answer since 99% of the time it's a spammer.

If they leave a voicemail, I'll get a transcript.
A part of this that's missing is the effects of HD filming on practical effects.

Back in ye old days of the 90's, props didn't need to be super good looking unless there was a close-up. Now in the days of 4k, every prop needs to look gorgeous or the suspension of disbelief gets pinged. Same reason why you have people going through the Marvel weightlifting program and shaving _everything_.

The increase in film detail happened from the same technological push that made CGI. Now folk are trying to figure out what to do with this hugely different film-making world, and you can see the cracks.

That said, I agree with a lot of the author's ideas, particularly about Dune.
The way I remember this is by keeping in mind that grep processes the area of the search as a stream of discrete lines by looking at each line individually. "Above/below" are concepts on the stream level, and "after/before" are on the line level.
People have lost their minds, Grocery stores on Tuesday reminded me of the start of the Pandemic. Today it's a little more normal and if this turns out to be a nothing burger, folks will have bought enough groceries to see them through a famine. I would like to report there is still toilet paper available.
I think a large chunk of the problem is that we've been concentrating on improving the rendering, which is clearly now phenomenal, and seemingly totally ignoring the animation, which is still abysmal.

CGI characters still move too smoothly. It's all spline curves and jelly physics. CGI is instantly recognisably unreal due to the overly fluid motions and it seems remarkable to me how little progress has been made on this.

Animated characters still look animated, except they dive straight into the uncanny valley because of the incredible rendering. I guess mo-cap only gets you so far before you have to smooth out the noise of the motion signal.

Anyone with actual knowledge of CGI got anything to say about this? It seems weird that everything else moved on while this got neglected.
It's because you're very nostalgic for the movies of your childhood. And you listed three classics, when that era produced a lot of trash as well. That's all fine, certainly not a bad thing, but that's where the bias comes from.
I think it's more that by law, long positions require disclosures, while short positions can be, and mostly are, opaque.

The more opaque information discovery is in general, the less accurate markets are in the short term.
The author is not saying that modern movies are artistically worse than old movies. He's saying that CGI, despite decades of progress, seem _fake_ in a way that subtly destroys our sense of immersion:

"Consider Ridley Scott’s 1985 Legend, wherein Tim Curry’s onscreen presence as a horned devil is heavy, weighty—despite playing a fantastical devil, his clopping around in hooves comes across as ontologically solid. Your eyes are not deceived. And moreover, under the slathered makeup and prothestics, he is still acting—when his lip curls, that’s a real lip. Compare that to Steppenwolf, from the 2017 Justice League. After almost a quarter-century of “progress” in cinema he comes across as digital dust, a void where physicality should be. His superstrength is unthreatening, because deep in our occipital lobes we know Steppenwolf weighs nothing, impacts nothing. Therefore the entire movie has no stakes. Of course the bad guy will be defeated, he’s a hologram."

Yes, of course the article ignores the hundreds of old movies with terrible prosthetics and costumes. I think the author tries his best to compare similar things. For example, when he discusses the latest Dune with Lawrence of Arabia - both acclaimed movies. Specifically, he discusses how the desert scenes _look_ to our eyes:

"Lawrence of Arabia from 1962 looks so much more real than Dune, even when just comparing the shots of people in Bedouin costumes hanging out in a desert ... For instance, the shadows both characters cast to their right. In the 2021 Dune, it is a monochrome chunk, despite the billowing fabric around the character. In the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, the shadow of the fabric is actually see-through. It has dimensionality, thinness and thickness. Because it’s a real shadow. So despite both being filmed in similar locations, one scene unconsciously triggers more belief in the ontology of the fictional world—the directionality of the light, the blue above the dune—while the other comes across as an ersatz reality."

I felt this coming out of the latest Star Wars movies: the space battle scenes felt so... flat, despite being technically amazing. There's something to be said for actually shooting on location and using physical props.
I drive ford fusion for 5 years now that has adaptive radar cruise control, I use adaptive cruise 2 hour hours a day 5/days a week for my commute. It has never once did phantom stop.
Representation matters until it doesn’t? There is nothing wrong with people wanting to consume content created with them in mind.
old? It happened last week for me.
GitHub’s Longest (Partial) Outage
To paraphrase Tolstoy: Bad CGI is all alike; every bad practical effect is bad in its own way.
It's great for us, because Elixir and Phoenix do such a good job of exercising all the features of the platform. But just to be clear, there's nothing really Elixir-specific about Fly.io! You can run pretty much anything here.
The OP you are replying to here is obviously talking about shorting MORE than 100% of the float, which indeed should not be possible.
Manhattan, Seattle, the Bay Area. I haven't rented anywhere other than that, so I don't know how it works outside of those markets (which are admittedly unique as far as market fundamentals go).

