skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crowd sourced remake: Our RoboCop Remake

https://vimeo.com/85903713
That doesn't ring true to me at all. I'm more inclined to agree with Stephen Fry [1], who explains that it's ultimately a matter of optimism versus pessimism.

The great American comics are people like John Belushi, the wisecracking charmer who gets the girl in the end, while the British comedian prefers to play the failure; British comedy comes from strife and tragedy and embarrassment and loss of dignity, which is why most British comedy focuses on lower/middle class people and their relationship with the hierarchy: Basil Fawlty (John Cleese's character in Fawlty Towers), Blackadder, David Brent (The Office), and so on.

The types of comedic personalities you tend to see in American culture are the likes of Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler, featuring people who may be average, but generally don't start as failures, and if they do (or if they have an unfortunate fall from grace in the middle of the story), the central theme isn't the inevitability of their failure, but an optimistic path towards self-betterment and reclaiming control over their own destiny.

The US also doesn't have the kind of history of tensions between the classes that Britain has (even though wealth inequality is objectively worse, and the system is simply not recognized as being a class system among ordinary people). The American style of comedy goes hand in hand with the idea of the American dream, that anyone can succeed if they try hard enough.

The most "British" American comedy I've seen in recent times was Forgetting Sarah Marshall (written by Jason Segel, an American, but directed by a Brit, Nicholas Stoller), which basically revels in the haplessness and constant failures of the main character, and his path to happiness isn't the traditional American one (though it has that "pull yourself by the bootstraps" approach).

I recommend watching the clip. Fry delivers a very eloquent thesis. If you're not familiar with Fry, his answer might sound rehearsed, but it's clearly not; he's just extremely articulate.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao
"Prose" is an English word.
It's certainly irritating and frustrating, but it doesn't make it ok to break the rules.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. (There are far too many posts here for us to read them all.) You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Interesting ideas - if I understand, essentially the "browsing" phase is a distinct activity from the "watching/reading/playing" phase, and the browsing phase can become its own form of "unwinding" as a sort of meditative activity?

The comment and link are appreciated!
>I would advise a balance between weightlifting, moderate cardio, lots of sunlight exposure for Vitamin D and testosterone support, and a balanced diet.

That is exactly what I do, and I never get sick.
It the plan to wipe out the Slavs predates that - and pretty much was there for anyone to read in Mein Kampf
>How is respect defined here? One man's definition of respect will clash with another's.

Respect shouldn't be entirely up to the invididuals to define what action (note: what action/stance/etc, not which person) deserves it -- otherwise it's not respect, it's just a personal whim.
At a specialty roaster, the date is printed on the bags of coffee. Or they will tell you.
I go a bit the other way. I can't stand the constant turmoil in an app's UI in the name of whatever new UX thing is being experimented with. I'd much rather have big updates in one go that I can evaluate on their own merit. That doesn't totally preclude a subscription model, but it is how most subscription services work. Lately, I've been forced to update mobile apps just to connect to whatever backing service. It's obnoxious because even with auto-updates enabled, it may not have updated yet. And now I need to wait for the update or just not use it if in an area with limited cellular coverage.

I appreciate recurring revenue helps businesses, but that's true of all businesses. Software just has the lock-in, generally, to enforce it. If this is the only way to pay for stuff, though, I think JetBrains has the best model I've seen. I pay a subscription and can update software on my own schedule. If I decide to stop, I have a fallback perpetual use license.
Guide to settling down, studying and working in Canada (2021) [pdf]
Out of curiosity, which countries are those?
Thank Deity of Choice
Oh haha I assumed windows since you said you used to be on linux, and Mac doesn't have an Alt key! My mistake. Well at the very least it seems there are FF plugins that allow you to modify shortcuts, so you could probably rebind Option+D to the same control as Cmd+L/F6 and that might work.
I blew a friends mind one lunch when we stopped at the store to get dog food - by pointing out the giant bag of frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts was cheaper per pound than the dog food.
Hanging with the salt of the earth can be more rewarding than exchanging ripostes with the would-be elite.
Training termites seems difficult, but I wonder if you could coat the area to be drilled with something particularly attractive to termites or some other insect. Or coat the remaining area with something particularly repulsive to them.
right, and i completely agree on that point.

the counter-point is that everybody uses the "taste is subjective" as a bludgeon for there being not quantifiable difference in quality between offerings.
All quality roasters will put a roast date on the bag. Call them ahead of time and ask when they stock each roast, and just go at that time to get it essentially straight from the roaster.
You're describing competition
> I can write a script and never use a function. I can write SQL and never use a function.

