skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My time isn’t valuable"

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sir?
Hell no -lobbyists
Ya, but, like, you know, give it 5-10 years. Society needs to do a generational refresh
The money's not on the table if people can and will leave. That's the point of competition. Piracy is entirely in the spirit of free market capitalism: the equilibrium price of a good with infinite supply is 0.
Im saving the latter half for tomorrow but so far its making sense. People have different learning styles, and I think this is lacking in the visual department. Parts like the vectors all being displayed next to the word like "cat", could have been better annotated to show where those numbers come from visually.
On your last point: Bundling features together in tiers even if not every user needs everything in every new tier is not new in any digital or even non-digital pricing strategy. Doubly so when the cost to Netflix to "grant" you 4 simultaneous streams is effectively 0.
At least for our product, we only go for the largest corporations (think top 1000 companies in the world).

IMO it’s way easier in many respects to network and build the product — At least for us.

Simple way I think about it - I have max 1000 people to make happy. If I can get 10 to be super happy, the other 1000 will follow. If I can get 3-5 happy we’re a $100m company, 30-50 a $1B company; etc.

It helps for us because I know a lot of these folks already, so it’s basically just making a product my friends love.
That doesn’t seem like a bad number.
> Torrents require you to own a PC (there's no way to torrent on a phone or smart TV AFAIK), Usenet requires you to have some tech knowledge, same goes for Plex / Jellyfin.

There are some piracy subreddits you can look at to get some idea, but there seems to be easier ways than that.
I looked around and couldn't make sense of how to write out random config files like I manage with puppet and ERB files.

Are there any reasonable examples of such?
> Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc).

I think you overestimate how "easy" piracy is for the average user. Netflix revenue keeps growing (and subscribers), despite the "crackdown" on password sharing that many predicted would cause massive cancellations.
Netflix is the only streamer (out of the major ones) that is currently profitable
Great take — I find the constant apocalyptic language of both the left and right utterly infuriating.
As a normal individual, I doubt I could afford a lawyer that would be a match for them.
When I’m at home deciding what to watch on TV it really isn’t.
I welcome anything that brings sanity to Python packaging. I have had several projects that I have been working with and have tried Poetry, Hatch, PDM and just plain old `requirements.txt` and I have been longing for something that Just Works like Rubygems and Bundler or Mix (Elixir) or Cargo, or even something that Sort of Works like npm or yarn.

I haven't tried Rye yet, mostly because from my (outsider's) perspective, Python version management is better handled externally like rvm, rbenv, or chruby for Ruby or rustup for Rust; I have recently shifted to using mise (formerly rtx) because unlike asdf it does not use shims by default.

Is there a good case for Rye over PDM if you leave out Python version management?
The fragmentation really has broken the on-demand promise of being able to watch what you want when you want.
A good list of words that people make similar mistakes with…
If you want to read this comment, which I created, you owe me $100.

Okay, now pay up. If you don’t, you’re stealing from me.
I thought the number in the title seemed low, but this makes it seem closer
The phrase "TCP packet" itself should raise some doubts on correctness, because TCP is a stream and not message-oriented protocol.
The Shed: A building on wheels in New York City
If you do your own research and determine the earth is flat, you're stupid.

Don't blame doing your own research. It galls me to hear people refusing to do their own research because other people are famously bad at it.
Exactly where would you go? It's not like there's a lot of nice, developed nations on par with Netherlands that you can just pick up and move to. Perhaps some other EU nations, but many of those are electing similar people lately.
> Edit: not gpt. And it appears I’m unpopular with entrepreneurs who are vegetarians.

Yeah, but they're the chickens.

I like your post, thanks for making it.
googling "watch X online free" is hard?
The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn't its new website use it?
Cliff is a national treasure!
Some of the topics in the parent post should not be a major surprise to anyone who has read https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno... ! If we do not have read the foundations of the field that we are in, we are doomed to be mystified by unexplained phenomena which arise pretty naturally as consequences of already-distilled work!

That said, the experiments seem very thorough, on a first pass/initial cursory examination, I appreciate the amount of detail that seemed to go into them.

The tradeoff between learning existing theory, and attempting to re-derive it from scratch, I think, is a hard tradeoff, as not having the traditional foundation allows for the discovery of new things, but having it allows for a deeper understanding of certain phenomena. There is a tradeoff either way.

I've seen several people here in the comments seemingly shocked that a model that maximizes the log likelihood of a sequence given the data somehow does not magically deviate from that behavior when run in inference. It's a density estimation model, do you want it to magically recite Shakespeare from the void?

Please! Let's stick to the basics, it will help experiments like this make much more sense as there already is a very clear mathematical foundation which clearly explains it (and said emergent phenomena).

