skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a little tool that used perf profiles from our production fleet to generate a custom linker script that reordered our main server program’s binary to be significantly more cache friendly. The heuristic I came up with for reordering was one of the few (maybe the only) genuine “eureka” moments I’ve had in my career.

And the performance win was extremely nice :-)
A quick look on the site seems to simply be different maintained block lists.

You can block anything on pi-hole, not just ads.

Am I missing something?
Here's the company doing this: https://fama.io/

The idea that you can assess someone's workplace performance based on automated screening of their tweets is utterly absurd.

If anyone works somewhere that uses this tool, or anything similar to it, you should run far, far away from that company. This is a terrible precedent, and much too much Orwellian for my taste.

EDIT: somewhat related, but a while back I made a Twitter bot to delete my tweets because I was worried about how someone might misinterpret them: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/tweet-delete
It’s all the rage these days in “liberal” circles to act like due to recent dysfunction in the US, they’re just as bad as China/Russia/Iran/NK.

It’s flatly insane and is destructive to liberalism. These people clearly don’t understand how bad a bad place can be.
Netflix is a business. They need to be profitable, not just make art for the sake of making art. If they go broke, they won't live to make another art. It's a balancing art ;-)
presentations as in slides ? Or present the canvas ?
Thanks Neil. It's difficult to find alternative servers on that page so I will help by linking to The Construct which is the only other federating server. Though it is not yet stable, it is the only functioning third-party server and has more progress than your own reference implementation's rewrite!

Check out https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct and join us at #admins:matrix.org
> If anyone works somewhere that uses this tool, or anything similar to it, you should run far, far away from that company.

You might not even know --- and it could extend beyond hiring. Didn't get promoted? Maybe it's because someond keyword matched you for "toxic". The only real way to safeguard yourself is to keep your identity as small and bland as possible, and that's no way to live.
I can't unfortunately because of sitelocks... part of what Flashpoint does is in Man In The Middles the Flash Player so it thinks it's on a certain website, which allows the games to be played offline. You can play these games on Kongregate and Newgrounds if you have a flash enabled browser though. Sorry about that :/

In terms of tower defense, here's some recommendations:

Ghost Hacker (the original one, which is better than the 2nd one)

Defender's Quest (trial version, complete game on steam)

Kingdom Rush (also available on your phone)

Cursed Treasure

Demons v Fairyland (feels very much like Kimgdom Rush)

Onslaught2

Dungeon Defender
Complaining about how people vote is explicitly against the Hacker News guidelines. That’s likely why people downvote comments that are only complaining about downvotes.
> The sole purpose of Netflix is to make money.

No, that's the capitalist investors view. The problem is that Netflix now sees it as theirs. I'd bet quite a good sum of money that was not the goal when it started. I'd be surprised if that was the goal in 2010-2015 even.

> So that the owners (which includes thousands of normal working class employees) can buy food for their families.

If that were true, they would not be trying so hard to turn these excess profits. With how Netflix pays I don't think you can really call their employees "normal working class" either. Netflix is a classic case of greed and profit corrupting art. In some ways inevitable, but it's sad to see there's not even an internal tension between finance and content. That should be a battle that is waged daily in order to balance multiple purposes: both making money to support its employees and investors, and the art of shows and movies, among others.
The same way the sole purpose of humans is to eat burgers and reproduce, yes.
I recommend looking at your frontend console logs for instances of type errors a la https://rollbar.com/blog/top-10-javascript-errors/
Could you help me understand why would you need a client in each framework? It's in vanilla JS and attaches to a Dom element. :)

Edit - one thing to note is 99% of the code is actually just loaded in an iframe. So the actual code on your site is very small.

https://blog.winricklabs.com/(1-25-2020)-making-an-embeddabl...

Edit #2 - no I've only spent a month on this so far.
I certainly don't hate Netflix, but I've discovered that, possibly unsurprisingly given the streaming landscape, the shows that I want to watch are increasingly scattered across other services. Currently I'm watching a few shows on HBO, a couple on Hulu, a couple on Disney+, a couple on CBS All Access (no, not just Star Trek, it turns out), and even a couple on Apple TV+. This leaves me with these problems regarding Netflix:

- Their "drop everything at once and binge" model means that I don't have to go back there regularly to check out new stuff, especially since there is always "new stuff" coming in just from the shows I'm watching elsewhere;

- Because they won't play with Apple TV's "Up Next" (and I presume they don't with other systems' equivalents), they don't even get to push ads in front of me when I search for new things unless I specifically go to their application to search;

- I hate hate hate going to their application to search because of their insistence on playing previews with sound constantly;

- Last but not least, Netflix is the second-most expensive service I subscribe to behind HBO, and that's without paying extra for the 4K that every other 4K-capable streaming service includes as part of their standard plan.

