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>Furthermore, cracking down on password sharing is reason enough to cancel - it shouldn't matter what I do with my account as long as I'm paying.

this applies to literally no service you have ever used. doesn't apply to steam. doesn't apply to microsoft office. doesn't apply to photoshop. why should it apply to netflix?

using your logic we might as well just have 1 account and share it with every single person on the planet.

the only reason that netflix is getting flack for it is because they were super lax with it for such a long time and now everyone feels entitled to it for some insane reason.
Microsoft implicitly allowed pirating Windows for over a decade, and for the same reason. Eventually they switched to an activation model when there was no growth left, just squeezing more out of the same userbase.

This is not a new trick.
Ouch. Thanks for informing me the person who coined that phrase was an asshole.
When I was growing up, the local burgerking had an amazing playground. It was a three story monster where the way up was by going into a cylindrical tube, fully metal, with a ladder in it. Once you get in, you are going up. Once up, the way to get down was to pray-and-lean to get a firestation style pole to the ground, or you had to jump to reach it.

Kid got killed on it, so the local place took metal and sealed off the entrance. Some kids tried to climb the fire poles up and got hurt, so they had to demolish it.

I keep trying to find photographs of it to show my wife / kiddo, but it seems noone took pics. Or, at least, it was never posted online. I'd like to find out how much of my memory is real, and how much of it was because I was a tiny kid.
The supply chain logistics which let asparagus importers get stock from Peru in the off season are the same ones which means they can't just ring up on a whim and ask for some more, in the "on" season. Australian Quarantine and Customs Inspection service is pretty strong on vegitative matter, especially live vegitative matter: You need a LOT of paperwork, to be able to bring fresh produce into Australia.

And this local supply disaster noted, we kinda like it that way.
MD5 is still strong to preimage attacks although you can generate collisions in seconds now. Thought experiment: What if Git had used MD5?

The news has been proclaimed loudly and often: the SHA-1 hash algorithm is terminally broken and should not be used in any situation where security matters.

There are organizations where SHA-1 is blanket banned across the board - regardless of its use

I think it's about time people understood the different types of attacks and what they mean for various uses of hash functions instead of blindly cargo-culting as the security (aka paranoia) industry seems to want to do. Then again, the people in those same organizations who promote this sort of anti-thinking would probably suddenly not care if you just renamed all occurrences of "SHA1" in everything they see to something else, because they are such incompetent idiots anyway --- true stories from experience...
Yes, nobody said one way or another. I chose to shine a light on the algorithm. What’s your point?
Watch Black Mirror, you can pinpoint the exact moment that some suit at netflix gained creative control of that show and ran it into the gutter. It wasn't enough to have a show critiquing the existing techno dystopian world we live in, they actually had to make it real by throwing in some techno dystopian propaganda in there too.

There was also this terrible show that got instantly cancelled called Sense 8. The first scene of that show was this absurd sex scene where a woman was having sex with a trans-woman using a dildo and the dildo flops onto the ground and is soaked in some disgusting fluid.

Netflix jumped the shark.
TIL... I just thought "woke" was this generations "cool" or "awesome" and was feeling old.
It might sound trite, but we got "big disk", "big memory", "big cpu" and "big gpu" instead.

It's crazy how much you can do with one machine these days. Hence you often just have "data". And then snowflake/bigquery/redshift if it literally can't fit on a machine (which is rare).
This aligns with prof. pychyl's "motivation follows action" and "just get started" https://www.procrastination.ca/
This is a silly myth that seems to not want to go away.

Exterior walls in many US homes are usually sheathed with 1/2" thick OSB or plywood. Given 16" spacing for studs (or 24" if your builder is cheap) you're going to have to work really hard to kick through siding, plywood, *live electrical wiring might be in your way*, plus then finally drywall.

It would be so much easier to just break a window, same as any construction of house.
The OP did address that though, via the fact that you can only have X number of simultaneous streams. That's a sensible, easily enforced limit.

Single household opens up a whole can of worms. If I watch on my iPhone at home: easy, yes. If I watch via my cell connection: OK, maybe let's just whitelist all cell connections. If I watch on my friend's wi-fi: uh oh. Is that legitimate? Is hotel wi-fi OK? How will they know what's hotel wi-fi and what's another person's home? What about an AirBnb?

If Netflix starts cracking down on things like that it's just going to get really irritating for customers.
React and JSX are, at best, mediocre. I consider it much more like C++: you’re much more likely to blow your foot off with React than with anything else. The codebases are excessively complex, completely magic, and impossible to debug in comparison to pretty much any other comparable framework, including modern Vanilla JS (with or without Web Components).

