skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fury Road, too.

As a viewer I'm getting sick of CG action. It's striking how we've gone from action scenes that are improbable, to action scenes that are completely impossible, in terms of the perfection with which humans execute their parts in them, not in terms of stuff like Sci-fi elements. You watch older car chase scenes in something like Bullitt and they're over the top, but not impossible, because despite using movie magic to string together separate shots into one long sequence a real human did actually have to do most of the driving, in a real car and using a finite amount of film—but are at like 1% the insanity and intensity of a car chase scene in a Marvel movie or Fast & the Furious or something.

There are little grounding imperfections and limitations in older action movies that CG and super-cheap digital shooting & editing have destroyed. I often check out for the interminable action scenes in Marvel films because they're just boring, for reasons both narrative and technical, which is the exact opposite of what an action scene ought to be.
> Will quantum computing destroy blockchain and classical encryption algorithms as we know?

Short answer: the currently popular ones? Yes. All that we know? Probably not. See eg: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8967098
I think there’s something to be said for the interaction involved in getting a recommendation from a human. An AI might recommend movies just as well as Dave did, but you presumably like Dave and enjoy talking to him about the movies you’ve seen. You don’t get that part of the experience with an AI recommendation.
Indeed, in the older ones the graphics for any enroute flying are even completely missing. They'll by default get you into the clouds at 400 or 1000ft above ground level and come out at similar heights on landing. In between the front windows just turn white.

That's fine for learning to fly a 737, by that time it doesn't matter much anymore. But for earlier training it's too easy, because in the real world partial visibility and light effects in clouds cause much more disorientation than zero visibility.
With the EU preference for kicking the can down the road, and Germany’s tendency to make stupid decisions (e.g. shutting down nuclear), without Russia stirring shit up it would never have happened anyways.

Yeah, now, sure millions might freeze to death and die of hunger in the next (few) winter(s) / year(s) but at least politicians can’t deny the problem exists any longer so it will eventually get solved.
How is this the Germans fault?
Buy now pay never. All of fintech is probably down by roughly 80% from highs: https://equities.fyi/company/plaid
Here is a more complete set of reasons:

Section 5.3 Cryptoperiods

https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-57-part-1/r...

1. Limits the amount of information that is available for cryptanalysis to reveal the key (e.g. the number of plaintext and ciphertext pairs encrypted with the key);

2. Limits the amount of exposure if a single key is compromised;

3. Limits the use of a particular algorithm (e.g., to its estimated effective lifetime);

4. Limits the time available for attempts to penetrate physical, procedural, and logical access mechanisms that protect a key from unauthorized disclosure;

5. Limits the period within which information may be compromised by inadvertent disclosure of a cryptographic key to unauthorized entities; and

6. Limits the time available for computationally intensive cryptanalysis.
Regarding GDPR, citation needed - do you have actual links you can share to those claimed "recent interpretations", and whose in particular they are? I'd be quite interested to see them, if true ,which I seriously doubt - for the time being, as an EU citizen, my understanding is, and continues to be, that it's totally possible for US corpos to adhere to GDPR; it would just require some money and effort to be spent by companies that blatantly hoover and hoard personally identifying data in hopes of squeezing some monies from it. And having to spend some money on anything that is not an investment into more money in the future seems to always trigger over-the-top allergic reaction in corporations. Until they feel the teeth of real law in painful fines, when suddenly "impossible" things will magically become possible.
Love it! I'll take a look.
Well, for me, I've been monitoring my blood sugar intensively for a while. I started when I worked for a nutrition and glucose monitoring company (as a test!), found out I had really anomalous blood sugar dips, and confirmed it with finger stick and another blood sugar monitor. So for me, the answer is, yes, the "sugar crash" postprandial is actually a dip in blood sugar - not to a hazardous level (e.g. passing out or seizure) but to a very uncomfortable level, with epinephrine and the shakes. (mine has gone down to 45mg/dl at worst)

For many people, it may not be, I can only speak for myself. There's another thing, called 'idiopathic postprandial syndrome' which is essentially the symptoms above, but without actual low blood sugar (<60mg/dl), which some people think is another form of insulin resistance, where your blood sugar is normal but your body "wants" more sugar in the blood.

Talking with endocrinologist, they say that the insulin sensitivity for most people is much higher in the AM and daytime than at night, so it makes sense that you might have more problems in the afternoon, but you should probably talk to a doctor rather than taking my word for it!

