skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid that this behaviour in general, not just related to Netflix, is doing the industry much harm.

My own experience is that recently I just don't want to get into new shows, at all. The story goes - I start to watch a show, I grow to like it, get all emotionally invested, the show gets cancelled halfway and I'm left out in the cold, dick in my hand, no satisfying end to a story arc, nothing. Most recent example is Counterpart which was (imo) phenomenal but got the axe after two seasons.

I'm not expecting the shows to run in perpetuity, just for them to run their course, tell their story. Great shows aren't great because they last a long time.
What resources would you recommend to teach either using CSS variables or writing maintainable CSS. I'd love to learn about either of those
Yeah, a year of Stadia is like two first-party Switch games, and that's ignoring the $299 cost of the Switch (assuming you can even find one at list price!) vs. $99 for a Stadia Premiere set (chromecast + controller.) And that's ignoring Stadia's free subscription tier as well as cheaper hardware options.

But Stadia's game library is small, and needless to say it doesn't have Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, or Ring Fit Adventure... ;-)

So for the 6-to-106 set, I think the Switch wins, but Stadia is still pretty interesting...
> Waymo is exclusively driverless right now. So that's where we are occupying parallel universes.

Can Waymo drive everywhere? No it cannot so the question of parallel universes is not even relevant.
If espionage is a concern, you first have to handle the low lying fruits (and I'd assume you already do) like you only allow your own hardware: no employee may use their own computer to connect to work.

You should probably also require hardware keys and things like that but really I'd think it all depends on how much an adversary wants your stuff because I'd assume at some point it becomes viable to just send someone to work for you and steal your stuff.
Depends on the season, in summer with 24/7 sunlight the Arctic takes more heat than a location near the equator.
But humans can currently live in vastly different climates on the earth already. Unless something happens way outside of the worst case climate change models, we’re just not looking at anything near an extinction level event for humans.

The big island of Hawaii alone has enough population to not suffer genetic inbreeding problems and it’s mountains mean it can handle multiple meters of sea level rise. The entire rest of the planet could be dead and they would be enough to avoid extinction.

If we’re going to start ignoring climate science to scream about human extinction, then we’ve moved into the same corner of the deniers. Let’s stick with what we know, which is catastrophe and mass migrations; but that’s leagues away from extinction.
There was a lot of cross-pollination with Digger slang because of the world wars.
Yes, Evola. The first few chapters about nihilism are probably the most relevant. Keep in mind that if you want to strawman this on, it's very easy. Filter out the Kali Yuga, etc. stuff if this is not to your liking and the rest is still pretty informative.
Yes "data driven" does not always lead to what's best for the consumer.

From what I understand, Netflix' decision model is heavily based on how many users watch the first X minutes of a season in the first few days that it's up. Essentially if the show isn't a hit immediately after release, it won't be renewed, and the threshold required to renew goes up exponentially every season, so essentially a show has to be a runaway hit in order to survive past the second season.

I'm sure this is a data-driven decision, and I guess it shows that novelty is probably what drives people to the platform and gets new subscribers. It makes intuitive sense: with most forms of media the largest number of people will give something a try when it's new, and aside from very rare exceptions the viewer base will settle in to a much lower number of "true fans".

So it makes sense in the short term from a business perspective, and they have way more data than I do from my armchair, but I wonder if they are adequately assessing the risk of this decision model. People get deeply emotionally attached to media, and it's a strong negative when a series you love is cancelled, so this could negatively affect their brand over time. And that's not something which is so easy to design KPI's around as new subscriber numbers.

I suspect Netflix would have to see increased churn due to pressure from competitors to see more serious attention paid to loyalty and retention.
Check https://grapheneos.org/

Google hardware without Google software. With USB-C and headphone jack, for now at least.
Will you be making this available on nntp servers? Might be nice to see it on a text only nntp server. Sure one of the big usenet providers would want help seems on their interest.
Java and .NET have mature decompilers. Obfuscators or minifiers replace meaningful symbol names with gibberish. Meanwhile in natively compiled applications that information never existed in the first place unless it was explicitly added into the symbol table and not removed.

If you want to obfuscate your codebase then write your software in Delphi. The native code it outputs will drive any reverse engineer insane even though there was no attempt at obfuscation...
I've tried this approach twice with mixed success. In both cases I wanted to stub out the persistence tier of a Node.js application when test driving the API. I verified the real and fake implementations by running the same tests against them. The first application was quite small, and the process worked well, although it did feel somewhat onerous to implement the fake. However, the second application was more complex, calling for some PostgreSQL specific features which were difficult to implement in the fake. In the end I abandoned the approach for the second application, settling on slower, duplication heavy API tests which used the real persistence tier. I'd love to hear how others solve this problem without mocks, which I agree tend towards brittle, tightly coupled tests with a poorer signal to noise ratio.
Content has become like the toothpaste aisle - https://www.metropolismag.com/uncategorized/the-toothpaste-a...

