skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Another interesting question is, which email backend can you trust? It's literally your post-box, can you really trust that to be anywhere except on a physical machine in your own home?

I certainly don't. All my emails are sent/received/stored on physical hardware located on my premises.

Just about anything else is untrustworthy IMHO.
For the uninitiated, BBOM = Big Ball Of Mud.
It's not entirely a joke. Lets say the Hunter Biden story is true and he profited off of a Ukranian oil company. Why would it be a scandal? He is not in a position of trust with the government. Joe Biden didn't appoint him to his staff. The huge "gotcha" moment where they take down the entire Hunter Biden empire of deceit and corruption doesn't affect the public interest.
not alone, or more like the vast majority

I'm still trying to find a part time dev gig so I can just focus on graphs and advanced combinatorics
So why didn't pocket pcs or non-Palm PalmOS devices have the same problem? All of the Palm units in my collection have the buzz but none of the Clies do.
The strife is an ongoing American cultural war, however. Other countries generally have much more important ongoing local battles. It's a good political angle to hew in the US because it's very hard to attack - it's structurally similar to many past moral panics.
No, it would not have beat the cost in my case. I did know others who got academic full scholarships to state schools but little financial aid to private colleges.
One has to admit, there's also a certain elegance to the l33tcode thing. It's all about easy-to-survey "code katas" taken to an extreme level, which is pretty much what you'd want if your problem was to cheaply select the most likely capable 1% or so out of some huge amount of applicants. But most real-world code problems look nothing like those clean whiteboard examples.
Honestly I’m one free weekend from canceling it. Gonna go back to a pc under the tv. Just need the afternoon to find the best machine for plex.

The selection of older content on Netflix is really weak on the whole and their original content is getting worse and worse.

There is only so many times I can watch a mid-level 80 minute movie script be dragged out across 10 hours in series it really is awful tv and watching the writers struggle to spin tires to drag it to 10 hours is exhausting. Not to mention the executive meddling is extremely apparent in many of their scripts where you can tell whole sections were added at exec request because the story goes off at a tangent and then when it returns the stakes are exactly the same as before the tangent.
I think the issue is that you're not taught how to interview people. So usually you'll notice that you need to do an interview in a few hours and scramble to think of what to ask and leetcode is the easiest thing that comes to mind.
Now you’ve said that, I think I prefer it
I'm not entirely sure if your question would fit this criteria, but it sounds awfully close to a Negative proof fallacy: https://logfall.wordpress.com/negative-proof-fallacy

Generally speaking, when a wide sweeping change is going to take effect, the onus of proof about why it should be done is on those advocating in favor of the change, not on those defending the standard. That is, "How is this change useful?" vs. "Why wouldn't this change be useful?" The latter assumes the change is good and asks for proof which cannot exist yet, while the former focuses the questioning on the underlying value of the change prior to implementation.

This particular change is a complex one. It clearly has w*stern politics crammed into its carcass, which are tedious to read, and doubly so to speak on. For that reason, I'll try and avoid such topic. Besides, I tend to assume your question is asked in good faith, so I would simply ask:

Can you give an example of where it making a "good" suggestion is helpful?

Under optimal circumstances, the ability to "help" the writer would be subjective, right? Under suboptimal conditions, the suggestion would be: unwanted, unneeded, or wrong.
> I suppose some people manage their apartments with org-mode

I thought I heard someone say "that sounds like a challenge!", but that was probably just my imagination.
>lack of precision you argue for gets people killed.

Does it? Does it really? Does a single doctor that reads the Lancet not understand what a woman is? One (1) single doctor?

How does that work, exactly?

Does that hypothetical doctor read the lancet, sees "woman" on the cover, and think to himself, "wow, that sure applies to my patient with a penis and disphoria", and then goes on to prescribe a drug that is deadly to men and not women?
> What data could I possibly have here? Even theoretically?

Learning and language researchers have metrics they use to quantify reading comprehension. And in the inverse, reading comprehension skills and performance are tested in law school entrance exams (just as a personal example).
I haven't given that tool much of a try specifically, but overall I wanted to build something where you could do granular and flexible modeling across multiple scenarios in a modern and responsive UI, where you don't link your accounts, you control and experiment with a wide variety of options and assumptions, can plot/visualize what you want and see breakdowns of what happened in each simulated year, etc. If you check it out, I'd be particularly interested to hear what you think of the Milestone system, where you can define key events/stages in your life, add multiple criteria with conditional logic for when they should occur, and bind the start/end of other events in your plan to them (with support for offsets as well). So far, I haven't seen anyone else try to build that kind of system.
I am all for trying to be as inclusive as it gets and to be honest, English’s gendered pronouns are just unnatural to me due to my native tongue not being gendered to begin with.

But other than the old “he/she” (annoying) repeated thing or perhaps “they”, some other constructs feel pretty forced. I feel that without starting a conversation where both sides partake, no consensus will ever happen. Or, probably the foremost should be the actual targeted demographic be consulted, because in plenty of cases these are not coming from them and they don’t even approve of these changes, making it the old feel-good changes for the sake of it.
"They hated PheonixPharts because he told the truth"

But while your point stands, there are some wrinkles when we're considering things on a human scale. We probably can have (for human purposes) infinite growth in PDF's, MP3s, apps and browser games... we just won't want to pay for them with the same currency that pays for scarce resources. And while exponential growth is impossible, there is more solar radiation hitting the planet every year and will be for a time span close enough to infinity for planning purposes. So steady growth might be possible indefinitely (again, for human purposes).
I found Silicon Valley looked nothing whatsoever like my experience in SV. It was exaggerated in the extreme at best or at worst just outright made up. Then again I only have my experiences to compare to. Maybe others it matched their's exactly.
'Merging' was a poor choice of words on my part, but I'm aware of what it does.
The lack of housing is not a issue of attracting investment. Canada (and basically every other country with a housing price crisis) is perfectly capable of funding construction with domestic investment. It is, as you mentioned, an issue with policy.

Until the policy is fixed, additional foreign investment is pointless and only serves to drive speculative price increases. It makes sense to deter it.

In theory as countries apply similar policies across the world, the surplus countries driving these capital flows will be forced to either invest in developing countries that could actually use the funds, or park the cash domestically. That will force countries like China and Germany to deal with their issues internally instead of exporting them.
Generally, I don't disagree, but not all producers are LLVM. And JS inlining is driven by dynamic heuristics, speculatively inlining likely candidates, whereas statically-compiled C++ code generally doesn't have speculative inlining. So a Wasm call_indirect will not get dynamically optimized into a guarded inline.
I don’t remember where I heard it, but someone said degrees, certifications, etc, are good because they show you have understanding of $topic to someone who doesn’t have an understanding of said $topic. You aren’t always interviewing with engineers themselves, and a piece of paper is an easy way to communicate your skills to non-technical people.
I got a year free of Apple TV+ with a new iphone, and I don't quite like it.

Used it to watch Ted Lasso and Foundation, and the browser experience was _terrible_ for discovery and had lots of bugs and counterintuitive things. And it was Windows+Chrome, so no excuse for having such a terrible interface.

Now I don't even care about it, and find it easier to just open netflix or youtube or something else rather than to waste time and brain cells dealing with their crap.
Netflix' problem is that it's not indispensable. If Netflix vanished, people would find entertainment elsewhere, such as cable, YouTube, google, amazon, Disney, etc. Any major company like google or amazon can license content even at loss, so what advantage does Netflix bring.
Really interesting idea. If I was analyst at Netflix, I really would like to explore that.
Show HN: I have just open-sourced a 3D drafting demo
The spotify premium download feature is more like an encrypted cache that's beneficial when offline or in slow networks.

It's not useful for acquiring files for your personal collection.
HBO Max makes it easy to see which are the "HBO" shows, and which are the "Max" shows. Ignore the max ones and the quality is still there.
That is a good example.

Were you not able to cancel the plan you didn't want and sign up with the plan you did?

If that wasn't an option (ie, you wanted the better plan right away), quickest might be to request a refund of the bad plan and then sign up with the right plan.

If you request a refund the same day of purchase I've not had a problem with that (but it hasn't happened often). I had a somewhat similar situation, and just noted that it wasn't clear that X was not included, had no problem getting a refund. I then signed up as desired.

That said, devs should have an upgrade option that charges difference ?
Tech School for Chassis Fabrication and Collision Repair/Paint

He's highly motivated, I'm pretty sure he'd be successful with whatever he puts his mind to it.
One elitist thing I keep seeing is romanticization of 'the trades'. We're overlooking what it's like to work physically your whole life, day after day, year after year, for decades, in often miserable conditions. Bodies break down, and many work and live in pain. Sitting at a desk, where your biggest physical problem is remembering to stand up once in awhile, is far preferrable. Many tradespeople work hard their whole lives so that their kids can do something else.
The UX is also pretty terrible. It takes like five button presses to resume what you were watching when it should take one, and the Android app infuriatingly maintains its own brightness slider so if you watch Netflix a lot you're constantly running into the screen being too dim or too bright.
Given the voting divide based on education, people in the U.S. are getting something else out of college education. I have no issue with shoehorning more liberal education into primary education, but a liberal democracy cannot survive if blue-collar workers have no historical context and vote for authoritarians who are intent on destroying democracy.
As somebody familiar with WebAssembly, how would you do FFI?

like say you wanted to make a J2534 DLL http://www.drewtech.com/support/passthru.html

How would you export these DLL functions or even call functions from other DLLs (dlopen/dlsym, etc.)
i love that you're using Rust and supporting different platforms!

Mapr seems to be really great if you want to use the same framework for each platform you're building for
> Apple TV + is so underrated and under-talked about it's not even funny.

Is Apple TV different in the US than Canada? ‘Cause either I am using it completely incorrectly or they don’t have very much content up here…
I've been thinking how to create a 3d sketching-drawing interface in web for awhile. I ended up like that in the demo now. I'm happy to hear feedback of HN community and any ideas about improving the 3d experience.
Well, yes this is a political feature, but your comment leads me to believe I didn't make my point clear enough. Almost every feature is political when you are the size of Google. You may only be objecting to this feature because it goes against your culture. However there are thousands of other decisions that Google has made that support your culture at the expense of some other culture. Many people here are viewing the problem as Google choosing the wrong culture. I am saying we should instead focus on the immense power Google has to force one culture on another culture.
I’ve really enjoyed the number of shows they have. I’ve never tried the browser. I always watch on my TV, and they have apps for basically every smart TV
> Much evil can be done with good intentions.

"If we don't colonize them and replace their religion with Christianity they'll go to hell and we can't have that"
Why is SQL Server able to backup and restore databases 100s of gigabytes in size in single-digit minutes, while Postgres is at least 10x slower?
I'm not convinced that most kids need High School either.

For smart kids, High School is basically just
a grade-grubbing competition to determine
who gets to go to the best college.
This mostly gets in the way of actual learning.
I think bright students would learn much more if, after 9th grade,
they went directly to university,
with admission determined by lottery.

For all other students,
High School is basically just prison.
They already know how to read, write, and do arithmetic.
They know that the earth goes around the sun
and that America invented freedom and fought in half a dozen wars.
They know everything that they're ever
going to remember learning in school
or that they'll use afterward.
But, for some reason, they're forced to spend years
doing stoichiometry and reading old books
that they're never going to appreciate.
A liberal arts education is valuable,
even if it's not directly applicable to daily life,
because it can elevate the spirit.
But can you elevate the spirit by force?
I think not.
I just want it to look good when I have the window set to half a screen wide at 1080p. There are some websites that'll switch to a mobile design when it's that narrow, and it's incredibly annoying.
I found that part of Westworld repulsive. I've never seen a CEO nor a designer that could be as over the top as the CEO and designer characters in that show and keep their job.
There is nothing exotic or mysterious about empty recently-built houses.

They are about 0.5% of my neighborhood and are built by all sorts of people, but always for the same reason: Housing is an asset class. In some places, its expected return is always positive even without rental income.

You should buy in those places. If you leave it empty, you get an appreciating asset, and the demand for homes to live in remains the same.

And then, there are places like Kharian, where there is huge demand for the idea of housing, but the living is mostly done elsewhere. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOYJ3_ZppM
I don't understand your comment. I didn't talk about that or say that. ?
There was a kid I knew in school who I would consider a very good tetris player. One time someone else was lamenting that they always get bad pieces and he said, "The Tetris gods will never give you a piece you can't play, you just don't know how to play it." Which has resonated with me for an oddly long time in my life.
every day that nintendo doesn't make it simple and available for people to play all the games from the past, 100 people discover emulation. the barrier to entry as far as technological know how to procure and operate said emulators has gotten easier and easier as the years go by. they in turn tell more people, who keep the news flowing to more and more and more. the losses by nintendo, and the publishers of games added up over all that time must be astronomical. imagine the emulation capabilities of launchbox combined with a library of roms the size that most the target demographic could pirate online with a negligable amount of effort, on a non jailbroken ps5 or xbox or switch. these companies are missing out on so much cash flow from what are essentially dead revenue streams. and customer satisfaction would be through the damn roof..
>Lack of TLS support on the sender side and the context goes clear text through relays. Encryption remains the best way to guarantee against eavesdropping.

TLS support only provides a mechanism for encryption across the wires. If your email is stored unencrypted anywhere except your own physical hardware (and sometimes not even then), whoever owns that hardware can (and the likes of Google actually does) read/modify/delete any or all of your emails at their whim.
I can't help but wonder if Netflix is considering going after password sharing. It may be a short term boost but at least then we can gauge the true subscriber base.
I'm a college educated, well off person and most of my social circle is as well and they are very much on this train. My question is always, "What do you want your child to do?" It's very easy to send other people's kids to trade trade schools.

I come from a family that immigrated and worked in trades (cooking, baking, manufacturing, etc.) and I'd like to think I have a great deal of respect for those professions. But the pay is often poor and the work is hard and risky. A radical rethink of how we treat skilled labor and the long term well-being of the people who do it is required before I actively encourage anyone who's not already expressing interest to go into a trade.
Nitpick but CODA barely counts as original content. It's an American remake of a very popular French movie "La Famille Bélier". The producers were even involved with both film.
People don’t want to pay $15 a month to watch “fierce kweens” and drug documentaries…..
I wonder indeed

https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-auto-cancel-subscription...
The step up from OpenGL is astounding and overdue. Vulkan is ok but also too much.
Nice work. I remember being very critical of the first version of this a year ago and it looks like you legitimately took the feedback to heart. Thanks.
RobGoods/Sams
Only forward incompatibilities, that is: Wasm 1.0 engines can't handle 2.0 opcodes etc
I'm assuming that practically nobody actually cancels their Netflix whenever there's nothing to watch and resubscribes when there is and so they probably consider existing subscribers money-in-the-bank and mostly try to acquire new subscribers. If they were instead trying to get their existing subscribers to use the service every month then they should focus on content (not necessarily Netflix original content, maybe just buy a blockbuster now and then, w/e).
As a junior dev you shouldn't be able to screw up big time, if you do, that's on the team/company, not on you. As a senior it is trickier, but usually no one should be able to screw up monumentally, if they do it's a lack of internal process, not on the individual (exceptions being malicious intents).

Changing internal processes without being a decision maker inside the company (e.g. an influencial manager/lead, the owner, a vp, etc.) is hard, even if there are clear benefits. If there of things that make no sense, there are no horizons for the improvements to come and you are not learning from your seniors, consider if it makes sense to move forward. Trying to change internal processes at reluctant employers is a common cause of immense frustration (and burnout), don't let yourself get caught into that.
Stross just dug hard into elitism bullshit.

Much better Sci-Fi writers were writing basic fundamental social science fiction where sci-fi setting was just a stage.
This is a wild hypothesis, but many people believe it including me. Woke politics and culture war is essentially modern day version of bread and circuses [1]. The biggest scandals in America last decade was illegitimate Iraq War and 2008 financial crisis. But in the decade of 2010s the biggest issue is how many genders and pronouns are out othere. So go figure. Bonus point if you can invent a new gender and pronoun for yourself.

US is bombing some Middle Eastern country which has nothing to do with 9/11. But the issue of the day for Americans is how inclusive is "guys". US was funding a lab in China where COVID might have come from. Don't worry, the issue of the day is whether a 4 year old should be able to transition to another gender. So some Americans can feel good about their moral superiority.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Ask HN: Is there an enhancement protocol (i.e. PEP for Python) for Elixir?
Your third paragraph is hardly unique to Netflix, all scripted serialized dramas seem to suffer this problem these days.
> Meemaw can't watch Peppa Pig with her grandson in person, so we'd better watch out for her wanting to check out his Netflix Kids list and try to connect with what's interesting him.

That’s something Disney and Apple are both embracing with shared viewing sessions. It’s an excellent feature and it has been so much easier watching Disney content together than trying to count down and sync pause/play of content, so guess where we go when it’s remote movie night?
As a synthetic language, why did they go with gendered nouns? That seems like a very illogical step.
Glad you like it so far! Possibly the hardest I've worked on a side project by an order of magnitude... actually maybe that's not true, in years past I did spend an irresponsible amount of time coding video games that no one would ever buy :D
Having successfully built (and sold!) a technology startup myself, I would always, always opt for a managed database service. Yes, it’s more expensive on paper and you want to run the numbers and choose the right offering. But nothing beats the peace of mind of storing your customers’ data on a system that others (Google Cloud in our case) look after. Not to mention that you’re better off focussing on your core value proposition and spending your scarce resources there than to have a database administrator on your payroll.
this must be so common
> Average quality has taken an absolute nose dive

Sure, but that happened years ago.

I don't think most people care about 20$ vs 10$ for a monthly subscription. For people who do care, they just pirate for 0$.
I feel like Android has mostly "caught up" on the things that the Pre was better at; maybe around 5 years ago? I do remember switching from my Pre to a Droid 4 after dropping the Pre on its power button, and it was a massive step backwards in pretty much all dimensions.
Google modifying the content is not really the threat model most people care that much about though (similar concerns exist with other caches/cdns)...

Google redirecting traffic to servers they control to mine interaction and interest data on the other hand...