skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read, but I tend to disagree with the author on many levels.

I do believe we are still in a golden age for content producers and audiences. The amount of money going into content production, the number of shows being produced and the number of streaming services being launched offer a variety of options for people to finance, distribute and consume video content.

Content creators are looking essentially for 3 things: telling great stories, reaching large audiences and making money. They make an informed decision based on those 3 factors when choosing to work with Netflix, Amazon or other studios/streaming services. If it becomes obvious that Netflix will cancel their show after 2 seasons or will not expose their content to large audiences, content creators will stop pitching their shows to Netflix and turn to other distribution providers such as Amazon, Warner Media, Disney, NBC, Facebook, CBS, YouTube etc. And if audiences like their content, they will follow it and subscribe/spend time on other platforms.

I’m also unsure about Netflix’s “lock-in” power. Netflix is not Spotify where I spend time creating and organizing playlists. I see it only working if Netflix’s recommendation engine is so well trained with my data that moving to another streaming service will force me to spend much more time looking for relevant content to watch. Otherwise, I watch Friends on Netflix. I can easily switch next year to watch it on HBO Max.

It is true that the old days of “Friends” and “Seinfeld”, where a hit show would generate billions of dollars for its creators, are gone. Netflix and other streaming platforms are now acquiring global content rights for shows and production companies are becoming more like “work for hire” studios – where ownership is transferred to the streaming platform and no future residual revenues can be expected from re-runs (syndication deals).

That being said, the median wage of writers dropping seems to be more the result of talent agencies’ “packaging practices” than Netflix.

And by the way, “Where are the great comedies?” the author asks. Blockbuster movies – because of their high production costs – look for global appeal. Car crashes (aka “action movies”) are understood across the world. It’s not necessarily the case for jokes (aka “comedies”) that might not cross oceans as easily.
What solutions do you recommend for server side logging? I've come to a similar conclusion as you as far as what's actually reasonably necessary.
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Yes because even if you purposely uninstalled the application it would reinstall if you went to a link even by accident without really notifying you that it did so.

So yes, malware.
This kills me when my wife brings home 8 apples from Costco that come in a double blister pack of hard plastic.
I agree, there are a lot of things that I prefer other people don't have access to more than I need to regain access to after losing it.

I don't care a lot about my old emails, but I care if someone else has access to my old emails.
The component abstraction is primary with Svelte. Each file is a component and only one component. This means the only ceremony you need to create a component is to create a new file. It's a perfect solution in my opinion.
More likely this was done via a signature update to xprotect, which is essentially a background antivirus process in macOS.
even though they changed the title of the article, Anastasis=Resurrection
> Could it be the case that contemporary governments and economies are just simply not structured to be forward thinking in this way?

I'm confused that this is a quesiton that you're asking, as opposed to something that is blatantly obvious. The United Nations declared as such recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/ending...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-capitalism-eco...

"Trusting that the free market capitalist dynamics will get us
there, that of course is not going to happen," report co-author
Paavo Järvensivu, an academic who specializes in economics and
culture at Bios, says in a phone call with HuffPost. Economies
that rely on the power of markets, notes the report, don’t even
recognize the problem as they’re too focused on short-term
profits to take account of longer-term issues like climate change
and environmental destruction.
> "Edit: It was during the Obama administration but implemented by the Fed, which is independent of the White House administration (thank god.)"

I was half-listening to Jerome Powell (Fed Chairman) testify before congress today and one congresswoman (CW) asked him (JP) something like:

CW: Are there any tools you need that we can give you?

JP: No, we have all the tools we need at the moment.

CW: Well what about directly purchasing municipal bonds? I learned you aren't allowed to do that.

JP: That type of activity is outside the scope of our mandate.

CW: Well there are many cities going bankrupt that need someone to buy the bonds so if we give you the power to do that will it help if you can buy them?

JP: The best thing you can do to help is have a sane fiscal policy and reduce the deficits.
Low Earth Orbit.
People keep saying this. I am not really sure what they mean by "quality of life" any more.

I think it's mostly about aspirations to hyper consumerism and reduction of choice. The choice argument very quickly drops to some very US grounded freeeeeeeeedom argument about constraints and the role of society. Once you realise the complainant had no intention of buying a gas guzzling rolls royce or washing their hair in pure benzine, it becomes clearer to me it's opposition to the idea of having to accept limitation, not their impact. It also denies the very high likelihood of increased harms to others by refusing to agree on a middle path. We might need to have less choice to allow Africa and Bangladesh to have more life choices is hugely unpopular.

I don't want to be king btw, or a member of the death committee. But I also know effectively health rationing exists right now. We are not living in nirvana and life affecting choices and decisions are made about us every day.