And the toothpaste aisle wars, as the link explains well, usually end with consolidation around 2 players.

Given that Netflix has racked up quite a bit of debt to dominate the aisle, and now serious cash rich competitors like Disney, Apple (and lets throw in Amazon) enter the scene, does it really matters what moves Netflix makes? Is Netflix story done? Do Disney and Amazon end up dominating the aisle in a couple years?

But this story feels slightly different than the tooth paste story. There is that scene in GoT where the knight stands protecting a big secret. Challengers arrive. The knight knows this is going to be a fight to the death, as the secret is that important. And he says, "Now it begins".

And the challenger replies "No now it ends".

What matters is neither the knight or the challenger but the secret.
What Glow was cancelled?

I can see why they would have low viewership for OA, its unusual and bit disturbing at times. But Glow??

It was high quality soap opera about low quality wrestling soap opera.

Maybe netflix is not to blame but the people who want Stranger things 3 or 4
I don't know much about the high literature scene and even less so about what it looks like in the US.

Over here in Germany, I always thought it was mostly driven by literary critics, prizes, book fairs, etc. and thus its own sort of niche although I have no idea how well that works. Is that different in the US?
You're lucky to have a workflow that depends in just one application and one window, then.
I'll copy parts of my response to the dear Doctor when (initial draft of?) it was posted on Mastodon:

1:

Propaganda is not (no longer?) limited to centralized control. Advertising is an example of fully decentralized propaganda, where the actors don't have any kind of real central control, but if their goals align, they'll amplify a single message to the level much larger than a monopoly ever could.

Perhaps we could call it mob-style propaganda. Mobaganda?

2:

The way I feel it, propaganda is about making a large group of people believe things that aren't true, but benefit some other group of people. Said beneficiaries of the propaganda may be the original source of the message - but even historically, propaganda only works if some of the audience believes it and starts convincing/socially pressuring others into believing it too.

So the core operational element here is just a meme that spreads. Centralization is orthogonal.

--

Basically, I feel that old school propaganda was just a way to forcefully spread a selected meme. It happened in an era where most media was unidirectional - from a small group of people operating newspapers, radio and television, to a large group of people who could only view it and perhaps comment between each other, but their response wasn't broadcast to a wide audience. These days, with our hyperconnected social media where everyone is a publisher of thoughts, memes can spread without much effort. You don't need force of a central power anymore for an idea to travel; memes amplify themselves now, as they spread through our bidirectional media.

And this means not only that propaganda isn't restricted to a central power, but also that it doesn't have to have any intent behind it. All it takes is for someone to accidentally craft a meme that resonates with people, and it'll get amplified. If it incidentally benefits a group of people, that group will ensure it gets amplified further.

The problem is, said meme doesn't have to be in any way correct, reasonable, or corresponding to observable reality.
This isn't a "fatal flaw." It's a tradeoff. You add a little bit of extra code (which is a liability), and in exchange, you get a test double that you can reuse in many places (which is a benefit). This is in opposition to mocks, where you get an automated framework that can substitute calls anywhere in the system (a benefit), but you're completely replicating the behavior in every single test (a liability).

I argue that [0] the liability of mocks are much higher than the fake. With a fake, you could theoretically write tests that asserts that your class is satisfying the interface. There's no way to do this with a mock. You can just make an interface do anything, regardless of whether it makes sense. This is fragile under modification. With a large codebase, you're inevitably going to change the behavior of a class during a refactoring. Are you going to read every test that mocks that class to decide how the mocks should be rewritten? Probably not - the mocks force-overrode the behavior of the class, so your tests will still pass. Why would you look at them again?

> Make a fake for every error scenario?

By the time you're implementing a fake, you have an interface that the fake implements. One way that I've handled this is to make a FailingBlobStorage that takes an error in its constructor and throws it from any calls. If you need even more detailed behavior than that, you can create a mock for that specific test case. You're not married to the fake. It's not going to magically test every scenario. But fakes handle the common case in so many situations that it's actually surprising when you start trying them out.

[0] In fact, I've basically written this same blog post before. https://www.bitlog.com/2019/12/10/simple-software-engineerin...
That would be some dangerous air.
That's what I gravitate toward to recently. I can vet the show before I'm 4 seasons in and it turns out, that the show's writers are Lost ;)
I don't agree with your belief that using "they" as a singular pronoun is wrong but I won't argue with that - each to their own.

