skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you constantly assume bandwidth is the only per user cost that Netflix is paying. It's one cost, that definitely affects decision making, but there are others.

For instance, if you try to license certain types of content, you'll find that the licenses will tend to work in the following fashion:

-Estimate how many people will use content.
-Resolve differences, if any, between your estimate and content owner's estimate.
-Settle on per user fee.

Then there are other licenses that are kind of pseudo per user. For instance:

-How many people tix to your last tour Mr or Ms Comedian?
-Well Mr Digital Property Licensing Hardass, we sold X tix.
-Great!!! We'll give you X dollars because we know from analytics that (factor * X) people will view your content over the life of this license.

These things are a lot more complicated than just "Are people watching?" - "Are people not watching?".

Likely Youtube can do things like weigh bandwidth costs heavier in their models, therefore prioritizing eyeballs. Any eyeballs, because they make money from ads. You try to run something like Netflix using the same modeling factors and you'll go under in fairly short order. There are just a lot more expenses, and the revenue is from a source with a different behavior. So you don't want eyeballs, you want the right eyeballs for the content that you've paid to provide. That means you need to be cold, hard, and calculating. Not every viewer will be equally profitable to you.
> ...why do same people never attribute the genocide of American natives, enslavement of Africans and Indians, to capitalism?

Because:

- Slavery and genocide predate modern market economics. They are not unique to capitalism. It would need to be shown that they are more prevalent (tough, given Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, etc.).

- The slavery and genocide you are probably referencing comes from mercantilism and imperialism, not free market capitalism.

- Slavery, violence, and murder are not features of free markets. Property rights aren't exactly established if people and land can be taken by force without compensation or agreement, not that people are property anyway.
Everone knows that they really should have banned camping instead.
Yeah, New Zealand is probably the right place- isolated, Southern Hemisphere so there’s less fallout, English speaking, temperate. Still, in the worst case scenario there will be about a billion starving people flooding down from various places in Asia so even there you’re not really safe. I’m putting my efforts into political organizing as my strategy, I think that there really isn’t any good course of action in the event of nuclear war and prevention is the only good option.
Having made a cheap DIY spectrometer[1], I found the spectrum of LED around my house quite good, not completely smooth as sunlight, but smooth enough (you can gain some efficiency for not being totally smooth by better matching eye receptors). It's a far cry from fluorescent spectra that have extremely sharp concentrated spectra (and I suspect the risk from narrow spectra of causing biological damage is greater, since it could in theory disrupt very efficiently some molecular energy transition that happens to be well matched with that frequency).

[1] See e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

https://lavinia.as.arizona.edu/~mhammer/outreach/cdSpectrome...

(diffraction spectrometer from used CD/DVDs, very easy to make, and it costs ~$0)
Young people can’t afford houses, so they’re building their own, off the grid
I was born two days after this demo

http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/1969-demo-interactive.ht...
You should see The Hoax Hotel. Much more amusing!
I'm the first to agree the netflix UI has huge flaws.

It's still miles better than going to rent a VHS in a mall.

It's still miles better than buying a DVD online.

It's still miles better than having to download the movie on eMule.

And you do have a small library sample on netflix. It's your front page.

Now people either complain there is nothing to watch (front page not interesting anymore after a while), or too much too watch (the size of the entire lib is overwhelming).

Wait, what ?

Besides, honestly, when you have a full life, where do you get the time to exhaust the netflix offer ? How many hours of video a week must you consume to arrive at a stage where "there is nothing to watch on netflix" ? Because in that case, not only the $15 have been paid for a 1000 times, but also, again, the problem is clearly not netflix.

