skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you’re being kind of dim if you think that the digital nature of film has any relevance to physical distribution vs. digital streaming distribution tbh.

There is an obvious reason why studios have a vested interest in releasing directly to consumers and that is to cut out the theaters as a middleman.

Which is the entire reason we have the Paramount decrees to stop vertical integration of film studios and film distributors. Which is now being evaded by streaming services.

The contract I have in mind is Scarlett johansenn suing Disney for releasing Black Widow to streaming when her contract stated that would not happen.

I don’t think you fully appreciate the context as you haven’t seemed to acknowledged some basic big moving pieces like Netflix doing films that have substantially smaller theater presences and much higher direct to streaming outcomes. Not to mention the trajectory of film from movies to long form streaming television.
No, without seeing his contract, you can't know what ownership he retained even if he's nominally the copyright holder. He can be the "copyright holder" of record and have exclusively licensed away the characters, settings, and plots in the contract. He obviously thinks he has not done this, but who is the "creator" of record tells you nothing.
You're talking about the consumers, and you're 100% right in regards to them. But you seem to be equating D&D fans to the game studios, and I see that as a false equivalency.

Consumers of Unity games == consumers of D&D

Companies based on the OGL == Companies based on Unity license

WotC/Hasbro == Unity

D&D consumers =/= companies based on Unity license

In both cases, a large corporation (WotC/Hasboro, Unity) captured the space with promises that their platform would be free to use in perpetuity. In both cases, smaller companies were built around this garuntee; they naively thought that in perpetuity meant in perpetuity. In both cases, these smaller companies that popped up grew the large corporations to what they are today.

In both cases, the corporation tried to sneakily revoke the older agreements to trick these smaller companies into a terrible deal. In both scenarios, the corporation displayed rent-seeking behavior and proposed changes that would destroy the companies that helped them become what they are today.

> Fans can't just go and become fans of "free and open source D&D"

Not sure what you mean by this, but my friends and I are and always have been fans of "free and open source D&D" because that's literally what D&D has always been. That's why so many were angry with the OGL changes; thats why the OGL changes got dropped. And, once Hasboro tipped their hand, many did transition to free and open source tabletop games that respect their third party creators and consumers alike https://www.polygon.com/23587624/non-dnd-dungeons-dragons-og...
When I was talking about monopoly, I was talking about 3rd party engines, not storefronts.
Which means nothing, you have a pre-clerkship anatomy course director using archaic and obscure terminology that is extremely rarely used (and arguably incorrect, but we don't have to debate etymology). You will never see this used clinically or in any major anatomy textbook.

As you are a medical student you should be familiar with accepted references for anatomy. In case you're not here are some:

Netter's anatomy (most commonly used clinical anatomy text): caval foramen.

Gray's anatomy: inferior vena cava opening.

eAnatomy: caval foramen.

Your other clue is in ChatGPT's response:

>The term "caval hiatus" is typically used in reference to human anatomy, specifically the anatomical structure known as the "caval opening" or "caval foramen."....

If you ask Claude the same question using 'caval foramen':

>The caval foramen, also known as the foramen of vena cava, is located at the level of T8 vertebra in the thoracic region of the vertebral column. Specifically...

Some friendly advice as you seem to be early in your medical training:

1. When an attending (in this case two) corrects you, you're probably wrong. Your next step should be to confirm your knowledge not retort with "it's what I was taught".

2. Never say a "major medical school" in Canada (where I also graduated from) which implies there are tiers. Unlike the US, all Canadian medical schools and (almost all) residency programs are excellent.
> Basically: I think free business models can ignore retention, whereas for-pay subscription models can't, and that's why I prefer them.

I think that only holds if you have enough competition that it starts making a real dent in your profit margin.

I don't have any proper data, but pretty much everyone I've met in the sailing community just uses Navionics. Fair enough; the company has been in the ECDIS business for many many years before smartphones even existed, and their electronic charts are good.

