skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is, for all streamers pay they probably won't end up paying as much as theaters.

I feel like your average $200M movie could be made for $100M and not be harmed all that much.

> What if the model that really makes money is YouTube, and a lot of classic expensive movies are going to be replaced with mediocre user generated content that is extremely profitable to stream?

Then tons of money will flow into creating youtube content, and competition will provide a bounty of high quality content.

> That may sound crazy, but think what happened to radio?

This is a good example of how things shouldn't be mediocre. TV shows aren't lower quality than radio shows, once they got some momentum going.
Thank you for letting us know that you are both dishonest and hyper partisan.

The article does not say what you claim it does. You are a liar and if dang cared about community he’d ban sleazy fucks like you.

Fortunately for you, dang absolutely fucking loves dishonest assholes.
Your (1) only affects compilation time, and even this is assuming a particular implementation of arrays (which is not a given).

Your (2) I don't fully understand. Why would you need to use "modulo and division into round/ceil/floor" on array offsets? How often you do it?

For what it's worth, I've written a _ton_ of code in an obscure language called Omnimark, which is 1-based. Much of that code involved using arrays. I've just grepped through a large Omnimark codebase I helped to write, and no, it is _not_ peppered with "+1" or "-1".
How does Anthony Lewandowski being pardoned advance any public good? I would argue it does the exact opposite.
I believe the original assertion was that the word 'idiot' is often used as shorthand for people that have different priors and indoctrination as you, so to propose that engineers are somehow less susceptible to that seems like the more questionable take here.
"Learning and adapting to the Chinese system" and "the Chinese government is using constant terrifying threats to coerce public support" are not, in fact, mutually exclusive.
Also, because it is not clear how much is coming in, states probably have to do a reserve for the second dose so new categories of people cannot be included because there is not enough doses are available yet even for the second dose reserve.
Corvain was imprisoned for trafficking and had no legitimate cannabis business at that time.

Corvain's wife started 40tons with the help of a lot of industry folks in 2020. The effort was to bring cannabis revenue/profit back to support Corvain's two teenage daughters while he's incarcerated. That's the cannabis brand I'm referring to.

https://40tons.co/about/
I generally stay out of speculation and fear mongering, but the fact that your comment has been repeatedly - and quickly - downvoted worries me.

The CEO of a $600B global publicly traded company disappeared for several months. This does not explicitly mean that he was detained, but it should be a point of concern.

Imagine the outcry if this happened to an American CEO with controversial political opinions (there are a lot of them, so take your pick).
> There is no zeroth second, zeroth minute, hour, day, month, year, or century.

No there isn't, but we still use 0 to denote the first minute of an hour, just as we use 0 to denote the first element of an array.
I remember someone told me at Defcon one year, "Getting your FCC license acknowledges the rules and regulations". Therefor if you ever do anything stupid, they can nail you extra hard for violating that agreement. Its better to not have a license because the first few violations will result in warnings.
Yes, but how do you manage it without yast?
I used to think that about Shazam. I had no reasonable idea about how it worked, so much so it really felt like magic (there's a quote to be put here, which I can't find the author here. HN help me).

My 2c of an advice: uncover the magic, learn the innerworkings of such methods. It is a much stronger and more powerful feeling than the "wow" effect you're having right now.
Words can have multiple meanings and meanings of words can change.
Trump Pardons Bannon, Lil Wayne, but Not Himself
That video looks strange to me - either it is a green screen or it has some compression artefacts that I have not seen before (or perhaps something else).
I just remembered of another one, seem to still be actively worked on: https://github.com/LuxLang/lux
Not only this, but Mr. Levandowski has made it clear he thinks his car failing to cause the first self-driving fatality would mean they were behind.

The man believes manslaughter is the cost of doing business for innovation. He should be in prison for much more than he got.
Trump really is quite shameless.

Meanwhile, the US is illegally pursuing Assange, and is penalizing Snowden for following the very same values that the US ostensibly holds.

The alt-media is calling Trumpers as the new "Liberty movt.", yet they call for American hegemony on Asia and elsewhere, and their policy directions are equally counter-indicative. Liberty my ass.
Yes, a HN member with a profile created in December of 2008, 5800+ Karma, with links to his Twitter and name of his employer in his profile page is a 五毛(50 center).

The CCP is truly all powerful!

If my dripping sarcasm wasn’t clear, you’re way off base here.

Edit 1: to the downvoters, please feel free to explain why it’s appropriate to accuse a 12-year HN member of being a paid shill for the CCP when all evidence points to the contrary.
With all due respect it seems all of your tweets center around defending the Chinese government. Why???

