skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do individuals downloading some television or movies here and there for their own personal use really cost these media companies a lot of money, or is it more like a rounding error?

There was a post yesterday that mentioned setting up a Plex Media Server and something like Sonarr to download television shows and the consensus was that this setup is way too complicated for most people. Given that, how big an issue is piracy, really?

There was an article on Vice recently[0] that indicated BitTorrent traffic was on the rise (too many streaming services, too much exclusive content). But my knee-jerk reaction is that if it was really costing these media companies significant dollars they'd be investing in one streaming service rather than splitting off into more and more.

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-i...
Do you have anything to back up these claims? They seem outlandish to me.

For example, there are plenty of African migrants in Europe. I've never heard anything about a vastly reduced life expectancy. There are some small dietary problems they might have if they switched to local food and drink, but I would have thought that their immune system would adjust over time.
Then there's Kayne, who now has a church service where he preaches on Sundays. It has a huge cult following from his stans.
A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect
I posted about this in another thread here but I think it's basically about the larger sensor sizes causes ridiculous CPU demands. Consider how even on an iPhone 11 with a tiny sensor, you need a 7 nm CPU with dedicated AI circuitry to do it seamlessly and with maintained battery life. That feels like a mountain to climb for them, and then their sensor problem isn't even solved.
I think the iPhone 11 makes some good advances as outlined in the linked article, but a lot of the pictures didn't particularly wow me at all from a camera capabilities perspective. A bunch of the images at the top of the article are nice, but that is entirely due to the photographer's skill at composing aesthetically pleasing shots and have little to do with the actual capabilities of the iPhone 11.

As someone who owned the LG G3 years ago, and absolutely loved the wide-angle lens on that phone, most of these pictures would look identical. I guess the point I am making is that while it's exciting to have a wide-angle lens on the iPhone 11, it doesn't in any way move the bar compared to what's been out there for a while.

Where the iPhone 11 has improved drastically, is with night mode shots, and that's somewhere it has been lacking substantially compared to the competition. They've done a really good job catching up and maybe even surpassing the competition in some areas. Kudos to them for that.

That being said, you aren't going to get great prints out of night mode images for anything much larger than post-card sized prints with the iPhone 11 (or any other smart phone camera to be honest). I love the image of the person in the boat at dusk, but even at the size displayed, you can see a bunch of artifacts from noise reduction. As much as everyone loves to hate on DSLRs these days, you are going to get much cleaner images in these light starved environments with a large sensor and good lens. I personally think it's absurd to make that comparison, but I just had to say this because every article about the latest smartphone camera ends up having a bunch of comments about how they are superior to DSLRs at this point (which they are on the computational photography side of things, but good luck getting clean, large prints out of a phone camera, especially in low-light situations)
Their screening process is to make sure that creme de la creme is hired, right? Me, as a successful freelancer with verifiable track means I am already that. So is like saying "hey, I worked at Facebook, not just simply interviewed, and here is a verifiable record that I did good work there, so let's skip the BS, shall we?". That was my point with them giving them my Upwork profile
Derek is speaking here about how the effort is vanishing in the public eye. But if you're someone doing research on a drug target, these sorts of failures are going to be visible to you when you do searches for previous attempts or approaches at the problem, at least if they advance as far as initial clinical trials.
Likely just used some stock icons or had previously designed them for another project and never used them.
I've read both, and am re-reading the Thomas biography now. I recommend you follow the Gabler version with the Thomas version:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/526061.Walt_Disney

I did after reading this article:
http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/Diane_On_Gabler/Diane_O...
That is a rather broad brush you seem to be painting with. But I can only speak for myself.

I have disposable income. I haven't pirated in a good while ( gog and steam making it mostly pointless -- though I did uninstall steam recently for other reasons ).

One of the game I was considering ( borderlands 3 ) is coming out on epic store with restrictive drm Denuvo. Now I can afford it, but ever since certain company that shall remain nameless decided to rootkit my PC, I became less than forgiving about drm. Hell, torrent may be the only way to have drm free experience on some games.

I am not asking for free. I am not making gaming a right, but I expect that as a customer I am treated seriously. I am not. Torrents even out the playing field, cuz clearly no one cares what me as a customer thinks. Torrents put the fear of god back in the executive types.
1. The US issues approximately 1M greencards every year - employment based petitions are around 10% of that number
2. The bill does a gradual rollout of eliminating the cap - so most people who have already applied for a green card and are in the US should not be affected
3. Employment based green cards are allocated based on skills - there's a specific allocation of 50K green cards just for diversity every year. That's around 35% of the employment based allocation.
What’s wrong with it?
you can find a copy of my genome right here:
https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu80855C (but I put it there)
Facebook will usually resize the photo, which ditches most of the EXIF information I think. You can be damn sure that facebook are tracking your location though.
i already pay for amazon, youtube, netflix and hulu. if some content i want to watch is not on any of those services, i will gladly download it -- not because i don't wanna pay for it, but because i'm already paying the studios (through these 4 services) more than enough.
Impossible Foods will debut in SoCal stores as first step in national rollout
As an immigrant myself I don't support this bill as this means we will have more green card holders from just two countries, India and China, and hence less diversity.
I agree, but I like phrasing it as "only run commands with substituted arguments." There's some more discussion on this below. :)

