skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh ... same here. I'm baffled after all their supposed AI with competitions and all, it actually sends me emails pitching me to watch shows that I already watched end-to-end and finished. I couldn't think of a clearer or simpler signal to an algorithm than "they already watched it" but apparently Netflix isn't able to pull that off.
There is a paradox of choice, for sure. I remember when my first car had a 6cd changer in the trunk... I could listen to the same couple of albums for weeks. Now ten million songs at my fingertips and sometimes you just don’t feel like dealing with it
Ask HN: Why the Hacker News community is always hating on new ideas?
Most of the times I read something with "Show HN", I see lots of hate and negative energy in the comments. These people are hungry for appreciation as they spent months building their product/tool/startup. Why don't we give them a helpful criticism while support them?
No you do not need to be an expert in all aspects.

What you need to have is great vision, the ability to sell your vision to others and a drive to make it happen.
Happened to me with Amazon Prime as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937290

The moment they announced the price hike, it's like something cracked in my rationalization to maintain the service, and every adverse complaint I've ever queued up in my mind against the service floated right to the top.

I'm on the verge of the same with Netflix. If I see a price hike, I'll quit just the same. They've been losing far more content than they've been adding.

...which I'd be happy to do. The production shops behind the prestige and niche films these streamers are lapping up for fixed fees (something like n% of budget paid to the production house, where n is a value over 100) are utterly crippling the production of quality titles that aren't things like event pieces or sequels.

As the good production houses dip because of the rates the streamers are paying, you're more frequently being left with new or inexperienced production houses filling the void, producers with less experience IDing the creatives (writing/acting/etc), finding directors who can cast successfully, doing accurate budgeting, etc.

I'll stop short of turning this into too much of a rant. Basically: the Netflixes and Amazons of the world have crippled the business case for an entire class of motion picture and subverted the quality of output in this class as a result.
Try one of the standalone discovery sites. These improve this aspect a lot. I'm using Flixboss (https://flixboss.com).
I wish all linux servers had something like this, out of the box, for all users.

the first thing I do after sshing into a box is spend an hour trying to figure out the basics. Where are the web folders? what daemons is running? what hacks does have in place?
Yeah I keep opening Netflix nowadays and I click around for a while and have not much interesting to watch. There is a lot of STUFF, but it's not worth my time.
This bar raiser thing sounds like normal hiring practice in my work experience.
Corporate meme thing like six sigma. Each new employee is supposed to raise the bar, or the whole organization gets worse on average. Jeff Bezos as #1 is supposedly the least qualified employee in the company as each new hire raised the bar.
Somewhat related, ive been a very happy resilio sync user since it was launched as bittorrent sync. I have similar backups -- it backs up to my 2 personal computers, and one of those is backing up to backblaze. My (nontechnical) wife is happy with this for storing all her phone and camera pictures.
You are assuming that smart kids are randomly distributed through the population. High income parents have disproportionally more smart kids than average income parents and disproportionally live in above average cost locations.

The reason for the correlation between child raising cost and intelligence is there is a strong correlation between intelligence and income and between the intelligence of parents and their children. Smart kids tend to have smart parents who tend to have high incomes. Of course there are many exceptions, but we are talking about group averages not individuals.
You really think the repair industry is the one sitting on that vuln?
It's like https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oopsie-woopsie

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Except that's not the only datum they have. These aren't banner ads from a third party that's only getting a single keyword "printer".

They also know which printer it was, when it was bought, and presumably they could know how long printers last, if not how long that specific printer lasts.

The first is certainly enough not to recommend supplies for a different printer.

> This is the fallacy of machine learning: these systems aren't smart, they're incredibly dumb.

Here, I agree. They're generally no smarter than the people programming them.. reminiscent of any computer system.
Hate that option. I tend to work from home and leave my TV with something on. Picking up my remote every few hours is a waste. I don’t see why it’s so hard to let users turn it off.
For me, I have found it hard to focus mostly only when I have another externality in my life on my mind or something outside of work causing stress (mentally).

I also like to listen to video game music via rainwave.cc (OCRemix Radio basically), Bandcamp, or (this may be strange) the classic Retronauts podcasts (still available on Archive.org, not the new ones).
I was literally there two days ago. What a coincidence. It is such a beautiful area.
If only they could expand their surveillance to all the fentanyl and carfentanil their country is exporting :(
You've basically described the streaming business these days. Listening to talks from Netflix, they optimize for this kind of behavior. While they're interested in retention, they have a pretty optimized winback funnel.
HBO is double the price and once you get through the best 15 series content is thin. Netflix has so much variety coming out daily.
I've found Black Friday deals to be far FAR more widespread and higher quality than Prime Day...
First used in Shenzhen a decade ago, to detect people flushing PCB etchants to sewers
No. I did not use the word general. I did say this as the lead in:

Something I heard at my corporate job:

Although I can see where that would be interpreted as indicative of a general cultural expectation, it was a saying of one specific manager in my department. It was not some kind of cultural edict. I intentionally chose to not say that as I felt that detail was a pointless derail. I was merely offering a pithy alternative saying for the point someone else made.