Their competitors, based on my subjective use of some of them, more or less fall into two groups:

(1) Similarly big players. Basically just C-MAP (parent is Navico, also in ECDIS for many years).

(2) Startups: savvy navvy and Orca.

I've only really used (1) enough to form a proper opinion. I originally picked it because it was way cheaper (50 EUR/year for global charts), but gave up since Navionics, despite being Fisher Price, at the end of the day just works, is fast, offline, and does not crash. OTOH C-MAP feels like a neglected side-line of the parent company designed to steer you into buying their expensive chart plotter brands (B&G mainly).

To be fair, I also tried a FOSS alternative (OpenCPN), but the app suffers from such a lack of UI design of any kind that I don't even want to go there, so I don't count it as a real competitor. And there's also Imray Navigator which is surprisingly good, but a different product category (raster charts).

TL;DR: Boating is making good money for Navionics, there's not really an alternative, so they don't care.
>If people want to spend their breath agitating for something, it's to get Unity to share the source code for a lower price.

while I hate it being gated, it's not that expensive for a medium sized company to get source code access. $3000 + probably some per seat licenses that are orders cheaper than what you pay employees (even significantly underpaid game devs). if you get more than 250k installs you're already paying more than that to begin with with the new plan.

>Ultimately there's no alternative to Unity right now as an engine.

maybe for you, but to pretend there are zero alternative tools because you don't like shows more arrogance than the post you are criticizing.

>I'm actually not saying that one person should use one or the other - they are simply made to do and make fundamentally different things.

it's a tool at the end of the day. you can make Unreal engine 5 run Undertale and you can make Gamemaker run Crysis if you are determined enough. Most people here will be talking about the technical aspects of the engine, not the political/historical roles each engine has made.

I can kind of see where you are coming from but I disagree with the angle that Unity/Unreal are fundamentally different skillsets. they are ubiquitous enough and feature filled enough that the limitations come a lot from the team rather than the engine, with a few special edge cases.

To name one: Unity and Unreal are awful for games with mass destructible environments for example. People CAN still make those, but that's the one case where it may be worth rolling your own tech. Essentially, you make your game separate from the actual unity layer and use Unity purely as a renderer, not for its game framework. I know Unity games that do this, and I think UE can do the same but I lack the knowledge there.
Do you have a moral issue with games that are free and also “endless”?
I’m pretty sure that’s what the parent is referring to :)
You're clearly not interested in an honest discussion, so I'm stopping here.
Probably try to hire someone more senior, preferably with management, sales or bizdev experience. And then start pairing with them until they have his specific workflow down. It may never be anyone as good as he was but the alternative is that the business goes under when he can no longer work.
CubeSat rocket thruster is so small it has to be made like microchips
I'll admit that it was a bit tangential and I probably didn't make my point as thoroughly as I should have; I was trying to say that I feel like I dodged a bullet not buying the Pixel watch.

Also, I did mention at the end that I really hate the Pixel 7 Pro. I think it's a pretty awful piece of hardware and I am counting the days until I allow myself to buy something else.
Each MIDI port is serial, but multiple ports on an interface can operate in parallel.

Consider that Hollywood composers and music producers are able to use MIDI without issue for live-previews of orchestral compositions and live recordings and performances. The problem you are raising simply doesn't exist in the real world, accept that there are things about MIDI you don't understand and move on.
Quite literally yes. There are often multiple click throughs. Every Department, agency, sub-agency, all the way down to federal dog catcher has decided the most important thing is to invent a new way of getting data from them.
Honestly if that's the only spot where there's an issue I'd get an old iPad LTE and solar panel and permanently mount it somewhere with solar. Then the airtag will be able to find your doggo there as well.

It's cheaper than fencing thousands of feet of perimeter, anyway.
reflects -> enforces

I suspect you need to create a good society first and then decide on a resource/status hierarchy system for it. Trying to do it the other way around is unlikely to work.