In the past I almost exclusively used Python, but I'm starting to like Go.
I just DDG’d this because it sounds like a great idea but I wouldn’t sign those “five core statements of belief, freedom, and ethics” even if it meant I’d get free healthcare. One thing I know for certain: our health insurance system needs less religious involvement if we want to fix it, not more.
Wall Street Is Buzzing About Repo Rates. Here’s Why
Did you pay? How much?
The iPhone 11 Pro can simultaneously record streams from all four cameras.

Those larger sensors have larger pixels and the CPU demands aren't going to be all that great.
What is the video fingerprinting method used? Is it a publicly known algo? I was using a combination of "dhash" for individual frames and "simhash" to generate shingles for a bunch of videos and it worked "ok" but not as efficient as I wanted.
Good design, but i wasn't able to get very far without having to signup, so i bounced
The techcrunch review in particular is pretty well done. Almost makes me want to go trade in my 7+ on a new 11 Pro.
No doubt that'll be 2k/month!
The real-world effect of NextJS on SEO
> they capture much more information with their larger sensor sizes
Most modern cameras are around 24 MPx irrespective of sensor size, this one is 3x12=36 MPx which is about the same total information content (or even less) given these 24 MPx have more bits per pixel.

Another point in case is that one could implement more in-camera techniques for collecting raw data for further offline processing, like focus stacking or aperture simulation which today require external hardware and a decent amount of skill.
If the number of atoms in the universe, including those unknown, is infinite then even small probabilities can approach certainty.
Legally I'm not Chinese but it's not relevant in this context. You have a wrong assumption about the cause. Another wrong assumption is I'm offended which I’m not. Here's the subtle difference: A person's behaviour is insulting meanings he/she could offend some (not all) people who follow some rules, which might be: reasoning process should base on relative facts/axioms within the same axiomatic system.

Let me explain a little more about where the insulting comes from. During daily conversation people usually omit many relevant consensus details: context and premises. Otherwise communication would be extremely redundant.

One thing is important is: anything put into premise that other conclusions can drawn from, should be relative facts which all the parties agree. By providing personal belief as premise to draw other conclusion without explicitly stating that’s just personal belief means the “evidence” provider cannot tell the difference , unintentionally and implicitly force others reasoning within “evidence” provider’s own axioms system, without knowing there’s totally different axioms system with other premises exist.

In short: There's no problem at all to express personal opinions. However put personal opinion into a premise to draw other conclusions during reasoning without explicit emphasise is not good.

About Godel theorem, strictly it’s only about Math. You are right on that. I’m half joking but it’ an analogy. In sports field there’s a referee because if one team can act as authoritative way to claim they own truth implicitly gives the other team the same authority which will lead to chaos. There’s a parallel relation here.

EDIT: typo and grammar fix
"So you believe they have more rights to work in the USA than US citizens"

What are you even asking? Do you know how many hoops they have to go through to get an H1B in the first place, and how many conditions they have once they are here working on one? Do you understand what it's like to be a month or so away from being deported if you get fired and can't find a new job, and living with the pressure every day?

To answer your question: no they don't, and the situation reflects that. Why did you capitalize "Citizen"?
I just don't like downvotes because people take comments out of context.

I am not thinking about rebasing trough an IDE. Try rebasing in Chromium's repository, it's simply not fast. The thing I asked for is something that would auto-fix the entire commit histories in cases such as the Requests repository, the suggested use of rebase is too tedious and slow. Has something still remained unclear?
> When a RideCheck is initiated, both a rider and driver will receive a notification asking if everything is OK. They can let us know through the app that all is well, or take other actions like using the emergency button or reporting the issue to Uber’s Safety Line.

I wonder about the implications of notifying both rider and driver that Uber's internal checks have indicated that something might be wrong.

I can think of a few situations where the driver is doing something that violates Uber's policies, and the rider may want to notify Uber discretely, without the driver being aware that the rider knows there's a problem -- because if the driver knows, that may leads to a worse outcome.

Similar to when a bank robbery is taking place and the teller surreptitiously presses a silent alarm button. There's a reason why that button is silent.
Torrents are nearly universally transferred in 16KB blocks. In pretty much any circumstance, you're either put on a list at 0 bytes or at a multiple of 16KB.

