skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Kazakhstan both companies advertise a lot. But people buying Xiaomi, because they are cheaper and better.
Wait, if the technology is so simple that you can build an alternative viewer in 3 weeks, what are they selling? Is it the data format?
Netflix is moving into European production because governements subsidies it.
It's a pure commercial move , Netflix doesn't care at all about the respective culture of 20+ country of UE.

I'm From France , my country back movies with hundreds of millions of funding every year.
New European laws are forcing governements to open those fundings to "Foreign Institutions", that's why they are making this move.

This law enable Netflix to make content much cheaper using public funding while using each country culture to improve customer retention.

As a French coming from African descent I'm absolutly terrified of what they are going to do with character like Napoleon or Charles de Gaulles...

Lupin show a clear tendency to override history fidelity toward a much more political narrative... It's frightening because they is literally THOUSANDS of story that do contain French coming from African Descent or Foreigners soldiers who decided to fought for France[0]

Seeing Big tech taking over everything with a political agenda is deeply saddening.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegalese_Tirailleurs
High brow

Opera, music, art, literature etc
Ideas are like sand at an ocean beach. But paths to a working implementation are rare. And by now mined by great companies with patent lawyers, to prevent disruption.

If you are big and successful, new ideas are the poison.The only vector for new idea implementations to make it big, is other behemoths want to eat old behemoths. Apple/Android eating Kodak.

The individual does rarely factor into that. Unless s/he knows how to move giants into funny game constellations. Which becomes ever less likely, as most giants today are owned by pension funds, who prefer stability over change.

Contrary what the propaganda tells us, nobody wants ideas, nobody wants change, not even those trying to emulate market capitalism to prevent political backlash.
Which makes ideas worse then worthless. Its something the "No-Future"-coporate-cartel will come down upon you for.
Apple also took about a decade to clone Palm's induction charger with magnetic alignment gadget.

A shame the first Pre was just unusably slow. Innovator's curse, as usual.
> claim maliciousness.

To be fair, malicious was someone else's word. It's close enough I ran with it, but perfidy and incompetence might be better. We're trusting the guy to be a chief scientist and he's making political statements.

> You can't pick and choose only part of the message and

I'm not. I'm picking on the whole message as being something he could not have known and thus was damaging to claim.

> But that was my personal opinion and not proof that Fauci acted in bad faith.

His job is to not say unsupportable things so that we can base policy off of his words. What is it other than bad faith to conflate your politics and your job?

> You and are I anecdotal data points with no responsibility to anybody

Speak for yourself. I've got family.

> Nobody got it "right" but the scientists were at least putting the effort in the right direction instead of right wing politicians.

Nobody made him fight the lab leak hypothesis, etc. He's borrowing partisan fights. The WHO hasn't officially investigated so it can't know, and if it doesn't know, he doesn't know.

Also, just fyi, there's no such thing as right wing anymore. The term means royalist. Left means communist, which there sadly is no lack of. Perhaps breaking free of these antiquated labels will give some clarity.
I do not care about splitting hairs. A person legitimately calling themselves a researcher would also not need to do so. They would simply point to their research, not to blog posts. Anyone can write a blog post and publish it on their blog.

If you are the only person calling yourself a "researcher" (or it's only you and your dear friends and blog readers) then you are misrepresenting yourself.
> Some of those issues are manageable when making use of Java APIs, naturally not all of them, and even less if one refuses to touch Java.

What do you mean by that and how does it affect not being invoke exec() in android 10 without making changes to SELinux?
This speaks to my soul! How cheap of a VPS?
Cultural diversity is a strong factor, but not the only one: it depends which cultures are mixed up. For example Asians like Vietnamese etc. rarely cause any trouble. If so, it seems like they are the ones attacked (like now in the USA). Some other cultures seem much more bellicose. Finding the root cases of their resentment and eradicating them - without causing collateral damage - should be the main task of politicians, educators and society in general.
I guess it's "elitist circles".
There were no enforced borders before WWI. It was common for people who could afford it to travel between big European cities. So there is a big chunk of shared culture actually.
I understand that Netflix and the corresponding enforcement laws may be a great thing for movie and series makers because they finance local productions. That's good for the local film and TV business but unfortunately they are mostly just copying US productions and "culture."

