skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have mentioned that the AppleTV app is ubiquitous across every major streaming platform - Roku, Amazon, Samsung Smart TVs, etc.

A little known service in the US is “Movies Anywhere”. Four of the major studios participate in as well as does Apple, Amazon, Google, Vudu and other platforms. You link all of your accounts and a movie bought on one, automatically is credited to the other accounts as a purchase.

https://help.moviesanywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150045768...
The first version was way better.
> The other way of viewing this is that by not switching (yet) they haven't created instant e-waste out of every cable and accessory manufactured in the past decade.

Well no time like the present since time is linear and unless they're going to stick with lightning _forever_ then they'll eventually have to create a bunch of e-waste.
Unintended gain of function.
This is stupidity. Renewable energy will win in the end.
Ah. It specifically does not support emoji. Weird. There's another thing that the internet can't handle in 2022, then.
That Baroness actually looks like Natalie Portman.
I've been doing similar (i.e, growing my collection of physical medium entertainment). I also prefer physical medium and my own player because I don't feel comfortable with someone else (unseen) recording my every pause, rewind, login, etc.

I get a better quality experience and no one is probing my psyche.
There is an article that specifically says that VLC wasn't informed of the decision. Underlining this by saying shadowbanned wouldn't be overselling it, right?
There's nothing wrong with being a generalist, although I'm certainly biased in that regard.

I empathize with the stresses relating to short employment stints and unfinished projects; however, if you asked me if I'd rather be a lifer at IBM or a state agency, I'd run away screaming.

Maybe just go with the flow and focus on things you enjoy?
Excellent example of how a notation can succeed and fail at the same time. Electric symbols are used as a programming language in the plc sector and fail horrible when programs accumulate ever more complexity.
Just because Apple is huge doesn't mean any issue that involves Apple in any way is huge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-...

Until such behaviors are made too expensive, illegal, or difficult, both parties and well enough funded organizations and individuals (see reputation management agencies) will all engage in this astro turfing. If you don’t like it when the other political party does but you don’t care when it’s your own political party, there are words for that.
Why is Brotli more efficient on Wasm files? I believe their built-in dictionary was tuned for HTML, CSS and JS content.
SQLite: QEMU All over Again?
To me this code just looks like a lot of boilerplate to just say:

(replace (make-array count) batch)
The U in UML stands for unified not universal.
Final space was also interesting. Another show that got the chopping block for tax purposes. They were removed from AMazon, even if you purchased the seasons!

Piracy returns?
Yes, as lolinder mentioned, there will be a hosted version soon. :)
$10 per GB per month!
YouTube is asking some users to purchase a Premium subscription to watch in 4K
Yes.

Good luck winning this with Amazon, Apple and Disney on the other side.
> It's not even just a region thing, it's a more individual history based customisation.

Not in this case. There's absolutely nothing in my search history to say I'd be more interested in bras, but Pepper-the-bra-company is the first result when I search "pepper".

It's also the first result the Wayback Machine sees: https://web.archive.org/web/20220216050301/https://www.googl...
They are slightly different but inter-compatible when using only 2-plug (without ground IIRC). Which means basically all non-energy-intense appliances including ie TVs. Heck, even Switzerland is compatible with them all.

Notable exception of course are British, but they are not part of EU as we all know too well.

It makes life so much easier. I can't understand why anybody would ever oppose this, either vested interest or butthurt ego?
They could also import from North Africa - Spain does it, Germany wants a pipeline, but France is inbetween these two and blocks such initiatives to try to keep a future for their failing nuclear industry (even if 50% of it is offline), under various fake pretenses.

It looks like a catastrophe in the making, and public opinion about say fracking or support for war sanctions might change when say grandmas start making the news for freezing to death due to prices/blackouts etc.
Without storage it won't
Yes, believing that workers should own the means of production is the same as believing that Jews should be gassed to death.
Emojis get intentionally filtered
They could always make a new deal with the Russians if they will face imminent famine and the collapse of industry (which I don't believe they are).
All in all sounds like hyperbole to me.
A harsh recession is very likely though.
Seriously what is the theory here, they care about Ukraine so much they are willing to implode for it with no plan b? I find it hard to believe.
Not “natively”, but as lots of people asking, I will add it soon. Try to fit in this week! :)
A pretty average number of course.
If your movie is from any of the five participating studios you buy the movie once and it works across all of the major video platforms if you use Movies Anywhere

https://help.moviesanywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150045768...

