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This is isn't just about Netflix, though I'm sure there were some people who saw Netflix as a bastion for good TV. At this point, entertainment is all about quantity of mediocrity and CGI spectacle. They have the formula to keep most people watching while putting in the least amount of effort in terms of storytelling. If you can psychoanalyze your audience, you can keep them hooked and feed them whatever messages you want. All Netflix needed was to set up people's expectations and then gradually reduce their excellence so the audience continues to watch despite the mediocre quality.

If more people besides those on HN cancel their Netflix subscriptions, that will be a good thing because maybe they'll stop "binge watching" with pride and start doing other things with their time. I'm pessimistic on both fronts because I don't think the average person is going to cancel their Netflix, and even if they did I think they'll continue to vegetate while watching Amazon Prime, Disney+, Hulu, CBS All Access, etc.
This. Especially because 4G is far, from being deployed everywhere.
I'm sure the updates to the Kilogram definition tried to keep it as close to the original as possible, right? The difference pales in comparison to the other shortcuts I was taking.
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look at wallstreetbets. people do it consistent and at a rate that exceeds chance/luck. They look for companies that have market dominance and strong growth and are ubiquitous, such as Amazon, and then aggressively buy call options on it. Sometimes they sloe money but the payoffs can be huge and consistent.
Is there an easy way to use this without a mounted drive on my PC? Like a gpg sort of command line thing to expose the file on the Keybase servers like Firefox Send does?
I can stream Netflix on my 25mbit/s. For personal use I absolutely don't care about 5G. For professional use it might give me better picture quality when I remote into work, but I think my work's VPN server is more of a bottleneck currently.
Looks like Maniac Mansion
Don’t confuse the security levels here. Keybase for the most part is not forward secure which has significantly different properties.
We barely watch it but even if we see one movie a month it’s much cheaper than the theater. Factor in concessions and it’s a steal.
My understanding is that the Huawei's hardware is just way cheaper.
There is a whole bunch of languages compiling to Lua, see e.g. https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages

LuaJIT is still one of the fastest VMs around and it's worthwhile to be used as a backend either by transpiling to Lua or compiling directly to LuaJIT bytecode. Here is a project which implemented both approaches: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon
Here's a marvellous title for your next post >>> "We aren't f__s, and you can believe that!"<<<
Arduino was originally Italian, made in EU. There are modern power tools, car electronics, and coffee machines made in Hungary - I'm only listing the ones I know for sure. The components however - IC, resistor, capacitor, etc - are nearly all from China.
Looks good but need to rethink pricing. For a small blog, it says you won't pay more than $71 a month. That means I COULD end up paying $71 for a small blog. That's very expensive for a commenting system. Yes I understand that it is ads free and all but this pricing overestimates how much people really dislike ads.
That would be kind of pointless though, wouldn't it? The handshake only takes place after the cable has been physically connected to the port. You would need to manually guide the connector to where it needs to be and then keep it stationary until the handshake is ready (which might not be a very long time in human terms, of course).
Do you know how the system works, when you download laboratory values and different facilities have different reference ranges?
IT in Indian Govt is stuck in 90s. Can't upload documents many times, unncessarily strict restrictions (like images uploaded have to be 120x120 and within 150 kb), the threats you mentioned AND the ABSOLUTE fetish with captcha and OTPs

I hope the Indian govt sets up something similar to that design/tech agency set up by US/UK govts.

In the meantime, a lot of props to you for designing interfaces that empathize with users. That's the kind of thoughtfullness we need!
Yes, lack of manufacturing capacity in western nations is the root of the problem, not the particular technological fetish de jour. This is the chickens coming home to roost of chasing shareholder value maximisation rather than keeping some spare capacity in the system for a rainy day.

China is not the enemy, we should work with them to build a healthy middle class existence for all the world's citizens. Having one a country mono-culture doing the lions share of the advanced manufacturing is just asking for another dark age when that society suffers a catastrophe.
That isn’t meaningfully true at all. Cisco or Siemens aren’t government controlled enterprises. They are subject to the law in their jurisdictions.

Huawei is “owned” by a labor union that is controlled by the party. They are in effect an arm of government.

There’s a difference in how AT&T operates vs how your state DMV operates. Control matters.
I imagine the UK weighs Huawei equipment with potential Chinese introduced backdoors vs Cisco equipment with potential US introduced backdoors. Probably cases exist where Huawei is the safer choice. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

Feels like there's a niche market for a UK, French, German, Australian, etc, line of equipment.
Raising a person in a culture full of types
While status symbols exist everywhere, this specific obsessing over diamond rings and being "shamed" if you don't get one is pretty US-specific. In Hungary, for example, many couples just get simple, golden rings without any gemstone. A wedding ring traditionally isn't supposed to be flashy here.
I'm actually surprised that anyone thought that Netflix would ever end up as anything but a "TV Network", albeit with a nice interface. The business model is what it is.

All the hype, the stratospheric share price, the prognostications of "disruption" (which they certainly did) don't change the fact that it's all about the content. And in that sense, Netflix doesn't really have any advantages. Creators will go where the pay is best, which leaves less for the distributor; winner's curse and all that.
But wouldn't what you're talking about just be a union type? We might be saying the same thing. The "discriminated" part of discriminated union means that you will be performing the runtime validation to check which of Cat or Dog it is, and only once it receives those validations do you have a derived type. By asserting that the object received is Dog only if it has kind:dog bark:string, you've narrowed your type at compile time to only types that have bark.
Smoking weed while wearing a hardhat seems out-of-whack.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortinet-removes-ssh-and-datab...

Fortinet is American.
The pricing most definitely needs to be simpler. The calculations on there and numbers used will turn away a lot of people. Think simple simple simple when it comes to user facing messaging and pricing.
Huawei is apparently just far and way cheaper.
News specifically would be fantastic. I currently struggle to find good news sources. The sites I used to go to now all lock up after X articles and I'm not willing to sign up for every single one of them while there's not one that deliver all the news I want. I used to have youtubeTV just for the news channels, but ended up cancelling because I felt I was way overpaying since sports HAD to be baked in.
I had hoped Netflix would usher in another golden age of film: throwing small budgets at innovative content creators (like Binging with Babish), up-and-coming auteurs (think like early 80s David Lynch). That didn’t happen. The data driven approach regresses content to the mean and I worry stifles creativity.

Netflix doesn’t seem to get that I’m not going to invest my time in a show that likely won’t get a second season, and if it doe almost certainly never a third. I find it mildly heartbreaking when I get invested in characters just enough and then I never get to see their archs finished. I’m still so sad they canceled The OA.
Kind of but not really. If you ask a "duck" to quack, duck typing is satisfied with any object that implements the quack method.

With structural typing, the type system will check that the "duck" not only quacks but also looks like and walks like a duck, before it is allowed to be asked to quack.

EDIT: of course with small enough interfaces you can get structural typing pretty close to duck typing, if you have interfaces "QuacksLikeDuck", "WalksLikeDuck", "LooksLikeDuck", etc. instead of one big "Duck" interface.
The voting system on HN is a joke. To some degree it does work for an audience of intellectuals, but it wouldn't work at all with a general audience. Everyone just downvotes what offends their sensibilities, but because messages get greyed out, moved down the page, and eventually hidden with relatively few downvotes, they're effectively saying "nobody should hear your opinion", no matter how civil your language.

Just take the downvotes as a badge of pride. I expect this very comment to get downvoted and those same voters won't even bother to tell me why I'm wrong.
From what I understand, using Ericcson(european) instead would delay it by around a year and £4B.

It is guaranteed the CCP will wage information warfare against the UK in the future. If there's a global war, China is the most powerful country based on current politics that will be the UK's adversary. Ability to limit or interfere with public communicarion infrasructure is an invaluable war-time advantage.

For those that say this is just edge gear, I say that makes it even worse. Redundancy and access control is easier at the core than at the edge which lives in the field and direcrly interfaces with possibly hostile end devices. Even just a dumb antenna can be built in a way that makes it easier tl cripple or help with jamming/DOS.
Maybe the Swedes backdoored the Beam VM and are laughing now. Since everybody in Telecom uses it.
We should be actively hunting down racist xenophobes like you and exposing you to ridicule.

Cunt.
How hard do you think it is, really, to get somebody's IMEI?
The reason why a counternotice allows it to be put back up is because filing one requires you to swear to noninfringement and accept jurisdiction.

If you're not willing to do that, and the claimant is willing to swear to infringement, why should we give you the benefit of the doubt simply because someone else said the claimant was wrong in an unrelated case?
I'm with you and Apple on this, this is the kind of law that is abusive and hinders innovation. This is the stupid kind of law that was voted in hyper bureaucracies such as the Soviet Union. In fact I have hard time believing the EU is "liberal" at that point, it's just a new elite trying to find reasons to sustain itself and grow out of proportion. *

The majority of phones use (micro) USB for charging, only Apple and a few others use a different format, and people who can afford Apple devices can afford buying a charger just for that device.
Is there any grammar for a modern language that is context sensitive and expresses the constraints better than a context free grammar?

It’s true almost no usable language is really CF, but a CF grammar with a few semantic patches still seems to be the better way to describe them.

It’s been a while since I needed to parse a grammar, but if I had to I’d probably use re2c+lemon, Ometa/ohm, or a hand-rolled Pratt parser. (Or an Earley parser if the grammar was ambiguous and it made sense)
Hi shawnyou!

I think you've made a great leap by releasing this product, but there are some issues that might sabotage your efforts.

The pricing page on your site is full of broken English. You've put a lot of effort into coming up with a viable business plan, and promoting your product, but it would be important to apply some finishing touches and ask a friend to proofread the site.

The extension's code is obfuscated, which is against Chrome Web Store policies. Minification is allowed, if you're looking for ways to save space. Reviewers take down obfuscated extensions once they're discovered, and they also remotely disable existing installations, so this would be important to quickly address in an update.
You can still find the implem in various language, like this one in js:

https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api
It is clear they made this compromise because the telecoms didn't want to lose their investments. Pure and simple. Same in Germany.
^this, to me is hard to imagine. i’ve taken it for granted that i didnt need to track the lengths of my list-like data structures myself. at the least checking the length of the list of dictionary keys via some builtin.
I've been looking to write a basic system that can parse documents of HTML protocol in go but it seems no such project exists. So I set out to write my own, and I come across a whole lot of projects that help you write your own parser. However, they're usually allowing to write an already popular method (ebnf, bison, yacc) but for whatever reason, I'm struggling to find any documentation on writing these things. Like, where is the a documentation for writing yacc (go) files? Or EBNF? Or whatever else.
That's what big business would like you to think, so that you leave them alone. Truth is, the government is the only thing with power that may actually give a damn about you, even if just to get re-elected. Business cares about the bottom line only. Workers' rights, the environment, convenience? All don't matter if they hurt the bottom line.
With Firefox night mode enabled, the comments can’t be seen.

When blocked images, the whole comments is hidden, it can pose problem for some readers.
That was my experience with it too. I read the "Programming in Lua" book from cover to cover 10 years ago, and it remains one of my favorite programming books. There's a lot of great information in that book (not just about Lua).

And I read a lot of their academic papers which taught me a lot about PL design and implementation.

However whenever I try to program in Lua it feels both impoverished and verbose compared to Python. People complain about runtime errors in Python but Lua has even more of them. And the libraries are significantly worse for the same task.
I don’t think that everyone “wants” their own subscription service, it’s that it’s become the only sustainable business model to meet the demands of operating.
Nobody is saying that religious prejudice in the UK is nonexistent. What I am saying is the data source's conclusion that the UK has a high level of religious prejudice not found in the rest of Western Europe is palpably absurd.

'But I have to worry about the power of bishops in the House of Lords', said no tourist ever.
Wow, you really are a stupid prick. Who would have guessed, huh?
Britain is sending a signal to the US that is time to negotiate trade.
Even so, if you distrusted Chinese products, then this would work as gradually giving them up as new tech is adopted.
You mean like how Oracle backdoored the JVM and how Israel backdoored PHP? Just checking, this is what you mean, right?
Slightly aside; I wonder ...

How large is the difference between arriving at an answer by "using your gut", vs. arriving at the answer using a Machine Learning system?

Especially in cases where the ML system is a simulated neural net?

In both cases you are using a neural net based optimizer, and in both cases it is hard to apply (post-hoc) introspection.
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For Session Restore, there were two problems. One of them was that it had gained lots of features and the architecture wasn't adapted anymore. That's the kind of things that happens with all long-lived projects.

The other one is that getting file safety correctly is really hard. The OS likes to the developer, the filesystem lies to the OS and the hardware lies to everyone. For most applications, that's not a big deal, but for something that used to run every 15 seconds on hundreds of millions of computers, this can cause data loss. That's why you really want to use a DBMS rather than roll your own format if data safety is critical.

For shutdown, it was also a case of initial architecture not matching the current situation anymore. Firefox was initially a synchronous, single-threaded, single-process architecture, but this had stopped being the case for a few years already. At some point, shutdown needed to be re-architectured, I happened to be the one who managed to convince people that the time was now :)
This happens all the time here and to be honest, HN is one of the best sites regarding censorship. It is pretty scary how in the last 5 or so years the policing of online discourse has ramped up and it is accelerating. I know, I know if you don't like it, spin up your own mastodon instance. If you don't want to seat back on the bus, create your own bus service and so on.
The Magicians is such an amazing show. Modern gritty, but awesomely fun adult fantasy series. It is one of a few recent shows from ScyFy that they got right (Magicians, The Expanse, Killjoys)...etc.
There are European vendors like ericcson. This is about being cheap.
A mechanism you haven't enumerated is use other people's money to buy an income stream. The easiest case being using the banks' money to buy a rental income stream.
> Yes, lack of manufacturing capacity in western nations is the root of the problem

The reality here is this quickly leads to a discussion about regulations some people would be furious at the even the thought of re-examining.
A study case in feature (and scope) creep. I really wish they had just stuck to being an identity verification service as that's the main use case I've given them, but I feel they're stretching themselves too thin (and just being that would be probably difficult to monetize)
Why aren't they comparable? It's funny for me to see news coverage of all the atrocities Russia commits there, but none of the US in Idlib.
> Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of content, said in 2019 that critical acclaim is important, “but we’re really about trying to stretch our investment dollars as far as we can and make good on our investors’ money — it’s theirs, not ours.”

This is a huge red flag signal to me. A VP of content should be focused on the quality of shows and the editorial philosophy of a platform. That's not to say that Netflix shouldn't care about money, but that pressure should not be felt so strongly in that specific department IMO.

While some cancellations make sense (Sense8, as much as I love it, the budget was a real reason), others are completely nonsensical (The OA, Tuca and Bertie, Santa Clarita Diet to name a few). It really is a shame that Netflix simply doesn't seem to have a philosophy anymore. They make good content still, but only because they do enough things that not everything can be a miss.

I think we all know we are exiting the golden era of streaming, but I think when we look back, Netflix straying from its original principles may be seen as a notable part of that downfall. The sudden growth of separated streaming services was probably unavoidable, but I can't help but wonder that if Netflix stuck to its philosophy, the quality of the service may have kept other potential competitors around longer.
Semiconductor fabs, especially for high-tech stuff, still are somewhat spread around the world at least (even though the later chain isn't, i.e. you might see a fab in Germany, and the cut wafers then being flown to Vietnam to put them in the plastic IC cases because that's cheaper).

For simpler components (resistors, capacitors) special types still have some manufacturers in the west (e.g. high-precision, especially robust variations, ...). Cheap mass-production not so much.

I remember trying to find out if you can get EU-made LEDs, and the result was that maybe some high-power ones by OSRAM would fit the bill, but it wasn't clear what was made where.
The Stellar airdrop to every Keybase user seemed to be tightly integrated with Keybase, more than you'd get with just a wallet integration.
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The best way to make a correct prediction is to continually update your estimate as new information comes in. As it comes in. That’s all the markets are doing.

When the virus starts, the markets adjust downwards because there is a chance that virus kills tens of millions, which would have severe economic impact.

As the world public health starts to reduce the error bars or bad outcome likelihood, the market adjusts.

The problem is that you’re thinking of something as having a concrete value. Instead, think like Tetlock teaches in superforecasters. Then you will have a better model of what’s going on.
The data for North Korea is missing.
Ask HN: What are your experiences with working out?
This was probably the best show that I've ever watched.
I agree, but I had hope the Liberals would be under such intense pressure to ban Huawei that they’d be forced to, politically.

Eg With the liberals being just a minority, the majority of the Canadian parliament got together and recently passed legislation for and subsequently set up a committee to review Canada-China relations, on the backdrop of China holding our citizens hostage and extraordinary Chinese intervention into Canadian governments (federal, provincial and municipal).

But realistically I know better than to bet against a Trudeau selling out Canada.
Whoa - you really hit upon a question that I've also had. Keybase does seem to be suffering from feature creep that is actually making it harder to 'sell' to a non-super-tech person. They really ought to rethink their UX/UI, so the call to action via their software is more easily understood.
As a big fan of Nim, totally agree. I think the best description of Nim is a Pascal/Oberon/Modula language, with Lisp inspiration, and a Pythonic indentation/standard library. I think the Python influence is overstated because Python is such a popular language.
^couldnt agree more. both packaging and presentation of the subscription tiers being simplified would help imo. that said, certainly a/b test that!
Same. Netflix has more stuff that I want to watch than I ever will watch.
> Use an rpc protocol to do all the talking to objects within the system which are exposed as files.

At some point, you're just adding pointless layers of indirection by doing this. NT tried this approach, and it is anything but "simple".

You can do many things quite naturally by interacting with bytestream-like or block-like objects that are exposed via some sort of hierarchical namespace ("files"), but this doesn't really cover everything. Some things may be better done, even in a script, by interacting with a "binary" that in turn just wraps a binary library exposing some kind of ABI.
Or be skilled in luck.
Who has time for that? Me. And, presumably, Marc ten Bosch. When you want to make a game that uses full 4D graphics, existing libraries just don't cut it, and writing GPU code to understand arbitrary-dimensional rotors is worth it.
> This requires a supply chain that the US no longer has, AFAIK....and its non-trivial to clone it.

The US (and other countries) lost much of its electronics supply chain (and manufacturing in general) due to political priorities, and it can regain it by shifting those priorities and enacting new policy. This idea of "it's gone and never coming back" is false and a result of an over-attachment to certain ideas and certain policies.