I know a lot of people cancel streaming subscriptions and then sign up when they have something specific to watch. So far I haven't done that -- but if I start, I'm very likely to start with Netflix.
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Will check that out thanks
Nimbius. Awesome to see mechanics here. I'm a programmer working on a startup in the heavy equipment space. I would like to talk to you, my email is in my profile.
People should be working on making their area of work as awesome as it can be. P&L is important. But so are things like long-term opinion of Netflix's content brand.

Equity valuations assume distant future returns. Yes, there's strategic decisions to be made at both the department and overall level about how much one tries to maximize current cash output vs. invests in the brand and infrastructure.

Not to mention: it works better when you have different parties advocating for different parts of this picture and arguing. Let finance try and squeeze out every nickel that can be squeezed, today. Let content seek after a vision of success. And let creatives and finance argue and advocate and figure out a compromise that works and fits in as much of what each wants as possible.
Good to know. Thanks for the explanation.
Good content creates long term value. Focusing on money often leads to short term thinking. Focus on money often means investments are more likely to be seen as losses. Because the review is going to ask "What is the ROI?" & for long term things you're going to say "I'm not sure" because there's more unknowns. But you can know that you're making good content, so that should translate to good things

Same goes for Research & Development. Quarterly profits are not the correct KPI for every department. Where will those quarterly profits be ten years from now?
That just sounds very black and white to me. Why would the UK blindly follow the US in all cases? Surely there's room for their own interests.
Pretty much everyone says the pricing model sucks. I agree. Will rework.

Edit - Don't want to devalue it but wondering if it's worth having a tier for the really small players? So like $4.99 up to 5m page loads a month or something. Then $99 for unlimited and you know enterprise is its own game.

Edit#2 - If you sign up now I will migrate your subscription to the new pricing model which I will implement tomorrow, no worries (unless you really really like the current pricing....)
Yeah, they even have a bundle deal to have DVDs and some level of streaming. It is interesting because at one point Netflix was trying to sell of the disc shipping business because physical media was dead and the whole service felt neglected.

Now that mailing you a disc is the only way they can get you certain content, the service is back closer to the level it was when they were killing Blockbuster.
Or is it, because physics!

you can model mutation on top of values and in fact immutable systems do this
Is it normal to live your private life in accordance to what a future hypothetical employer might think ?

EDIT: private should be replaced with personal, as opposed to work
I'm just coming around to this position after a long period of frustration, and this anecdote is encouraging; thanks!
> The smartest way to screen toxic workplace behavior. Compliant, AI-based online screening for the enterprise.

I'd be surprised if their AI is more than a "bad" and a "good" keyword list. Results certainly look about as sophisticated.
I don't understand having a social media presence linked to your real name, unless it's just a placeholder you don't really use.
> A VP of content should be focused on the quality of shows

There are many definitions of quality. For Netflix's purpose, quality is probably defined in terms of viewership and stickiness. They have to build a content library from scratch. Ensuring it appeals to the most amount of people per dollar is the most efficient way to do it.
I never said it wasn't a balancing act (in fact I explicitly noted they should care about money) but the content team is exactly the team that should be fighting tooth and nail internally against those constraints. That quote makes it sound like they have rolled over, and their content decisions of the past 3 years tell a similar story.
I'm rather sick of the idea that corporations exist solely to make money. It is a relatively new idea, but is now stated and repeated without justification. Corporations are legal entities, and exist within the framework that is allowed for them. Where that framework promotes poor behavior, it should be changed.

Ethics? Nope, money.

Good art? Nope, money.

Public benefit? Nope, money.

It is a reductive view that assumes that the legal framework is static, unchanging, and aligned towards morally good benefit.
>a virus that's less threatening than, you know, the flu.

How can you say this as fact when we don't even know the morbidity rate of the coronavirus? The story isn't over yet, but it looks like it could be twice as deadly as influenza.
Name and shame these companies until this stops.
IIRC, aren't employers required to provide some notice of background checks, especially in the case where they're used to justify adverse actions?
Someone else mentioned discovery and I agree it’s a big problem. Some shows I didn’t know and others didn’t get to soon enough.
If your business is art & you sell out on your art, you might as well have sold out your business
They could, but discovery is a challenge as they gain more contents. Imagine if there's a million things you could watch on Netflix, surely you can search for things you know and then they can recommend the rest to you based on your viewing habit. There's going to be a large set of things that won't be recommended to you. How do you discover those? Either you never do or they start recommending things that you don't know and are outside of your interest which will only annoy you.
Same here. My partner and I have always got something to watch. We use netflix on average 5 days a week and enjoy what we watch.
You point out that Netflix has usage data as if you have access to that data. Some people like ten-hour reality TV binges and some people like thoughtful content. Netflix is just mirroring cable TV. Since Netflix uses product placement, especially in its age-targeted content, quantity of viewing time is more profitable than quality.
Yes, I realize that's not the goal which is why I said 'by choice'. I just think it's not the right approach ultimately. Other safer languages also reach the goals of code completion and error detection.
I think they go too crazy with the stored procedures. I would rather see constraints and views to make the data work. Triggers are useful for simple behind-the-scenes things like logging, or creating updateable views, but their behavior should be kept simple. If they're sending e-mails and launching missiles, it's probably too much.

