skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hey dang,
first of all, it is very brave of you to admit that HN has a elite group of users who can downweight (reorder) comments and thanks for confirming that my comment's position on the page was indeed manipulated by those outside forces

i'd like to ask couple questions:

- why aren't regular downvotes enough to moderate the conversation?

- what is the selection process for these users, do you make sure they are unbiased?

- do any users, who currently possess said abilities have any connection to YC or companies that YC have funded?

- do you review the comments these users are downweighting to make sure the act is legitimate?

- will you punish users who disregard the downweighting rules (such as the case here)?

you also admit that this thread should have been moderated less, as it is about YC-company

if so, then why haven't you still reversed the downweights on my comments to fix the rule-breaking behaviour of your shadow mods?
I'm not sure why you are downvoted, as everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I kind of agree with both sides, but the people suggesting train rides forget that the train doesn't stop in front of your house, and doesn't leave when you want it to. And taking an extra luggage with you is a pain. Owning a car gives you so much more freedom in your life that few people who can afford it willingly don't own one. For a few years I did try the rental model, but it was so much hassle that I couldn't bear it any longer. I'm usually on the go every other weekend.

I used to live in Greenwich, and while I had a bike for commuting, on the weekends the car was the only way to get OUT of the city within a reasonable amount of time and get back again. It was still a pain, as pretty much any journey started by getting to the M25 first, then driving on it to some extent, making the smallest journey a 30-40 minute minimum. It didn't help that South London is pretty much an impassable barrier by car (takes so much time that it's not worth it). And Greenwich even has the A2 and the (constantly clogged up) Blackwall Tunnel, so it is one of the better areas of London regarding car ownership.

On the other hand, I never understood why anyone would want to drive into the City, that really makes no sense, and I fully support the congestion charge.
> So in one sense it's a one-time drop, not a trend.

But it is a trend, they said to expect a 2 million subscriber loss in the following quarter.
Agreed, I never watch TV unless it's, weirdly enough, a social setting. My wife and I watch TV together all the time, we have shows that we like to enjoy together and talk about. My roommates and I would watch TV together all the time in college, and every now and then there will be a show that I'll go to my friends houses to watch (game of thrones). But now that I think about it, I don't think I've watched a TV show by myself in over 20 years.
Technically the Queen (the crown) owns all the land. In practice it doesn't make much difference, but it does kick in if a freehold suddenly has no owner.
All these services are going for the strategy of a couple big releases and hope people forget to cancel. But now with a dozen different services consumers are being forced to learn to swap in and out.

Once they swap into a good pirate solution, it'll be very hard to get them to swap out.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1

Money supply should be around 5 trillion but it's above 20 trillion. That is 400% inflation if they don't do something about it. Raising rates does not do something about it.

It seems increasingly realistic they aren't going to be doing something about it. Hell, where did this 15 trillion go?

Ultimately who will pay for this? Not workers. Workers can jump to new jobs for big raises and keep ahead of the inflation wave.

It's not anyone who has big debt, you benefit with high inflation against debt.

So really it's anyone who has their wealth stuck in the currency or currency equivalents like bonds. Retirees are who get to pay. Some retirement funds are heading into housing to try to insulate against inflation and negative real yields on the bonds. In so doing creating a bubble.

In the near future the retirement funds wont be solvent and no worries there. Obama made the rule change in that retirement funds that aren't solvent can reduce benefits.

A ton of retirees will be returning to the work force and they wont be qualified for the jobs they hope for. They will be working a mcjob.
Cash? Or virtual stock exchange value?
The word here is "could"... It can and has been used for outcomes that hasn't favored the users interests. And that is in my view a worse outcome than status quo.
The naming of TypeScript Union and Intersection types, with respects to type theory, used to be terribly confusing/contradictory:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/unions-and-inte...

See last paragram under «Unions with common fields»

Leading to terribly confusing TypeScript cheat sheets such as this (see the union and intersection venn-diagrams):

https://carltheperson.com/images/magic-typescript/magic-type...

Compare with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_(set_theory)

Luckily TypeScript recently updated their docs, and the issue has been clarified in posts such as this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38855908/naming-of-types...

Turns out, naming things is really hard, because what you implicitly refer to when you unionize or intersect turns out to be of vital importance.
> SEH runtime

Note that in Microsoft compiler land there are two kinds of exception, regular C++ ones and "structured exception handling". https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/try-except-statemen...

The latter does exception unwinding in the kernel on runtime faults (segv, division by zero, etc). It does _not_ unwind destructors or deallocate storage. And yes, I know about this because I had to debug it, on WinCE ARM, where we eventually discovered that there were two different MS compilers, one of which generated code that could be unwound and one of which didn't.
Yeah, I got sick of trading cash back and forth with people. It started to seem pointless.

