skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of people either have a moral issue with 100% piracy or cannot easily figure out how to do it.

Public torrents lead to getting piracy emails from your isp. Private torrents are annoying and difficult. In general you have to deal with shady organizations and without experience it’s hard to know what’s a scam and what isn’t.

And I suspect the vast majority of pirates never stopped. And wouldn’t stop unless the price was well below fair value. Winning over pirates is shitty business strategy.

Also Netflix’s 12 bucks a month isn’t enough to fund all the media that’s created. Netflix would have to charge a lot more (indistinguishable from multiple services that charge less) or less tv/movies would get made. Netflix’s larger catalog of old was subsidized by network and cable companies. They sold rights for pennies on the dollar. But Netflix is killing those networks. The business method isn’t viable.
There's significantly higher demand for used cars than there was a decade ago, which has allowed banks to extend finance terms out to 96 months.

For example, take a look at this depreciation curve for a Ford F-150: http://usedfirst.com/cars/ford/f-150/ There is very little depreciation from 2017 - 2015, meaning that if you keep the truck in good condition, you can basically drive a truck for just its operational costs (fuel, maintenance, etc.) Not a bad deal assuming market demand stays hot for these vehicles.
Be careful what you wish for. Most government programs are built on nothing but growth predictions that are... maybe not possible and probably dishonest.
This is the same old out of touch attitude that led to the “you wouldn’t steal a car would you” commercials.

Nobody has to watch the content but they want to. You have fly-by-nights and unethical operations abounding that make everything only a google search away, sometimes with a single click. I agree that people should not be entitled to the intellectual property of others. However, like the war on drugs and sex education sometime the best answer is to recognize the reality and stop pushing teetotalism.

Content providers had a good thing going with Netflix and Hulu. Those two services had a recognized impact on content piracy. Yet here we are, repeating the mistakes of the past while the customer takes the path of least resistance. Right now if I pull up “Doctor Who” on my Apple TV I can watch all the episodes. I just have to switch between 3 different services, sometimes in the middle of a season, to do it. Yes I pay for those services, one included with my cable subscription.

But all of this is pretty silly to argue about to be honest. We’re absolutely spoiled with so much entertainment and media at our fingertips. The “us” of 20 years ago would wonder WTF were arguing about and pay out the nose for these capabilities.
Perhaps the title should include (2016) as that is when this archive snapshot is from. It's unclear when the page was originally created.
Obviously the reason that #1 exists is because the systems meant to help victims of crime treated sexual assault victims as liars and people somehow deserving of their victimization, hence an overreaction.

However regarding statement Women are just as capable of lying as men, I suppose this is true but I also wonder if there aren't particular crimes that have different levels of lying about than others, and different types of lies. For example a companies office gets burglarized, an expensive ring was in the office but was not stolen. I would expect this to be a temptation to lie and say it was stolen, because it gives a benefit and who does it hurt, the insurance company whom everyone hates or the burglars who you would like to hurt at the moment.

The question to me is what is the rate of lying that people would want to do about about sexual assault. My gut feeling is not that much, but of course it's a charged subject so I bet nobody is really researching it and able to tell us what the rate actually is.

on edit: clarifying that the word overreaction is used under the supposition that the application of #1 if it results in a false statement being believed then that is an 'overreaction'
Why would anyone want to forge a mobile drivers license?
You get stopped while driving, cops scan it and you get caught. Although, there are no cops in Finland so you could just as well be driving without a license.

You try to pretend to be someone at a bank or a government office, they only accept actual IDs.

Only people I can imagine actually trying to make use of this are minors trying to buy alcohol, and even then the store shouldn't accept this as an ID.
For most of human history most rapes went utterly unpunished unless there were signs of a physical struggle, since it's usually utterly impossible to prove what happened in a bedroom between two people.

Human history is very long and we know very little about most of it.

Consider that the bedroom as a place for two people is a fairly recent development: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/communal-sleeping-hist...

