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native ads - kind of sums up the ludicrousness of the adtech industry… “they are not real ads because they are NATIVE!”

From this Bloomberg article back in June: "The company has fewer than 20 prototypes in circulation around the world, Blania said. A prototype orb costs about $5,000 to make, but the price will decline steeply as the company refines the process, he said." [1]

Seems a rather expensive piece of kit to ship around the world.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/sam-altma...

Thanks for sharing. It’s frequently the little acts of everyday kindness that go a long way in this world, like the blanket example you cite.

Hello Golden Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association!

You can, but the total output is not the same as that ‘consumed’ and the importance in this context is the influence, not the sheer output.

For example, it could be that 10% of the films on that list are produced but never released (studio dumps, legal issues between producers and creatives, etc).

Just look at the USA box office impact of Black Widow, and Shang-Chi. Only two films but a huge proportion of post-covid box office revenue.

Whilst that is a useful list, that’s somewhat of a misnomer in isolation.

To provide a fuller comparison, you’d need to also incorporate: share of viewing (per title), average box office returns (per studio eg Marvel/Disney), number of articles in mainstream media, etc.

Has anyone read his other book ‘Silicon Snake Oil’ [1] from 1995 lately?

Sounds like most of his predictions in it (eg e-commerce will fail, digital books will not be viable, etc) were wildly off the mark - but were any prescient?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Snake_Oil

On the SCP wiki, you could have two jobs and a kid.

Does anyone know what the following quote actually means?

> "Not to go too far into it today, but as an advertiser-focused, artist-first and animation-obsessed company, Fox is going to take advertisers into the world of blockchain-powered tokens, including NFTs. And Dan’s series, currently entitled Krapopolis, will be the first-ever curated entirely on the blockchain. And just as we’re doing this for our own animation, we will also help your brands connect directly with fans and enthusiasts through NFTs. With and for you, Fox will help art meet brands meet technology.” - Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier told advertisers during the company’s presentation.

> People don't need beef.

I agree technically speaking, but try telling that to the average Argentinian ;)

Three good reads to start:

1. Primer on ultra processed foods: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed...

2. NOVA “the food classification that categorises foods according to the extent and purpose of food processing, rather than in terms of nutrients” [PDF]: http://archive.wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WN-2016-...

3. ‘Ultra-processed foods and added sugars in the US diet: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study’: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e009892

Whilst the environmental and animal welfare benefits of many of the ‘fake’ meats (Beyond, Impossible, Vegetarian Butcher, etc) are noble and important, in the spirit of ‘full’ lifecycle analysis, it is important to also consider just how processed (ultra processed) these products are and the potential impacts this has in the human health domain.

And the research on ultra processed foods is rather clear, they are ‘bad’ for human health in large quantities.

Some alternatives that are better for the environment AND for human health include: pulled oats from Finland, and fake cheese products made from beans (rather than tree nuts).

Edit: Added… simple tip, read the ingredient list and count the number of ingredients used.

What’s also lacking from a marketing perspective is the “Intel Inside” campaign - which was incredibly successful for the Wintel monopoly in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Seeing the sticker or hearing this slogan used to imply a premium or cachet to the product/hardware to the average Joe or Joanne.

No longer, Intel’s brand recognition has really taken a hit in the past decade.

Maybe a quick litmus test to identify such people is those who refer to themselves as ‘thought leaders’ on LinkedIn /s

Similar project worth checking out is Geometrize [1] also available on GitHub [2]

[1] https://www.geometrize.co.uk/

[2] https://github.com/Tw1ddle/geometrize

This is what is referred to as ‘access journalism’ and indeed, it’s heavily prescient in technology - as it is in music, showbiz, sports, as well.

I was hoping for a more detailed answer than what support has provided - maybe from a Dropbox dev

Adjacent: I found this part of the article particularly interesting:

“People-rental services are fairly common in Japan, where you can rent anyone from a middle-aged man to give you life advice, to someone to become friends with your spouse to see if they’re cheating on you.”