Plus, I have young kids who love birthdays/Christmas and the excitement of watching them watch someone else open a gift is WAY less if it's just an envelope with cash or a gift card! Lol
I mean, it is against the terms of use. With that being said, you also pay for a certain number of "screens" so it seems like the terms would enforce themselves.

Netflix is old enough now that a lot of subscribers now have children that are in college or have graduated. My daughter is in college, and she definitely uses my netflix credentials. At what point does Netflix feel it is required for her to have her own subscription?
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Sounds like the premise is flawed. He's assuming kids are good at getting another 10 minutes before bedtime. All of them? What about those who fail? Those that don't even try?

The issue is not the way our brains generalize, but that you are using just one brain, one life's experience.
I don't think that contradicts your parent comment's theory
Communications in Remote Teams
> Instead of producing two mediocre shows and an algorithmically designed movie every single week

I'm actually kinda torn about that statement. While i usually prefer shows by other studios for quality, i've watched some Netflix Originals that were rather good, and especially some "foreign language" ones that i would most likely never have watched otherwise.

Most of the Netflix Originals are not huge budget productions, but especially their foreign stuff sometimes proves that less is more. They tell interesting stories in "good enough" settings for them to be enjoyable.
What actually happened is that Netflix is one of relatively few companies who have put out honest assessments in a time of severe economic stress. Also their competition has been growing for years. That's it.

People are so used to having smoke blown up their asses that when someone tells them honestly about slightly negative news, they get confused.
What if Netflix had a "family" plan for say $15 - $20 a month?
There are a lot of people for whom gift receiving is a love language and cash or cash equivalents do not meet that need (either romantically or in a close-friends relationship).
My idiot namesake signed up for his unemployment benefits with my email address. The unemployment agency in his state won’t let me change it or contact the person by mail to have them fix it.

He also is down for _any_ sweepstakes and has dubious dating preferences. He’s out there wondering why he never wins anything and no one swipes on his profile.
I haven't "watched television" in over 20 years. At the same time, the internet (YouTube to a large degree) has crept in to steal away my time.

I am thankful though that YouTube sucked so bad for so long because I spent a lot of time with my kids when they were young, reading to them, biking with them, taking them on road trips. Cutting the cord was the idea when my first daughter was born - to have the kids grow up without television (we would put on over-the-air PBS kid's shows when they were young but it was pretty much only hotels stays when they would see Sponge Bob or whatever, ha ha).
> + HPPA's upwards-growing stack

To be honest, I never really understood why more architectures don't have upwards-growing stacks. Visually, one adds things to the top of a stack, after all, so it makes sense to increment the stack pointer. I suppose it's a relic of the old days when folks just set the start of the stack to some remote part of memory and hoped it never grew down into the code or the heap?

> + these days, being big-endian is spending weirdness budget

Hard disagree, big-endian is right and little-endian is wrong. At least, unless you think this year is 2202. I don't know how Intel got this so badly incorrect.

And remember that network byte order is big-endian. Any protocol which emits little-endian bytes on the wire is broken by design.
Show HN: Bash script to find unused AMIs
Homo sapiens is 300k yo
FYI. Not taking any investment's for the time being. I want to help people. Not harm
Could be a new focus for paulgb 's unarbitrate.org - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207151 (2017)
I mean, consumer email providers don't allow this, but it's pretty table stakes from bring your own domain providers (Google Apps, Fastmail, Microsoft).
Those are both sgml (as opposed to xml) things. Neither validates.
It sounds like we agree then It's not the end of the world.
If you know what the whole point of the essay is 20% in--given your predilection for just getting to the point--should it not just end? This was one of the best articles I have read recently, and I honestly wish it had been longer... which means it served what it probably was actually intended to do: not communicate some point but serve as an advertisement for the author's book, the point of which I'd prefer not be spoiled by the trailer ;P.
Though, it potentially takes billions of years to do so. Not that great for human planning.
Licenses do not supersede laws.

If you build a software and because of a bug it breaks something, that is fine. If you deliberately change a library to make any software running it crash and you know it is used among other things by software that control nuclear plants or elevators, my guess is it will probably considered a crime in most juridictions. This regardless of the fact said software makers should test their changes.
Normally AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS will take care of recompiling plans if statistics changing significantly.

I usually have the opposite problem with a good plan changing to a bad one due to statistics changing at some random time in production, which seems to be a common problem in PG as well and why everyone want hints.

I prefer hinting for critical problematic queries that tend to have unstable plans due to statistics changes, but you can also lock a plan in SQL server to force a specific plan, another useful feature to prevent production db instability.
> Basically it seems like the new developer just wanted to pad his resume, so he picked up a project that was otherwise abandoned and started re-designing and re-implementing things so he could brag about it. The changes don't really fix any problem that anyone had, and improvements are none since the new releases are mostly about removing features and re-writing code.