Deciding to put a twenty year end of life on current oil economics and ending exploration right now feels like a basis for discussion. We have enough sources to get feedstock for pharma and plastics. We might have a huge problem in agriculture and the dependency on artificial fertilizer and insecticide.
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Bike lanes in neighborhoods aren't as necessary as the traffic is slow and there isn't much in neighborhoods to bike to - grocery stores, jobs, and so on. This is pretty much a recipe for failure.

Instead, we need major corridors to have safe bike lanes. The major route between residential and business areas is a good place to start since the scariest traffic is there.
Highly recommended reading! Don't let the catchy title fool you.

This passage, in particular, stuck with me:

> "But there’s no reason we have to build a highly concentrated storytelling industry on top of the internet, which used to be the most decentralized communications technology ever imagined in human history. The answer to the question of whether Hollywood can be saved is, a resounding YES. Fundamentally streaming is a commodity service; Netflix isn’t anything special, it’s just a good infrastructure service which has morphed into a monster attempting to control our access to content. Disney is just trying to become a monopoly studio of branded must-have content, and reproduce Netflix’s power. Movie chains are too big. And so on and so forth. These are all just political choices. In other words, we should aim to restore open markets for content again. This means separating out the industry into production, distribution, and retailing."

The article makes a persuasive case, I think, that market structure is indeed a political choice.
Netflix isn't "Hollywood"; that should be pretty obvious from the context of this discussion. Netflix got into the made-for-Netflix movie production business because the traditional studios were pulling their content from Netflix. "Hollywood" is the studios producing movies that go to the big-screen theaters. We aren't talking about indie stuff here, movies only shown at art-house theaters, movies only shown on Netflix or Amazon Prime, etc.
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of an unrelated analogy involving computer science and software engineering approaches 1.

I shall graciously accept this being called adtac's law out of sheer humility :P
The same goes for sewage treatment plants or basically any infrastructure at all. A city where everybody is happy cannot exist.
London's Answer to New York's High Line?
> With perfect micro mass marines beat everything with ridiculous cost-effectiveness

What has changed in the bots, since the first competitions where having hundreds of zerglings used to beat all the other entries?
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Anything that falls in that 'personal data' segment above that belongs to me has to be obtained with my prior, explicit consent. And these bits of data with my name or other details in them must be included if I send Google a "right to be forgotten" or "show me all the data you've got about me" request. That's GDPR in a nutshell.

This might be a grey area for now, as both GDPR and listening devices are both quite new. But Google, Amazon & co aren't super popular with EU regulators and governments, so they might side with users' rights on this one.
Id din't know that Sometime ago I was trying to make an old nvidia video card work with my pc in With Fedora. One of the instructions was to open the xorg. change the drive to replace the noveau drive, or something like that. I think it wasant't even 2 years ago.

Then I just installed ubuntu and isntalled with apt-get install nvidia-wathever-version. And worked like a charm for me.
The article notes that "Single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws, balloon sticks or cotton buds, will be banned in the EU under plans adopted on Wednesday...." because "These products... make up over 70% of marine litter".

Being 70% of marine litter is a good argument that there's a problem to be fixed, but banning something only makes sense if there are reasonable alternatives or that doing without is acceptable. Plates and cutlery of single-use plastic have obvious alternatives. Straws are more complicated; here's one list discussing the alternatives: https://earth911.com/food/straw-alternatives/ It wasn't clear to me that the impacts of this proposal were considered in detail; I hope the impacts were considered!
I'm a passionate born entrepreneur with a powerful story and a weirdly extended network. I'm a warrior, a recruiter, and I believe in violence of action.

Are your a chess player with a taste for risk? I'm interested in creating the company of the future, heavy on processes and UX. Let's mix empathy and Sun Tzu's the Art of War to create a global conglomerate?
It was the combination of the vulnerability in the Zoom client combined with this behaviour in the web server:

"Additionally, if you’ve ever installed the Zoom client and then uninstalled it, you still have a localhost web server on your machine that will happily re-install the Zoom client for you, without requiring any user interaction on your behalf besides visiting a webpage. This re-install ‘feature’ continues to work to this day."
The Firefox extension "CORS Everywhere" has let me test my web app on my computer without having to mess around with headers. This was while using PowerShell Polaris to create a website.
You guys have any data?

I mean, it seems like a bad idea to me too, but you guys have access to a lot more data than I do.
I’m disappointed more laptop stickers don’t adhere to this standard...

https://github.com/terinjokes/StickersStandard
Ask HN: What are common contractor Rates in major US metro areas?
What are "normal" software developer contractor rates in major metro areas in the US?
What factors would make you increase or decrease your rates? What about an independent contractor, versus someone who is part of a larger consulting firm?
What about other roles like product management, project management, and design?

