MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-05 15:42:18+00:00
Apple has the benefit of the original Netflix exclusives model (and the original TV primetime distribution model) that they don't operate their own studios and instead can pick and choose from the cream of the crop of the more expensive projects from the others. (Severance is from Ben Stiller's Red Hour mini-studio, Ted Lasso and Shrinking are from WB Television, Slow Horses and Pluribus are from Sony Television, Foundation and Murderbot are from Skydance/Paramount Television, and so forth.)

I'm sure Apple is contributing significantly to many of those shows' budgets and helping them all reach similar quality bars, but Apple is also certainly benefiting from spreading that budget across multiple studios and not putting all their risk in (micro-)managing their own studio. Whereas a lot of the "streamer X has gone downhill" seems to be directly related to being able to source projects only from sibliing studios creating very simple monocultures of every project feeling the same and risking that bad or unlucky projects tainting other projects in that monoculture stew.
by IngoBlechschmid | 2025-12-05 15:42:43+00:00
An interesting example is the Dhall language: https://dhall-lang.org/

It is a configuration language with general programming features, but it is decidedly _not_ Turing complete. It seems to sit at a sweet spot between "just JSON, no programming convenience at all" and "full-blown programming language with nontrivial toolchain".
by speakspokespok | 2025-12-05 15:42:53+00:00
This only applies to Windows and I think you're referencing desktops.

Ten years ago I think rule of thumb was uptime of not greater than 6 months. But for different reasons. (Windows Server...)

On Solaris, Linux, BSDs etc. it's only necessary for maintenance. Literally. I think my longest uptime production system was a sparc postgres system under sustained high load with uptime of around 6 years.

With cloud infra, people have forgotten just how stable the Unixken are.
by petcat | 2025-12-05 15:43:07+00:00
American companies control:

* The largest global streaming platforms (Netflix/HBO/Max, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+)

* The largest content libraries by revenue

* The most extensive international distribution networks

* The vast majority of high-budget scripted shows (budgets > $5M/episode)

* The highest global licensing revenue streams

* The most valuable franchises (DC, Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, LOTR rights distribution through Amazon, etc.)

No European or Asian company has anything close to this global reach.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-05 15:43:36+00:00
The grain’s got randomness because distribution and size of grains is random, but it’s not noise, it’s the “resolution limit” (if you will) of the picture itself. The whole picture is grain. The film is grain. Displaying that is accurately displaying the picture. Erasing it for compression’s sake is tossing out information, and adding it back later is just an effect to add noise.

I’m ok with that for things where I don’t care that much about how it looks (do I give a shit if I lose just a little detail on Happy Gilmore? Probably not) and agree that faking the grain probably gets you a closer look to the original if you’re gonna erase the grain for better compression, but if I want actual high quality for a film source then faked grain is no good, since if you’re having to fake it you definitely already sacrificed a lot of picture quality (because, again, the grain is the picture, you only get rid of it by discarding information from the picture)
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-05 15:43:36+00:00
Freedom of speech is protected against government limitations, in the US. Not against private parties' editorial or moderation roles. And even against government suppression there are numerous limits, including for example fraud, incitement, and threats.

The same administration "defending" free speech rights in your view has taken an exceptionally stringent view against political speech, particularly against university campuses, and has sued multiple journalistic organisations, including the BBC, ABC News, the Des Moines Register, CBS 60 Minutes, Simon & Schuster, and CNN:

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx28vlp4wo>

<https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trumps-lawsuits-agai...>

The hypocrisy is blatant, which makes one presume it is the point.
by gambiting | 2025-12-05 15:43:37+00:00
>>Probably from the people who continually roll new leases every 2 years.

100% this. BMW's own stats say that something like 90% of buyers of new BMWs keep them for 3 years or less. The fact that parts like oil pans are made out of plastic or that lately all their gearboxes have the oil drain port completely removed is just irrelevant to the buyers because none of them care about keeping the car for a decade like people used to. And the collapse of second hand prices due to these catastrophic repair costs is not really a problem for them either.