I agree with you about jQuery. It had its place. It’s painful to encounter now, especially since it can screw up any other framework that you want to put into a website.
You don’t think retail are gonna look for alternative investments over the coming cycle? That they’ll be happy with stocks, bonds, and deposit accounts at their local credit unions?
It seems like getting a copy of their coding standards (if they have them) would allow for more focused exploration than just asking which language they use.
Ask HN: How and when do things turn ugly at a failing startup?
Hi folks,

I work at a Series A startup with a B2B SaaS product.

We have 8 employees and about 12 months of runway. I’m the only person doing sales & marketing full time (the founders do the pitching and I do most everything else. I’m somewhere between a overpaid BDR and underpaid director of SalesOps/MarketingOps).

Right now we have one very large customer and they love us, but in the 9 months I’ve been there we haven’t closed anything new. Although I’m concerned we aren’t doing enough to close that second customer the founders don’t seem very concerned with our speed of growth or my performance.

I’ve heard this “if we build it they will come in good time” sort attitude is fairly typical with VC-backed startups. How does it typically play out? Where is the inflection point at which things start to get nasty?
> They basically blame it on all the woke messaging In The content

...I'm sorry, what? Give the Gervais, Burr, Chapelle bits a watch. Even after the backlash they remain on Netflix. The guys in the youtube clip couldn't be further off the mark.
Exterior sheathing is a structural element. Any stick built house without it is going to struggle under the weight of a roof and a stiff breeze.
Actually, don't think development of TV shows is their problem I think (just like every other streaming service) their recommendation system is pretty much useless. They have a lot of great content but you kind of have go out of your way to discover it yourself.

If they'd fire the people that invented Auto playing shows/movies and hired some curators to classify their content in the vein of Pandora's "Music Genome Project" they'd easily have the best service.
Anyone here know if the thunderstorm events in SoCal earlier this week is a result of this?
But that hasn't been replicated or "productized" the way the hype suggested. Google did a really good job there, but was in control of all their infra and had very smart people.
I’m not even sure the liability should be on McDonalds. In stupid America, everyone tries to blame someone. Sometimes it’s just you spilled your own coffee on you. If it was a McDonald’s employee that spilled it on you, different story.

There doesn’t need to be “walk don’t run” signs everywhere, and liability waivers for every activity.
I think you are correct. The one thing I would add is that the hyperoptimization is not really appreciated.

From my vantage point as a customer and observer, they are a company that really had first mover advantage with a quality client anywhere. But the experience stagnated and the focus of the company flipped to consuming/wasting as much time as possible. IMO they got fat and happy when the main competitor was Amazon Prime Video, which is a flawed service in many ways.

Now there are competitors who are really good. Disney+ is a superior experience (on Apple TV, anyway) with a better catalog and better features like search. Peacock is pretty good too.
That's what I found irritating about youtubeTV. the media companies must be really giving youtube a hard time because I found it a pain in the ass to use while traveling and when I was subscribed at an earlier point it wasn't that bad.
Getting a cert error on FF/Android

Accepting the risk: oh man that's a hit of nostalgia. I spent a bit of time in Kanagawa and Shinjuku was the transfer stop for getting into Tokyo.
My elementary school playground had several giant tires. Not sure what that was all about but we found ways to make them fun.
how many states are going to implode, apart from SriLanka? Any guesses?
> Less than 20% of devs use nightly.

You tried to make that sound like few Rust developers use nightly, but the same survey you linked to states that, while 7449 said they use the latest stable version for local development, 3333 said they use nightly, with 2853of them using the latest nightly and 481 using a specific version of nightly.

All in all, the ratio of Rust developers targeting nightly releases or betas represents something in between a third and a quarter of the whole developer community.

That's a lot of people in the Rust community delivering code targeting unstable and unmaintainable releases.
I agree. Tay is still fresh in a lot of folks’ minds.
How do you track "visitors"?
Another anecdata as well!

I used to swim/gym around 3 years ago everyday for about 2 years. I used to sleep from 9.30pm to 7.30am because I used to be tired. Sleep used to help me recover a lot! And because I used to be asleep for such a long time, I never had time to binge watch or eat. I lost about 40kgs because of exercise, diet and mostly sleep.

Fast forward to now, I'm working in the night to match my colleagues schedule till my wife's and infant's visa arrive and I can travel to the university, this is about a timezone difference of 9.30 hours. I've never been more bloated, tired and depressed. I've also have gotten more ill, and have had a plethora or gastric issues.
The ink disappears if you don’t pay your subscription fee.

It’s amazing libraries have managed to stay true to their goal and not charge membership fees. Should authors be getting residuals on every read of their book in the same way every Netflix play of a movie pays an actor???
No one except people in comment threads on the internet. What have we built?
I think Netflix is coming out as the bad guy here, but it's the whole industry that is broken. They seem to expect every single household to subscribe to 10 different streaming services. This obviously creates a market for password sharing, and I suspect it will bring a resurgence to piracy.