I don't think you can, UNLESS we get into semantic arguments of what a function is. SQL is implemented with functions in a different language.

Are you thinking that "function" is anything that literally has the "function" keyword?

> Categories specifically contain "morphisms". Then FP completely gets category theory wrong by trying to claim that functions are immutable.

CT is an abstract mathematical concept. In order to use it, you have to FIND the categories in the real world using the definition. CT isn't something usable on its own unless you are doing high level abstract math and doing proofs etc.

In other words, CT is APPLIED to Computer Science and then we can talk about functions as morphisms. They don't compete with each other, but rather CT is a way to understand the structure of computation. FP is building on top of that (pure FP, Haksell, Idris, etc). If you want to disprove how FP is doing CT incorrectly, that is not going to be easy.
Amex does this and will alert you when it finds a new recurring charge.
I don't understand. If click on it.... and? How will that make me less private? Or how will it hurt me in any way?
>I'm not talking about a libertarian utopia. I'm talking mostly about modern research on indigenous societies (before europeans arrived or other cases)

And how are these revelevant to a modern, much more elaborate, society, if it wants to also keep certain things (like production, technology, education, infrastructure, etc.)?
>Everyone who were COVID+ despite being vaxxed were allowed to fly, go to gym, restaurant etc

This isn't true at all, plenty of businesses have a no-symptoms policy. On the flip side, I don't think they could effectively screen everyone anyway.
Did fine without one for my first 47 years, so I'm not sure how "radical" that really is. I couldn't be without while away from home. But do we really need them at home?
Large extended families used the best option they had before Facebook. Now they have Facebook, they use Facebook, because it's the best, most useful option for the vast majority of them. This thread is full of people saying that if people aren't willing to switch to other platforms for you then you should cut them out of your life. This might be fine for some acquaintances or even friends, but no normal person is going to cut their close family out of their life because they didn't switch to Signal. Nor does this even begin to take into account people who live in countries where Facebook or WhatsApp are the internet to the average person. Making an individualistic moral stand is nice and all, but to the majority it isn't a realistic solution, Facebook is too in-baked to society and how it functions. Thus the solution needs to be regulatory/political.
You're obviously well convinced of your position; I haven't had to make one yet. I think a pure trust approach is laudable but scary.

A common refrain from parents in these situations is how strong they thought their relationship with their child was and how they never imagined it could happen to them. Thats scary. Weighing a very low probability extreme consequence vs. various questionably impactful interventions with certain downsides is hard (at least in my view).

Not to mention that there are risks the internet exposes you to that aren't sexual abuse related. Desensitization to violence, insane discourse (epithets dropped like candy), etc are also important aspects of a parent's moderation choices. Trust and conversations cannot address this since the desensitization takes place as a consequence of simple repeated exposure. In the extreme case, desensitization translates to usage, and I think thats clear if you listen to any 14 year old kid on an xbox stream.
I’d be too distracted by the horrible instant coffee to enjoy any conversation or environment.
I mean a really light roast ends up having little flavor besides sour, if you're talking espresso.
WebKit is opensource and Chrome on Windows uses it, so there should be that.
You can ask what day they roasted it? Sometimes they write that on the bag. If it's a place with good turnover it's probably recent.
starbucks can be good, the trick is to order:

1. espresso drinks

2. order one shot extra (starbucks will only put 1 shot of espresso in an 12oz tall--so you should order AT LEAST one extra shot).

3. ask for blonde roast, which is actually not half bad. pike place/standard is a disaster.

it will not parallel any craft coffee shop, but this actually makes for drinkable coffee, which is convenient since there are starbucks literally everywhere.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

This is the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pretty sure fruit now days, is bigger, looks prettier, and ships better but definitely not sweeter.
The fruit is the shitty diet.
Fun fact, whenever you go to the movies, films (that are projected digitally) are encoding in JPEG2000 (wrapped in a MXF in XYZ Colourspace).

We also use it for our 3D renders for archviz, and is supported in our editing applications aswell... lower filesize compared to PNG, and better quality compared to JPG, and also supports alphas.
That'd be a great idea if Covid hadn't given them the excuse to get rid of them all (everywhere I know that has a salad bar has disappeared it).
A surprising lesson in the speed of languages
If the use of AdNauseum is affecting their revenue stream, why don't they just block their users who are observed using it?

If they aren't going to follow through with their side of this "breach of terms", then users are free to continue using them.
"taxation" is being a bit melodramatic. These services require an ongoing cost on the part of the service provider to keep a backend running in order to be useful. It's not really economically feasible to have a one-time payment and provide infinite ongoing support for it.

