skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think expecting Netflix to stick around at $10/mo with such a library of content was unrealistic. Sometimes there are odd fluctuations in markets.

For example, the current used car market has insane values with used vehicles costing more than the MSRP on new ones sometimes. Likewise, when Netflix had no competition, they were able to sign deals with content providers for almost nothing because content providers thought streaming was worthless. Either streaming was going to fail and that $10 deal would go away or streaming was going to succeed and content providers wouldn't license content so cheaply. That era was an odd thing in the market before content owners realized that streaming wasn't just a little additional revenue, but a replacement for their service.

I don't think you can really compare a market blip to a sustainable business model. HBO and others weren't going to continue licensing their catalogues to Netflix once it was clear that streaming was popular. They made the mistake of licensing to Netflix assuming that they'd be getting a little extra pocket money rather than cannibalizing their services. That mistake is probably the reason Netflix is the giant it is today. Netflix signed deals to license content before content owners realized the value of streaming. They used that content to gain subscribers until they could afford to build their own library of first-party content.

Even from Netflix's side, they might have been spending more on content than they wanted to long-term to try and gain subscribers that would be sticky as their library waned and they transformed from "we licensed most of the content you want" to "we're another HBO with a limited content selection".

These things happen. We saw MoviePass come and go because it was an unsustainably good deal.

I think it's also important to remember that back in that era of Netflix, most people were still paying for cable and renting DVDs. Maybe you weren't, but most people were. I think it's important to think about the whole amount that people were spending and people were spending a lot on their entertainment. It was perfectly normal to head to a Blockbuster and spend $10 renting two DVDs each weekend. That feels like such an alien concept today, but people were spending $100 on cable plus $40 on rentals and getting a lot less entertainment than they are today.

Sure, if you were one of the few that only had Netflix, it was a glorious time. $10/mo never bought so much entertainment! Likewise, if you were a MoviePass subscriber, no one had ever gotten so many theater tickets for so little money. But it wasn't going to last because it was unsustainably good. Once MoviePass found that people would actually use the service, it was dead in the water. Once content owners saw that people would cancel their HBO subscription because Netflix had HBO's content, the era of Netflix having such an expansive library for so cheap would end as the deals ran out.

Comparing current prices to a market blip isn't really a fair comparison - but there was a pretty great 5 years in there.
My router runs Linux 5.15. I can cache more stuff in RAM, instead of wearing out the flash storage, or having to throw useful data away (http cache, larger DNS cache). I can use all the new stuff that's added to the Linux kernel's networking stack. I can use any scripting labguages, to automate things like updating my DNS servers easily. I compile my own kernel for the router, so I can disable anything I don't like, all the barely used and less tested protocols I don't need, etc.

Minimal Arch Linux is quite small. But I have option to to install anything, and the board will support it, without me having to figure out workarounds.

The board has 4 cores, you can dedicate 1 to the routing, and use the rest for whatever without starving the core functions of the router of the resources.

I mean, it's just a lot more flexible, while being cheaper and easier to replace than dedicated routers, when the HW breaks. Just copy the root filesystem to other uSD card, and swap the kernel, and it will run the same on a different ARM SBC, which I have quite a lot laying around in my home.
> Blame the voters. Voters have agency.

Meta: I appreciate your candidness in getting to the point, I wish more political debate was like this instead of wrapped in layers of fluff.

I disagree though, and I'd go further and say selectively assigning agency - especially on a binary basis - distorts the solution space and waters down any good faith attempts to further the discussion, albeit unintentionally.

Our implementation of democracy is not a magically balanced game where incentives line up in perfection. As a result, you cannot point to an outcome and blame the players any more than you can do in a video game with a shitty meta. In reality, players interpret and influence the rules of the game itself.

In particular, our modern version of democracy is based on the fundamentals of marketing - where actors influence (aka nudge) aggregate behavior and sentiments, to get what they want. This system is vulnerable to feedback cycles leading to large concentrations of power - both political and corporate. The last decade is a prime example of both - not just in the US, but globally.
Good luck getting a C8. The wait list is long.
Canadian mobile networks are more expensive than the US, and are some of the most expensive in the world [1].

[1] https://openmedia.org/article/item/2021-rewheel-report-shows...
A lot of Toyota cars still have physical controls for many things.
>two separate doses of 25 mg of psilocybin 3 weeks apart plus 6 weeks of daily placebo (psilocybin group) or two separate doses of 1 mg of psilocybin 3 weeks apart

I don't know how this compares to similar studies (if there are any similar studies) but microdosing is almost never done 3 weeks apart. That's usually the time frame done for macro dosing (but with multiple grams not mg).