Just as a personal anecdote: I have Netflix, Paramount, HBO Max, TV2 Play, Paramount, Viaplay, Discovery+ and Disney+. And probably some that I'm forgetting. I don't really watch that much TV, and the only way I could justify this was by sharing the accounts with close family. The problem is that we're not in the same household. The moment this stops being a viable option we're likely just going to cancel the subscriptions. You can rent a lot of movies for $150/month.

The amount of subscription services are getting out of hand. Even my car has one, and the only value proposition it provides me is not having to connect my phone as a hotspot (which is kind of pain with an iPhone) and real-time traffic data. For $15/month.
Suppose you had an internal tracking library, aggragating data fetch from your own site and mobile clients, all data saved in a data center managed by your country's most reliable provider. EU directives would be a no-brainer.

That scenario has always been an option, and would be the most common case if Google didn't provide their own service for free or at cost. What's happening with the EU feels disruptive only because Google had such an unatural position in the market.
Even explicitly: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712?ref_sr...
Sense8 came out in 2015. We're doing some real revisionist history if we're going to start claiming that a near decade-old show is attributable for Netflix's decline.
Their recommendation system is useless because they don’t have a lot of great content actually imo. Their home page design is built around hiding this fact from the user and not letting them see how thin their corpus is.

They need to merge with a traditional media company I think, paramount or Warner discovery would make sense.
>some of the Yandex products are actually better and pretty innovative (ignoring the political stuff). Maps and Go are especially good.

Yeah, the same Yandex Maps that stopped showing state borders recently, as they are now "more focused on natural objects", in their words.
What Netflix needs is pilot episodes instead of straight to series orders. Some of the shows that get greenlit and get minimum one season are so bad that if they had any kind of pilot/quality control process they'd never make it on beyond episode one (and thus release resources for multiple seasons of the shows they cancel or a good quality new shows). I watch some Netflix shows (eg Another Life/The I-Land) and wonder how they ever get made, it's like no one is paying attention.

They also need to give shows some kind of ending even if they are not part of their long term plans. Having a library of shows without ending is not attractive to customers.

AppleTV has been running circles around Netflix (and other streaming services when it comes to quality), what is the last critically acclaimed series on Netflix? I am not saying that your shows need to be critically acclaimed but you can't be in a state where your shows are getting panned criticlaly and on top of that not giving endings to your semi popular shows.
I haven't had a close look at contemporary playgrounds but they certainly don't look anything like this.

I'm kind of torn on this.

On the one hand, I was lucky enough to grow up in an environment without much supervision; just about the only fear drilled into me by dad was "don't screw around with electricity". Other than that, we got up to a lot of trouble and the sensation of visceral fear from a massive miscalculation of physics was something I got accustomed to, amongst other forms of childhood terror of my own making. From my perspective, it's hard to argue in favor of a sheltered, over-safe childhood compared to a childhood where boys will be boys.

But on the other hand, minor scrapes aside, a close childhood friend died in an ATV accident that was completely avoidable if we had any sort of safety standards, and I did crack my skull open once and had to be rushed to the ER.

I wonder what the right balance between the two would look like.
Call me a marshmallow too if you want, but the truth is that his kind of comment doesn't belong on HN.

> You are the other side of the coin of people trying to cancel Chapelle and Gervais.

No, he's not.
It's a smattering of different things, but ultimately too much of their content sucks and in the face of streaming competition, subscribers are going elsewhere. I think most households might subscribe to a couple things max. Disney for instance is growing while Netflix is contracting.
The surface of exposure is much lower in Rust than in C/C++ however. It is unlikely you are writing your entire program in unsafe Rust, so you can still get a significant benefit from memory-safe safe Rust.

In C/C++ world, _everything_ is unsafe, so you can't even limit your exposure in the safer parts because you can do unsafe operations anywhere.
American degrees are decidedly not regulated by government. Professional groups and accreditation agencies perhaps, but not having a professional certification doesn't prevent a university from granting said degree. It's just one that some companies may not accept
I mean the whole PlayStation Blu-ray debacle basically drove that home… sorry referring to the encryption reply.
I don't know why no one mentioned this.

https://cookiecutter-django.readthedocs.io

I use a modified version of this for all my projects. This one comes with all the goodies
Egregores
> “Arcane has a bunch of races and sexualities and poverty levels and even pink/blue/etc hair”

It’s genuinely funny if hair color is the sure mark of devious wokeness.

The fiber of what’s currently known as the anti-woke moral panic is unchanged since 1965: “There are men with long hair on television now! Somebody needs to protect the children”
I remember that those big tires were 1) fun to climb on, and 2) an early and lasting lesson that things get really hot when sitting out in the sun, and that sometimes things feel cold before you realize they are burning the living fuck out of you.
I sign up for 2 concurrent streams, then upgrade to 4 concurrent streams. My kids move out and now with the same account they tell me I can only use 1 stream in my 4 stream package...
Maybe the Southwest should elect representatives that believe in climate change.
If you live near the wilderness urban interface expect this. Spreading out into mountain/desert suburbs causes issues that you would've never noticed before because well... millions and millions of people never lived there before.

This especially applies to any sort of libertarian psycho who wants to live in the middle of nowhere with minimal govt and then when nature shtf they bitch about the govt.
You can rent nearly any movie in existence for less than 5$, is piracy really the best option. Also, most people don’t care about DRM if they even know what it is.
> The OP did address that though, via the fact that you can only have X number of simultaneous streams.

I feel like everyone is forgetting that Netflix is licensing content, not just selling access to streaming bandwidth.

The content licensing is based on the idea of accounts as households, not the idea that a single login can be used infinitely by as many people as long as an arbitrary simultaneous stream limit is enforced.

> Single household opens up a whole can of worms. If I watch on my iPhone at home: easy, yes. If I watch via my cell connection: OK, maybe let's just whitelist all cell connections. If I watch on my friend's wi-fi: uh oh. Is that legitimate? Is hotel wi-fi OK? How will they know what's hotel wi-fi and what's another person's home? What about an AirBnb?

Several streaming services already have mechanisms to check account sharing. It’s not new. There’s no indication that Netflix plans to go full draconian and limit to a single IP with zero flexibility, despite what people here seem to be assuming. The account sharing detection logic used in other platforms is quite forgiving, and honestly it’s not terribly difficult to detect long-term patterns where two separate locations are constantly using the same account with users never returning “home”.
This sound like a good idea, I like it
VQGAN-CLIP
Anecdotally, including us, anyone you talk to here is dealing with mold issues, and it is often a very expensive problem to fix. Having no let up period from I think Dec -> May where the property can dry out, in addition to rain bombs causing roof leaks.

Many roofers have automated messages saying "we're too busy, no point". There is backlog in getting mold tested. Also affects general trades who don't give dates, they just come when the whether is good enough.
Beyond the issues netflix is facing and already being discussed, I question the multiple smaller layoffs they’re doing. Based on their hiring practices and their self-proclaimed comparison to sports leagues, this is sending exactly the wrong signals to their top talent.

Companies forget that this is a two way street, and employees may be doing their own “keeper test” now that $nflx isn’t a wallstreet darling and needing to downsize.
Coalitions are not needed. Politicians, regardless of their personal agenda, are interested in what the voters want. They might not agree with it, they might not do what the people want, they are always interested. The other candidates, however small, provide valuable insights to them. It shows how far they can push their own agenda.

People can display their self-less submission by voting for the top 2 candidates regardless what they represent. It sends a strong signal that they can do whatever they want.

All countries get a bunch of stuff right and makes a spectacular mess from other things.

Each of those spectacles should have one or more dedicated candidates and people who are sick and tired of it should vote for such candidate. The agenda, most of the time, can be a summary of examples of other [western] countries getting it right.

While original ideas are definitely possible you can have countless [shall we say] boring topics that are absolutely worth representing.

Such party may draw an utopian or extreme picture, it may even be unrealistic. If people vote for it it will eventually send a message to those politicians who always win the election each and every time. In turn they can propose or implement a trimmed down / mild version of it or explain why they are against it.

There might be truly silly ideas worth investigating but the winning candidate cant spend his finite time in office addressing the silly things. Unless there is a significant number of people who don't think it is silly at all.

The only chance for such a party to win is if the issue is ignored or escalated to the point everyone is fed up with it. Long before that one of the bigger candidates will absorb that juicy bag of votes.

Its a slow process but it works.
During the 1840s, fans of Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt showed a level of fanaticism similar to that of the Beatles. Poet Heinrich Heine coined "Lisztomania" to describe this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatlemania
Read the Pragmatic Programmer and The Mythical Man-month

And start your own micro-startup
Netflix's decline has been a decade in the making. They've been constantly shoveling out shit. I'm throwing out a number here but I'm guessing 90% of their original programming has been cancelled. They've been lighting the money on fire from the start and it was never sustainable.

EDIT: Speaking of 2015, funny thing, Netflix's valuation is practically at its 2015 valuation
Make lists when shopping, don't shop on an empty stomach, learn to stop the impulse buying. Pay attention to how you path through the supermarket.

The easiest way to resist junk food in your pantry is to not put it in there in the first place.
Netflix ought to be delighted that people are paying and sharing their passwords with family. Because the alternative is not paying at all, which is what is going to happen!
"woke" used to have a specific meaning, and it's been around for decades, originating in the African American activist community[0]. Like a lot of leftist and progressive vernacular, it's been co-opted by the right and degenerated into a nonspecific anti-progressive slur.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
God, that's a way better usage for the term.

Nah, it's just an outgroup shorthand/slur for overtly progressive messaging.