skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was also this element of "We have all this data so we have an unfair advantage over all these studios with pitch meetings." And it seems as if they're just another studio who isn't really in a better position to predict breakout hits than anyone else.

Of course, they also license content but that's just about spreading around the dollars from a bag of money.

Personally, I find Netflix to be worth the subscription at the moment. But there are a ton of other streaming services and I'm not going to subscribe to them all. And, while I have gone in and out of Netflix' DVD service, the back catalog has sufficiently rotted I don't find it worthwhile.
A more boring answer is probably risk management. You don't want to be the radical that introduced a new innovative interview process and produced false positives for your company.

It's like how everybody knows IBM sucks but nobody gets fired for choosing IBM (TM)

If you want change, it has to start at the top of the management
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What is the non-college son doing/working on?
Google's AMP has to be one of the best examples of how manipulative Google has become towards developers, users, the world.

AMP is presented as "the web on a diet", and AMP's speed advantage supposedly achieved by its clever and enforced constraints. Protecting us irresponsible web developers from coding slow pages. Sounds believable, sounds good.

Problem is, that's not at all the reason AMP is fast. It's fast because as you scroll through Google's search results on mobile, AMP pages are preloaded as you scroll by them. Then you click one and its instantly there, because it was preloaded.

Which is something Google does not do for non-AMP pages, for "privacy reasons". Which is quite rich when you force users of a publication to consume it via Google in the case of an AMP page. Anyway, this is why an AMP page has a 3-5s head-start compared to any other non-AMP page.

As more and more people notice the blatant lie that is AMP "performance", here comes the next manipulative tactic. They show some vulnerability.

"OK OK, maybe this wasn't the proper 'standard' way to do it, but we were in a rush to solve the performance crisis".

The performance "crisis" for which there seems little internal Google consensus, as every single fucking of their own products violate best practices or actively contribute to it (Google tag manager), yet never get a ranking penalty, but I digress.

This next part is a stroke of genius. What really happened here is that Google failed to fully trick the user. They want the user to believe they are on domain.abc whilst in reality they are on google.com. They tried all kinds of hacky glitchy methods to conceal reality but could never make it water tight.

So by admitting to some error and promising to improve their game, they'll now use the standardized approach: signed exchanges.

Good guy Google "listened" to criticism by now implementing a standard that allows them to FULLY trick the user, as it's built right into the browser. So they'll be back.

So whenever Google tries to sell something as good (speed, web standards), know how full of deceit they are. The other tactic is "open source", as if that means anything.

You know what the real disappointment is though? The complete lack of regulation. How on earth can a company that is a monopolist in search, browsers,
analytics AND advertising do an obvious power grab like this in the open and just fully get away with it, not a care in the world?

We need modernized digital regulation, drastically.
Let's face facts, streaming video on the internet is really not that hard or unique any more. It was only a matter of time before most other media companies offered their own streaming services.

So what does Netflix have to offer that is unique in today's world of streaming? Not much.
I enjoyed some of their original content, some they took over they did an okay job of (though they have a habit of trying to convert an episodic series into a long drawn out movie, emphasizing the running plot too much). Some definitely wasn't good.

That said, political content is pretty popular with a big chunk of their subscribers. The rest of us lose out because of it, unfortunately... I don't even know if I would call it political, more just forcing in bits of virtue signaling where it doesn't make sense.
>I have long held the belief that America needs more apprenticeships and technical schools.

These exist, but the problem is the jobs are not the good and neither is the pay. You need a lot of certification and training, which is time consuming and costs money.

Many low-skilled young and middle-aged men are more content with an easy retail job or just living with parents or with friends or with girlfriend than going down the apprentice route. It's sad that America is going down this route, but I don't see any way out of it.
Netflix has successfully recreated the experience of going to the local video store in the late 80s/early 90s; So many videos of unknown quality, and I am unable to choose.
Depends on the database, sometimes the database config, as to whether they'll actually be enforced or not, or in what situations data might evade enforcement of the constraints…

Applies to vendors, too. Had some data in Rackspace Files where "list files" would say X existed, but "GET X" got you a 404. Had an AWS RDS instance; query on it returned no results. Adding the "don't use the index" index hint caused it to return data. (Allegedly, this bug was fixed, but we had migrated off by that point, so I never got to confirm it.)

Conversely, I do like DB constraints, because if the DB constraint doesn't exist, then I guarantee you the production DB has a row that is a counter-example to whatever constraint you think the data should obey…
Amazon is hiring to build an “advanced” and “magical” AR/VR product
No, I understand that. It’s the “throw it all the wall and see what sticks” approach. Network TV does it every year.