Blu ray players are also locked down and the embedded keys are subject to revocation
Aspect is semi famous in France, does a lot of conferences on his early work introducing quirky experiments showing unintuitive behaviours of quantum physics (present interactions can influence past "path" (there is no actual path until final collapse but the choice could only have been made before the observation... however the observation was random so how did the particule "know") taken by a wave-particule, I wished there were more english translation of his conferences cause it's mind bending)
What would happen if you tried discussing something outside of the allowed narrative?
I often wonder how much money the movie industry would make if they just charged $2 for HD movies and $3 for a 4k download, no DRM because it's pointless and clearly looking at pirate bay doesn't work. I think most people would just pay and probably quite a lot. I'd probably be spending $30 per month there and it would feel great to be doing things honestly but getting a file I could keep forever.

The people intent on pirating would still pirate and the people who wanted to pay a reasonable cost would get as good if not better experience than the pirates. $10+ to "own" a movie on a streaming service with DRM and lock in is far too much.
In a past life, I led the migration from datacenter-hosted infra to AWS, and the net result was that we were able to actually increase the size of our infra to support full geo-redundancy, but pay ~40% less to do so.

Our app usage had a massive range of requests per second from single digits during off hours to many hundreds during peak hours. By modeling our usage, we were able to combine reserved capacity with appropriate scaling to manage our costs. Since our customers were primarily on mobile, we'd already invested heavily in minimizing egress traffic. Finally, making full use of many of the management tools aved labor costs, so a smaller operations team could support the business.
Think about how wonderful are the cookies laws!

That really improved the web and the reduce tracking!
Yeah - it’s rather annoying how they lump in ‘non-economic activity’ with ‘wash-trading’. HFT is totally legitimate way of doing business, the liquidity is provides ‘may’ be good for markets and shouldn’t be lumped in with wash trading as “fraudulent” without any real analysis to back it up.
How to say that you didn't read to the end without saying that you didn't read to the end.
What's funny about the thing linked to? The satirical claim is that Applebee's is banning Greene from to go online ordering.

Where's the joke? Is the joke simply a company is being mean to a Republican? This is one of those things in the realm of "I know it didn't happen but it's totally something they would do" except that it never happens.

Is it commentary to the story that a completely unrelated restaurant continued to impose a vaccine mandate despite being called out on twitter by Greene? If so, how?

That's the Bee's problem, most of their jokes aren't. They're really just mostly insults. And they really only insult one type of person.

Whereas, I can go to The Onion and tell you why https://www.theonion.com/high-schoolers-given-detention-for-... is funny and/or satirical without even getting into the actual article.

American schools are ridiculously strict and also the subject of way too many shootings. Even the fact of considering the act of fleeing from a shooter as "cutting class" is just outrageous. It's taking things that have actually happened, slightly exaggerating them, and then combining them into something that is too absurd to be believed.
> This really just boils down to complexity and verbosity

No, it doesn't. Hardware really is fundamentally different from software because it is constrained by the laws of physics (and economics) in ways that software is not. So, for example, even complicated components tend to get fabricated in a way that the constituents are physically co-located with each other. That's why you can take a photo of an actual physical chip and draw boundaries around the various parts. Not only that, but those boundaries tend to be rectangles. So even complex hardware naturally lends itself to simple representations in 2-D space with intuitive mappings between the representation and the underlying (physical) reality. None of that is true for software.
This is like maybe the least dystopic use of advertising data Google could go for! It just has the vibe of dystopia, but ultimately if you hit it off with someone Google didn't influence you, they just made a correct prediction. Compared to advertising to influence you to spend money it's nothing.
Did you find any good ways to manage it?
It seems many are confused about what the iPhone Pro comes with today - a usb-c to lightning cable. So right now you only need to carry a single power brick and 2 cables. So after this law you can carry a single cable. A big win...I guess.
> It was a graphical notation for describing code

The most useful bits weren’t even that but more of a graphical representation of a data model. Data models are useful in describing interfaces between components but they’re useless in helping with the codification of business rules. My memories of the time are ones of contempt for those that thought the completed UML represented 80% of task completion and that all that was left was implementation “details”.
I felt the same until I got to the end.

> This article was intended for laughs. I do not actually care how you pronounce "varchar". Pronounce it however you want. Don't @ me.
Read the book. Once you come to realize the collecting of your data isn't "passive" and that ultimately, it's being done to be used against you - and your free will - your perceived benefits are insignificant.

Put another way, being complacent and complicit not only sells-out your own privacy, it compromises the privacy of all those round you, your (future) offspring, etc.

For what? Convenience?
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So I'll use my personal life as a guide:

I met my wife, we fell head over heels for each other, and she's been my girlfriend or wife for 25+ years now.

Lesson: Find something you are passionate about and chase it.

In my professional career, I've worked in many places, I've been a systems programmer working in the kernel, I've been a UI guy. I've worked in React, I've been C coder.

