skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a particularly good article on collapse, as other comments suggest. However, is no one else here worried that it feels we are much closer to it than in the past decades at least? The global economy is wobbly in unprecedented ways, we have a proxy war in Europe between two major nuclear powers, and there is a rise of political extremists in every country.
I agree this was a widespread suspicion, but I don't remember ever seeing corroborating evidence.
>I don't know anyone who will choose Netflix over Disney+ or HBO because of better tech

There was a time when the player for some streaming services was so terrible I'd avoid it, though sometimes only terrible on a specific platform (Roku, etc). I think you're right though, they are all now good enough that it's not a real factor for the basic player functions.

Though I do still tend to prefer Prime over some other services when picking something that's available on many, like a new-ish movie rental. Mostly because of the "X-ray" feature where I can see the list of characters and actors by scene. So, at least for me, there's some tech advantage left here and there.
A middle box on a private network can impersonate any website, HTTPS is of no help in this case. For example:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-catches-french-govt-spo...
I struggle to take anyone seriously who says that "being on your phone" is some sort of enormous problem. "Being on your phone" isn't an activity - complaining about it is like saying that someone's going too many places. If they're driving around to different strip clubs all day, maybe a problem. If the places they're going are their kids' soccer games and doctors appointments and picking up groceries and having dinner with friends, that's perfectly fine.

My phone has basically the entire recorded history of human knowledge. It has the ability to communicate instantly with people all over the world. That's a lot!

I own an ecommerce business, and on a typical day I'll check in on sales via the Shopify app, correspond with customers via Gmail and maybe take some photos to post on my business' social media accounts. I also use my phone to call and text my parents, wife and friends. I probably spend at least an hour every day reading news on my phone. And yeah, sometimes I fritter away time on Reddit.

People love to criticize when they see others on their phones in public, but you know what? If I'm sitting somewhere for a few minutes with nothing to do, I can pull it out, fire off a few emails, and then have a few more minutes to pet my dogs when I get home. My dogs deserve those extra minutes. They're very good dogs.

A phone is a multi-functional tool that can be incredibly useful (or also a way to waste a ton of time), and criticizing people for using that tool without any idea of how or why they're using it is silly.
> My brother hates the HBO app

Funny, Netflix is my least favorite app (on AppleTV), followed by the AppleTV TV+ app. The current version of the HBO Max app is fine. It lets me find what I want, keeps track of what I was watching so I can easily resume, surfaces interesting content.

Netlfix by contrast makes it hard for me to resume where I left off unless I explicitly add a show or movie to my list, which it still makes it hard to get to. Netflix refuses to expose its catalog to Apple, so I can't search for shows via Siri. Netflix also still forces the end of a show/movie down to a thumbnail sometimes before the credits even roll. And yes, it does this regardless of the autoplay settings, which I have turned off.

The only annoying bug HBOMax continues to have is that it constantly turns subtitles back on.

My favorite streaming app is Criterion. Netflix at the bottom, the others all in the middle.
> I don't plan to secretly monitor any conversations but I think I'll stress that I don't consider online and messaging communications to be private and they will be monitored.

So you'll be lying to your kids?
I created a python script to generate such 'encryptions':

https://github.com/AlessioM/encrypt_3d
Make it clear that picking the best people for the team is part of the job. Excluding good candidates or including worse ones is a decrease in job performance, and will be a negative in performance reviews. Decreased pay, demotion, and termination are all on the table here because this is materially hurting the company.
That strengthens the position I advanced, that you should change strategy - and adopt an active one.
>States aren’t required to enforce federal law

But Federal funds can, and are, withheld if the States don't enforce Federal Laws.
EG: Universal 55 MPH speed limits & 21 yo drinking age come to mind.
The recommender may be having trouble because of the large catalog of garbage content. That is, it's working right, but there's so much shite in the catalog that the recommendations are polluted.
Geese are amazing long range flyers. Canada Geese can cover 1500 miles per day, an incredible feat of endurance.
I am pretty sure, it’s hard that one is hard to miss even without owning a phone.
That would only provide an advantage if all of the platforms had the same catalogue. I think people switch streaming music platforms based on UX differences because they all have most of the music, and it's rare that people want to listen to specific music.