Bitcoin was always financial libertarianism. No accountability, no records, and - most of all, but only potentially - no taxes.

Inevitably it turned into Ground Zero for anyone with a scam to upsell.
Nothing against Epic, but they have a strategic incentive to encourage people to use their store. Getting a discount to use the engine in exchange for a store “exclusive” is a cost that I see developers not really appreciating. There is no free lunch.
A year of Spotify is about what people used to pay for 8-10 cds. I don’t know many who in their twenties who bought much more. At least for me the music spend is about the same.
I find it odd so many people support pitbulls, they're obviously more socially driven with this opinion than job/task driven...

Pitbulls were originally bred for bull baiting and dog fighting.

Dogs have instinctual purpose. Social justice keyboard warriors will overlook this and think the common person can own a pitbull and they are a product of their environment... not nature.

lol
DARPA Seeks Tech Solutions to Create Autonomous Capabilities Commercial Drones
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
I see - so you can use the bits you saved by not having separate rook pieces to denote En Passant pawns.

I like the "no kings" idea for castleable kings - though I think with smaller pawn sizes, that gives another opportunity for compression:

- king that can't castle: king

- king that can castle queenside: any other piece in king's position, no king of that color on board

- king that can castle kingside: black pawn on 1st or 8th rank

- king that can castle: white pawn on 1st or 8th rank

Because you are often going to have positions where the king can castle kingside and positions where the king can castle either way, this should maximize how often you manage to save space w/ the pawns.

Another thought I had (which might contain other problems, not sure yet) is to use pawns on the 1st or 8th rank to denote pieces which are in their starting position - the decompression algorithm can then derive what piece it is based on the known starting position. Once we start having data saving because of pawns taking less bits, we want to be able to use them as much as possible to save space.
For people who do not have vim installed, you can try it in https://www.exaequOS.com, an OS running in a web browser (that I am creating)
Wow $93m for each of us! I can hardly wait to open my mailbox.
I viewed it as an example of how simple it could be (essentially a one-liner), but not meant for actual repeated use as your points suggest.
The competitor is piracy. A mixture of 'too many' streaming services with unique exclusives, which is arguably already the case, or too high of prices will correspondingly drive more piracy.

In a way we're kind of regressing into the scenario that Netflix originally resolved. It sucked having to rent movies a la carte, at movie rental places that often wouldn't even have what you wanted. Now you're basically doing the same thing, except you're renting access to an exclusive catalogue instead of a single movie.
I'm not arguing that a large dog bite vs a small dog bite is better or worse nor am I arguing that your opinion and risk tolerance is somehow invalid. I certainly wouldn't want to be bitten by any large breed dog.

I've personally never seen an aggressive pit bull but I've seen aggressive mixed breeds and german shepherds. I don't think it would be reasonable for me to conclude based on my observations that no pit bulls are vicious - and thus I'd rather look at actual data that has been normalized when judging the relative merit of one large dog breed vs another.
- I would wager that a Chihuahua is less likely to kill an adult human than a Bullmastiff, just because it is less capable of it.

- Many small dogs, in general, are poorly behaved because you can just pick them up and move them instead of having to train them.

- People also make sweeping statements about breeds like the American Pit-Bull Terrier when the variation within the breed is very large.

- If I'm an asshole who's going to train a dog to be aggressive I'm going to pick one that looks scary.

- Selective breeding within a breed can change temperament as well.

- Banning individual breeds is stupid whack-a-mole. People will just pivot to a different large-dog breed.

- If you want to make people not use dogs as weapons, about your only choice would be to ban dogs over a certain weight. This would almost certainly ban e.g. Bloodhounds (males commonly exceed 100lbs when at a healthy weight) though so isn't going to happen.
Not the person you were responding to but there have been papers published examining the government using drug metabolites in waste water for targeted enforcement in Eastern Europe. In the US, that data is still gathered and hasn't been used for enforcement yet as far as I know, but like every other syrupy bit of data the US government sponges up, it will be used for enforcement eventually.
And even if it is maintained that is still not a guarantee that it will work.
This is absolutely fantastic news. The pushback against it by people who say that this is the same thing as racism is ... more telling about those people's beliefs.