My specialization is: Having been there and done that. Being able to do many things is a strength. You can adapt as your role changes, which is essential. Because if I've learned anything in 25+ years of software development: You job will change. You will change. Be ready to change with them.
Europe collapsed twice during the 20th century and several times before that. It will probably happen again but the exact timing is impossible to accurately predict.
I firmly beleive that for every movie I "bought" digitally of physaically I am entitled to download a torrent.
I'm not so sure that will be the case. The particular issue with this one is the insistence of using a proprietary connector when a perfectly acceptable standardized connector exists. How quick we are to forget that the reason basically every phone (except one!) no longer uses its own proprietary connector is because of similar legislation.
I honestly don’t think it was that bad. They should have just kept it to class and sequence diagrams however. As the author states, adding all of this unnecessary standardization around things no one uses was pretty ridiculous. Also various people clearly took things too far with laughable round tripping tools.

In the end, UML is fundamentally unimportant. I think having a strong opinion about it (either way) doesn’t make sense for this reason.
Most of Europe doesn't have the natural resources to do that.
The independent internet that's driven by passion and a desire to build is still out there, it's just getting increasingly hard to find.

Search is ultimately the tool that ties the internet together; after all, you can't consume content that you can't find in the first place. But in the modern, corporation-first internet, Google is highly incentivized to not surface independent websites, for a variety of reasons:

* Websites run Google ads, so they don't punish sites that run tons of ads, as a user-focused search engine might.

* Large, well-known websites are safe to surface to the top. Surfacing the "wrong" site for a highly political topic could get Google in trouble.[0]

* ... and frankly, most users are looking for these sites anyway. There's way more teenagers and non-techies using Google for a quick answer on a cell phone than there are people trying to find interesting independent blogs.

* For-profit sites are more likely to invest in SEO than a small, for-passion website.

All this adds up to an independent internet that's there, but mostly hidden.

I honestly think in the too-near future we'll see the independent internet relegated to Usenet status. Major websites and other businesses (who are willing to pay a fee/have legal contact info) can opt-in to be part of an ISP's internet package, and anything outside will be inaccessible. The recent KiwiFarms debacle makes me think this is coming sooner than we think, as this is a very easy way to keep "harmful" content inaccessible.

[0] This is why Google image search is so incredibly useless now; there was a media blitz a few years after its release where journalists found it would give racist responses with certain pictures of Black people. It's safer for Google to just make it so general that it's basically worthless.
Agree. The UML should only quickly explain the general idea, not the details.

Because the details get quickly outdated, since nobody will bother to update that UML everytime the code changes. And because if it's too complex, I could as well just read the code.
It is like Express.co.uk: EU on the brink!!!!!
I think they are famous in the same way Nobel prize winners are very well known within their branch of the scientific community.

In both cases they easily qualify for a Wikipedia page though I doubt most people can name last years winners.
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Do you think eventually Windows will drop 32-bit support like Mac OS X did? What will that mean for a lot of those games?
Also I don't believe for a minute that natural gas production in the US supplying Europe was the driver for this war. If it was, wouldn't have the push from Russia been towards securing the path of their pipelines instead of the Crimean peninsula?
Is this the new “who watches TV? I haven’t owned a TV in 20 years?” Obviously someone is buying them or do you think six or seven platforms are selling movies just for grins and giggles?
It's Malcom Gladwell so take it with a grain of salt, but his episode on The Satire Paradox was great:

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-sati...

The premise is that despite Satire being an attempt at speaking truth to power, the people who are targets of satire will often think to themselves "I get that it's satire, but don't they make good points".

I don't know that I've actually seen this in real life, but he mentioned lots of conservatives liked the Colbert Report because despite knowing it was making fun of them, they agreed with the messages. I've seen this with myself in Portlandia. I live in Portland, and while I'm not a stereotype of a hipster, I moved to Portland for the "reasons people move to Portland" and I often find Portlandia sketches manage to capture the essence of the very things they're trying to make fun of.

Ultimately I don't think people taking the bee seriously is a bug, it's a feature.
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I recall a road trip with my father (this is at least 30 years ago), where we went to see my grandfather a few states away. As we drove through some small rural town, we were tailed by the local police for quite some time until we hit the county line and they simply turned around -- my dad told me at the time that they must have been following us to see if they could find a reason to pull us over. As I grew up, and started driving myself, I believe that to have been the case. Quotas for tickets and arrests are definitely a problem in the US.
I mean if you pay more attention to results than vibe, yeah they are. But you know, less coercive.
YouTube tests restricting 4K videos to YouTube Premium accounts
Slovenia’s Bunny.net raises a $6M round to offer a ‘developer-friendly’ CDN
It was on page 3 last time I checked.
Except electricians and the companies that insure them for professional liability, or the companies that insure houses against electrical fires use that national code as a reference, same for building codes, etc.