It's often difficult (in the US at least) to get primary care and endocrinologists to take you seriously if you are not actually dying of diabetes or passing out from low blood sugar - this is where dipping into the realm of concierge medicine can be helpful, or at least, it has been for me. They are often much more willing to investigate thoroughly.
If you missed it, like I did, here’s a blog post by OpenAI:

https://openai.com/blog/clip/
Was it that hard to read and get my alma mater right? ;)

In my opinion as a student who entered Northeastern in the mid 2010's the answer to all your questions is an unequivocal yes. More competitive student body, better profile to attract employers, more student amenities to enhance on campus life (we could have more in this regard imho). Compared to the commuter school of yesteryear it's for sure a much better educational experience.
Almost certainly yes, because the school could presumably attract a higher-quality applicant pool in 2013 than in 1996. This, of course, makes it impossible to tell how much of that value was produced by the university and how much was just selection effects.
Their release schedule isn't that different than previous years.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that some people here are simply feeling the vibe less right now -- it's likely because of the woman-centered vibe, and HN leans dudeward.

As a woman, I think this is great! :D But it also means that if that's not your thing (and it can be, blamelessly, not your thing!) the content is going to appear more "generic" (in the words of OP,) more self-similar, as we humans tend to notice variations and differences in things that appeal to us. Wines, clothes, cars, guns, teas, pens, whatever. If it fascinates you, it's gonna have depth.

But if it doesn't? You're gonna see an undifferentiated wash.

This is the mechanism behind why I can get hyper-technical in my kitchen -- I like food -- but cars, which one of my old boyfriends was obssessed with, all seem more or less interchangeable. Same-y. Cut-and-paste.

Because I wasn't into cars, I couldn't really tell them apart.

But since I'm into food, I see tiny details! I can ~go on~ about the specific differences in, say, grades of USA steak, they are so different lol
After my ears bleeding from trying to understand the legislation, I know I'll be ignoring it.
uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus are the most popular extensions on Firefox, with each around 5 to 5.5 million average daily users over a whole year[1].

I believe the addon page is average daily users over a week or 6 days?[2]

Firefox monthly active users (unique over 28 days) is around 200 to 210 million worldwide (26 to 22 million in the USA)[3].

It's probably wrong to compare those numbers but a very naive 200 / 28 = 7.41 million average unique users per day. 5 / 7.41 = 67% (probably wrong)

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/firefoxs-most-popular-innova...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1168642

[3] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
1) they aren’t rewarded for innovating

2) I guess they can actually by having massive classes in the spring and comparing to the fall.
I wasn't being sarcastic at all
Ivy league is kinda obsolete now, esp with places like Stanford, Duke, John Hopkins better known than Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell.
>Why should i believe this vaccine protects me and people around me from Influenza?

You shouldn't. It has only been tested "in cell culture and in mice". Its efficacy in humans will be determined in human clinical trials.

>Will it be better than the COVID vax that ended up only reducing the risk of a bad case?

This table shows that it's still effective "against symptomatic disease" and "against infection".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
Maybe within the genre the films are different to each other, but I think the point being made is within the world of film as a whole, they all look the same, and use the same tried and tested formulae.
GCJ is no more? It was being used within recent memory for things, i thought.

I am out of the loop though, so if this is true, that's interesting and a bit weird.
Hope you have some money saved up. Also don't undercharge (taxes/drought).
Older 'practical' special effects still hold up better than much more recent early CGI though. Even if you can tell that something is a physical model, IMO it still looks 100x better than a poorly rendered and animated low-poly 3d effect.
Am I the only person that likes self-checkout?

I remember the period before self-checkout: interminable queues, being stuck behind an old lady making small talk with the cashier, and receipts with double-counted items.
Columbia incentivized administration MBAs to increase the rankings, perhaps attached to bonuses. They did it unscrupulously by fudging the numbers and so Columbia will hopefully will dis-incentivize the behavior in the future, and so perhaps will other schools... doubt it.
> I literally cannot bork my machine.

I literally cannot be paid to care about borking my machine. It takes ten minutes to reinstall.

For stuff that cannot conveniently be installed locally (hello multiple versions of DaVinci Resolve) or ideally want to be ephemeral (hello basically all the development environments I use), I've got Docker.
It's not really weird. We have rights guaranteed to us in the United States that no other country has, so it makes sense we would not extradite.
I am feeling real bad now as I used the like query as OP did (although in MySQL) for implementing a custom search over two fields ( Name & Description ) in one of my personal projects. I thought it worked pretty well though and I was so happy about it.
I think I can clear it up: The accusation of murder-for-hire would not hold up. The FBI would not be able to prove the required elements for the deed, because in order to prove it, the FBI would need to actually drive or mail something with the intent of murder [1].

In the released indictment [2] (Apparently there seems to be a superseding indictment), DPR was charged on four counts. Count one is "Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy", none of the counts are "Murder-For-Hire". But, there are three overt (motivating) acts for the "Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy":
a) Provide a platform for selling drugs
b) Solicit a murder-for-hire
c) Logging in as admin on Silk Road

So, while the charge "Murder-For-Hire" probably seems hard to prove (as stated above), using the intent of it to justify the count "Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy" worked here. In a sense, I believe, DPR can not be labeled officially with "murder-for-hire", but in order to protect his "Continuing Criminal Enterprise" and as such commit "Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy" it appears that he would have committed a "murder-for-hire" crime.

