skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Panem et circenses has been around a long time, it's not a new concept that you're implying.

He doesn't seem to be implying that this is new. Rather, that this is something that happens to any decadent society society where people are depressed and unfulfilled.
> "Using the iPhone’s camera viewing function the detective could see through the tint into the interior of the car."

What's the difference between this and using a flashlight? All the verbiage surrounding the iPhone looks like a red herring.
Hollywood’s CEOs are suffering. Not primarily from labor disputes or industry disruption or public-relations issues, but from vincible ignorance, which seems to be endemic in C-suites of all industries. Under pressure to deliver to Wall Street, too many CEOs have lost the plot of their own movie. They are not running companies to profitably deliver a good product, such as a book or a cup of coffee or, in this case, a movie or TV show. They are running companies to deliver good profit. The quality of their product has ceased to matter.

I blame the general stagnation of our current age and its associated rent seeking on the MBA. MBAs have spent decades teaching and preaching that what the business does doesn't matter. All that matters is financial alchemy.

"Forget building a better mouse trap! Take on venture debt, buy out all the mouse trap makers in your area, make their products worse (or keep them the same and sell them under a different brand name - whatever doesn't matter anyway) and jack up the prices. What are they gonna do? Go to someone else?"

"Content business? What content business? Those old Hollywood studio executives were hacks! They still cared just a tiny bit (a vanishingly small bit) about making a 'great movie.' What phooey! Buy up licenses, sell them for as cheap as possible for a while and then flood the zone with generic content. They won't know the difference! It's all the same!"

The reality? People do care. They might like slop, but they like well produced slop. Not just any generic, store-brand slop.

No matter what the artistic merit of Friends and The Office is; hundreds of thousands to millions of people subscribed to Netflix to watch them over and over again. When those properties were gone, they slowly began to ebb away from the platform. Starting in 2019, when Netflix first lost the IP,

"Netflix suffers first major loss of US subscribers, blames price hikes," https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20694711/netflix-friends-...

and continuing (with some ups) into 2023,

"Netflix loses almost a million subscribers," https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62226912

Their response to their decline wasn't to create better series or a better experience, but to crack down on sharing passwords. It made their subscriber numbers net positive for one or two quarters (so far), but you don't have to Fermi to predict how this will end. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/9/23755156/netflix-subscribe...
> due to the writers literally having disdain for the actual source material and we're just using the how's setting as a backdrop to push their own entirely disconnected stories.

Is this concretely true, or just disinformation to put blame on writers vs. producers?

I’m not saying it’s not plausible either way, but this is a common cop out.
Does it matter if the whole thing costs less than the replacement part for a more expensive mower?

(Disclaimer: I have no idea about lawnmowers or their costs. I’m engaging based purely on economic decision making.)
All hail Steam Deck!
Anytime you think, "ah, the solution is this thing from Ready Player One", step back and remember the following:

- that book was set in a shitty gig economy dystopia, even if the main character managed to personally get rich in the end

- that book was fucking terrible and it's frankly embarrassing that grown adults make reference to it in a positive manner
Eventually the money men become so risk-averse that they give up on originality entirely. Hence the endless stream of remakes, adaptations and formulaic additions to existing series.
Agree - there are other forms of capital and support which are more important to children, spouses, other family members, and friends than money. It seems like many people have already proven that having more money than you need doesn't actually make a difference if your life is broken in other ways.
What exactly is a panic attack? Like your just watching TV and suddenly convinced you'll die? Or was it like at work, something woukd happen and you freak out?
High-Fidelity Text-to-Speech with Minimal Supervision
I wish it would support reading mode! It doesn't for me, at least not on Microsoft Edge.
How we discovered and dealt with someone impersonating our company
Yesterday someone tried to impersonate
my company, Upollo. They cloned our site, had an upollo.tld domain and had also signed up for services under our business name.

I wanted to share how we dealt with it as apparently this is happening to a lot of companies and there isn't a good guide on how to deal with it.
How are you contradicting my point? It's historically very abnormal for adults to be so fascinated with dragons and other escapist features. We are living in strange times and it's not coincidence. We have lost capacity for art that engages with sincere human experience, a concerning situation for a society to find itself in. It means we are losing capacity to engage with ourselves; it is no laughing matter.
You are saying it like divorce is a bad thing.
Most trucks don't have a parking break that is useful for hill starts either (i.e. it is another peddle), so yeah, you just get good at heel-toe.
Yeah, this kind of article would never fail to mention Russia and Putin. But what is never mentioned:

1. Germany has no energy sources. USA had blown up the pipelines delivering cheap energy from Russia that German industry needs badly (so, German industry has been closing and has declining output since), also in just as brain-dead move Germany closed all its nuclear plants.

