skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think people would use a music streaming service that doesn't have all the content they want. I think the record companies agreed to the streaming deal because they saw that piracy was a legitimate issue, and the business strategy probably just worked better than for film. $5 or $10 a month per user adds up to an acceptable amount of revenue for music labels + streaming services to split, but there's just more money in film so the price for a universal streamer would be bonkers and no one would pay.

The content probably works better for film streamers too. If you have to change apps every time you finish a 3 minute song to listen to the next one you probably would look for a different solution, but film is a much longer commitment so switching services after watching is less of a hassle.
Ironically, they just cancelled Westworld before the intended final season. Not exactly a "consistent quality" show, but HBO does cancel some stuff, too.

But it is not nearly as bad as Netflix's track record of killing shows with cliffhanger second-season endings...
The music industry was losing out on tons of money until Spotify and music streaming services came up. Unlike movies, I think people like to have all their music in one place so if they cut Spotify out of the middle then instead of people moving over to subscribe to them, people would just stop listening to their music or go back to piracy.
I kinda hate how the lack of content is filled in by a lot of National Geographic Channel low quality infotainment.

It is a very strange contrast to have such high quality and garbage next to each other.

Also the restart show works, but not a whole series… it will still sometimes get confused and jump ahead because you watched future shows.
Last I checked, the Zapatistas are still around.
For all the complaining about Spotify in this website, they are still by far the best music streaming service.
WA building council votes to require heat pumps in new homes and apartments
Differential-datalog is a cool project.
I think the targeted use cases are different as compared to Cozo.
The most important difference is that Cozo is focused on graphs,
whereas differential-datalog is focused on incremental computation.
These two goals are somewhat at odds with each other, as for queries with lots of joins (very common in graph computations), you can't know whether it's better to compute new results incrementally or to recompute everything until you actually run the query.
Also, Cozo caters for the exploratory phase of data analysis (no need to define types/tables beforehand), whereas in differential-datalog everything must be explicit upfront.
Disney.. Terrible ux though ....can't match Netflix slick interactions
As an ex-DBA, the lack of understanding - and even basic performance monitoring - of your average Sr Software dev is mind blowing.

As a side note, the willingness of those same devs to allow queries of arbitrary size and constraints hit their db is equally frustrating.

“As long as we prevent against SQL injection, who cares?”
I think a lot of the reason is length. With movies you get disappointed once per 2 hours of content if you don't find what you searched for. With songs, it's 10-20 times per hour.
Does this mean my fortune cookies will go back to normal?
Never heard of Skybison before. Not finding much on google. How does the performance compare to CPython?
How many of these viewers are free with some bundle, cell service or etc?
It's a fairly big step from "remove copyright material from a competitors site uploaded by an unauthorized source" to "erasing history".
> When Netflix pivoted into content, they needed to get creatives and passionate people in charge rather than the tech-world PMs they ended up putting in charge.

Very, very true. Disney's magic is their strength as a content brand. Not just their core products; with ESPN you know exactly what it's going to be, from live sports to documentaries.

Netflix made an amazing pivot from physical to digital distribution, and that will be studied in business schools forever.

But they failed to pivot from digital distribution to content. They knew they needed to, they spent billions of dollars trying to, but they didn't understand that content has to be the primary brand identity. Distribution is an implementation detail.
> What are some games that have impressive physics nowadays?

Tetris?
My least favorite disneyplus.com experience is using the desktop site to try to find an episode of Bluey which the kids are asking for.

"We want to watch 'The Beach', please."

OK let's go to disneyplus.com and type in "Bluey" (no search by episode name). There are 3 seasons available. I can see five episode titles at a time.

Hmm, how do I see more episodes? Oh right, if I hover my mouse over episode 6, a right arrow is visible. Let's tap that one...two...three..four times, here we go, s01e26 The Beach.

There are about 50 episodes per season, so good luck finding s02e45. Also, the order in which they are shelved on Disney Plus sometimes varies versus what's shown in Web searches for the episode order.
Despite some poking around I haven't been able to find any reliable numbers about how many layoffs there actually were. There are some rumors that the whole marketing department was sacked.

That said, the article is correct that it is difficult to legally fire full-time employees in Japan, especially with such short notice. I wouldn't be surprised if some lawsuits crop up from this.
Best guess is that the business model in music has moved to live performance. It's important for stars to get their music heard by the most people so that they can have the greatest demand for concert tickets.

There's no parallel in movies. But it would be interesting to see the actors of star wars in a play that tries to recreate the movie.
BRB, minting an NFT for Liebesleid. But when I'm done, we should talk. /s
I think its more that he sees Twitter as an investment in his time. Not a bad thought considering he used it to meme Tesla to its current market cap and himself to being the richest person in existence. For most people its just an idle passtime and there's no ROI to justify the $8. Influencers and such will benefit from it though.
Tsk to whoever downvoted this. Simple linear models are indeed the right starting point for most new projects while you come to grips with your data.