A byte that is truly by itself would be fine, but as part of a coordinated effort to send all the bytes you're not going to get away with much. The courts aren't stupid.
I suggest not admitting this publicly.
> What else are you paying $7B for if not the people?

Uhhhh, customers?
I’m a full-time designer and designed everything in the app from scratch.
You clearly didn't read the article (which covers the technical details of night mode). It's taking multiple exposures at different shutter speeds and combining together. Allowing you to take sharp photos with long exposure times, hand held. Your Rebel XSi (and even the latest Rebel) can't do that (although they have the advantage of a bigger sensor).
I have two requirements for camera: fast startup time from a standby to taking photos, and working touch exposure control. The majority of phones I've tested do not provide these. For some reason, on Oneplus 5 it works. I tested a newer model and it was worse. Sure, on a newer phone the photos are better for example resolution wise, but that's usually not the limiting factor.

I have some street photo / rangefinder hobby background where the idea is to not endlessly twiddle some knobs but be able to take technically decent enough photos quickly. No posing or setting up a still life but real events. When I carried a dedicated camera, it wasn't in a bag but in my neck, usually even without a lens cap. Fixed focal length lens, Canon Canonet or Panasonic GF. It's not necessary about automation or "AI" that helps you to be quick, but rather just less features and actual working interfaces.
They will eventually, but two things:
1. Before they benefit from it, they will need to wait like 10+ years because of the initial impact from India.
2. Immigration laws change constantly (on the magnitude of 10 years), TBH, who knows how it's gonna change in the next ten years. So, to hope something that will eventually benefit people (in like 10 years) and hurt them now, I don't see much hope in it.
Fair point on the screenshot. Yea I dont think any TV is phoning home with screenshots. Rather it's phoning home with a processed signal of the A/V in order to ID that A/V. If there is A/V that cannot be recognized, it may phone home a screenshot of that.

And I also don't think it's easy to escape the scope of GDPR. I'm just saying companies come up with ways of being "GDPR compliant" and they've done so.
I used to think along the same lines, but I believe the harsh winter thing has been debunked. At least, Jared Diamond did a good job of it in Guns, Germs and Steel. From what I remember, we are physically and mentally challenged to similar levels on all parts of the earth. Societal development was more hampered or aided by environmental factors. For example, Africa is a tall, narrow continent compared with Eurasia, which has serious implications for flora and fauna diversity, the time it takes diseases to circulate, among other things. I'd recommend the book if you haven't read it already; quite enlightening.
My SonyAlpha can do all of that. Except for the gps, but the photos are tagged by the phone, so it's not an issue.
How exactly do these governments subsidize fossil fuels?
People will be able to create some serious deep fakes of audio recordings with Overdub. Where it will get really wild is when you can change the voice of the original recording into your "voice of preference" for listening purposes. Ie- instead of Ira Glass narrating This American Life, think what it will be like when you can listen to TAL with Morgan Freeman narrating it!
put.io + showRSS trivializes it. Mind you put.io has a price, but maybe that illustrates the parent's point that people are willing to pay.
It doesn't automatically get removed. Some services will remove some information. Facebook, predictably, uses the info itself but strips it from downloads. https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/what-can-you-tell-fr...
Implicit key premise seems to be that the more akin a formal (programming) language to it's users' natural one, the more ergonomic it is. I would not necessarily agree, but not read it as ought-from-is.
Sony has the best chance of surviving IMHO. My #1 complaint about Sony is how awful they are at naming their stuff.

Leica will survive too, but mostly because they are beautiful things.
If it's VERY CLEARLY shown, it's not too bad. But think for a moment if advertising only had access to one font, 1000 characters length of text, including spaces, and at most 15% of the ad real estate for images. Plus a warning sign, reminding everyone that repeated exposure to propaganda can change one's mind, even though one is aware.

:-)
So it's not actually about water.
The difference between Upwork and Freelancer is the same difference between Comcast and FANG. One is universally hated the other just partially
Australia subsidises vehicle fuel for use in coal mining[1]. It is totally bananas.

[1] among other things but this is the most ridiculous
Python Die/S Every Minute You Don't Read This Article
The less value you capture as tech provider, the more value is captured by your customers and allows them to strive, so it makes a lot of sense to me.
As someone that writes bash scripts regularly for my job, one of the big struggles I've had is remembering what I or someone else wrote when I look back 6+ months later haha.

I had the same issue with reading other people's perl as well.

I think the great and terrible thing about both languages is that there is literally a million different ways to skin the cat / write a regex.
If diversity is so dear to you, you must be up in arms about family based immigration, which is much bigger piece of the 1 million GCs and its not that diverse there!
I think that part of the problem is that macroeconomists think of the economy as a single system. Therefore, if you change a financial parameter, such as short interest rates, it will change supply and demand in the business economy.