Even the study at the top mentions that

>Reported microdoses identifed in observational research typically range from 5 to 20 μg of LSD and from 0.1 to 0.3 g of dried psilocybin mushrooms. Microdoses are most commonly used several times a week with various patterns of alternating days.
There Is No Digital World
It's essentially a state of intention: people buying art to appreciate having it rather than with an intention of selling. Most people in the NFT space are flippers riding bubbles, but a few actual collectors really do exist.
Sure grandpa let’s get you to bed
Fair point, I suppose that would be kinda like including the price of a TV onto the cable bill comparison, and then the computer on streaming, and etc etc.
I don't think elfshaker actually does do any binary diffing (e.g. xdelta or bsdiff). It works well because it uses pre-link objects which are built to change as little as possible between versions. Then when it compresses similar files together in a pack, Zstandard can recognize the trivial repeats.
Because Facebook doesn't have a browser.

(But seriously, Mozilla engineers have warned the Chrome team that they are too rush with the inclusion of Brotli, since that compression wars are heating up. They still proceeded though, which is unsurprising.)
Unfortunately, none of them suck billions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, which is now required to actually have a future.

Also, slides? Why not just one page.
I don't know, but a team of Canadian researchers synthesized a pox virus in 2018. They say, "this is the first complete synthesis of a poxvirus using synthetic biology approaches."

The methodology required was involved. They point out the difficulties dealing with the hairpin telomeres which would also be encountered with smallpox:

However, poxviruses represent special challenges because of the size (many exceed 200 kbp) and the difficulty of cloning features such as the mismatched hairpin telomeres. Poxviruses also cannot simply be recovered from transfected cells, as the DNA is not infectious.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
But don't buy one right now, because the market is nuts.

1-2 year old cars with 5-8k miles are selling for the same price or even more than brand new models because of a confluence of the chip shortage and CPO warranties extending the total warranty length.
The Chinese civilization has at least 2000 (the commonly given 5000 is way too generous) years of experience with statecraft. I think at this point they know what will or will not backfire on them.
People seem to forget how bad things used to be. We are extremely fortunate with the ability to watch what we want, when we want, without being interrupted by commercials, for an extremely low cost. There also appears to be a great deal of progress with respect to being able to view programs/movies produced for foreign markets. But the best thing is:

> you can bounce between streaming services at will, and they're all still far easier to cancel than cable.

Add to that cheaper, since you don't have to deal with connection fees. If you know that you're not going to have the time to use the service for a couple of months because you're too busy with work, you don't have to pay for it. If you have decided that you are going to spend most of your summer pursuing outdoor recreational activities, you don't have to pay for it. If you're going on the road for a few weeks (vacation or business), you don't have to pay for it. If you decide that you want to watch programming on two different streaming services, you can simply rotate through the services on a monthly basis and only pay for one service at a time.

Why do I bring all of this up when it's not directly related to the article: it's because these articles reek of entitlement. Yes, there are times when licensing causes shows or movies to fall through the cracks. On the other hand, the situation is also far better than it used to be when using the same metrics. Not only that, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive even when factoring in the cost of an Internet connection.
Your last two lines here co-explain each other. You will get sued, bceause content owners like their "sticky" to remain "sticky".
What services are you using that have no commercials? I would definitely consider Netflix auto-playing content by default a type of commercial.

I must have touched a nerve among the Netflix base
>Careful what you wish for? The big desire then was a la carte, and right now you can bounce between streaming services at will, and they're all still far easier to cancel than cable.

"a la carte" means I don't subscribe to anything and instead I have access to "all the things" with a separate charge for each thing. The whole idea back then was to compete with the ease and access of piracy like Steam did.

That said, "careful what you wish for" currently applies to sitcom episodes for rent on Amazon costing more per minute than mega budget movies.
A provenance certificate which is socially interpreted as ownership. Not going to argue whether that's a good or durable interpretation of ownership, just attesting that some people really do feel it.
Imagine what a train wreck that could be. You just know that some Fortune 500 is going to have someone steal their private keys proving domain ownership. Bankofamerica.com now belongs to a hacker in Tver, Russia?

Blockchains are a great idea but some problems are better solved by the brick-and-mortar legal system.
> Bribing is illegal, but lobbying is legal

What do you think "lobbying" actually means?
I think you misunderstood my comment.

> they should just get their own app side loaded and maintain a direct relationship.

How do you get the average person to sideload an app? Whether it's a store or a single app, Google Play will always have an unfair advantage.
Sad to say this sounds nowhere near as bad as the scenarios at the low end of my estimation error bars for how next year could go.
> You're mentioning a lot of unrelated problems.

