skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One size does not fit all.

Some people want to escape the filter bubble, to expose their ideas to criticism, to strengthen their thinking and arguments through conflict.

Other people want a community of like-minded people to share and improve ideas and actions collectively, without trolls burning everything down all the time.

Some people want each of those types of community depending on the topic and depending on their mood at the time.

A better platform would let each community decide, and make it easy to fork off new communities with different rules when a subgroup or individual decides the existing rules aren't working for them.
Most tech companies have four-year vesting periods. Lots of people at my current employer, which IPOed in 2020, are still vesting shares from pre-IPO stock grants. As a result, those people have a very strong financial incentive to stick around.

Stripe is a rarity in that it issues one-year equity grants, which would make it more susceptible to brain drain after an IPO compared to companies with longer vesting schedules.
Read the Sile documentation.

As far as I could get, Sile is exactly that.
We shouldn't allow vertical integration of streaming services and production. Just like we (in the US, at least) didn't allow vertical integration of movie theaters and movie production for decades (ended only very recently). It'd solve a lot of the problems in this space.
I worked at IBM years back. If there's one thing that binds current and former employees together it was the shared stitch & bitch about the company's way of doing things.

That would frequently happen in large public slack channels and to my knowledge (first and second hand) nobody was ever punished for that kind of talk. However, that was internal, between employees. Often it was about frustrations with how the company was run, sometimes using satire.

If that sort of thing happened in front of a client (which I never saw personally), I firmly believe that person would rightly be shown the door. It's one thing to complain about your company's problems internally, it's another to publish them.
Stripe is a great company. I interviewed there once and they passed, and I still think it’s a great company.

Pat Collison is one of the great hackers of our age, and he embodied the YC motto better than most: “Make something that people want.”

I’m sure the cuts are painful, but as a person who is quite literally bereaved: life goes on, and Stripe will still be a great company 5 or 10 years from now.
What's the go to market look like for a product like this?

Large enterprises have little incentive to invest in additional calendaring functionality, and the market for individuals who are this passionate about keeping a schedule cannot be very big. If it's even 'medium-sized' (for some arbitrary definition of that), the CAC must be crazy because people aren't typically seeking out products like this, and competition in the app stores (and ad prices) are fierce.

Is the game plan here to rapidly get enough traction to exit to a major player in productivity/calendaring? Feels like a tuck-in. I can't imagine how this becomes a huge business, but I'm genuinely curious to hear what the strategy and target audience might look like.
To add another perspective (albeit with politics rather than climate change):

I worked in political communications for a while. Part of the reason it was so toxic to my mental health and I burnt out was that it was nearly impossible to avoid politics online even in completely unrelated spaces. So I'd work 40 hours trying to improve the situation, log in to discuss stupid media/fan shit, and have to wade through a bunch of stuff that reminded me how little difference I was making, stuff assuming I wasn't involved/listening, etc. It was INFURIATING. Yes, I had the option to not go online, but I'm a nerd living in a small city. There isn't enough people here that share my interests to go completely offline.

Staying on topic helps people who are already involved in important causes to step away and preserve their mental health, which in turn makes them more effective.
It is not a win for the company to have low performers stay and high performers leave.

> The whole "the employee can cause damage to the company" view is ridiculous – guess what, the employee can already do damage to the company while employed there, yet they don't.

Yeah, because they don't know they will be fired. They aren't angry employees.

Laid off employees are angry.

Let's talk about being obtuse.
I don't think it needs to be said that while FreeBSD can serve as a daily driver for some people, it is insufficient for the vast majority of computer users in the world
Since Netflix is now in the ads game, I can't trust it even if I do avoid the ad-supported tier. I have to assume that they're now gathering my data and making it available to advertisers anyway. Another service destroyed (for me) by advertising.
r/politics is “communist”? That’s… just a really dumb take. If there is a far-left presence on Reddit, it is not prominent. r/politics is left-leaning and angry, but, objectively speaking, not really all that extreme.

And, for what it’s worth, it seems perfectly reasonable to label those who tried to overthrow our democratic government “traitors”.
Fortunately it's not a strawman. From the article:

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Moderating spam is very interesting: it is almost universally regarded as okay to ban (i.e. CENSORSHIP) but spam is in no way illegal.

Spam actually passes the test of “allow any legal speech” with flying colors. Hell, the US Postal Service delivers spam to your mailbox.
When 1A discussions talk about free speech on private platforms mirroring free speech laws, the exceptions cited are typically “fire in a crowded theater” or maybe “threatening imminent bodily harm.”
Spam is nothing close to either of those, yet everyone agrees: yes, itʻs okay to moderate (censor) spam.

