skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in how this impacts the actual movies. I expect them to get much longer. I also expect this will free directors to cover topics and material that might not be appropriate for theatres. What people are willing to watch when in public is different than what people may be willing to watch in their own homes. I expect that Disney will have to run parallel focus groups, possible resulting in slightly different versioning between the streaming and in-theatre content.

Dune is a good example. Dune has for decades been viewed as the quintessential impossible story to ever put on screen. It was done best as a miniseries, and even then it wasn't complete. But an open-ended streaming option not subject to theatre/TV time or content constraints? There is potential for very interesting content.
Interest on short term holdings - sweet. Then again, AWS is a bank that gives 30 day loans - they still win because the payment friction is after the fact.
I don't understand this "argument from incredulity". It has leaked - you found out about it. Do you want them to publish an article in NY Times saying "yes, we spy on you all the time"? Do you want a personalized letter? What, exactly, is the form of this "leak" you expect would happen if this were true?
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A lot of these, and the Cobra effect, are really consequences of Goodheart's Law[0]:

> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

These should make people think carefully about the metrics and targets used, but that seldom seems to happen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Surely even the most ardent EMH opponent would at least agree that information is relevant, even if it hasn't been fully absorbed by the market yet, right? I've never met any proponent of technical analysis who maintains that they can divine patterns purely from the shape of the candles, without knowing what they're trading or what day it is?

That flies right past EMH and into the realm of pure numerology.
The core services are really good, and I tend to stick to those.

For me, my list is: IAM, STS, Route53, EC2 (and all of its children), S3, and SQS.

(By the way, hello fellow T-bird.)
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Not sure I follow how these two relate.
> Even worse, Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" – released in September by Warner Bros – basically bombed at under $60M

This is so sad, it's such an incredible movie! Were it not for covid it surely would have been the blockbuster of the year in typical Nolan fashion.
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My sense is that's right, but it makes it sounds a little too magical. It might be better to say that most of the strains you want to encourage are already present, but a diet with lots of fiber (aka 'prebiotics') will encourage the good strains to outcompete the bad strains. It's a pretty complex balance, there are also phages, and some fungi all mixed up in there.
This is not correct. Let's not dispute and go with your claim of 25Hz.

Even then, the problem is that eyes don't work like cameras or monitors. Our eyes don't work with "frames". Each receptor updates on its own time. It's easy to see that, if the updates are staggered, multiple sensors could perceive higher frame-rates, even if they can't individually.

However, there's another angle to this. Disregarding input lag, which is a very real phenomenon and is greatly shortened by higher refresh, higher refresh rate monitors are able to show more 'discrete' steps for anything that's in motion. Our eyes (and brains) perceive this as movement 'smoothness', even if they can't quite make out every single frame that's displayed.

You should try that yourself. Do a blind test.
For whatever else this move does for Amazon, it probably also helps the optics around current “anti-trust” issues.
Timnit Gebru is a bully, it reflects badly on Google that she was hired on their ethics team in the first place.
Either way (and I'm usually the last person to defend google and their professional practices) if you threaten to leave you're already gone, there is no healthy professional relationship built on ultimatums.
Awesome. Just noticed a few bugs. When I go to your main page on Firefox Android Mobile (latest version), there is something overstretching the viewport on the right hand side that breaks layout. Also, more important is the menu button doesn't work.
Privacy Label
tbh, I don't think it's related to the location settings. I believe apps don't even need to ask for permission to do this. That's why you need to turn it off manually.
I understand what you are saying, but I doubt they hired her to be some kind of controller with unlimited enforcing power (as she says: "I understand that the only things that mean anything at Google are levels").

Only highlighting issues without power to enforce anything is not enough to have any tangible results? That's for sure.

But she was not the CEO.
> I found that out after my sister registered her dog as an emotional support animal to get around her apartments "no pets allowed" rule.

A family friend owned and managed an apartment complex and had issues with tenants buying certificates online for their pit bull and saying it was an "emotional support animal." The dog wasn't, they just wanted to get around local breed restrictions.

Apparently that is quite common.
By clever I mostly mean, from what I've seen from reports, handling stuff like transition from x86 to arm by baking in instruction translation into the die. Their approach with some things is a bit different from what others are doing, but it's not like they wholly invented a new 2nm process that breaks what we thought the laws of physics were, they're using the same fab as everybody else. Thus their design at the moment is clever.
I'm all in favor of people who need them having emotional support animals, but for as long as this has been a thing I have been totally shocked at how many people I personally know (who I thought were better people than this) completely abusing it to bring their pets with them everywhere (planes or anywhere else where you don't normally take pets). And joking about abusing the system, and joking about how awesome it is that they can just pretend to have this need, et voila now they can take their pet everywhere.