It is, in fact, a rule of thumb I find works well for many things. But, given the specific context in which my remark was made, you have seriously read in a lot of assumptions that are wholly unwarranted.

If this comment fails to clear up this misunderstanding, then let me suggest you just ignore the entire thing and stop trying to parse it. Far too many words have already been written about this silly misunderstanding.
Why does Spotify still separate New York City listening data by borough?
The Origin of Software Engineering, What It Means and What We Can Take from Here
IBM sues Groupon over e-commerce patents
TL;DR:

Talks about the engineering conference from NATO. The outcomes from that.

He talks about how there's a defined model vs empirical model and that engineering is the empirical one. Math and precise (defined) models are used to not waste money at the expense of issues, bugs, and disasters.

In engineering, the architect is the mind, which is cheap, and the labor is expensive.

In software the architect is the one who writes the code, which is expensive, the labor is the language/compilers/platform that is cheap. It's quite the opposite.

The principles of XP, Agile, etc. has been known since many years ago. He goes on to provide examples.

Really insightful talk, worth the watch.
The negativity became dominant post-PG. Unfortunately and disappointingly.

[added] To elaborate: his regular essays were thought-provoking and challenging, in a way that generally drove HN commenters to think and contribute. Nowadays there is a discouraging excess of emoting and belittling, even though the moderators have stepped up their nudges and interventions.
Didn't read the article, and this post is likely to slide off into obscurity, but here's what happened: they combined with Burger King into Restaurant Brands Int'l ("QSR" is the stock symbol) which is controlled by the 3G Capital. 3G Capital famously cuts spending/production costs to increase margins. They are unimaginative accounting hacks who kill business cultures, which was critical to Tim Horton's popularity (sponsoring junior hockey, fundraising, etc).
So, basically every recipe site ever? If a recipe is posted on the internet, then it is, by definition "open source." Or are you referring to recipes posted with permissive, copy-left licenses, or are you referring to something else?
Start.coop: an accelerator for cooperatively-owned startups
Because these tokens are unregistered securities, I assume Coinbase will restrict trading to qualified investors.
> Interstellar travel will consist of information travelling at the speed of light. Pretty much nothing else is practical.

What's your reasoning for this? You would only have to accelerate at 1g for 3 years to hit 99.5% of the speed of light. You can use an electromagnetic shield for dust. It seems conceivable that this will be possible eventually, even if warp drives are not possible.
> I was literally taught in the early 90's that they believed the earth was flat and that Columbus was brave enough to attempt to sail to India and that everyone thought he was crazy and would fall off the side of the world

You do realize this was simply bad teaching, right?

The ancient Greeks knew the world was round. The objection to Columbus‘s voyage was that the world was probably too large, and hence the ocean too wide, to cross in a sufficiently short period of time. He drew upon some dubious calculations of the size of the world in order to get his exploration funded.
I would much rather deal with Amazon for returns and replacements though. Their customer service is streets ahead of Newegg's.
Who pays when Indonesian Ride-sharing fraud goes full throttle?
Interestingly, the thing you point two isn't new: what you describe, also called “hot desking” (and the similar “hoteling”, which adopts reservations for desks but is otherwise similar) were trends that came to attention—and after it's popularity peaked was widely mocked—in the 1990s.
True, but not all 100 of them are that level or being used full time for years would they ?
I got the impression from some former Amazon employees that they were burnt out and put their time in and got Amazon on their resume and were just done with life at Amazon so they moved on.

Do you sense any attrition like that?
I know what you're talking about, I realize that's how most people think of as monkey patching. That's what I thought at first. But when I tried structuring a python project with Dependency Injection it seemed overly complex.

Instead of just making modules I had to put everything in a class. I had to write code to decide what things are being injected where. It didn't look like python anymore, so I stopped doing it, and I've never had problems, and I've written much less code.

I only ever use monkey patching for testing. People talk about how it makes it easier to switch out other implementations, but in reality it's easier. You just import a different module.
One thing no one notices is DRM and lack of content on Netflix overseas... It is nearly impossible to have Netflix on Chinese Android devices (thanks to Widevine), which is a huge loss due to rapidly growing smart projector market... who needs 480p on a 150'' screen??