>>Germans are excellent at making cool flashy features...that rely on 16 moving parts that cost $700 each

To be completely fair - Mercedes used to do this in their S Class and also it would work for decades despite the complexity. That's German Engineering. But that quality has been missing across all German brands for a good while, it pops up every and now then in specific components that are still extremely well designed and reliable, but it's not standard across the entire vehicle.
by steego | 2025-12-05 15:43:41+00:00
I understand and appreciate Reddit’s approach.

On the other hand, I think there might be a way to solve this problem for live anonymous chat in a way that doesn’t rely on threats of “punishment” or “banning”.

I think most people looking at this problem don’t appreciate how much realtime information can be calculated from the event stream and how that information can be leveraged toward solving it in near realtime.
by FatherOfCurses | 2025-12-05 15:43:41+00:00
I worked as an analyst on a team doing a system replacement.

The old system assigned work cases out in a plain round robin system - Person 1 got Case 1, Person 2 got Case 2, etc, regardless of what people already had on their plate.

The new system looked at a number of factors and assigned a new case to people who had the least amount of overall work in their queue. So if Person 1 had 2 cases and Person 2 had 10, then Person 1 was getting the next case.

Management in one division came to us after a while and said the method of assigning cases was broken, and cases were not being assigned out "fairly." They wanted us to implement the old system's round-robin assignment method in the new system.

After some investigation I determined that workers had figured out ways to game the system in order to seem more busy than they actually were and therefore receive less new cases. As a result efficient workers who were actually doing their jobs were getting punished with new cases while inefficient workers were getting rewarded.

I, another analyst from that division, and my management laid out a very clear case that if employees were not properly handling their cases, and not being monitored on their progress (by all the new monitoring tools the new system provided) then changing the method of distributing cases wouldn't fix the underlying problem.

We were overruled and forced to implement the technical solution to the human problem.
by al_borland | 2025-12-05 15:43:58+00:00
I can only speak for myself, but I didn’t need more time on tests in college. If I didn’t know the answers, more time wasn’t going to help, and I’d get bored/frustrated and just want it to be over. I was usually one of the first people done, be it A or D work.

If they need all that extra time, the university on the degree might get them some extra money out of the gate, but I have to imagine it will work against them if they are slow and are always asking for extra time to complete projects. That’s not going to get them promoted and they will stagnate. I’ve also never had any job ask me about my grades.
by ghaff | 2025-12-05 15:44:33+00:00
No but there's very little I deeply care about watching, including live TV. I definitely pay less for video content than I was paying 5 years or so ago. Netflix has been on my bubble for a while. We'll see what happens with this news.

And I already have Amazon Prime and Apple TV+ through other bundles I have for other reasons. We'll see.
by mingus88 | 2025-12-05 15:44:40+00:00
It is useful. I use AI daily.

The issue is that is it even more useful to bad actors. Our society has been based on a certain level of trust.

I remember a world where photographic evidence was good enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. We can’t even trust video any longer. Or even that the voice on the other end of the phone is a family member
by iteria | 2025-12-05 15:44:43+00:00
I don't believe that _teens_ can be harmed bu porn because they have some understanding of cultural norms. Kids, though, absolutely. Porn as it exists can teach a person who doesn't understand such basics as "hitting people just because you're mad is wrong" that having sex with an adult (aka pedophile) it perfectly okay. Engaging in sex with family members is okay. If you get hurt, that's expected and honestly you should like it.

Not all porn is like this, but a shocking amount it. I wouldn't want someone who is learning what is acceptable and normal to come across this.

It's already a problem for preteens and teens who consume too much and enter into relationships with unrealistic and sometimes dangerous ideas. Unlike violence, sex is private and privately talked about so kids will not receive correction when they misunderstand.
by Scaevolus | 2025-12-05 15:45:00+00:00
> Disabling this was done using our global configuration system. This system does not use gradual rollouts but rather propagates changes within seconds to the entire network and is under review following the outage we recently experienced on November 18.