That doesn't seem to be the case with video unfortunately. I predict a resurgence of piracy.
If you use a screen r3eader then firefox is the best. Plus all the addons that block all the shit on the web. ublock being the best of them.
The median home price in 1994 was $105k, so it was basically three houses back then.
> I use % in the address bar very regularly.

I use * for bookmarks and ^ for history but have never known about this. :)

Thanks!

And yes, I do use extension shortcuts. Can't imagine my life without Bitwarden or Tab Stash keybindings.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177108 to know what I actually meant.
But none of that is private data, right? It feels like "tuning". Surely one could characterise Sequoia to improve the camera model, and I doubt they encrypt the exif data, do they? Also Sequoia is a bit of a special example here, that most likely has been carefully tuned by Pix4D. But DJI most probably does nothing for Pix4D that ODM couldn't access.

Not criticising ODM (I love OpenSfM and ODM), on the contrary: I feel like those are not fundamental limitations of ODM, and one could put the work of improving support for specific cameras without the need for proprietary information available only to Parrot employees.

Or am I missing something?
But then I have to figure out how to exit vim.
Yeah. We probably know some of the reasons action movie franchises (in particular) are big. Budgets have gotten huge and predictable effects-laden action franchises are very important for the international market and theater goers apparently flock to them in the US as well. The good news is there's lots of choice if that's not your thing.
I don't have the impression that Firefox is so much more optimised. If anything I had the opposite impression (Chrome using less CPU than Firefox). Makes sense too because Google has a ton of money and Mozilla doesn't.

Still I mainly use firefox and on most computers it's the only browser I even have installed.
> Modern day knowledge workers are under constant cultural pressure that tells them everything they do is better if they shove it up its own ass.

I wonder what this sentence means.

"Your vacation is going to be way better if you shove it up its own ass."

???
Yeah that site is rideled with shitty trackers!
My experience has been the opposite, significantly so, and just because you can't intuit why writing and typing might differ doesn't mean our brains are doing the same things when doing one or the other.
We demand data – The story of Lucid and eduction
I've no idea what it's like to 'consume' music. I've only ever 'listened' to it.
Episode 313- Bumping with a toilet seat conundrum
Ask HN: What Are the Limitations of Druid
It's frustrating that it's hard to dig the limitations of architectures here is what I have so far

1. Not for joins

2. Not for sql DISTINCT

3. Limited for high variability columns

Anything other gotchas? (Yes denormalization is stated clearly but the other two not, looking for such similar non clearly stated limitations).
Drift-Backs in the Aegean Sea
Back when coffee shop wifi was a new thing, and AP Isolation hadn't been invented yet, I used to discover a lot of music on Network Neighborhood at my local Caribou Coffee.

A lot of folks would have their file-sharing settings wide open, so I could just click around the WLAN and look for mp3's. Found all sorts of interesting stuff, and if someone left a writable folder, I'd take-some-leave-some in kind.

Those days are long gone, so lately it's estate sales. Show up on the last day of the sale and pick up a whole milk-crate of CDs for $40, probably 150 pieces in there. Basically if I recognize and like a few artists in the collection, I figure this person's tastes overlapped enough with mine that I should give the rest of the collection a spin. Oh, wow.