Which remains me I'm spending too much time on NH today, so, gotta go :)
Maybe because the people making decisions at these companies see two types of people, themselves and nazis.
Aren’t they able to get the ip just by connecting to any server?
Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme
If the investors couldn't have known it was a scummy practice, then no; if it was approved by the SEC, then the SEC should be responsible for this money because they signed off on it. If the SEC or a similar organization wasn't involved however, then it was the investors' own risk and IMO law enforcement can seize the investments.
I used to watch 3-4 hours of Netflix every evening, then I started actually subscribing to YouTube channels and now I have 2ish hours of subscription content to watch every single day of the week. n=1 but I don't doubt it! I even contribute to several via Patreon.
Thought I'd share something I discovered about Json comparison. This simple line also works:

return jsonObject1.toMap().equals(jsonObject2.equals);

because JsonObject uses HashMap internally which supports equals(). The downside is it would be slower because toMap() creates a copy.

Btw, downloaded java-commons as Maven dependency from JitPack:
https://jitpack.io/#blobcity/java-commons
Yes, a decade ago people said this about wikipedia, but instead told you to trust other encyclopedia's. Those ended up being wrong just as often as this thing everyone can edit, which made the whole point kind of moot.

If the core message had always been "use more than one source, and use sources that are not connected" that would have been a lot more sensible. But in my experience this has not been the message, and even in the instances that it was people tried to work around it because it was inconvenient.
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Wow. I've been reading a couple of these for the last hour or so. Some of it is straight from dr. Strangelove, how about this one:

"In order to increase the birth rate, polygamy is advocated in the programme of the SS-Rassenamt."

https://www.psywar.org/delmer/8311/1015

As psy-ops come this one must have been a source of inspiration for the people writing.

It's quite interesting to read this in light of the more recent psy-ops where for instance in the United States the most outrageous bull-shit is lapped up for gospel. Apparently this stuff is more effective than you might think.
It's a DS 23 with a 5-speed manual.

Here is a picture of it at a car park: https://i.imgur.com/KJXYtOX.jpg
And here next to a Aston Martin Vanquish: https://i.imgur.com/pPMDoEg.jpg

As you can see, it has been decorated as a Pallas, but it probably was not an original Pallas.
>Just show a nonmodal dialog for popups like [...] chrome.

But in some cases, Chrome has modal dialog popups that Firefox does not. I made a previous comment about this and you can test that behavior on a safe site like regex101.com:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046268
Or they'll continue to be ignored, because they're not bugs with the website.
Well, it is also unfair to invest in a fund and have your money go out as phantom profits to other investors to boost the very fund. (disclosure: I haven't been in either situation, to my knowledge).

So lets say it is unfair on both sides, but we want to come up with a policy that will optimize behavior in the future. What is the effect of this policy?
Tackling Apache Spark from the Data Engineer's Perspective (Interview)
> If you want lossless audio, you literally can't find it.

While I agree with your general thoughts, I have to disagree with this particular point. In my opinion there's never been a better time for lossless audio.
My collection is made of digital, lossless material only. I buy a lot of music - about 5-10 releases a week - and I have no problem at all finding everthing I want in a lossless format. I understand that this may differ depending on what you listen to and ironically obscure, niche music might be better served by lossles music stores, but I just wanted to provid a different perspective.

If I don't what I'm looking for at Bandcamp, Boomkat, Bleep, Qobuz or various label stores chances are that it's a physical-only release, in which case ripping it myself is always an option.
This is about location search history in Google Maps, though, not general search history. Personally, I rarely need the latter but I find the former very useful.
What was that George Burns joke?

Sincerity is everything, learn to fake that and you've got it made.

So is this an extension, destroy the value of sincerity/authenticity instead?

The letter seems like little more than a pretty intense bout of literary critic navel-gazing.
It shows that the crooks which have participated in Bernie Madoff's scam have been getting richer. It seems that crime pays if you can find someone else to take the fall.
Yes, they introduced that "feature" this year. Like the new "spaces" which seem to have replaced the interests/topics users can select but actually don't work as a replacement because they seem more like Facebook groups where you can post random stuff and questions related to a topic.