> As soon as the change propagated to our network, code execution in our FL1 proxy reached a bug in our rules module which led to the following LUA exception:

They really need to figure out a way to correlate global configuration changes to the errors they trigger as fast as possible.

> as part of this rollout, we identified an increase in errors in one of our internal tools which we use to test and improve new WAF rules

Warning signs like this are how you know that something might be wrong!
by jkmcf | 2025-12-05 15:45:01+00:00
Lots of complaints about Netflix, but for the money, combined with Prime, I only miss affordable NHL, which is split between too many providers.

I agree that I wish Netflix had less lowbrow content, but they target a wide audience, and let's be honest, most people willing watch crap.

And seriously: go for a walk, read a book, play a game, or work on a hobby? TV shouldn't be your life, and it's long been one of the big societal problems.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-05 15:45:23+00:00
I'm not claiming that software will be more efficient. I'm claiming that things that make it easy to go fast in hardware make it easy to go fast in software.

Bit masking/shifting is certainly more expensive in software, but it's also about the cheapest software operation. In most cases it's a single cycle transform. In the best cases, it's something that can be done with some type of SIMD instruction. And in even better cases, it's a repeated operation which can be distributed across the array of GPU vector processors.

What kills both hardware and software performance is data dependency and conditional logic. That's the sort of thing that was limited in the AV1 stream.
by etruong42 | 2025-12-05 15:45:49+00:00
> At the new place, perf doesn’t care if you use AI or not- just what you actually deliver

I work at Google, and I am of the overall opinion that it doesn't matter what you deliver from an engineering perspective. I've seen launches that changed some behavior from opt-in to opt-out get lauded as worth engineering-years of investment. I've seen demos that were 1-2 years ahead of our current product performance get buried under bureaucracy and nitpicking while the public product languishes with nearly no usage. The point being, what you objectively deliver doesn't matter, but what ends up mattering is how the people in your orbit weave the narrative about what you built.

So if "leadership" wants something concretely done, they must mandate it in such a way that cuts through all the spin that each layer of bureaucracy adds before presenting it to the next layer of bureaucracy. And "leadership" isn't a single person, so you might describe leaders as individual vectors in a vector space, and a clear eigenvector in this space of leadership decisions in many companies is the vector of "increase employee usage of AI tools".
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-12-05 15:45:55+00:00
I don't think we're talking about whether it's appropriate for kids to see the stuff. I think we're talking about who gets to decide to *mandate* an RTA header on a website. (They can already add it voluntarily so we are talking about a hypothetical mandate.)

Let's say your website mentions the MLK assassination. Or maybe the 9/11 attacks. Just a mention; no disturbing details. Is some government entity now going to force the RTA label? Who gets to decide? An RTA label would be a death sentence to educational sites.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-12-05 15:46:01+00:00
I'd have to be younger, 3 notches to the left of Lenin, and in a perpetual billionaires-are-evil rage mode to find it compelling. Got through most of the first season, which is a rare point to quit a show... we either quit after the first episode, or make it all the way to the end. Painfully bad, and not half as much as the stupid Sex and the City way either.
by pabloprieto | 2025-12-05 15:46:02+00:00
I'm the author.

I've been writing a book about fixing deadweight loss in the creator economy. Per the Show HN rules, this is Chapter 1, hosted as a web page. I included an interactive simulation at the bottom of the chapter to demonstrate the math (P=R/Q).

The book itself is being funded by this protocol—you can watch the price drop live on the page as users join.

For those interested in the formal economic proof, I am working on the academic paper, you can find it here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5044230

Feedback on the mechanism design is welcome.
by peterfirefly | 2025-12-05 15:46:15+00:00
Can he build more advanced concepts on top of the ones he supposedly masters?

Can he do that well?