Best part is, it's all physical media which can never DRM itself out of my collection again. (I've ranted previously about random tracks just "turning gray" on my Spotify playlists, presumably because of some licensing dispute or whatever, and how deeply offensive that is to the fans who curated these playlists and assign significance to the songs therein.) It's a bit of work to rip and encode, but it's not like the old days where a 60-minute album might take 90 minutes to rip and encode. CPUs are quick and USB CDROMs are cheap; I can do 5 albums in parallel in 10 minutes. Then stuff the milkcrate in the basement and forget about it.
Tell that to Reddit. SMH
I agree. I definitely don't take notes on everything I read.
Get the "tab stash" extension, you can stash your tabs instead of nuking them. That way you can go back a few months and find things that would be tougher to find through history or other means.
Dude just invented ESG investing.
https://www.concatenative.org/ might be interesting for some folks
I’m not sure if ironic is the best word, but I think Netflix suffers from way too much content. It’s honestly overwhelming to try and find something, and the suggestions are laughably bad. Maybe those two thoughts are more related than I think, but these days I almost never browse Netflix for something to watch. I used to.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translation...

Operates entirely offline.
Do you want to be a boat builder?
No I'll tell them up front I'll be monitoring their usage.
Passport to Adventure – The 1990 Monkey Island demo [video]
In practice, this rarely comes up. You're almost never looking at ambiguous expressions. Instead the code is written as semantic factoring of the desired "bridge" (program) between the problem domain and solution space. (See "Starting Forth" and especially "Thinking Forth".)
I completely disagree with this analysis:

> The reason “Why Functional Programming Matters” was necessary in the first place was that functional programming had been mischaracterised as a paradigm of negatives—no mutation, no side-effects—so everybody knew what you couldn’t do, but few people grasped what you could.

The issue with functional programming, and the reason for that referenced piece, aren't because people don't know what you can do with functional programming languages.

It's because people don't know why they should care.

Things like "immutability, referential transparency, mathematical purity" are pretty, and it's neat to see the machinery applied in practice, but in the end people pick their tools because they help them get their jobs done more effectively, and it's exceedingly difficult to explain to a working programmer why "referential transparency" is gonna meaningfully improve their lives.

This piece, then, starts from this basic misunderstanding and proceeds to make precisely the same mistake.

Yes, what the author demonstrates in this piece is pretty neat. But why should I care? What would motivate me to move off of the imperative languages I'm already familiar with?
Why is Netflix 'fundamentally unsustainable'? Hollywood studios are some of the oldest and biggest companies (notwithstanding overvalued tech stocks) on the planet. They've been 'sustainable' for decades. Netflix has (had?) quite good tech with CDN and recommendation engine, their engineers were well paid, they had sufficient users to be profitable, and one of the strongest, well regarded brands. I'd say fashion or bottled sugarwater companies have more 'fundamentally unsustainable' models because their main product is the brand. Netflix has a lot more than that.
> focus key, F6

JFYI, Alt+D and Ctrl+L also work.
I still don't understand what exactly is "the problem".

Capitalism punished the people who had unrealistic expectations of netflix's growth.
I made remotion-confetti. :)
Coldplay’s Wireless Hardware Startup (2012)
Not even sure it's decline so much as cultural fragmentation. The head pop culture creations (hollywood movies and the top streaming songs) are things with universal awareness (so things that came of age before the internet and mass media was created by a few brokers). The tail has been growing absurdly. Go ask a teenager what they like to watch or listen to, they'll probably mention some youtube/tiktok streamers you've never heard of, and have a tiny cultural footprint.
I looked around at Go-kit just now, not really getting it, it looks like a list of resources and there's a bunch of frameworks listed. Doesn't look opinionated or am I wrong?
> Aren't most JS engines able to do this optimization regardless of |0

Yes - if you are taking 'after every math operation' literally. JavaScript engines (and other dynamic language engines - nothing special about JavaScript) track types at a finger-grained level than simple generic 'number' or not. They already know if a number is a guaranteed integer, and even in some cases which bits can be set in that number. Sometimes the compiler doesn't want to prove more advanced properties like range when for example a value escapes, due to the overhead of tracking this, and then it's useful to do the trick in this article.

Here's a worked example in a Ruby compiler for example https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/stamping-out-overflow-ch....

