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Star Trek Discovery Season 4 was released only in the US and Canada, unlike the previous 3 seasons.

Thus it was impossible to watch it in the UK, so out comes the torrent client.

It is now available for purchase on itunes, which I assume I can play on my TV either via the apple tv app, or via airplay, so that's fine, and I paid for it, no need to torrent. At least for those of us in the UK.

In the majority of countries though it's still not available.

If your company is unwilling to sell the content, you can't complain about people getting it from other sources.
There is a fundamental difference (at least for now)–there is nearly zero cost involved in copying data and moving it around. There's no real scarcity of data. There is some real scarcity of candy bars.
I have no problem paying a "reasonable" amount for content, I've had plenty of paid accounts to multiple services.

I've given up keeping up. The combination of Radarr + Sonarr + Plex or Jellyfin + Sabnzbd + a Usenet account @ ~$10/month is too good. I have immediate access to all new content, automatically downloaded as well as a back catalog that is more complete than I can get from any set of streaming services. The local interface is excellent, discovery is good. No ads and I can access the content from anywhere in the world from any device. Even if I was willing to pay for every subscription I needed to access the same content, I would still consume it with this stack, the experience is too good.

A subscription to each of the top 10[a] streaming services is ~$85/month (~$1020/yr!), that still includes some ads! At some point someone out of APAC is going to start selling a device with a large drive and the stack ^^^ bundled with a Usenet subscription (if there isn't one yet). That will remove the complexity and mainstream this type of piracy.

I don't know how the industry is going to solve this, I know they need to before they go the way of paid adult content.

[a] https://screenrant.com/ten-most-popular-streaming-services-r.... I chose the least expensive ad-free option for each service. For Amazon Prime Video I used 1/3 of the $12.99/month cost, $4.33.
Many people are doing what they can at an individual level, but that's vastly less important than the required collective action.

Gasoline cars don't have "range anxiety" because there are gas stations everywhere. Nothing you do changes that. Gas is also comparatively cheap because the climate costs are externalized; again, you cannot do anything about that on your own.

There are many other such externalized costs, from meat to cheap consumer products. You can reduce these on your own, but it's vastly less effective than systematic reductions.

There have been tons of proposals to counteract these effects, but they are fought by powerful forces to convince you that climate change doesn't even exist. The doomsday screaming is the natural result of people trying to make the point that it's a real and important thing.

It doesn't really matter what people propose when the default action is to do nothing at all. If you're interested in some of the proposals, I can list them, or you can read up on what has been suggested at the COP conferences. But my top priority is for people to stop lying so that at least one of those proposals has a chance of being accepted.
The headline is a bit confusing. This isn't an upgrade in progress. It was a proposed upgrade, with one committee proposing $10 billion and the current proposal including only $.5 billion.

The only person quoted in TFA as being opposed to this is the head of the company who would be receiving the money. The general idea seems like a good one (better tech at 911 call centers), but this seems like ordinary negotiation over price and priorities.
The best UNIX tools are free, SaaS are not. I'm comfortable relying on GNU coreutils because there is no price involved, and no question as to whether or not my data is being retained by a third-party.
Just generate inordinate amounts of neutrinos. Doable for something akin to a undersea cable. If we could focus the output of the reaction then I see this being feasible, otherwise maybe not.
That's really frustrating. A lot of people don't realize food can be safely cooked to a lower temperature than the generic guideline as long as it's held at that temp for a period of time.

165 is the generic guideline given for cooking chicken, however 160 for 15 seconds is just as effective at getting the desired kill on salmonella, or 155 for 48 seconds.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-complete-guide-to-s...
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/ is heavy moderated, no anecdotes allowed, some threads have half the comments hidden/deleted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians has high quality researched answers but sometimes the first answer comes after hours or days so you need to bookmark the interesting threads.

Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25318880
AKA yet another oligopoly. It's really not ending well for customers, both in terms of quality and price.
Granting a monopoly on something with zero marginal costs creates massive dead-weight losses for society. Creating that information is a positive externality, so that positive externality should be subsidized. The problem we need to work out is how much value is a particular bit of information worth.

This is an idea I came up with, so likely has many issues to be worked out, but the core of the idea seems valid. We need to find out how much people value this information. We know how to get people to bid their actual values. We put IP and copyright and open source software into a Vickrey Auction. To do this you need not ask everyone every bit of IP, you would need to work out a statistically significant sampling of the population. This would be a multiple item auction, so you might have 1000 people in the auction, but only the top 750 bidders would walk away with access. The bottom 25% would have to go the year without. But since they would get access to all OSS and IP that they did not have to sample, they would still win out. The top 75% would, like any other Vickrey Auction, pay the amount of the highest bidder that did not win.