I agree, but I would say that the OP is not even point out multiple problems, or any problem at all. The OP just points to in-game microtransactions, and hopes that if it's possible to make them sound extremely absurd and irrational, the absurdity and irrationality of NFTs can sound less bad.
very cool to see these prototypes expanding scope...
...until they learn to drink coffee and write code.
I love a quote from Milton Friedman that talks about greed when he was asked. It is from the top of my head but it is very close I think:

"Some say people are greedy. Of course it is never ourselves it is always our fellows who are greedy."
Justwatch and reelgood are reliable enough. I usually use justwatch through https://Trakt.tv
I think it is only a matter of time till a dispute over NFTs goes to court and some aspect of contract is established.
Do you have more details or a source on this? I'm wondering if the 1 in 6 is no centralized household internet, or no access whatsoever e.g. via a smartphone with a data plan.
Lately none of the movies I am looking for are available. I've been starting to think of classics I should watch with my kids. Ruefully buying DVDs again.
Yeah, then when someone loses or has stolen the keys to that wallet, the domain is forever gone.
Covid-19 will continue into Covid-22 (as in the same virus into 2022, not a new virus entirely).

Return to office will tick up more than expected

City -> Suburbs/Rural will revert back to pre-covid trend of Suburbs/Rural -> City
> I don't recall dependency management systems that automatically download new versions of transient dependencies

This isn't how modern dependency management systems like Rust work either though. Modern systems use a lockfile to pin the versions, and they only get updated as a result of direct action (either explicitly updating dependencies, or declaring a new dependency that requires a newer version of the transient dependency). You can choose to audit the new dependency versions based on the lockfile change at your discretion, just like if you have to update e.g. openssl you can choose whether or not to actually audit the code changes instead of just bumping the version you declared in your CMakeLists.
A pain re: no kicad or PDF schematics.

I just gave up on looking at them.
Most physical art can't be perfectly imitated though. A print is not a perfectly accurate rendition of a painting, or even of a physical drawing.
> What is so magically different about it? All other professions can do it. And not just the other professions, our company is one of many software shops that sells projects. We need to be able to make good estimations to be profitable, and we are.

And all other professions regularly overrun costs and dates of delivery just like software. Let's stop acting like other engineers actually hit their deadlines regularly - just last year was there a news about a miraculous Swiss tunnel project which, as a very notable exception, actually hit its target deadline.
Would this be fairly similar to what a recruiting agency would do?
Agreed. If Snowden had been Chinese and had exposed Chinese secrets like that and he escaped to Russia, Russia would have found reasons to return him and then there would have been a quick farcical trial and he'd've been executed and the family billed as well as ostracized. Had he escaped to Canada or Australia, etc., they have found a way for an accident to happen to him. Russia, China, N Korea, KSA, Iran deal with dissidents quite harshly.
1) VC action in this space is not just to create shitcoins. And they keep getting bigger because this stuff is being built now. https://fortune.com/2021/11/18/vc-crypto-funds-are-getting-b...

2) The example of fraction is not just a "selling platform", but an actual real problem being solved (fractional ownership of real-world items). In LATAM for example, there are exceptionally convoluted structures to partially build and own low-income centers of commerce (kind of like malls). Fake ownership documents are very common. This solves that problem squarely. There are more real-world use cases like this.
Tesla Isn't Technically the Least Reliable Car Company
I bought a car from the early to mid 2000s and retrofit the the head unit and speakers. You can find everything from simple bluetooth/aux cable units with segmented lcd displays to full modern android auto/apple carplay touchscreens.

I would recommend a Toyota, Honda or Lincoln Town Car from that era. They're reliable, cheap to maintain/repair/modify, lots of parts availability. Crutchfield.com has excellent guides on retrofitting modern audio systems into these vehicles.

The major caveat is safety. While you do get ABS brakes, airbags and seatbelts in this era the crash protection is dismal compared to a modern SUV. You must always drive attentively and defensively- I _never_ text or call using my car audio while driving for this reason.
Bayern will win the UCL
The companies that are double or triple ordering this year, in fear of suppliers not delivering, are going to get a lot of stuff in 2022. In other words, the shortages and empty shells will be followed by fire sales and stories of companies destroying their inventories.
> If they know they are not a high-risk driver

Nearly everybody sucks terribly at evaluating their own driving performance, and I have only met one or two people who have had their driving performance properly assessed by a trained evaluator.

TL;DR: no-one knows that they're a low risk driver, and the people who claim "I'm a safe driver" are often much worse than average.
It is. It's also a community of packrats that have a copy of every driver and bios under the sun, including huge dumps of FTP archives that have been lost to the sands of time (e.g. NEC or Acer's support FTP)
Selfish. Pay for what you're watching or find something else to do.
Israel Going from ‘Startup Nation’ to Scale-Up Nation
I am primarily concerned with the technology's value as regards solving problems that actually exist. You know, the way nuclear fission or NVMe storage have value, not the way that Q-Ray Bracelets have the value of being effective at separating fools from their money.

