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I don't have a Disney+ account but what you describe sounds bad. Not quite Prime Video bad though.

Early Prime Video used to have a lot of shows with only the first season available with not extra cost, and you'd only realise that by the time you finished it and was going to watch Season 2, only to be slapped with a rental fee for it and all subsequent ones.

I haven't seen much of that for a while (although admittedly I rarely go on there - I wish there was a cheaper Prime tier with only the delivery advantages).

A couple weeks ago though, I started watching a show. I logged in, put on S1E1 and all was good. That is, until I tried to watch S1E2 and found out that everything from that point on was behind a rent wall. Just to clarify, I had actually had a quick look to see if the later seasons were included, and it did look like they were. Until they didn't. Utterly awful experience.
in Europe everyone was already listening to Spotify.

Spotify wasn't available in the US until almost 2.5 years after its initial launch.
“ 70% of their revenue goes to the copyright holders (if those aren't the artists, that is a different problem Spotify can't really address)”
If you go on the ThinkPad forums all they talk about is Moka Pots.

It's turtles all the way down!
Why do you buy low quality things you don't need?
> Free and libre software was always doomed

.. Then why did Bill have to try so incredibly hard to fuck them up?
Egged on by the media who loves parading dead children on screen with the admonishment "If only someone had protected them".
Basically because once you get past recycling scrap metals you start consuming many more resources than you save, which forces municipal governments to subsidize the recycling operations, which becomes so expensive it threatens local budgets. Then the cities start paying China or Africa to take their trash to "recycle" and they end up shipping it overseas, consuming even more real resources when in reality much of that is just thrown away and disposed of in less safe ways than if it were to be put in local landfills in jurisdictions with stricter environmental rules. This is all to make people feel good about saving the planet.

Interestingly, this was already known in the 1990s, and the NYTimes science writer, John Tierney, wrote an article about how recycling is actually harmful for many of the items recycled, and that this has taken on a type of upper middle class religious ritual (https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-gar...). No science article ever published by the times received so many death threats and angry letters as that article.

But things have gotten much worse since then, as demands for recycling increased and city budgets began to be eaten by the costs of subsidizing this. See https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/the-reign-... for an update in 2015.

Then when China stopped accepting US trash, cities around the country began dumping recycling into landfills as they could no longer afford it. (https://fee.org/articles/america-finally-admits-recycling-do...).

See also:

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/as-city-budgets-shrink-i...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...
I agree. Only businesses and VoIP hobbyists bother to self-host their PBX. And smaller businesses are often better off using a hosted service. The time money and hassle spent setting this up and maintaining it can buy a lot of calling plan minutes or months. Or you could train your contacts on how to use Signal.
Ask HN: Other communities with responses as good as the submissions?
A friend and I were discussing what it is about HN that maintains such a grip on our attention, and I realized something which is probably obvious to a lot of you: I often spend just as much time reading through and digesting the comments here as I do the original posts. It isn't uncommon for me to learn way more about the subject matter from comments than from the post itself.

Are there other communities, online or off, with a similar balance between the quality of the original source material (whatever that means in context) and the responses to it? For example: an online forum dedicated to an esoteric interest; a book club or writing group; your local bicycle repair shop; etc.

(A lot of workplaces probably exhibit this balance, but let's leave them out of the definition of "communities" for the purposes of this post.)
I apologize and I will try to do better.
That's the beauty of HLS/DASH. Rather than just flat out stopping a la RealPlayer, they allow the video to continue until your network gets its act together. How is it the provider's fault if your network takes a dump for a bit?
Fine then strong man the argument and say companies > $100m in revenues.

I also didn’t mean to imply right away. I meant “after 10-18 years”.
I'd like a law where the copyright ends as soon as the content is no longer sold.
Sure. I think with China and COVID-19 so far my stance is guilty until proven innocent. Not really getting a lot of antibody testing done from people who don't travel or who have died. The CCP is inherently incentivized to fake numbers, underreport (this is a China-wide problem and you can see it manifest in the debt crises unfolding there), and downplay any problems so that the CCP looks strong.

And this has nothing to do with being pro or anti-China. I think it's just an obvious recognition of incentives and current state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_P.... applied to streaming services would have provided that, no? It's unfortunate it's been terminated.
> both the U.S. and the U.K. did not have any wide-spread educational systems

How wide-spread does it need to be to be influential?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_System including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_school_(England_and_W...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stow#The_Glasgow_System which mostly replaced the Monitorial System.

And the US had schools before the influence of the Prussian model - where do you think their educational models came from, and do you think that influence suddenly disappeared?
Another problem with streaming services is that their software is really bad.