People are actually not the same as dogs who have been bred for aggression, and who have enormously outsized injury rates.
https://archive.is/JUMCB
I’m seeing content posted to YouTube dominate anything from streaming to the extent that we hit up YT on our TV 1st before any streaming service.

We’ve been binging “Best Ever Food Review Show” and it pretty much destroys any travel food show on any paid streaming platform.
Unless they force annual contracts, I don’t see how they plan to get people to switch. If they start making less content and increase prices, why would anyone subscribe especially with an annual contract.

I also don’t understand the comment about increasing prices reduces churn. I canceled paramount plus and Hulu because of price increases and didn’t see the value in their content. AppleTv+ is under $10/m and their content is amazing. I am about cancel Netflix because their content has been declining and they keep raising rates. And it’s going to get bad when we start feeling the effects of the writers strike.
Crew tied to MGM hack known for sweet-talking their way into company systems
Flood sends cavers scrambling for their lives in the deepest cave (2018)
That gives some hope that Moore's law isn't quite dead yet.

That said, the score came from Geekbench, which I believe isn't considered to be very representative of real application performance.
I 100% agree with you, and I was waiting for someone to bring it up.
Did you mean `typedef int bool`?
How about one that actually works? https://lng.sourceforge.net/
Again, there's not a ton rank-and-file people could _do_ to impact anti-trust-related behavior. The fear is reputational, so that's what that explicit training was about

The additional rank-and-file training and process that ties into actual anti-trust-related behavior is how to contact a lawyer as well as the fact that a lawyer and executive needs to review and approve all of the most minor of launches.

Do you have an idea of what the relevant training you would prescribe for a random mid-career engineer or UX researcher or whatever would be?
> But people who sold used cars did not have their costs increase - they were, after all, selling an already completed product.

Didn't they? Increased demand for used cars should mean that used car buyers are forced to pay more for the same car than they would previously. Maybe it's lagging by a bit, but I would absolutely expect that their costs would go up.
My question is how can he give away a character in a legal sense? Can characters be copyrighted? Mickey Mouse is a Disney Trademark, same with Spiderman and other name-brand 'on the cover' characters.

But what about if I make up a novel and sell it starring the character Peter Parker beat in the match ring in the early aughts film? I say this character is the same character, make up a story of how he recovered from his injury, opened a hot dog launching factory as a novelty theme park, then died of cancer.

The story is set in Earth 616 ostensibly, but I don't use Spider-man beyond that being the past of this main character.

Is that a derivative work? Can you copyright a name/character traits without using trademark law to focus on customer confusion?

EDIT: I think this is laudable what he did, I'm just curious if he even needed to do so in the first place, or if the law already allowed you to do this, in the same way that the Open Gaming License of DND 5E only gave you rights to use the rules system of 5E that copyright law already allowed you to do in the first place?
wasm is enough to do fancy things in the browser, games for example, with Rust or Zig. WASIX is not necessary for this.
I mean, it is ok to crush the competition. You just have to do it in a manner that is not deemed illegal, right?
Maybe with heavy hacking, but not ready-made, at least that I’ve found. Certainly don’t seem to be any distros (in the casual searching I do periodically) that focus on 1-second boot times out of the box.
Nobody uses Bitcoin that way--everybody uses the very centralized and very identified brokerages like Binance to actually buy and sell it. The libertarian fantasies of "currency without governments" never materialized nor will it.