But Netflix isn’t trying as much stuff as network TV. They seem to be trying as much as all of cable.

The problem is at a certain point you ruin all discovery. There is no way to find something new through serendipity. It’s gone next week from the promotion so they can promote 8 other new shows.

But that means even if you find it and it’s good it won’t get and audience and will be cancelled. Unless it gets big from something outside Netflix (social media with Squid Game or some other popular but not mega hit shows) it’s a goner.

So… why even look at all that stuff? It’s not worth it.
Not activists and not entirely black, but I know that Youtube works with the Metropolitan Police in the UK to remove drill rap videos that the Met considers too violent (violent content, of course, being one of the things that is against Youtube's TOS).

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnp8v/met-police-youtube-dr...

(As always, content removal is a controversial topic, and that includes this topic.)

Youtube has been stung by various "scandals" in the past where advertisers temporarily "boycott" (or, at least, raised a ruckus) when an ad appears next to content the advertisers consider objectionable (such as, as I recall, child exploitation content and al-Qaeda / jihadist groups several years ago). As an ad supported platform, I do think that Youtube certainly should have the right to monitor their platform in order to remove content that they believe is bad for business, including protecting advertiser brands from content they don't want to appear next to. Youtube also has legal requirements to follow (eg copyright law) and may do some things more to manage their own brand, or even perhaps manage legal liability. It would be nice if Youtube was more transparent about the whys of their content management, but as a private company they are not obligated to do so.

Youtube is not the last word in streaming videos. There are several platforms dedicated to hosting videos that would fall afoul of Youtube's content policy. Many of the ones I can think of are not funded by advertising, though some platforms are big enough where "niche advertising networks" are possible (eg big adult video networks like Pornhub).
> One of the questions that I thought across would be "how would this impact schools?"

Schools have mostly unionized faculty and staff, and this doesn't affect union contracts, so, aside from potentially increasing pressure on wages and working conditions from competitive options outside of schools, it wouldn't directly effect most of them.
Modern vintage gamer (a decent youtube free vintage gaming advocate) cites this for the original Xbox but I think it affects Nintendo also.
Call me old fashioned, but PHP still gets the job done better than just about anything else.
Sadly, by pointing out a wrong use of the chat, you risk being the rude person because you don’t value social interactions.
I’ve been tempted to tell the same to my colleagues but refrained because of it.
The claim "this medication produces this effect" is a separate claim from "this medication produces this effect via this process ". In those cases you mentioned, the first claim has enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis, and the second... well, if we don't know how it works, then we have yet to find such a claim that has rejected its null hypothesis.

For instance, aspirin works as a pain reliever. This has been shown with empirical evidence. However, if I said "aspirin relieves pain by infesting your blood with microscopic fairies who kiss your boo-boos from the inside out" -- that claim does not have enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis.
There is currently a shortage of bus drivers in San Francisco. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/29/bay-area-transit-look...

Reducing the hours to 32h/w doesn't increase the amount of employment when there are currently openings and the current staff is working overtime to meet the commitments.

Going to 32h/week and then overtime increases the amount of overtime that the currently employed get and makes the existing budget for public transportation worse (currently running a deficit - https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/SFMTA-s-budget-defici... ).

If you know anyone who is interested in becoming a muni driver, they're hiring immediately. https://www.sfmta.com/about-us/sfmta-career-center/become-tr...

Going to 32h/week doesn't solve either of these issues but rather exacerbates both.

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While you're focusing on doctors, I'd like to draw attention to the nurses, lab techs, and similar. There's again, a shortage. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/09/421366/california-faces-sh... https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2022/02/03/california-loom...

Reducing the hours that nurses and lab techs work before getting overtime, again, doesn't increase the availability of the existing staff but rather increases the labor costs or wages depending on the term you want to use.

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The 32h/week proposal increases the amount spent without addressing the issues in a number of sectors - especially where there is an existing shortage. In areas that are publicly funded, this is going to increase the amount the government is spending or raise the corresponding costs to service those sectors (e.g. bus ticket prices go up 20%) or a corresponding reduction of services to meet the budgetary constraints.

Going to 32h would be good for society as a whole, but the flip a switch approach when there are existing labor shortages in key sectors is going to make those problems much worse until the underlying problems are resolved. Giving bus drivers and nurses an additional 12h of overtime pay a week isn't going to resolve that.
AliExpress isn't really a good alternative to Amazon, imo

It's just the same stuff nowadays but cheaper and slower shipping.
To me, the farce is laid perfectly bare by the fact that people pirate fonts. Fonts. Different fashions for the shapes of letters. Nobody can reasonably claim a right to Mrs. Eaves or Chaparral, or any kind of cultural deprivation for not being able to typeset their zines in Nueva or Myriad, but they're pirated just like everything else. They're so relentlessly pirated that it took well over a decade to get most "commercial" fonts on the web at all, and even today, using them is a mess, because we can't trust people not to pilfer them while writing comments about how they're striking a blow for open culture.

In the US, typeface design is largely not copyrightable, however the TrueType font format is, as it contains actual code within it. If a font is redistributed in a pure data format, or as an image specimen, then within the jurisdiction of the US, there is no legal protection unless one has a design patent.
I wondered about that, I chose queue as in "line up the jokes"
The original version where the content was served from Google's cache without any cryptographic verification but displayed as if it came from the original site was… misguided at best. It meant that you were trusting Google's servers to only cache the content and not modify it.

The new system adds verification that the content is exactly what was intended by the original site, despite being served through a cache, so the user agent is no longer lying about which website the user is visiting. Sure, the data was fetched from Google, but that's not the important part. It's been verified to have originated from the server shown in the address bar.
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The reason why they are successful is because they make it easy for someone to make money.

Look around you.. any platform that does this is also successful.

It’s not about censorship, Privacy, the ability to switch or “on the side of writers” etc.

They’ve made it easy for writers to collect money. Period.
How on earth is "analysis" a non-inclusive word? What if you're hiring someone to do some sort of analysis? Or, for job title that's literally "analyst"?

It's probably the case that a lazy researcher saw a fewer URM applicants for jobs with those words and assumed the causal factor was the word, rather than factors like education requirements or something else.
Okay, fine, if I take away that last bit, would you acknowledge my main point? If this is all just a natural evolution of language, why does it all come from american academic institutions and corporations?
There was a version for Google by the same developer, but it's no longer being updated.

https://github.com/jarun/googler
Apple said there are 20 million registered developers in 2018.

Now there must be more but $99 * 20 million is not nothing in annual revenue which is mostly profit.
Has anyone ever actually played a full game? And did it take ~20 years, as estimated by Winkie?
> They refuse to integrate with Apple TV’s “Watch Now”

They also refuse (or are unable) to add support on Apple TV for their interactive titles. I doubt anyone really cares, but it surprises me, and not in a good way, when I bump into it.
I’m curious as to when the forecast is from. We missed our expected q1 target by quite a margin as well because the market, and I mean any market, has been hit by the war and the inflation.
> Correct. We are able to continue developing Brave with the remaining 30%. In this arrangement, the user chooses whether or not to opt-in, governs the degree to which they will participate, receives more than 2x what Brave gets, and never has their data harvested in the process. Win-win, no?

Not really? There's no reason you should be entitled to that money. You're effectively doing nothing in this scenario: at least traditional ads actually support the content that is delivered on the site you access. Blocking ads isn't morally objectionable, but playing the role of the middleman and the tax collector certainly is. You can pretend like you deserve the compensation all you want, but from a technical level it's a pretty petty move that's ultimately designed to take advantage of the end-user and turn them into revenue-generating cattle. Yes, they get more money per ad, but they also don't have the benefit of scale. Individually, these users make what, no more than $3 a month from opting-in to ads? Meanwhile, Brave pockets hundreds of thousands. It doesn't add up.

> Regarding the Tom Scott topic, you're quite mistaken there as well. Please see this response (to another user in this thread) for context

So, I wasn't mistaken. Reading through that comment, you're basically admitting that you made a mistake, and had to rush out an update as damage control for a pretty obviously dark pattern. Case closed, don't treat me like a moron.

> Brave offers auto-conversion of received BAT into various other types of assets and currencies. If you prefer Bitcoin, for example, you can choose to have your BAT automatically converted into that asset. No requirement to hold BAT.

But you still need to hold crypto. That's not a refutation for the ERC-20 wallet point.

Ultimately, I think the Brave team is falling into the self-righteous Apple trap. Pretending like you always know what's best for your users and hiding behind a guise of privacy is pretty laughable, and it certainly doesn't make for good optics in the eyes of the greater FOSS and privacy community.
I really think the biggest issue is the massively inflated price tag. Regardless of where you land on the political spectrum, I believe we can all agree that a functioning society needs people who can build bridges as well as people who can design them. To design them you can't shortcut your way through calculus or physics, so you need to spend some time learning these topics so you can properly learn and apply things like stress analysis. Also not everyone can be a construction worker due to physical ability or just passion. We should all be free to pursue our happiness and contribute to society without unjust burden. Why should we have one less doctor simply because they were born to a family that couldn't afford schooling?
I think they are about intelligence, to some extent. All else being equal, I can assume a college grad even in a non-STEM field will be smarter than a high school grad.
You are not executing data. You are just wrapping it up in your binary and "force it" in memory. Video games used to this in the old times. I remember Deltaforce exe to be tens of megs. Is this a good approach ? Probably not for a bigger site, but it can theoretically work for a small blog that is mostly text. Is C the right language to do this ? It sure is a little bit masochistics to work with c strings.

In the end of the article I've told this should be taken lightly, as an exercise in minimalism and a joke.
You mean in that you can not play the Virtual Console on Wii anymore. (It does help to point out that they can choose to end the service whenever they want.)

It is still a point that the games which were made available on the Virtual Console could still simply be made available on Nintendo Switch Online. It seems to me that the Virtual Console for the Wii (in effect) became the emulators that were made available with Nintendo Switch Online.
There are some I like that are still on. But they’re getting cancelled because they’ve run long enough that either the creator is done or they’re not drawing necessary numbers and don’t get renewed.

But nothing new is replacing them. So over time Netflix is becoming irrelevant to me.

I’ve subscribed since early 2000s pretty much non-stop. But I’m about to pull the trigger.
You still "went to" a search engine within the last year, just using a non-visual document rendering user agent. DDG logs (if there are any) would still show you were there, just not with a typical browser.
It's possible you'd run into environment issues. JS or Python code (or a container) doesn't have to care as much what OS or architecture it's run on. A raw binary could pierce that abstraction and make the service more complicated to offer.
Your description is quite simplistic and your comparison is fallacious.

The correct spelling of words is defined and agreed upon and there is no moral judgement involved.

That is not the case with "inclusive language", yet by making these alternative suggestions Google is making a judgement that my word choice is wrong because it doesn't fit politically correct standards espoused and insisted upon by a vocal minority of society.

An editor used by millions should auto-correct spelling not decide what words are morally correct. It doesn't take much imagination to see where this is headed.

This is a slippery slope if there ever was one.
I understand that it might be a problem for browser target, but nodejs is pretty easy to target (at least I never had anyissue).

Also speaking of wild west, Deno did not even manage to have their TS be the same as everyone else, as apparently they do import with .ts file extension, while everyone else is using .js. I feel like this would be creating more mess than fixing anything...
> taking the number from your comment

From the article, fyi.

> slowing at a rapid pace because of increasing competition from Apple, Amazon, Disney and HBO.

I don't doubt that but I do suspect other services will see some slow down too as a result of general bullshit and uncertainty in the economy. It's never really just one thing.

Then again...yeah Disney+ is a really good deal. And Amazon's numbers are inflated from other Prime stuff. I'm just an old man yelling at a screen from his arm chair because I can't trust anyone.
As I got to work in bigger and bigger companies, I started realizing that people are more likely to respond to you when you are clear on the scope of your ask, and what you are looking for.

You get a lot more done if it's an up front wall-of-text, and you put some limits to what you are asking. Doubly so if you give them an out by saying, you'll take a reference for a more appropriate person for the ask (i.e. help me navigate the org with your tribal knowledge).
While I get what you're saying (and can even agree to some point), I would suggest consider that there are many different types of chats and business uses for chat.

Basically, a lot of people have to pay attention to chats, but until they get a full description of the problem, they don't know how much attention they need to pay. The cost of _not_ paying attention on a critical issue is far greater than that of paying attention/waiting on a non-critical issue.

To offer a point that does affect me multiple times daily, I work with a lot of technicians that basically help with systems monitoring. For any given message, it might be as simple as as "how can I find more about this process using memory?" or it can be quite critical like "the client infrastructure is completely unresponsive and we cannot get the system live again, help!"

Receiving dozens of such messages daily, it is stressful to get the "Hi" or "Can I ask a question" sort of message knowing that depending on the client/severity, this might need all of my attention now or it might be something I put off until the next week, but I won't know for at least 2-10 minutes (and sometimes even longer!)

Process ought control this, but with all chat platforms I know of, you can't really control for how people chat, they just "do". It's not punishment worthy, it's just annoying, like someone who smacks their lips when they eat.

Of course, this is my specific situation, and not everyone has the same problems, but I would expect that the author of the article and many others agreeing have the same issue I have, and that's why you see such reaction articles about chat etiquette.
I don't believe it's right or just, but I do believe it is what it is...Blame it on culture, biology, interest, or whatever. However, I doubt there is foul play here. As far as I can tell, the demographics are skewed here, the same way the NBA is. I wish there were more Black programmers, like I wish there were more Asian NBA players.