On the one hand there are obvious bugs:

- Amazon Prime shows a cryptic DRM error on Windows and I have no idea how to fix it

- Apple TV interface stutters and is close to unusable on a 2015 Macbook Pro

- Disney+ is unusable on a touch screen in Edge on Windows because trying to scroll titles left and right triggers back/forward navigation

- Disney+ has a memory leak in Safari on Catalina that causes Safari to kill the tab after two hours or so

- Netflix on Windows has poor A/V sync with Bluetooth headphones and no way to adjust it

And then there's the usability issues. No streaming platform has good search or a simple list where I can look at what's available. They all just try to overwhelm you with thumbnails and hope you forgot what you searched for and just watch something else instead.

I see why people still pirate stuff.
Just moved to kitty from iterm2 a few weeks ago.

Started with alacritty, but without tab support, was a deal-breaker for me.

I use tabs in kitty with tmux on each tab.
Each tab is a context in my environment (dev/services/ansible/terraform/etc).
I've got 2 tabs open, and just under 500 bookmarks. Had I not lost previous computers and switched browsers, there would be many, many more, most of which are rotted links anyway.
Agree, if it is me, I rather use inline functions, but anyway as mentioned only use C when there is no other option.
While I’m in the doesn’t-mind-paying-for-multiple-subscriptions camp, I do feel like we’ve been here already and it was super clear to see that once all content was natively digital that we’d regress back literally to what we already had with channel bundles over cable. Seems most likely to me that it’s simply a newer generation of minds reencountering things the previous generation already experienced.
I, too, found it weird but ultimately if two people have some sort of personal or professional relationship that they both enjoy, then the flaw isn’t in them, it’s in my ethics. So now I’ve revised my world view.
Oh this is a great idea, thank you!
Whoa this is great! Thanks for the link!
I'm well aware of the decades long "feud" between emacs users and vi/vim users. But that isn't always just harmless joking around either - there are people in both camps that can be quite nasty about it.

At any rate I didn't read your comment as being "and emacs user dunking on vim" (you mentioned emacs in a list of editors, but it wasn't obvious that you were coming from the emacs camp). A lot of people scoff at vim because it works so much differently than anything else they've used before (mostly due to modal editing). I guess that was the vibe I got from my first reading of your comment, but I'll just chaulk that up to there being no "tone of voice" when reading text.

Personally I am in both camps - I use both editors. and like both of them for different reasons.
No, the peak statement is not valid if inflation is considered. But the page has a "Adjusted for inflation" checkbox on the right, so you can see for yourself. :)
Ask yourself that if it was a project you spent multiple years working on from developing it, producing it, editing it, marketing it. Is 2 years worth of protection from other people using to your work to make money from it fair?
After some local streaming service took over like 70% of market (largely by expanding it, because it costs $3 compared to competitors at $5-10) other companies made a deal and now you can subscribe to "Most popular streaming service + exclusives from some other service at $5/$10 etc" and stream everything on one website/app.
Amazon warehouse workers do not want this. They voted against unionization by a huge margin. Apparently these union organizations have tasted the scent of union dues from Amazon and cannot let their crusade go.

Unionization protects incompetent workers and ensures if you're excellent at your job you'll get paid identically to the absolute worst worker in the factory.
Well another alternative is you pay say $5 per movie you watch or $2 per tv show episode rather than an all in price.

Would that be an improvement?
I was always horrified by XDA solutions, and wondered how apparently so many people didn't find that scene incredibly sketchy and suspicious. And when more credible community open source models were already widely known.

I'd be very happy if PostmarketOS got more progress towards solid mainline kernel support for some devices -- including for the nascent 4G hard requirement of my carrier. (I tried to help a short while, but I can't currently. And I probably won't spend more time on it until I can be doing userland app and UI/UX development atop a solid foundation.)
So which freedom will this new variant require us to give up?
> From my point of view, piracy will go down by 98% when all shows and films are accessible in one place.

Or better yet, there are multiple competing streaming services that all have all shows and films, and compete based on other features (device support, parental controls, video/audio quality, speed, search interface, etc.) instead of available content.
Computers/AI overtake humans at different skills at different times, so at calculating numbers ages ago, at Go recently, at driving without hitting fire trucks maybe in the near future and so on. For the singularity you really need computers outdoing us in basically all aspects so you can tick of the remaining skills needed like common sense understanding of the world which is yet to come. I'm curious if we'll see them pass a proper Turing test around 2029 when Kurzweil predicted it.
Does it normalize it? Lots of art contains sex, even explicit sex and representations of rape. Having some event be part of somebody’s story does not automatically promote that activity.
The vaccines last more than half a year. Certain nice-to-have bonus effects beyond "you probably won't die or suffer long-term effects and you're less likely to spread it" fade a bit after six months. The booster is for the nice-to-haves, like reducing symptomatic but minor-moderate infections.
The Pinephone Pro coming soon is probably a way better deal than the Librem 5. Pine64 is also way more trustworthy than Purism, who is constantly lying about their products.
Helpful thread from Carl Bergstrom: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1464058581502738435