This combined with the horrible feed made me quit recently.
Avonic Will Showcase Upgraded Range of PTZ Cameras at ISE 2019
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Old British word for scientist. Like geek but not pejorative.
Terms Of Service; Didn't Read is very close to what you're looking for.

https://tosdr.org
How to Teach Adults to Code
We WILL know about it if their services continue to be available in Australia.
This has been something that irritates me. If I want to copy a password for a site in another tab. Oh look I can't. This isn't just a stupid bug, it's terrible UX. I have to open either another Firefox window, or another browser entirely (better safe than sorry!) in order to find that password for a site that didn't intend to hijack focus for the login screen.
There was always ways to consume things on the side. I remember way before Netflix (around 2003) I went through a phase of about six months where every day I would come home from work, put a playlist of Mr. Show on my computer (a single TV show that only had 30 episodes), and play Dynasty Warriors 3 for 2 to 3 hours. I probably rewatched Mr. Show at least 10 times in that six months.

And after the first time I mostly didn't look at it anymore, it was just the audio I chose to play while I was playing the game, and since I'd already seen the whole series, it was predictable and didn't distract too much from the game playing.

I don't find watching TV to be that virtuous, and usually when I'm doing it I'm feeling guilty for not doing other things. So yeah, I'll do that as a 'side thing' and not feel too bad about it.

However, it's gotten more difficult than it used to be, as I used to think that TV wasn't too good and was an easy to skip medium, now I think there's just waaaay too much good stuff, I just have to actively choose not to watch it (like so far I've managed not to watch any Marvel TV shows on Netflix, but it's always there tempting me).

It's also usually the only leisure activity we can do together in the evenings during the week that my girlfriend feels like doing, so that's how I keep up with Game of Thrones, West World, Silicon Valley, Doctor Who, and whatnot. But I might be designing something on the computer while we're watching them.

I wish it were easier to write with TV on in the background though. I'm getting way, way behind on that.
How good are your Python skills?
> In order to have a salary they're used to

Well there's the problem right there. Your salary should be higher than your cost of living because you're actively trying to save for retirement. Once you're actually retired you shouldn't need as much.
> Probably your comment hints to this already

Regardless, I'm glad you've written your comment to clarify. :)

I'd be delighted to hear about any of the several big or small mistakes I am about to make in the following.

Also an honest opinion about whether the following approach I take boils down to one that is complete gibberish, vaguely interesting but terribly complex, OK but meh, good but a bit abstract, enlightening, or something else. If you do let me know, please clarify whether you mean what you say for just you, or for what you think might be true for others that don't know P6 at all. TIA.

----

Like a lot of P6 stuff this basic aspect of its type system is both childishly simple but also so general, abstract, and high level, and comes at things from such a different angle than pretty much all other languages, that it can be difficult to explain.

Another attempt at what I was trying to get at in my second footnote in my GP comment...

----

A P6 type and its two standard sub-types are a simple and fun unification of the universal/existential "quantification" that our inner logician loves and the "article definiteness" distinction recognized by our linguistic side.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar):

> The articles in English grammar are "the" and "a/an" ... In languages that employ articles, every common noun, with some exceptions, is expressed with a certain definiteness, definite or indefinite

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantifier_(logic):

> The two most common quantifiers mean "for all" [Universal] and "there exists" [Existential].

----

:D denotes a definite thing.

It is directly analogous to "the".

The value `42` is considered definite.

Definiteness implies that a thing actually exists. Its the linguistic analog of existential quantification.

Many coders talk about happy/sad path processing. :D is associated with the happy path, perhaps because it has no existential crisis. :D

----

:U is related to Universal quantification.

As a type, it is also related to "a". Quoting wikipedia:

> An indefinite article indicates that its noun is not a particular one identifiable to the listener.

:U corresponds to an indefinite thing, something that's only identifiable as a Universal, not a Definite thing.

:U is also associated with Undefined things, even if they are supposed to be undefined.