Claims like the above suggest that fifty thousand years of sexual assault is finally being brought to an end by 1900s social movements. It's the narrative that emboldened people to interpret Title IX so broadly in the first place, but it's not possible to support it.
Why People Enjoy Impeding Human Progress
There was an amusing comment related to this over on the Metafilter thread on this earlier today which included this impressive detail:

Naturally, we did what any self-respecting half-in-the-bag Americans would do upon meeting so-called champions of the rock-paper-scissors arena on the streets of a foreign nation, and challenged them to a duel on the spot. We proceeded to go a spectacular 0-24 against our fellow countrymen, before realizing that maybe there's more to the metagame than we had previously considered.

https://www.metafilter.com/181225/Iocaine-Powder#7714208

Any competitive RoShamBo players here willing to share their metagame strategies?
Oh my god that sounds absolutely horrific.
r/j
Ask HN: Who was the best colleague you ever had? What did you learn from them?
This is outdated information. He was losing subscribers because the bulk of his subscriptions in 2018 came from Amazon Prime, which were (maybe still are?) not automatically renewable. His numbers peaked after a stream with Drake in March of 2018. His attrition was from people forgetting to re-activate their complementary Amazon Prime subscriptions. In fact, the people who actually pay out-of-pocket for a 'tier 1' was estimated to be around 15,000. There's a cohort of unaccounted for 'hidden' subscriptions that are impossible to categorize, but I guess my point here is that the attrition was more of an entertainment bubble bursting over a couple months than a causal result of a break.

Amazon Prime subscribers are '5 seconds of fame' subscribers. His core audience has stabilized to pre-Drake numbers as of December, around 5-6k tier 1 subscribers. Note, subscriptions on Twitch are different from 'follows.' Subscriptions have direct monetary value and follows are indirectly valuable metrics (analogous to subscriptions on YouTube).
Whether you’ve paid back your debts previously.
Colons in computer science paper titles (2018)
I don't see why multi/hybrid would have lower downtime. All cloud providers as far as I know, though I know mostly of AWS, already have their services in multiple data-centers and their endpoints in multiple regions. So if you make yourself use more then one of their AZs and Region, you would be just as multi as with your own data center.
Similarly, if the architecture you choose to implement allows future features to be easily integrated into it, those who implement those features are made to look good. And that's OK, unsung hero is my fave role.
One piece missing in this analysis is construction cost: between permitting, regulations, unions, and Other Unknown Factors™, it can cost 2x as much to build the same structure in the USA compared with elsewhere.

If construction is cheap, sure, tear down the old and build anew. But if it costs more to build a house than buy the same house (yay SF Bay Area!) you’d be crazy to do this now.
The remote workers of sports, so to speak.
I understand this meta-strategy on an intellectual level, but I'd find it easier to fully understand with a concrete example or an interactive example. It mentions that this meta-strategy only works if your opponent's strategy is consistent. I'd like an interactive version to play with to show that. Also, I'm curious how this strategy fairs against itself.

The only winning move is not to play. ;-)
It is not states that are refusing, but that the federal government is barred from enforcing it. Legal marijuana spending in the US and Canada totaled $12 billion last year and is expected to hit $18 billion this year, in large part because of the current status of the law.
Being de-anonymized by state actors snuffing out child predators is not a concern for most people.
>if I was building a prototype of my own car I would probably just have bought an iPad and have glued it to a dashboard.

My prototype car would have Cherry MX Blues, for the tactile and audible feedback.
Getting what you want is boring. The fun is in working to achieve it.

For example, writing a check to get your dream car is boring. Designing and building your dream car out of parts is loads of fun.
They also own around 85% of the wealth so that should be the bare minimum they pay.

They should probably pay more since additional wealth has less value the richer you are (Someone earning $40,000/yr paying $10,000/yr more in tax is catastrophic, for someone earning $200,000/yr it's not)
It's worse because the offender was politically connected and there was nothing I could do about the situation at the time i regained recollection. The offender also had large resources to pay ex spooks to keep the situation normal (for him), and digging up dirt on me and my family.
And that’s fine. It should be your choice to do this, rather than being forced to.
An invasive species carrying an invasive species.
For power law distributions, if you have sums of identical independent random variables that are power law with exponent 1 < a < 3, then the limiting distribution of their sum is power law in it's tails. The limiting distribution is called Levy stable [1] [2], where the 'stability' means it converges to this distribution. Levy stable distributions are power laws in their tails. When the exponent is 3 or more, the resulting stable distribution is Gaussian (aka a Normal distribution).

Another is to have a process where the value at each time grows exponentially with a certain rate, r, but the probability of continuing decreases exponentially with a different rate, s. The resulting random variable is power law [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distribution

[2] "Stable Distributions - Models for Heavy Tailed Data" by J. Nolan (chapter 1) - http://fs2.american.edu/jpnolan/www/stable/chap1.pdf

[3] "Random multiplicative processes: An elementary tutorial" S. Redner - http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/pubs/pdf/ajp58p267.pdf
The Fed making mistakes doesn't mean the claim is wrong.