As a German living in Portugal, I'm in a special situation in that respect and find Netflix offerings lacking a lot anyway. As you'd expect from an American company, they seem to be under the impression that Portugal is part of Spain and constantly advertise Spanish TV series. I don't like them. For some reason there are also Turkish TV series on Netflix, which are pretty much unwatchable crap. German series are also not very good, except for "Dark" which had an interesting aesthetics.

Another thing is that while Netflix series are sometimes okay in quality, "Netflix movies" tend to be absolutely horrible. Some of them seemed to be based on the idea of taking Hollywood movie scripts and putting them through a blender. I've never seen more plot stereotypes than in Netflix movies and stopped watching them entirely. They are essentially just really bad copies of bad Hollywood movies.

I'd rather see old BBC series, rare Hollywood movies and French movies from the 60s and 70s, but in that respect the offerings in Portugal are extremely limited. Netflix seems to optimize for minimizing costs as much as they can while still just about keeping existing subscribers.

In any case, I'd say that the influence of foreign series on the US audience is higher on Netflix than vice versa, because people in the US barely watched foreign series with subtitles before. In Europe, people were used to it already before Netflix.
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I already had an account at AWS. And I like paying for services that I use. Netlify has a free tier, whereas Amplify has a low and reasonable price from the start.
This might just be my personal opinion but I feel like a lot of European shows avoid many of the common Hollywood tropes, which is another reason they feel 'fresh'.

Most US shows are quite predictable if you've watched similar shows of the same genre and I often find myself guessing the plotline or a plot tool while watching.

This did not happen with DARK; in fact, that's how I realised that it avoided many of the tropes because they just did not eventuate when I tried 'guessing'.
I think in the long-run, natural selection will prefer subcultures with higher birth rates, and through that population growth will eventually start rising again. Many of those subcultures are growing exponentially, but coming off quite a low base, so in most countries it is going to take decades, even a century or two, to see the impact at the national and global levels. (Some countries will be seeing it sooner than others–witness the growth of the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel.)

It will be a rather different population, likely more religious and more conservative, considering that many of the subcultures with higher birth rates are conservative religious subcultures – and, the more conservative and religious a group is, the higher their birth rate tends to be. A society dominated by religious conservatives may produce a slower rate of technological innovation as much as one with a more secular but declining population does. On the other hand, there will always be defections – even highly insular groups such as Old Order Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jews can still have a 5-20% defection rate, and with less insular groups the defection rate tends to be higher – and those defections will help replenish the secular component of the population.

Another factor to note, is that many wealthy countries are avoiding population decline through immigration. That won't change the global population trends, but may redistribute the downsides of population decline towards poorer countries. Given most innovation happens in wealthy countries and relatively little in poorer countries even at present, that may delay for longer any negative impact on technological innovation from declining population.
I've heard another friend say the same thing.

It was my brother's mouse who used it for gaming, and he said it failed as soon as he bought it. It works fine if I don't turn on the Logitech G HUB.
There is also dnGrep for Windows which does much more:

https://dngrep.github.io/
I am in full support of the creator economy.
I don't know but I'm glad you shared as I like quiet (and wd disks).

Sounds like something is moving mixed with case vibration. I can only guess it is the arm which moves across the platters. Are you using zfs, mdm? Maybr the raid is at work.

I bought a small factor pc recently which is a little noisy. I rest it on sponge pad. I also discovered setting a speaker on a specific spot much reduces the noise.

I look forward to hearing the cause of your problem.
Samsung's software is really not bad these days. I feel like there's a hint of Western arrogance in the dismissals they get now.
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Tesla software updates are pretty frequent. It looks like almost every two weeks.

https://teslascope.com/teslapedia/software
Inequality is likely a major cause of crime as it creates more pressure/trauma on the poor.

A lot of people think that criminals are fundamentally different from them. More aggressive, less empathetic, etc... I'm pretty sure that essentially anyone can become a criminal. It's just a matter of how much trauma each person can take.

Stress and trauma are very bad for the brain.
The Bing Maps Tile System has a similar projection system: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/articles/bing-maps...
> I quite like the article and found it interesting.

Well, you're British and this is a British publication targeting you :-)
If you're interested in hearing about what folks are using I have a podcast focused on this exact topic at: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/

There's 75+ episodes with a new guest / app in each one. We talk about what tools folks use to build and deploy their apps, the why, best tips, etc..

At the moment there's 188 distinct tools (languages, web frameworks, various services, etc.).