If you're going to argue that Q-Ray Bracelets are valuable, then I do not believe that further discussion on this topic is possible as we live in fundamentally different realities.

Whether or not they are actually making money for artists in a profound way, as you keep asserting, is not an argument I'm willing to engage in since I haven't bothered to look in to the subject. My assertion is that even if they are[0], NFTs are still a broken-window-fallacy solution to the problem, not a real one. As the author of the original article states, this mechanism relies on a shared delusion that NFTs actually mean something and as soon as that delusion evaporates so will the "solution".

[0] I have seen no data one way or the other, so let's steelman and assume you are correct.
>During the next 10 or so years, all the debt-fueled spending is going to bite us back hard.

that's like saying it will happen eventually, which is not that helpful or useful of a prediction
i think they'll come. flew on a brand new airliner recently, all electronics were removed from the seatback. now it's just a tray and clip for your own phone or tablet, a usb charging port and a 110v ac plug at each seat (along with a media server accessible by wifi)

a nice future for all heavy equipment (cars included) would be an open standard for interfacing the heavy equipment with your own control technology, so you can replace and choose the tech yourself, and if the manufacturer stops supporting the software, the hardware remains usable for the remainder of its usually much longer life. i suspect though that this would have to be done via legislation, both to make the carmakers do it and to absolve them of liability in the event that a connected device causes an accident. (the future of machines will involve blameless teams and blameful software with trusted attribution of blame, methinks)
A quick guide to modern cryptography
Rokus do that for any of their channels that supports it, which are a whole lot.

You can use it on the web, too, and it shows which channels require a subscription: https://www.roku.com/whats-on/search I assume it's accurate for those services across other platforms than just Roku.
>- Supply chain issues will get worse throughout 2022, massively fueled by US-China tensions and COVID related shifts in demand. Major inflation like we haven't seen since the 1970s.

Due to this, GOP is probably going to retake the house largely because people won't realize that the inflation has little to do with Democrats policies but is entirely because of COVID fucking everything.
Exactly this. For a couple of years, I was onboard with streaming. It was convenient and frictionless. But now I find myself having to search google to find out which service a movie/show is on, only to find its on none of the ones I have. I pay for Hulu, share my inlaws Netflix account, and I have Amazon Prime. If whatever I want isn't readily available on one of those, I immediately just pirate it and put it on my Plex server (and my backup drive), where I'll always have access to it.

Gabe Newell put forward his thoughts on piracy and the success of Steam as a digital content platform about a decade ago now, saying “The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. ... It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.” And for a couple of years, I think streaming services achieved that. Netflix and Hulu really did seem to capture the market in paid services because they were so convenient. But as the market fractures into smaller and smaller services, I think a lot of people are going to turn back to piracy.
If I had vested interest in crypto, of course I will dismiss this paper as bogus
I find your statement factually correct.
1. I completely agree. It's super frustrating that all these random kids videos I have I can't just drop in a folder and have Plex pick them up and just show them in alphabetic order.
Lots of things get labeled as “technical debt.” In any non-trivial project the software will have a backlog, bugs, unimplemented features, half-baked and kludgy solutions, things we would do differently given the chance. All of that is to be expected, like clutter in a junk drawer or things we hope to eventually get to in our lives.

Time and programming resources are finite in every project, and no one knows how to write perfect code. Requirements are never complete and unambiguous. We can’t know the future.

Calling a completely normal side-effect of professional software development “technical debt” as if it’s an aberration assumes we know how to do everything right, and have time to do that. We never do.
Israeli startups prepare to play major role in building metaverse
you just described pretty much the perfect exemplar case for why/when estimates and deadlines are bad. an anti-pattern to be avoided.
HIPAA (two a's, not two p's) is a regulation of communications from and by medical providers.

This is the same false information people spit about vaccine cards.
It’s complex licensing deals and other revenue streams (hotels, airplanes, foreign broadcasts, regional monopolies etc) that are the reason. You accessing some cold content is not an issue for them. They have enough spare capacity to handle small volume requests like that easily.
For a reliable pickup truck in the US, Nissan Frontiers have been very trustworthy. Up until this past year, they were known for having a very "old" looking dashboard because the interior had not been updated since the early 2010s. Despite that, it continues to be one of Nissan's most popular vehicles and some would consider it to be the best in their lineup.
I suspect cost of streaming services will increase though. Cable didn't get as expensive as it did overnight after all.
So does the Western civilization, our roots are in deep Antiquity and a lot of Greek philosophy and Roman law still forms a base of our contemporary institutions.

But we still repeated the same mistakes on different occasions. It often happens that when someone gets all the power, he (usually he) deems himself better at statecraft than those backward ancestors.