If you want more specifics, there are several layers, Shannon's treatment of ergodic systems is a good start (though there is some minor deviation from that here, but it likely is a 'close enough' match to what's happening here to be properly instructive to the reader about the general dynamics of what is going on, overall.)
https://archive.is/9Zsdd
There are hundreds of click to play streaming pirate sites with full catalogs and multiple hosting mirrors.

Often they have better ui than legal streams. Auto play/next, auto intro and extro skips, better recommendations, full search engine features, subtitles, etc. Without ad block they can be a banner ad mess, but with adblock there is none.
It's far less profitable than you'd think. Many of the competitors in the industry lose money.

Licensing fees/production costs/royalties eat a bunch of the money, but the infrastructure to run a streaming service isn't cheap. I know at least one of the competitors that people would call the most successful is paying a 9 figure AWS bill, plus whatever the costs are for all the caching setup that makes most popular content live in ISPs. Add the typical army of developers building apps for the mobile devices, the billing team, people doing recommendation engines, fraud detection/security team, tagging all content, and translating every blurb in a bunch of languages, possibly pay for creating subtitles for all of those languages... it's not cheap.

What is so frustrating about this is that so many of the costs would go down with consolidation. Every company has to handle the fact that age verification and privacy legislation in South Korea has to work in a just-so way, but every streaming service has to duplicate the logic. While the Netflix recommendation system probably can use some tweaks to take on all of D+'s content, I bet it'd be easier to tweak their system than to have every company have their own ML team handling recommendations. A lot of relatively low quality content wouldn't have to be made if we didn't need to make 'filler' to keep people spending sufficient time on a given streaming service while the next top quality release comes out.

In a happy world, competition brings more better content at a cheaper price for consumers, but when I look at the state of streaming, what we have is many competitors that aren't breaking even, in exchange for a streaming experience that keeps getting worse. And there's little chance it's going to get better until at least half of the worst competitors give up and go back to licensing their content to whatever the big 3 end up being.

And yes, we'd all be better off if we moved to the music model, where any subscription has 90% of the content, but do you really see, say, Apple, Netflix and Disney doing worldwide, full catalog cross-licensing deals?
One of the best gifts you can ever gift yourself.
I find it entirely baffling that the top shows on Netflix are lighthearted shows (usually comedies) that go on for many seasons. Friends, Seinfeld, suits, office, Gilmore girls, supernatural

But… Netflix doesn’t make these kinds of shows. They give small orders of episodes to niche shows and cancel them quickly before they have time to gain an audience.

Obviously they know which shows people watch, but why doesn’t that translate into them making those shows at presumably less cost?
Windows calculator on Linux, using Uno https://github.com/unoplatform/calculator
Why is this problem more relevant than say the “reverse explosion” problem? Or “reverse for X”
They've figured out the solution to homelessness.
I don’t think very many people are paying more for daycare than they make while their kids are in it.
> This has been solved by many other solutions (pipenv, poetry, pdm, etc...).

It's been repeatedly not solved by the new tool the Python ecosystem comes up with every few years, IME. (It reminds me of an old quote I can't find about how every new version of C++ contains new features to fix the problems with the new features in the previous version of C++)
Trying to build systems top-down using principles humans can fit in their head has arguably been a dead end. But this doesn't mean that we cannot try to understand parts of current AI systems at a higher level of abstraction, right? They may not have been designed top-down with human-understandable principles, but that doesn't mean that trained, human-understandable principles couldn't have emerged organically from the training process.

Evolution optimized the human brain to do things over an unbelievably long period of time. Human brains were not designed top-down with human-understandable principles. But neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists have arguably had success with understanding the brain partially at a higher level of abstraction than just neurons, or just saying "evolution optimized these clumps of matter for spreading genes; there's nothing more to say". What do you think is the relevant difference between the human brain and current machine learning models that makes the latter just utterly incomprehensible at any higher level of abstraction, but the former worth pursuing by means of different scientific fields?
Did they? I thought pretty early they saw the writing on the wall given the low barrier to entry for a juggernaut like Disney to compete with them, and went hard at their "Originals". I remember an interview with Hastings saying as much, that "in the future we won't have all the content, just the best content."

