skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you say here, and torrent a bit more than you and get things via newsnet a lot. I maintain a large media server.

The end result of my pirating is a media service that is easier to use, is higher quality and requires less effort than a streaming service (though initial costs and setup time were high).

I also pay for 3 streaming services that go unused, and this covers about half or maybe 3/4 of what I watch.

Streaming is in a dangerous place when piracy works better, looks better and is more convenient.
Using a pirate streaming service such as stremio is literally no more difficult than netflix.

I think you underestimate how many people pirated things before netflix existed.
Insteon devices function perfectly well without the cloud. I have several dozen of their light switches and motion sensors. The quality local communications (wireless that doesn't use 2.4GHz and interfere with WiFi + powerline) was the entire reason I went with them.

The cloud-connected hub to enable remote control was a bolt-on, and by far the least reliable part of their ecosystem.

So while I totally agree that smart home devices shouldn't require the cloud, Insteon is the wrong company to beat on there.
The problem is less booting the OS once installed, but finding an iso I don't have to mess with too much to install it. Most of them assume 64 bits CPU means 64 bits UEFI...
I think it's true in the same way that Media companies feigned that everyone was pirating.

If it's just as fringe as you say, and i agree, then we shouldn't entertain the idea that media is (or was, in early 2000s before Netflix) losing that much money to pirating. As i'm sure now that people start migrating to less legal avenues for digital media we'll start seeing a resurgence of cries over lost profits due to piracy.
Precisely spot on and succinct. Couldn't have put it better myself.

You can clearly see what's going on when you read the viewing figures of other media and streaming services out there and figure out why they're starting to shut down and restructure in the first place. Instead with this article, they continue to dodge those metrics and blame it on something else, or even on something totally un-related.

It is another form of deflection and denial to try to salvage anything useful to learn from this failure. Expect that there is nothing to learn from this since, it is the sequel to another repeated mainstream media product failure since Quibi and they haven't learned anything since that collective failure even in a global lockdown.

It is quite silly to see any defence in any prospect of this service quite frankly.
Believe it or not it's possible to take a proactive stance with respect to social technology and simultaneously recognize it can powerfully shape thought and action
It's not taken. It's copied. Digital piracy is not theft. It's unauthorized copying.

It would be taking and theft if you deprived the owner of their content while copying it for yourself. Like stealing money with wire transfers.

This isn't just semantics, it's important to not conflate theft and piracy. They're almost completely different, except in both cases the offender obtains something they didn't originally possess.

"You wouldn't steal a car" is mafiaa newspeak intended to maintain control of rents.
A Web Around the World, Part 8: The Intergalactic Computer Network
One resource I stumbled upon was The Dream Machine book. Very broad historic overview of computing history throughout last 70 years or so.
A tangent, but you might find interesting starting points from the nand2tetis course.
( www.nand2tetris.org)
And reading seminal papers by the likes of Turing and Church
> What is so hard about that?

Media companies have been using the value of "content you want to watch" to subsidize "content you don't know you want to watch" for about a century now, the back catalogs are what will keep you paying but that only retains value so long as new content can be added to it.
You're stealing income, specifically from me and all of my coworkers. Perhaps you think that you're only stealing from Producers and A list actors, but there are entire departments that receive residuals on a production.

- On screen performers, stunt performers like myself and actors who grind out a comfortable living. Those residuals also go to qualifying for health insurance through earnings. You are directly stealing from my ability to provide health insurance to my family.

- Assistant Directors, who are saints dealing with every logistical problem imaginable. The best of them only work 1-2 movies a year because the workload causes severe burnout.

- The Union themselves! The more money that flows through the union, the more powerful they are. The more safer movie sets become and the better life is provided for the workforce that makes your entertainment.

- Yourself! You are reducing the value of producing quality TV and Movies by stealing them. Every time one a show is pirated, there is less incentive to spend more money on an entertainment spectacle.

Go check out my imdb and see how many of my credits you've watched
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1968249/

For every show imagine that it's a nickel you stole from my income. WOuldn't be surprised if you took a buck or two out of mine. Now multiply that by all the on screen performers and ADs and others I mentioned. Now multiply that all the people who steal like you.

You're directly responsible for sucking the quality of life away from people who make your entertainment and reducing the desire to make things you enjoy. You're going to end up with shows that are AI generated CGI sponsored by Mt. Dew and Chevy trucks.

Stop stealing our shit.
Disney, Paramount, CNN would eventually be held hostage to their platform by a Spotify or Steam ... The Music business and artists have been destroyed by Spotify
No cost will be too great for the people not paying it.
that's only a recent feature!
It is THE solution because its the only thing that will force them to change their model.

See music streaming, the origin of video streaming, origin of steam etc
> Every ideologue latches onto buzzwords like "human scale"

I started hating this term, because it appears to reflect a very particular lifestyle which in turn fits a very particular demographic and just assumes this is better than alternatives.

One thing that I never see mentioned is how this affects availability of real estate. In my corner of the world people are generally leaving large cities, because at least half of the working population isn't eligible for a mortgage for an apartment within city limits.

You can only go so far on foot or on a bicycle in a day. With a car you at least have a bargaining chip against the local real estate market.
13-24 year olds. Majority of HN users aren't Snapchat users based on polls I've conducted on the past.
Disagree. Its these reminders like this that make it so that we don't take the years we have for granted. We need these reminders all the time.

I'm always thankful for the reminders. Especially this one as its actually about children. I will be sure to spend extra time with them today.
Hearsay is this a courtroom? I'll cite an example : the entire front page of Netflix is an agenda. When they removed ratings I knew it was going downhill.
> How long until Comcast advertises its proprietary Comcast Network?

AOL / CompuServe here we come (again). Walled gardens for everyone.
I thought perf can also exploit Intel processor trace?
NYT has its own issues, but you’ll only hear about them from real Americans in Ohio.
> And doesn't provide any money for future shows that you might enjoy.

The last movie I pirated was directed by a man who died almost 30 years ago. Do you suppose if I subscribed to Netflix (which doesn't even have any of his movies at all as far I can tell), they'd hire a necromancer to get a few more movies out of his corpse?
It does seem absurd that I have to round trip to us-east-1 to turn the lights in the closet on or off but there are reasons behind the cloud-based architecture.

The original SmartThings is a very weak device that can't do a lot of processing on board. Running in the cloud it is straightforward to custom the thing by, say, writing an AWS lambda function. If you had to install "device drivers" for every IoT device on the local device it could be easily overloaded.

As it is SmartThings featureful system that is easy to code for, for instance you can browse a pretty extensive logs in the system that would be hard to store locally. One reason you don't see a good IoT device that runs independently of the cloud is that it would be much more expensive and harder to integrate with.

You might not use it but one of the selling points of the IoT is the ability to remote control devices over the internet and having a bastion in the cloud is the royal road to that being reliable.
I can imagine mixing this with a VR headset and I am sure it'd be a great experience.
I watched a recent program about a clothing brand who they tried to peg as racist but failed.

The content itself is political. That's increasingly problematic.
I've just read that live CNN wasn't even available on CNN+. That's idiotic. I can't get CNN without a full fledged cable subscription, but if this was cheap and offered a CNN livestream I'd think about it, but not even offering the live feed is just absurd.
I think a big missing piece for the whole thing is the Just Works factor. You're either stuck with cloud garbage (some of which does, kinda, Just Work, until it doesn't), or a bunch of DIY. Meanwhile, with traditional dumb fixtures, switches, outlets, et c., I don't even pay attention to which brand I'm buying. They all work the same, and you hook them all up the same way, then forget about them until/unless they physically break.
If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31111304, your reply was flagged by users. I don't know if that's 'censorship' or not but moderators didn't touch it.

You can't seriously be questioning how snarkily attacking someone for the ethnicity of their name is against the HN guidelines? That, plus all your other comments attacking other users, are way outside what's acceptable here. If that's not obvious to you after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, I'm not sure what else to say.

If we didn't ban such accounts, we might as well not moderate this place at all, so please fix this.
Got food cravings? What’s living in your gut may be responsible
The rebuttal to this argument of "Well russia could just flatten them if they want" is, well, why hasn't russia done so?
Evan had this right - tracking as the primary value prop for advertising is a loser's game. Marketing is much more than just ads, and Snapchat has rebuffed going the easy route, honored by market participants, to uphold this principle. They will be an enduring company because of this. How 'big' of a company is up for debate, but honestly not worth the bits to transmit - they are one of the few, if only, doing good business in the social space.
Was there any large scale consumer FTTH in the 90s (or even early 2000s)? I am sure the nordics had some very fast speeds but it was typically FTTB (fibre to an apartment block, then ethernet to each apartment).
I'd be careful to make a claim as big as "the bottom is dropping out," but Netflix is facing a few headwinds.

- Lots of competition, some more serious (Disney+) than others (Amazon)

- Nearing the top of the streaming adoption curve

- End of the stay-at-home covid bump

The covid impact is noise in the long (5+ years) term.

Reaching full adoption is a sign of maturity overtaking growth. You run the company differently, but it's not "the bottom dropping out."

Competition is rough. The competitors have deep pockets and back catalogs, but consumers have no appetite for 6 separate services. This is where I'd be worried.

I empathize with the recommendation and UI gripes, but I doubt they're driving Netflix's woes.
Archeological sites.
Check out the Home Assistant [1] documentation and Google 'zigbee vs z-wave' (the two major interoperable standards) and you'll be on the right track I think. Comparing and contrasting will explain the caveats and benefits of each and why they are designed the way they are.

Note: By default these standards are NOT radio-secure and you need to pursue secure device pairing for devices like door locks and garage openers.

[1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/
In one kid show "She-Ra" for example, every relationship is gay/lesbian save for one. I cannot prove harm in any meaningful way, but I think this sort of misrepresentation of reality is very confusing to kids.
Not every manager is Dilbert's PHB, but some are. And you can bet the pressure to go back to the office for tasks that don't require an office mostly comes from those.
https://oxide.computer/podcasts

This podcast is everything
This essay was nearly impenetrable for me, so I suspect I'm nowhere near educated enough in the humanities to understand his book.

This zinger really stood out to me:

"The only appropriate use of social media, beyond simple announcements of personal milestones or professional engagements, is shitposting. It is a medium that deserves nothing earnest, and that can facilitate no real project of social betterment."

Unfortunately I think the shitposting is being digested and regurgitated by web3 cultists as the "real project".
Some discussion on prql
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30060784#30062329
At least high school- and college-aged people do.
I, too, can write code that everyone understands! Behold it's beauty:

Union[List[Tuple[Tuple[str, int, str], Tuple[int, float, float]]], Iterator[Tuple[Tuple[str, int, str], Tuple[int, float, float]]]]

/s
It is highly dependent on the organization. Having worked for Apple, the opposite seemed true. Anyone with empathy, charisma, and leadership skills was quickly filtered out. There certainly were a few good eggs, but they were rare and far between. It takes a certain sort to succeed there.

The company seemed to select for extreme psychopathy the higher you looked.
But noone went the fibre route in 1990. To my knowledge only widespread FTTH happened in the early 2000s, at which point there was affordable PON equipment.

My point is that how you'd plan a FTTH network in 1990 would be radically different to how you would do it even 10 years later. There is a chance that you could have planned it entirely wrong given the changes in technology which came about rapidly after that.
They used to have Open Directory, but that went nowhere. Mac users never really appreciated directory services.
If we were immortal we wouldn't exist, because how would natural selection work in a world where individuals live forever?

And if you don't think natural selection is what powers nature, then the question becomes, why did God choose to kill his creatures?
I sort of think piracy in this context is actually distributing some media, e.g. a movie, without holding the copyright or a license from the copyright holder to do so.

You will argue that this may deprive the copyright holder of some rent if the media is for sale, but that sounds qualitatively different than taking or stealing.
> hire a necromancer to get a few more movies out of his corpse?

We don't hire necromancers anymore, they’ve been replaced by training models on a corpus anchored by the creator’s existing work.
It’s a pretty self serving protest. Just don’t watch it. You make your point without abandoning the moral high ground.
Home Assisant, MQTT and Sonoff devices

Not that Sonoff devices are "great" out of the box for using them off the cloud, but they are pretty easy to flash tasmota onto them.

With HA there are a number of plugins that will allow you to easily setup duckdns&ssl, there is a app on both the Play Store and App Store.

EDIT: I run HA on a Rpi3 just fine, I also added a zigbee USB dongle which I use to control my TRVs. I also have some cheaper wifi sockets that could have tasmote flashed onto them, but they are a plain to open and access the pads needed to reflash them. The SonOff devices I've been playing with recently are easy to open and flash.

I also use shellys for my fixture lights, again easy enough to flash with tasmota so they are running off the local network.

Another Edit: https://templates.blakadder.com/ has a good list of tasmota supported devices.

OMFG ALL THE EDITS: Just make sure that the devices have a ESP chip in them before buying them if you want to reflash them. There has been a trend as of late of using other wifi enabled chips which tasmota doesn't support. Can't find the device on blakadder? Try https://fcc.io/ if you can find the FCCID (and your in the US) before buying the device and look for the internal photos, there is normally a pretty decent close up of the main processor in there. Also googling "The Device Name Tasmota" will often find results of other geeks trying to flash tasmota onto them.
> No doctor, lawyer, real estate agent (and many other much higher paying professions) would ever tolerate this type of interview

Hah. The grass is always greener on the other side I guess.

- The doctor has to pass exams to get their license to practice. And additional exams to be able to practice in a specialty. It often takes YEARS before a doctor passes the requisite exams to be able to practice in their chosen specialty.

- The lawyer situation is somewhat worse. It is significantly challenging to get a job after you get a law degree (which usually is rather expensive and at any rate an additional expense after your first degree), presuming you pass the bar exam. Let's say you did better than average, you'll probably end up becoming a lawyer in a small firm with <100k salary. The big money is in New York city firms (the equivalent of "FAANG" in the legal sector) which is super competitive, and they plainly won't consider any job application from "qualified lawyers" who worked in lesser firms for a couple years.

The FAANG situation is simply a result of lack of gatekeeping in the software industry (you don't even need a CS degree) and general inclusiveness compared with the other professional industries. You don't need have a piece of paper proving you can code -- and that means sometimes candidates really literally can't code.

If the software industry operated like the medical profession, you'd have to pass a leetcode test before you are allowed to use a C++ compiler without supervision. And you'll have to take tests every 5 years to prove that you still know how to write quicksort.

If the software industry operated like the legal profession, FAANG companies would refuse to consider applications unless you had a perfect GPA from the top 20 CS programs or from another FAANG company. And then you'd have the privilege to work 60 hour weeks with them.

If the software industry operated like real estate, you'd get a low base salary and most of your money would be made on how many users your features contributed to revenue for your employer.

Nobody says you _need_ to work for FAANG. Most people don't. Given the competitive situation, obviously some people think the increased chance of getting an offer is worth the time invested in grinding leetcode problems. If you think the grass is really greener on the other side, try studying a law degree and getting a job in a New York city firm and then tell me it's really a better experience.

Disclaimer: I have a law degree (not in USA) and work for a FAANG. When I have choice over interview questions I don't ask leetcode style questions.
You should be looking for another job. The market is hot for data scientists, you can look around and find something meaningful.
It's stealing, specifically from myself and others in my industry that you haven't heard of that. Making movies would be impossible to be without your

- Lesser Known actors
- Assistant Directors
- Stunt Coordinators
- 2nd Unit Directors
- Stunt Performers

and I'm sure there are others. Residuals factor into our income, allow us to qualify for health insurance, empower our unions, and provide a stable income to continue working in an unstable career.

All so we can make better entertainment for you! When you pirate, you're stealing money from us.
The problem with this analysis is that it assume everyone has the same tastes, and stuff you don't personally like is "garbage." The reality is that people have a lot of different tastes. I don't think you should judge Netflix by what you don't like; only by whether it has enough of the things that you do like.

For example, I've been enjoying "Handsome Siblings," a Chinese wuxia show that's pretty shallow. It's not going to win any awards for writing or acting, but it's beautifully produced and good mindless fun.

To some people, it's filler junk (worse—subtitled junk). To me, it's perfect for passing the time on a long plane ride.
Netflix (like many businesses) use stock buybacks instead of dividends.
purchase the shows you want to watch individually.
When it was still called popcorn time I used it. It was easy to use, but it was far from being as reliable as any other commercial streaming service. Buffering was very common and subtitles were missing or would de-sync a lot.
I would recommend: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - Walter Isaacson
Isn't it possible to annotate a variable as not being eligible for dead store elimination with something like "volatile"? I wonder why that particular state was causing trouble for Visual C++, assuming that it's able to handle code that deal with other kinds of asynchronous events (e.g. signal handlers).
Some people like to get paid for their work and a subscription entitles you to nothing but what the service wishes to provide.
I wonder if this is different based on number of people in the household. On amazon, I think it’s usually $3 (fucking $2.99 penny tricks), which amounts to $1.50 each for the two of us watching. In a family of four, it’s sub-dollar each. Which as a percent of the dinner you’re probably eating while you watch is very little. But renting for yourself alone feels at least twice as expensive!
Yes. What did you think the future was? All remote and WFH? People are already running into issues where interpersonal conflicts cannot be dealt with effectively. There's no guidelines or ever been done before on how people who have never met each other can resolve conflicts.

Long distance relationships don't work, so why would they for the workplace? I'm not advocating for going back to work 5 days a week, but remote only works when you have a solid relationship with your peers and leadership. But workplaces are stunted socially, with either non existent relationships, or fake relationships that's only self serving.
Easy, just make shitty devices that have to be replaced all the time!

(please don't though)
Does “encounter for free” also include instant access? I seem to recall that movies like Spaceballs would be shown for free, but probably next week.

The $3 is for fast-forwarding Mr Video to next week.
I had no clue that this was even possible.
If the NFT crowd finds out about this... :)
The point of the news is to promote a narrative. They choose what to cover, and what to not cover. There is no way to do news that is free from ideological bias. And in large, corporatized media, the ideological focus is often driven by a single person, or very few people.

The purported Twain quote, "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed; if you do, you're misinformed," applies here.

People love to do comparisons to this or that news organization, "Fox News viewers are most likely to have a Beanie Baby collection," or "MSNBC viewers are most likely to believe that Elvis was an alien," or whatever. It doesn't mean much. They are all entertainment platforms that sell ads.
i've been working remotely since 2017 and around year 4 it gets old and you crave being back in the office again. I imagine this will be a cyclical thing in the media.
I've been trying to get people to pronounce it as "positive," like a disease.

"Yeah, I'm Disney positive. I was Apple positive, but got over it in February. Don't hardly know anyone with CNN positive."