Personally I'm a big fan of Flask and Rails with mostly server rendered templates. Lately I've been combo'ing that with TailwindCSS, Hotwire Turbo and StimulusJS for the front-end.
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Nope, it works perfectly fine in the dark.
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From this title I expected author to engrave the lens in a clever way so the noise matters on all photos would form something like his digital signature, but alas
What I find most sad about this is that LG appears to be the only manufacturer who makes phones with both wireless charging and a headphone jack. Somehow these features seem to contradict themselfs for other manufacturers. Wireless charging is seen as a premium feature, while headphone jack is seen as a budget feature. I unfortunately have gotten so used to both that I don't want to give them up. I love my wired headphones and my phone is pretty much always at 80% (Battery limiter) since it always charges when I'm at my desk. Right now I don't see a reason to upgrade my V30 but when that time comes I hope someone makes a similar phone (my biggest hope is Sony as they at least appear to be interested in headphones, now they just need to add wireless charging)
As I discovered by accident fonts are not automatically embedded in PDFs.

PDFs are great when you want to read them on a large enough screen. They are not great on a Kindle or a phone.

I wish there was a way to have several different layouts in one PDF file, so you could have the same content but with different layouts and then your device could select the most appropriate one.
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France has a higher riot rate and lower murder rate than the US.
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OP isn't talking about noSQL databases, but no database at all (if I understand correctly - OP says '- No SQL database; I just keep everything in memory in native data structures'.

In this case, I don't think OP is even thinking about noSQL databases.
> Finding all the systems within say 20 Ly of our sun can take upwards of a few seconds, and I've already added a GIST index on the positions.

Doesn't that sound a bit pathological? It should be nowhere near that slow. Try implementing a VP tree over that data.
I was thinking something similar but maybe on the sensor itself. LOL
> But that is a bigger problem in developing countries than currently in the West.

That'a because the west destroyed all the big animal habitats centuries ago. Did you know there used to be lions in europe?
> add non-default variations (mostly different heights/widths than what it ships with).

Check out https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-jit. It got released 3 weeks ago, and supports variable variables in width and height now.
Lawnchair does a great job but at the time of use development slowed and when I switched phones I stuck to using the stock launcher.

But its great to see an alpha for Android 11 was out a week ago. So I'll be jumping back on that bandwagon.
He didn't "as if" the zero-sum argument away.

In the very next paragraph:

> Rather than being drained dry, [the global south] are advancing, growing their share of the global pie even as they deliver better lives to their own poorest citizens.

Unfairness isn't good. They probably agree that things are unfair and should be better.

Hickel is saying ~you're wrong about poverty because the situation is unfair~

Noah Smith is saying ~OK. But I'm not wrong about the fact that poverty is decreasing and the situation is improving.~
I read "9 Algorithms that Changed the Future" (John MacCormick) before taking a real CS degree and I still enjoy it after I graduated.
I don't think you're in minority. Parent is one of the few people I've heard to prefer something else over stock.
I mean it is literally the "Republic of Gamers" phone
Galaxy S2 was a pretty bgreat phone and Samsung capitalised on that success by releasing slightly improved versions every year .

LG on the other hand was up and down. I think LG was the one that needed marketing since they always lost their fans and had to bring in new people
I have a Netflix subscription that I've not actively used since half a year now.

It's because I know that when I use Netflix, all I get is some over the top and dumped-down-for-the-masses content.

Like, I completely given up on Netflix documentaries. The last one I watched was this stupid one on Minimalism. It was terrible.

Movies: Well, I have total Hollywood 0815 movie fatique[1]. If there's yet another good looking hero just barely being able to save the world and their family, it's definitely not me that is surprised.

All I watch now is Youtube or even German ARD and ZDF mediathek. There, at least, I know what I'm getting is somewhat grounded. Amazon Prime video has had some good content too recently.

- 1: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/08/15_(Redewendung)
I haven't watched Lupin, what does it do? From a political point of view.
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> New European laws are forcing governements to open those fundings to "Foreign Institutions", that's why they are making this move.

They're making this move because the EU mandated[1] that locally produced content comprise at least 30% of their catalog. The subsidy expansion is a byproduct of that regulation.

1. https://www.engadget.com/2018-09-04-netflix-amazon-european-...
I have installed an extension named "single file" in my browser, which allows me to save any webpage, as it looks right now in my browser, as a single HTML file. Images and CSS is inline, javascript (I think) is removed. Quite handy when you prefer a folder and file based workflow.
WebOS UX is terrible in LG TVs. It is really hard to do simple things. Try to switch between satellite and TV with less than 5 button presses
I think closed captions include description of noises, music cues, etc.