My understanding was that QE helped, but IOER was a mistake.
U.S. set to grant tentative approval to American, Qantas venture – sources
Thinking about it in network security terms, why shouldn't prospective new immigrants and/or visitors face higher scrutiny? It seems to me that they represent a higher threat to US citizens living in the US than random foreigners outside US borders, because of their "insider" status.
Also, once they are present inside the US, they can potentially avail themselves of rights given to US persons. Therefore, such privileges ought to be given selectively.
Arpanet, Part 2: The Packet
If you have time, this[0] is the canonical article usually shared around this concept. The thrust of it is that yes, XML (or x-expressions) and s-expressions are very similar, and that s-expressions are a less verbose and simpler way to represent data.

[0] https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Mumphery is a good, but not great NFL talent. I bet he gets sidelined. Two Years is a long time to be away from the game.
Mazebattles.com: race to solve generated mazes (Node.js+socketio)
The auto industry is increasingly regulated and cheap cars are becoming illegal to produce
Quite possibly, it has been a number of years at this point, and I didn't dig out the conversations about it for primary sourcing.
"One of these things is Facebook, by far the world's largest social-networking site. In a recent paper, economists Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer and Matthew Gentzkow investigated how much money they had to pay Facebook users in order to get them to deactivate the Facebook app for one or two months. They found that the median amount was $100, and the average was $180 (the latter being larger because a few users really loved Facebook).

This suggests that Facebook, which is free to use, generates a huge amount of utility — more than $370 billion a year in consumer surplus in the U.S. alone. This bolsters the argument of those who believe that free digital services have added a lot of unmeasured output to the global economy.

But Allcott et al. also found that the people who deactivated Facebook as part of the experiment were happier afterward, reporting higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of depression and anxiety. The change was modest but significant — equal to about 25 to 40 percent of the beneficial effect typically reported for psychotherapy.

Why are people willing to pay so much money for something that reduces their happiness? One possibility is that social media acts like an addictive drug — in fact, the people Allcott et al. paid to deactivate Facebook ended up using it less after the experiment was over. But another possibility is that people use services like Facebook because they’re compelled by motivations other than the pursuit of happiness."

Another possibility is that your analysis is completely illogical and therefore wrong. People who quit facebook are self-selected. Their experiences doesn't necessarily reflect those who remain on the platform.
I'm voting with my money by never buying a car that uses a cheap touchscreen to control essential stuff that should have dedicated buttons.
A thousand times yes!

There's a great study using the NLSY data, where they first demonstrate 10 of the 11 oft-cited advantages to breastfeeding... And then do a sibling study with the same data and watch the effects disappear.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077166/

What bothers me most reading the source studies though, is that even if you take them as a 100% true - and this is a very rosy interprétation indeed - the effects they identify are tiny compared to the well documented effects of an emotionally stable home environment with a positive parental relationship. There may be a 95/5 chance of boosting the kid's IQ by 2 points, but that's nothing next to the boost they get with parents who can sleep 8 hours on alternating nights. It seems like most of these recommendations miss the forest for the trees.

There is an irony that some of the biggest breastfeeding supporters are so-called "attachment parents", taking a pop-sci view of early attachment theory... When real, grown-up attachment theory is clear that a healthy parental relationship is exactly the most important thing to show the child in the first year. That's where they learn healthy "attachment", hence the name of the whole theory!

Further, it really just smells like the patriarchy calling. The la leche League was founded to support traditional family roles - meaning mothers stay home. All of it is set up to force the mother into the primary caregiver role, which comes with a huge attendant career/income penalty.

So I say: Fuck the patriarchy. Show your kids a healthy, emotionally stable environment. Choose between bottle and breast based on your practical family life needs.

Unfortunately not sure how to help counter the enormous pressure put out by groups like LLL in hospitals, pop press, etc. They cause a lot of unnecessary suffering and guilt. Maybe https://fedisbest.org/ ?
> The main reason Western media doesn't much criticize the actual policies is because it's "boring" and doesn't generate advertising revenue. It has nothing to do with whether they're allowed to or not.

I disagree that it's because the public doesn't care, but you're close that it's related to revenue. The problem isn't government censorship. The problem is corporate bias. News networks are owned by giant conglomerates and it's bad for business to criticise your sponsors. I won't dive into a long tirade on the military industrial complex in the US, but suffice it to say that (just on the topic of war) all of the mainstream news outlets are funded by giant defense contractors. Speaking out against war would be bad for business.

The most scary part is that mainstream media has very significant control over the Overton window, meaning that even if the public distrusts the media the debate can still be framed by them. It's very difficult to discuss anti-establishment politics without sounding like a conspiracy theorist -- even though mainstream media ran a conspiracy theory for almost two years (RussiaGate).