In some cases you can stop there or apply a quick nonlinearization like Fastfood to get good, snappy, and generally debuggable results for very little RAM.

In other cases you move on to decision tree ensembles or neural networks, depending on whether you already have features or need those to be learned, too. Either way this ratchets up the complexity and resource requirements.

Decision trees in particular tend to have bloated implementations. I still use XGBoost or Scikit for training, but wrote my own library to translate the models into a more efficient format (~95% smaller than Scikit) and have thread-safe inference.
I think the difference is how music is consumed. When was the last time you just sat down and listened to music? The same way you would with a book or a stream? For me, music is just something I put on in the background rather than something I'm devoting my full attention to. This makes one song very interchangeable with another song

And that makes it harder to get convince someone to subscribe to your service because quality is not important for background noise. Even a unique song gets old after listening to it more than a few times on loop. That leaves quantity as your sole selling point, which if it is only your catalog is not much.

Maybe they could make an organized effort with other record companies to pull out of Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube Music all at the same time. But any of the smaller companies wouldn't be interested in that because it would make it harder for them to compete because they have a smaller catalog and less money to spend on the tech.
congrats on needing to take an entire course to come to that conclusion?
I don't know that it's even bad now. I have a home darkroom for gelatin silver b&w prints.

I got asked some questions by suppliers when I bought glassware last decade. I answered "photography" and that's the extent of my hassles.

Photographer's Formulary (https://stores.photoformulary.com/) sells most of what one needs for conventional and alternative processes.
..and that subsidy is the only thing keeping my Netflix subscription alive. I'm sure not getting ROI at full price.
They need AI expertise for Reels recommendations.

Source: A quick look at what jobs Meta is still hiring for.
Why would you think that working at twitter makes someone an activist?
It is an interesting topic why those markets are separate. My assumption is that music is way more casual and affiliation to labels and distributors is a lot smaller than with video. Some big stars aside there is lots of interchangeability ... that song not available, well then I listen to something else, but if a Star Trek movie isn't there I won't watch Star Wars. But that's speculation.

As a consumer I very much prefer the Spotify/Apple Music model. I don't want to have 20 subscriptions. I want to go into Blockbuster or some other video retailer and get any movie and pick what I want. I don't want to think about studios and distributors and rely on external services to even figure out what to use (in Germany: https://werstreamt.es which tells me where I can watch/download)
If you can't cash out then it's really just a jpg
I mostly agree tho there are some decent ones. I liked both enola homes movies for instance. but that's the ones I can think of off of the top of my head.
Likely a proving ground for yet more functional features
Seems more like a classic run on the bank. Made worse because:

+ the bank (FTX) was likely massively over leveraged

+ the bank's primary assets were likely not very liquid

Both of above are speculation. However, why else be forced to sell (1) to Binance?

(1) Matt Levine makes his usual solid argument as to why the price was likely zero, other than cashing out FTX debt: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
I might be in the minority, but I’m impressed that they let it run for so long. Season 1 was peak TV, and it just petered out after that.
> and refuses to allow Apple to index it’s catalog so it appears in alongside other providers inside Apple TV.

I hate this so much.

I understand the idea. “We want you to come to Netflix for all your needs”. Makes sense from their perspective.

But I’M the user. My Apple TV helps me keep track of everything I’m watching right now. New seasons of shows I watch pop-up so I know they are out. I don’t have to check 7 apps every few days to stay on top.

But Netflix won’t participate. You know what happened to me? I forgot about it! Instead of constantly reminding me it exists by seeing it in my Up Next section (like Hulu, HBO, Disney+, etc) it’s buried under a pile of other content I’m constantly reminded about.

Terrible user-hostile decisions. Just like hiding your queue of what you were watching last to promote The Floor Is Lava: Season 7: Back to School Adventures or whatever I wasn’t going to watch anyways.
I haven't used Rails or ActiveRecord for a long time, but from memory it gives you an escape hatch in the form of Arel that lets you represent parts of your query as SQL while still using the ORM for the rest.

Edit: I think it's something like

Album
.select(:id, :name, "SUM(songs.length) AS total_length")
.left_outer_joins(:songs)
.group(:id)
.order("SUM(songs.length) ASC")

I think you don't even need to explicitly wrap it in Arel.
They’re original stuff is often so incredibly generic and uninspiring. They might have changed how they display shows recently, but I swear there was a period of time not long ago when the main image for a show would only have a single person with a nondescript background. It felt like the whole thing was algorithmically generated.
Well, that’s neither Python nor Ruby. Both compile their code, and can do so ahead of time too.
Obviously this is subjective because my viewing hours are higher on netflix than Disney.
Disney doesn't have any dumbout content.

Andor was trash. Obi-Wan was trash. She-Hulk started out bad, got better, then killed itself in the last episode.

Most of the marvel stuff has been terrible compared to Netflix's Jessica Jones, Dare Devil, Luke Cage.
Please share these TV shows so we can all watch them and learn.
I think it's a common misconception that Emacs is not a collection of simple tools.

There are two major differences: Emacs' "shell" is the ELisp interpreter, not (eg) bash; and, Unix uses the whitespace-separated text stream as its common language, and Emacs uses the text buffer.

There are analogous tools in both environments, although in Emacs, most of the "little language"-driven tools use ELisp instead, giving simpler cooperation.

There's a lot of truth in the "Unix is just a device driver collection for Emacs" model though: there's little need for most of the Unix toolset if you're adept at Emacs.

I think there's a much more interesting discussion to be had in comparing the relative merits of text streams (Unix) vs text buffers (Emacs) as a unifying abstraction for a suite of programmer's tools.
Here's one: https://pimbook.org/demo/index.html

Eigenvectors are the fundamental frequencies of a spring system
If true it reminds me of business owners trying to limit how much their salespeople can make
So double-down on cloning tiktok, yay?
To publish, just PUT/POST via your favorite HTTP library, or publish via intent (https://ntfy.sh/docs/subscribe/phone/#automation-apps).

And to subscribe, either use UnifiedPush (https://unifiedpush.org/), or use intents (see link above). Or, implement your own foreground service with WebSockets (just like the ntfy app does).
Hans Neimann Sues Magnus, Chess.com, Hikaru, Among Others
I am guessing because they have over 200-250B in assets, they will have some occasional risky bets here and there that seems like a lot, but is only a small percentage of their overall portfolio.
Yup, if your "money" is in the form of tokens.
> Begich had the fewest amount of _first_ place votes, so was eliminated first.

Ah, I misunderstood that part. Under Australian rules voters who ranked Begich first would have had their second choices promoted to first and added to the respective candidates. In this case ~27k for Palin and ~15.5k for Peltola. Then the totals are compared.

Looking at it that way it's not so clear cut that it was unfair that Peltola was declared the winner. I think reasonable arguments can be made either way.

One thing though is that on Australian ballots all candidates must be ranked.
You can't launch a new service without exclusives. Exclusives are much less effective in music than they are in TV/movies.

1) There's so much more producer variety in music than in video, even at the top of the charts.

2) Music listening habits are very conducive to variety. In the time I watch a single Marvel movie, I could have listened to songs from 10+ different record labels.
The youtube channel Cody's Lab certainly deserves a mention here. For example, the extraction of iodine from seaweed is an excellent 10-min watch. It's mostly on the inorganic side, just search the channel for a random element and something interesting will pop up - try potassium, iron, silver, bromine, gallium, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder/featured

(Should note however, that demonstrating robust safety standards is not this channel's strong point).

For an older view of chemistry, the book "The Romance of Modern Chemistry (1909)" covers quite a bit of interesting material, and there's also a good librivox recording of it. It's really amazing how much chemical knowledge was discovered in the 19th century, even if they didn't have solid theories (QM etc.) to explain their discoveries.

https://archive.org/details/romance_modern_chemistry_1008_li...

Also, there are some nice youtube videos on various simple organic synthesis methods, such as aspirin from salicylic acid and acetic anhydride. You can buy small quantities of acetic anhydride but I imagine it gets reported (this is the same reaction used to convert morphine to heroin, which sort of demonstrates the foolishness of the war on drugs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NMpO1xI8U

Chemistry can be a lot of fun and is very interesting, but successful work really requires painstaking attention to detail, expensive equipment (good spectroscopy), management of waste, careful note-taking, a fair amount of manual dexterity, knowledge of risks and hazards, etc.
There's not really a connection here, the category of vector spaces isn't cartesian closed.
longcommon's law? Any sufficiently advanced digital media outlet is indistinguishable from an AdTech company.
Notably, the internet was widely thought to be a fad for the first ~20 years.
Netflix's animation successes are basically where Netflix gets the distribution rights and someone else does the entire thing (this is what Edgerunners did - and yeah it was great).

Near as I can tell, Netflix just plain...isn't good at content. Or I think more accurately, has been getting chronically shafted by trash-tier writers.
Why haven't any of the big streaming services tried bundling sports streaming?
Is there any concrete evidence they are in a battle? How many households have both? I know Verizon includes the Disney bundle for free. Netflix just launched it's ad supported plan as well. Lots of things are in flux right now.
I didn't know that, and I suspect many others wouldn't.
I think it's just sampling bias? OTPP is one of the world's largest institutional investors, quarter trillion under management. Their investment into FTX represents like... 0.002% of available capital.

https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/teach...

(EDIT: 0.2% not 0.002%)
Thanks this is really nice. Impressive to see that f-droid is that high!
He was talking specifically about software projects—I forgot to mention that. He was pointing out how phrases like "that should take less than a week" or "let's just fix it this way" tend to mask problems and often indicate wishful thinking. Of course there's a quippy element, but if you pay attention to such language you'll find that these heuristics work a surprising amount of the time.
My daughter would hear this when she worked in a cafeteria. It typically came with an extravagant request:

"Can I just have a non-fat sugar-free vanilla latte with one pump of hazelnut? Not too hot."
> Complex PTSD can be a condition that involves significant to total amnesia of the events causing it

I have a high baseline anxiety and pretty much no memory of anything pre 8 (except for very small fragments). When I’ve come across amnesia part while reading “Body keeps scores”, it frankly frightened me (and still does) of what might be lurking in my past.
I believe you are referring to Datomic's pull syntax (https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/query/pull.html).
The way I see it is that this is an add-on to the query language, not a core part of it, since it applies to the output of the query only. This would be analogous to having a GraphQL server on top of Cozo's relational model. (In fact, in earlier versions of Cozo we did have something like the pull syntax, but we quickly decided that we do not want two distinct ways of querying data in the same database, nor do we want to create a GraphQL clone).

I personally find Datomic's way of doing things a bit too convoluted, as you need to

- learn how to define the schema

- learn how to transact data

- learn how to query data

- learn how to "pull" data after the query is done

and the steps are all very different.
You can search the episodes in google eg.

bluey "the beach" episode
Last 2 Westworld seasons were very hard to get excited about. Wouldn’t be surprised if viewership dropped significantly. Netflix likely just calculated that they can buy 50 shows for the price of filming the final season.
Disney has so much less content

Does it really? (Serious question.) We got Disney because of the Disney part but I was pleasantly surprised by how much other big name content is on there.

I'm hardly highbrow in my viewing habits and enjoy a good blockbuster movie or popular show as much as anyone. I do like to spend my limited viewing time on stuff that isn't complete junk though.

I've all but stopped even checking Netflix now because the odds of anything on there being Netflix-made junk that I won't even finish watching are so high. Meanwhile I'm probably working through a couple of different shows and have several movies waiting at any given time on Disney. I suspect our Netflix subscription will be ending soon as I don't think anyone else in the house is watching anything on there either right now.
YouTube search is really good for that.

"Muddy trucks please"

Me types "muddy trucks kids show".

Exact show is in the top 5 and you have the hover to play snippet feature that gives the kids an idea if its the show they wanted to see.
Researchers discover a population in the UK with 600k% more incest
idk about you but I know of atleast 15 gems made by Netflix. but majority are cartoons.

15 is nothing tho compared to all of their flops.

if anyone likes cartoons checkout: centaurworld - awesome wrap up on the last episode
dogs in space
Maya and the three
dead end
Cuphead
over the moon
Klaus
Because there was real discovery. Just like playing old games and finding a secret room all by yourself without a walk through or the internet.

SCSI was fun, much closer to USB in many ways.
Bezos sells tens of billions of dollars of amazon shares some years.
And yet, here they are, processing a huge amount of volume. Their customers obviously do think they have a reason for existing.
I don’t have some kind of grand, unified theory about this - but the people I know who genuinely enjoy Ruby on its merits seem to think about code differently. Not different-as-in-bad, but just… different. I too find it hard to explain.

> Ruby is one of those few languages you can just read

I think this has something to do with it, though. The stdlib has a lot of different ways to “say” the same thing (TIMTOWTDI, anyone?) and used well it can be quite legible. But some programmers I know find that really frustrating.

Maybe it has something to do with how one visually processes and reads code? How one might associate semantic meaning to things? I don’t know how, but it feels like there’s something interesting there to study.
Contrary opinion: Andor was great, Obi-wan was great, She-Hulk was brilliant and fantastic from the start, and others have been absolutely clever.

Netflix's JJ, DD, LC, Defenders, were also great.

Have you _watched_ recent Netflix content? It's truly abysmal.
Netflix is bloated with tons and tons content that does not already have a built in audience/rabid fanbase like Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar and Disney classic has. With Disney I click through and see lots of shows with well known characters with decades of familiarity (legacy characters/content). Netflix I click through and have no idea what 90% of the content is via clicking through.

I personally have Never had any connection issues with Disney, Netflix, HBO Max or other streaming services.
Dumping your money into three-fund Boglehead portfolio and HODLing it requires approximately zero management or distraction.
I'm sure that Netflix has good shows. But they themselves don't even seem to care anymore.

Say what you will about traditional networks, they have occasionally have executives with eyeballs who watch things and say "this show sucks and needs to be fixed" or "this show is much better than it looks and may succeed with a bit more attention".
I wouldn’t watch She-Hulk even if it were playing inside my contact lenses.

But Andor has been great! Obj-Wan was ok.