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He's saying directly that censoring spam is not supported by any free speech principle, at least as he sees it, and in fact our free speech laws allow spam. He also refers to the idea of "allow any legal speech" as the "free-speech"-based litmus test for content moderation, and chooses spam to show how this litmus test is insufficient.

What about my framing of his argument is a strawman? it looks like a flesh-and-blood man! I am saying that his litmus test is an invalid or inaccurate framing, of what a platform that supports free speech should be about. Even if the government is supposed to allow you to say pretty close to whatever you want whenever you want, it's never been an expectation that private citizens have to provide the same support. Individuals, institutions, and organizations have always limited speech beyond what the government could enforce. Therefore, "free speech" has never meant that you could say whatever is legal and everyone else will just go along with it.

On the other hand, Elon Musk's simple remark of saying that he knows he's doing a good job if both political extremes are equally offended shows to me that he seems to understand free speech in practice better than this ex-Reddit CEO does! (https://www.quora.com/Elon-Musk-A-social-media-platform-s-po...)
Right, it exists with the tacit purpose of brigading other subs. But like Kiwifarms, blurbs in the site rules mean nothing given the context of the community.
In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, lists Swarm Technologies as one of their startups.

I bet the military/intelligence community has all sorts of ideas!
It seemed interesting but after the 400th tweet I lost interest and went to do something productive
That's because they were small and often has strict rules (written or not), aka moderation, about how to behave. You don't remember massive problems because the bad actors were kicked off. It falls apart at scale and when everyone can't/won't agree on "good behavior" or "the rules" is/are.
Yes. Typically the guy who is working harder also happens to have varied interests. I’ve yet to see a work drone without an outside life who is doing 24/7 work. If I see them, I’d definitely limit them from work. I was the same 23 yo. I had an active social life and all the troubles of finding love etc. I did all right. Maybe a little worse than some of the folks I see today.
You should see Netflix's 720p. It looks like 320p.
> YouTube premium charging to remove ads [...] and then there are sponsorship messages

That's the main reason I won't even consider YouTube Premium - pointless to pay for "an ad-free experience" when, instead, you get a 5 minute segment in the middle of a video shilling for [flavour of the month]VPN or Audible.
Mostly I was agreeing with the analogy of a run on a bank. Fed pulled out of funding the economy as it was. Less money for them to spend on coffees, Ubers, etc.; less to “trickle down” given the uncertainty of grandpa Powell’s intention to bring pain to households (except his own of course; he’s got enough to be insulated from his actions).

If you want to go on a specific tangent involving dead men’s philosophy, be my guest. I was merely attempting to illustrate how apt the bank run analogy is.
It does feel like a misplaced priority.
No, they are your personal criteria. Your “gripes” as you said.

> And it's also the criteria of millions of other users who have not switched to Signal because of the bugs, quirks, and lack of basic features for a modern messaging app.

You have absolutely no knowledge that this is why people haven’t switched, indeed it’s highly unlikely that it would have been as successful as it has if this were the case. People move to Signal because they distrust Facebook and telegram.

The more logical explanation is simply network effects and inertia. Occam’s razor.
I think it's not even an act of betrayal - they did exactly what they said they were going to do. It also wasn't like there was nobody saying how bad of an idea it was - basically anyone who had any kind of knowledge of economics was screaming that it was a horrible idea and people still voted for it because they saw it as a rejection of the outgroup social exercise which is, unfortunately, one of the most egregious bugs in the human firmware.
So is this the latest scheme to embezzle the money? I am ashamed I used to donate to you useless people. I am ashamed I ever promoted firefox.

> To fuel an ecosystem of products and technology that respect users

Bring back the XUL extensions!
Companies always behave this way. Companies do what is best for themselves, and sometimes it benefits both companies and employees.

In the case of layoff, the company wouldn't be benefit at all if low performers stay and high performers leave. Actually the company might collapse.
I work on cloud computing services (PaaS / BaaS) and infrastructure. All the big employers in this space have hiring freezes.

I used to get 20 recruiting emails from Amazon a month. Now they have a complete corporate hiring freeze. The saying here in Seattle goes that if you can't find a job you could always try one of the many Amazon roles because they were always hiring. Not so anymore.

EDIT: if parent comment is referring to Amazon job postings, the all up corporate hiring freeze was just announced this morning!
I meant Wikipedia article. The language there is extremely hard for me to read.
Netflix (streaming) never gave you everything at your fingertips though. If you wanted a full film catalog you subscribed--or do subscribe though the back catalog has degraded--to the DVD by mail service.
I fail to see any upside from the bank forecasting a long recession. It's hard to believe it's a high accuracy forecast; the central tenant of economies is that they usually do what you don't expect.