I mean, saying that:

> Many people see the Chinese govt's deficiencies as a result of "evil". I don't really subscribe to that. I think it has more to do with "incompetence". Building a large organization, with the right culture, is hard.

is kind of ridiculous. Would you say the same thing about the Soviets (with their Gulags) or Nazis (with their death camps)? I mean, literal genocide [2] is not just "incompetence". It's something far more malevolent. And talking about "building the right culture" sounds like Silicon Valley startup-babble, and seems wholly inadequate as a response to the magnitude of surveillance and oppression in China [3].

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

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China
Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski
What part of what I said was incorrect?

> Bannon and another defendant, Brian Kolfage, allegedly promised donors that the campaign, which raised more than $25 million, was "a volunteer organization" and that "100% of the funds raised ... will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose," according to the indictment.

> Instead, according to prosecutors, Bannon, through a nonprofit under his control, allegedly used more than $1 million from We Build the Wall to "secretly" pay Kolfage and cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bannon's personal expenses.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/steve-bannon-pardone...
Hacker News discovers more than a billion Chinese people actually supports the Communist Party
All uses of "server" are bastardizations of the concept of a human who provides service.
Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring Engineers in London
> I'm not sure where on HN you found the sentiment Jack Ma was considered a national security threat.

During the HN submission about Ant's IPO, before it was halted. For example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24910410
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906771
> So when we do get rid of presidential pardons?

Not an American, but I just learned a few days ago that a good deal of presidential pardons are used to give citizenship rights back to people who have already served their sentence - sometimes decades ago.

After the pardon they can actually vote and hold public office.

Maybe you should, you know, stop taking away people's rights after they're served their court-appointed sentence?
Wrt. Ant Financial.

Banking is a regulated industry in all parts of the world as modern fractional banking is essential a form of legalised pyramid scheme. If it is not regulated will inevitable oscillate and collapse.

That Ant Financial need to be regulated like bank, rather than any other company, naturally follows from the nature of its business.

The regulative crackdown on it would have happened in any other country as well. Maybe not in exactly the same manner but in substance.
It's the options market man. Nobody cares about the shares.

Options contracts are SUPER market inefficient, in that their pricing is tied to dollar moves stacking onto the "intrinsic value" part of their multivariable calculus formula no matter what percentage difference that really means, and do not take volume of the underlying asset into affect at all, even though that matters more to options traders than the purpose of the options contract itself: to accumulate shares.
One of the things that surprised me is many of these people aren't in a desperate situation. One of them even flew in on a private jet.
But does it support netcat?

nc apitman.com 2052 <<< /txt/feed
> The thing is, it's still a lot better than the mid-century horror stories of institutions; electrotherapy, lobotomy

ECT[1] (Electroshock Therapy) has an extremely bad rap (One Flew over the Cukoo's Nest didn't help), but there's quite an important use for it in modern psychiatry.

Notably severe depression, where normal meds don't help, or where there's an urgency to do something immediately (psychiatric meds usually take a few weeks to work and finding the right medication and dosage can be very difficult) ECT may be the last viable option for a patient.

Nowadays an anesthetic is applied before the treatment and (except in very rare cases) informed consent by the patient is required.

There's no doubt that it was massively abused in the past (and let's not even get started on lobotomy) and I'm pretty sure it's still abused in countries run by totalitarian regimes.

But it can be really the last hope for a patient with severe depression, despite the fact that it still has a very bad image.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy

E: clarifications
Indeed. People have too strong conviction on what is right and what is wrong, and they don't want to change their opinion. The internet echo chamber only amplifies that.
I am happy that Biontech was as fast as they were. And their vaccine seems to work. It is just difficult to deploy on scale, that's all. And my impression is, politicians and officials in Germany, and the EU it seems, are underestimating that. Which slows down vaccinations. And then the public and the press jumped in, only to push for increased purchasing. Which doesn't help a bit until the last mile, in Germany handled locally by the states, is figured out.

A pill version, or just one general doctors practices can store and handle, will have a huge impact IMHO.
Why so negative, a little bit of clemency even if people are guilty will do a great deal to help heal the nation. This list reads like an indictment of the justice system, life sentences for non violent drug offences, yikes. I'm glad for everyone, welcome back.
Are macvlan and macvtap not container things? Are they more for VM networking?
Trump pardons former Uber executive Anthony Levandowski on the recommendation of a panel that includes Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey.. (EDIT: Palmer Luckey) -> who famously caught on camera flashing a white supremacy sign in a photo with the conspiracy theorist Chuck Johnson and Steve Bannon (who was also pardoned today)- just hilarious levels of corruption all around
> In the last Hacker News thread, people were so sure that the government jailed him for criticizing the party. Even though there was no evidence of such, people just assumed it MUST be true because the CCP MUST be evil.

That's because in any other moderately functioning country, it takes at most a few phone calls by journalists to clarify the matter: "Excuse me, billionaire Mr. X hasn't been seen for days. Could you verify if the police arrested him?" "Oh really? We have no record of such an arrest - in any case, arresting someone like him will generate five hundred tweets within minutes, wouldn't it?" "You're absolutely right, have a good day!"

