skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the history of telephony started with a big public companies in each country and therefore the private companies started but if you have a friend with the number phone in company-foo and you have the number phone in company-bar. You can phone your friend and company-foo and company-bar do the economic accounts ( I don't know maybe it is a big data).

But the streaming platforms (netflix, disney...) are separate islands.

I think that the all content (films, tv series...) should in all platforms and if the user want to see a "disney film" in his netflix app, the netflix company do the economic balance/account with disney.

And the streaming platform war will be for good content for to avoid your user want to see other content from other platforms...because you as streaming company must paid to this content from other platform.
> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streaming of twitch, netflix, ABC-XYZ +, and social media. Piracy making up even 5% of global bandwidth usage is being overly generous.
It would be even more popular if the new generations were more tech savvy. Kids growing up with iphones do not have computers and a huge percentage that do, doesn't know how to use torrents, vpn, proxys etc.
> You have at least some civil rights in those countries

I'm sure the lads that spent decades in Guantanamo with no charges brought against them after being kidnapped based on their watch model will be very glad to hear they have civil rights.
Even when I have access to streaming from a provider - streaming from my own box is more reliable and convenient: access to my library from a single app; if it's on the disk I know I can watch it whenever.

It's easier to find the media on a pirate site, than to try to guess which service has streaming rights for a show or movie in my country.
Surely they could still mine the data you send and receive, because their app decrypts it for you and displays it for you.

So they could still be sending their server data like ‘likes watches’ without technically breaking the encryption.
I'll take the department of justice audit as 100x more valuable than the gut feeling of a random ex-employee.

I think some people are unconsciously blind to just how bad human drivers are.
No not at all. Its is true and well documented claim that people didn't drink alcohol at all times instead of water. The links and what he is claiming is not overlapping.
The idea of GPT or code generators supplanting the need for libraries and languages with large standard libraries is likely jumping ahead with optimism.

But … I think the idea is relevant and, security/QA issues aside, this is a real hard-to-see shift that might be brought on by AI: shifting of the equilibria and practicalities around what parts of the craft and profession are worth caring about and which are best left to the computer/AI.

Dependencies vs “write it yourself” (with an AI).
Syntax/API design for readability/comprehension vs for computer/AI parse-ability and thoroughness.
Rewrite something to be better vs train an AI on its usage and move on.
You'd do good to expect a threatened group (or individual) to lash out, but that's precisely why we have anti-retaliation laws. Think of them not as telling people they shouldn't try to destroy opponents, but that the society around them will punish them if they do, since it's beneficial for that society.

After all, laws in a rule-of-law country are better thought of as restrictions on the state, not the individual. Without criminal law, what's stopping a police officer for killing you if they think it's appropriate? Laws protecting whistleblowers can then be seen as a promise by society to individuals: "If you come forward, we have the power to protect you."
"Its autopilot feature, for example, includes assisted steering and parking - but, despite its name, it does still require someone in the driver's seat with their hands on the wheel."

Why would "assisted" imply no assistance?
It will continue to thrive if companies insist on packaging content into several streaming services and wrapping them under subscriptions, region locks, and platforms, and then proceed to ask for more money and limit its usability.

This is more of a symptom than anything else.

In the 00's was mostly due to distribution, now it's mostly fragmentation and subscription layers.
Try Bypass Paywalls Clean on Firefox. It works perfectly for me on most news sites.
> GP is arguing what the results of one of these opinions are.

I'm saying HN is not the homogenous group the phrasing implies. I wasn't saying GP was implying people can't have opinions.
They control the client, so they can do whatever they want. They can take the plain text, encrypt it with my key, encrypt it with their key, catenate the two, send to FB, split off their "copy" and decrypt it to do whatever with, and send my "copy" on to the recipient.

e2e isn't a tech issue, it's a trust issue. Do you* trust FB?

* You in general.
Might be able to get to 24% if "illegal downloading of copyrighted material" includes porn.
Institutions don't execute themselves and go through the sell-side regardless.
> Maybe they're doing it because it's the right thing to do, and because they'd like people to trust them.

I worked for FB briefly. It was enough to convince me that the "it's the right thing to do" is definitely not relevant to this question.
And yet, the majority seems to oppose unionizing despite calling themselves tech workers. Puzzling, how often people act against their own interests.
There are also some weird decisions made by content owners. For example: Star Trek Strange New Worlds is available in my country on SkyShowtime, but only in 1080p SDR. This is a relatively new streaming service that only launched last year, yet they do not support 4k or HDR. The same series is available through 'alternative sources' in 4k HDR.

I have no idea why they would not offer it in 4k, it's not a licensing issue since both ST:SNW and SkyShowtime are owned by Paramount. It's mind boggling why they would sabotage their own service like that.
I would like to see a chart of the data, but this is just lies and misdirection. FWIW, I pirate _nothing_.
Right, so let's just give up on every random online entity stealing all your personal data!

Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of good. I don't like that gov't agencies do it either, but that doesn't mean I'm not happy that there's at least some consequences for others that are trying to do it. Also if a nation-state level entity is targeting me specifically, then I'm screwed even if they don't have any of my personal data.
> So no facts to back this up

MAFIAA and friends were never big on facts.
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> This is a meme that won't die. This is simply false.

My weekly shopping bill begs to differ.
> And yearly studio performance bonuses this year will only be the contractually obligated 80% minimum, after being above 100% for good performance several previous years running.

‘Underperforming’ rewarded differently than ‘performing’ shocks under-performers.

> leaders had reiterated, across multiple meetings, that they couldn’t guarantee there wouldn’t be more layoffs

Breath of fresh air, since most leadership just lies "that's the last cut forever" then lay off more people next quarter. I once quit a board when it decided to claim the first round was the last while planning 3 more rounds.

It does sound awful, being told this particular truth. But being told the truth, being treated like adults with self-agency, should maintain morale more than being fed lies.

Meanwhile, compare:

> mood within the studio has been “soul-crushing” ... reducing numerous morale events such as cooking and knitting classes from monthly to quarterly

... versus ...

> with Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape delayed into the next fiscal year and Bungie still investing heavily on Marathon, many employees understand that Bungie is struggling to meet the necessary targets

This sounds like a disconnect between where payroll comes from and the production of value for game players.

If a company isn't keeping something worth paying for in the hands of players, there's no margin to keep the company in knitting classes.

The bottom line is a hard one, and in a large company, the message doesn't feel particularly "inclusive", but from childhood we learn it: "shape up, or ship out". When ability to deliver gets underwater relative to pay, something has to give -- something has to increase ratio of delivery to expense.

All that said ...

While most attention tends to go on how to cut the expense number, it tends to pay off better to figure out how to increase the delivery number (always remembering that's valued delivery, valued by the customer with money). "Management" can cut expenses, but teams have to raise delivery value-per-time which might need to include getting management (overhead) out of the way.

If teams can see and explain how this could work and deliver on it, let your "inside" board members know.

. . .

PS. This comment is incoherent, but presumably someone is unpacking it:

> "I’m angry. I’m upset. This isn’t what I came here to do,” one person said. “It feels like many higher ups aren’t listening to the data and are like, ‘We just need to win our fans back, they still like us.’ No. They don’t...We got rid of some of our most knowledgeable beloved folks who have been here for 20+ years. Everyday I walk in afraid that I or my friends are next. No one is safe."

The phrases "We just need to win our fans back, they still like us" and "higher ups aren't listening to the data" sound (if taken charitably) like the same goal.

Given enough fans with wallets, "What do fans want? Let's deliver that!" should be the best morale booster, with margin -- and bonuses -- to follow.
Unauthorized copying
I literally did? That's what "real" means: having more real wages means you can buy more stuff. It's already adjusted for price rises. Check out FRED if you don't believe me:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

You and the upthread commenter are just citing a meme. It is not true. Period.
It's a loud wake-up call to the media industry. The high piracy rates reflect a public rebellion against restrictive access and high costs of content. This situation is less about breaking the law and more about demanding a fairer, more accessible media landscape. It's high time for a major overhaul of how we view copyright and content distribution in the digital age.
Facebook and privacy are two opposite poles!
Oh, for the days when movies were rated objectively: by number of beasts, number of breasts, and number of buckets of blood...

"we paid you to make us a movie, but you made a fee-yulm"
you are 100% right

Nobody cares about anything except that coding question that is given during the interview

Even if you have an impressive portfolio of dev related work - the only thing you are judged on is that leetcode task during the interview

maybe at the vp/em level - where the job is talking it might be more appropriate
How can you add/suggest new startups?
Well, hopefully it will lead more companies to a revenue model that is more compatible with the lack of scarcity that the digital world has.
I honestly do not understand comments like this with regard to an open source project. The language and its libraries are rather hackable as is with rather powerful packages. While I may not agree with every decision, I do not complain that someone is not implementing my favorite feature. I just do it myself.

I frankly would be concerned if the main contributors were not focused.
> Digital video piracy is costing the US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year.

Oh please. Just because something is pirated doesn't mean that it's a lost sale.
If you're serving assets directly from S3 (or even from nginx) you're exposed to a "denial of wallet" attack, given the price markup on outbound networking.
Exactly. I often pay extra for a game just so I can get it through steam. Spotify is another good example.
E.g, defence tech seems quite sparse
It is spent somewhere else by those pirating, because almost everyone lived paycheck to paycheck anyway.
Sure wages may be higher, but prices are higher too, and they've increased more than the wages - and that means cost of living has increased.
I was saying for games I own. Not gamers I know. Either way Linux and MacOS have been growing thanks to the increased compatibility through proton, wine, and whiskey and when has increased compatibility ever been bad for the consumer? If I was to play a game or do my taxes why should I be forced to buy a Windows computer is I own a Mac? If I want to write programs or run LLMs why should I be forced to struggle through some obscure arcane Linux distro if I have a perfectly functional windows machine?
Fantastic UX.

But I agree crunch base simply has a different use case.
Thanks. I bought your book since the B1.0 version and I recommend it.
> I couldn’t trust a whistleblower.

You see, it makes sence, consider that guy over there - corporate drone, climbing the ladder, would sell his own mother - totally trustworthy, you know what he is gonna do.

But this guy, who values his abstract principles and integrity above any social contract? Can you tell when he has had enough? Do you even know what his values are? What if, one day, he decides that the place is so miserable, so corrupt, so complicit in suffering, that he just burns it all to the ground?
What if you aren't into sci-fi and fantasy?
- It's hard to imagine a project getting signed off for just being "nice" - especially when it hurts their own business interests.

- I don't really see it making sense as a PR move to build trust. I think outside of the tech sector they are doing fine on that front. The vast majority of people use their Bytedance, Meta, Tencent, etc. apps and aren't considering their encryptedness.

- I don't think this announcement will get any substantial press coverage

- It could be preemptive so that they don't get bad PR when they end up being "complicit" in getting people sent to jail for abortions (in the US) or being gay (in some African countries) or whatever
> 50000 peripheral memory accesses are needed [to initialize the hardware]

Wow, that's a lot. If OP could upload somewhere the list of accesses together with a stack trace for each, I think we could crowd source a rewrite of each function - I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of those are repetitive patterns - ie. 'run this transmission test 1000 times while increasing the power levels each time until the received power = some set value'.
This meme is backed by US government data https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27...

"""
Highlights:

- Real median household income was $74,580 in 2022, a 2.3 percent decline from the 2021 estimate of $76,330 (Figure 1 and Table A-1).

- Householders under the age of 65 experienced a decline in median household income of 1.4 percent from 2021, while householders aged 65 and over did not experience a significant change in median income between 2021 and 2022 (Figure 1).

- The money income Gini index decreased by 1.2 percent between 2021 and 2022 (from 0.494 to 0.488); this represents the first time the Gini index has shown an annual decrease since 2007 (Figure 3 and Table A-3).

- Between 2021 and 2022, the number of full-time, year-round workers increased by 3.4 percent, compared to a 1.7 percent increase in the number of total workers. This suggests a continuing shift from working part-time or part-year to full-time, year-round work.

- In 2022, 65.6 percent of working women worked full-time, year-round. This is the largest share on record.
The real median earnings of all workers (including part-time and full-time workers) decreased 2.2 percent between 2021 and 2022. Median earnings of those who worked full-time, year-round decreased 1.3 percent (Figure 4 and Table A-6).
"""

Note that in the US, it is extremely hard to have the number for both income and wages. In my country, wages are a smaller proportion of average income every year, but i'm unable to see if it's the same in the US.
Maybe.. just maybe, if media companies stopped treating customers like garbage...wait....nevermind...that'll never happen.

Piracy it is!
The 10,000 unit contract was for 391 million USD back in 2018 - so 39k per unit. They completed that order back in 2022.

There are follow up orders, numbers are less firm on that one.
GP was just pointing out your (repeated) spelling mistakes, I believe. Qatar, not Quatar.
It'd probably stay the same if you excluded everything other than porn from your calculations.
I tend to agree as a SQL enthusiast. However I have yet to see a Rails team that doesn’t use Active Record or writes much SQL directly, or by default, across 100s of apps. I’m sure it happens but in my experience it’s rare.

This is a place where I think tools like Rubocop help. They can be configured to point out method swaps like this (size over count) automatically which is a relatively low effort task to change the code.

With those rules/linting in place, you aren’t throwing out the benefits of AR (ORM), and hopefully leveraging their useful methods like these that help avoid unnecessary queries.
I think AGI would not extinguish the host species if it didn't have the drive to spread. "Do not go extinct" and "grow/spread/reproduce" are two sides of the same natural selection coin.
That's why I mentioned cold swapping which the Framework machine also doesn't support as the GPU module is bolted down with screws, which kind of defeats the purpose of Framework's modules idea.
> We can’t think of any good reason to do without them except for an application running solely on a private network.

Ever read those articles that explain half the internet is unavailable because of some random e.g. cloudflare outage? That.
I suspect it's most content and not just some. I may prefer to watch a specific movie, like Heat (1995), but if it's not available on the streaming services I currently pay for I'm more likely to watch something else rather than pay 15 bucks (or whatever) for it.
But I still need at least 3 services to watch them. When pirating is just as easy and at worst costs you 1 service: a VPN.
I use Crunchbase for the same purpose but it’s become increasingly paywalled. I notice that the funding details are now entirely behind the paywall.
Agree, but this is not new.

This data is not legally yours, since its not on equipment you own or rent.

If the same exact service was on property you owned or rented, they would need a warrant.

Speculating here, but if you paid for a service, and the terms of service were such that you had rental rights to the equipment and ownership of the data, then the US govt would need a warrant. But then the company would not be able to sell the data since it would actually be yours.

I'd pay for a service that was like that.
Thank you. I have been IP blocked by the Economist for years (and eventually reblocked after IP changes). I've never figured out which of my unlikable attributes was just too much here.
It's the same old tale about autopilot not being ready or safe enough.

This has been said on HN a billion times already but the problem is in the name "autopilot" , giving the consumer the impression that the car is autonomous and can be totally hands off. Both Ford and GM have correctly marketed their features as "cruise" (Blue Cruise / Super Cruise). Ironically, even given the issues that Tesla has had with it because of the marketing, I think it's one of the major drivers of sales in recent years because it's been incorrectly marketed as autopilot instead of a "SomeCoolName Cruise", consumers get the impression that it's superior to other self driving features. On the one hand tesla makes more sales, on the other hand they get a constant barrage of stuff like this.
https://live.staticflickr.com/3128/2890027765_3609a6f7f0_b.j...
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This really is a story that should have more visibility.

If aliens don’t exist, why are defense contractors trying so hard to shut down a bill that simply says “show us what you know about aliens”?
Can a startup do well with mediocre early employees?
I'm an early employee at a super early-stage startup with a good product that IMO a lot of people want/will want.

Unfortunately, 2 out of 4 of its employees are, to put it bluntly, not good. They are well-meaning and kind but not good enough at their job to execute at the necessary speed and quality. One of them reads so slowly/poorly that she can't keep up with her emails at all, frequently misses important information and makes really egregious spelling errors. This would maybe be ok in some roles, but her role is operational and fielding emails is a central part of it. Together these two incompetent employees slow things down and make a lot of unnecessary work for the other two (one of the other two being me) due to their incompetence.

I'd love for them to be let go but I think it's unlikely, and I don't have the authority to make this happen.

If the product is good/needed enough, is it possible for this kind of company to succeed? I know HN and PG essay-readers will usually be biased towards thinking the early team will make or break (I also have this bias), but I'm genuinely interested in hearing any views and experiences.
Like concerts or merch where the artist or creator gets much more money than through parasitic music labels and film studios?

I agree here. Person finds pirated music by X artist. Decides they really love the artist and in turn buys concert experience or merch.
In with ya. When reading that pirated music costs 70,000 jobs I just laugh. I don't think there would be more jobs (maybe a few), but that the people at the top would have a bigger salary or bonus.
Let's see. I live in the middle east, subscribing to Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime. I was in the middle of watching something and it was removed from Netflix. No problem - I'll simply open up CBS Streaming Whatever, only to be hit by a geofence.

Which form of thievery is the right one for me now. Do I use a VPN to connect to servers in another country, thereby continuing to watch my show on Netflix? Do I VPN to the service (in this case CBS) to watch it in the US, just because? As a paying customer, I frankly don't care. I open up qbittorrent, and I download the show. Why - because I can no longer pay for it in my country.

Many of us simply want to watch things. Whenever a company makes that difficult, we pirate. Once you open the door to an alternative, easy to use distribution mechanism, frankly it's hard to close.
btrfs doesn't support bad blocks. It's written in the documentation.

From experience I can tell you that most usb sticks fail while reading back data by returning bad data, not an error or timeout, and the defective sectors aren't always the same (internal remap to wear leveling might be the cause of that).

Advice:
Do md-raid0 on half of them, md-raid0 on the other half, and btrfs raid1 on the two md devices.
If you want to exceed 25MB/s, use different USB controllers, not different ports on the same hub.
I don't think this is on-topic for Hacker News.
"Hostile?" That's quite a loaded word. How about just "tougher?"
Native code has more direct access to the system, e.g. accessing arbitrary regions of a process's memory via pointer arithmetic, invoking arbitrary syscalls, etc. In contrast, "managed code" like a JVM, CPython VM, etc. is subject to a more structured semantic model, which allows more restrictions to be imposed.
Is there any evidence of that? The last thing any landlord I've ever talked to wanted was for a property to sit empty.
In my experience Linux gaming is amazing until it's not. And no one can tell you what's not going to work before hand.