However, I wonder what pronoun do you use when you want to refer to a single person whose gender you know but don't want to reveal. Occasionally this is done in storytelling so as not to give away the identity of a character. Or more commonly, I use the word "they" when talking about someone I know to someone else whose gender is irrelevant. For example, I might say to my dad that I will be going out with a friend who happens to be a girl but I'll use "they" because I don't want to have to deal with the inevitable reaction from him that I'm seeing a new girlfriend. I realise that without the word "they", I would have other options but I wonder if you take this particular usage into account when you talk about defaulting to "he" or "she"?
Simply saying prefer "this" over "that" without adding any context to the equation is the best recipe to end up doing the wrong thing in the wrong place. Or maybe you mean that you can make the same decisions when testing a Web based app UI than when testing a cryptographic function in the Linux kernel?

IMO, both mocks, fakes and "reals" (to put it in the same language) need to be first class citizens of software testing, each one of them used in the right circumstances.
Just like resorting to unit testing only is as much a bad practice as it is to use acceptance testing only.

A good testing strategy should be adapted to each software and context, and potentially include all types of tests: unit, end-to-end, integration, numerical, acceptance, etc. and all sorts of resources: mocks, dummy data, substitutes, testing engineers, test databases, real databases, real users, etc.
I like products that have less friction, and are easier to deal with. I often find it fiddly to insert the lightning cable into my phone, especially in low light.

It’s not a matter of whether one way is too difficult or not. It’s a matter of whether an alternative has some improvements or not.
AWS SSO VS Cross-account role-based IAM access. Why and how to use roles?
Have you been able to get LDAC to provide high quality audio whilst still being able to use the microphone on the XM3's?
Because Apple is making privacy a key differentiator across their entire product line. How private they actually are is a different matter, but certainly they talk a lot about how the data that is sent to their servers doesn't include IDs and can't be tracked back to you, even if it does get stored.
I guess you do read it for the articles.
Excellent! Btw, in the DB format the posts are still uncensored or?
> In Germany, this is forbidden by the data protection laws:

Does that mean Office 365 is illegal in Germany??
Progressive Web Apps: Towards an Immersive User Experience
TDD for ELT
Etymology 1 Coined by George S. Kaufman in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924).

Edit: that wedjat/wadjet does not appear on the page does alone suggest there's no link.
Spotify Tries to Hold Your Playlists Hostage
That Wim's resistance to cold isn't the product of many years of training and gradually increasing exposure.
I am not suggesting to be that diligent, but yes, for some industries it might be the way to go. But I don't think these are low hanging fruits compared to using SaaS or cloud services on the net. There are real additional risks when using these.
The article includes a link to the original paper, which is good – https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30715-7
Looking forward to try out the new tiling features of KWin when it gets released to Manjaro.

I've been trying to simulate the use of i3wm inside KDE for a while now, most of the online tutorials end up failing as some floating toolbar from KDE ends up grabbing focus and breaks the i3wm workflow. If anyone has gotten this to work with the latest builds, I'd be happy to try out their configs.

I've also tried out the alternatives of krohnkite (hi esjeon!) but what really breaks KDE is that you can't assign a workspace to each monitor. I have 3 monitors and I can independently assign each workspace to each monitor in i3wm and you can switch between them really easily. Its a massive productivity boost which keeps me sticking to i3wm even though KDE is more fully featured (blue-tooth, OSD etc...)
Ask HN: Modern office life has become unbearable to me
This is a throwaway account. I'm a programmer in my mid 30s. I love computers and programming but modern office life has become unbearable for me.

I can’t stand the ego trips, wars of attrition, power struggles, insecurities and of course the wrong system of incentives that pits people against each other.
Most of the time I feel either extremely frustrated and or angry.

I tried accepting that there a things I can’t control and adopt a more stoic approach to it all but it doesn’t seem like I'm succeeding.

A lot of people feel this way part of the time but are able to cope. I believe I'm just more susceptible than the average person. I've tried different companies of different scales but it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference.

Some of you might suggest I am depressed and I wouldn’t exclude the possibility but I know depression well and I don’t believe it’s the case. I very content, even happy with everything in my life except work.

I did experience serious mental health problems in my 20s and even though I have been stable and functioning for a long time, it’s still there, more or less buried but who knows for how long.

I have some network but not enough that I can just abandon the comfort of my salary. I have a family that depends on me and the pressure to provide is there (at least in me).

