skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix is overpriced relative to other streamers and they are going to have a problem with customer churn induced by streaming fatigue and price pressure with the streaming marketplace getting very crowded.

COVID theatrical closures made it look like they were fundamentally doing very well. If that factor is removed, the current strategic headwinds facing them would have been apparent much earlier.

Netflix could try pay-per-view instead of or in addition to the ads model. TVOD is a very small segment of total entertainment industry's streaming revenues and obscured largely by the success of SVOD driven by Netflix's trailblazing past and AVOD/FAST adoption by competition.

It may become the Blockbuster rental of the 21st century for the long-tail of videos, the business model they disrupted with their arrival.

Amazon Prime Videos is doing some of that (and so is YT and others).

But there is room for Netflix to innovate here to capture even the blockbusters (i.e., the fat part before the long tail).

(Theatrical | Direct to stream) -> NFLX Pay-per-view TVOD catalog -> NFLX SVOD catalog + NFLX AVOD catalog.

They could potentially sign up deals with theatres (and include technology) for special screenings reserved for the NFLX pay-per-view customers to watch the film on the large screen.

Some cannibalization of SVOD revenues will happen. But it would also force their competitors to play by the new rules instead of NFLX being totally reactive as they are finding themselves now.
Australia Covid: Contact tracing app branded expensive 'failure'
Separate yourself from big tech as much as possible and switching to only FOSS Software/Apps can be a great start for many who want more privacy.

Can go way more into other ways but too tired, also most who are surprised by this just need a starting point.

Btw, Apple and Mozilla are no privacy guardians out to protect you. These days they do just as bad.
It's sad that leaner and better designed FB2 format (or helped to improve it) didn't gain support from vendors. ePub format is just a bunch of HTML without meaningful semantics.
Ah. Presentations can really be annoying in those ways.

You're already looking at outcomes, so to add to your analysis I'd focus on something more like an experimental framework for yourself. Needed outcome tightly defined, test group, stimulus, response. That's a pretty good model for this stuff. Then you can start to hypothesize and try specific new things. Things that commenters here would just have no idea about because we're not there. Those are big.

I would expect yourself to come up with at least 3-4 ways to rescue yourself from outcome #4 if that's what you're looking to do.

At the same time I would recommend doing your best to focus on the advantages of group work (light touch, easy outcome) vs. one-on-one work (deep work, quality outcome). If they overlap too much it can get awkward and difficult--you can get that one person who it's really easy to talk to the whole time, or you can get the speaker/presenter reputation for being way too intense, trying to do training rather than presenting. Or trying to fix problems in person rather than let the audience go off and try breaking stuff themselves.

Over time I'd expect you to document your suite of tools for this stuff and then write a bestseller. ;-)

Anyway hope that helps some, good luck.

BTW for tech groups specifically: 1) Engage their competence when you can; tell them what stumps or troubles you (relevant to topic) for example 2) Find those in the group who are looking to (hidden agenda) perform, and those who are looking to socialize, and help them do that for your benefit and 3) Study their shared sense of humor and play to it so you can take some pressure off yourself with their implicit permission.
My father does the first and second things. I have no idea whether he has autism or not, but it used to drive me insane.

Using the React example, you do not need several minutes to explain why large software projects are a waste of money unless they're pursuing business objectives. It's trivially obvious, just say a slightly more diplomatic version of the previous sentence. The reason I'm not hearing what you're saying is because the question needed a simple two sentence answer, but you turned it into a two-minute rambling monologue involving several anecdotes and then began explaining what Chesterton's Fence is and how the sunk cost fallacy doesn't apply. At that point any reasonable listener would cut into what you're saying with "okay, but back to our shopping cart," and it would be 100% your fault.

Another thing my father is awful at is understanding when something is about general fact-finding vs a specific suggestion. If a manager comes up to you in the kitchenette and says "I've been reading about the new React checkout system at Dunder Mifflin and they say it increased ARR by $200k, do you think we should rewrite?" it's probably not a project proposal. It's a fact-finding question. You don't need to go into attack mode and protect your checkout flow from an unnecessary rewrite. Say "Well, React is a great technology for building really big web apps, but our checkout page is pretty small and not a web app, so we'd have to make sure we were solving real business problems."

I've worked with autistic people who managed not to do either of these things, I don't think it's inherent to the condition, and I have no idea if this is an accurate description of what the author's talking about. They pattern match very closely to experiences I've had before, though.
> Now a corporation

Just stating that while I understand what you meant, it could be confusing to others not familiar with subdivisions of India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation_(India))
One paper where some such experiments are discussed and which includes some color diagrams is:

https://psyarxiv.com/vtzrq/download?format=pdf

The violations of the triangle inequality are caused, as others have also mentioned, both by the nonlinearity of the dependence between the perceived intensity of a color and its corresponding radiant flux and by the interactions between the 3 color channels.