Just to add some constraints, I feel like some experience levels are needed. (let me know if there are some levels you think I am glossing over)
0-3 years
3-5 years
5-10 years
10-15 years
15+ years
consulting executive/investor (e.g. a consulting CTO or similarly senior roles)

I figured this is beneficial to more than just me, since it seems like these rates are less public then salaried rates, and many consultants/contractors are part of larger firms.

Also, is there truth to the 10% of starting salary commission for recruiters of full-time positions?
The US government can prop up the military side of Boeing, but they can't force foreign airlines to keep buying their planes, especially when the flying public doesn't want to risk their lives on them.
The server was intentionally left behind, and running, by the "uninstaller". The server would respond to requests by reinstalling the intentionally uninstalled software.

That's malware.

The server itself was deliberately added to work around a Safari security feature, that was designed specifically to prevent what they wanted: allowing arbitrary web content to open an app without user consent. They literally added an always on, persistent server, to avoid a security dialog
The designers of CORS kept the previous security for certain types of POST requests because they are basically equivalent to how forms work, which operate at a much worse security standard and are a source of a great number of CSRF problems. The simplest way to remember it is that most things which break the legacy behavior of POST triggers the preflight. Speaking of form problems last I checked HN has a login CSRF.
(i work there) lets just say this has not escaped our attention and we even discussed holding off launching until we had an easy way to log an incremental pageview from the clientside. ultimately we decided to ship first and iterate later. limiting the scope was definitely helpful running up to the launch.
You can disable the new polymer layout for YouTube on Firefox using a console command. It brings back the old layout which is much faster and more functional.
Most notable (for me) change is actix-web fortunes test performance increased almost 3 times since last round. For this test implementation have to select whole table from database (it is small, but implementation should have no knowledge about its size), insert additional record at runtime, sort whole list and produce html according to the template.

This is kind of realistic workload for a web server in data fetching scenario.
None of those stickers are sentimental or novel...

You could probably get them all at the same conference for free
Really great insight! Caviar is a good example of how a hybrid approach can work, especially to your point that most people don't recognize that Square owns it. Perhaps branding played into the decision, but they shut it down just after acquiring Caviar, which makes sense.
How long will the plants take to remove the nickel from the Olivine?
Hollywood's doing just fine.

While people bemoan the constant blockbuster remakes, they forget the dozens and hundreds of other movies that Hollywood also makes which people don't watch...because they don't want to.

Hollywood pushes blockbusters because they're the surest bets for making lots of money. But they also make lots of artsy films because many of the folks want to do something more rewarding than a vapid blockbuster.

(BTW, Netflix is part of Hollywood now. Arguably, the most Hollywood of the modern studios, as they're actually the only major media company to have studios physically located in Hollywood.)
Here's another way to look at it. This link (https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/) says "traffic crashes [...] account for 2.2% of all deaths globally." Which means that out of your 50 closest acquaintances, one of them is likely to die in a car accident.
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
> Research suggests strongly that this armchair analysis is wrong [1].

Perhaps, but not the article you linked to. Your link doesn't deviate from the 3% of total GHG emissions figure. Actually it provides the lower figure of 2.6%. The Wikipedia article claims this figure is criticized, but doesn't provide any alternative ones.
Any vinyl skin will do. Use a razorblade around the edges like it's a skateboard.

If you try to size it perfectly, you'll get lifting eventually.
I first read about this idea here:

http://innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/olivine...

Estimates in this paper put it at 250bn per year.

It strikes me as imminently doable, and as an additional benefit would eliminate the issue of ocean acidification as well, which in my view is a much larger problem than simply temperature change. Like a human extinction scale problem.
That’s just false. Safari opens custom URIs.
As the objector above, I feel the need to defend myself despite the lack of an attack :)

I think you are correct. There will always be those people.

I hope I don't fall among them - I raise the distinction about being "like" a human not because I think it's makes a good/bad qualitative difference, but because I'm hoping to avoid such comparisons. To me, far from proving it is "good" or "bad" at the game, AlphaStar is interesting for the behaviors it uncovers that are useful to humans. (example: AlphaStar overloaded workers - a strategy that had been discarded by almost all pro years before, and is now enjoying a reevaluation as a result). Paying attention to how the I/O is different matters to such elements, even if it is pointless in the comparison of "true intelligence".