It seems likely that people are overinterpreting the graph that's been going around. We just don't know at this point. There's not much that the average person can do anyway, besides getting vaxxed, wearing a mask, and maybe not traveling internationally.
What? I have no clue where you're getting the "1000x viral load" from? And in any case if you're young and healthy there's nothing to fear from Covid. The only argument to be made is that the vaccine slightly decreases transmission rate.

If you're old or in a risk group by all means have all the jabs and boosters you want, but it doesn't make a lot of sense for the young and healthy and should definitely be left to personal choice.
Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines ‘Dramatically Increase’ Heart Attack Risk
your tutorial for locking down windows is super useful, thanks! Any recommendations for remote administration? I would like to set this up for my parents but need to be able to address any issues they might have w/o a transatlantic flight ;-)
The notion all AV content should be in one place strikes me as rather incongruous with the widespread opinion on HN that all text content trending to Facebook and Twitter rather than a million blogs has been a disaster.

FWIW, I don't think all video should be on one service. I think that would be actively bad.
I seem to be on a continual quest for better backup/storage. I'd love to hear more about your NAS setup.
Keep in mind that South Africa is currently pausing shipments of vaccines because there’s not enough demand for them.

I’m not saying that vaccine availability isn’t a problem anywhere in the emerging world but it’s not the only issue.
I mean sure, just stealing something works great for you. People made the film or show. They need to be paid. Walking in CVS and stealing a candy bar would feel like 50 years in the future as well, for a while.
Algorithms interviews aren't that bad
As southern European and living here for about half of my lifetime, the whole management reminds me of the usual mess of Portuguese governments.

I actually never expected that somehow my home country would be able to manage better at decisions, instead of the yes/no/but-elections-are-coming that we had here.
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"Slaves in the colonial days were also kept alive, housed, and fed."

You misunderstand. I'm talking about net benefit, not gross benefits.

"it’s mostly the developing manufacturing for the developed, to this day!"

You sarcastically told me to educate myself, but maybe you should go and read about comparative advantage.

"which the West adopted innumerable ideas from."

I didn't say otherwise.

"is the false dichotomy you present between colonial oppression and no-contact outcomes."

Again, this is not a dichotomy in the sense of a false dichotomy. A hypothetical is categorically and definitionally different.
I think ownership depends on the ability to protect it.
I don't think there is a terrified base. People either vaccinated or scream very loud they don't want to.

I do think the politicians are getting terrified. They have been incompetent since at least the 90's. Until now, first world circumstances were good enough that nobody cared much.

Corona changed that. There is a need for coordination on a massive scale, and they simply aren't up to it. You can't blather your way out of Covid. People are looking at them, and it's almost impossible to notice they aren't good for just about anything.
He's actually been talking about Vitamin D since April 2020 [0] and discussed the encouraging first clinical trial in September 2020 [1].

There are plenty of published studies on Vitamin D and its effects on Covid. I don't understand why healthcare guidelines don't mention or promote it more. The only reason I've come up with so far is that the pharmaceutical companies don't focus on it since there is no money to be made. Vit. D is basically free (€4 for a year's supply of 20 mcg/day). Without the push and lobbying from Pharma, I guess it doesn't get enough attention?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCSXNGc7pfs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ks9fUh2k8
> Must we merge everything, just so people feel empowered?

Sort of, yes. People develop confidence and expertise from repeated success at accomplishing things. Success creates confidence creates more success. You have to give people room to get that flywheel spinning for themselves.
Ah ... well, it's better than nothing.

For me, I always use PDO, and prepared statements and transactions. I get a lot of power, for free. I'm not a particularly good DB programmer, so I need all the help I can get.
the pricing felt fair, yet sustainable to me

Sustainable in terms of maintaining the same old catalogue indefinitely? Or sustainable enough to finance new films and series? That's the problem. The existing catalogue costs almost nothing to stream while new shows cost a ton to produce.
My personal and very subjective opinion is that it's not my hill to die on. The majority of most things is not good, books, music, business plans, you name it. Open source contributions are the same — and that's okay. Much like I don't have a problem with people who write books I personally don't like, I don't take issue with people whose contributions don't align with what I think is good. I try to focus my energy on the ones that I find good, or at least the ones that look like they might end up being good. To perhaps put the same idea another way, if someone wants to put in the effort for making a change, it's their choice to do so. It is also their choice whether they take the time to do it well. If they didn't want to put in the work, it doesn't bother me, it's their time.
The film industry solved unauthorised downloads? Hasn't Glyn Moody been claiming that it's still a huge issue due to DRM for a decade?