This surfaces an important point that our communities (online, offline, families, etc) have no easy solution for: if indeed some one does have a mental illness* how do you factor that in and make allowances for it? How do you quantify that the actions come from someone who is mentally unwell? And without diagnostic tooling, how do you know they are mentally ill?

* In this case there is no way to comfirm if the sender/s are mentally ill because all you have is inference to play against the words written and the images sent to Daniel.

Rare did align with Nintendo’s core business - and was an exclusive Nintendo64 developer - but even Tim Stamper, co-founder of Rare, is apparently none-the-wiser...

> “One of the most interesting parts of the interview is Stamper's view on Rare's sale to Microsoft, and the question that seems to eternally be on everyone's lips: why didn't Nintendo snap up the studio beforehand? Nintendo owned almost half of the UK company, but for reasons unknown never tried to buy Rare outright, despite the fact that the Stampers were clearly on the lookout for buyers.

Stamper is at a loss as to why Nintendo didn't step in and open up its chequebook:

I've no idea why they didn't do that. I thought we were a good fit.” [1]

[1] https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/08/rare_co-founder_ha...

Thanks for sharing your experiences of being diagnosed with NPD.

I was wondering what made you get referred to the ‘several doctors’ in the first instance, and what treatments did they recommend to help manage your NPD?

One potential implementation: at the top of each thread, after the metadata for the thread itself and before the comment box, are a list of ‘Related discussions’ with a bulletpoint list of related HN threads.

Hi dang,

I’ve recently noticed that this commonly occurs ie multiple relevant threads that make up the top 50 of HN over say a 72 hour period, all related or rifts on a similar discussion.

Wondering if there is a way to group them as part of the same topic/submission? (thus saving you the manual work of posts like this). I appreciate this would (i) require a code change and (ii) would shift the HN model from individual threads based on 1 URL submission, but just thought I’d suggest it to the HN brains trust.

In other news: Keep up the good work that you do on HN to give this online community ‘structure’.

An important note: this only affects those in the USA - unless HBO Max expands internationally in 2021 - because:

“HBO Max is currently only supported in the U.S. and supported territories” [1]

HBO Max has not announced any plans to expand outside of the USA at this stage.

[1] https://www.hbomax.com/geo-availability

Given this legal complaint is USA-based, it would be interesting to understand how ‘friendly’ Google is to unionised employees or employees organising unions in other countries (eg UK, France, Germany, Australia, etc) where it has a significant number of employees.

Laws and perceptions on unionisation of staff obviously differ heavily on a per-country basis.

edit: added last sentence

> “The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has been undertaking what it has called a comprehensive rebuild of its IT systems and related business processes and applications, focused on addressing security and resilience risks. ... The component operations contract is expected to start December this year and run through June 2022.” [1]

Now that it’s December, time to get moving BoM!

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/bom-seeks-robust-cloud-and-wan...

I was thinking of the case where only some of the core companion OS apps (Preview, TextEdit, Messages, etc) had been updated to ARM, so the OS would need to check if they are to be run as native (ARM) or Universal (Intel). But assumably Apple has updated all of these apps to be ARM native on ARM OS binary installs? update: clarified sentence

> “Big Sur has been engineered, down to its core, to take full advantage of all the power of the M1 chip”

Does that mean that all of the OS code has been recompiled for Apple Silicon / ARM? And if so, does that mean Big Sur has two binaries: 1 for ARM (new M1 Macs) and 1 for Intel (existing supported Mac devices) and there is a flag at boot-time to determine which mode it runs in?

A good way to think of this problem is that there are two solutions:

Option A, farmers continue to receive government subsidies, or, Option B, consumers pay the ‘real’ price for food (which factors in the cost of externalities eg climate change, no factory farms, etc)

Totally agree re: Firefox also playing that role a decade or so ahead of Chrome, then losing it somewhat during Chrome's ascendancy: perceptions of bloat, slower dev releases, RAM hog on some PCs, no per-tab process isolation, etc