Debugging PL/SQL without the PL/SQL debugger is nearly impossible. Unfortunately a lot of shops cheap out on developer tools after they buy the server licenses. I never liked the idea of Java on the database. The good thing about PL/SQL is that nobody wants to write it so it has a tendency to not be overused by most developers.

The performance ceiling probably wouldn't be too low if there weren't too much extra activity with each update. As with all databases, sharding and replication are your friend.
At least one of my employers uses Sterling, and I can tell you that they never checked my social media, or even asked about it, as I got the paper report from them. I'm more apt to blame the employer than I am to blame the background check company - I seriously doubt they just throw in this kind of service for free.
So the company requesting the background check for a job get's to decide what they'd like included. Which means they believe knowing what you tweet is important. Probably due to all the public flogging of companies where someone was found to have posted "inappropriate" things (or donated to an "inappropriate" candidate, etc.). Where inappropriate is defined as whatever the group of people doing the flogging think shouldn't be done so you get a rather large pool once you combine the definitions from all groups.
>it can regain it by shifting those priorities and enacting new policy

that would require a fundamental rethinking of economics and trade away from free-marketeering towards an understanding more similar to the Chinese who put these questions into the context of national (security) interest, and that is very unlikely to happen, in particular in the US in which private interest groups wield significant power over a largely weak and incoherent government. In Europe, it may be possible if France would have more of a say but countries like Germany or the Netherlands would be significantly hurt by the inevitable retaliation so it's probably a nonstarter here too.
Netflix's discovery may be terrible but YouTube's discovery is non-existent. It's common knowledge that in order to get views on your YouTube videos, you submit them to Reddit or another platform, because the algorithm will not push your content if you have less than a thousand or so subscribers.
As someone who wasted a large amount of money on cars in his younger years...

The problem with buying a $50k (or whatever the vehicle you want) car, is that you will probably grow bored with it and want another one in two years.

And chances are that $50k car is going to depreciate like a rock. And be expensive to insure. And you'll also have the bad habit of spending even more money on modifications/customizations etc.

Buying a brand new, expensive vehicle isn't the worst idea if you keep it for ten years, drive it every day, etc. But if it's a thing you drive a few times a month, is impractical, and you get rid of it in 1-3 years for the newest model, it's financial suicide.

I never got $35k of 'enjoyment' out of a new car purchase. And they aren't brand new for very long.
Beyond the question of aggregating someone's likes is the fact that the actual tweets flagged are ludicrous: the system has a third-grader's notion of "bad language" and a temperance activist's view of even _references_ to alcohol (not drinking excessively, or drinking at all, but literally seeing a bottle of vodka somewhere)
Where is the part that explains why using Huawei equipment sells out national security? I have heard zero satisfying arguments. What is the proposed attack? How does it not apply to the penetration of Chinese made chips everywhere. Why should we trust US made chips and their companies' obligations to US national security apparatus any more? Or other countries? If strong trust in certain hardware is the requirement for some level of trust in the network then I think we are already lost.
> "Well, you did all that in public, in print, with your real name attached, what did you expect?"

I don't think that's the issue for them. The issue is the bad algorithmic flagging.
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Just to be precise, Keybase doesn't use GPG crypto for anything, except validating that you own one. All the crypto is home-made (although as somewhat interested in the field I would say is better than using stock GPG)
Nevertheless, the point is that UK has less to fear from US espionage than PRC espionage.
^ That's pretty darn cool, thanks. Among the things you'll learn:
- Around 4000 miles into Neptune's crust, there is a sea of hydrogen where carbon crystallizes into diamond which falls like rain to the center of the planet forming a diamond layer. And that layer is actually solid crystals of diamond inside a sea of metallic liquid carbon. Lol wat? Damn, nature.
Netflix is bigger than any TV Network, the only thing missing is live shows but not all TV networks carry live shows. If Netflix decided to push content instead of allowing it to be pulled, they have enough content to have 50+ channels.
Ah yes, driving a cab till your 65 and then retiring with 3 million. The American Dream.
Isn't the OP's point that people shouldn't live their private lives in public?
This is a great point. I'm not sure why that slipped by me. That really is misstatement of fact, whether mistaken or intentional, and does cast some shade on every other assertion he makes.
This is an interesting idea. How are these emails generally received? Do you have a template[0] that you follow?