Take 1Password for example. If you paid one time you could have a local app that exists on your computer. Want to access your passwords on your phone? Well, too bad, you can't. If you want to do that, there needs to be a server which means 1Password needs to keep paying to keep a server running, hence you have an ongoing subscription cost.

You could host the server yourself if you're technically capable and so inclined, but lots of people aren't so they pay someone else to do it.
> Built to last forever

The hard part of forever isn't picking the right technology, it's keeping the content available online.

You can't self-host this. So unless your bank account is designed to pay for the URL, hosting, and keeping the project up to date forever, you're just lying to lock people into your platform.
Oops. I forgot about EDM. Should have remembered as I have had EDM stuff done, although a long time ago.
There are some studies/pilot programs around the idea:

- https://www.phoenix.gov/streets/coolpavement
Related: Substack and other paid newsletters are bringing the same energy. I have just one subscription (Stratechery, which my old job paid for and which I will let lapse) but I'm gobsmacked at how many there are. Many are actually _good_ and I would like to read them, but they're not $100 / year worth of good, and yet that's like the price people default to.

I'm all for peeps getting what the market will support, and I love that random obsessive genius oddballs can now theoretically make a living by going direct to their 1000 true fans, but to me the value isn't there, and I suspect most others are in the same boat. I hate myself for saying this, but I think it's time to re-bundle.
Each series takes place in a different time frame and with entirely different characters so they each stand on their own. Anyone can watch the episode named "Beer" in the second series and find it funny for a 30 minute show.
Length of life isn’t the only goal. Quality of life matters too.
I'm curious. Could you explain why you feel this way?

I can understand the desire to be able to vet code that a website wants to run on your device. I don't see why that preference should create an imperative for websites to either accommodate you or be banned from the internet.
Potential profit? If the price is not low enough to encourage this person to buy the product then you have a different problem.

Digital goods manufacturers can't simply price their goods without considering the ease of access that people have to these. Well, in reality, they do consider it. It is why PC games for example tend to be much cheaper and go on sale much more often than console games. It hasn't really stopped the PC gaming market from growing every year though.

Piracy is a pricing problem, not a theft problem. Just look at streaming services.

Also, you might be thinking of immediate profits but most of these businesses rely on much longer lifecycles. A child might pirate game 1 when they are 13 and then when they are 17 and have their first job they might buy game 2 on a sale (from the same companyl and when they are adults will keep buying the newly released games because they have been converted. This is the case for many.

Don't be silly and reduce complex issues to simple phrases.
Are they not common in pdf documents, for example those distributed by The Internet Archive? I suspect this is why so many of them render so slowly, even on fast systems.
Again, not to further inflame, but no corners were cut for the trials. The only thing that happened was the Federal government covered the costs to do all parts in parallel (for Moderna, kinda also for Pfizer with the APA, but more complex). Typically longer is between the safety trial and the efficacy trial, but almost all side effects ever observed for previous vaccine trials show up within 6 months of the phase 1 trial.
Thanks, and yep you are right on, plus ideally it's an activity that becomes more justifiably standalone over time, as you play with it and discover how and when it can benefit you. With practice it may even become both a tool in the cognitive toolbox and an enjoyable activity to look forward to.

I'm glad if it's helpful.
"button on a random news article/blog post collects data from you, "
" That means even if you have never registered a Facebook account, Facebook could gather your page view data and use that to show ads targeting you on another page."

What a gibberish. Tell me, how will it technically do that?

On what "another page"? On the same website - yes. So what? Each website can do that.
weird hn strikes again. I learned about most of this stuff in trade tech school and I think its really neat people on this site are interested.

I use rotary impact drivers and drill presses all day long at work. there's no shame. gimlets see a lot of use in jewelry and my foreman once said you never sharpen them because they're generally case hardened and snap too easily. they're very fine instruments in the hand.

for you drill owners out there the best advice I can offer is always punch your holes first, always wear safety glasses and learn to sharpen your bits.
I would go further and say that all social media should be outright banned, corporate or not
Yup. YNAB says my "software subscriptions" averages out to $92 a month, and that doesn't include Apple music, Spotify, Audible, Kayo, Prime, and Stan, which would be around $90 a month also, off the top of my head.

Not sure if I should include Prime, since I signed up for the shipping, but I do watch it more often than I watch Stan.

I should probably go back to torrents. I just wish I could buy/rent individual shows and movies like you do on iTunes, but each platform has such a limited range of content, I no longer feel like we've made any real progress from the old days where you'd have one big subscription to Foxtel or similar.
Yeah buns are the most annoying - I wish I had a local bakery where I could buy ones or two.