I rather be more generous and apply Hanlon’s Razor. The new dev probably does see it as an improvement because it follows some more popular UI trends.
> What has gone wrong with our world that making a 6 billion dollar a year profit is considered a problem?

It is not considered a problem by anyone other than those who were invested in Netflix equity and expected it to be at a higher price.
What utopian world does a security researcher live in where spam calls and spoofed numbers don't exist on a daily basis?
Netflix always had a terrible business model dependent on transient properties of the media environment. I thought from the beginning they were not masters of their own fate (remember Redbox's hack to get around publisher restrictions? Weird streaming windows even from the streaming era's earliest days?) and once they started spending the big bucks to try and stay afloat it was clear they were doomed. They were only in "FAANG" to make the acronym funny.

I expect the entire streaming business to follow the cable TV model: 1 - start with a paid, high quality and/or increased supply without ads; 2 - bleed ads into some of the streams because the first stage was unsustainable; 3 - race to the bottom with bundles, because the individual streams are too expensive. Expect Comcast to be the big winner here through a roll up and cross-sale of carriage to their cable channels into streaming bundles (because aggregated bundle fees will provide at least some revenue without the cost of running your own streaming platform.

Youtube ought to win this battle but have to date demonstrated little competence. Comcast is the superpredator.
> Basic financial data we got from paid APIs

Which API's, someone noticed an issue with the data above. So can we really trust the data?
That's the joke. People and corporations streaming HD video use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth which require more hardware capacity and peering deals. I think it's not crazy to ask that they pay a fair price for it. As someone who doesn't stream HD video I would like to have cheaper connections available if I don't want to pay for the bandwidth usage of other customers.
Pretty handy to own the governing body.
OK - well I gave it a try.

I want to see the cost of the gift on the image - even if it's not guaranteed to be exactly correct when I click through. I just need to know this item is $20, $200 or $2000. For me this is critical.

The one thing that caught my eye as a possible gift was out of stock when I clicked through. It would be better to avoid showing it in the first place - although I appreciate that's not an easy problem to solve.

I might actually use this app. Nice.
Talking about carrots for motorists is just privilege bias. We are where we are because of many policy decisions, many of which came with a particular world view, including the idea that motorists should have more infrastructure investment to support them. If you come at it from the perspective of active transport, removing cars _is_ the goal. Further to that, fewer cars means public transport becomes much better. We have to get into the virtuous circle where fewer cars begets more active transport and public transport which begets fewer cars.

All non-toll roads are loss making, let's not pretend that cars are free. That's even before we get into a discussion about the negative externalities of driving.

The Cambridge GCP (essentially a talking shop with a remit to deliver new infrastructure, but prefers to deliver reports instead) commissioned proposals on a "metro". One of those proposals had loads of small self guided pods. Superficially they seemed like a great idea until you looked at the flow rate required to have them deliver the people required, and suddenly you have the the road congested with pods (or, if you will, cars).

Ultimately, you need a policy that is consistent with geometry: https://thewaroncars.org/transcript-episode-79-the-end-of-ub...
the moment earnings dropped, yes. by now its just people getting stopped out, cutting losses, shorts and put buyers piling on. there is that idea of a death spiral where Netflix has to spend even more on content and licensing again while raising prices for users and pissing users off more, but that model was resilient for cable - although cable does not command such revenue multiples from traders.

I can see the business being fine, definitely watching for lower prices. netflix has always been a fun casino, super leveraged rocket.
Sounds like it might appeal to what people think they'd like. Kind of like basic phones or Linux phones sound fun in principle and many people might declare they'd want one, but they might not be willing to spend money on one. Similar here, it appeals to the fantasy of a low tech game console which doesn't buy into the latest fads and doesn't shove microtransactions your way like a smartphone would.
Suggesting yet another rule to eliminate some undesired behavior makes me think you are running into a Gödel's incompleteness but in law. We should instead cut the Gordian Knot and try to resolve these issues in a different manner.
Agreed. There's definitely space to spread some blame and criticism around, I suppose. And there are plenty of old Java decisions that open the door for these issues.
> I don't think your interpreting the sentence correctly

And I think you are injecting the words "only", "there are" and "everything" here and there just to change the meaning of the sentences I quoted and I have written...
My belief is that when I am 85 and barely functioning physically, I will have ample time to catch up on the "good content".

I hear The Wire is/was a good show. We'll see....
Alienware’s 2022 gaming laptops are going big on AMD
Yeah, when you just want to add a checkpoint WIP commit its annoying. Hate having to fight with that. But it prevents people form submitting a PR and then just having CI fail anyways. I could see it being nice to only enforce on CI though. Sucks seeing those red builds because someone didn't run something manually.
The simpler way to obtain C from Rust would be to use mrustc https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

Not that the C will be much more readable than the dissassembly, but there's a chance less information will be lost.
Not GP, but because they aren’t marketed as servers and don’t have features you’d commonly expect in a server. Video and audio production heavily uses rack mount gear and so having a rack mounted version of a Mac Pro makes perfect sense.
Nothing is perfectly memory-safe. Also, not sure I would see the point of this translation?
What has gone wrong with our world that making a 6 billion dollar a year profit is considered a problem?

Because it is a problem.

Firstly, it's a problem because stock prices are a measure of predicted future value. The profit today is mostly irrelevant. In order to make a profit on shares the business has to be in a position to do better in the future. If it doesn't then people won't believe it'll do better even farther in to the future, so they won't bid more for the shares than they're worth today. That means investors can't make a profit. If you bought Netflix shares in the past you'll lose money. That's a problem.

Secondly, and in my opinion more importantly, Netflix (and every other tech unicorn) use their shares as a hiring incentive. If the shares are going the wrong way then good hires will refuse offers and go elsewhere. A big chunk of renumeration in tech is predicated on people getting stock instead of cash because that's worth more to the individual and cheaper for the business. If that fails then the business has to start dipping in to that $6bn profit to replace people who leave, or to acquire businesses, or just to maintain the status quo.

It isn't hard to imagine a scenario where a $6bn profit turns into a loss within a decade or less. The driving force behind people saying Netflix has a problem is that they're predicting that the future of the company isn't good.

I mean, they might be wrong and Netflix might be fine, and ultimately even if things go badly Netflix is never going to "fail" because it'll get bought long before that happens, but if you hold Netflix stock it's entirely reasonable to be worried despite the healthy profit they make.
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Coalton comes to mind: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton

It adds static typing to Common Lisp, while (I believe) still allowing one to escape to the dynamic world when needed. Sure, there are statically-typed languages, but I don't know of another dynamic language in which something like Coalton has been done.
Got anything for folks with app fatigue? I don't use a smartphone.
Exactly. Another related and very relevant economic concept is elasticity of demand [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
I am at a FAANG and feel exactly the same: constant meetings (20+ hours a week), insane bike shedding, code reviews cycles that take a huge amount of time, …

I don’t know what my next move will be, but I likely won’t last too long here.

I dream of running my own saas where I completely run the show by myself (support, development, marketing) and make decent middle class income from it but I don’t think I’m good enough.
The thing I find interesting with Netflix is how much they spend on content and what a terrible rate of return it has. Look at Apple TV+, they're absolutely TINY compared to Netflix in both library size and money spent on new production, but they have arguably more hits than Netflix. Like, since when has any drama on Netflix been as buzzy or as good as Severance on Apple TV+? When was the last time they had a comedy success like Ted Lasso?

They have a couple of things that are very good (including Russian Doll, which is better than the article gives it credit for). But it's the ratio the that's troubling: the value of [good shows] / [shows produced] is absurdly much lower for Netflix than for Apple TV+, HBO Max or Disney+. All their spending seems to result in is endless mediocre True Crime documentaries that try recapture the magic of the first season of Making a Murderer, and the occasional golden nugget you binge in a weekend.

The article makes a big deal of the binging thing, and I agree it's a terrible model compared to weekly releases. But I feel like Netflix's real problem is that they just don't make enough good stuff.
I use many aliases, few dedicated like amzxxx @ mydomain.tld where xxx is used as a variable part of the alias, the first for me to immediately identify the address target, few catchalls like tmpalXXX used when I need to quickly drop a valid mail but have no time/will to create a proper alias on the spot, few dedicated to nl/ml stuff etc

Results so far, I just seen a spam mail from an eBay vendor, not one who I bough something from so I suppose eBay give the address, one from an Amazon Marketplace vendor from who I bough something from, few from few supermarkets that have asked for a mail for the fidelity card. I do not active monitor my SPAM folder so those are just messages who defeat my antispam, can't really tell reliable stats about all spam.

So far the overall arch works, in the sense that I do have a bunch of temporary address of "quick" usages (for instance on the go) and not much stress creating and deleting aliases but using mobile crap and very little number of services compared to the mean of people I know it's hard to say if it work or not. Surely works well for easy sorting messages (autorefile via MailDrop), and that's a good thing for me anyway.
> Instruction sequences that fuse are standardized

They are? Care to point to a ratified RISC-V standard that lists said instruction sequences?
Good luck filling out all the SARs. I shudder to think of the volume