It would have been bold of them to essentially pull back and try and broker a deal where they accepted lower margins as a mere distributor rather than doing what they did and seek safety with their own library of IP.
Interesting, I’m in the middle of a huge project to move us AWAY from compiling a separate binary for each environment. In our case, I don’t see how hardcoding config values can play nice with infrastructure as code tools, or the need to offer an on-premises version of the app.
I appreciate the effort that went into this visualization, however, as someone who has worked with neural networks for 9 years, I found it far more confusing than helpful. I believe it was due to trying to present all items at once instead of deferring to abstract concepts, however, I am not entirely sure of this fact. <3 :'))))
That's just it. It isn't a science book, I don't think it ever was intended to be one.
Perhaps, but I didn't see anything to that effect in his text. His comment about there being "too many" sensors that he didn't even know the function of, or seem to appreciate the presence of at all, seems to contraindicate your assumption.

Consumer electronics are generally made cheaply, so they don't put sensors in there for no reason at all. Usually there's a very good reason they're in there.
In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference.

— Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, p. 363
>you worship

Yeah okay, I guess you worship google if you support webapps too?
When systems (think "automated" systems like computer programs, mathematical axioms, formal systems, etc, where conclusions can be drawn/calculated "mechanically" from a few starting points) get large enough, they gain the ability to become self-referential. That is, they become expressive enough to encode statements about themselves. A hallmark of this are "incompleteness theorems" like those of Godel or the Turing halting problem.

The book argues that these "strange loops" (of a system onto itself) are behind the emergence of intelligence and consciousness, because physical matter itself gives rise to human intelligence, albeit being a mechanical system.
They talk about piracy "services," which is not your normal torrent user presumably. I guess it's Popcorn Time and the like, which makes it somewhat easier for the general populace.
"They" gotta start somewhere...
I completely share you sentiments. Incidentally, I'm also autistic and know many who feel the same way.
Kinda neat but it seems a lot of "cyberdecks" are now just converging on "laptop" or "palm pilot". The essence behind a cyberdeck is its retro-futuristic design which produces an anachronistic feeling like some out of place object from another timeline dropped by a multiverse traveler. The Lisperati1000[0] nailed it with its surprising screen dimensions, form factor, color and keycap choices, and using it for Lisp programming. For a commercial solution it's hard to beat the Cardputer[1] with its chunky off white case, riotous multi-color labelling, quirky features, inscrutable purpose and the fact it comes in a blister pack like it's something you'd pick up in a gas station convenience store in an alternate 1988.

[0] https://www.hackster.io/news/the-lisperati1000-is-a-cyberdec...

[1] https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-cardputer-kit-w-m5...
Don't forget with multiple folks in a household that number is even higher. Yikes.
Do you add back in minerals for flavor/taste then?
I wonder how long the "pair of" phrasing can stick to things that were once a pair of items and got redesigned to be one thing, like trousers, or scissors (originally a pair of knives). My wife always says "scissor" singular, which I thought was weird but now think is the just way the language will go eventually.

How long can we stick with "hang up the phone" and "off the hook" now there is no separate handset and no hook or base? And finaly, why is it "a pair of underpants" when that could never have been two garments?
> I think you overestimate how "easy" piracy is for the average user. Netflix revenue keeps growing [...]

According to TFA piracy is also growing rapidly, so it's apparently easy enough.

You may be thinking of usenet, torrenting, seedboxes etc. when it comes to piracy, but there are also (ad supported) public web sites where you can watch almost any content, or IPTV providers where you can pay a yearly fee and watch most things streaming providers offer once set up.
My parents found free sports online when their team was playing a team that wasn't shown locally.

They're completely inept at technology.

It's very easy these days.
There are many interesting efforts — going back quite a few years —- to this goal, many of which in the PAC setting (which automatically means MLP is out, for theoretical guarantees). E.g [0]and its related references come to mind as an interesting place to look into it!

[0]: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2018/file/22b1f2e098316... pro

(Edited for some clarity)
It is rather end-stage technoscene isn't it. Along with AI and crypto, all solutions looking for a problem (and causing many problems themselves).
Was I downvoted for calling the the exert from the article bullshit, because I didn't link evidence, or because you disagree with my statement?

I stand by what I said, I've used tumeric for some minor infections. Antibiotic ointments (that are petroleum based) do not penetrate the skin adequately and I find tumeric paste to be much more effective in some instances.

There is a lot of evidence for the efficacy of curcumin. Aside from what evidence is valid or not, my own experiences confirm efficacy.
They forgot to credit the co-author, who I assume works at Intuit.
> I think you overestimate how "easy" piracy is for the average user.

You overestimate your view of piracy. The average person isn't curating libraries of lossless music collections and carefully re-encoding Anime dubs to match their sound system.

People are Googling for the hundreds of sites that will stream a feed of a DirecTV box somewhere showing an NFL game, or show grandma how to connect to the Plex server their cousin runs.
Feels like Cicada 3301. Something about being hosted on Tor makes the puzzles feel spicy rather than an ordinary ARG. Are there any currently active?
OT: what's the deal with the images being cropped so that some of the text is cut off? I'm seeing it on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and iPhone. Clicking the image opens a view of just the image, which is not cut off, so it is not a problem with the image itself.