It seems that the financial economy, which is the trading of various financial instruments between a lot of different parties, and the business economy, which produces, distributes and consumes goods and services, are two loosely coupled systems. Monetary volumes of financial trading are one or two orders of magnitude greater than the monetary volumes of good and services. Further, the financial economy is even more globalized than the business economy. The financial economy is showing signs of instability as regulators attempt to use it to control the business economy. Direct control of the business economy by fiscal measures, subsidies, tariffs and regulations would be more effective and cause less distortions than continued use of financial measures.
Tax claims, usually. Spent X dollars on fuel for farming or mining? Here's Y dollars off your tax bill.
Probably because most of the photos were post-processed (with exception for some where he explicitly wrote "Un-edited").
The pictures do look good, the colors are nice and the small image on the page is nice. But I haven't seen any 100% crops or full images. it's there that you'll see that the image is worse than a DSLR or another camera with a big lens and sensor.

I can get nice pictures (= vibrant and nice colors) with any camera, what I can't get is a sharp image, with sharp edges.

I went to a trip with my Android Phone and DSLR, and my GF has an iPhone 6.

We took pictures with all 3 devices. When I looked at jpg photos from Android phone on my PC, they had all "perfect" (=vibrant and catchy) colors, but when you zoom in, it's all a blurry mess with no detail. The iPhone was nice and sharp (at least much sharper than the android pics). The DSLR was of course the sharpest one.

Now on the android phone, I have a "pro" settings that captures RAW image. And it's incredibly sharp, the colors are bland of course, but the data is there and we can add/process the colors in post. But why is the image so much worse when using JPG.

My idea it that normal jpg has HDR enabled and is being processed too much, thus losing a lot of detail. You don't get that loss when capturing RAW.

What I'm afraid is that the new iPhone dark mode (or even the P30 Pro and other phones with post processing) will also process the images too much and stack them thus losing a lot of detail. When put on instagram or made smaller for Facebook/websites, you won't see the missing details, but the colors will be vibrant and that's "good enough" for most people.

When I take a picture I rather have the real RAW data in the picture instead of processed jpg that I can't control. What do you guys think about the automatic post processing done by your device, that when done incorrectly, you'll lose a perfect picture because the implementation just lost you a lot of detail...

I guess the post processing trend is there because you just can't make a good lens and sensor that small and still have nice results. The phone makers are just trying to fix this with post processing...
> It's why I avoid shell scripts as much as possible.

This is all from somebody who has just written a linux user space. Perhaps the author avoids shell as much as possible. It just isn't possible. I doubt it, though. Bash is awesome.
Ok will do, thanks for the link. So far my impression isn’t that the book is intentionally negative, but appreciate the additional context.
> A core team of pre-millionaires won't necessarily, or even likely, work the same as a core team of post-millionaires.

At the maturity of a company like Datadog post-would-be-acquisition is all about cross-selling your product into existing enterprise accounts, not necessarily enhancing the product. So this woulda actually save them money.

Say what you want about Oracle, but this is their modus operandi and it's worked.*

*- asterisk bc they have to continually do it like a treadmill in order to stay afloat.
I haven't said a thing about press releases.

The paper I linked to (1) doesn't cite Preskill et al and (2) explicitly claims not to be taking shortcuts that don't generalize to numbers other than 15; as well as the bit I quoted earlier, they say "for a demonstration of Shor’s algorithm in a scalable manner, special care must be taken to not oversimplify the implementation—for instance, by employing knowledge about the solution before the actual experimental application" and cite an article in Nature decrying cheaty oversimplifications of Shor's algorithm.

I don't see anything in their description of what they do that seems to me to match your talk of "deleting the gates that lead to the wrong answer".

(The Kitaev paper they cite also doesn't cite Preskill et al, unsurprisingly since it predates that, and also doesn't contain anything that looks to me like cheaty shortcut-taking.)

It is, of course, possible that that paper does take cheaty shortcuts and I've missed them. It is, of course, possible that its authors are flatly lying about what they're doing, and trying to hide the evidence by not citing important prior papers that told them how to do it. If so, perhaps you could show us where.

Otherwise, I for one will be concluding from the surfeit of bluster and absence of actual information in your comments so far that you're just assuming that every alleged "factoring of 15" is indulging in the dishonesty you think they are, and that you aren't interested in actually checking.

(You don't, indeed, owe anyone anything. It's just that if you want to be taken seriously, that's more likely if you offer something other than sneering and bluster.)
The article states that icons and other polish is excluded from that time and were done later.
This! The sideloaded pixel camera app made me want to hold on to my 3 year old One Plus 3 for more years to come.
It's unlikely that we are alone:

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

Is anyone visiting? That's more far-fetched given the distances and such.