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This is so racist I finally created account on HN just to tell you how racist that is.
Idea is outrageous, are you testing the overtone window once again?
Not enough afroamerican content on Netflix?
Black Queen Charlotte is not enough?

Stop racism at the roots. You do not deserve to be popular. I'm ashamed this even got to main HN page.
It depends on how one defines subsidies. But yes at least in the US there are a few that are very particular to the resource extraction industry (which obviously includes “green tech” activities such as rare earth mining.)

https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
If you go to an Italian restaurant where the waiter tells you about the fine wine of his home country for five minutes, and then offers you a free sample and you find out it's a grape juice box... Then you would rightly feel outraged.

The problem isn't the idea, is being sold and marketed as something it's not. This isn't like BET. This is... I don't know what it is. But it's not a Netflix competitor with classic black talent sitcoms.
Same thought. Not only is this unprofessional and unethical, he's also put himself on the hook for both civil and criminal liability. If he used his employer's resources for this, his employer might also end up in trouble.
Given how most spanish companies work, more than likely.
Much of the rest of the world is more casually comfortable with racism, it does not cause the angst that it does in the US.
I can't explain it like you're five. But it's still pretty simple: there are tests that do so. Next incorrect premise you'd like to me to fix?
As an indigenous guy getting into film and trying to get indigenous stories made, I really love this. Hope it comes together.

Is the licensing you do for content that's already been made? I guess I was curious how the "original" stuff works for you, like if you produce it more directly or if it's more about buying the distribution rights.

Also super curious how you feel you fit into the existing ecosystems – festivals, production companies, etc. Do you have/want connections in specific parts of the film and content world that would help?
MTV also played the Jacksons, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner...
System: How I run my Project Backlogs with Trello
SpaceX stacks the full Starship launch system for the first time
You want to keep "verticals," as in walls, straight - but usually you'd rather show more of the floor than the ceiling. Being able to shift the lens up or down while keeping it level lets you do this.

You can just tilt the camera and fix the verticals in post, but then your composition will be thrown off as some of the image will need to be cropped.
not if your wages don't rise proportionally to inflation
While I agree with "not wanting separatism," I find it infuriating that the burden of analyzing and debating "separatism" (or etc) always gets foisted on the minority or marginalized populations create a space for themselves. And relatively never the mainstream, dominant culture and institutions that have left out, pushed out, or outright exploited them in the first place.
Lots of comments on this recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068542
There are apps that cater to comic book fans, are they promoting the comic nerd divide? What is wrong with a service that caters to a content niche? Separate but equal is only a bad thing when people cannot choose which of the two systems they select into. A black person can choose to get regular netflix instead of this niche service.
People working for a mainstream service like Netflix are wrapped in maintaining their job and catering to white people. Having a separate streaming service with curators from the Black community means more opportunity to express unpopular ideas. This means less Harriet Tubman bios and more current culture/expression.

edit: I should add that having watched a few shows like Jack & Jill (which I had never heard of until now)...I am reminded that when you have white people choose the Black actors/actresses of a show (even if they have Black employees' advice) limits the range of beauty. I forget how many gorgeous people are overlooked because they don't fit the mainstream idea of what "we" are supposed to look like in order to be seen as attractive. It's a subtle thing that permeates our children and culture and really makes a difference in perspective.

Also, the portrayal of middle and upper class Blacks is soooooo limited. I am so tired of hearing about up-and-coming poor Blacks. What about privileged assholes like me who always had a great life with plenty of opportunities? We are out here and we have stories.
UPN went through many phases, and I enjoyed them all!
I think there is value proposition in a smart home, but I believe every manufacturer has missed the mark on it.

My smart home is entirely app controlled (HomeAssistant), generally scheduled, and at no point does anything notify me unless an actual exceptional event happens. Every smart home device is controllable via a physical switch. My command and control centers are old android tablets acting as digital picture frames until you swipe on them.

And it's really convenient and it works well. No voice anything, no needing five different apps, and the UI is stupidly simple.