As for lack of content: my family is trilingual, and we constantly moving between countries. It's almost impossible to get content we like outside of US (even Australia sucks), these unbelievably stupid and shortsighted ideas of distribution regions (for DVD/BD) and DRM (for streaming) keeps me on torrents for 20+ years already, and I see no end to this ordeal. I tried to "go legal" on so many occasions, and EVERY SINGLE TIME I stumble upon some ludicrous "new tech" that prevents me as a consumer to watch content I like.

When will the studios realize that ALL content is out there already? And literally NONE of their effort since DVD css stopped anyone from "stealing" anything.

I can get any movie/show from torrents in max quality, but I would like to just pay $15 to someone and stream FullHD/4K content in any language to any device, and finally stop pirating stuff. Too much to ask, Netflix?

Music industry learned this lesson hard way 10 years ago, unleashed unlimited HQ streaming, and now look -- music piracy is nearly extinct, and both listeners and industry are happy.

In the meantime, I'm filling my 4TB hdd with BD remuxes and enjoying 4k videos w/o paying any cent to anyone. No other way around it for consumer, it seems.
Precisely my thinking. Get a bunch of smurfs to get as much Amazon cards for cash you can get and buy one of these wildly overpriced books to cleanse the source.
I find that benchmark result to be naive at best.

Most of the performance gains, relative to other current PCIe SSDs, are likely due to the APFS file system stack, tuned with their specific hardware.

As they say, a performance win is a win, but the hyper-focus on Apple hardware (and consequent lack of understanding of the software stack) is misleading.
WHERE ARE THE EBOLA ATTACKERS ON MODERNGHANA NEWS SITE?
The recs were very good back when it was the DVD service.

Wild conjecture: A paucity of things to recommend, combined with a desire to not concede that there are only like 3 things left I haven't watched yet but would be likely to give 5 stars, prompted them to first tweak the recommender's calibration, then eventually to wholesale switch to a metric that blurs the distinction between, "Yeah, I'll watch it", and "That was great!"
TLDR: evidence suggests that humans are bathtub curved.
I always thought it odd that Netflix was picked instead of Microsoft for the "FAANG" group, considering market cap.
More likely, there were already thousands of years of experience with boiled grains and related processing of grains to experiment with, and notice the results of, including fermentation, baking, and other heat-related consequences of particulate and processed wheat grain.

Just like the experience of fermented milk / yoghurt / cheese -- thousands of years of experience with the possibilities.

Refrigeration is not comfortable to tent-dwelling nomads.
You’re suggesting that the winner of a Nobel Prize for Economics hasn’t read Adam Smith?

I’m guessing you’re wrong.
Do you consider FTL plausible? If so, why?
There's a large percentage of users who won't go through all that trouble just to find new content. Anecdotally I can tell you that there's a large percentage of users who can re-watch the same series over and over (I'm one of those people).

Netflix knows this so that's why they go great lengths to keep series like The Office and Friends, btw, both owned by Comcast...so you can guess why Netflix is cheering for Comcast to win that Fox bid...
My perception is the opposite. Someone would honestly have to do an analysis of Show HNs to figure out whose perception is correct. My suspicion is that it doesn't skew strongly one way or the other.
Kernel compile times! I remember kicking off a compile before I went to bed and then checking it the next morning before school to see what the result was. Good times for sure.
Earlier this week I was WRECKED by something. I was genuinely praying for a higher power to take me from this planet. I called my hotel to see if anyone had reported an illness from breakfast... they were surprised by my call. It got me thinking “something like this has got to exist” ... what a coincidence! Glad to give this a trial run based on my recent experience and hope it grows to become more popular.

The bar is so incredibly low for food safety. Restaurants, especially really popular ones, get away with a lot of really bad behavior. At some point data like this will be as paramount as their yelp score.
You misread it - the manager wasn’t gullible, he was the one telling the fib.
The US uses this kind data for epidemiology studies. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was used for law enforcement purposes too.
> It is not illegal for corporations to donate to political campaigns

The FEC, who actually enforced election law, disagrees: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate...

“Campaigns may not accept contributions from the treasury funds of corporations, labor organizations or national banks. This prohibition applies to any incorporated organization, including a nonstock corporation, a trade association, an incorporated membership organization and an incorporated cooperative.”
The Chinese government should probably check the drinking water as well then...

"it is acknowledged that nearly 14 percent of the city's sewage is discharged into rivers which serve as Shanghai's water sources without being treated."

https://www.healthandsafetyinshanghai.com/shanghai-water.htm...