Owners would have the option to either keep it secret, or release it into the auctions. As the societal value of the item would be much larger having it open, every IP owner would choose to open it up so that they could get their share of the pot. Once an item has a fairly stable price, you wouldn't have to get a sampling every year for it. You would then either take funds from some other tax, or just print it, and subsidize the owners based on the value that the sampling provided.
It's not a novel idea.
It's the EU legal model (but not the US model).
For sure!
She will appreciate it as the espresso that she can drink at the bar in Italy for 1€/cup
I think you mean copying not stealing
I had Tofurky so yes but still not as dry as bird turkey
What is a Consensus Algorithm in blockchain?
Does anyone else remember when the Covenant add-on for Kodi was thriving? It was amazing. You could search for and watch pretty much any TV show or movie ever made with a variety of language and quality options and your choice of downloadable subtitles. It made the idea of downloading torrents seem quaint. I'd pay good money for that service, if only it existed legitimately. Sadly the entertainment industry eventually got pretty good at shutting the related infrastructure down.

Gabe Newell nailed it when he said that piracy is a service problem.
It's not just the Rust community, it feels like the entire OSS community cannot grasp that you can at any point fork and have your own version.

That's the biggest freedom we're given, expecting that any of our ideas or features should make it into a main release is both delusional and arrogant.

On a more general note, I believe more and more software should be modular and allow for extensibility. GNU and the FSF are good examples of writing very complex but composable software.
I'm having similar perspectives around music.

Spotify is arguably the most powerful music discovery platform on earth, but over time you will find your favorite songs arbitrarily disappearing from your playlists. If you stick with mainstream content, this is typically invisible. But, if you are on the edge following indie artists and experimental works, things are much more rough.

For me, taking favorited content out of people's playlists is unforgivable. Even if there is an unlimited amount of other acceptable content to enjoy. The feeling of loss is severe for me.

I've bought more physical CDs in the past 12 months than I ever have in my life. New content is still being stamped to plastic discs for those who are out of the loop. The new Dune soundtracks by Hans Zimmer (yes there are 2) being my most recent acquisitions.
This would make sense for a live stream. But we are talking Netflix movies here.

If my network can maintain more bandwidth than needed for 1080p/4k most of the time (which it can) then there is no reason it should ever fall back to lower quality due to a short blip because you can keep several seconds (or minutes) of buffer.

For example I never have this problem on Youtube. Only Netflix.
Well, that'll teach me not to HN right after waking up.

Or won't. But it should :P
Their goal isn't to fight piracy, it's to make a lot of money. At this point I think they've mostly figured out that maximum profits come with some level of piracy.
Log-Structured Protocols in Delos, a platform for control plane databases
The way they pay creators and actors is appalling. Spotify although they charge $10 for a monthly subscription, the musician that made the music only gets .000000000001 of a penny per stream. The same is being one to film makers, actors and studios. People also normally encounter regional restrictions on content that they find on the web and don't want to register a whole month of service (on another site they have to log into) when they only want to watch one single show on a platform. That's just a few reasons why piracy is still present.

Give it until next year and they'll slowly start rolling commercials and ads into paid for monthly subscriptions permanently as well. We're cows, carefully primed for "$ milking" by big industry really.
> the pricing felt fair, yet sustainable to me

To be blunt, what you felt about it wasn't really relevant. It wasn't sustainable in terms of revenue, and was a fragment of what Disney received from their previous licensing deals. It would not even cover residuals for existing content, never mind new production.

The average household spend on content is about $60pm, and that figure in real terms is surprisingly stable.
A good electric kettle with temp control is a must to get past the "futzing"
That's a heck of a lot less expensive than cable even without the premium channels.
Disney is one of the two media companies my friend is always willing to pirate from due to how they constantly try to rip off the creative talent that is the only reason they're a company. He's one of those types that still pays for and downloads FLACs and has no problem paying for streaming services that are fairly priced and treat their creative resources better than Disney does. I guess it's kind of weird to associate a moral impulse with the act of media piracy but no one says that humans aren't complicated messes of competing paradoxical impulses.
The formula for the nth prime number has a bound of O(n / ln n) which makes the lesser terms noise (?) Same w pi(x) (?) Using a bound is more useful:

n ln n + n(ln ln n - 1) < p_n < n ln n + n ln ln n (for n >= 6)
Yes but this is perhaps overly pedantic.

No one would legitimately try to cook a chicken by keeping it at room temperature forever, you still want cooked meat — it’s just that 165 overcooks it. For breast meat, you typically want 150, and you can hold it there for enough to kill salmonella.
I too had steak. An almost 1 pound thick New York steak cooked as described by Alton Brown in the Good Eats Reloaded episode on steak.

I bought it a day before eating it. It spent that day sitting on a rack covered in the fridge, starting with a good amount of kosher salt on the up side. After about 12 hours of that I flipped it, salted the new up side, and it went back into the fridge.