Is he likely to continue to be able to do that as he progresses to the stuff that is actually hard?

(My guess is that the answers are yes (so far), no, and definitely not.)

Take slow processing is a really good symptom of something that needs more practice time.
by throwaway20222 | 2025-12-05 15:46:44+00:00
My guess is you are right for some properties that WB owns outright, but legacy IP that has rights shared, especially pre-streaming rights will still have a lot of barriers/untangling to do.

I think Netflix is the most well run media company today by a mile, but also on the spectrum of quality/art -vs- straight money/tech domination they fall into the latter category, and they are the among the least friendly to creators as far as contract/rights.

We will see.
by jlarocco | 2025-12-05 15:46:47+00:00
It's not just BMW, it's basically all car manufacturers. There are several car maintenance YouTubers who complain about it for many brands. For example "The Car Care Nut" complains about Toyotas being badly designed for maintenance, questionable material choices, etc..

The problem is that $2 here and there adds up, and at the level of the whole car it can add hundreds, or thousands of dollars of extra cost for reliability that the user can't experience directly. For some percentage of owners the plastic part works fine for the whole time they have the car. On the other hand sturdier parts add expense in the case of an accident or replacing parts during routine maintenance.
by umanwizard | 2025-12-05 15:47:00+00:00
> making basic types work differently from C would involve major performance costs.

Not if you compile with optimizations on. This C code:

int wrapping_add_ints(int x, int y) { return (int)((unsigned)x + (unsigned)y); }

Compiles to this x86-64 assembly (with clang -O2):

wrapping_add_ints: lea eax, [rdi + rsi] ret

Which, for those who aren't familiar with x86 assembly, is just the normal instruction for adding two numbers with wrapping semantics.
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-12-05 15:47:48+00:00
Advocates for clear, plain English recommend using the second person and not to shy away from imperatives. [0] It makes it easier to use the active voice as well as use less words. As a reader of this article, I don't take issue because I understand that the author isn't actually commanding me personally to do these things. It's just a sentence structure that conveys the information in a more readable way.
by colingauvin | 2025-12-05 15:48:07+00:00
>Vaccinated individuals were older than unvaccinated individuals (mean [SD] age, 38.0 [11.8] years vs 37.1 [11.4] years), more frequently women (11 688 603 [51.3%] vs 2 876 039 [48.5%]) and had more cardiometabolic comorbidities (2 126 250 [9.3%] vs 464 596 [7.8%]).

This is interesting because of "supposed" cardiovascular effects of the vaccine that many folks were worried about. Even more confounding is the gender differences. You'd think skewing women would skew away from cardiovascular issues.

An alternate interpretation is that the at risk cardio unvaccinated died of COVID for some reason.
by an0malous | 2025-12-05 15:48:24+00:00
In a society that’s built on the foundations of perpetual profit growth it is. Sometimes you just can’t innovate, so instead of improving the product you cut the costs and enshittify. We’re in an enshittification regime right now.

Why are there alternating cycles of innovation and enshittification? I think it’s because investors are always trying to pull forward profit, but because they only have a 10 year horizon on investment strategy they tend to create cycles that are around that same period. If there was less investment, the innovation would be slower but the reactionary enshittification would be lessened too.
by smallerfish | 2025-12-05 15:48:28+00:00
I'm a fan. Injecting a huge catalog into Netflix is a win for consumers who want just one subscription. And injecting studio talent into Netflix (assuming the merge gives WB creatives influence) can only help.

HBO's tech sucks. Apple is (in my experience) hard to get running in the Android ecosystem. Most of the other options are too narrow in catalog, or ad ridden.

Consolidating streaming services down to a handful of offerings will make price competition more fierce because they'll have richer catalogs to do battle with.
by lkramer | 2025-12-05 15:48:49+00:00
Well, he did. He made Monkey Island 5 and he was part of the Kickstarter wave which I think is what truly revived the nostalgia for older games (first by being tangentially involved with Broken Age, and later by making Thimbleweed Park).