There's only one other country where I've seen high-profile figures just "disappearing" regularly: North Korea.
Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but someone posted[0] that exact phrase #4 at the same time you posted it. What gives?

PS: I agree with your points and am saddened the anti-China rhetoric has been flooding HN over the past years. I read a comment here long ago that said "HN is full of neocons" or something like that, but I can't help but believe there's also state backed propaganda (shills) fomenting sinophobia.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/z6Jq8Cf
Does anyone have any book recommendations for non-chinese people to understand CCP power structures? I'm completely lost in all of this Jack Ma stuff.
...is a Presidential pardon final come the next Administration? Or has that not really been tested in court?
Being impeached twice is the landmark here. We're living some pretty important history as it's being written right now.
Same in Denver, doesn't seem to stop the homeless from overdosing in the bathroom.
That's a separate issue. Some states like CA have done what you suggest and are supported by the VP of the US and most of the Democratic party.[0]

[0]https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_17,_Voting_Ri...
I just want to say I support your views, which are obviously true to anyone remotely knowledgeable about China. Although that is apparently a rarity.
I was intrigued as to what evidence could possibly exist for the argument that Telex "Ring back" codes are the "direct ancestor to the national internet domain identifier" and it turns out to just be a PDF of RFC 1394 which in turn is just a table of country codes from different electronic systems.

So I guess it's a "direct ancestor" only if you squint very hard indeed and conclude that since Telex had country codes and the ccTLDs are newer that makes the Telex codes a "direct ancestor". The ccTLDs are in fact almost exactly the ISO 3166 alpha-2 list, thereby leaving both the hard problems of deciding what a "country" is and what its code should be to ISO and thus in turn its members (who are of course national standards organisations). This sort of buck passing should be a model to us all on fraught political questions.
Compared to Jack Ma's usual public image (see below), a frumpy pullover and a dingy room does seem rather odd.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jack+ma&iax=images&ia=images
Almost like how the English language has been literally hijacked and destroyed.

Language does change and evolve. The misuse and subsequent additional meaning for “literally” to now also be a simile for “figuratively” is a good example of how this isn’t necessarily always a good thing.
The only thing I see reddit as being useful for is its oddly specific questions.

The mentality on that site is "support everything as long as it follows our values as a whole" so you'll see a bunch of a random questions being answered relatively well, personally helping me with those random things I know nothing about.

As a normal place to be though? It's brainwashing. Most people don't spend enough time on these sites to realize but I've worked a job where I had a solid 3 hours out of every day to browse. It's quite literally the same opinions being held at the top of the comment section. If your opinion isn't in line with the standard, it's downvoted, regardless of your fact behind it.

For example, I've had an argument with someone about anxiety and they described their issue as mentally debilitating. They really couldn't handle chatting with someone online, let alone talking with people. I have no issue with that but I did point out that we've been arguing back and forth for maybe 5-6 posts now and they have been growing with aggressiveness. Over this argument, I received close to 100 downvotes, then got banned from the community.

The initial post? It was about a drug to treat anxiety and how groundbreaking it was going to be. I mentioned in my post that, coming from a family of pharmacists and seeing effects firsthand, I know of a lot of people who get significantly worse because of drugs like this. Specifically mentioning that you need to get tested in multiple ways before something like this should be considered (talking about the effects of a similar drug for depression).

Socially it's a terrible place to be. Factually, quite interesting if you ignore karma (but they make it really hard to ignore karma).
Ah, so it is just like, say, a supporter of the outgoing president giving his perspective on things on HN after which he's met with similar beratements (s/CCP/GOP/g;s/Xi/Trump/)? Maybe I can generalise this to a supporter of anything which goes outside of a polarised narrative being met with such?
Keybase, twitter, normal twitter tech posts stuff... followers... why randomly throw conspiracies at people?
That looks an US thing, I got 50kg of dry ice for close to nothing from a small local outlet last year just to remove some rust and old paint. At scale it might be different so, 50kg are nowhere near enough.
If you think it’s he said / she said, can I please bet you $10,000 that Amazon is telling the truth, to your $5,000 that Parler is? Winner to be decided by a neutral third party?

If you believe that it’s even odds about who is telling the truth, this is an incredibly good offer for you.

If you won’t take the offer, that is proof that you know that you are a dishonest pile of human dung.

We can get a third party escrow. So do you want a high EV bet, or are you a wildly dishonest pile of human dung?
Yeah I wonder what the answers would be? Probably: No, Yes, No, No?
Yes but he was comparing to how Bezos and Musk appear.