Sources:

[1] https://www.springsteadbartish.com/federal-criminal-defense-...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy...
1.0 Euro is now worth $1.0 USD
As if it is only black or white... if you get sunburn its definitely worse than the benefits from sunexposure, and Vitamin D also builds fine without sunburning exposure times and with sunscreen, and then it is also about when/which sun..

Anyway, downvotes most likely were for how strangely arguments were lined up by GP..

1. there is a large healthy range between unhealthy lack of enough sun and unhealthy sun exposure (and you can shift that with sunscreen).

2. Lack of sun has not much to do with obesity.

Saying between the lines that suncreen is unhealthy and makes you fat.. yeah I know he didn't say, but..
No adult should be watching super hero shows. Also this discussion belongs on reddit.
And with RDBMSs, a multi-trillion dollar success!
That idea of "losing purpose" after winning the race is really interesting. I've often got caught up in external goals (praise, promotions, shipping an amazing product that everyone loves), and I've noticed that when I've accomplished them, or the external goals themselves disappear (project cancellations), I feel empty inside.

Lately, I've been reading a book on resilience and one of the things it teaches is the Stoic-based idea of valued living. Basically, you list out your values and live your life in the service of those values and try not to focus too much on any external goals. (You can't control the outcome of those goals, but you can control your own behavior.)

Whether you succeed or fail, it doesn't matter. What matters is living your values. Maybe that means crafting the best software you can, or being most helpful to others, or being a really great parent and partner. What it doesn't mean is "I will get 1st place in this race" or "I will get promoted" or "This product will make a lot of money".

In the context of work, I also get bored after a couple of years at a job, and to be honest, a lot of that is based on external goals, either I've met them, or I just can't find any more.

It's definitely hard not to think in terms of external goals in a corporate job, though, as the company will ask you to list goals for yourself for the year and the business itself requires meeting specific ones to succeed.
It'll hurt them if they keep going down that road. Endless tie-ins and multi-series connected "events" are commonly considered to be part of the reason comic books got into trouble in the 80s/90s. It's a sales boost at first, but it turns off new readers/viewers.
I’m a recent Drexel graduate with a masters in EE and bachelors in CE. Recently I interned at Spotify as a data scientist, working primarily with Google Cloud Platform in transforming TBs of listener data into insights. I was also a Media Entertainment Laboratory (METLab) research assistant, where I researched and applied state of the art machine learning and deep learning methods to text, audio, and video. Projects include object recognition, recommendation engines, NLP, and RL agents. I’m looking for remote machine learning or data engineering roles.
Yes, there's not a lot of variety in just eating potatoes. Maybe some people don't need variety.

People lose a lot of weight this way. Insulin sensitivity increases. Insulin-lowering medicines can be reduced or stopped. Bad cholesterol drops to the floor.

If you go beyond monomeals of potatoes and add in tasty vegetables (like you do in keto) and limit the fat you add to the meal, you will have all the benefits of the potato diet without the mind-numbing boredom.

Variety in the keto approach? There are only so many ways to dress up chicken/beef/pork and cheese.
I agree with the first half, but I'm under the impression that streamlining Russian energy imports means that the USA's ability to exert soft power is weakened, which is a smallllll step toward unraveling of the US-led world order.

IMO, every day that Russia continues to function is a signal that there is blood in the water: that other countries can once again pursue aggression.
Would it be interesting if the posted the approximate kWhr energy required to train?
The influence of US News on colleges is wild. One absurd tidbit that I've heard: the rankings weigh freshman stats much more than transfer student stats, so a lot of competitive schools that won't let you in as a freshman if you would hurt their SAT/GPA/etc averages will happily let you in as a transfer because they'll make more revenue and your stats no longer hurt their rankings. *

The ranking formula is also changed arbitrarily based on the reactions of colleges and readers. My school went from #9 to #1 one year, there were a lot of "wth??" reactions, and the following year the formula was tweaked so that our ranking dipped down to #4. I'm pretty sure nothing changed materially in the school over those 3 years, but the ranking moved around a lot.

The whole system is a farce.

* I haven't researched freshman vs transfer data myself, but it's something I've heard from multiple startup founders in the college education space.
There is actually already a Scheme interpreter implemented in Rust (https://github.com/mattwparas/steel) which has the same name for the exact reasons you stated.
There has to be some embellishing of the numbers. It's highly improbable that at 322 pounds someone could eat 1000 calories per day (his claim) and be at a 2800 calorie deficit with zero exercise.