Bitcoin will always be just another speculation instrument because it's too slow and too expensive to used for any other purpose. The reason is this useless religious garbage called "blockchain".
I've seen multiple instances of people being bitten by Pitbulls, also by Bull Terriers, which , while much smaller than Pitbulls are no less dangerous.
Yes, I know but I can't make the whole list of climate change consequences for humans under each commment so I try to alert people on a part that seems relevant. Me being dark is not me trying to play a game. I have not mentioned arable land at all. If you don't see the problem of tree populations dying out I don't know what to tell you. Trees take time to grow and we need them to store carbon. But, fine, I concede to your point, we'll start killing other/get authoritarian states well before we run out of food. Somehow that does not make me feel better.

Also your framing of the question *you* are bringing up is weird. Climate change will make for climate conditions that will make agriculture *harder* in general, I don't think your model of "Oh well we'll go to cold places that have become warmer" is really relevant and by the way arable land is already a resource some states are competing for.
Compression is still experimental. Can rclone pack small files to reduce API calls and storage space?
https://archive.is/eWln1
Sounds like Germany’s company register[1].

You can search for companies, select the documents you’d like to see (like shareholder lists), then you go through a checkout process and pay 0 EUR (used to be like a few euros years ago), and then you can finally download your file. Still a super tedious process, but at least for free nowadays.

[1] https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ureg/
How is the block chain "no records" tho? Isn't it an immutable chain of records that inexorably identifies and documents ownership and transactions?
Progressives are against dog breed bans because of ^^^, which is absolutely wild to me.

Humans are different than dogs! Believe it or not!
Some of the movement illusions really pop out if you slowly move your finger across the image and track it with your eyes. Or use a mouse pointer similarly if you're on desktop.
Because everyone is sloshing to altcoins that will eventually drop to zero
It was simply an order of magnitude comparison for manufacturing capacity. Slowing EV adoption at say 50% penetration would be beneficial for the grid as that excess capacity in mining and manufacturing could be used for grid batteries.

I doubt the the cheapest grid has anywhere close to 21 tWh as having more generation is more useful. Hydro is extremely flexible and reliable can fill in for a modest and predictable multi day shortfall. On the other hand if a power plant is down then batteries get extremely expensive.

That said, the cost of batteries isn’t simply a function of total capacity as unused capacity extends battery lifespan. The actual grid will take this into account which then impacts spot prices etc. Nobody operating grid scale batteries is going to 0% for wholesale prices of 5c/kWh but you bet your ass they’re going to 0% for 1$/kWh.
Another factor is that Apple designs big cores exclusively for consumer apps on iPhones. There is no compromise for server workloads, high clock targets, chips with modest die areas, slow memory, dies without efficiency cores, AI SIMD and so on.

I don't think any other company in the world can financially justify such a specialized big core, except maybe Samsung (who has failed in their ventures so far).
A lot of cryptography is based on non repudiation, while contract law is built on repudiation. Trading goods for services or even other goods is an implicit or explicit contract.

The people who think cryptocurrency is only for crime are partially right, but not strictly for the reasons they think. Less drugs and more fraud.
> Having a diamond mine owning dad (Musk)

Idk why this keeps getting repeated as significant. It wasn't even diamonds, illustrating how bad the telephone game is here.

'Musk’s father Errol ran a successful engineering company in Pretoria, South Africa.

Some writers have made much of him “owning an emerald mine”. But the mine only cost $50,000, never really produced many emeralds, and closed after a few years - it was a side investment unrelated to the family’s wealth. Rumors that it used “apartheid labor” or produced “blood emeralds” are false: the mine was in Zambia, which had no apartheid or bloody conflicts.

Musk claims to be self-made; he moved to Canada at age 17 with $2500 and worked his way up from there. For a while he supported himself by cutting logs, Abe Lincoln style. Nobody paid for his college and he took out $100,000 in debt. Musk’s father invested $28,000 in his first company, but Musk dismissed this as a “later round” and claimed he was already successful at that point and would have gotten the money anyway. The total for that round was $200,000, so Musk’s father’s contribution was only about 15%.'

People should read https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk