skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a common practice in Europe (Germany, France, Switzerland...), but frequently even worse: click to subscribe, send a fucking letter to cancel it. Le Monde and Der Spiegel both do it.

I'm a news junkie, I think paying for news is important, but I don't have even 1/4 of the subscriptions I would have if it wasn't for scummy tactics and/or the fear that I will be subject to them in the future.
Would it be possible to fork Deno and expose types at runtime? My backend collegues seem to desire it.
I'd put "syntax highlighing" on the accidentals (maybe red and blue depending on whether it's flat and sharp relative to the scale), and leave everything else alone.
>im not sure that's a comment in your favor ;) ww84 was pretty bad. i imagine it drove some signups, but not as many as hbo would have hoped for

Once again, I will point out it received a better critical response than Red Notice did despite you saying otherwise.

>Yeah, my bad. It's actually * 12...

You are comparing a domestic total for HBO Max to a global total for Netflix not to mention you ignored the rest of my comment explaining why this comparison isn't as important as you think.
I've been following with some amazement the number of conspiracy peddlers on HN for the last 18 months or so and one case of conversion isn't going to make me overly happy. It is a bit like the story about the lie getting halfway around the world before the truth puts their shoes on, in the extreme long term the truth will come out, meanwhile, the damage is done. This guy until yesterday wanted his mother to take some ivermectin, 'just in case'. I want my mother to take her doctors advice, not mine.

edit: just one exhibit: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mewpmewp2
As far as I can see, jmap only provides means to upload email to your email provider, it doesn't actually tell how that email ends up from one email provider to another, which is what SMTP does.

Granted it's already nicer for clients not to need to configure SMTP to begin with.
Yeah, incomplete list. Ubiquiti is missing too.

Not that Mikrotik haven't had CVE https://www.cvedetails.com/product/23641/Mikrotik-Routeros.h...
Yes, and that's fine. Distro python isn't for end users.
The only report you'll ever need to skyrocket your Google Ads ROAS
Ah this is a great way to find non-English content by checking what's topping the list in non-English speaking countries.
Big skyscrapers in London use a similar friction pile technique. E.g The Cheesegrater sits on friction piles which I believe are ø2.5m x 25m long.
If you want to buy a house that you expect you can live in for 10 years, I think it’s fine. I do expect increased inflation (which is great for long-time mortgage borrowers, but not great for someone who pays a market price at a time of historic low rates and sells a few years later at a time of steeply rising mortgage rates).

If you have rental housing you like, I think I’d wait (and I say this as someone who “owned” two different houses (owner-occupied). I owned (or bank owned and I slowly buy it from them) because I wanted to own. It’s been a net wealth creator, but I think by less than renting and dumping every extra amount that housing cost into S&P 500 would have been.)

The problem with considering the alternative as the S&P 500 is that for lots of people, money leaks out on the way towards the index fund and transforms into new cars and nice vacations and three decades later, they don’t have a paid-off house nor a fully-funded account with which to buy one and have money left over.
Is it really just a music player? All it does is fetch some binary blob in some audio format and play it?

I feel this is another Dropbox moment [1] on Hacker News where the hyper-smart ones here dismiss a whole technology/company on their most simplistic assumptions about what the product actually is doing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I'd suggest reading this[1], it's a quick read and paints a slightly different picture, probably still biased as everything is in society in general but you get a different side of the coin regarding Carmack. It's then up to you to decide if you like him more or less :)

[1] https://www.waterstones.com/book/masters-of-doom/david-kushn...
>but can't stream a good bluetooth signal to headphones more than 5 m away smh.

So many factors, right I can't pull out the Bluetooth specs.
Can confirm - coffee sensitive. If I have a coffee at 11am, my heart rate will rise to 110 and stay there until I go to bed, before slowly declining overnight.

Discovered the gene thanks to consumer genetic testing, and the heart rate thing with a fitbit. I'm more careful these days.
If there is a lot of < 1 min watch time contributing to the total global watch time it means the share of accounts that started the movie at all is even higher. This is what is surprising the grandparent.
I wouldn't call these 'good connections' in the traditional sense. Not the kind that recommends you for a job or can hook you up to seed investors.

What they've done is had a shortcut to finding their first customers and convincing them to use the product. Often the hardest part, no fiddling with a contact form or landing page
> symptom of the entire industry surrendering to bad code

Exactly. That's why TypeScript is structural typing with inference. The industry has given up on teaching developers how to organize code. The only way to force everyone to play nice together is through tools: prettier, VSCode, TypeScript, lint, etc. etc.

Part of me thinks this is a social problem. Too many unmoored egos in the industry and no one in the social position of being able to lay down ground rules for a codebase. Or possibly a result of devs chasing higher salaries and becoming mercenaries always on the move. It's rare to have teammates that have been with a company longer than a year anymore.
>I'm suggesting some of this total watchtime is not meaningful (<1 min watch time) and may still contribute to a significant proportion of the total watch time.

How does this contribution a significant proportion to the total watch time? Even the last example that had 90% of users not finishing the movie required 87% of subscribers to at least watch some of it. Do you think the number of subscribers who watched even a second of this movie is higher than 87%?

>You also assume there are no users with multiple accounts.

Do you mean a person with multiple different Netflix accounts or multiple people sharing a single Netflix account? I have no idea why someone would do the former and I would be shocked if there was any sizable number of people who do that. If you mean the latter, my previous comment used the assumption that each subscriber equals two users like you originally suggested.

>I think these two assumptions are not very reasonable, and can explain why you find your own estimate "literally unbelievable".

Ok, why don't you throw together some numbers on the estimated percentage of Netflix subscribers who watched any part of this movie?
Thank you for your comments, I appreciate it. I'm still not sold, however. I would like to understand the underlying principles, "how this works". I don't need implementation details (happy if they are shared, though) but more on the main principles of operation. Please see my further comments below:

> Git is very bad at analyzing SQL diffs.

Agreed, nothing against. So PS has built-in a nice SQL diff. Neat! But what this really brings? I mean, it's not that there aren't SQL diff tools, tools to manage DDL migrations. Besides this, why not layer it on top of Git? Many orgs and integration tools already have similar workflows (e.g. approval workflows, issue management tools, CI, etc) and if instead of coming up with a new system it would be a layer on top of the existing ones, it would probably have less friction to use. Just my perspective on this, of course.

> Run concurrently to your production traffic

Can you elaborate? How? Do they run on another servers? Or are they waiting on a queue change waiting to be applied? If they run on different servers, what they run there, since AFAIK the migration is only DDL, there's no data?

> Will automatically throttle when your production traffic gets too high, and in particular taking care not to affect replication lag

Same as above: who will throttle, the migration? But what is the migration? Let's use my example: a column type change requires a table rewrite. So the table rewrite will throttle, i.e. slow down? But where is this table rewrite running, on the main server (apparently not) or on a shadow server (apparently either since migrations have no data)? Actually you mention "when your production traffic gets too high". What is "high", can you quantify? We run customers that do dozens to thousands of transactions per second. Is this high enough? Will their migrations ever run, or will wait for very long periods of time, maybe forever?

> Will run completely lockless throughout the migration

How is this possible? Where the migration is running, then? A shadow table, shadow server... none?

> At cut-over point

What's cut-over? Are groups of servers switched? This is what it sounds to me, and that would explain how it could be lock-less and not affecting production traffic. However, it does not explain how data is synchronized from the production database to the migration branch, nor how it keeps being updated with the real production traffic. This is essentially the crux of me failing to understand how this system works.

In general, I apologize if these are too many questions. But in essence, I feel this all sounds really well, but unless I have a deeper understanding of how the principles work, and they are sound to me, I won't be able to recommend this for production usage, as I know from experience the many caveats migrations have. If they are all solved, hats off, but I would appreciate if from a technical perspective this would be more clearly explained.

Thank you!
JavaScript is in a situation different than most other languages. Any addition to the standard library has to be implemented by every browser on earth, and that's already unsustainable. Any imperfections or mistakes in the standard library (we are still distraught with the Referer bs) can't ever be fixed as all code has to be perpetually working.
Interesting - I'm wondering if both tea and coffee intake is just a proxy for people having cushy office jobs who therefore are less exposed to toxic substances over their lifetimes than others who work in non-office settings.
Yes, but the sneaky government is offering those freely, so that's very suspicious to some folks that would rather have "the good stuff" off of the black market.
Oh, no wonder this was so entertaining to read, didn't even catch that this was astral codex. I laughed out loud at Cadegiani et al:

> A crazy person decided to put his patients on every weird medication he could think of, and 585 subjects ended up on a combination of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and nitazoxanide, with dutasteride and spironolactone "optionally offered" and vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, apixaban, rivaraxoban, enoxaparin, and glucocorticoids "added according to clinical judgment". There was no control group, but the author helpfully designated some random patients in his area as a sort-of-control, and then synthetically generated a second control group based on “a precise estimative based on a thorough and structured review of articles indexed in PubMed and MEDLINE and statements by official government agencies and specific medical societies”.
And yet given that git is the current "default" VCS, it's very important that this is/will be "as smooth as possible"..

I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to memorize "git order" of patches when importing them in Pijul to be able to re-export them in the same order as they were imported before.
> That would mean 37% of the global Netflix subscriber base watched this movie in the first few days after release. That is literally unbelievable.

That was basically the estimate for Squid Game that I recall. Estimated about 1/3 of Netflix subscribers viewed it in the first month.
> make it seem like it is the establishment that does this

The establishment very clearly does do this, and it's why the whole playbook you listed works in the first place.
Going through one of those studies from https://ivmmeta.com/ on YouTube would be a risky proposition for a YouTuber. It goes against YouTube's medical misinformation policy [0]. It is pretty clear that a study with that sort of effect size could encourage someone to take Ivermectin. Particularly the "Categorical claims that Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19
" would be a worry depending on how the censors feel that day. They'd potentially be arguing a technicality against some Silicon Valley type with an axe to grind.

Despite the fact that it appears those studies were honest, and picking up an actual factual effect. Now it turns out, laughably in hindsight, that the effect is probably whether people had parasites or not and I hadn't thought of that. But it isn't obvious how I'm going to figure that out without someone pointing it out to me. Ideally on YouTube where there are some really good channels covering COVID, often with actual doctors involved.

No-one else seems to have figured it out either, given I've seen lots of people shouting at each other and none suggested it as a possibility.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en
They might be able to get the car shipped (train or transfer service), even if that takes a while.

If the closure is longer than X (based on work, hotel, etc) then it might be cheaper to fly and also have the car shipped; or even sold if they have extras.
Good. The more exposure this tactic gets, the better.

I remember trying to cancel my The Times (of London) subscription a few years ago. It was a terrible experience - having to ensure a pushy sales call for 20 minutes, where the call handler kept ignoring my requests to cancel as they kept reading a hard sell script.

The sooner this practice ends, the better.
The thing that first made me start to wonder was seeing a few somewhat obscure domestic issues like something about a Russian instagrammer I think, maybe a feminist writer or something hit the 4th slot. This was the 4th most important story in the world that day? Because... they have nukes?

I could understand if the stories were all internationally relevant but they're often oddly specific Russian domestic news (e.g. like https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58315926).

RT seems to do a similar thing. I remember walking around London one day and seeing a lot of protestors, although I couldn't make out their signs. I learned what was up from /r/london (they were antivaxxers). The BBC reported on it but buried the story while RT had it prominently displayed at like #4 on their world news page / #1 on their UK news page.
Nazis based their elite schools on top British private schools
Living in Europe, I couldn't believe that if I wanted to unsubscribe to New York Times, I would need to call one of their hotlines which operated in US time-zones. IIRC the open hours were after midnight in my timezone, and their local hotline was out of order.

I seriously thought that I had signed up for a phishing site ...
If they do something like this, it shows such complete lack of confidence in their product. "The only reason why people would continue to use this product is... if we make it sufficiently difficult to cancel".

When signing up for a product, if it uses tactics like this, I assume the product is no good, and even the producers of the product know it...
China’s gaming ban has caused a cloud capacity glut
I would rather put the blame on Streamlabs for using the name without permission than on OBS for not having registered a trademark.
What can you possibly do to need such computing power for a switching power supply... I wonder
A reasonable legal requirement should be that customers are able to unsubscribe using the same method used to subscribe and the process should not require more time and effort than the initial subscription.
WFP's plan to support 42M people on the brink of famine
Thanks for the reply. Good to hear he's pivoted to SaaS, I think its a better business model and managing a 3-sided food delivery marketplace without funding or scale sounds like a nightmare
Someone tell NYT.
The biggest complaint from Netflix subscribers is that they run out of things to watch.
Netflix literally popularized the concept of “binging”
I do not find it unbelievable at all that new high-profile content gets viewed by a third of subscribers.

Here’s a statistic showing the average viewing time of UK Netflix subscribers to be 8 hours a week
https://www.statista.com/statistics/979048/netflix-weekly-co...

Do you really find it so hard to believe that a third would spend 2 out of those hours watching a new movie?
I’m also annoyed by having to return or mail back routers when disconnecting from ISPs. When you sign up they are glad to deliver and install at no cost, but now you have to waste time or money sending them the equipment back.
Here's what sucks for me:

Ignoring both locale and Country in settings and displaying a language based on my IP address.

Half the screen (above the fold) when signed in is "Go Premium. Be happy.", and I had to search "Open the web player" down there, but I understand.

"Open the Web player", but the route is "/browse", but I understand.

The controls of the player are horrible on the "web player". I have to point and click. How to make it full-screen? "F"? Nope. But there is a key for full-screen, right? Nope. Forward is right-key? Nope. The keyboard shortcuts here do not work: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/keyboard-shortcuts

There are two columns, one for Mac and one for Windows. How about a column for just a keyboard and letting me worry about the OS. I have Ubuntu. On Windows, "Alt-right" supposedly corresponds to "Alt-Right". If I hit "Alt-Right" on Ubuntu, it goes to the first episode of the podcast.

I have one. If I try Cmd-Alt-Right to make it go forward, it goes to the first episode of the podcast. If I hit it again, it goes to the second. If I hit "Alt-Left", it goes back one episode. This is the behavior of "Next track" and "Previous track" but it's improper. When I am on the last episode and hit "Alt-left", it doesn't go to the penultimate episode, it goes to the episode's start. Same when on the first episode: if I hit Alt-left, it doesn't go to the last episode. There's no consistency.

There's no indication of time when you hover the mouse cursor on the slider. Say you're at a timestamp and want to go to another timestamp: a normal way to do it would be to hover over the slider and have the timestamp corresponding to your cursor's position appear, and then you slide to the right or the left, click right on the desired "timestamp".

Can't do that. No timestamp shown. To go to a timestamp, the best attempt is to click on the dot on the time slider, hold down, and then move it to the desired timestamp... But you can't even do that properly, as the resolution is about 17 seconds per slighest move/pixel or something. Meaning you cannot hit a specific timestamp.

The dot on the time slider is fat as hell. If you're at 2:25 and hit pause. Clicking on the right part of the dot (i.e: the intersection between the slider and the circle at angle 0 rad) will bring you to 4:26, more than 2 minutes on multi-hour long podcast episode. I don't know how it scales down for a song track.

In other words, the radius of the dot on the time slider corresponds to 4 minutes.

I struggled for several minutes to make the player appear once. I don't know how it is reduced/docked and clicking on one episode but it didn't appear on the screen. Worse, another episode was displayed or something.

I just dread using the product/interface. I just put the thing on and then don't interact with it because I can't control it (except Space for pause/play). If I interact with it I know I will only hate it and I don't want to.
It is only a fallacy when you are an expert as well, but when you are a layperson in a field and you are discarding real expert opinions because you don't like them you don't get to claim that their opinions are arguments from authority and therefore by definition fallacies. Maybe actually read that wikipedia page instead of just linking to it?

This seems to be a common and recurring theme: my opinion is worth as much as the opinion of an expert in the field because their argument can be discarded as an argument from authority. But they are an authority and I'll be happy to believe them compared to believing you, who are not active in their field at all.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28067406

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29235584

"I'm no medical anything but I do have extensive academic and statistical training."

But you forgot that that only applies to those fields that you actually know something about, otherwise this is about as transparent an appeal to authority as one can make. Who cares about your extensive academic and statistical training if you start off with nonsense? Garbage in, garbage out, no matter how good the program is.
>Fifty-two piles will be drilled along the north and west sides of the tower all the way down to bedrock.

If the bedrock is now supporting a significant share of the building, does it make it more or less able to cope with earthquakes?
If that is the threshold for discovering exoplanets, haven't we already found Planet Nine since we definetly have detected the planet's effects?
Well, making something illegal doesn't make it non-existent.

Let's see how this is enforced before putting those "Mission Accomplished" banners up.
Great - please inform the NYT immediately so they can stop this incredibly sleazy practice for their own business.
Funny how all this article ends up saying it's all a matter of trust.

Which is exactly what medecine has always been about, and why ultimately you end up getting prescriptions by you own doctor, that you have a bound with and that you trust.

The most insane thing that happened with this pandemic ( at least in europe) is how we decided to throw all this through the window and let states impose medical decisions on people and their children, not realizing people were still considering them highly incompetent in general.
I used online chat to do it. It took several attempts to get connected. They offered me a really good deal to stay but I declined on principle because I don't want to support such practices.
This looks cool, but…

> Reasonable cost
> you can build this for less than $2,500

I wouldn’t call this reasonable hehe. Is seems to weigh 12.7kg with a footprint of 60.96x30.48 cm, so it’s not that big. Just heavy.

The motors are not really expensive and the computer on this is a pi, so I assume the expensive part is the aluminium body?

I’ll wait until someone makes a 3d printable body hehe.
Finger is much better than HTTP from a security point of view, because it’s incomparably less complex (does one thing only), which eg removes all the risks coming from scripting, and makes sandboxing trivial - on both ends of the connection.
I had that exprience with the NYT - I had to time my call right to hit the office hours on the US east coast.

That said, when I last had an interaction with them about a subscription, I did the whole thing via a 24/7 online chat. A far better and more convenient experience, if one that still lacks the simplicity of a simple ‘unsubscribe’ button.
>[...] and Der Spiegel both do it.

They might have changed. When I checked just now, they offer a phone number and an E-Mail address to cancel a physical paper subscription (there's no account, so that makes sense).

An online "Spiegel+" subscription can be cancelled via their website.

https://abo.spiegel.de/de/c/abo-service/spiegel-abo-kuendige...

It may be different for their non-German publication, but I had trouble finding any English information - which may be saying something...