skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember groaning when all the "me too" streaming platforms were announced. Netflix was good when it had what I called "remnant content" like full ad-free seasons of TV that I could finally catch up on. And at $8 (or even $10/month) I basically kept it forever even if I didn't watch it for a few months.

But now all these services are rapidly pushing towards $20/month. My usage pattern is to sign up for Netflix about one month a year, binge what I want then cancel. I'll probably do similar with Hulu too. I only have HBO because it's bundled with my ISP.

Netflix's big mistake was movies. The only thing that makes movies economical is theatrical releases. I'm sure Netflix has lost billions trying to create top-tier movies.

Disney's big mistake was thinking their back catalog and milking the Marven and Star Wars properties could carry their platform.

But there were always going to be losers in the "me too" streaming gold rush. But we saw cable haemorrhage customers due to continual price hikes. I'm surprised there hasn't been more focus on controlling costs. Below a certain level customers will just keep a service forever.

What I think Netflix needs to do is build out regional content in a much bigger way. This means have a studio in Spain producing Spanish language content, another in Germany and so on. These should be completely focused on producing content desired by those local markets.

Then you cherrypick content to internationalize with dubbing. For whatever reason, the voice acting I've seen on virtually every dub is awful. And it seems to be the same small group of people that does it too. Money Heist springs to mind. Even "3%", which is a great show, has some awful dubbing.

So Netflix kind of does this but not nearly enough. Like there are Turkish shows produced in Germany that are popular in Spain for whatever reason. Or Korean soaps that have a non-Korean audience. I'm honestly shocked at how bad the dubbing and voice acting ecosystem still is.
"If you are not building your UI in Metalmorphism you have already lost"
If you’re very interested and have the time/inclination, you can DIY a similar monitor using the panel and its driver from Aliexpress. Let me know if you want more info.
Sure. Consider the obverse: "Humans ALWAYS have a [rational] reason for their actions." The word "always" is logically necessary and yet it sets an extremely high bar to be cleared. Is this the position you want to stake yourself to?

Note: yes, I added the word "rational" here to be explicit but which I only implied earlier. If you want to quibble about that let me save you the trouble. If you want to say that you had a reason, but it just wasn't a rational one, I'll accept that. After all, I'm not unreasonable.
I’m not sure what the high-level strategy is, but do note that there’s the

move workspace to output right

and so on bindings to help out. I’ll typically keep a workspace as “whatever windows I happen to have put in it, over time” and then I’ll bounce them around to monitors as needed.
Perhaps monitor orientation?
Disney really shouldn't even be included in the first sentence of this article, according to itself they have 8 million subscribers and are expecting to be profitable next year.
I’m fine with foreign language content in general, as long as it’s categorized as such. The problem is how Netflix mixes it in with everything else in a deceptive manor.
If nuclear power plants slowly created an exclusion zone around them that grows over time, then you would have a point since each individual plant would have a tiny exclusion zone, but the problem is that the accidents are the result of gross negligence in the cases of both Chernobyl and Fukushima. Arguing about modern safety standards is meaningless by the way. Back when the Fukushima accident happened, the Fukushima power plant was older than the one in Chernobyl. This tells us two things. People build unsafe nuclear power plant designs, even when safer ones are available and second, when regulations get stricter, the bad power plants stick around for decades until they fail. If you wanted to put nuclear power plants into the best spotlight possible, you would demand old power plants be replaced by new designs, since that massively reduces the risk of another accident that makes nuclear power look bad. However, what we hear all the time is that the nuclear power plant industry wants less safety regulations so that they can cheaply repeat mistakes of the past.
Gentoo’s biggest attraction for me was always the USE flags - being able to turn off the X integration of mpg123 where CentOS demanded an entire X install to get the command line player.

The flags were just icing on that cake.
It is surprising to me that the article does not mention Amazon. Starting in January Amazon is going to "feature" ads unless you pay more. I for one am sick of ads in everything and so finally have good motivation to quit prime.