In the context of talk about happy/sad path processing, :U is associated with the Unhappy path, because it can denote a thing that should be definite but isn't.

----

As a value, a type name without a `:D` or `:U` smiley is the same as the type name with a `:U`.

As a type, a type name without a smiley is the same as the type name with a `:_`, where the `_` denotes either `D` or `U`.

Thus:

* `Int`, as a thing in of itself, is the same as an `Int:U`.

* `Int`, as a type of thing, denotes either an `Int:U` or an `Int:D`.
People need to be very careful about Intel's definition of "on track". A couple examples below -

In 2016, Intel confirmed that "10nm chips still on track for 2017"

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/16/intel-corp...

In 2017, Intel announced that "Intel’s 10nm process technology is on track to commence manufacturing in 2H’17"

https://newsroom.intel.com/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/sites...
I agree, it annoys me that good quality 1mg scales can be readily acquired for around $30, but dropping down one order of magnitude further to 0.1mg costs at least 15-25x more. As sibling commented, the easiest solution is to just multiply the recipe by 10x. Doesn’t work for everything, but it’s generally worth it unless you are doing a lot of chemistry work.
We're not deep learning systems. So reasoning by analogy there isn't correct.

(Aside:
There have been experiments that show that many explanation for [everyday] actions are, in fact made up after the decision to execute an action. Which gives some insight to the whole nature of free will - but that's another discussion entirely.
However, indeed we're able to show our workings for higher level workings, like mathematical proofs. )

Deep learning systems, are examples of supervised learning. Once trained, they cannot adapt to new input. You have to retrain to accommodate new features that you want to capture.

Deep learning systems, are in essence a very long equation that hides all meaning over the entire network - good luck in finding out why it came to a decision. You might get lucky and see a definitive triggering path through the network, but that's an exception to the rule, as far as I understand. (I'm willing to be proven wrong here.)

Symbolic systems, can trivially be made to trace the code execution paths they made for any action they might take.

(also - hi Ben! I recognise your blog!)
I don't think its so random. I work for people they would definitely be interested in.
On iOS, location history absolutely was not required for this. Either its different on android google maps, or you're conflating web and app activity with location history.
While Bandcamp is indeed a great service you might want to add Boomkat, Qobuz and Bleep to that list.
Plenty of cheap LED light systems flicker at 50 or 60Hz, see elsewhere in this thread. Also, the flicker can be indirectly visible, for example by turning motion blur into a sequence of discrete strobe events. My favorite experiment is to shake the end of a spoon (because it is curved and reflective) back and forth in an area predominantly lit by strobing LEDs. You will see a number of spoons, instead of a blurry spoon like you would under incandescents.
Thanks for the reply. Definitely looks like P6 can work at a higher level ...
> academics working on folding often believe far too much in the importance of structure in drug discovery.

It reminds me of the 90's and early 2000's when many were convinced that sequencing the human genome would suddenly make drug discovery a simple problem.
Absolutely. I’d love to do stuff on Bash in particular. Like many of us, I have a decades worth of bash commands collected too and I think editing those and teaching them to other devs would be super helpful.

Shoot me an email!

(For anyone else reading this, I’d also like to collaborate on a book about Rust, and another on Golang)
She's only been the ambassador to the UN since 2017, yet she appears in the 2016 list.
Well, as far as Quora's excuse for opting out of the archive goes... It is an admittedly great one.
The difference with other Google projects is that Flutter is open source[1][2], one can fork it and continue the project if Google decides not to work on it anymore.

[1] https://github.com/flutter

[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter
From statistics and research, most people on longer-term support really want to work and can't for some reason (can't find a job due to qualification mismatch, illness or taking care of dependents, ..).