And of course, the reason this was bad was because inevitably, people abusing the system would screw it up for the people who actually need it or would benefit from it. Which is what happened.
Student’s AI Model Generates Chinese Landscape Paintings That Fool Evaluators
I love the common tropes, you only have to learn a single response that allows you to control the narrative.

> What did you expect?

Well, geez, I don't know basic human decency probably? Are we all so numb to asshattery that we're not surprised or upset when we learn about someone using power to hurt or control the little guy?
Agree that demand for network compute/validation is more accurate than 'demand for fees'. My error.
>It has leaked - you found out about it.

Where?
"Never accept a no from someone who doesn't have the power to say yes"

— Eleanor Roosevelt
Care to elaborate more than that?
Amazon's second great land-grab
Calling people sheep has never provided useful commentary on anything and is a form of dehumanization.
The void will be filled, it always is. Vintage and boutique neighborhood theaters have already sprouted up and begun to take their place. Drive ins have returned. Perhaps Theater proper will experience a resurgence, outside of NYC.
There are extremists out there who submit the URL they would like to view, then receive it on e-mail later on in a document like format they are comfortable using and that does not track you.
> how many trade groups are there?

Lots (multiple for most big industries)

> What does it take to form one?

"Hello, competitors in my industry. We think we can build a larger moat by lobbying for regulation that will make it harder for other competitors. Would any of you like to join us in having less competition?"

> What kind of influence do they carry?

C.F. Cartels
"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell
> Here's a really short video of what used to be a "company town" in Appalachia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCxG_SCnQE

That's a great video.
Looking at the code, it's a nightmare to parse. There are so many details to deal with that should never bother you under normal circumstances (the core problem of using Rust where it's not necessary). It's admirable that you have such an easy time with it. However, for most people, using Rust for these purposes is absolutely not recommended.

Java/Kotlin paired with reactive streams makes these tasks super easy to read, once you get the hang of reactive streams. Also there are complexities in there, you just simply can't brush all the intricacies of network programming and multi-threading under the rug, but at least you are dealing only with the complexities that are necessary for your problem.

With Rust you are dealing with tons of additional complexity that doesn't matter to 99% of people & problems. I love that Rust exists and it has its uses (browsers, hypervisors, drivers, kernels, etc). I just find it very alienating when people compare this to Python and do everyday tasks with it.

No, you really don't want to deal with borrowing, memory management and life-times, unless it is part of the problem you are trying to solve (and there aren't too many for which that applies).
My company pretty much measures your worth by your dedication, which they measure by your hours. I feel like many others are similar. I really don't see how one can climb the ladder without substantial time increases.

Company policy says you need to work 7.5 hours per day. I was told that if I wanted a promotion, that I had to stay late. So let me get this straight: I was told to work 8.5 hours per day (increase around 13%) to get a promotion with a raise of 7%, even though company policies and job postings state 7.5 hours of work is required. Why would I effectively take a rate cut for a position with higher stress and more responsibilities? I've even seen people who stay late reading non-work articles get promoted just because they look dedicated.
I'm not sure it was possible, the cables were likely anchored (frayed then sunk in concrete), it would have required setting up a mobile anchor, cutting the cable from the anchor, adding lengths of cables somehow, and unspooling those extra lengths. It's already not done for suspension bridges[0], I don't think it could be done here.

And the risk would obviously have been gigantic as two cables had already snapped in the same place, so the remaining cables would be under insane and completely out of spec tensions, meaning they could fail at any point during the tentative transfer work.

[0] you either splay open the main cables and replace strands, or you need to jack the entire bridge from below to take down and replace the main cables at once
Those are still allowed.
I kind of know why, but I think I'd like to have some sort of "super-normative" service for most things. No accommodations, no changes, no talk. You board your plane, stand on a conveyor and it takes you to your slot, you bring your own urine and poo bag if you want, the airline charges you for damage to the slot. No dogs, no cats, no nothing. No "can I get a this".

For the DMV, you have a checklist and you walk up with everything on the checklist and the robot sends you off if you meet the checklist.

For stores, you have full facial-recognition and single-entry gateways. Violation is a full ban from the store. Digital signed payment only, no cash.

I mean, I get why it is, but for someone normative, not having to deal with people who (often for no fault of their own) have harder lives would be just so much better.
That would be the nail in the coffin of "we do AI ethics at Google."

Gonna have to wait and see I guess.
Yeah John Gruber has really become a shill over the last few years. His article reads like an Apple keynote transcript, everything is magical and amazing, a marvel and mindbogglingly great. No wonder they throw him so many exclusives ;)

Yes M1 is great. But it's a closed system (no booting Linux or Windows at this time) and even under macOS you're having even less access to the system's internals than before. Also, Apple performs many tricks to get such long battery life, such as putting apps to sleep when you're not looking at them (app nap). I find this extremely irritating when working with my Mac but I can't turn it off completely even though I have a mini and thus battery life is not a factor at all. My work MacBook spends it entire life docked with the screen closed too.

M1 is a solid platform for sure, better for laptops than intel/amd's offerings. I agree. But I'm getting enough of Apple's (and Gruber's) hypey marketing. It's not magic, just good engineering. I stopped watching their keynotes for the same reason.
I get the "fast and hot" v "slow and cold" history of devices, and am pleased to be told that the M1 has broken this. However, and it may well be that I haven't understood complexities here, a recent Ars review [1] (glowing, by the way) of the M1 MacBook Air, contained this passage:

According to Apple, the MacBook Air's M1 is voltage-limited in order to function within the fanless design's thermal envelope. iFixit's teardown shows in detail that the Air's M1 cooling setup is an entirely passive affair, with just a heat transfer plate in between the M1 CPU and the aluminum body. I was expecting performance similar to but perhaps a bit lower than the M1-powered Mac mini, and that's more or less what I got. However, the Air's M1 is good for at least a few solid minutes of full-bore Firestorm core performance before it throttles back.

In benchmarking, I noticed that subsequent runs of the Final Cut Pro export would slow down dramatically—the first export would complete in about 1 minute and 19 seconds, but if I immediately repeated the export it would take a bit under 2.5 minutes—and the Air would be quite warm to the touch. After closing the lid to hibernate until the Air was cool and then repeating the export, the time was once again in the 1:20-ish range.

To create some more sustained load, I cloned the source video three times and then repeated the export process. Starting from a cold startup with the MBA's chassis at ambient temperature gave a result of 4 minutes, 21 seconds. This time, I opened Activity Monitor's CPU graph to spy on the core utilization. All eight cores were engaged until about 2:56, at which time half of the cores—presumably the high-performance Firestorm cores—dropped to less than 50-percent usage and stayed there until the run completed.

A second run immediately after that took 7:37—not quite twice as long, but heading in that direction. Activity Monitor's CPU usage graph showed half of the cores (presumably the high-performance Firestorm cores) at half utilization for the entire run.

Further testing—including several runs after letting the MBA sit powered off for about an hour to make absolutely sure it was cooled to ambient—failed to produce anything resembling a precise, repeatable time interval for when throttling starts. The best I can do is to say that it seems that when you throw a heavy workload at the MBA, it runs at full-bore until the Firestorm cores become too toasty, which seems to take anywhere from 3-ish to 6-ish minutes. Then it backs the Firestorm cores off until they show about 50-percent utilization, and the amount of heat generated at that level seems to be within the sustained thermal capacity of the design.

My amateur reading of this was that, yes, the M1 is incredibly fast when cold, but when it warms up it becomes measurably slower because of throttling - even if still fast by comparison to previous Air models.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/apples-m1-macbook-ai...
How does "go short" works? I understand "go long" is when you buy low and sell high. What is the opposite?
Agreed. I believe a huge portion of the budgets for movies also revolves around marketing in general. Maybe those budgets can be reduced substantially if the movies are all being placed directly on streaming services. For instance, does it really matter in a streaming only world if your movie does huge numbers on the first weekend it comes out? I'd imagine success will be measured more in retention and possibly new subscriptions corresponding with a specific movie release.
Stories of your life and others by Ted Chiang. It’s meh. Don’t mean it as a dig at the author, but I think the sci-fi stories lose their value over time, maybe I was just too late to the party.
That’s circumstantial though.