CC subtitle tracks often show up with the name "English (SDH)" (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of hearing).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning
That’s odd, the link works for me but the wiki was very slow earlier. From what I’ve read Ubiquiti have made it harder to flash new hardware, but even the new ax APs are supported by OpenWRT. There is a commit with some info - it seems there is a way to disable signature verification [0].

[0] - https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=fb...
Not just subcultures even! There's probably some people in the 7 billion people on Earth with a mutation that makes them really really want to have children. This mutation will spread like wildfire.
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I think he's referring to this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAhM0nds2UY
I’ve found that with the plugin https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/ I tend to get a longer list of options both for audio and subtitles. It also let’s you do fun stuff like displaying two sets of subtitles simultaneously—although that didn’t really work for my brain.
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I would like to see how your solution handles the case of new countries or countries changing name. Recompile and push an update? If the environment is governmental this can take a very very very long time.

The proper solution, in my opinion, is a lookup table stored in the database. It can be updated, it can be cached, it can be extended.

And for transfer of data, use formats to which you can attach a schema. This way type data is not lost on export. XML did this but everyone hates XML. And everyone hates XSD (the schema format) even more. However, if you use the proper tools with it, it is just wonderful.
> The whole system of relying on cheap labor in developing countries would have to change somewhat with decelerating population. The stuff in the West would be more expensive, although maybe with fewer workers wages couldn't be so stagnant.

I don't think so. Lots of stuff we consume in the west is made in China. Chinese wages have gone up like crazy in the last few decades. (Not that they are particularly high now, they just used to be sooo low.) Yet, stuff hasn't gotten more expensive for us.

The causality runs the other way:

Wages go up when productivity goes up. Productivity going up in China means they can make more with less work.

So if anything, the proportion of the price in our cheap imported stuff that goes towards labour costs tends to fall as Chinese labour gets more productive.
What demographics are you interested in, and to what end?
I like the idea of yokogawa's minimal fab, which removes the necessity of a clean room. It still needs plenty of fabrication steps, so you still need plenty of different machines and the entry ticket is ~10M.

I'm convinced that there are plenty of design space that is not explored. In particular, the fabrication process today is mainly 2 dimensional with a very high necessity of control.

If you relax one of this strong constraint and build the system bottom-up instead of top-down. It reduces to a search for the chemical compound, which can self-assemble into an interesting structure. It should look like a biological machine but running at computer frequency.

Plenty of nano-computing units interacting. For example today we can already build some silicon-nanorobots ( https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/artic... ). Give each one a small memory unit, processor, and radio-link, and you can build tons of them on imperfect crystal using standard process. Then your processor is a 3d volume of these bots instead of a 2d-surface. You will still be constrained by heat dissipation but if you put them inside a liquid, it would be less problematic, but you'll have to compensate for nano-processor brownian drift.
My 4 year old Samsung J2 is still going strong (for me).Received an update in Jan 2021, Its still on Android 9
Similar numbers for Sweden. Americans (actually most of the English speaking world) seems to be terrified of insulation.
My thinking on the matter is: it's kindergarten, play with the damn playdough.

I'm suspicious that we in the West have become obsessed with formalism. What can be measured must be measured. Do kindergartens really need a "curriculum", like I've heard in the US.

I can't help but think we're missing the wood for the trees here. As with everything in life, quantity is not the same as quality. Are we providing kids with a good education, or are we treating education as some kind of manufacturing process with a quota system?
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Yes - my business provided ecommerce infrastructure for a major Egyptian brand. The negotiations were... actually rather fun. It all started by phone and email, they tried to rip us off, we poked fun at their attempts, and returned in kind. Ultimately I flew out to Alexandria and after an afternoon of Very Serious Business we shook on it, and became best friends.

Elsewhere, there’s always a degree of horse trading, but the focus is on getting the deal done - here, the focus was very much on doing the deal. The negotiations over terms were far more of an assessment of us than the RFQ and the pitch were, whereas with western brands, the inverse is true.
You're probably right, but blocking doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm going to leave it like that for now. Not sure I would need any more firmware updates for hardware which came out 3-4 years ago anyway, but I think enabling 13.224.195.59:443 for the devices only (not the controller) would trigger and download firmware updates.