It seems to me this is a continuing example of fantasy businesses. We will deliver products the next day for free. Oops the next three days. Oops a week later. Oops, not for free. We will have free movies. We will make money by producing a constant stream of quality movies. Oops, pablum movies. Oops we have to put ads in the movies.

A business is a thing that provides value to customers which the customers are willing to pay for. If you give your product away, or have get money from other sources to provide for your customers, then you are not a business. Lock in and other anti-customer practices do not make something into a business. Massive tax fraud does not make a business. And yes, I realize Amazon, Microsoft and Apple make money. At least for now.
In UK just 10 miles from Bournemouth (not a small town), on the edge of the New Forest. No 5G, and 4G is patchy for voice calls and unusable for data. It sucks.
Disney really fucked up here. As Netflix has figured out the number one quality a streaming service needs is endless content so that no one opens the app without at least scrolling for a while. Every single person has some sort of guilty pleasure show that can be produced cheaply, and Netflix figured out they can make everyone’s guilty pleasure show by just green lighting everything they come across
In Europe every country has their own competing streaming services, a lot of them very successful because of local content. But everyone pretty much has Netflix as well
This is partially true but I believe that the only component ChromeOS uses from Gentoo is the portage package manager during some of its bootstrapping protocols.
Maybe prime in the sense that they push out a lot of content, but let's face it - Star Wars and Marvel, they ain't Hemingway.
Why is it a problem for you? Don't like reading subs when doing stuff in the background? It's my main reason I don't like foreign, I'm either reading or watching.
The time I wasted with Gentoo in 2004 was enough to never try it again.

A full day compiling stuff only for the base install, let alone everything else I would eventually need.

On my case, I decided to become another Scientific Linux tester.
I found the increased smoothness scrolling with 144hz to be both noticeable and nice compared to 60hz.
Not just small, also big companies. Why spent billions of dollars researching a new technology when, as soon as you figure it out, someone else copies it for a millionth of the cost? The dominant strategy will be just to wait for others, which might slow progress a lot.
> minus the full optimization

Back when I used to mess around with this more, I never noticed much speed advantage from compiling my software vs installing binaries. What did help was understanding what was running and cutting out the things I didn't need. I'd be surprised if Gentoo offered any advantages over Arch, Slackware, etc. for that.
That's an awareness problem. requirements.txt was invented... a long time ago, I think before the much more sane (but still not perfect) dependencies/lockfile split got popular. requirements.txt tries to be both - and it can be both, just not at the same time.

In short, you want your deployed software to use pip freeze > requirements.txt and libraries to only specify dependencies with minimal version conditions.
From a French POV, experience has shown that punitive wealth taxes achieve only one thing and that is to make those who can afford it move abroad for tax purposes.
I get what you're saying, but I also understand that poses it's own problems. Just because trusting the experts is the best we can do, does not mean that it doesn't sometimes come with significant consequences. History is littered with people abusing their expert status to maliciously achieve some goal.

The first example that comes to my mind is the Tuskegee experiment, where the US public health service and CDC allowed 100 of the 400 men in their study to die, refusing to provide them with treatment for syphilis and preventing them from getting treatment by other means, so they could study the men. They also never revealed to those men that they had syphilis.
Care to elaborate why? We started a new VueJS 3 project earlier this year. Still using options API though, as it seems the easiest to use and maintain.
Pumps require a certain inlet pressure or they will experience cavitation. I think a liquid close to boiling would make this worse.
> I've been wishing the 3-column options offered horizontal splits

If you’re referring to the PowerToys feature, you can customise your own layout too btw
I use Withings. Both their watches and their Sleep tracking mat can do sleep quality tracking. I use the latter at home, or their watch when I travel. So I have data no matter where I am.

They have an export/takeout form in the app, which will create an archive with all your info and send you an email, and they provide instructions to parse it (e.g. in Excel). They also have an API, but it requires setting up a public OAuth endpoint for authentication (for Web apps) or pre-approval (for Mobile apps).
Copyleft isn't achieved by copyright abolition though. Abolish copyright and the AGPL is literally impossible rather than merely impractical to enforce, but OpenAI/Microsoft still get to decide who gets access to their model.
Ask HN: How can I make my blog more readable?
Bit of an awkward one. For the last ~6 months I've been running a simple personal blog and while I was certain that it looked fine, whenever I look back at my old posts I find my eyes slipping and eventually load the page in my browser's Reader View.

I can't what -exactly- is wrong, or if there's something wrong to begin with, but I find that my visual focus is easily lost when I read my own work. I was hoping that some folks might give me a few pointers and resources on how to make my site more visually focused.

To be more specific (at the risk of a ban I guess), I set up a quick example page to both display what it looks like and to point out some specific things – https://callmeo.live/blog/how-can-i-make-my-blog-more-readable
Marvel and Star Wars are managed in radically different ways, by completely different "PM"s.
Upgrade: attach accelerometer to monitor and have it update as you rotate it
How much of that data is sent back home do you think?
If you have a 48" 4K monitor, what you have is:

+ 4x 24" 1080P without bezels

- 4x 24" 1080P in a fixed grid with no flexibility

Different people have different preferences, and that's ok.
Game Thinking, by Amy Jo Kim: https://gamethinking.io/

Coincidentally, a quote from Ycombinator CEO Garry Tan on their site:
You’ve got to find your own window of opportunity. Game Thinking is your instruction manual.
Copyright essentially makes it charity. If you're solely relying on copyright, you rely on some combination of the government forcing people to pay you and people ignoring the many circumvention options because of guilt.
Business models like live performances, physical delivery of art, commissioned work, etc. can allow one to be a professional without the need for copyright. I reject the idea that people are owed a business model based solely on artificial scarcity.
How Streaming works at Nebula [video]
And it wouldn't be a HN post without an archived link – https://archive.is/mYfaY
Which political candidate/party do I vote for to make this happen?
Oh goody, another fad. That’s all we need…

Whatever happened to just designing straightforward clear UIs with clear functionality that doesn’t pretend to be something completely different?
I haven't seen this config mentioned yet, but I have two displays; a LG SDQHD 28" 8:9 2560x2880 on the left, and a LG 49" 21:9 55120x2160 ultrawide curved on the right, with a slight angle joining them in a "hinge."

I use multiple virtual desktops, for dev I have a terminal on the left and the IDE on the right. This was the best config I could find where I had enough on the screens I didn't need to flip between panes frequently, yet it wasn't overwhelming and lets the actual window view behind the displays through, and I can comfortably focus on key areas and look around with craning my neck too much.

If the displays were backing a wall, I might try an 8k 65" display, but I would mainly use the comfortable part of it, and let the rest be ambient info. That could be magnificent with an OLED display. Though I think it would make sense to be curved and they aren't common anymore. Who knows, maybe a VR headset will be a better choice in a few years.

I've been working a lot on the idea of ambient info. I use KDE's html wallpaper feature to provide a dynamic graph view of my environment.
I’ve definitely noticed that there seems to be ~5 people who do all the dubs on Netflix. For instance there’s obviously one guy who does all the main character voices, one guy who does all of the black guy voices, etc
Turkey, After America [video]
There are different kinds of dogs. Mine is a couch potato. He just wants to curl up in your lap, nothing more. Not too energetic. I've met those dogs too. Friendly but can be annoying.
And the Shoebill emulator, if you want to run A/UX yourself: https://github.com/pruten/shoebill

Or, apparently, a recent-ish QEMU, but I haven’t tried that myself
Streaming services need to continually pump out new content. Disneys release schedule is too slow and they don’t have enough original ip, all their stuff is the same few brands. Their strategy works better for destination content like movies when streaming is a binge based platform.
That’s a lot, but it doesn’t seem ridiculous to imagine that about half of the Western world (roughly Apple users) would pay them $20/m. That’s $240/y. Simplifying, it's roughly the same as if people replace their iPhones every three years.

Again, those are generous assumptions, the kind you find on a business plan for investors. But it’s not nonsensical. Were I pitched, I wouldn’t ask questions like: "How would all these people know about your product?" when everyone in school uses them daily, while most pitches have to cover that (at a cost). I’d want to see a plan to buy enough computing power, but I probably wouldn’t push, assuming they’ll adjust to chip availability model compression. Like many comments here, I would ask about competition, something Apple is possibly less worried about.
Almost all modern games, movies, and tv series would not have been created if there was no profit insentive. And even the book author needs to somehow make a living. Begin able to write books without having to work in some factory for half of your day makes writing easier.
No idea where the 600$ come from, they did it with a laptop and a teensy. That article is pretty much garbage, referencing "spiegel", which itself is pretty clueless about this kind of stuff. This whole "elon mode" thing is their own clickbait spin, it's much less prominent in the original work.
It might be worth checking the modes available, perhaps cinema or eyecare modes may help if available. Not a monitor but on our Samsung TV some modes flicker visibly while others don’t. Fiddling around the settings accidentally turned it on for me.
the answer is mundane

Sam Altman and co told them that

> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

detailed at

https://www.safe.ai/ai-risk

if you are someone who can't even install windows yourself, do you tell Bill Gates he doesn't know what he's talking about?
You’re forcing people to pay you when they utilize the product of your labor. And that’s correct, that’s a good thing obviously. You presumably don’t work for free do you?
I think what the industry needs is a fixed royalties regime like recorded music has.

Spotify has the whole catalog, and the rights holders can't stop them. But Spotify does have to pay a certain industry fixed royalty per play.

The trick will be that movies & TV have wildly different production costs and replay value vs. music singles, so the scheme would have to account for this in a way that is fair.
You can literally operate the coal power plant until it falls apart and burns down and nobody gives a damn. Try doing that with a nuclear power plant.
Edited post to make my reason more clear
You labor under the delusion that protests are not state level intimidation and excuse to ram through what they want to, against a small obstacle that isn't with the program: popular opinion (seemingly most common), an institution, or a branch of government.

Actual grassroots protests, often representing true popular opinion, get demonized and buried by the press. Participants are prosecuted as far as they can be. Any protests that bring "change" get the opposite treatment, and coincidentally commonly take on a severely antidemocratic tone rooted in the threat of violence against innocents.
Sounds like you're actually agreeing with me. If there are multiple users, then that just puts more pressure on users to write compact code.
This was the FizzBuzz python code from chatGPT that prints out differently if value is even and dividable by 3 and 5. Simple task and very nice implementation.

def fizzbuzz_even_surprise(n):
return [
(lambda x: 'Surprise' if x % 2 == 0 and x % 3 == 0 and x % 5 == 0 else 'Fizz'(x % 3 == 0) + 'Buzz'(x % 5 == 0) or x)(x)
for x in range(1, n+1)
]

print(fizzbuzz_even_surprise(30))
It seems pretty clear that if the vehicle becomes capable of doing real active driving then there should be the equivalent of a human driving test. Only the features that pass the test can go into the vehicle, so as per your example - an algorithm that cuts people up when merging would simply fail to pass the driving test and wouldn't be acceptable for deployment.

I think the likeliest case for full self driving is almost the opposite of what you're describing. Because it's all code and it's reproducible and testable the car company is liable if they put out something that speeds or drives dangerously. The result will be FSD cars all driving at the speed limit, leaving appropriate breaking distances etc. - driving much more conservatively than the equivalent human driver. It's also about incentives, you as the consumer might want a car that drives a hundred miles per hour and weaves in and out of traffic, but if the car company is the one facing the liability for it then it's not going to happen.
A/UX Server Penelope: System V Unix for the Classic Macintosh
no worries

yeah, eventually the humans will start to feel the limits of the terrestrial solar resource, but at well over 100 times current world marketed energy consumption, at which point they will have reached the energy intensity level you thought they were already at
We have the freedom to choose among the options that they allow us.
It was piracy that really cracked the nut of the music industry though. They simply couldn't fight it so they had to offer an alternative. Video media hasn't gotten to that point with piracy and for the majority of people it's easier to pay for content.
Cross-country content doesn't have to mean foreign language content, right? Squid Game and Money Heist are two examples of "cross-country" content that served Netflix extremely well IMO. Produced for a specific non-anglo-centric region, they slapped shitty English dubs on those and suddenly, world-wide hits.
My wife watches more than me and I occasionally join. It's all genuinely decent stuff compared to awful NBC/ABC/CBS 12 season x 20 episode x ~20min weekly churned out dreck.

But it is also completely mid / forgettable in a totally different way.
A lot of the content is longer than a movie but shorter than a series. You get 5-10 episodes of ~40min length, enjoy it, and never ever think about it again. Rinse & repeat.

A lot of the actors I jokingly refer to as "poor mans __" because they often cast people that sort of look like someone famous. They have a nack for casting decent early career actors/actresses. Sort of a corporatized studio that realized they didn't need prestige names. Maybe, darkly, they've also identified the fact that a lot of people "give it a shot" in acting and then move on, and they can be had a lot more cheaply than someone with a decade of film&TV under their belt. If you live in LA/NYC you've probably got a few of these types in your friends circle.
People complaining about nuclear power are mostly concerned with cost and time needed for construction and no loosening regulations is not an option.
> It seems like it would be cool for an SBC, but the compilation (or setting up cross-compilation) was always too much;

Back in the day I had a few relatively slow machines and used to compile my kernels using distcc to offload the tasks to them. I never used cross compilation but I see it is supported so it may be a possibility for small SBCs.

https://www.distcc.org/
The thing is, that was 20 years ago. I basically did the same thing, at almost the same time, as you.

But computing power is much higher now. The same compilation now would probably take 1-2 hours, max. Updates would be super fast.

Gentoo itself is considered generally stable and a pretty solid distribution, or it used to be.

I wonder if these days the flexibility and the engineering behind Gentoo might be worth taking another go at it.
There are federal loans involved, but this is not a government project. Georgia Power is part of an investor owned utility.
> Again, software licensing is the same.

Yes, which is why I'm a free software supporter.

> Renting a home, or a car, is the same.

No, because that is scarce.

> If I buy a book, I can resell that book freely.

Not if it's an e-book.

> It's just that I can't write my own sequel to it, or turn it into a film without the author's permission. This strikes me as a very good thing.

I disagree. Why shouldn't people be able to adapt and reuse previous works, if the author has already been compensated for their time for the original book? Of course, the author still has the ability to write an "official sequel" or make an "official adaption". This ignores fan-art and fan-fics as well (which is not always non-commercial, by the way). We shouldn't need the permission [1] of previous creators to build on top of their works, because culture does not end with them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permission_culture
Web injections are back on the rise
I agree. I expect the form to ask what I do and some info about the investor. Something like

fake quote> ... we sell bananas online ... you are interested in the food industry ...
Copyright and patents aren't the same at all.
Streaming has become the new cable: a bunch of piecemeal services with mostly terrible content and a few gems each, with their own pricing plans and ad models. I have no interest in subscribing to all of them or even most of them. There's just too much junk, too many different subscriptions to monitor, and too much deception in their ad models (if I pay for "no ads" and see a 30 second unskippable ad for the service's content before every show that's a dealbreaker--AMC+ does this).
Whoa, please don't cross into personal attack. You can make your substantive points without that.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.