2. USA is deliberately suffocating German economy. First, dieselgate. Then, "fine" for Deutsche Bank for "provoking crisis of 2008". Then making Germany loose access to cheap energy and providing money to German industrial companies that want to move their plants from Germany (where they have no future due to lack of energy and other resources that were imported from Russia) to USA.
As a bit of historical context:

"This is horribly inefficient BSD crap. Using these function only
leads to other errors. Correct string handling means that you always
know how long your strings are and therefore you can you memcpy
(instead of strcpy).

Beside, those who are using strcat or variants deserved to be punished."

- Ulrich Drepper, around 23 years ago: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053...
How is it "by definition?" Just because it trains on known data doesn't mean it does not mix and match ideas in novel ways. Even AlphaGo a few years ago played a completely novel move in the game that was never seen or even considered by master Go players, so I'm not too worried about AI's "creativity."

I'm also not necessarily talking about AI creating the entire movie from scratch, it's a useful tool to help guide decisions. Personally I'm more looking forward to seeing indie filmmakers making something on par with a Marvel film in terms of CGI, without having to hire actors, rent studio space and time, etc, because the product at the end of the day is all pixels, data that can be generated line by line by a computer if only it knows what color to make each pixel. It sounds far-fetched today but in due time, everyone will have that power.
Tesla directors pay $735M to settle claims they overpaid themselves
Adaptive Bitrates in Video Streaming Design
Right and the reason I wasn’t able to date Mary Sue in the 11th grade is because she had an urgent need to wash her hair.
There's a ton of both. And there's a consumer problem where it's slow and painful and most importantly - expensive in the most valuable commodity, time, to do the research on products.

America is built on the assumption that people have agency to make choices. We have been robbed of that time and agency by the deluge of things competing for our attention, but also by the amount of things that we need to think about. There should be economies of scale - it shouldn't matter which toothpaste you buy, because journalism should keep them honest, but it doesn't because there's too many options for that and they're all corrupt.
Yes, you will have more time later. Now is the time to invest as much attention as you can into your child. It is the investment you can make now that will pay off massively later on.

Recommended reading: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate
https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375...
I have a question regarding a prenup. Maybe people here have good ideas.
I know someone (she) who inherited a house in a hcol area. When getting married they made a prenup so that she would keep ownership of the house. They also had separate accounts but lived together and spit the bills, an otherwise happy marriage. Then came a time, after both of them earned some money that they wanted to renovate the house. That caused some issues, because if the house is completely her's, should he chip in for renovations? Together they have enough money for renovations, but she herself doesn't. They will obviously both benefit from the renovations, and he is willing to chip in. But I don't know what would be a good solution.
Obviously this is someone else, so I won't get too involved, but I'm going to get married soon, and things like this make a prenup look like it doesn't solve problems, rather replaces problems with other problems.
This is wrong in so many ways.

> the blockbusters make the bulk of the revenue to even greenlight art house films; without the mass market films, there wouldn't even be any art house films (of a sizable budget like 10 to 50 million dollars, not indie films).

Your assumption seems to be that big studios somehow use the profits of blockbusters to subsidize arthouse films. That would be wonderful if true.

It's false, though. Art films are financed from different suppliers of funds, and they even play in different theaters.

> there wouldn't even be any art house films (of a sizable budget like 10 to 50 million dollars, not indie films).

I don't know what this means. Before you were talking about arthouse films but now it's low-budget studio films??? What are you saying?
To me it feels like a (proper) Finnish sauna.

Now that I live in Phoenix I tell my friends in Belgium: Go bake a cake. Now open the oven when it's on its highest temperature. That's how it feels... for 3 months.

I love it.
This shouldn’t be street legal. Danger to themselves and, most importantly, others.
DNA database to be used to crack down on dog faeces in French town
Of all the things I read on the internet today, this might be the most mind blowing one - you lived there for 10 years and don't know a single person with a car in Toronto?
> I addressed this above.

I'm not sure what is "this".

> See the coin flipping example.

"I claim the odds of flipping a fair coin 100 times in a row and getting heads every time is 50/50, but only in the situation where you happened to flip 99 heads in a row already".

If I'm told that I'm in a coin flipping contest and (1) in my first flip I got heads, (2) in my second flip I got heads, ..., (n) in my n-th flip I got heads, ..., (99) in my 99-th flip I got heads and then I'm asked what's the probability that I get to 100 heads in a row there are different answers that I could give.

I could assume that the probability of every single flip is 50/50 and then my answer will by 50%. Or I could give an answer higher than 50% if I'm able to control the outcome - or if by now I suspect that the coin has two heads. Or I could give an answer lower than 50% if I suspect the game is rigged and they are going to make me lose now.

Whetever my assumptions about the upcoming flip, my answer will be conditional on (1),(2),...,(99) having happened already. There is no point in thinking about the "whole game" at this point in time. I already got heads 99 times - just like in the Monty Hall problem I already picked a door and he already picked another door with a goat.
It was regulations, same ones that mandate the use of a five wheels chair with armrests. I remember we had to connect the laptop to a monitor and a mouse. I don't remember if we had a docking station and a keyboard too.
There's at least one short where this is fairly explicit - a politician is rumoured to be a robot, and nobody can prove it either way by his behaviour since the actions of a very moral man are indistinguishable from those of a robot. Oh, and there's a similar theme to the R. Daneel Olivaw/Foundation mashup stories.

(ChatGPT says it's "Evidence", 1946, so fairly early).
I’m 35 and I feel like I’m just getting properly started.
> W.r.t. nukes, for example, there is a good chance that mutually assured destruction prevented war despite how terrifying the policy is.

But Oppenheimer didn't spy for the Soviet Union. He worked to make the US the sole nuclear power, not to create a nuclear stand-off between opposing powers.
How does it feel to be an illiterate among the educated?
Seriously?

> all the time you spent improving yourself and building wealth will be for naught, at least for you

There’s meaning in that work if you accept that it’ll have lasting effects beyond you.

> It means you'll never be 18 or 23 or 30 or 35 again. The youth that you took for granted is gone forever and time will march with you until your death

Your youth was taken for granted if you don’t think it added up to you being able to provide for a family.

I’m just trying to find meaning in the mundane, not trying to preach. This view that being alive and healthy and able to raise a family isn’t enough is always disheartening.

Anyways, that’s my interpretatio. Or projection.
I thought twitter was actually not making enough money to cover its costs? Let's see how sustained these earnings are.

If you're not making enough money through advertisement to cover your own bills, I guess they believe splitting the money with creators is going to bring more people into the platform, drive engagement, etc. And under most circumstances that would the case. But it's not if you can't even keep the platform running.

It's very telling that they're only paying hand-picked creators.
Beautifully written: my personal feeling is that the decline in the quality of everything around our lives are strongly correlated with the increased focus on value capturing rather than value creation.

It's a weird prisoner's dilemma, since value creators will always be bled dry by value capturers, but if value creators stop existing, value capturers have no value to capture anymore. Then they start flinging crap at the wall hoping something sticks, because in their intense drive to capture value they ignored to learn how to distinguish truly valuable content.
I’m surprised they don’t open the code up to allow more people to pitch in.
And ten hours after the last comments, both you and the author post within twenty minutes of each other? How did you notice the thread? It is no longer on the HN front page.
I guess this shows that deficit spending works to increase GDP, but we already knew that.
Yeah, ok, it's just something to joke about. Nothing's serious. Nothing matters.
The top 10% of American households own 89% of US stocks, and the top 1% own 50% of US stocks. The benefits have almost entirely accrued to a small minority at the top. Some of the 35+ cohort are doing exceedingly well, but most just have a primary residence (with a mortgage), some limited retirement savings, and maybe a small investment account. Those people are still working for a living, and likely have experienced real wage stagnation or decline. So media pundits claiming "the economy is great!" really does not match up with the typical experience. The stock market is not the economy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...
*unix-like
All mediums are ultimately analog.
Yeah, because the feed is dogshit. I’ve blocked 100 accounts I would never want to see that are thrown into my feed (and so has everyone else it seems) but they just keep coming.

Why wouldn’t I uninstall that? It was the easiest decision ever.
I fundamentally agree with this. When Netflix demonstrated there was value in the IPR, the IPR holders took it back to get that value themselves. Netflix had shown it could make amazingly good content, but at higher risk and cost. It's got scared of the risk side. Too many flops? cancel after 2 episodes, never mind a season. So what if "fans" are ballistically angry and unfinished story arcs, they don't pay our KPI!

But, we also have short memory for the french metric kilometres of sheer dreck put out. I mean, "b movie" exists as a term because of it. hence D list celebrities exist because b list movies exist (kinda-sorta)

"Barton Fink" tells the story well: get amazing talent, smash the joy out of their life by applying the old school hollywood machine.

Disney has got scared too. It doesn't know if it will ruin the longterm income from Star Wars, by making more star wars. Its milked its goldmine of cartoons for 5 or more decades, and has a long term view (hence the remarkably bizarre disney thing about "putting it back in the vault" for a 5-10 year window so that a whole new cohort of consumers can be made to buy it)
This is a false dichotomy. The commenter above would probably also prefer to not have someone who doesn't know how to safely operate their modern SUV on the road either (and would similarly suggest it's not a thing to brag about).
He was a jerk, but often he had a reason for his abusiveness. Was the reason in this case valid?
Please do not post comments that sound like Tucker Carlson rhetoric.

Please do not be so fragile. It is curious to me, so what?

There are many, many things we've been told are ok for us and it turned out they weren't the most striking example for me recently has been PFOAs. In our area, firefighters used to spray down kids with "harmless fire retardant foam" and choppers would dump it into the forest by the ton. Now rivers near us are completely forbidden to go near because of the contamination.

I dislike TC as much as anyone else, but he is successful because some of these "conspiracies" can turn out to be true or partially true. Sorry but it is just a fact.
Forget the suspensefully-narrated self destruct sequences, why has the Pentagon not invested in plot armour for every soldier? Make sure the uniforms aren't red and they can only die near series finales.
Looks cool! One piece of feedback: It's really tedious to have to type in JSON. Making it a form would save tons of time having to write it out manually.
I have mentioned some of the reasons in an edit to my above reply, but to partially restate: All actions have unintended consequences on unconsenting passersby. To some, it is inconceivable to, if it can be avoided, get behind the wheel of an automobile when doing so actively increases the danger and probability of collision and injury. You are blind if you do not see this in your own life, or if you fail to see that the privileged life that you do enjoy is only possible because of the tragic conditions of life and strenuous labor that the rest of the world endures for your pleasure.

Owners of older cars work hard or spend a great deal of money to maintain their vehicles in good operating condition, but the machines have quirks, some of which are impossible or not worth solving. That does not make them unsafe. That does not make them oblivious endangerers of the unconsenting co-users of the roadway. You have one notion of what it means to be a safe driver, others have different ones. Should people be allowed to drive 5000lb luxury barges, an unregulated and unpermissioned doubling of the amount of force at play in any collision that has been forced upon pedestrians and cyclists and drivers by motorists’ unquenchable thirst for increasingly sedate, massive, and insulated driving experiences, where visibility is almost 0, and drivers are completely dependent on the onboard sensors and warning lights to indicate to them whether or not switching lanes will end someone else’s life
I switched to firefox since it has ublock origin as a plugin on phones. AFAIK chrome does not hence browsing on my phone is useless with all the ads I get using chrome
I don't think so.

You're describing the total cost and ignoring the larger amount of packages being delivered.

Cost per package drops.
I don't think it is entirely. Even with safe and neutered, writing could have been much better then it is. The butchering that happened in Witcher or Game of Thrones was purely on writers. It is not just money men.

It is that contemporary screen writing is unable to engage with characters and complexity outside of, like, 5 stereotypical tropes. That they internalized set of rules about how to simplify things and just can't comprehend any slightly realistic psychology of adults or set of events.

The money men did a lot of damage and are the ones who set the rules. But the bad writing we see now is because writers insist on cproducing bad writing even having choice. Maybe all the good writers left, maybe it is something else, but they screw it up even when having freedom.
At that point, is it the same as Facebook?
My mistake, I shouldn't have said art house, you're right that I'm talking about low budget studio films that are more serious in tone or have something unique about them and aren't just another action film. I don't mean indie art house films literally.
And even if it's a toy program and you don't care about performance, it's not as simple as just:

for {
next := <-channel
...
}

You have to set up the channel and the goroutine that feeds it, you need to safely close the channel when the iteration is done (but not before, unless you like panics), you need to deal with panics inside the goroutine and possibly support cancellation if the iteration breaks early (unless you love memory leaks).

If you try to implement this pattern by hand, you are all too likely to make fatal mistake, and this is doubly true in the hands of an inexperienced programmer.

I appreciate the fact that Russ wrote this long post, gradually implementing `coro.New()` and improving its functionality and safety — and only in the very end, we get a short paragraph about performance. Good performance is important to make this feature attractive to use, but if the feature is clunky and error-prone, it wouldn't be worth much, even with great performance.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uphill+both+ways
The only reason I still have a Windows partition at all is for games that I can’t run on Linux yet like Valorant. Nearly everything else runs perfectly on Ubuntu thanks to Proton.

This, and the occasional firmware flash utility that only has a Windows or MacOS build.
reading suspect's mind
Tap water is boring, I live near a natural spring with quite sweet water, which is really pleasant to drink.

When I'm stuck with tap water, I just "chug" a few large glasses (600ml) every few hours. Makes it easier.
They could have a successful business that way, but I'm not sure it's one that can handle 9,000+ drivers like the article calls out with any sort of equitable scheduling. For context, that's more drivers than the entire city of San Francisco typically has at peak. Maybe I'm just vastly underestimating the size of the NYC airport market though.
That's definitely possible, I was only talking about frequency. Intensity is a tricky one to track because it can only be based on self-report studies, and you only hav a frame of reference if a previous illness at least partially knocked out your sense of smell.
I'll bet he would be a laugh to work with.
That's very inspiring. I admire your clarity and determination. I wish you all the best on your journey!