I can't think why nobody takes him seriously.
> From my point of view, piracy will go down by 98% when all shows and films are accessible in one place.

That’s generally amazon prime. You can rent/buy a pretty massive selection on it, and it certainly hits the ‘more convenient than pirating’ barrier most of the time.
> Even the largest artists like Taylor Swift who has protested against low Spotify royalties only temporarily took some material off Spotify, and ended up putting it back because in the end she looks like the bad guy to her fans if they can't stream her on Spotify like everything else they listen to.

Artists probably need to stop seeing royalties as a viable income stream and instead see it as publicity for their tours where they actually make money.
Absolute lols. It is a problem they can address. Their deal with the labels sends the money to the labels rather than the artists as a stream is counted like pressing a record rather than a radio play.

If a stream was considered a radio play the far, far more money would go to the artists.
Not very familiar with self hosted emails, could you explain how the subscription emails work? How does putting the website before the @ work? Does your email server then forward those emails to the corresponding family member since I’m guessing the email address doesn’t exist before subscribing.
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Yeah, that's the party line for sure, but the end effectiveness of waiting until "it's okay for release" is low. You will never reach that point. Most experimental branches basically see no use outside of who is developing them.

So a lot of time you are only really getting them to the point they pass existing tests, and maybe whatever additional testing the person writing the code is doing.
As a result it's really rare that code got enough testing on that branch that it was "ready for release" when it was integrated. Show me software done this way, and i'll show you software released with lots of bugs and point releases :)

One of these development processes admits that's true and integrates it at some earlier point and accepts it will take more work despite that.

I'm also not sure what "no need to involve whoever maintains the main branch" means.
Software development is a team sport. If you don't want it to be, don't accept contributions (no judgement, i'm serious).
I'm unfamiliar with T/SQL but of those issues seem like fundamental limitations of stored procedures, just implementation details that need updating. Why is there no way to do it?
Stuff like this is already known for a long time.
I dropped cable, which had everything 'in one place', because it forced me to take everything and pay for it. What you see as a search and access problem I see as a new choice I never had before.

I use a Roku, it has a search feature that searches across a bunch of streaming services, I can see where is show is available, how much it might cost, or if a subscription is required. I'd argue that you have a search problem.

The entertainment industry wants you to buy it all and pay an ever increasing price for it, while including as much advertising as possible. The all-in-one service you are looking for looks a lot like cable, where you get a giant bill and no choice to remove things you don't want to pay for.

Given the way copyright works in the US, there is no 50 years in the future where things are freely available - future generations can still cash in on things copyrighted today.
> Not having [...] GNU readline shortcuts made work much, much harder.

That's weird. Fish has all of the GNU readline shortcuts OOTB and has for as long as I can remember
The number of cases in South Africa before this was very low as well, there aren’t many other cases of delta to compete with
People have lost the appreciation for quality goods. My Bialetti has traveled once around the world with me, it doesn't burn me when I pour it, there's no rough casting causing it to lock together when it's hot, the plastic handle is made to take the heat and doesn't melt onto the stove, it also doesn't break at the point of connection. All problems I've had with cheaper brands and other person's mokas.

I like getting good deals on things, but if its something that I'm going to use every day, I will buy a quality item over a cheap item because I know that it will cost me less in the long run.
I’m getting the feeling that you don’t live somewhere like Scandinavia, where we are barely exposed to sunlight for 6 months of the year.
> Doctors know about Vitamin D.

Don't be so sure about that. When I first heard about the connection of D3 with the immune system, I asked a friend, who happens to be a cardiologist, about it. He said vitamin D prevents rickets, that's all. And an overdose produces arrhythmia, so be careful with the supplements. Indeed, that's the conventional wisdom found in text books.

According to the internet, a healthy immune system needs much higher levels of vitamin D than those necessary for a functioning calcium metabolism, and a D3 overdose is only bad if you have insufficient levels of vitamin K2. I don't know what to think about all of that. After all, my representative study with a sample size of one and no controls yielded no significant results.
In the past, schools had a pretty severe element of bullying, both by students and teachers. It was a pretty toxic environment. It seems to have become a lot better though in the 21st century. It seems there are now less bullied outgroups based on class and interests that were endemic in the late 20th century.