[0]: https://github.com/kbariotis/templates
If you'd care to share more details about this test, I, and I'm sure others, would be interested!
I know what a REIT is. Maybe you could explain how rental income is spinning off 15% cash a year? Do you think real estate is a magic industry that returns 15% annually, unabated? Why are these friendly real-estate developers sharing that money with you?
> Is it normal to live your private life in accordance to what a future hypothetical employer might think ?

Increasingly so. That's one of the many reasons for my minimal presence on social media.

However, it's an entirely different question if its right to be put in the position of feeling you need to do that. I think there probably needs to be some adjustment to the legal situation to encourage employers to mind their own business.
Or become financially independent? That does not necessitate Uber riches just a healthy customer base that mutually feeds each other over time.
No for example Swisscom in Switzerland is using Ericsson for their 5G network and Huawei for their IP core transport network. A lot of households got upgraded to Huawei G.Fast technology for example.

So it's also about price. Huawei is just cheaper than Nokia and Ericsson. I don't know how the technology of the different providers compare but it probably won't be that much of a difference. It probably also depends on your existing 4G infrastructure since 5G can sometimes be rolled out as a software upgrade using existing antennas. So if your existing infrastructure uses Huawei you don't want to switch.
Let me remind you what you claimed:

> For at least 60 years, USA military has made every situation they've ever touched worse.

It takes an absurd kind of disingenuousness to assert that the actual outcome of the Korean war is worse than the alternative outcome of a unified Korea under the Kim regime.
You can take the money you earn from a company and invest it into the non-profit arts and public benefit if you want to.
Oy. Similarly, I'm mystified with the CIA's and NSA's fascination with mandatory recurring polygraph tests. It's pretty well known the whole area is flawed bullshit. It doesn't measure anything remotely related to "truth".

<b>Edit:</b> I know we aren't supposed to discuss downvotes here, but the activity on this comment and my replies are very interesting. It's curious why discussion on this topic is so controversial. Why wouldn't the UK want it's own foreign policy distinct from the US policy? Downvotes welcome. I give zero shits about my HN "karma score".
> Is it normal to live your private life

I think the OP’s point is that your “private life” was never really private to begin with.
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Your internet speed and latency may be fast enough for the current media/mediums on the internet, but I think it would be naive to assume (without strong evidence/reasoning) that "there's nothing left to be invented" which might consume more bandwidth, or require lower latencies in the near future.
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In what universe are public tweets your private life?
Running a simple algorithm that flags specific words in liked tweets: meh, whatever.

But why waste 350 printed pages of paper for that?
I used a script to delete all my tweets on my twitter however many years ago. I'm not the one to say anything inflammatory/offensive but I just couldn't risk some errant like or retweet causing me grief in the future. It seems like that wasn't a bad move.
It's always been like that, since when television was mostly free and you watched the same four channels every day unless you preferred the library because you could browse encyclopediae and find one or two specialized books about a topic you were interested in. The 'Net just made us more aware of the latter category.
I mean, as I see it the reason companies are requesting these checks is because of all the naming and shaming of companies whose employees were found to have posted inappropriate things (or done other actions). So naming and shaming them seems sort of ironic to me.
It's usually a generic checkbox on the same order as the "We care about your privacy!" tracking notifications.
This is correct. Adope actually developed a flash player for the iPhone but Jobs said no. A year or so later, Apple allowed the Desktop-bound version of flash on the iPhone (it's called Adobe Air)... probably because they wanted users to get their games through the App Store.
That’s nothing. Look at the numbers for WeWork and Adam Neumann.
I spent several years studying and playing the piano works of Schoenberg. I loved it, so much so that I got the barcode from a CD of his piano concerto tattooed on myself (Emanual Ax was the pianist).

I remember thinking early on, how can anybody possibly memorize this? But the more I listened to it, the more the "melodies" stuck, and this was a break through for me. There is beauty in his music, and the more time spent with it, the more it really shines. Still to this day I can hum along to Op. 25 (the Suite for piano) -- something I never thought possible upon first listening.

I believe this is what distinguishes Schoenberg from later "atonal" composers.

As a pianist, my recommendations for approachable Schoenberg are the Piano Concerto (the first movement is a waltz!), Op 19, and Op 25, the two latter works being digestible in small pieces. Op. 33 is magical, and Op 11 is just plain difficult.
Oh man, Ogilvy’s writing is so great and he has such good advice.

I remember reading some of his other writing... One anecdote about superglue: want to show people it’s strong? Don’t just say it in a billboard ad; glue a car to the billboard!

Brilliant.
I’m wondering if this is a negotiation tactic post Brexit as they’re about to enter trade negotiations with the US. Just a bluff bargaining chip to concede.