But the author knows infinitely more than me about JavaScript compilation - they're ex-Google and Meta, including working on both Chromium and WebKit. They could show their working by for example showing some compiler IR for the engines they know about.
I was wondering about the potential for a gaming play. They did hire that exec to be VP of their "game studio", but I haven't heard anything since.

Netflix has sufficient capital & technology to cause trouble for the kinds of markets that EA and Activision-Blizzard operate in. I don't know if they have the requisite time or leadership to execute before the market eviscerates them though.
And the statistics on that are? Also if it's the police doing it, you're not allowed to defend yourself even if they don't announce/identify themselves.
Are you saying that 5 interviews isn't enough of a signal?
Is there an emergency plan for when a country turns into Gilead? How many of us are daily incriminating ourselves on social media?
A quick google for bill watterson brought up several photos. IANAL and as such YMMV
Well I didn't say this was "something new".

Your comment is somewhat accurate, but not the whole story.

A copied Tiktok share URL looks like this:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/<unique_id>/?k=1

When pasted into a browser though, it redirects to the normal post URL:

https://www.tiktok.com/@<author_username>/video/<video_id>?_t=<tracking_id>&_r=1

From there the tracking ID can be easily removed (by one's self) from the query params. This is in contrast to Facebook's new approach.
The tool is already out and works pretty okay for the supported languages. (At least enough for me to find the page I'm looking for.)

Bonus points for it being offline.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...
Yeah this is an amazing feature. I never understood why they moved it to an addon. As part of the browser itself it would be easier to use.
You can hide the tab bar through userstyles css. It can't be done from Firefox itself unfortunately, but once you set it up you never have to do it again.
? How did you pull that off? Can they not just set their own DNS so you can't block them finding sites, and then if they're communicating over tor how do you even know what they're looking at?

Most impressive!
I use Vivaldi, it is slowest of them all, but it is the best browser overall ime.
Has it failed? Youtube and tiktok's strategy of using top notch AI to hypertarget a tsunami of really cheap and mediocre content seems to work pretty well.
Thanks for this explanation. Very clever indeed.
France Faces a Shortage of Mustard, Its Uniquely Beloved Condiment
I could see having three engineers working on three totally separate projects, but three on the same project usually makes things slower.
What language are you programming in? Just thinking about how this would work if you are using say React.
This is it. Music production technology made incredible strides from 1960-1990, as well as new ideas around production that the new equipment enabled. Thus, in that period, pop music sounded "old" very quickly. This all culminated with a computer-driven "we can do anything" style in the late 90's, where people like BT made awful hi-tech productions. Now, with hindsight, we see that 40-year old albums like Thriller still sound amazing, there simply is no new tech that can improve it.
You’ve just described a scenario in which one wouldn’t care if the gun had a silencer or not, so I think you’ve failed to make your point, whatever it was.
Cable had commercial free channels and on demand content before Netflix came around.
JavaScript now has Bigint! (ES2020)
I don't feel like 18 months and not currently on the Billboard charts is a particularly reasonable cutoff for "new vs old" music.

I listen to tons of new music - current, young artists, who've released all or nearly all of their music the past 5-10 years, that's most of my listening.

In spite of that, I expect that 70%+ of my listening is over this arbitrary cutoff and would count as "catalog" . Even if I find a new band opening at a show - probably they've been around a couple years and if I dive into them the majority of their music is >18 months.

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The other aspect is I'd like to see age demographic data for the music stats. Older people have largely only gotten into Spotify and the like more recently. Are young people listening to less new music, or is this just a reflection of now having a wider age range in streaming stats?
I think the advantage was in the convenience, not just in being a middle-man. When Netflix was the primary streaming platform, I could do a single search on Netflix. That if I wanted to look for Robin Hood (1973), Star Trek, The Matrix, 24, Glee, Doctor Who, John Wick, or Kill la Kill. Now, in order to find something that I want to watch, I would need to search for it on Disney+ (Robin Hood (1973)), Paramount+ (Star Trek), HBO Max (The Matrix/Doctor Who), Amazon Prime (24), Hulu (Glee), Peacock (John Wick), or Crunchyroll (Kill la Kill). Even if subscribing to all of the platforms were the same price, it would still mean that the convenience would be completely gone.

