skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit weird that you think Hollywood is only 5 studios. That would be like saying Silicon Valley is just FAANG. There are dozens of studios in LA alone, not including the studios in NY, Atlanta, and Vancouver.

Netflix is the 5th biggest studio in Hollywood (the industry) but is the biggest studio actually located in Hollywood (the neighborhood of LA) as the other major studios have their own facilities in other neighborhoods or cities of LA. (Sony = Culver City, Fox/Disney = Century City and Burbank, Paramount = Mid City, Universal = Universal City.)

Comparing the end credits for Netflix originals and Disney films, I see no difference in the amount of vertical integration. Netflix films generally aren't VFX heavy so there isn't as much outsourcing that needs to be done. Disney films are, and most VFX shots are outsourced since (a) it's cheaper and (b) the specialized VFX shops are usually faster and more nimble than in-house VFX teams. Compare the end credits for thein-house VFX-heavy Netflix original like Bright and Mute. They have just as much outsourcing as a Disney film.

(Source: I count Fox Searchlight, Vendome, and Sony Pictures as former clients and I currently work for a media company. I'm well versed in how movies are made.)
StartPage does it with Google and is explained here: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

So it is probably possible.
> Like what is the relative importance of APM to strategy?

I wouldn't so much talk about APM, as about time-costs of information.

In real-time games like Starcraft, you have to spend time to look around the map and figure out what's changed in each area since you last saw it. The more of this "espionage" you do—and the longer it takes you to absorb what you see—the less time you can dedicate to actually doing things, making APM matter more and more.

This—presumably—won't be a problem for AlphaStar, though, because with a limited APM, it will be able to process the information it receives far faster than it will be allowed to emit actions. Think of it like a robot that could read (and absorb!) a book by just flipping through the pages at speed. If AlphaCraft only needs to just slide their viewport across the whole map as fast as the client allows scrolling to happen, in order to learn everything about what's going on, then the time cost of their information is very low, so their APM is basically irrelevant. They have all the time in the world to do whatever they like.

I'm looking forward to the presumptive second stage (AlphaStarZero? ZeroStar?) where the AI will train by playing itself. Because both sides would have equal APM potential, there's no reason to limit APM in that case. And, therefore, the game becomes a much more real equivalent to a normal StarCraft match, because once again the AI is put in a situation where the other player is reacting quickly-enough to their actions than they have to weigh "time spent learning what happened" against "time spent performing actions of their own based on incomplete information."
> Your reasoning is pretty weak to say the least.

It is not actually a reasoning, but an adage. And I like it, as a general governing principle. Sometimes I have to recourse to debugging, but thanks to this adage this act is regarded as a momentary shameful failure. Trying to avoid this shame is a powerful motivation to code carefully.
I'm not sure the assumption that other countries give a damn about what the U.S. Constitution says is correct.
Microservice Developer Tools for Gophers
When Did the US Start Calling Itself “America,” Anyway? – Mother Jones
>How could Google make money in France if there was no french police force, education system, market regulation, court system, contract enforcement?

By showing ads.

Ads only need eyeballs to make money.
I think this will play out differently, and doubly so if American sabre rattling continues
Exactly. "consumer" is the important qualifier. Yes printers are relatively cheap and reliable, but even the most consumer-centric printers are far from "plug and play" last I checked.

When there is a printer that an "average" person can take from new-in-box to reliably printing Benchys in less than 24hours then consumer 3D printing will have arrived. We aren't there now, and I'm not sure when, if ever, we will be.
> IIRC, it doesn't have roots in ALGOL, which probably explains its "strangeness"

To the contrary, Algol took hints from Lisp when it created its if statement (as opposed to conditional GOTO) and subsequent Algol-style languages have only taken more from Lisp as the decades have gone on.

> But beyond that, from what I have seen, it seems like a functional-style language built around the concept of everything (primitives?) being a "list" - which is kinda analogous to a mathematical set, I think.

A "Lisp list" is a sequence which is implemented in terms of a singly-linked list. You can nest lists inside of each other arbitrarily, but if you want O(1) access times or easy element replacement, you should use other sequence types which are implemented in terms of arrays. Common Lisp, the modern Lisp dialect, has those.

If I had to give a high-level summary of modern Lisp, which is Common Lisp, I'd say that it's a dynamically-typed multi-paradigmatic programming language which supports the creation of mini-languages/DSLs through the use of advanced syntactic rewriting rules called macros.
From the carrier perspective, sure. Being a dumb pipe is a race to the bottom market-wise.
> Their rules state that you must have the Upwork Desktop App on you computer which installs some sort of video malware onto your laptop AND have your webcam visible and on at all times so that the customer success agent can audit that you looked like you were working through the webcam while staring at a screen. How is that not the creepiest shit ever?

Gross
The Performance Impact to AMD Zen 2 Compiler Tuning on GCC 9 and Znver2
Out of curiosity, how else were you thinking a search engine would be making money?
That's a great take that others miss. Marketing is 100X harder than setting up a platform.
Would it be possible to compile a nodejs app to a binary with this? If so, would performance be any better?
Neat Design Could Make a Plane’s Middle Seats Tolerable
say whatever, I just loved that name
Ask HN: Are there any well known named service policy descriptions
Are there any well known service policy descriptions that cover various aspects of services like privacy, eula etc?

Well known named licenses like Apache, GPL, BSD etc. have helped in quick identification of how a software can be used, distributed etc. Pervasiveness of such licenses makes it easy for individuals and organizations to define a policy on what licenses are acceptable to them. Having named service policy descriptions would provide a similar benefit in the service/SaaS world as well.
Ireland and Luxembourg are a small minority, fortunately or unfortunately.
I just tried to use the search engine without Javascript and that's a really bad result. [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/ybtiAkk
France is already censoring Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_France
I'm struggling to figure out how they have a Security and Response team to deal with the fallout of these issues without having enough privacy/security/customer-focused developers/product folks to proactively bring up these concerns. Google _seems_ like the type of company to do at least a little bit of risk modeling before the release of software. If they knew they were going to listen to recordings, how did this concern not get brought up? If it was brought up, did folks just decided it wasn't important enough to protect against?
Check Point's write up can be found here: https://research.checkpoint.com/agent-smith-a-new-species-of...
Aren't the cables already paid for by the fees that subscribers pay to their ISPs for internet access?
Never installed on the ThinkPad line, so not my problem :)
This is ultimately the most important distinction between platforms and Aggregators: platforms are powerful because they facilitate a relationship between 3rd-party suppliers and end users; Aggregators, on the other hand, intermediate and control it.

Would YouTube count as an Aggregator? Are they becoming less about the task to "facilitate a relationship between 3rd-party suppliers and end users" and more about seeking to "intermediate and control?"
Sure, "so fake just to appear so cool" is one aspect to it.
There are surely users who scroll by and don't see a caption that the pretty lake is toxic.

But "do something stupid/dangerous to show how brave you are" is part of human nature.
Reminds me of this beautiful-but-poisonous "blue lagoon" that was dyed black to make it less appealing: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22843481
How is this a staged picture if it's actually an interesting location and view? It's not like they're pretending they're actually at the maldives.
Sure, I go to one myself. Thing is that people rarely need all those things. The gym model works on 90% of members not actually using the space much. But in those cases they can just buy equipment themselves if they have space. Not equivalent and not all of it but good enough for their limited needs.

Also, you can get a usable laser cutter for $500 if you are willing to put in the hours to update the shitty Chinese components. $3-6k gives you a decent 40-45w one (Glowforge, etc.). Won't cut beyond 1/4" but that covers a lot of projects.
Any tips for freelancers who are recent engineering grads? I have some portfolio items, but I still can’t claim more than 1 year experience
This is not new. "The grapes in that ad are covered in vaseline! The milk is white glue!" And so on. People like pretty pictures. Maybe this news will spur a cleanup effort (spoiler: nope)
I'm not sure that fundamental right is correct, at least, outside of America. There's no fundamental human rights of freedom of speech and no censorship in New Zealand for example, as enshrined by law.
I'm a little shocked that the Matrix still so culturally relevant.
Hubble Uncovers Black Hole That Shouldn't Exist
Who said anything about everyone using a foldable bike (all bikes are portable)?

Your first argument was that people couldn’t use public transport because of the last mile issue. That only affects a subset of passengers and is answered by folding bikes.

Your second argument is that it would impossible to operate a subway if passengers were allowed to bring a second cabin sized carry on bag on (that’s roughly how big a folded Brompton is).

Well there’s already plenty of examples where operators are already doing this successfully.

The London Underground for example operates just fine allowing folding bikes to be taken on at all times of the day.
On the How I Built This podcast, they mentioned AllBirds uses Shopify as their platform.

I just checked their site, and it looks like it's still the case.
You can use AdGuard's DNS servers for free. They also have the added benefit of supporting DoT and DoH. Click on "DNS Privacy" for their instructions:

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html#instruction
Think of it as a poison honey pot for Instagram "influencers", to thin the herd and improve the gene pool.

Looks like there are some romantic AirBnB get-aways available near Love Canal:

https://www.airbnb.com/s/Niagara--New-York--United-States/ho...

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

Also quite a few in Chernobyl with glowing reviews:

https://www.airbnb.com/s/Chernobyl--Kyivs'ka-oblast--Ukraine...
The idea here is to appear to give employees who do the warehouse jobs some kind of aspirational future event 'if I take the job I could end up learning how to program'. So it's basically a job benefit. Not even that important if they actually either are able to code for Amazon (long shot) or anyone else.

This is really no different than what traditional companies have done for years and have over a typical very small business.

So you start working for Panera Bread and you think you can then become district manager and regional manager and so on. Of course only a small percentage of people get to that point. But the idea that with hard work you can makes the job that more enticing than doing the same job (as at Panera) at a small sandwich shop.

It also is a way to save on wages (independent of what they would offer). If you ever have a small business you will see very generally that you have to pay an employee more for the same job they would do at a much larger company (because of both real and perceived benefits).
Intel's New Omni-Directional Interconnect Combines EMIB, Foveros
Taxes are never fair, that's why you'll never agree on them.
It's a game of coercion and the only thing that can be done is choose who's the sucker that's gonna pay.

Taxing big, multi-national companies is something that I can live with, strangely. I know it's wrong, but still less wrong than having poor/middle-class directly pay the bill. In the end they have the money to pay tax consultants and the money to deal with it.
Aren't PINs, face recognition, and fingerprint scanning all less secure than passwords?

Worst part is, I recently installed Windows and it FORCED me to use a PIN until I finished setup and went back into the settings to disable it.

Why does Microsoft think passwords and consumer choice are going out of style?
Seems to me the same kind of thing is happening to the music industry.
Streaming is great, however having “too many choices” sometimes feels overwhelming.
Corporations want to make a profit, so naturally they will seek out the next big streaming hit and market it to their end users. How do they do this? Algorithms, popularity, number of plays, demographics, etc. Eventually, a few big names get most of the attention. And the user base with the highest number of (paying) listeners is catered to above everything else.
They have the security and response team activated because someone disclosed that they do this, not to investigate the fact that they do it. They're there to plug the leak.
Have you asked whomever is in charge of the stock program within your company? They will know exactly what can be done, and when, and how. And if there are people internally wanting to buy, they probably even know who it is. (And if nobody internally wants to buy, you should be asking why not.)
Rumor Outlines Intel Comet Lake Features, Specifications, and Launch Window
I don't even buy my phones from the carrier, which makes it even more perplexing.
> There's a real business model somewhere in here.

https://petapixel.com/2019/05/22/the-chinese-instagram-villa...
A Decade of Accelerated Computing Augurs Well for GPUs
The absurd language used by job adverts – Bartleby
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The story is a reprint from San-Diego Mercury News, and as bad at making anything clear about how a user could find out whether the phone has been affected by Agent Smith or identifying the originating infection entry app.
This is the case no 1 in my post. What you quoted refers to points 2 and 3.
Japanese Building Demolition Method Generates Electricity
Fenix is not the currently supported mainline Firefox Mobile browser, nor will it be for a bit.
This is what I love about Apple. They gave the carriers a big middle finger when it comes to the usual bullshit of bloatware, sticking their logos on things or getting in the middle of updates. That’s because they cared about the end user experience. Google was happy to just grab market share at the expense of the users by allowing carriers to continue with their usual shenanigans. For this reason Apple will have my eternal gratitude, because I remember what a shitshow smartphones (and deploying apps for them) was before Apple flexed their muscles on this.
> News is extremely cheap, especially these days - so cheap it's literally given away for free.

This is fundamentally wrong. It's subsidized (largely by advertising), not naturally cheap. It's like looking at Google and saying "man, software development must be cheap, they're giving away this search engine!"

Good reporting is time and labor-intensive. It also has an extremely short shelf life, meaning the time available to extract value is limited. A single news story is financially valuable for a very short period of time.
Have you also compared it with v8-lite?

https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/84450a2239672109bc...
This article seems to be a little bit of scare mongering, these are voice services they need to record snippets of your conversation to make things work just like some person near you in a hotel or airport could over-hear your conversations.

I believe the TOS does mention transcription but not by thrid-parties are contractors to Google not working for Google?

<-- snip -->
Does the third-party service provider get an audio recording of what I said?

Google transcribes what you say and sends the text, but not
the audio, to the third-party service provider.

<-- snip -->
Now that would be a good research paper: documenting the Photoshop API.
> Sugar in fruit juice may raise risk of cancer

So - in short - "Sugar MAY raise RISK of cancer"...?

I bet breathing the air while sitting in traffic does worse for you.

But honestly - what and how much are we really talking about?

Due to the way things are phrased, and how people don't really understand probabilities, these kinds of articles seem more to be fear mongering to sell papers and advertisements than anything else.

What stands out in my mind is the "simple" examples - for some reason, always using cancer as the thing - given for Bayes theorem:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-and-short-...

...and when you work out the numbers, rather than the scary numbers you see in these kinds of articles, you find that the actual changes in percentages, mathematically, are so small as to be laughable.

Or maybe I'm conflating two things that have nothing to do with each other?

The dead-simple fact is, none of us are getting out of this alive.

Enjoy your life, don't become a sugar-abstaining ascetic for the low-probable chance to live an extra day, if that. But don't consume candy bars as a wholesome diet, either. Everything in moderation, including moderation, as the old saw goes.
I agree that Apple is incredibly greedy and hypocritical, but in the end, working at Foxconn is just another underpaid job. I think the term "modern slavery" should be reserved for people whose passport has been taken away, who are trapped on a fishing boat or in a brothel for life, who have been tricked into accepting debt etc.
Sounds like an excuse for poor engineering on the part of Android. Microsoft also sells Windows to multiple OEMs and has done so for decades. OEMs also are free to add bloatware as well as the retailers (ie Best Buy adds its own bloat), but Microsoft doesn’t have this problem.
I'm curious as to how the reference counting works in this. Is it comparable to what's used in Swift? How is it compared to the methods typically used in V8 and Spider Monkey?
Epic Easter Egg in the Speedtest iOS App
Different sub.
I think you'd need to translate node specific APIs in order to make this work, e.g. i/o features and require function. It is probably more work than just rewriting the app to use QuickJS APIs instead, but I don't think it's impossible to make some sort of compatibility or translation layer. Couldn't say if it'd be more performant, but it'd have a killer feature over node: compilation to single binary without dependencies.
How can the eyeballs in France view ads if there was chaos outside, and gangs started to cut internet cables? How can eyeballs view ads if they didn't learn from French schools how to go to Google.com and enter search queries?
I’m able to buy a Windows computer from third parties and still get an update from Microsoft....
Quantum Physics, the Mandela Effect and perceived changes to your data [video]
Indeed, that's more or less the current system!
This isn't really science.
I mean Lua[1] exists, predates Javascript[2], is incredibly fast[3] and can be easily embedded[4]. I've personally shipped production game titles where the whole game state + logic was inside a 400kb block on a PSP where you only had 8MB of system ram, and this was before LuaJIT.