> Instead, they criticize the politicians themselves (particularly Trump, right now).

Almost all of the criticisms of Trump resort to one of three things:

1. Personal criticisms such as sex scandals, how much he plays golf, etc.
2. Criticisms of being too soft on Russia (even though the exact opposite is true in terms of US policy -- with most US actions being significantly against Russian interests and more hawkish than the days of Obama and Bush).
3. Minor political disagreements or scuffles.

None of these are actually serious issues, and are just spending time getting the public outraged over nonsense. The newly-found discussions of impeachment are a valuable discussion to have, but the past two years have been completely disconnected from reality.

How long did news networks run stories that Trump vetoed a bill passed in Congress to end the US war in Yemen (a war that was already illegal)[1]? Less than a few days, and then it was full steam ahead on other less important topics. The US has been committing war-crimes for decades and I think it's insane to argue that the public wouldn't care about it if they were being told about it.

When the media does talk about policies, they have insanely corporate biases. Every discussion of medicare-for-all in the US is dominated by discussions of "how much will it cost" (it will be cheaper overall), "what about people who love their health insurance provider" (those people don't exist -- people love their doctors, not their health insurance), "it cannot work in the US" (even though it works in rest of the developed world, and the US already has medicare), and so on. No meaningful discussion and reporting of the massive problems with the current health insurance industry and how it must be reformed, or how the US's healthcare system is among the worst in the developed world.

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/04/17/trumps-...
amazon really is the modern sears.
Am I misunderstanding the idea behind the first thing, or is that just piracy that you pay for? If you're going to go to the trouble and / or risk of pirating things and have enough technical knowhow to setup Plex on your local device, I don't know why you wouldn't just go for an old fashioned approach ... which is usually free, better quality, more reliable, etc.
I find the glib tone taken at what is essentially a nuclear-weapons grade policy plan with nearly unbounded power for the central bank very, very disturbing. Probably more disturbing than the proposal is the idea that some staffer at the imf wrote this up believing it should have a section labeled ‘pros and cons’.

Maybe the best thing I could say about it is that if it is to be tried, ideally it will be on a small scale so that the inevitable centralization and then destruction of the test region’s economy can be absorbed by the rest of the world.

On a more positive note, I can report that some crypto companies have experimented with policy like this. It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that almost nobody likes it, and in general chooses to transact elsewhere.

I think we can safely assume rational actors in this test region will spend at least rational and probably irrational energy to avoid such a system; nobody anywhere in the world wants money removed from their accounts by a central banker. The corollary is that this will be done only at the point of a gun.

Upshot: venezuela and Zimbabwe would be envious at the speed and richness of black market economies created in the wake of implementing such a plan.
>>I think there are cultural reasons for that because enterprise treats devs like fungible cogs that you replace when they burn out.

Its mostly approach to any work in general. If it were upto them, these are really the kind of the people who would dig earth with spoons and shovels, instead of heavy machinery.

The idea is simple, should you use Spring + Java, you are likely to need say 60+ people to run a product well. It could take 15 to make it work in Clojure. But having 60 people has its own advantages from their perspective. Say 10 people decide to leave, they can hire 10 replacements for the lowest prices from the market, train them on the application and get it going. Eventually the whole team could leave and get replaced this way, reducing the problem to a bit like the Ship of Theseus paradox. But it works for them.

If they use Clojure, they have to treat people well, pay them well to retain them. Because there teams tend to be small and a exodus puts everything at risk.

They have to use spoons and shovels, personnel trained to work on heavy machinery are expensive, training is expensive and replacing them is expensive.
I'm just saying that for people who have no issues with piracy, the provider has an even more difficult time winning their business. For companies like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc, it should be in their best interest to be available on all platforms like Chromecast, etc.

We're not debating the views of piracy from the parent -- that was already established.
>The only reason to torrent a show or movie over streaming an illegitimate copy is if you plan on watching it a dozen times over and you have limited bandwidth.

Or you don't want to have to weed through half a dozen ad-filled sites that claim to have the film, but don't, and end up with a 200 MB rip for your trouble.
I've been using SXML [0] for all my sgml needs in Racket and the quality of life improvement from having a sane and regular syntax for everything is hard to overstate. seml looks like it might have the same kind of quality of life improvements for some of my elisp-only code. I'm not sold on the way that missing attributes are handled using nil, that seems like a design decision that was made to simplify parsing at the expense of making the representation more cluttered.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sxml/
Different locations see different counts because of aggregation/de-aggregation.