Fun fact: In 2019, the DoJ decided that it would stop enforcing the Paramount decrees, because there's no way studios could lock out independent distributors in today's environment. Clearly, no way whatsoever.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic...
Archaeologists find previously unknown Roman city at the foot of the Pyrenees
I don't really understand the tone of this article. Estimates are that they lost 1% of subscribers in Q2 while stock price is down 70% this year. Are they going broke? Apparently not. Is the stock price already very low? Yes, it appears to have priced in an even greater loss of subscribers than expected. What is going on here?
Well I had a look at this article on Firefox, just to see what all the fuss is about and instantly in my face are all these Ads on TechRadar's website. They weren't even disabled by default on the first install and then you have Google being set as the default search engine. I wonder who is going to tell the editor why that is?

So either way, nothing has changed from the typical user standpoint who wants to just use a browser that not only doesn't hog their computer but takes privacy very seriously and with that simple experiment I have done, it is clear users are still no better off.

They might as well use Brave instead of Firefox which actually disables ALL these ads by default on the first install by having Brave Shields ON.
"Warm" sound is rolloff of the highs by the amplifying equipment.
I can't go back because chrome doesn't allow customization that I really need.
When I saw the title of this article, I assumed it had to be about Tree Style Tags. No other browser feature has so immediately become a feature I must have so quickly.

Privacy and ad-blocking are great, but I could see myself being lazy and switching to a browser with a better UX, if one existed. But you'll have to take Tree Style Tabs from my cold, dead hands
Funny word choice - apocalyptic. The end of capitalism does seem like the end of the world. What does that mean?
Sorry for the Kumu 500s! I moved some critical parts of our service away from EC2 classic on Saturday morning. One of our servers was accidentally recreated with an 8GB volume instead of 1TB and the HN hug caused a process to blow through the remaining disk space with indexes. Should be back to working order now!
I use Brave - it has builtin ad/scriptblocker.
Exactly right. Everything is boring because reliable is boring. A lot of what we see output by major cultural businesses is basically algorithmic:

We need a well-known actor (so one of maybe 50), supported by some other known actors (several of a few hundred), in a story that's a continuation (so a dozen or so franchises), where he beats up a bad guy or two, doesn't die, and doesn't offend anyone. We'll add explosions, magical creatures, and physically impossible stunts, because people like that. We'll fill it up with either well known tropes or ironic spoofs of such for a bit of variety.

Songs are similar. Make sure the chorus is good, repeat it a few times, don't make people wait too long before the memorable bit, add a featuring artist who is going to get their own release soon.

What we saw in the past was people would try something new, and quite a lot of those things would crash and burn, but now and again you got a really great hit.

Part of why I don't consume much mass culture is I see this algo all the time. It's a bit like a foodie who's seen all the ingredients and all the ways to cook them: you stop thinking this new dish is new, and you just want to appreciate a well-made thing, which is also something that fits in this formula, but doesn't require constant innovation, and crucially doesn't require constant consumption.

Explore/exploit tends to exploit when there's a lot of money on the line. Same reason drugs are invented by little companies that get bought by the big ones.
$650,000 is quite the sum, I'd like to know who is paying that :) At least if they leave, you have saved the future salary you would have paid to them, and if they were truly worth their salt, even 3 months of their work is better than 9 months of luke-warm developers (just think of all the CRUD repositories and FooBarFactories you'll have!)
Looking forward to this making running x86 containers workable. Hopefully Docker will add support in their VMs
> Sex trafficking and sex work can be distinguished (i.e. one can have sex work without sex trafficking).

Note that this contradicts nearly all official usage of the term "sex trafficking", which just refers to sex work. Far and away the most common kind of sex trafficking is a woman working independently trafficking herself.
Not in narrative.