I paid $1400/month for rent on a place in Alameda, CA. The last recorded sale of the property was for ~$400,000 a couple years before I moved in. That mortgage would be ~$2400/month given average interest rates at the time.
I watched Voyage of the Rock Aliens the other day which didn't stand the test of 1984, let alone the test of time. It's a great example of practical effects that can stand up to modern scrutiny... and those that can't. The flying V spaceship looks better than CGI in B-movies today, and the talking fire-hydrant robot had more character than BB-8 in the most recent Star Wars films.

But the sheet of plexiglass used as a "force field" was comically terrible, even for 1984
>In Dune 2021, it's just background for the action

I wonder if we even watched the same film. The harsh desert environment and its lack of water is the whole point
This season of Mando (or Boba Fett) I think will further their approach with some tech advances after today's episode gets watched
Have you ever stopped to consider for even one second that maybe capitalism is the problem? That maybe there should be an obligation? As I said in my other comment, you can't keep squeezing people for more and more and more and expect it to be sustainable. What good are fancy new drugs and treatments when nobody can afford them, even with insurance?
I massively disagree with your reasonning as to why vision only has advantages, or at least i disagree that they're really advantages.

What you are saying and I understand you're not saying this is the way to go but merely giving a point of view but hear me out, is that if you have two inputs instead of one, the two might disagree, which makes it harder to figure out which one is right. But if you have only one input, it can't disagree with it self so it's easier to decide.

But if the one you have is the one of the two that would be wrong, you haven't gained anything, beside being sure about it while being wrong. At least with two inputs you're able to know something is off. And usually you add more inputs so you can decide, and make a strategy depending on context (absolute majority, 50%+1, ...).

And sorry but if when having multiple input the system is confused, or needs time to correlate all the data, or whatever like that, this is still useful as again it lets you know something is wrong danger will robinson.

I think the field of engineering, with planes and spaceships and whatever, has proven how the "simplificity" advantage of single sensor is a scam that will cost lives to avoid fixing issues.
Very little reporting connected to foreign policy/natsec has integrity. The Washington Post recently ran the following obituary, emphasis mine. https://archive.md/20220201161018/https://www.washingtonpost...

> Gen. Singlaub started the U.S. Council for World Freedom, an affiliate of the World Anti-Communist League. Later, as president of the international organization, he made what the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith called “substantial progress” in purging the group of neo-Nazis, antisemites and Latin American death-squad leaders.

> ...

> In the early 1980s, as Congress began curtailing U.S. funding of efforts to overthrow leftist regimes in Nicaragua and elsewhere, Gen. Singlaub and his organizations remained an important conduit of materiel and financial assistance, reportedly with the help of deep-pocketed conservatives and foreign governments.

> He was often compared to Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and other major figures in the Reagan administration’s Iran-contra affair. North was among the national security officials who had authorized illegal arms sales to Iran to win the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East and used some of the profits to support right-wing Nicaraguan rebels known as the contras.

The same man being applauded for purging death squad leaders from an organization and for funding death squad leaders.
I use OpenPilot, which is third party L2 driver assistance sw/hw. I started looking into it after getting into an accident on the freeway. It's amazing for highway driving. You do still have to pay attention, but long trips are much more relaxing. You don't have to do anything besides pay attention while you are staying in the same lane, and driving is much smoother with it.
Any insight into the Heroku Connect platform? We're a BIG user of this product and the only reason we have any direct dealings with Heroku.
Around August, at least that's when the complaints seemed to start flooding in:

https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+wall+site:news...
That sort of question you want answered by friends or an organization you pay to represent ypu, like Consumers Union.
"-Irs/-Iirs --color=always" is my standard set of flags

-l/-h/-v/-o show up every now and then
> Singapore is a one-party police state with zero press freedom and a poor track record of respecting human rights (being gay is still illegal).

Singapore is a real, functioning democracy. It’s a city-state not much bigger than Chicago. Is Chicago a “one party” state? When was the last time San Francisco voted for a Republican mayor? Singapore is an Asian country with a significant Muslim population. How they exercise their democratic self determination to structure their society is none of our business.

Frankly, bringing up individual rights in every discussion of Singapore strikes me as a very privileged take. As someone from Bangladesh, I wish Americans and others in the international community would focus more on understanding how Singapore turned itself from a poor third world country into an affluent one in a single generation. How it managed to crack down on the corruption and political instability that plagues fledging democracies. Studying those lessons would pay far greater dividends in terms of improving the human condition in Africa and Asia than imposing western notions of individual rights.

For folks who do care about this issue, reading Lee Kuan Yew’s thoughts is fascinating. https://paulbacon.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/zakaria_lee.pd.... This interview, in particular, is great. The interviewer. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, is one of the most insightful observers of international politics in America.