It's happening because of the "object-fit: cover" in this from index_build.css:

.post-content div.npf_row .npf_col figure img,.post div.npf_row .npf_col figure img,body div.npf_row .npf_col figure img {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
object-fit: cover
}

That suggests it is a deliberate design choice. If so, what's the reasoning behind it?
The "Python" one is the only one I regularly use. What about you?
I enjoy college sports a lot more the pro sports as well. It's fun to have new players every year and I like how college basketball feels much faster paced than the NBA. In college it feels like the players are sprinting in circles at 150%. In the NBA the players seem much more calm, slow and methodical which is less interesting to watch for me.
The Chevy Bolt was good value for what it was. A new model Bolt on the Ultium platform is supposed to be released in 2025.

Europe has a number of small car EV options available. Renault Zoe, Peugeot e-208, Fiat 500e, VW ID.3, etc.

The Citroën Ami goes fast because it has flames on the side: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/weird/ha-check-out-citroens...

And the Ami strikes fear into the hearts of criminals everywhere: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/citroen-ami-now-po...
You sure like to make assumptions, don't you? :)
This touches very very briefly on it, but the support load of enterprises is very different from that of small businesses.

If you're targeting small/mid-market then you want to invest a lot in docs and self-service support options, have a many-hands approach to triaging support, and implement a well-oiled, human-driven escalation process to more hands-on technical support paired with clear limits or dis/incentives for those escalations in the support contract or product terms.

The more small businesses you serve, the more people you'll be interacting with who have a low level of understanding of your product paired with a lack of time to focus on drilling into issues. You can't scale account services or customization as easily, but you still want to listen to and serve smaller customers when many of them ask for the same thing or communicate the same product deficiencies.

If you're targeting enterprise then you want that investment tilted on the account management and senior live support sides. They're more likely to need customized solutions, and support and documentation for those solutions will focus more on them than anyone else.

They're also more likely to show up with their entire department (or org) on fire and demand a senior on-site presence or similar level of sustained round-the-clock commitment, including handoffs across time zones and geos, until the fire's out.

They're both hard, but if you aren't careful and proactive in having good self-service content then you'll hit scaling issues very quickly with small businesses. Like, when an enterprise customer calls support there's a very good chance the customer calling knows what a web browser is, and a pretty good chance that they've had some onboarding on what the product itself is. Neither is nearly as likely on the small business side, and they'll all ring the phone and drain time and resources just the same. Pair that with needing more SMB logos to drive the same revenue as enterprise and your support channels will be overwhelmed if you don't have the means to helpfully deflect.
Counterargument is that the global sperm count decline is global.

As in not limited to humans. It is seen in many mammals.
> 2001: A Space Odyssey could easily be trimmed to 25 minutes or less if all you care about is the plot. But should it?

Yes. Tell me that you just sat there watching it without being distracted by your thoughts at all. Being able to handle torture doesn't make torture good.
Kick isn't really a streaming site, it's a front started by the Stake bitcoin casino after Twitch changed policy to ban streaming bitcoin slots.

Stake had been handing out huge contracts to major streamers to show themselves having fun gambling on Stake, particularly xQc and TrainwreksTV. These streamers would act as if they were betting with their own money, including getting into six figure bets, without being clear they were on a contract that basically made it all upside to them even if they lost millions. The audience for these streamers slants young, and that didn't sit well with Twitch advertisers, hence the change in policy.

Train et all didn't want their golden goose to end, so they worked with Stake to create Kick, with Train as one of the cofounders, and xQc and others pulling their audience over.

One of Kick's selling points to streamers has been to be a wild west as far as copyright and content goes. They quickly took in all the streamers too toxic for other platforms, including people who'd done things like film themselves committing sexual assaults on Twitch. They've encouraged people to restream copyright content like marvel movies, and even porn.

I don't know what the laws are like in Greece, but considering this free for all approach it's not surprising they'd run afowl of regulations somehow. Frankly it's amazing Kick hasn't gotten nailed by some sort of major anti piracy action, but I suppose being based out of the Seychelles complicates that for copyright holders.

In any case, the point is Kick is an aberration. It's way too toxic for mainstream advertisers, so the only thing sustaining it financially is Stake paying people to stream gambling on Stake.
> Of could it would look ridiculous.

Put it on a camper, and it'll look like yet another old hippie tinfoiler from movies/TV shows.
Try disabling hardware acceleration in your browser. It'll probably fix the black screen issue.

The situation is still ridiculous though. Streaming is no longer easier than piracy.