I think the headline, and to some extend the article is wildly misleading. Ron Gilbert have never limited himself to Adventure games. After he left LucasArts, he made educational games and was a producer for Total Annihilation. He also made Death Spank and The Cave.
by ryandrake | 2025-12-05 15:48:49+00:00
Not attacking you in particular, but I've always hated how we talk about "licensing restrictions" as if they're some kind of vague law of nature, like gravity. Oh, Studio X can't do Y... Because Licensing. "Licenses" are entirely conjured up by humans, and if there was an actual desire by the people who make decisions to change something, those people would find a way to make the "licensing restrictions" disappear. Reality is, the people making these decisions don't want to change things, at least not enough to go through the effort of changing and renegotiating the licenses. It's not "licensing restrictions" that is stopping them.

Same always comes up when we talk about why doesn't Company X open source their 20 year old video game software? Someone always chimes in to say "Well they don't because of 'licensing issues' with the source code." as if they were being stopped by a law of physics.
by boroboro4 | 2025-12-05 15:49:04+00:00
To me intellect has two parts to it: "creativity" and "correctness". And from this perspective random sampler is infinitely "creative" - over (infinite) time it can come up with answer to any given problem. And from this perspective it does feel natural that base models are more "creative" (because that's what being measured in the paper), while RL models are more "correct" (that's a slope of the curve from the paper).
by greatgib | 2025-12-05 15:49:06+00:00
I'm not into conspiracy usually, but regarding everything that was exposed in recent years, I would easily see a conspiracy there.

I'm not necessarily say that it is just a single person or company, but that it is likely that a group of entities is working together on this for a hidden interest.

Just look what happened with the "vote" of the council, each time it became too public that a vote was coming and that some countries would publicly be against due to public pressure, they preferred to "withdraw" the proposal instead of going to the public vote that could have been a strong "no". And they did that multiple times. And it was obvious that the reason to not go to the vote is to be able to try to pass it again. Then, at least the representatives of the countries involved "plotted" against us in a conspiracy, to have the discussion and the decision voted in secret in order to be sure that it will pass. And eventually that no country like Germany could be pointed as individually have voted "yes" despite its population will.
by kllrnohj | 2025-12-05 15:49:07+00:00
And also Unifi lets you just buy stuff instead of "contact a sales rep". If I go to Netgear and filter primary port speed to 2.5g, which is hardly an enterprise spec, all 3 options are "contact a rep" which... no thanks. Who on earth wants to contact a sales rep for a 10 port 2.5gb switch?

There is now also TP-Link's Omada line at least which seems like the most comparable alternative.
by indigodaddy | 2025-12-05 15:49:23+00:00
This is really well done, but the problem I have with (most) selfhosted bins is that anyone can use it, and I don’t want to be responsible for the content that might show up.

This is super neat though, and could almost be used as a blog replacement (if of course I could prevent others from using it/posting to it :) )
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2025-12-05 15:49:27+00:00
What's the culture like at Cloudflare re: ops/deployment safety?

They saw errors related to a deployment, and because it was related to a security issue instead of rolling it back they decided to make another deployment with global blast radius instead?

Not only did they fail to apply the deployment safety 101 lesson of "when in doubt, roll back" but they also failed to assess the risk related to the same deployment system that caused their 11/18 outage.

Pure speculation, but to me that sounds like there's more to the story, this sounds like the sort of cowboy decision a team makes when they've either already broken all the rules or weren't following them in the first place
by cowpig | 2025-12-05 15:49:34+00:00
Ok but does this take into account which industries are monopolistic or oligarchic?

In an industry with real competition you have tight margins and can't afford to spend money lobbying.

In an industry with a monopoly, you have huge margins can reduce the economic surplus of everyone else down to close to zero (often deep into the negative if you count for externalities, looking at you oil and gas), so they are strongly incentivized to fix your market and you can't afford not to lobby...