Most smart home devices that are advertised are a pain in the ass, the apps are intrusive and terrible, they are far too voice heavy and they usually don't play well with normal switches/remotes/etc.
What tools do you use to make youtube videos? Would you mind sharing the setup? Thanks.
If they plan on engaging in bidding wars with Netflix for exclusive content (as all streaming services tend to do), won't they tend to deprive Netflix and other streaming services of content featuring black people? Since this service is inherently more niche than Netflix, it seems like that's going to result in black stories being harder to access for your average person. And given subscription fatigue levels, "just subscribe to this service for X content" is a hard sell these days.
Is it just me, or is there no link to the actual study this article mentions?
Is that because they are black though? Without asking those people why they watched something else you are just making the assumption it was to do with their skin colour and not anything to do with the content itself.

e.g. I don't watch a lot of content with women on Youtube. Not because I have anything against women. It because the subjects I am interested in, isn't covered typically by women.
Assimilation implies giving up your culture for a new one. That isn’t the melting pot idea, which is about giving and taking.

Otherwise I don’t really get the solution. Don’t try to integrate different cultures, thereby continuing to exclude them?
I buy $7/dozen eggs in NYC, but they are from hens pasture raised on an all natural diet by Amish farms. However, there are still plenty of cheap eggs in NYC too. You can get $3/dozen eggs easy.

Eggs are one of the types of food where you can observe a massive difference in quality based on price. The $3/dozen eggs have extremely thin white shells that crack almost too easily. The yolks are pale yellow, and runny, and burst just from falling into the pan.

The $7/dozen eggs have brown shells that are very thick and take a few hard whacks to break. The yolks are a rich orange color and thick. It takes a few pokes to break the yolk in the pan. And that's just the appearance. Taste and smell are totally different too, with the $7/dozen of eggs being much more flavorful, and frying better.

On the topic of shrinkflation I think eggs are actually a great example. You now have to pay $7/dozen to get high quality eggs. If you buy the cheap eggs you are getting an extremely subpar egg from what must have been an extremely sickly chicken. The egg itself hasn't shrunk, but the quality has certainly declined.
>iCloud photos are encrypted, so scanning has to happen on device.

Is this true? I feel like Apple benefits from the confusion about "Encrypted at rest" + "Encrypted in transit" and "E2E Encrypted". It's my understanding that Apple could scan the photos in iCloud, since they have the decryption keys, but they choose not to, as a compromise.

I'm keying into this because this document: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 doesn't show Photos as part of the category of data that "Apple doesn't have access to." That's mentioned only in the context of the E2E stuff.
This is a huge problem, thank you for writing it down.

Grab a Hershey chocolate bar. How much chocolate is in there? Who knows?
Robot police dog that scans homeless people sparks debate
Really? Hipsters vs Squares is an equivocal history to that of LGBTQ+/Straight socio-political dynamics, or dare I say, the history of racial dynamics? Did you consult any queer folk on that one? Did you ask any Black folk about that?
I know about it, but it still seems much less mature & available only on limited hardware. Still hopefully this will get addressed over time.
Never take a statement from Larry Page that his kid is sick and he needs to move to NZ at face value. Larry has a long history of exploiting the law to get what he wants. Also, he could have returned to the US, it's not like flying to NZ suddenly saved his kid where going to the US couldn't have.
Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days
Last I checked, docker for mac also couldn't do bridge networking, which makes it a pain in having to map every service to a port on the host.
Most people of dark skin color also don’t try to isolate themself from the rest of the population.
But USA is special it is now trendy to try to tell other you are the biggest victim. And it’s easier for the black community to win this battle and officially be the biggest victim.
I watched “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” as a kid and absolutely loved it. But today’s show about black African American try drill in people heads that black are different and always victim of racism. It might be true but it make the tv show extremely boring for everyone black and white.
I think the beauty of it is that we can keep an isolated unmodified population in a remote location and re-introduce them if need be. Not full extinction, just extinct-in-the-wild.
How can the public confirm that NCMEC doesn't already contain non-CSAM images of US officials engaging in illegal, compromising or embarrassing situations?