It's interesting to read the comments here from people that have equipment and stuff in their houses and cars and workplaces that are constrained by regulations and laws all around them, but are worried about a connector on their phone.

A "free" market needs regulation otherwise it develops into monopolies. Setting standards is a way to regulate to ensure a level playing field for competition.

It's not like the EU has rushed this decision, or that anyone is proposing some other standard that wasn't considered.
Many new movies don't have a "streaming" license for a while and your only option is "buying" them.

It's also cheaper if you have a family and don't intend to watch it together at once, or even in a single day. It's also more flexible regarding which device can play the movie (iTunes rentals were bound to the device clicking the play button lady time I tried)

It's way more niche than a few decades ago, but there's a bunch of cases where buying is a better choice.
This is Russian/Tankie propoganda. Notice how the author subtly implies that America was the instigator in cutting Russian supplies to EU. Ignoring the fact that it was Putin who invaded Ukraine and Crimea, and started this whole sequence of events. It was Putin who decided to cut gas supplies, long before the pipeline was sabotaged.

This is motivated article which speaks half-truths with the goal of casting events in a particular light to advantage Russian interests. I would dig further into the author's motivations.
Presumably for the same reason that ML models seem to self-download to god knows where instead of giving you a URL to a download link and telling you where to place the file?

Or those awful programs that give you a stub when you try to download the app, only to download the actual payload to, again, god-knows-where.

Or even worse, packaging your app in a docker container!

Seriously people, give a CURL-compatible URL to your actual payload and then get the hell out of the way
Microsoft already shut down a lot of games when they killed Games for Windows Live.
I don't know. I've been around academics for awhile now and really tried to get a good answer to this and I still don't know. If anything I don't think it's always been like this.

There's a variety of indicators suggesting that something changed in the mid90s to about 2000 with academics (grant success rates, publications, etc). When I talk to much more senior colleagues, I also get the sense something changed even if they describe it in different terms.

Was everything better before? No, I think many things are better now, but it feels like the fundamentals of the system are worse. To me it feels like being in a house that's been remodeled with a new roof and HVAC system, but where the ground is sinking and foundation is in the process of collapsing.
Exactly this. Those of a certain age will remember the days when all media was physical media. People could purchase new, used or trade for a copy of this media. People had some amount of freedom regarding how they handle and/or distribute this media. It could be resold. A corporation could not immediately and arbitrarily decide to revoke your right to use the media or place many restrictions on _how_ you used it.

While streaming media has some notable conveniences in certain cases, the downsides to the consumer seem to outweigh those benefits. It's as if there is a coordinated assault on ownership rights across many industries which is being led by the ubiquity of actually-broadband internet connectivity, the streaming technology that exists across many industries (gaming, movies, music and even general software) paired with corporation's insatiable desire for growth at all legal (even some not) costs. Because they now can, they will.

As one who prefers freedom of use to maximum convenience I think it wise to purchase physical media when possible and back it up in a manner which is suitable to your long-term accessibility needs. Maybe I'm just a crabby old guy...
If that’s wrong I don’t want to be right. Respect for authority must be maintained. If current authorities can’t keep up then they should retire to save face. When they don’t they’ll get clowned.
shame, I remember learning it felt quite nice, to have a well thought-out toolkit to structure and/or share your ideas about certain aspects of a software. I still use it now for those purposes sometimes, in a quite 'free-form' manner on paper or on a whiteboard (so not sticking to the exact conventions of filled or hollow shapes everywhere, which I've also long forgotten, but using the basic pattern of eg a class or sequence diagram to communicate the point that I want to make about my idea, or to just develop an idea by myself).

I guess it is a bit overengineered (and too closely tied to the OOP paradigm) if you were to treat it as an exact specification that has to be followed to the last dot on every project (or actually forced yourself to generate code from the diagrams), but with a more liberal attitude I still find it to be a very useful tool on occasions
I wonder how long before IE goes with EU standards instead of UK ones, now that the UK has exited?
Agreed. Now if I have a TV show I haven't seen, I check if I've already downloaded it years back and watch the downloaded version rather than stream it. I can't trust streaming services to show me anything as it is, ever since Netflix removed the Community episode with blackface (it was parodying blackface, that was the point).
For those like me who are utterly ignorant but interested in self-hosting.

Can anyone point to a useful tutorial for someone with a solid understanding of desktop Linux but for whom networking is just incomprehensible magic?
I stand corrected. (Though UML didn't seem particularly unified to me either.)