Everyone is not how they normally appear because of the pandemic, and Ma addresses the reason why he's just video taping himself in a room because of this. Stop armchair speculating.
> Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

Wow, HackerNews has embedded ads for Facebook now?
I think the way forward is to train on all the data and condition the model to be SFW.
Never Debug Alone – New VScode Extension
Assuming the standards of appearance for public figures are based on specific people from America of specific ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

I mean if I video conferenced with you right now you'd probably speculate I've been coopted by Communist powers because simply because my background isn't up to your standards (it'd be of a water heater and radon pipes since I'm in the basement).
I remember coming across a job ad for a radio engineer position with the cartel. Can't remember what site it was on but they did offer some pretty good pay, housing and discount programs.
> I generally stay out of speculation and fear mongering, but the fact that your comment has been repeatedly - and quickly - downvoted worries me.

You should take a look at my post history, then. Any time I express concern over China I'm voted into oblivion.

It's the same with Apple, but that I expect.

Recently I think someone has taken to downvoting entirely innocuous posts I make from my post history. Sometimes I'll post replies to day-old threads and find myself downvoted within half an hour.

You're about to be downvoted too, btw.
Does Brave support uMatrix and uBlockOrigin?
Great article, and the bit at the end is also very informative.
Nice list. A walk through some of the foundational moments in CS. Wish I had something like this in my program. Though I did get to read a couple of them when they helped contextualize what we were doing (eg I read Codd's paper in a databases course, etc.)
Ask HN: Scala vs. Kotlin?
I am an experience Java programmer. I am interested in learning picking a new programming language in my spare time. I am interested in static-typed languages. Which one should I pick next? If you have any other interesting suggestions/alternatives then please recommend those as well.
Isn’t it, “he loved the party?” Great line to end the story either way.
95% of meteors don't even hit the ground, and most of those that do are just pebble sized.

Are you really trying to compare Black Lives Matter to a mass extinction event?

Edit:

Okay, you've massively edited your comment. A single gender reveal party caused more property damage than all the BLM protests combined. I do not get this continued obsession with BLM protests, especially in conversations regarding the insurrection at the capitol this month.
Since you don't have to learn the aliases, you can use the full command names in the interactive shell, it doesn't double anything.
> will do a great deal to help heal the nation

A counterpoint: Abraham Lincoln had some strong opinions about the events like on Jan. 6, and his opinions were not guided by an idea of "unity." Healing may involve some unpleasant medicine.
But ~$21T of the total ~$28T of public debt is held domestically, so if the government wants that debt to be worth as little as possible when it pays it off, US individuals and institutions will be harmed much more than China or other foreign holders.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2020/opd... (source for $28T total debt, your link shows total foreign holdings of ~$7T.)
You may love China but CCP is not China.
Only one reason exists these days: it prevents bugs because people mix up order, infecting, counting, arrays semantics, implementation, pointer arithmetic
One of those was flagged, so it's pretty clearly "not-HN". The other says it's a state-run business (which, I mean, lots of people disagreed with that). That's miles away from saying something is a security threat [edit: it's worth saying, for those not clicking the link, he compares it to Saudi Aramco, which is, I mean, I've never heard that IPO described as a security threat either, so there's not really even any implications I can detect]. Nowhere in there is the narrative you're describing.
Up to a point yes, but abstractions only go so far

Though yes, adding or subtracting one is a minor thing
Please cite this supposed earlier pre-OSI usage. Can you?
Of course it's ridiculous if you only know China through the media. But have you considered that maybe the media representation is inaccurate? I've actually lived there, my wife comes from there, and my family is still there. This is combined with new information about China coming from the west, and having no restrictions here. I've studied some of China's recent history, a subject which is rarely taught in the west. Why do you think you know the truth better than I do?

> Also, why live in the Netherlands if China is so great? Wouldn't it make sense to move back there, if everything is on the up & up?

Because China wasn't great. I came here in 1993 with my parents, back then China was dirt-poor. My wife came here much more recently, in 2012, and she's of the opinion that the Netherlands is very boring and has no good food compared to China. She'd fly back multiple times a year if she could.

For a more realistic perspective on Chinese society and its changes in the past 20 years, you should read this: The American Dream Is Alive in China
https://palladiummag.com/2019/10/11/the-american-dream-is-al...

> is kind of ridiculous.

This is a whole different topic. There's a lot to deconstruct and to respond to in just those few sentences you typed, and those few links you sent. I would be glad to engage with you on this subject, but I have to know something first: do you truly wish for a conversation, or do you just want to stick with your existing opinion?

China has problems, but it isn't the boogeyman the media makes it out to be. When the west better understands China, and when the west and China come together, the whole world wins.
Facebook literally tweaked algorithms to advantage right conservative websites. If the planned change would disadvantage them, the change was modified until they ended up on top.
Got it, it's interesting you say that as EU SMS/MMS works a treat and there's the added bonus of low or no roaming charges these days.