Are there nonpublic images from Jeffrey Epstein's blackmail collections already in the database? Is there any system that could be developed to trustworthily prevent this situation without distributing child porn?
You’re correct that it’s not a pixel-by-pixel hash, but it’s still a hash of that specific image. It’s not analyzing the image subject and trying to identify it as CSAM.
Nah, in the US is pretty bad, I have lived in Europe for a long time, and in Asia for a few years, we, here in the US make sure you understand your place, as a x (black, latino, asian, white, .....) Everything you do, from applying for a job , to getting your kids in school, requires you to write your race in a piece of paper. You get all the time , this product X for that race, that other thing Z for this other race, etc... Is like you are not Juan, you are the Mexican guy that lives here. And obviously you get labeled with all the stereotypes as well. If you are white(or any other race), and you feel sorry for other races, maybe just leaving them alone is a start, and stop classifying us like dog breeds.
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This is a fine list, but not unlike many others. What I find missing are the deeper elements rather than the rules of thumb or general observations. Things that I find valuable after 10k+ hours are ways of transforming a conceptual understanding of a problem into abstractions that produce a comprehensible and maintainable implementation. Talking about naming variables in depth alone would be more valuable than this listing, and I do hope there will be follow-up posts that go in to some of these points as well as cover topics that don't neatly summarize as 1-liners.
There are a lot of efforts to increase diversity in media.

One effort that has been happening is providing incentives to have diverse top of the line staff on productions so that they share their stories and angle on things.

We at wrapbook (https://www.wrapbook.com) at making it easy for productions to measure their diverse staff so that we can incentivize diversity down the line.
Wonder if you could actually link to code files/lines by clicking on a part.
Might disagree with the author on what is deliberate practice. I would say the implementing code at work is not deliberate practice in the sense that it’s defined in the original 10k hours thesis.

I think in the strictest sense deliberate practice is picking something that you’re weaker at, and spending time deliberately working on that.

I imagine that some part of the author’s 10k hours was working on projects outside their comfort zone, while others were within it. The argument would be doing stuff that you’re comfortable with or don’t have to think too hard about would not be deliberate practice.
Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago.

Creating a belt of failed states in Central Asia has been a long-standing policy, if Wesley Clark is to be believed. I can only speculate what the real goals are, but "because Jesus" or "because Bush is dumb" was always fodder for the low-info crowd who watched the Daily Show.
I also believe Apple doesn't really want to scan your photos on their servers. I believe their competitors do, and they consider this compromise (scan on device with hashes) is their way of complying with CSAM demands while still maintaining their privacy story.
even lumber isnt identical. old lumber was made from older trees that were generally more dense and a harder wood.

http://www.historicdoors.co.uk/blog/old-growth-wood-better-n...
Ah, you must not be friends with some of my friends then.

I know at least 2 people who have min/max'd their calories/dollar to peanut butter and rice and beans.
That is the impression you get if you only experience life through media.
I'm not saying they're excluding them. Black hair products are a great analogy actually. Virtually no white people buy them, and virtually no white people will sub to a platform like this. There will likely be slightly more white subscribers to Black Oak than there are white users of black hair care products, but my point is the number will be very small. That's OK. Its not marketed to them.

Black hair products can be a thriving business, just as this potentially can be as well.
Fauci Spent Nearly Half Million in Taxpayer $ on Abusive Experiments on Dogs
Why is this guy still employed?!

He funded the Wuhan lab.
He funded gain-of-function "research" (a.k.a. bio-terrorism).

Now it is being reported that he killed a bunch of dogs?

Fuck this dood.
Some feedback:

1. What is your cost per episode? Can your subscription fee sustain realistically sustain that?

2. Your design needs improvement, at least on desktop. Haven't looked at the apps yet. If you expect "product" do be your differentiator, there's a LOT of work. Also, I'm not sure this is a sufficient competitive advantage. (a) its replicable (b) I've never seen this as a reason for people to pick one content provider over another: content is king.

3. Do you plan to incorporate content from existing content providers or remain purely indie?

4. A lot of the shows are short and production quality varies. Do you have any concern that people might consume all the "good" content of interest and now have anything else to watch?

5. You all have some filters that aren't meaningful like "Author". These authors are so niche, I have never heard of them, making the filter useless. There's also a draft filter showing up!

6. You need to make it easier for people to sample content before going through the friction of installing an app or registering. Maybe a trailer plus the first 5 minutes of an episode? Right now I don't feel compelled to watch anything else or sign up because the page is a little janky and I can't really tell what some of the shows are about from the trailers.

7. Netflix had the initial advantage of not focusing on content creation, and instead leveraged existing content. Why not solely focus on distribution instead of cutting checks to creators for original content?
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Yes, except for more recent African immigrants.
GPS time is no use for far in the future (TAI is OK).