From the data it does not seem to make people here lazy, and being long-term unemployed is still bad for mental health and being part of society. I am not sure how much of this is cultural since it is surely connected to attitudes towards work.
Show HN: DOM-free, GPU-based (webrender) UI in react
Lutron (the inventors of the dimmer) have a pretty comprehensive database. They test a lot of lights, and not all are listed. If you're buying their dimmers, call and ask if you have specific lighting pairings in mind.

http://www.lutron.com/en-US/Pages/LEDCompatibilityTool/Compa...
The massive amount of money is just to generate investment income so that you don't spend down the principal. People often use 4% as a safe withdrawal rate, but it's much safer to use 3.5% or 3%.

For example, if you wanted to spend $20k per year, then you would need $20,000 / 0.03 = $666,666 invested in index funds.

I'd be happy with something like $40k per year ($1,333,333 invested), or just a SaaS service that provides passive income. Running a business is far riskier, but it also gives you something to do.

And maybe I wouldn't mind having a nice house in an expensive city like New York, Melbourne, Vancouver, etc. $20,000 per year would be nice, but I think $200,000 would be pretty nice as well.
To be clear, this is still very early version and it's not ready for production in any way, yet I'd love to hear some feedback. If you like it at all, what would you like it to support, what application you'd love to do with it, etc. Code-quality is rather poor and there are no tests, because I don't actually care at this point.

I've started this mostly because I wanted to try rust and because I was always wondering if we could just skip the DOM and even native components and somehow just draw UI directly on GPU. Webrender is really close to this idea so it was natural choice.

It's not tightly bound to react but my intention (at this point) is to get closer to react-native api and then do trello/slack example apps and maybe few others. Vue3 is on the roadmap but it's probably never going to have any framework-agnostic object model (retained components).

It might be useful as a replacement for some of electron applications but it's not going to be any soon, to be honest. A lot of basic stuff is still missing (text input, scrolling, different fonts)
It does feel somewhat unfair, but it's long-settled law on stolen goods: if you buy a car and it turns out to be stolen, or a house with an improper title, you don't get to keep it. In both cases the buyer is supposed to check and beware of "too good to be true" offers.

Note that they get to keep the principal, so they're not even out the money they might be if they bought a stolen car.
Whenever I select an answer I get thrown back to the homepage.

Do you know why?
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The Macintosh Programmers Workbench (MPW), the first IDE for Mac, had a command-line with a simple shell.

When I used it in 1986 it really needed a big machine, i.e. 512K RAM :-)
check those links provided in my reply. Intel has already committed such fraud multiple times.

let's don't forget that its ex-CEO sold all his shares before the Meltdown and Spectre went public, yet he managed to walk away free of any charges on such obvious wrongdoings.
So did you do anything about it?
They can comply, or they can block Australian users from their services. I really hope it's the latter, as the Australian public largely doesn't know about this law and maybe wouldn't care if it did.
Different people.

Nothing requires you to add apples and oranges in the same way as I do. Your most important feature may be my totally unimportant feature, and that's neither your fault nor mine. And as usual gripes are louder than happy purrs.

I was happy with the DVD shop I primarily used; the owner's selection was much better suited to me than Netflix' is. (No I'm not a Netflix customer, but I've used it in a professional capacity.)
Mmm, rather than the behaviour being "removed from browsers" the important thing is that Certificate Authorities were told that issuing such certificates could cause them to be distrusted as a whole by browsers.

Part of the reason to do this is that if CAs issue the certificates then their customers buy them, and create pressure to accept them. If none of the CAs are willing to issue this never comes up.

Another is "unknown unknowns". Security systems don't play well with undefined behaviour, if we explicitly forbid everything we don't want to exist that minimises the risk of such undefined behaviour anywhere in the certificate handling code getting exploited. It's a defence in depth.
Regarding domain expertise, I would guess that this is something you can catch up with within a year.
How would you physically do it?

Do you give the VA their own JIRA login? Or can we make a browser extension that lets the VA use yours (or mine)?

(My contact details are in my HN profile if you want to discuss)