Therefore, while the 3 RGB or XYZ values are enough for being able to recognize if any pair of colors are the same or different, to be able to recognize whether in a set of 3 colors the 3rd is closer to the 1st or to the 2nd, one needs to apply some non-linear function of 3 arguments, providing 3 output numbers, in order to map the RGB/XYZ space to a space where a simple distance formula, e.g. the Euclidean distance or the Manhattan distance, can be used.

Alternatively the non-linear 3 to 3 transform can be combined with the distance formula in the transformed space into a non-linear complicated distance formula that can be used directly in some applications, on RGB/XYZ colors, but separating the space mapping transform can be useful in some other applications, e.g. in color interpolation (though color interpolation can also be done based on only a distance formula, by solving an equation for each intermediate point, which might be not slower than mapping the extreme points, interpolating in the uniform space and then reverse mapping the interpolated points).
Hasn't MOND been disproven by observed existance of galaxy without dark matter?
croatoan is the one I am using
The original ebook reader was a microfilm machine.
As I've gotten older, I realized just how wasteful governments are when it comes to projects.

Now I'm squarely in the camp of advocating for a "smaller government". A business can more efficiently utilize $1 to create value than $1 taxed by the government.
Jesus Christ,
I’m so sorry for your experience. I hope this is solved for you in the future.

This story makes my blood boil.
True, they aren't upgrading the satellites to the v2 ones that are 10x more powerful in total throughput and number of subscribers. They also aren't launching more satellites (and rockets) every year /s

Oh wait, I was wrong on all of those!
None of that makes any difference to the question. Phased array techniques save transmitter power more than bandwidth, because the beams just can't be very narrow with such a small array. It means one satellite gets your signal, not all in sight. Up top, one beam takes in many, many subscribers. Starlink will struggle to maintain more than a few tens of megabits.

Sibling comment has the correct answer.
You misunderstand. The author _laments_ that the conversation got hung up on the first question. The points you raise (e.g. "do my existing programmers have the necessary skills", "will this make future projects faster to develop") fall squarely into the categories the author mentions reasoning in (e.g. "teams", and "feedback loops", respectively).
You may enjoy reading about Lunar Palace 1, China's latest experiment with regenerative life support systems:

https://www.space.com/40610-china-mock-moon-mission-lunar-pa...

Or BIOS-3, the Soviet Union's experiments in this area during the in 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS-3

The EU has the MELiSSA program, which has a nice website and lots of meetings but no human-scale enclosures of which I'm aware:

https://www.melissafoundation.org/
This only really matters for sport. Hub gears and dynamos are less efficient but much more convenient for commuting.
the sad truth is we love polarisation - it's addictive to have an enemy to hate and a tribe to belong to. So long as we 'want' this, there will be a free market service for it. There is an argument for state funded or citizen funded media which produces non-ad driven information
That's true as far as it goes, but also Ben works here,exclusively on the open-source Litestream project, so his blog posts end up on our blog sort of naturally.
Not sure why this comment was downvoted. I'm super pro-spacex, but you're spot on for all of these things.
My uncle matches against that list, so they gave him a redressal number that fast tracks him through this process.
I stay up all night guarding, just in case someone comes to steal my ip address.
You can think of views as modelling a particular sort of implication, which is nevertheless somewhat restricted. Despite the restriction, it may be sufficient to cover many usages of OWL, but you may need to squint a bit -- what I mean to say there is it is not exactly an implementation of implication, but it may be used to model it and so some degree of reinterpretation of the resulting set of tables and views may be needed. The type of implication supported is roughly "a result to given SQL query based on (a combination of) existing tables and views => new record in a fresh table/relation".
"WeChat censored our former Prime Minister"
No, that's not accurate. Firstly, this doesn't clearly distinguish between WeChat and Weixin, which is sloppy. Second, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was 'on' Weixin, and did not own the account(!); foreign politicians are not eligible for official WeChat accounts. Morrison's Weixin account was registered under the name of a Chinese citizen known only as "Mr Ji" in January 2019, who appears to be, by all means, just some guy who later sold the account off. And yes, posts on that account were censored a few times.

That entire story is an excuse to cover up the frankly bizarre way the former Prime Minister had his aides run his social media. It was actually handy for Scott because Australian media spun the entire thing as an elaborate censorship plot and part of his election platform was China fear.