I know some of you escaped the rat race and there are wise people in here. What can I do?
An additional problem is artificially limiting the bitpool size to 53 - which for a lot of headsets is far lower than they actually support. Since this is lossy to lossy conversion (Unless your source material is lossless of course!) - you want the second encoding step to do as little as possible - so a ridiculously high bitrate is desirable. You don't necessarily have to disable the adaptive nature of the protocol if you don't want to, but for me I get acceptable (but definitely reduced) usable range with bitpool value in the 70s. YMMV :)
I'm not sure if the analogy lands. Toothpaste is all about branding/packaging because there's essentially no difference in terms of what's inside the tube. Media is almost the opposite: the quality of content actually matters quite a lot to the consumer.

That's not to say Netflix won't be out-competed by bigger players, but media creation is probably more correlated with organizational competence, and less correlated with pure spending power than many other industries.
No, this deserves to die (or at least change).

The "correct" use is unclear and not obvious. Even people who are aware of the correct usage frequently get it wrong (see comments here). There has to be a better term for this.

The "incorrect" use is actually useful (which, I guess, is why the phrase has been co-opted for it). There are statements that "beg the question" and that's a useful phrase to have (and a much clearer use of it). I shall continue using it for this :)
Apparently the Arctic gets more insolation than the Antarctic, but the former only peaks at about 25% higher than the Equatorial mean, and the peak is relatively short.[1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...
Plus our capital Canberra, situated in the tiny Australian Capital Territory. 113 cases total, the last back in July. :-)

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZTY4NTI1NzQtYTBhYy00Z...
> Because they don't just implement a part of the interface (just one store method, or just one of two load methods). They try to create a fully functional fake of the original class.

So shouldn't fakes have their own tests as well? Mocks don't need tests (at least in C# with a framework) because no new class is ever written.

Anyway most of these issues are inherently linked to the nature of OOP and are a direct trade off to its benefits.

Both Mocks and Fakes have advantages and drawbacks, but the OP doesn't reflect that.

I wish articles written on that subject would take a step back and explore how code can be written so that the burden of testing is reduced to a minimum.
> barely be set back 1-2 centuries

The journey from 1800 to 2000 will likely be harder the second time around. The fall of Rome led to a few unhappy centuries.

And let’s not talk about the the trip back to 1800...
People are always looking for a silver bullet but that obviously does not exist.

There are technical pros and cons to both monoliths and microservices.

Either way, the most important is to have a good, functional team. A team that has built a good monolith will probably build good microservices. A team that has built a messy monolith will probably do even worse with microservices.

My view is that microservices are useful at scale and that a well-designed monolith can be split into microservices as needed later on.
This I'm extremely interested in trying. I am willing to bet a lot of CSR (Qualcomm) based Bluetooth hardware (a LOT of headsets seem to be based on this) probably also supports FastStream - and this would be an absolute gamechanger for me.
I'm never going back, my employer be damned it's too convenient not having an open office distraction when coding is a game changer for me.
I remember a videogame streamer I watch having major issues with latency.

Their answer was finding a device that ran "aptX Low Latency" (40mS)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptX#aptX_LL

All of the other alternatives probably work OK for non-interactive content or anything we already tolerate distance speed of light delays for (E.G. videocalls); but do so largely by delaying the video to match the audio.
Tetrahedra may explain water's uniqueness
Try competing with a global pandemic for search traffic ;) I hate my ten year old self for picking this username
Netflix hasn’t met the equilibrium the same way yet.
How to increase financial resource management skill?
## Resource Management Skill

Resource management is the efficient and effective usage of resources. Each individual has a certain level as well as organizations. Those aware of their skill level tend to hoard their resources while those not aware tend to waste it. A good example will be people who win the lottery. Their income & networth usually defaults back to where ever their skill was.

On the other hand some notable companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple tend to be aware of their resource management skill thus they hoard the extra resources instead of wasting it.

Other notable people could be Asian grandparents. But too much hoarding is also not a good way to manage resources.

## How To Increase?

I'm working on a web game called colonist.io. We have gotten pretty far on the web and it's time to create a mobile version. Some people tell us that if we get an outsourcing firm to make the mobile it'll speed us up. We know that an outsourcing firm will make the wrong product and on average will make it 3.8 star and best case scenario 4.4, not 4.9. That is our standard as can be seen from our [previous game](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dawn-of-crafting/id1067104191) and we don't want to lower our standard just to be able to spend more money.

There are some amazing people who can just deploy the resources to create all of this. There are also other people who raise millions multiple times throughout the years and waste all of them.

"just do it and you'll learn it" doesn't seem to be working for everyone. I am sure that a right sort of training(practice) will help us increase this skill.

I view all of these skills like going to the gym. With enough right practice we can achieve our goal. With the wrong practice we will injure ourselves.

So what are some methods we can use in order to increase this skill? If you were to give us a practice session what would it look like?

Thank you