Imagine someone 2,000 years in the future, discovering an archive containing exact GPS timestamps for events. There is no reason to suppose that our present GPS system will still exist - so these timestamps won't be much use to them, since they won't know what the present time (their present) is in terms of GPS. The timestamps in the archive will no longer be precise, as far as they're concerned.
Soemtimes prices for resources and labour go up.

That’s not a big conspiracy, or a trick being played on anyone, it’s just a reality of the economy.
Pixel 4a and Pixel 2 are almost the same size.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Google-Pixel-4a,Googl...

Keep in mind that bezels have gotten much smaller over time.
> go to a Family Dollar ...

Double check the expiration date.
You just gave the argument against critical race theory.
Yeah, at various points I've seen promoted categories for black created/focused content pop up on Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, etc. It's going to be tough for a new service to compete with the substantial existing libraries of those streaming services. They already have the content and the audience, and just have to tweak their recommender to promote it more effectively.
Other way around. Misinformation about climate impacts leads to poor choices. Replacing your electricity with personally-owned solar, upgrading your vehicle to a high-efficiency hybrid or electric, and lowering your HVAC costs on your home are all far more impactful to your CO2 footprint than changing your diet.
Whole Foods has a variety of international and somewhat better domestic chocolates, but don't use price as any kind of proxy for quality when you're looking at them.

I recently ran a dark chocolate tournament for my brother-in-law's birthday, and the two most expensive chocolate won exactly zero one-on-one contests.
which unequal law?
Is will smith victim of a law that a white actor would not?
Not legal at all, like in the rest of the European Union.
Just publishing this information will make the consultancy send a notification to the Spanish Data Protection Agency, and will cost them money.
Bingo. One should aim for the smallest amount of complexity needed for the job. To turn lights on & off, a simple switch is all you need. If it breaks, you can go to Home Depot for another. If you're disabled, there are special devices you can buy.

Same for thermostats. If you're going away for two weeks in winter, turn the heat down to 55. What's so hard about that?
And you have to look out for ones pumped full of lots of water.
I think it has less to do with the moon landing itself than about inherent and blind distrust of government.

I say “blind” because I also inherently distrust government, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to argue if a government official declares that the sky is blue. The people who legitimately believe the moon landings were faked typically seem to do so because they believe that everything the government says is false. It’s an article of faith for them as much as it would be for someone with blind trust.
From south florida and yeah there are allot of aggressive cops. Some of whom I grew up with. They have to deal with very dangerous and aggressive criminals on a daily basis and put their lives on the line. Its a tough job and its a grind, but we need them to protect us from criminal psychopaths in the community. We need to fix the root causes of crime: educational inequality, broken families, lack of opportunity, and the crime/poverty cycle. When and if this happens, the policing problem will go in the opposite direction.
Gatorade did this a while back, too, going from 32oz to 28oz (IIRC) under the guise of a thinner-at-the-middle bottle that was more sporty looking.
Cognitive dissonance. Some people need to feel different and counter to a given culture, probably as a defense mechanism. Denying the moon landing is a vocal demonstration of sticking ones head in the sand.
Is there a reason why the sensor is in a sponge on the roof rather than in the soil?
The biggest hindrance is showing value in upgrading to the "smart" devices. A light switch connected to wifi and a phone is just not needed in 99% of the cases. Operating it with a phone is just not incentive enough to replace it with something that is 10x more expensive than the original. Same thing with other "smart" items too, at least in my case. Something like a garage door opener is different because its relatively expensive to replace than fitting an adaptor to automate, and there could be more people needing to operate the garage door remotely. I don't see an explosive market there. The only easy market is the "scare" market which is what Ring exploited and pretty much rules the camera doorbell.
Configuration is hard. Most of the cases I see people eventually crank out their own DSL and "teach" other people to use it.
Someone from India, a fairy large and diverse country, might have the same difficulty understanding it.
search for "tasmota"
Ah yes, the classic tripe "You disagree with me, so therefore you must be biased".
I don't understand where this question is coming from. How many Americans have you met who believe the moon landings were fake? For me that number is 0.

Beware of polls showing a small percentage of people believe something. Anything under 10% is subject to the Lizardman's Constant[0]; i.e., there are enough pranksters, people who misheard the question, et cetera, to form a measurable part of the population.

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
Brilliant! This made me happy. I also sometimes forget that there is actually this thing about whites versus blacks versus whatever colored people.
What sort of product do you have in mind that would be for white people?