My point is that these countries aren’t cosmic forces. We’re all humans that instantiate the same fundamental prejudices, instincts, biases, etc. wherever you find us.
Really? In the parent message.
Ask HN: How did the protein folding algo get past complexity?
Isn’t solving protein folding np-complete? How did this new algo get past that? Did it solve p=np too?
>how can you even compare abusing the trust people have in their physicians to push drugs whose risk profile the manufacturer lied about to legalizing them for recreational use?

I can do a comparison because it's factually correct. I am not talking about physicians lying I'm talking about easier access.
Although digital asset prices are not a good proxy for their utility, there are plenty of utility for enough people and that expands and the addressable market expands.

Crypto businesses are very lucrative so don’t be too busy asking why when you should be asking how
> If we assume that antiwhie and antiblack are both racism, would you argue that, in the current context, political climate, culture etc, that they have the same consequences?

Even if they have different consequences, you can still click Delete on both of them.

I think you should spend less resources actively searching for the one you consider less serious, because the resources are limited, but if someone else reported them, and you are already spending your attention looking at them anyway, you might as well delete both.
This is very incorrect. With video, every person can tell the difference between 30hz and 60hz, if they at least know what to look for.

The easiest way to show this is by wiggling your mouse around quickly on a computer screen.

At 30hz - you'll see the mouse teleporting around - hopping from spot to spot, but not moving. For example, if you stare in the middle, and jerk the mouse quickly to the right, you'll see the 4 or 5 spots where it rendered.

With 60hz, you'll see the 9 or 10 spots - and have a stronger illusion of movement.

With 120hz, it might even look as smooth as a real object flying across your screen.
I would love for CRT monitors to make a comeback.

Sure, they are less portable and difficult to manufacture/repair. But their combination of refresh rate (without blur), image quality, and color reproduction are still second to none.

Considering the price of an nVidia 3080, which is standard PC gaming equipment, there must be a market for high end screens for gamers.
The idea is that stock graphs show patterns. That when it's rising you can stare at the shape of it and intuit whether it is going to rise or fall within the next short period of time. People get very into specific patterns, and books are written about these patterns.

To a certain extent, if a lot of people are doing this this can turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophesy, because lots of people are looking at the same charts and saying "it's bound to fall now" and so sell their assets.

The problem is, this only makes any kind of sense with assets that have very little "real world value" grounded in reality. Why does the price of BitCoin going up? Because people expect it to go up. So they buy it. So it goes up.
>However the difference is that this has already been an option for people like you for roughly the last 50 years.

You're correct, but for most of the past 50 years, those people have had to wait for months beyond its initial release date in order to legally access it in their homes. That means months of avoiding chatter about it at work or in public that could spoil the movie for them.

>This decision is the first solid indication that going to theater might not be an option for people like me in the future.

I mean, maybe? Perhaps that would depend more on where you live. There will always be a certain portion of the populace that prefers a theater experience, so there will always be that option available. I'd just imagine that there won't be as many theaters operating a decade from now as there currently are.
I don't have a source off the top of my head but I would be very surprised if wind and solar with a good COP heat pump had higher emissions than cutting the most carbon-rich wetland in the world to dry and burn it.

Also the Land Rover I see most is a 2008 (in Ireland, model year is on the number plate)
I suspect people interested in "superfast, supercool ARM-based Linux laptops" are looking more for running on bare metal, not in a VM.
There have been many attempts to create ETFs for Bitcoin, most famously https://coin-etf.com/. They've all been denied by the SEC so far. But an index like this is likely a step toward SEC acceptance.
Yeah, that would be really amazing. Is it even possible to install Linux on this new Mac though? Probably not. Will Apple offer these chips to other manufacturers? Would be cool if we could build small form factor PCs with these M1 chips!

I also wonder about the driver situation. Intel hardware has excellent support on Linux, everything works out of the box. Apple probably has zero interest in contributing drivers to the Linux kernel.
Is there a list of safe phones and safe apps? Or are we supposed to use Pine/Librem/Jolla phones only to have anything resembling privacy?
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You have demonstrated exactly why I don't care how fast the M1 runs, I'm not buying Apple hardware. Not until I start hearing that they have done something about their long quality slide.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238688 for the last time that I expressed this opinion on HN.
Well they're all from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territories_governed_b...
Qualcomm has been unable to compete with Apple's ARM phone processors for years. It's gotten to the point that the only processor that comes close to a new Apple SOC on benchmarks is Apple's previous SOC. Why do you expect the PC market will be different than the phone market?