FWIW, when it comes to AI I have a more Minsky-view of things (in my limited understanding) and think that we're comparing apples and oranges without any awareness that its all fruit - we only KNOW apples. I think AlphaStar already has a better understanding of RTS than I do (low bar), even if we ignored the differences. That, however, isn't terribly exciting. AlphaStar showing us new tricks we can use - THAT'S interesting. (And now I want a segmented apple, dangit)
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In terms of APM, yes, which is what this FAQ addressed:

> AlphaStar has built-in restrictions, which cap its effective actions per minute and per second. These caps, including the agents’ peak APM, are more restrictive than DeepMind’s demonstration matches back in January, and have been applied in consultation with pro players.

So yeah, they've tweaked this specifically, although not much details as to how.
All of which would lower my quality of life.

Maybe true. But also maybe not true. Your individual state in this is distinct from mine (lifelong user of public transport and cycling) and your neighbours and doctor would very probably disagree about the up and downsides. But I won't deny you feel this now, or that millions of people would feel this. I probably over empathise with different millions of people who don't experience your life and cannot do what you do, but economics say could do better and a lot better if you did a bit worse. How do you feel about that?
>is there an alternative to “take it or leave it” policies on the internet?

Anywhere covered by GDPR, for one. One of the features of that law is that you don't get to make access to your service conditional on providing personal information that is not strictly necessary to make the service work.
It may feel super cozy and normal when driving a car around– but the reality is that it's a metal multi-ton piece of heavy machinery. I'm sympathetic to your plight but.. really it _should be stressful._

Especially in a pedestrian-heavy center where walking should be (and thankfully is!) the norm like in Berkeley.
Sulfur candles, commonly used before DDT, probably still work. They burn sulfur, producing sulfur dioxide, which is the water-free gaseous version of sulfurous acid.

It's cheap. It wipes out mold spores too.

A downside is that stuff like cloth can get bleached. Metals may get discolored.
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True that. Unfortunately I'm now at a view that it will take hundreds of millions in wealthy developed countries dieing for people to take climate change seriously.
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The lower cost vs cable is a mirage. Once TV is finished balkanizing into separate streaming services, expect the cost of signing up for everything you had on cable to add up to about the cost of a cable subscription.
Unless you live in or near a fairly large urban center, or some large college towns, you won't find movie theaters showing small films.
>> It's not entirely unfair to claim that they could have saved literally billions of dollars by just closing the viaduct for a month or two and observing what happens to traffic patterns.

This is basically what should have happened. The fact that we rarely do experiments in local government is infinitely maddening to me.
I'm not versed in UK law, but live in the UK and am aware of a few cases. Bottom line - British law does not recognize the possibility of consenting to actual bodily harm.

I'm not aware of any recent case where the person on the receiving end was prosecuted for consenting, perhaps the OC can cast some light on that.
I didn’t realize you could use slack as an rss client
I feel like this really undersells what they showed though. Sure, APM was an issue, but all the different and varied strategies in managed to come up with was still really impressive.

It seems like they have since focused more on the "single screen" model, with more restrictive APM limits (hopefully also limiting short peaks). I'm really curious to see how far they've come. I'm assuming the big showcase will be during Blizzcon.
opportunity cost of complaint

No, what he actually bought for his $60/year was license to complain about mailman & python :)
Doesn't appear so, current XProtect version remains at 2103 which was released a couple months ago now.
Last tweet (10:58 PM UTC) says recovered already https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1149090037054623744
Netflix is quite literally Hollywood...it has the only studios physically located in Hollywood, releases movies on the big screen, and adheres to all of the guild/union rules with respect to film productions.

It's had its share of horrible remakes, blockbuster crap, and arthouse films.

No studio releases all of its movies to theaters; most studio catalogs have more VOD releases (formerly "direct-to-video") than studio releases. The VOD releases are frequently more profitable on an average basis so long as budgets are strictly adhered to.
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If you would like to force this update you can do so via the terminal:

softwareupdate -ia --include-config-data

It will show up as MRTConfigData if you look under Apple Menu->About This Mac->System Report->Software->Installations. The latest version is 1.45 and was updated today which includes the Zoom mitigations.
This particular critique of Hariri - that his characterization of humanism is stupid - is apparently rather unpopular here. It'd be interesting to understand why.
But the problem is there is a chance that Netflix could be fourth at least in the US. Especially with Disney taking over Hulu. Hulu is already only $5.99 a month with commercials and $12.99 a month with no commercials. Disney will be moving most of it’s less kid friendly content over to Hulu. Disney Plus will only be $7.99. It’s not hard to imagine a bundled price for both - with better content - that’s less than Netflix.

If someone has Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video (because everyone already has Amazon Prime), do they really need the low budget originals on Netflix?