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I'm an IC-turned-manager. There are definitely some bad managers out there, but generally managers aren't that different than ICs in terms of motivation. We all just want to get our jobs done and do good work as a team.

> We individual contributors may not think about this much, but the absolute thrill of being above others in the hierarchy only reaches its fullness when the employees get out of the damn pajamas and into the open offices. Please pick me up a coffee while you are at it.

This is a wildly cynical take. If you're dealing with managers like this, you're not in a normal tech office environment. Every decent tech company I've ever worked with has put a lot of pressure on managers to treat employees well. Retention is a huge issue, especially in this market, and managers actually spend a lot of time trying to cater to their IC's wishes rather than jerking them around.

Any tech manager who acts like you describe will steadily fail out of tech companies due to employee attrition.
This is a perfect example of how you can "easily find a solution that's better" when you are only looking at one aspect of the problem, and outsiders often don't have full insight into the varying factors.

Disruption is still possible, but it's not as easy as you might think.

Perhaps it's kind of a corollary to Chesterton's Fence; if everyone in an industry is doing something in a certain way, perhaps there's a reason you don't see.
You know you can use type aliases, right?
Agreed! This is one of the biggest changes that Netflix did to its UX to help users understand why they were seeing certain recommendations. I'd need to look up the source, but iirc it dramatically increased user perception of it's recommendation system.
There are also tons of benefits to just walking out of the grocery store without paying. No queues, no small talk with the checkout person and you save cash too.
> What do you think?

I think so too. This is what I vented on Twitter a few weeks ago (pardon the tone -- in my defense, I don't have many followers): "You keep hearing about the hybrid model, but that is just corporate speak to lure you back into office. It is just a matter of time before they declare that they tried hybrid and it did not work, so it's going to be office only from now on."

https://twitter.com/tapanjk/status/1510491733640896515
If there is anyone I wouldn’t feel bad stealing from, the US entertainment industry would not be far behind.

Remember that whole Cuties debacle where Netflix sexed up a French coming-of-age about children ?
What you are describing is essentially a "frequency chain" which was historically used for measuring the frequency of laser light. The idea is to start with a cesium atomic clock which (by definition) has a frequency of 9 192 631 770 Hz. The frequency of the signal is then multiplied up using some non-linearity, and a phase locked loop is used to stabilize the output of a higher-frequency oscillator to the up-multiplied signal. This is repeated in multiple steps, until optical frequencies are reached. The laser frequency is then an exact multiple of the frequency of the atomic clock. This technique was for example used for the "last measurement" of the speed of light [1]. Later, the speed of light was defined to be exactly 299 792 458 m/s, so it is no longer possible to measure it (all lengths are now defined with respect to the speed of light and the frequency of a cesium clock).

Frequency chains were monstrously complex experiments, since they contained all kinds of different oscillators in a wide range of frequencies that were linked with phase locked loops. Only a few were ever build, mainly by national metrology labs. The technique was made completely obsolete in 1999 when the optical frequency comb was invented. Frequency combs are lasers that directly link optical frequencies to radio frequencies without requiring intermediate steps. In 2005, Hall and Hänsch shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention [2].

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.29...
[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2005/prize-announc...
The reporter knows that a long chant repeating the word fuck makes an interview unairable unless they have some semblance of cover. It's literally their job to produce raw footage that can be aired. 'Not hearing' the profanity has absolutely worked before for getting out of fines. The FCC is a giant bureaucracy and can be sort of hacked that way if there's regulatory 'case law' like there exists for this situation.

I agree it's not full proof, which is why I think the production staff if anything went out of their way to broadcast "fuck joe biden", contrary to the discourse on the matter.
All the problems the author seems to have seem to be problems of "false expectations" rather than type hints lacking value per se.

In which case, I fully declare, publicly, that I am very disappointed with numpy, because it doesnt have good coffee making facilities out of the box.
At my last job, productivity took a huge hit when everyone went WFH, and everything seemed to slow to a crawl. The funny thing was, it was obvious as an IC, but management kept saying "Nope, things are moving as normal!"

The team I was on needed a serious adjustment period because we worked with every other team in the company (1000+ employees). The synergy that existed in the office and allowed our team to be a force multiplier was drained almost immediately.

Ultimately, I had to leave because the pace and variety of work was suffering and not getting better. The culture was also on its last legs from psychologically torturing folks for 2 years.
You are stealing my content by viewing this.
In the 1990s some homes would have several screens of cable TV, so several people in the same home could watch different things at the same time. Parents with teenage children, for example. Because of the physical cables it only worked in one home - when the kids moved out, they had to pay for their own cable or go without.