Meanwhile, this tweet thread (really 4 posts, it seems) is completely devoid of info on how WeChat/Weixin works, the payment system and how ubiquitous it is in China. Is it supposed to be a critique on a one-stop-shop pay/messaging/shopping platform? It barely touches on government censorship and there's no discussions on how government influences private companies. Very disappointing, given how integral the platform is to Chinese life.
Breaking SIDH in Polynomial Time
Thanks, It's indeed confusing without specifying what a corporation is.
i feel like you are trying to refute what actually happened to me with what you read somewhere on the web
Could this be why turtles age very slowly [0]? They have a slow metabolism [1].

[0] https://www.livescience.com/turtles-dont-age

[1] https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2019/10/13...
I always understood FAANGS to be defined by their engineering culture and the innovative approach to problems, not just salary.

Hence the selection of companies.
(only works in desktop mode.)
It's true for the blockchain game because all blockchain transactions are taxable events. If you purchase crypto from an American exchange and transfer it to your wallet, the IRS will know your address. Even if all you do is play games, the IRS will know your address and validate you reported it on your taxes. The chain is public.
There aren't that many uses for blockchains
The v2 satellites they're testing out to launch on starship are in fact scaled up. The v1.5 they're launching now are larger than the originals which is why they've not launched 60 starlink satellites on a single falcon 9 launch in sometime.
Hm, I don't see it on Firefox for Android.
Well, to their credit, at least one Australian state did extremely well and skipped most of the initial COVID carnage by staying sequestered through to omicron.
So, if C printf is slower than assembler code that outputs "hello world", then C is garbage?
Yes, but they specifically mandate a smartphone.
works on mobile for me.
> if your differentiator is tech you’d better watch out.

I’d say if your differentiator is tech, also sell the tech.
Good question, haven't researched that yet, thanks for the idea.
I recognize myself quite well in those words.

Thank god I didn't have to encounter an actively hostile person yet, but my big discovery last year was indeed that not everyone at work is motivated by doing a good job. It obviously sounds obvious when put like this, but it is something I wasn't able to put together in my own life. I have since left this job (my immediate colleagues and most people I worked with were great, it takes just a few individuals to really disrupt and dismantle good engineering), and am now in a place where I slowly had to discover how amazingly efficient and productive things can be when I am given trust and enough autonomy. I think I have 2. pretty well figured out. What I don't know how to handle (as evidenced by some comments here) is when to divulge how much I study / what fields I have a lot of experience in. I never understood where the boundary is between people thinking you are a know-it-all and arrogant, and thinking you are an idiot.
The Palm Pilot 1000 was launched in 1996, the Rocket, 2 years later in 1998.
It's OK,justin kan's here to save you
Yeah - this was a fix for a disconnected ground somewhere.
The blog post isn't about Fly.io, it's about SQLite. Ben works here, but exclusively on Litestream (we sort of "acquired" Litestream some months ago). He's not writing about our product; he's writing about his project, and about SQLite.

We have Postgres as part of the platform (`fly postgres`), and not SQLite. But SQLite is super interesting to us, especially with Litestream, because it plays nicely with apps that are deployed close to their users. A good starting point: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/ --- now, substitute an incarnation of SQLite with good read replicas, and in-process performance.
Customizable advanced rocker gestures and more powerful features in Vivaldi
The purpose of owning a gun is to be a threat. That's why the government has them, to threaten you with.
My biggest confusion about Send-to-kindle, is that you can't send an `AZW3` file. It's the format that Amazon uses; it works if you transfer it by USB; for some reason, you just can't send it by email. Makes no sense to me.
I've been playing that game since the beta and never bought into the whole vanity thing. Hats almost completely ruined the game and even today half the community servers are just drop grounds for vullshit items.
What about battery replacement?

Seems like no matter how good the display and build quality, all eBook readers are bound to stop holding a charge after 3-4 years. I feel like the ongoing availability of newly-produced replacement batteries and the difficulty of replacing them are the primary factors in choosing an ebook reader.

My 2015 Paperwhite barely lasts 20 minutes after I pull the charging cable, even back in 2018 it was down from two weeks to two days per charge.

It's not like you can avoid the problem by loading up on extra batteries. A replacement battery manufactured shortly after the reader is going to be as bad as the one that came installed by the time I need it.

All the other problems I worry about like responsiveness, display quality and defects apply early on when a refund or warranty replacement is a solution.
Not really, they are just outsourcing resource intensive manufacturing processes to developing countries and then reimport the finished products thereby making it appear they achieve their growth by using less resources.
The change log is endless !
I'm specifically interesting by the new support of Gitlab Runner !
Benefit of the doubt to the author: they caveat the asking-lots-of-questions with "If [they] don't have enough information". Were they familiar enough with the checkout system to answer the question off the cuff, they may well have done so.
The copy and swap idiom in C++
Short answer: It gets pushed out in other places.