I've taken to using buns for sandwiches (extra buns around an egg is a decent breakfast).
Because they like it?
Although I won't ship you my phone, it worked on 103.0.5060.71 chrome on Android
They can sell metrics about the emails (e.g. open rate) to the campaigns.
Nothing to do with the fact that they are 90% sugar?
I don't mean to diminish the post or the author, but I spent a decent amount of time reading through the pages and am about to try their code, but I get the feeling the author is a little either crazy or out of touch with how to communicate with people. It is clear they have made something interesting, but I can't help but feel there is something off in the communication of it.
I received an old terracotta pot with some succulents a while back that also had some clovers growing in it. One day I noticed a 4-leaf clover, then another, any another all in the same pot. The next day my black cat had eaten them all, but that’s another story. Two years later and the same pot still regularly produces 4-leaf clovers while the other nearby pots only seem to ever produce the normal 3-leaf variety.
Clever idea, though it won't help with mosquitoes.
not sure what you're saying, that you can only imagine support networks in societies through this current system - seems like both a limit of the imagination and a lack of looking at where that's been demonstrated (in likewise post agriculture, large scale society). I didn't elaborate in my OP on solutions, I only offered some ways of evaluating how healthy/"advanced" a society is (not just looking at individual potential)
I can't imagine these people are that untraceable. If they are dumb enough to reach out to the victims, finding them should be doable with a bit of luck.
I could see this being really useful in conjunction with iOS shortcuts’ “Run Script Over SSH” and “Get Contents of URL” actions.
I concur with this. Whenever I recommend Blackadder to friends or family, I encourage them to start with 2, then move forward, then go back to watch 1 if they become a fan. This was the exact path I took when I became familiar with the series.

In every instance where I know of people who watched 1 first, they are almost always put off by the silliness and don't continue.

I think BA2 will always be my absolute favourite of all as it was the first one I watched, and it also endeared me to the delightful characters that Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry and Tony Robinson brought to the show. Only Hugh Lawrie in BA3 came close.
Caviat: only have access to the abstract

At least 4 servings of fruit vs less than 2 servings is a huge amount of variability, even within groups. Someone could eat mostly fast food and be in the control or eat a very strict keto diet and still qualify for the control group.

The abstract mentions no attempt to control for any food intake other than fruit, which in combination with the relatively small sample size makes this study basically meaningless IMHO
I share your groups belief that a thriving economy needs all groups to have enough liquid currency to enable consumption, but the evidence from the Australian business community suggests that in fact no, businesses will do everything possible not to pay their staff enough to consume and will still be surprised when consumer spending plummets. Even our ‘financial press’ seems to miss the point that without consumption the economy stops when they argue constantly against increases to minimum wages or that the ever widening chasm between employee and executive compensation is both ok and desirable.
It's not that Facebook collects that data and knows it. It's rather that you who has no idea how web works, what's it's capable of and what's not. As a result, you're coming up with honour stories.
It's just a matter of cashflow. Presumably, you will continue making money. Either from salary or hopefully from investments / pension later on. Is money in > money out? Then you're good. You can keep paying infinitely if you have income infinitely.
Do they really use straight up XYZ? Where can I read more about this format?
Whole or ground coffee is not subject to sales tax anywhere in the US that I know of since coffee is a grocery. Although a prepared cup of coffee (from Starbucks for example) is taxed.

Two weeks ago I paid $9 for a pound of whole bean coffee from a good local roaster. That may be a bit below average but $11/lb is easy to find if your not living in a high-dollar, high-status coastal city.
It's a valid idea. Thx! This is what I might have do.
Hard to say from the outside.
None of what you said is a dealbreaker for me. (But a lot of people raise an eyebrow at gaps in the résumé). What are your languages by the way? A lot of us are hiring ;-)

I interviewed a guy once who was technically amazing. Successfully answered all technical questions, had certs, great resume. Within 15 minutes I knew I didn’t want to work with him. He was abrasive, demeaning (to his ex colleagues), blamey, short tempered.
The interview panel was unanimous. Great technical chops, impossible personality. I think someone actually brought up the no asshole rule.

I know nothing of your personality so I’m certainly NOT calling you an asshome, but a large part of the interview is not the technical questions.

On the flip side, I’ve got a friend who successfully interviewed for a job he was under qualified for (at a FAANG company). I knew before he interviewed that he’d get the job because he’s the sort of guy I’d trust with a million dollar budget a new technology and an untrained team. You can just tell he’ll figure it out and come out on top. He told me his job in the interview was to make the interviewer like him within 5 min. Pretty solid advice.

Focus a bit on first impressions, the people part and make deliberate efforts to present as the kind of person they want to work with.