"At least a million tonnes of raw sewage pours into the waters of Guangdong’s Pearl River Delta in southern China every day...Air pollution is so obvious that everyone can see it,” he said. “But the water problem has not had enough public attention.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/20...
I used to think that was true. But then I researched practical interstellar travel methods (not quite relativistic, 0.1c), and they seem doable from a physics and engineering perspective (if you controlled the world's wealth), but we have no real executable plan to build a transporter.
If you look up crash ratings, you will find it's not uncommon for new car models to be missing them. It just isn't something that is done before the first unit is sold - presumably because as other people mentioned, it has to be done independently to be useful. Of course there must be internal tests, but there's no use in publicizing them because of the conflict of interest, and I'm sure if Tesla did that, people would point out the problem.

People who are concerned about Tesla unwittingly give away the fact they don't browse the IIHS web site for fun. It is educational.

If you search for the Honda Insight on said IIHS site, you will find the old one that ceased production in 2014, not the new one that just arrived at my local Honda dealer. This is not shocking if you had any interest in the subject independent of Tesla.

The NHTSA site lists the 2019 Insight, but surprise, surprise, it says it is not rated.
Those with high cholesterol have plaque in their arteries. That is not normal and I would consider that a state of disease.
Vaguely on topic - the novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge touches on this subject a fair bit.

potential spoilers follow

Essentially, no spacefaring civilization is stable over long time scales, a culture (the Qeng Ho) get by through predicting which planetary system will have the economy to support refueling an interstellar craft (in the centuries-later future when they arrive). Trade advanced/secret technology development info for said refueling. The story has way more to it, but I loved it as a known-physics-following scifi story. I expect the audience of this site would also love it (and probably, many have already read it)
RealNetworks Launches Free Facial Recognition Tool for Schools
Thank god for that new amazing technology ;)

Nice to see another Linux Microsoftie on here as well!
I'm curious about their decision to push original content as hard as they have. In some cases, like comedy specials, it's a clear win. But their original dramas are really hit or miss, and for every Altered Carbon you have a half dozen utterly forgettable shows. It makes the "Netflix Original" badge pretty meaningless as an indicator of quality, so I still have to wait for a buzz to develop to commit to trying a show. I don't end up watching Netflix nearly as much as I'd like to.

Also, the diminishment of the back catalogue (and the fact that so much of it is SD--not their fault) is negating one of their biggest selling points.
Yes I agree. I'd even say that functional programming languages, even if they're staticly typed, don't need design patterns either.

I just think this long overhyped Object Oriented style was the wrong way to go for programming.
An Straight Walking Simulates Game
It’s not 90s anymore. Technology is a commodity. If they are smart enough anout it they’ve got all the chances to beat Netflix by that time.
If these coins are so straightforward to attack, then what's stopping people? What's defending rational actors from doing the rational thing and squeezing their networks for all the guaranteed real returns of real money they supposedly protect with such brittle defenses? Either the operative definition of attack is too rather shallow to explain this inexplicable lack of attacking (i.e. something other than hashrate/stake is a major factor in the defense of these coins), or the expectation of return from said attack is rather too high.
Netflix carries a decent selection of kid's entertainment, where having a 10-minute show followed by the next episode automatically is useful.

On the Apple TV app, at least, the "Are you still watching" message is still there.
I was completely out of stuff to watch about a month ago. No matter what I did I could only get the same ~100 shows and movies that I'd either already watched or had no interest in.

On a whim I switched over to my step father's profile - holy shit! There were at least 15 movies I wanted to watch that I absolutely could not get to show up on my profile without searching by name. I found a handful more on other family member's as well.

If we weren't on a 5 person family plan I would have cancelled long ago because from what they will show me there isn't any to watch.
Tokenized securities are private securities that comply with securities laws using Reg D, specifically Rule 506(c). In some cases they are Reg A+ (that come with JOBS act provisions used for crowdfunding). They are very important for the ecosystem for two reasons:

1) because ICOs are very important way of fundraising and they need to become compliant

2) they make illiquid assets like private real estate RIETs more liquid

Since KYC/AML is enforced and investor accreditation is key to buying these securities, this will reduce scam and legitimize ICOs and security tokens overall.

I can’t wait to see all the interesting possibilities with making illiquid assets more liquid using tokens to represent shares. This is an exciting development. Congrats to Coinbase.
And in a decade or less all the stuff that Coinbase trades now will be looked back upon as an embarrassment.
This makes me terrified that my users' security relies on AWS...
On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character  (1968)
I'm guessing you parsed it wrong.

"Could this be as influential as Adam Smith's work on the initial settlement of Massachusetts and Virginia" refers to Adam Smith's work on the initial settlement of Massachusetts and Virginia, not to purported Adam Smith's work influence on the initial settlement of Massachusetts and Virginia.
Thanks - I think the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach is valid but often there are real world issues that need resolving.
I guess that was the case, it all looks unflagged now. I'm really impressed with your work, one question, though. What do you believe are the biggest bottlenecks to speeding up your work? How soon could we see this applied to say, millimeter sized brains?