skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's pretty intentional. IIRC they set a few strategic international markets where they want to be the best content producer. They've been quite successful in that: Lupin (France), Dark (Germany), Money Heist and Elite (Spain); Kingdom and Squid Game (South Korea).
Love the mission and effort ...
yet the first book I tried to look at in pdf format gave me a 404

https://batch.libretexts.org/print/Finished/eng-46560/Full.p...

From the link below, full pdf:
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Computer_Science/Appl...
> Netflix’s quarterly subscriber growth

Isn't netflix big enough to no longer focus on growth? Is there some mantra among tech companies that the second you stop growing, some up and coming competitor will eat your lunch?

Don't they have enough subscribers that if they offer enough quality content to retain them, their business can do well on any horizon?
I've heard the effect of internet compared to the effect of the printing press.

For the people on the other side of the curve from the village idiot that was true. Before the internet we (on HN I think most of us are on that side of the curve justifying the use of "we" here) had libraries and we had elaborate systems for indexing and searching [1] and providing notification of new information in our areas of interest.

We could do then most of what we now do on the internet as far as getting and processing information is concerned, just slower and we usually had to be fully clothed while doing it.

Like the printing press, what the internet did for us was make it so we could get that information faster, cheaper, and we could do it from home in whatever state of undress suited us.

For people on the village idiot side of the curve, the invention of the internet was not like invention of the printing press.

It was like the discovery of fire.

[1] A good example is a law library. Besides the books that contained the chronological record of cases and decisions from a given court, we had books that organized those cases by topic, books that provided summaries of the key legal points of each case, organized by topic, books that provided cross references for each case showing what later cases cited it, which points of the case they cited it for, and whether those citations were agreeing with it or overruling it.
I think I'm the only one still renting their discs by mail. I've been on a tear for several years now trying to fill out the "1001 Film To See Before You (I) Die".
No, this is the anatomy of an off-chain price manipulation of a private futures market that exchanges something that is tradeable for Bitcoin. It used to be funny but now it's just sad seeing everyone confused about the difference between bitcoin and third party markets. Only a vanishingly tiny fraction of this actually has any representation on the bitcoin blockchain. It's like buying stolen Tide detergent out of the back of a shady car in the parking lot of the actual grocery store then complaining about the grocer when you get home and it's watered down.

This is the normal finance people with their normal scams manipulating private enties like Binance which are vagely associated with Bitcoin. The finance people and the public at large cannot see bitcoin as anything other than an investment and that perception blinds them.
In most cases I would agree with you, but I think ArrayList is simple enough that backwards compatibility won't be a major concern. It's literally just a wrapper around slices that handles resizing for you, and there's no real reason for that to change. Exposing the slice underneath is a necessary part of its interface.
You can do the same on Amazon for free. I get a free month at least once a year, when they try to get me back in.

I usually also buy a single month on Disney+ and watch the handful of good movies and shows that came out since my last subscription.
Landing social media influencers with one link. Simplifying e-com life
So we decided to test the demand for a service that would help small brands land influencers that are knocking on their DMs.

Usually it takes a lot of waiting and communicating on both parts if conducted on Instagram.

Instead a brand could have a landing page with the offer and terms of partnerships they usually offer to influencers and just send this link to an influencer.

Influencer then could read it and apply by connecting their IG handle.

Brand would receive all the information about all applicants in one beautifully organized dashboard with the ability to:

1. Analyze the insights
2. Approve/Reject influencer
3. Get contact info and then negotiate the details off the platform.

Additionally, we would add the campaign performance & reporting in the near future.

Let me know if you know any e-commerce owners who would love to give our product a test and provide a feedback:)
Is it reasonable to say it is Biden's decision?

The FDA prefers caution over everything else and hasn't approved it for use in the US.
> I often wonder why Netflix is willing to pay so much for the Office and Friends but isn't trying to make a new show like that.

Because the hit rate for sitcoms is infinitesimal, and it's still cheaper to buy Friends than it is to commission two hundred new shows 199 of which sink without trace.
It doesn't mention which kind of tape. I'd be interested to know what they used.

Also it looks like they're referring to the VS100.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXstation

I never had access to those but I'd conjecture from the post they might've used tape. There at least.
Since this opinion seems near universal, is there any explanation for what the heck Apple is doing?
I'm all for reimagining the email system, but considering how wide spread email is right now I think the replacement might need to be at least partially compatible to allow interoperation during transition
Awesome book whether you like games or not. It a curated selection of Iwata's writing. As a book, it's well up there with Hackers and Painters, and Joel on Software, as a compilation of thoughts from a highly successful programmer / businessman and their life's work.

And if you're into videogames (especially the Japanese games industry), it's all the better for it.

Highly recommended.
Are those two the same groups of people?
There's definitely some ugly bits from that era, but I miss...color.

My favorite example are the icons in the iTunes sidebar, which used to be distinctly colored (and therefore quickly and easily distinguishable!) and then became a dull grey. It looks incredibly bland and it's harder to use.

Now it's split into multiple apps with monochromatic sidebars, which is slightly less boring but no more usable.
> "read the source code" comments always strike me as unhelpful.

I can understand why people would recommend reading the source code of projects like Redis or SQLite (and here Zig's std lib) to learn, simply because the code quality is so high.

It's also not like anyone is proposing that there will be no documentation when Zig turns 1.0 (as if high quality documentation and code quality were mutually exclusive!) simply that Zig is not YET at that stage [1].

There's much to love about Zig, and it's always a good time to be reading code, and all the more so while it's growing and shaping because you end up with a deeper knowledge and understanding of what makes a great project great.

[1] Personally, I do find the language documentation to be pretty much excellent and the IRC and Discord helpful—hey, you might even bump into Mitchell Hashimoto also asking questions there. It's the std lib that's a little less, but again, that's in flux and files like `std/mem.zig` are enough of a pleasure to read and learn from. Zig's definitely a swell worth paddling.
Having soldered eMMC also means that you have complicated the effort required to securely wipe the device. It doesn’t get any easier than ejecting an SD card.
Do not fear--it's only a matter of time before the "design conscious" crowd, which includes a large contingent of Apple employees, alights on the year 2005 as the pinnacle of "retro" and starts creating throwback versions of everything. By my estimation we're at about 1994 right now so ...
In a complex system, whose algorithmic essence is price forgery, value randomness and pump and dump as a strategy...Would argue that achieving maximum manipulation is simply the algorithm optimizing for its "best".
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> got fired in 2020 march for my last job at a startup

I think being March 2020 && At a Startup, are probably much more explanatory here than any reason they gave you. A lot of companies, and most startups, did substantial layoff's then don't take it personally.

There are probably things you can learn from the experience though. It's possible you were mis-aligned with what your manager wanted; maybe they wanted you to duct tape fixes ASAP & you were over-engineering a more long term elegant solution. Or maybe you just weren't great at showing the value you were contributing to the rest of the team. etc. etc.
Tiger also was the debut of Dashboard widgets, which opened up creating app-like experiences for those who knew HTML/JS/CSS instead of Cocoa (myself included).
Do you have any additional resources about this model of thought? It's like Redux on steroids lol. I wonder if anybody has done a SQLite-as-the-Store pattern library for front end apps before. I'd use the hell out of that!
As long as cancelling remains easy, I will continue being a subscriber.
Considering the type of content Discovery puts out and the old HBO bosses are all gone, I predict HBO quality takes a deep dive.
> We shouldn't have languages that are standard just because they are standard.

This is extraordinarily naive. Standards are a far more important invention than Javascript, or even the transistor. A standard existing just to have a standard is far better than every browser implementing its own scripting language. We had that once, in fact my personal website still has the text "This website is not compatible with MS Internet Explorer. Please upgrade to Chrome, Firefox, or Opera for optimal experience." even though that hasn't been true for over a decade.
This is a bit of misunderstanding of history. He started X.com which would later become PayPal.
Submitter here. I'm a huge techdiff fan, which is why I follow Gary on Twitter, which is why I saw this story in the first place :)
This makes me think of Wilbur's writings on the pre-trans fallacy, the idea that 'post truth' and 'pre-truth' are identical. A lot of the 'facts based' approach did require trusted authorities, and there wasn't much thought paid as to who was a trusted authority. Now that some serious abuses of authority have happened we're suddenly aware of just how screwed we can be if we trust the wrong authorities, but the answer isn't to do away with all trust in authorities. The people most able to navigate complexity seem to update both their mental models of the world and their trust in given authorities gradually, neither over-nor-undercorrecting when new information is added to the whole. At least that's my belief after reading 'superforecasters', something I recommend to anyone wrestling with the implications of the post-truth era.
> The X-302 and the Prometheus were fully human-built. They added the Asgard tech in later seasons, but they had hyperdrive prior to the retrofit you're talking about, see:

That was a Gu’uld hyperdrive. Also retrofitted.

> They reverse engineered the gliders by capturing some. That was the point of the X-301 retrofitted glider, which went bad, and the fully human-built X-302 fighter from reverse engineering glider tech. This includes human-built naquada and naquadria reactors, so reverse engineering this tech was not beyond their capabilities.

Both were retrofitted. The first was a Death Glider with human hardware added. The latter was Human tech with Gu’uld hardware added. But that doesn’t mean they understood how tho build a hyperdrive.

> That's why it makes no sense that they couldn't reverse engineer the staffs and zats in all of that time. It was a convenient plot point they used to drive exploration and trade with other species, but it never really made sense.

I agree but it’s just a TV show for christs sake.
Do they have a grace period in which to become compliant?
I won't say a streaming platform is a commodity at this point but it's close. Others may disagree but I don't really find a meaningful usability difference between Netflix, Disney+, and Apple TV+.

They're a studio with a streaming platform.
Show HN: An agent-based model for social teamwork on Streamlit
Implementing distributed rate limit in Go
> Maybe the File System shouldn’t be hierarchical but rather relational as well

How do you know it isn't?
Web apps are so over-complicated because of piecemeal client side data stores and the need to sync with the latest fashion in api protocol.

Imagine how simple apps would be if your data model and query interface was exactly the same on the server and client. With automatic caching and fetching logic.

There is such an incredibly complex chain of code to do the simplest of things.

What we lack is a good client-side relational+graph database that has an identical server-side implementation.
It depends on the project and the team/environment, but I’ve always found the old saying “slow and steady wins the race” to be true.

Better to work slowly and take the time to communicate, collab on reviews and write decent documentation than just slap things into production as quickly as possible.

Of course the company has to value that kind of approach.
They realize that people might do this, and they of course know exactly how many are doing exactly this. And currently it's not many enough to be a threat to their bottom line. What happens when it does become an issue, is that shows roll out with episodes every week (so you must wait a season until you can binge watch), and also that per-months subscriptions become more expensive while yearly subscriptions become cheaper.
As an American, I wouldn't have been able to predict that anything in that video would elicit a complaint, let alone be deemed suspension-worthy. Perhaps I'm out of touch with ... something I'd rather not be in touch with.
Down down down huh?

https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/bitcoin-logarithmic-g...
At some point, window shadows became much more diffused. I think the release that implemented this change was mountain lion.

I keep a Snow Leopard VM around to occasionally run old software in and the difference in shadow size is always striking. I personally like the more focused look of pre-10.7 shadows.
How about in amber then? How long might we expect DNA to remain intact perfectly encased in amber?
Web3 Is Not a Scam, but It Can Feel Like One
The idea that people put the URL in the blockchain is misleading and people keep repeating it as a mantra.

Yes, you put a URL on the blockchain but it's almost always a URL to the ipfs protocol e.g. ipfs://QmVc6zuAneKJzicnJpfrqCH9gSy6bz54JhcypfJYhGUFQu

This identifier is a base58 encoding of a sha256 hash that points to the content. It doesn't actually tell you what host to use to find the content, that's completely left to the client app; so you could use an ipfs gateway like cloudflare-ipfs.com or ipfs.io or you could, imagining a future in which ipfs is not used anymore, use any other kind of p2p network to find the content.

Just like gnutella, or torrents, as long as someone out there is hosting the content it's usually possible to find it.
It's a larger problem than that, isn't it? We collectively moved from piracy to Netflix and other streaming platforms because the appeal was gone.

But pulling the rug from underneath your users and removing movies and TV series they have built a relationship to just serves to piss off the very people you expect to pay for your service -- I understand it's a "complicated" IP problem (really, it's just too many greedy parties), but this will end in one result: more piracy.
OK I'll say it.... What are you going to watch when no-one bothers to make good TV anymore, because people like you don't pay for it, but watch it anyway?

I'm sure you are employed also, so how about I say 'hey I'll take and use your output, but I won't pay you for it' ? You'll be fine with that, right?

Pirating TV/Films that you can legally watch in your country is immoral, and left unchecked will lead to the overall decline in quality shows.

However... pirating a show (that you've been watching for a few years legally already) because for some dumb reason it's now no longer available in your country (I'm looking at you, Paramount+) is different thing entirely!
Not Now, Maybe Later
Author here: a blog post and a short video about the agent-based model for teamwork: https://bravenewteams.substack.com/p/launching-the-agent-bas...
Not just email. I got 3 texts this morning trying to pitch scam jobs, not to mention the endless robo calls
Actually most countries mandate a % of local content from Netflix. So they sponsor, buy, produce shows for that country and make it available to the world to expend the catalogue. That is quite nice for smaller director/producer to get access to a global crowd.

I remember a local movie (1) that became, almost over night, the most watched movie in Quebec's history with more than 21M viewer. Quebec population is ~8M.

(1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-first-netflix...
> ~$6.2MM (USD) to produce an animated film or TV series inspired by the contents of the manuscript

The budget seems low - more so if it has to pay for the rights (to multiple third parties!).
Technology is not the bottleneck at Netflix. The places where the product needs to improve are largely outside of the domain of engineering.
My initial wording was sloppy.

There were 50 trials in each session; so I counted a session completed if they did more than 40 in that session. They needed to have completed at least six sessions.

The mutate is unnecessary. I forget why I did that.
They said it was based on Zat tech and there’s no such thing as “real Zats” because the entire show is make believe.
Ask HN: HN-like community for biology and medicine?
Is there an equivalent online community or site for the discussion of biology and medicine? I'm looking for something that leans towards the technical details but is also a good place for the discussion of the economics and other closely related news.
> Pick one

I don’t understand. Industrial sabotage is an act of vandalism with the intended purpose of causing disruption in productivity. This incident in particular only caused a relatively minor disruption not much bigger then e.g. a partial github outage.

> I don't see how this is different.

The difference is in 1) the intended targets. This incident was targeted against particular industry. The worm you are describing would be indiscriminate and would have the potential to be 2) much larger scale and therefor you could deduce the 3) intention of your hypothetical attacker would not be to cause disruptions of productivity withing a particular industry, but rather to prank random strangers. The difference is rather obvious.
The relational model is orthogonal to transactions. Ted Codd literally called out consistency challenges in the paper. Transactions were not invented then.
Yes, but article calls out some big differences that the headline skips…

even with Netflix’s recent price increase,
the company’s standard plan is still only
about half the price of a typical basic
cable plan and arguably offers more value
with no advertising and a lot of original
content that doesn't appear on TV.
> So with that considered, spammers clearly completely lack empathy for their fellow human beings, they have zero care on the cost of their practice, as long as it makes them a few bucks.

I'll start by saying I in no way excuse like or can stand spammers, I think action should be taken against them as they've destroyed every communication medium in existence.

But I have some friends that come from some third world countries in Africa and similar places. From their perspective the few bucks to us makes them some of the richest and well to do people where they are at, and all they are doing is taking it from fat rich wealthy Americans and Europeans that already have too much money, even if the person is close to destitute by our standers from the perspective of many people in the third world if they have a roof over their head and know where their next meal is coming from, to mention nothing of ac and a car they are living an unimaginable lifestyle.

My point isn't to defend scammers it's just to point out that many of them arent malicious simply trying to survive in a difficult world, I would argue many of us here on Hm would do the same if faced with the choice after all how many people here already go to work on ad or surveillance tech of dubious ethical vlaue because the pay is insane.
Yes, these complaints ring hollow. I have access to almost everything exactly what I want, when I want, mostly on whichever device I want.
The Schrems II ruling occurred back in 2020. Max Schrems & noyb have filed 101 complaints, and we're now going to see DPAs make decisions (meaning the ruling is enforced). What's new now is that a DPA has actually made a decision against Google Analytics (and US cloud providers).

I can only speculate on what's going to happen.
Row names don't really make any difference in R though, which is very unlike pandas.
There's multi-billion-dollar blockchains where transactions and storage cost a tiny fraction of what they do on Ethereum.
Dplyr (and its spin-off dbplyr) is to me a fantastic practical example of the power of lispy metaprogramming. While R gets knocked a lot for not being a "real" programming language, or being weird, or just generally being different than e.g. Python, I don't know that I've seen a cooler example of high-level programming language ideas expressed as cleanly.

Ditto the rest of the tidyverse.
It’s gross margin and revenue growth are comparable to FB’s of 8ish years ago (gross margin sits around 80%. FB’s today is 90%, insanity). Even after it’s recent drop in valuation, NET is trading at a higher revenue multiple today than FB was at that time.

FB was probably undervalued 8ish years ago. But FB also had a clearer narrative around TAM and LTV than NET does.

The current price bakes in some biggish assumptions (1) NET’s TAM is not even close to saturated (2) LTV per customer will keep growing as NET adds on new services that existing customers will want to pay for. There are many valid reasons to believe this, if you follow their earnings calls.

That doesn’t mean today’s price is bona fide bad or good. Rather, it reflects Wall St’s faith in Cloudflare’s ability to materialize grand-but-achievable ambitions.

The earlier peak price had far too much growth priced in, it was not sustainable imo. When price outpaces value, it’s normal to see a correction.
Disclaimer, I'm only a wannabe Apple platform developer, but the GUI-driven workflow is still the predominate way to develop for Apple platforms. The most radical change is the introduction of SwiftUI, which has you writing interfaces entirely with code, rather than using drag-n-drop components with Storyboards.