Readit Newsbookaway commented on Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead semafor.com/article/03/30... · Posted by u/m463
Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things. That’s not a criticism, really, that’s their product focus
https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/netflix-backlash-casual-vi...
I had been a Netflix subscriber since the days of DVDs by mail and finally cancelled last month. It’s not worth +$20/mo for casual viewing. And they have a bad track record of cancelling shows I actually liked and promoting hallmark quality programs instead.
I don’t think much needs to be said about movie theaters. When most shows are remakes, sequels, superhero movies or other franchises, it’s all so tired.
So sure, movie theaters might be dead, but they share a grave with Netflix.
>Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things.
Yeah, I watch all films I consider worth seeing in the theater frankly. I rarely have nightmarishly disruptive movie going experiences. Any disruptions are minuscule compared to the infinite attention distractions at home or on any viewing portal connected to the internet.
And sometimes I go specifically for the rowdy crowd experience. For example, watching Grand Theft Hamlet with a appreciative (and somewhat drunk) rowdy crowd in the theater was fucking fantastic. Ironically, someone in Riot Games, the company that decided to stream Arcane on Netflix, also knew this very well when they rented movie theaters across the world and had screening events ahead of official Netflix release dates for episodes from the the latest Arcane season -- for an audience mostly composed of ballistic League of Legend cosplaying gen Zs and alphas.
Those people are also dead weight. I despise the fact that I have to play politics at work. Work should be based on results, period. Spending time politicking is not producing results; at best, it’s eventually producing via cajoling what could have been accomplished in 1/4 the time if you’d been left alone and trusted.
>Work should be based on results
The people who play politics also have their work judged by results. Getting yourself promoted to head a project that prints money for the company with little cost doesn't necessarily cause the project to stop printing money.
I had a Lebanese friend in medical school in the states and his racist rants about how he was considered white for his MCAT scores would make Goebbels blush so it's amusing how brown is used here.
The good news is he eventually got into a school in the Caribbean and today is practicing medicine in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Good luck everyone.
>it's amusing how brown is used here.
Brown here is being used here to mean Brown University. In what way do you find it amusing.
bookaway commented on An investigation into egg prices thebignewsletter.com/p/ha... · Posted by u/Armic
> This isn’t like pure scientific pursuit of knowledge but a more practical day to day ability to question, understand and gather new information with the purpose of developing an objective understanding of the world.
you've just described scientific persuit.
Just because the object of said persuit pertains to everyday life, doesn't mean it isn't scientific. The goal of science is to understand truth, and discern it from falsehoods (which might appear true intuitively).
Science isn't about researching niche, or cutting edge things. It's about the method, rigor and ability to change one's mind based on evidence regardless of priors.
Yes, and unfortunately the “desire” for scientific research of everyday life is hard to maintain because frankly in our current times it has dawned on many that scientific research is unable, by itself, to prevent or limit actions taken that fly in the face of the said research. So some domain experts have realized that upping their social media game is a better investment than broadening their scientific research efforts, because you’ve already lost if you are unable to derail a delusional narrative in real time. It’s the era of yellow journalism 2.0.
bookaway commented on Tell HN: new and non-neg low karma users, your posts appear to be auto-killed · Posted by u/bookaway
Posts by new and low-karma users are not automatically killed. Anyone can see that by looking at the /newest page.
If you have questions like this, you should be sending them to hn@ycombinator.com so we can actually see and answer them, not posting metathreads about it. (This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.) The only reason I found out about this thread is that a different user did email us.
It's all too easy to look at a limited set of datapoints and misinterpret what you're seeing. For example, some spam rings post legitimate (or legitimate-looking) submissions in order to cover for their spam. If you see a submission like that being auto-killed, you might well think "how can the moderators possibly be so heavy-handed" when in fact we're working hard to prevent spammers from taking over the site.
It's a constant struggle, like a cat-and-mouse game crossed with an arms race, and it's impossible to get the anti-abuse code perfect, so there will always be false positives. When you see those, you can help by vouching for them and/or by letting us know about them at hn@ycombinator.com so we can fix it. Many users do those things every day.
Thanks for the explanation dang.
>Posts by new and low-karma users are not automatically killed. Anyone can see that by looking at the /newest page.
>[let us] know about them at hn@ycombinator.com so we can fix it
You’re right to chastise me about the title. I had to remove all the qualifiers to meet the title character limit (also negative-> neg for that reason), so the title was more chicken little than I would have liked, but I did leave the qualifiers in the explanation, where I wasn’t claiming that all noobie posts were getting killed. My primary intention was to warn some of the good faith noobies who looked like they were getting caught up in the spam filter, and a post that noobies could see seemed to be a more appropriate venue for that. I didn't think my post would provide any extra utility to spammers. I apologize if the person that emailed you wasn’t a good-faith noobie poster concerned about their own posts.
But overall, because of the information asymmetry, I do think you underestimate the positive impact on the community of you coming out of the woodwork to provide explanations about specific instances once in awhile, as much as you loath to do so it seems.
e.g. TIL approx +50% of noobie posts are potential spam at a given time.
Sorry, I updated the title. By location I meant IP.
If we have location-based results it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft. Saying *we throw away both the guessed location and the IP address* is bullshit. They share it with Microsoft, and Microsoft keeps it.
>it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft.
I'm not sure I understand or maybe I'm missing something, sharing the guessed city is not "technically" sharing your IP address? (I understand that it's still sharing more info than what you thought)
Let's say the steps are:
1. You type in "exhibition" to ddg
2. DDG sends "exhibition in <guessed city>" to Bing using its own random datacenter IP address
3. Sends you back results
Did it now "share your IP address with Microsoft"?
bookaway commented on Tell HN: new and non-neg low karma users, your posts appear to be auto-killed · Posted by u/bookaway
I don't find it hilarious. It's just an observation that all those are AI related.
I never claimed that people "investigate" the links and kill them. But I do believe that if enough people get tired of a certain subject, they will flag such links without bothering to even click them.
Then again, you did assume that this was done automatically. I think I can be allowed to assume that it's just other users flagging stuff they don't like.
>Then again, you did assume that this was done automatically.
If you see multiple [dead] stories that are minutes old by different users that have non-clickbait tech titles it is not unreasonable to think auto-moderation is a more likely explanation than someone manually killing every single post in near real-time by keeping a filter algorithm in their head and manually checking whether each expression in that algorithm is true or false.
>I don't find it hilarious.
If YC was asking for AI startup submissions but HN was auto-killing noobie AI submissions I would find that hilarious in a black comedy sense. Pity we don't share the same absurdist humor.
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But this is not such a big deal.
I made an open-source lightweight daemon in Go that fills that gap. All it does is to provide the means to connect to popular messaging systems like Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. and expose this all through the CLI.
The project is hosted here: https://github.com/pantalk/pantalk
My personal realisation recently has been that the unix way is the best way. We just need to go back creating daemons and lightweight composable CLIs and let agents do their thing. They are increasing being trained to operate the command-line and they are getting pretty good at it.
You have people talking about the tired topic of the lack of moat for AI businesses. But people should be calling out the moat that most tech businesses take for granted. Forget the moat that prevents other businesses, what about the moat that prevents your own users from creating your own product "from scratch"?