Sadly, developer familiarity and ecosystem/mindshare sometimes dominate technical constraints, at least that's how we ended up with Javascript everywhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

[3] https://luajit.org/

[4] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
You just need to read it differently ...

We don’t create personal profiles of you based on your search history. (but our partner Bing might)

We don’t sell your data or your searches to advertising companies. (but our partner Bing is and hands us a piece of the rewards)
Did Microsoft just drop the Telemetry bomb on Windows 7 users without telling?
Looks like upwork ate them AND oDesk
France approves digital tax on American tech giants, defying US trade threat
> It was only after this logical train of thought had been put into practise [...] that the second type of lecture was commenced.

> This is how the second kind went:

> a. We are more numerous than they are, therefore we have a right to their syrup.

> b. They are more numerous than we are, therefore they are wickedly trying to steal our syrup.

> c. We are a mighty race and have a natural right to subjugate their puny one.

> d. They are a mighty race and are unnaturally trying to subjugate our inoffensive one.

> e. We must attack in self-defence.

> f. They are attacking us by defending themselves.

> g. If we do not attack them today, they will attack us tomorrow.

> h. In any case we are not attacking them at all: we are offering them incalculable benefits.

(T.H. White)
Thank you

Econtalk I find excellent - a range of guests and a reasonable grilling given even if they are on his (right hand) side of the world.
Facebook tries to make ad targeting explanations more useful
Libra and Financial Inclusion
Facebook denies allegations that you make friends on Facebook
The only real way the Fed is accountable to the people and greater good is to the extent that they don't screw the people so obviously and badly that the people (including the police and military) revolt against them, which is the same level of accountability for any dictatorship
...Who do you think ultimately owns these companies? Something besides people?
A problem worse than Zoom
And you think this new surcharge won’t be passed onto the consumers in France?
this article has nothing to do with "data scientists". It is just a runt by some guy who used Upwork for the first time, did not follow their (admittedly stupid) rules and got into payment dispute.
KSQL Training for Hands-On Learning
probably cost you more money than you'd make writing malware for windows phones
Security Flaws Found in Intel Software, Data Center SSDs
where is the market to implement otherwise ? people talked about "needing a micropayments model on the Internet" almost twenty years ago.. and continually since then
If there’s a real bike lane, the overtaking shouldn’t be a problem as it should be safe for cars to pass in their own lane without needing to take any of the next lane over. Unfortunately, many “bike lanes” are too narrow and too poorly maintained and filled with parked cars. Then there’s the cyclists that think it’s appropriate to ride on the divider between the bike lane and the car lanes instead of in the lane itself.

>Maybe we just have to try and relax and get along as best we can.

That seems like the best plan, certainly. Once everybody can see each other as people instead of the enemy, there might be some chance of getting the infrastructure fixed.
In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything
Of course it's not perfect and would eventually be re-engineered, but I'd happily pay $3K/mo to make $100K/mo.
Brave + Blokada
Secret Recording: How Russia Tried to Funnel Millions to the “European Trump”
I suggest taking a look at bpftrace ( https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace ). The features and stability are getting quite good and better over time.