Long answer: When you try to do destructive interference, you do it only in specific places, you have valleys and peaks somewhere else. Energy from valleys (detructive interference) just enlarges peaks and makes them brighter. As first commenter on that topic said, you can't make destructive interference without making constructive one in different place, so energy is not lost.
The easter egg doesn't seem to work on mobile (or maybe from outside the US?), but as someone who hasn't used google.com for quite a while, what's remarkable to me is how much the landing SERP has changed since the simple list-of-links design of the early days. And not in a good way. I have some time, so rant incoming...

From top to bottom, here's what I see for "cat":

0. To start, that annoying full-screen cookie consent form. At least it has a "Reject all" button now, so it's relatively quick to dismiss.

1. A full-screen business summary for Caterpillar, including contact, revenue, and other less important information, followed by their site link. Useful, I guess.

2. Six thumbnail images of cats with a link to view all images. Very relevant, makes sense, but I would go to Image Search if I wanted to see images.

3. A map with some vaguely relevant locations and a link to view more map results. Why is this on the SERP? Again, if I wanted to search for locations, I'd go directly to Maps.

4. Some "other questions from users" section about the CAT brand. Huh? My search term wasn't a question, so why is this here? And why would I care about _other_ questions than the one I searched for? And, most importantly, why is this on the SERP?? Bafflingly bad design, context, presentation...

5. A couple of out of place, but presumably sponsored, links to a CAT phones site and a Spanish university site. Weird seeing this in a standalone section, but it's better than having sponsored links mixed in with native results.

6. An "other people also searched for" section with some CAT brand search links. Why would I care what other people searched for? Feels sponsored as well.

7. FINALLY a list of search results, with a grand total of 6 links, and some are even relevant.

8. I shit you not, ANOTHER "other questions from users" section, with even more random CAT brand questions. W. T. F.

9. A "related searches" section, that's pretty much the same as "other people also searched for". But...ytho?

10. Some ads to purchase CAT phones, with prices and thumbnails. Ah, no surprise, it's what Google does best.

11. An infinitely scrolling list of results, mixed with sponsored links. Broken up by the same ad section as above, and then more results, and more ads... Ad infinitum. Ah no, there's actually an end with a "show more" link. We can still page through the results, that's great.

What an absolutely hostile user experience. I mean, I get that I'm not the customer and that Google wants to bombard me with ads, but this is borderline unusable. I'm quite happy using SearX and occasionally DDG, but frankly it doesn't take much to improve on Google's UX.
>the interaction happens over a line beam (rather than a spherical surface) so it doesn't drop off as 1/r^2, but as 1 (i.e. constant). Which raised more questions for me (and made me wonder what the MOND case is)

To me the MOND is 1/r as i think the very weak gravity acting only in the plane of the galaxy disk is, very roughly speaking, a result of quantization - i.e. "not enough" gravitons to interact in all spherical directions and thus gravitational field basically exists only in that plane. It is like a mental experiment - say we generated a classic EM spherical wave yet of a very low energy of just one photon, and have several other charges placed at the same distance from the wave source - while the classical 1/r2 would have the wave interacting the same way with all the charges that would be a violation of energy conservation in our low energy "one photon" case where only one charge at best would get interacted with and thus it would look like supposedly violating 1/r2 law of the EM.
Do you get German translations for the meows?
Yeah, Because Nationalism across the world is all time low!

Besides, The two main contenders for the title from Cambodia and Indonesia have stone inscriptions with 'Zero' for the 'Saka' calendar year; So even if the inscriptions are older, The origin of zero likely points to somewhere in Indian subcontinent of Saka Era.

The author seems to conflate between 'Origin of zero' and 'Latest evidence for oldest occurrence of zero'.

I don't think professors dealing with Epigraphy, Philology (or) Archeology can make such a mistake unless writing a click-bait article with misleading content was the goal.
Modular synth maker WMD is going out of business
Maintainer of open-source project Orthanc asked to show proof of ISO compliance
Trotting out a race correlation and not mentioning another correlation (poverty) is also racist.
> Wall Street analyst Adam Crisafulli of Vital Knowledge said Disney's price hikes align with the industrywide perception that streaming is underpriced.

Well. Damn. Sure hate reading this sly nod at my wallet, speaking as a consumer. And also as someone who doesn't own a streaming service. :-/

Since they also own Hulu, ESPN+, and Hotstar(? IDK but India, I guess), it's little surprise that they are beating out Netflix...Disney+ alone is just a branding monster of a service. Rescue Rangers might as well just be one long rap lyric about Disney's brand power.
So long and thanks for all the synths.
The whole idea of a "scientific consensus" is flawed as it's being used. Here, DM is the dominant theory in the scientific community at this time, but there are strong arguments against it, how can one call that a "consensus"? It's just the dominant theory.