When it was time to cook it, a thermometer went into the center of the steak, and the steak went into a 200 ℉ oven until the thermometer read 120 ℉ (it took somewhere between an hour and 90 minutes).

When it came out of the oven it rested while I heated a frying pan to the highest my stove can get it to (somewhere in the 500-550 ℉ range). The steak then went into the pan for 45 seconds, got flipped, and spent another 45 seconds there, then to my plate.

After coming out of the oven it went into a frying pan that was as hot as my stove could get it (about 500 ℉) for 45 seconds, got flipped, spent 45 seconds on the other side, and then onto my plate.

That method gives me perfect steaks evenly cooked throughout every time. The only downside was I couldn't pair the steak with something else that also needed the oven unless that too only needed 200 ℉. The main casualty was baked frozen french fries which want 425 ℉. But recently my toaster died and I replaced it with a small toaster oven, and that can do fries so steak and fries are back on the menu.
It's just not going to work anymore. First, it's hard to steal something that can be copied infinitely (imagine if you could insta clone that candy bar, would you be bitching online about these crass hoboes trying to eat for free, really?), second, the entertainment world has to adapt, they were too well paid when they could argue scarcity, but now they have to drop quality and revenues and do something else with their life.

If horse riders had been half as persistent as the Hollywood parasites, we'd still be riding horses bragging we got them good, these car building robbers.
We are mostly targeting enabling GWT applications to be able to (relatively seamlessly) update to J2CL as a compiler, but are definitely interested in apps or libraries starting their lives as a plain Java project and expose it to JS/TS/closure in a variety of ways.

Aside from the github repo, most of the conversation as we work on this happens at https://gitter.im/vertispan/j2cl - feel free to stop by to ask any questions or share a use case that seems under-represented.
There are definitely vaccinated people who continue to believe they're "at risk", and are demanding boosters, loudly. I know some personally, and I see this all over social media.

Agreed about the politicians being terrified, but I tend to be more sanguine: this is a modern re-telling of Canute and the tide, but the leaders aren't intelligent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide

The people are demanding that the tides be pushed back, and the leaders are doing the bidding of the people (and CNN is on 24/7, with Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon telling people that the tides are coming to get them and their children.)

The original sin here was giving them the power to take away our fundamental rights in the first place. The rest was sadly predictable.
Years ago I had one of these. It slowly stopped working and my wife got sick of it. Without any way to fix it I got rid of it, which I now regret. The toaster we have now browns unevenly and is wildly inconsistent from run to run.
That’s what I’m asking for, an electric version. You’re right, there isn’t one yet. The CSC Monterey looks close, though:

https://electrek.co/2021/01/07/csc-monterey-first-ride-retro...
Without air conditioning???
These are older issues. When you see comments like: This bypass was tried apparently on PHP 5.2.5 and I couldn't make it work on PHP 7.3.15) I'm not sure these apply anymore. The loose == vs strict === exists in many languages. You can make the same mistake in Javascript.
To be fair to the argument, there is scarcity of the labor that produces the data and that must be compensated somehow.
The evidence is mixed https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4
"Info wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive"

Isn't that one of the things the NFT people are working on?
This really describes quite well why Rust is such a joyful language to work in. You might still write garbage, but the compiler constrains the types of garbage you can write to a much smaller subset.

Whenever people say that a skillful programmer can write well-working C++, I don't disagree, but in my experience it continues to fail on projects with more people involved.

If your project has size N=1, and you're skillful it's not an issue, if you have N=2 or N=3, you might still be able to review everything and find very competent contributors.

But for bigger N, at some point you'll have average or below average skilled contributors in the project, you won't be able to review all contributions.

A strongly typed language, strict compiler, standard formatter, and standard linter however can scale in this way.

Rust offers all of these.
It turned out my monitor supported HDCP 2.2 over HDMI but not DP (edit: and Netflix requires that all connected monitors support 2.2, not just the one you're trying to watch the video on.)

I would maybe understand enforcing that requirement if it was effective in protecting the content, but it isn't. 4K content (from UHD blurays and various streaming services) is widely available to pirate, and VLC doesn't care what kind of cable you're using.
As an EU citizen I also have to say the Digital Single Market [1] was a good idea but bad in execution.

I work at a video game publisher and you can see that in prices where people in Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary etc. have to pay the same price as people in Sweden, Finland, Denmark etc. You can't discriminate positively, so all the new AAA games ended up 60€. So of course in poorer countries the piracy is higher EVEN THOUGH people would be willing to buy it but regional pricing is basically outlawed for the European Union. iirc Valve/Steam also had some problems with this in the past, they used to have different prices for EU countries but they had to stop that.

We can set prices lower for CIS countries, or say Moldova, Turkey etc. but not for EU.

1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Single_Market
And, additionally, if someone is unwilling to fix known issues in PR - then they will definitely not fix bugs in it after it become merged.

