Hacker News Reader

sjcsjcon Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis

Ta. You might like Wild Tales. It's on prime and in Spanish with subtitles. My son and his mates loved it too.

sjcsjcon Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis

I didn't recommend Banshees to them, that's for sure.

sjcsjcon Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis

Ha. No they're great. Just different in that respect :-)

sjcsjcon Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis

I was amazed that some friends of mine hated In Bruges (after I'd been praising it to the skies). Didn't expect that reaction and it made me much more cautious about recommending films to people.

sjcsjcon The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura (2009)

Good news everyone!

sjcsjcon Time for the UK to Tax Inflation

https://archive.ph/mtXgI

sjcsjcon How Tycho Brahe really died (2001)

Thanks for the tip - I'm going there for a weekend later this year

sjcsjcon Electronic Structure of LK-99

“Eddies,” said Ford, “in the space-time continuum.”

“Ah,” nodded Arthur, “is he? Is he?”

sjcsjcon Using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos

Apparently, yes.

sjcsjcon Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories

These maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder

sjcsjcon The giant world Halla should have been swallowed by its star long ago

Amusing autocorrect ;-)

sjcsjcon What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)

The girl with colitis goes by

sjcsjcon HSBC and Standard Chartered pressed by HK regulator to take on crypto clients

https://archive.is/vuq3A

sjcsjcon French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)

What an exciting future lies ahead of us

sjcsjcon Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]

The concept of a hypothetical planet at the centre of the sun made me laugh. Cheers

sjcsjcon Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt

Not sure if you're taking the piss there or not, but assuming not, they explicitly said on their webcast that it was an eclipse.

sjcsjcon Using GPT3, Supabase and Pinecone to automate a personalized marketing campaign

Yes. Very Dropbox.

sjcsjcon Surprising things that CSS can animate (2020)

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this"

...

sjcsjcon Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?

Apparently there can be doubt - see this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439689

sjcsjcon What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?

Just FYI, it's per se, not per say. Cheers

sjcsjcon Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view (1973)

Wow. I was just discussing this exact point with my kids a few hours ago

sjcsjcon Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 start menu

Shitting on low hanging fruit is an unusual activity

sjcsjcon A group of con artists rigged promotional sweepstakes throughout the 1980s

Not a fraud, but an interesting and tangentially related story that I imagine people born after 1980 may not know about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion

sjcsjcon Ask HN: Using a microwave oven as a Faraday cage in a big solar storm

Indeed, but that would be fixable within a decade or so. Lost data would be lost permanently.

sjcsjcon How to sign off an email. Epistolary etiquette for the 21st century

Brit here. I don't know why but I really dislike Best. I use Cheers, [name] and sometimes Thanks, [name]

sjcsjcon Cryptocurrencies – An Assessment by Reserve Bank of India

Off topic but I think you mean flout not flaunt. Although having read the link below it seems the misuse of flaunt may eventually become correct English[0].

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-wrong-to...

sjcsjcon Web3 is not going to change the world

Stunningly poor article, regardless of the veracity of the premise. I wonder if a human wrote it.