I'm not saying it's not true, but I'm skeptical of the numbers.
It's very mysterious how the chemical properties of the table salt shaker differs from the seasoning.
I haven't thought about it but most of the movies I've really enjoyed were recommended to me by my dad, girlfriend, or my brother in law. I can't think of anything I really enjoyed from a recommendation algorithm. The last movie I tried I certainly didn't enjoy.
Feel this way with FAANG jobs and half mil comp. I feel bad that I make low six figs. It's funny. I live in MCOL too.

Edit: flip side of this is the desire to hold onto things. Not easy to let go. Something bad could happen to a person anytime.
Websites don't need notices if they're not doing anything shady or unnecessary tracking, and just about every cookie notices I see is going against either the wording or the intent of the law.

If they want to be annoying on purpose, we should blame them, not the GDPR.
That would seem like an argument in favor of allowing column reordering.
Within a few pages I knew it was great and honestly was sad that it couldn't have lasted longer. If you're not enjoying it, just stop, it's meant to be enjoyed like a nice whisky or something. No point forcing yourself.
It won't be. They plan to use the exact same code!

Rust is designed to compile fine without any borrow checking (it reduces it to the C level of safety, but valid programs generate valid code).

GCC will compile itself without a borrow checker. Then it will compile the existing borrow checker written in Rust, and then recompile itself with borrow checking.
Similar story to Vim/Nvim and maybe partly OpenSSL/LibreSSL. Forking (not all technically forking) is good sometimes.
Looks like their foreign exchange reserves are dropping though.

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/foreign-exchange-reserve...

So not sustainable. They are selling foreign currencies to keep the ruble alive.
>Culture has a HUGE impact on psychology.

I would agree with that in general, but hunger seems like such an incredibly old issue to deal with from evolutionary perspective. Managing hunger is something "we" have been doing for millions of years and it has always been at the very center of our survival as a species.

The idea that a cultural group could lose its ability to deal with such a key psychological and biological necessity in a short period of time just seems far less likely to me than a change in habits brought about by far more recent industrial and socioeconomic circumstances.

Take that from yet another pseudonymous internet autodidact ;-)
>The original commenters point still stands though right?

Yes!

> Also isn't addition of salt often a sign the chef/cook messed up and under-salted a dish?

Being a question of taste, literally, it is a subjective question.
IMO you should respect the choice of the chef/cook, and if we are only talking of the "messed up" dishes, then I hope the cook dont mess up that often that is justify to add a salt shaker on the table.

On the other side you have people that add salt to every dish, and this before tasting it, those one are on the dark side!
My kid just went through college selection process and I can assure you that the US News rankings are largely irrelevant in terms of decision making. The revealed preference score[1] or global university rankings[2] are much closer to how students, their counselors, and their parents rank the universities. For instance, any ranking that does not have Stanford first among non specialized US universities (i.e. excluding MIT, Caltech, Julliard, etc.) is suspect.

[1] https://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-rankings.php?pag...
[2] https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32059109

(3 hours ago; 233 points, 295 comments)

[Currently on frontpage #26]
I think this statement goes too far in that case, I'd walk it back:

> The software industry was a far less diverse place then.

It probably makes sense when talking specifically about the midwest, due to demographics. But out here in SoCal in the 90s, I had a south asian boss and foreign national engineers from a number of countries working side by side. China, Italy, Norway. It was a big facility and we had US minority employees as well, although not a huge number. Software dept was 1/4 women approximately.

Re: being gay it was the "don't ask, don't tell" days. No one I knew cared in the least. An interesting angle is I wasn't perceptive about it as a young person. Looking back in the hindsight of maturity, obviously gay people were everywhere. Just like in Hollywood, everyone just winked and nudged. Right, Uncle Arthur is ~fifty, unmarried, and rather flamboyant, nothing to see here. ;-)
I agree that the Liberal's current push to degrade Canadian's privacy is worrisome - and their excuse is "we need expanded surveillance powers to make sure your privacy is protected..."!?!

I disagree that this is a partisan thing however. Whether it's Canada, the UK or anywhere else it seems each party in power just pushes for more surveillance and more censorship, just using different excuses to justify their actions.

For example, Harper's conservative government put forth bill C-13 (online crime excuse) and C-30 ('think of the children' excuse), which arguably laid the way for much of the spying apparatus that is currently in place against Canadian citizens. And while Obama allowed the NSA's warrantless internet surveillance program, Trump extended it until 2024.

All governments want to spy on you, and all governments want to be able to control what you say, period. They just want you to beg for it first.
Well in this specific case it would be pants-on-head stupid because this person committed no crime while under UK jurisdiction.

Like how would it even work if Alabama made it a crime for anyone in the world to have an abortion, extraditions all around?
I kind of lost track after Captain America with a occasional step in like Dr. Strange and I've never been able to keep up. So many movies, so many series, so many sequels, so much content... to the point I can't distinguish it anymore.
Extensive discussion going on right now in a neighbour topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32059109