So for maintainers merging PRs with known issue is basically promising to fix everything not finished.
There's a chap named Linus, who is rather well-known for being a tough PR reviewer...

I feel that if we are talking a fundamental toolbox, like a language, standard library, or kernel, then being a perfectionist is pretty much required.

For myself, I agree that harsh language isn't particularly helpful, but I have extremely high personal standards. I seldom project them onto others, but if anyone wants to play in my sandbox, then they play by my rules.
> Furthermore, it seems like so much more content now is not included in the monthly fee

Disney literally haven't done any Premier Access titles in months now that cinemas have reopened.

Disney+ was always a service aimed at taking over the pay television market - and pay television was always roughly a year behind the theatrical release. They did a small run of (pretty cheap) extra paid releases while no cinemas were open, but that has now ended.
I think that's a fine viewpoint, and one i take with many projects, and try to be clear upfront - IE "this is a thing i'm not going to spend a lot of energy on. If you give me stuff that works well, i'll integrate it. If not, i won't".

I would also agree you are going to get some amount of crap no matter what.
But, i would say if you want this to be different, it's not entirely on other people. Even with the best of intent, you can't expect contributors or teams or processes to behave magically just because they should. You usually need to motivate/incentivize or train the behaviors you want, and iterate the processes and your approach until you are getting what you want.
Who doesn't? He's independently wealthy regardless of whether startup investments got to zero or not.
No ad-block? Well that's surprising.
UK Snow Map (#uksnow)
Would you have created a better project in less time if you had access to the wealth of work done before yours?
The 'good reason' to use them for communication, if it were practical, is that they interact so weakly, you don't have to worry about pesky things like planets or stars getting in the way of your signal (though gravity is still a thing).
Another tip I picked up from can't-remember-where: Heat the water before installing the coffee. A kettle is best but I've preheated the bottom half on the stove as well. Brewing starts right away, without baking the grounds for minutes in advance while the rest of the operation gets up to temp.

Best done with extreme caution, as near boiling water will do your fingers in if it goes over. I set the bottom on a grippy surface, wind the top on, and only have to get a grip on the base for the final cinch.
Limiting 4K to specific configurations is a DRM decision, not a video quality decision. There's nothing special about 4K video: it's typically encoded in the same codecs as videos in lower resolutions (H264, H265, VP9) and basically any modern device can play it without a problem. I never had any issues with 4K YouTube videos on Linux or Windows, regardless of configuration/driver.

I think what they're trying to avoid is people capturing/copying the 4K stream, that's high quality enough to be considered a "master", and distributing it. IMO it's a pointless thing to do because dedicated piracy groups will quickly figure out ways to do that anyway, and it makes the average user experience worse. However, they are probably contractually obligated to do so.
I don’t have to be an exec to have an opinion on ethical hiring.
1. Your PR is bug ridden garbage.

2. You don't have the patience, skills or experience to write anything other than bug ridden garbage.

Not pedantry at all so see a big distinction between these two statements.

In fact almost a textbook study of how to / how not to give feedback.
My turkey was moist and flavorful!

(It all depends on how the turkey is prepared and cooked. Don't do something silly like cook it quickly at 500 degrees. My dad's aunt used to do that and the turkey was very dry as a result.)

To make a moist turkey, buy a brined or kosher turkey at the grocery store. (The turkey is shipped in salt water.) 2-3 days before you cook it, rub it with salt and spices and let it sit in the refrigerator. Before you cook it, rub it with butter and spices. Stuff with onions and oranges. If you use an oven, cover the roasting pan to hold in the moisture. Cook it at 325 for a few hours.

I've also made a small turkey in a croc pot. It was extremely moist and didn't need gravy at all.

The recipe that I followed this year was: https://www.yummly.com/recipe/Dry-Brined-Roast-Turkey-with-G.... In addition to that: I bought a brined turkey, I stuffed with 2 chopped onions and 3 clementines, and I tightly covered the roasting pan with foil.
Moka Pot is essential on a sailboat, where all you have is a gas stove and 12V car socket under sail or on the ahchor. Every Italian charter boat has one onboard as a first class equipment alongside chartplotter and compass.
> quaint cultural tradition of [turkey for] Christmas in the UK

Imported from America in C19, for what it's worth. I realise that's arguably long enough ago to be both tradition and quaint, but my point really is it's not the only way/a must/centuries old (well ok, one or two). Poultry more so/further back, really it's just a feast day though, have whatever.
No, fortunately. AC is pretty pervasive there, and my mother-in-law's house has it.
Fish isn't that extreme. There's a fair bit of configuration allowed. The devs are just judicious about adding toggles.

You can configure scripting to run at various times, and there are even plugin frameworks for Fish. It just doesn't have toggles for things like language features in the way that ZSH does.