Netflix presumably hopes to achieve the same thing: Letting kids share their parents' accounts before they leave home, but not after.
I don’t think these are fair comparisons.

A ride requires a vehicle, a driver, fuel, etc. You can’t freely copy a vehicle, a person’s time, or the fuel required to power the vehicle.

A theater requires electricity, seating, space for seating, an audio and video system, etc. These are also things that you can’t freely copy.
Why is that 'cheating', who is being cheated out of what?
I wholeheartedly agree about it not being unique to CNN. However, I don't think there's anything odd or misplaced about focusing on CNN, since the entire context is very specifically that of CNN+. I've seen many a similar comment here on HN about the toxicity of Fox News (which is just as bad) that made no mention of other new services like CNN and MSNBC. Your political leaning might influence which batch of toxicity you describe more, but they're all a part of the same putrid stew.
Call it digital trespassing then. Semantics.
Flip this around: if a crisis suddenly demanded that we stop using our computers and go back to using paper, there'd be a lot of software developers and tech companies agitating a return to computers when the crisis abated. And there are pluses to having people together in an office, as well as minuses. Google famously built its office to facilitate idea exchange like a university campus, for instance.
There were a few years were I literally stopped all torrenting. Netflix and Amazon had everything I wanted. Sure, there were a few things that didn't exist, but I was too lazy to go after that minor amount of content. I was fully legal and paying for everything. I was fine with it.

Then, the great splintering happened. I currently pay for 5 services, but that doesn't cover even 1/2 of what I want to watch.

All the content owners said to themselves "we can be Netflix or Amazon Prime, too" and they pulled their content into their own services.

But the biggest problem: the user experience absolutely sucks now. It's so hard to find stuff and remember where things are, there's no universal search. I have to use justwatch.com on my phone when I want to sit down to watch something new, which might mean a trip to the computer to download it if one of the many services I already pay for don't have it.
It doesn't matter how you rationalise it. Someone created content with the intention of it being consumed for a fee. You downloaded it, likely from someone who illegally copied/reproduced it.

Maybe I didn't "steal", but I contributed to criminal activity.

Sure, copyright laws can seem absurd, but if you disagree with the laws, consider the ethics.

How would you feel if you have a business, I steal from you, and then go give random people your content? This especially when it starts to drive into your revenues.

"Only digital copy" is disingenuous. If the cost of producing the digital copy is say $40mm (an amount article says some Netflix movies can cost).

They're making copies from a digital copy, and their business is to sell access to them. If their model is "we'll replicate this copy 500 million times, and charge users $0.10 a view", every 10 copies viewed elsewhere is $1 lost.

Should a service raise the fee to say $0.12 to better cover costs?

Ultimately, theft is often subsidised by paying customers.

I'm also guilty of this. I download torrents where:

* I can't buy something because it's not available due to region restrictions, and I can't buy it via VPN (looking at Disney+)

* I can't buy it anywhere altogether.

Where I used to download maybe 50 torrents a year a decade ago, I probably do it <5 times a year now. It's stealing, or consuming stolen content.

The pricing strategies of big corp is a separate accessibility issue.
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> It's fairly common for us to start watching a series and the next day Netflix will show us as having already watched all of the episodes

Wildly off-topic but perhaps you’re turning off a TV without the streaming device itself shutting down?
This is both a very fun letter and a great introduction to how something that is “obvious” to the non-practitioner (“A square ratio can obviously uses less material so is obviously better!”) can be totally wrong.

So the next time you see an article on hacker news where the solution to some problem seems overly complicated, and you want to say, “Why not just do X?” Think about the ratio between height and width of a cat food can and evaluate whether you might be missing something.
Linq in c# fixes that.
Reminds me of the saying: In theory, theory and practice are the same.
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It actually does but you need a requisite amount of points, karma, whatever it is called here first.
> We star because we like the code, the idea, the execution and the maybe the impact of the project. And it's encouragement. You star a project you pushing it forward. This is the human experience. We are not machines worshiping code. We care about what others think and this is why github is different.

I use stars as bookmarks, no more than that.
Another opportunity to discover the difference between exponential and logistic growth.
It's very real. I have friends in the industry working on a Netflix series, and the amount of political correctness being forced on them from the Netflix side is insane.
I cannot give a specific example due to exposing which show this may be on, but if the stories I hear or true, the Netflix staff must do a lot of Yoga cause the stuff they force to change is a stretch.
The artists I know on the show went from being excited, to just there for a paycheck after certain fruits were deemed racist around black characters (not watermelons), and a LGBT plotline was forced into a childrens show just because.
This is designed to shift the overton window. I'm not sure who benefits from it or why it's being rammed through though.
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> After trying 2-3 distros

This is the wrong way. Try hardware designed for Linux instead of a Windows-certified one. Ideally, with preinstalled Linux. Look, the Linux community can't develop drivers for all hardware in the world for free, especially when it has no documentation whatsoever.

> I lacked the ability to set up Linux in accordance with my desires without hours of googling and frustration

This is so fuzzy, I can easily say the same for Windows or MacOS. Depending on you needs, hours of googling might even be very reasonable.
This exactly. Across a LOT of their anime, crime drama espcially (in my limited view, probably applies to other genres as well), I feel they have this minor variation on a theme, sort of algorithmically built, almost. Everytime i watch some new series i get this "wait a minute..." feeling. I occasionally find new stuff to watch that is interesting (of late, noir crime drama shows on Prime) but those also have the same ingredients. A lot of those are not prime original anyway. That original content seems rare.
Those are software solutions. You can't physically feel them. The tactility, precision, and control of a crank can't be matched by something that doesn't spin on one axis.

Also it's more fun...
Interesting idea, but I think this is too short (and page transitions take longer than reading of each page). BTW, on p5: s/who’s/whose/ in "who’s room is this".
If anyone is interested, I am attempting to revive an open source clone of Datomic called EVA.

As is the original codebase works fine, its just unmaintained. My hope is to clean up the code, make an HTTP layer for a remote peer, and make a Rust embedded peer so that this sort of Database can finally escape the JVM.

https://github.com/bowbahdoe/eva

If you want to use something open source today that has the same query language but a different data model, https://xtdb.com/ is high quality.
I think communication is a different subject. I have no problem with true flexibility where people are free to meet in person when it makes sense.

I think the original comment is around owning the employee's time, which is most effected when you have some ownership of their physical presence.

For example, we often have mandatory company wide meetings where the subject is only of interest to 5% of people but yet everyone is forced to be present and attentive for the entire period, adding another level of forced fakery to our daily lives.
I actually want to search for "action series with female leads" but I have no idea how to do it with Netflix nor does Netflix carry most of them. Instead, I "search" on Reddit and pirate them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ifyoulikeblank/comments/rdpmp9/tv_i...
Even more hardcore is how the Buddhists do it:

Maraṇasati (mindfulness of death, death awareness) is a Buddhist meditation practice of remembering that death can strike at anytime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%E1%B9%87asati
I imagine his exactly the sort of thing the author was hoping would be improved. But the existence of an experimental, largely unsupported API doesn’t really solve the problem though, does it?

https://caniuse.com/?search=Houdini

Listen — I’m not really sure what your problem is and I don’t really care. I have no interest in “winning” a conversation. If you’re just going to push goal posts in different directions to try and find some way you feel righter than me despite my having done nothing besides making several specific, one-sentence, topical points, then I yield the remainder of my time for you to go ahead and do that by yourself.
> The older generation

I'm genuinely curious as to what you consider is "The older generation".
Same here, much better selection on DVD / BluRay than their streaming.
For someone that (in theory) doesn't care about turning a profit, he really loves to put content behind a pay-wall.
I can get that most decent sized towns in my state. I think you’re vastly overestimating the problem. It has to do with corrupt politicians in several corrupt states.

See AT&T fiber options

https://www.att.com/internet/fiber/coverage-map/

Where I currently live and where I lived previously I’ve had multiple cheap options. The issue has to do with regulation
So, your desire to have in person human interaction trumps my desire to stay home because like you say, you control the working conditions. What kind of shit is that?
The server knows the plaintext password in order to hash it, salt it, and compare it. How else would it do that
yes, we definitely don't have any say on the matter at all.
`- there is too much political agenda sold even in children shows (Kids really dont need this kind of crap)`

This is what pushing me over the edge. I have both Netflix and Amazon prime subscriptions. I have thought several times to drop one. The only reason I still have Netflix is because my wife and kids watch their shows. But I have had a hard time finding good shows because everything is political, and I hate when the trailer deceives me and they just inject pure political propaganda in the middle of the show.

Suddenly I found myself reading about Synology NAS and how to set up Plex on it. I am very close to buy a Synology NAS, and to boot I can get host my own VPN server, seems like a good idea.
Plaid is not a bank. Standard Treasury comes to mind and I forget the names of the other wannabe banks.
Effort of buying legally < effort of downloading illegally

Netflix did it (once upon a time. no, not the movie). I don't really care for reasons why this is hard for the industry or really anything else. As long as it doesn't economically make sense for me to give money to someone (doesn't reduce my own effort/time expenditure or provide something I can't have otherwise), I will not give money to someone. Morals be damned.
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I don't think a large company can unilaterally "hire the right people" to make hybrid work in all groups and departments.

That was why Intel and Yahoo made work for home only on a case-by-case basis.
I wouldn't bet on C-levels respecting reality if it gets in the way of their plans. Mine recently decided that 700+ people could share <200 desks on the same days in a building that can legally hold ~500.
Tangentially related, but all you need is Pachelbel's Canon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxC1fPE1QEE

(Yes, it's a youtube video, and I hate videos, but this one is worth it)
Azov are indeed all Nazis, but not all Ukrainians are Azov. You clearly know nothing about Azov.
If the drive to get people in the office is top-down, then I'd be suspicious. But if people are actually asking for it because some parts of the job are easier or just more enjoyable in person, then it might not lead to going back to the office full time.
Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations
Looking for one to add to the app now. lol
Which can also be sent in the URL like: https://username:password@example.com

But this is of course even worse because most servers log this. Headers are not often logged.
“Your browser is not wide enough to properly render MaxDatom”

Okay.
@toyg so true, they were 'young', fresh and growing in credibility in that era compared to the crusty old network free terrestrial TV news anchor shows.
They sold shock and awe really well for the MiC.
https://youtu.be/oPNHYi0x2Mk
Oh, are we doing argument by dictionary now? Here's another one then:

Take verb

1: remove (someone or something) from a particular place.

Piracy doesn't remove something from a particular place, so it is not taking, so it is not stealing. You know, "according to the dictionary"

(My point here is to show that quoting dictionary definitions to resolve technicalities is a worthless argument. I don't actually care whether or not piracy is classified as theft)
The applications they use rely on some backend like Twilio. The STOP goes to the campaign's system.

> I get very little of it from Republicans but lots of it from Democrats.

Have you donated money to Republicans? How about Democrats? What are you registered as? What have you been registered as before?
You’ve posted when the thread is brand new, so I’m sure if you wait a little longer you’ll get the anti-crypto sentiment you seek. That said, paying out USDC is probably the least offensive way to work in crypto and has little room for concern — USDC is mostly dumb rather than problematic.
Or, it really was that bad and flopped so hard out of the gate that it was better to cut the losses.
> algorithmically designed movie

Still more original than the next MCU movie.
The only think that keeps me subscribed is my partners addiction to Asian dramas (K-dramas, J-dramas, C-dramas, etc). Yes, we also have several other dedicated Asian Drama streaming services, but Netflix has some exclusives.
On a quick search, for example https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-013-9289-1. "This paper describes an experiment that tests whether static type systems improve the maintainability of software systems, in terms of understanding undocumented code, fixing type errors, and fixing semantic errors. The results show rigorous empirical evidence that static types are indeed beneficial to these activities, except when fixing semantic errors." is pretty much as strongly worded as scientific journals can accept.
> but it leverages one unique design choice Lisp made in that you have access to the language's compiler at runtime, it's not a fenced-off separate program only used to create a runtime executable.

This is best understood as having no phase separation between compile time and run time. Effectively, languages that are so designed do everything at compile time, up to and including running the actual program.

Though sometimes they can practically recover the phase separation by "extracting" a program that can be compiled in a single step and ran as a conventional binary. For example, a LISP program for doing math may support "extracting" a custom function evaluator or numerical-symbolic solver written in FORTRAN.
Then they would replace the content but not the system. If you like the content pirate it. They may add more drm like music companies or they may reduce prices or they may make streaming easier.

Ignoring it sends a different message.
> because of the pre-installed desktop

You can install any Linux distro on a Librem laptop. Alternatively, there is System76.
“Cities I’ve lived in” is the issue.

Cities tend to have a fairly high level of corruption AND it’s expensive to put in new wires / fiber. Most suburbs I’ve lived in (3-4 in the past 10 years) have had very good internet, cheap and like I said you can get some beastly fiber now.
Google search does a pretty decent job of surfacing where something is streaming
Yeah I was probably being too specific to my development role where we have managed (in fact company has grown in revenue) despite all communication being via slack or teams.

I know there are cases where in person communication makes sense, but it should not be mandatory for all. This is why I say hybrid is a ruse because it applies to all and not just "flexible" for those who may need or prefer it.
Do you take issue with the market maker business model?
What will be interesting to see is when/if they roll this back. Historically significant announcements like this from large corps are more of a PR play than anything else.

Even Elon/Tesla backed away from crypto less than three months after announcement. They've been (allegedly) looking at it again for almost a year now but given no additional announcement of progress that announcement was quite possibly just another PR move.
You may also be interested in this wiki page: <https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace/wiki/Supported-pla...>

Intel PT has a bunch of rough edges that we've tried to paper over in magic-trace, but the gritty caveats are documented in the wiki.
The magic of PR's :)
What a terrible article. It's literally just full of guesses and conjecture about numbers based on the author's personal prejudices.