Agreed with everything else you said. "This is not going to be a quick fix, we have some idea of how bad it'll get, and it's not as bad as the 80s. Please don't panic" is perfect phrasing. But saying it will be the longest recorded absolutely is fear mongering, and partly self-fulfilling.
The fan is pretty quiet, at least—I couldn't hear it unless I put my ear up to the box.

The coil whine was excessive though. I wouldn't normally mention it if it were here and there and quiet, but it was noticeable from a few feet away any time I went above 100 mbps down over Ethernet.
Nature laughs at "not very likely".. We gotta get used to this as a species.
Curious non-Indian here, how did you know that there were exactly two Dalits in your class? Is this a thing people talk about? Were they open about it? Or do you just recognize them on sight?
They're inching that way, especially with Starlink, but EVs don't do well driving off-road with a lot of weight, especially into remote areas without charging infrastructure nearby. I was hoping my next vehicle would be this concept, but there's a way to go to get there.
>” England has been captured by far-right think-tanks.”

What are the top three most far-right policies the UK government is now pursuing since it was captured by these think tanks?
Many people who in retrospect are truly innovative almost definitionally spend their time doing things other people don't regard as valuable (at first at least). As an extreme example of someone who prioritized a life of play look at Claude Shannon. He literally had a shop for building toys at home. I'm grateful he wasn't overly attracted to what others regarded as impactful at the time. That being said I still don't think it's important whether one's play becomes valued. I suspect in the long run we're all better off having people in the world who are passionate about what they are doing.
Not the person you are replying to, but here is my view of this.

From all I've seen and know about MrBeast, he is an upstanding guy doing great things that help others. I absolutely respect that and believe it is worth of praise.

However, I find the content itself to be absolutely not my cup of tea. Not in a sense that i find it bad or distasteful. There are tons of other "YT philanthropy" influencers that make content that feels either distasteful or exploitative (even if it might not actually be), but his content isn't that. I just struggle to find it interesting enough to watch. I tried a few times, but it simply cannot hold my attention at all.

This isn't MrBeast's fault, as he clearly has a massive audience that enjoys watching his content. It just simply isn't the content for me.
After 40s if things go south. Not that I would do it but it is better than wasting my childhood. :D
I've been struggling with keeping track of research experiments and code at the same time. This seems pretty cool! I like how this method is language agnostic and uses "matured" tools. Question: I'd love to give this a try; do you have any public code snippets?
I had to cut down to just tap water.

(I actually do not have any compulsion to drink coffee, or anything much other than tap water).

On a serious note, I cannot blame many young people for eschewing forming families of having kids when faced with the numbers I quoted.
How so?

If you watch 10 hours of Netflix a week, you're watching about 3 and 1/2 hours of ads a month. All to save $3. Not to mention having access to less content.
Note that specifically, I'm talking about games that have made the transition. Like WildStar, Rift, Warhammer Online, et.al.

Sure, F2P games (which are never just ad supported, mind you) can be wildly popular and profitable. But not all of them. For every exploitative success like Diablo Immortal, there are thousands of games which hit the app stores and quietly vanished.
Try typing "Windows Dev Kit 2023" into your preferred search engine; it took a while for the news to spread. It's not a hotrod, but if you think Windows on ARM has a future, $599 for a small form factor PC with 32G of RAM is pretty good.

>Since I decided to base my startup on Microsoft, that is, write the software using .NET to run on Windows

If you have any interest in Linux or cross-platform development, Microsoft and Canonical announced first-class support for .NET for Ubuntu:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-6-is-now-in-ubu...

https://ubuntu.com/blog/install-dotnet-on-ubuntu
I suspect a lot of people do this. A friend of mine listens to old familiar audiobooks they've heard dozens of times when they are trying to sleep. I can understand why people might find comfort in rewatching their favorite shows and listening to the same music they always have.
Yeah, that's still a better-than-DVD level of quality.
Someone who is good at interviewing should be a red flag then
Here is one data point:

For example, Lyft and Shopify who are one of the largest customers of Stripe is slowing down in their revenue growth. You can just look at their financials in the past few quarters. They even have layoffs themselves.

That majorly has negative impact on stripe's revenue.
Sorry to hear that. My company went through a similar deep cut in May 2020 and I also wasn't informed which of my direct reports were getting laid off. After I was informed, I fought for the new hire who joined a couple of weeks earlier who was let go over one of the underperforming engineers (who has since improved a lot after getting feedback and working with me on their issues). The new hire was already contributing more and it was clear they picked up on both technical and non-technical concepts very quickly.
Depends on the implementation. Initially used ACH for settlement and now they are moving towards RTP. (https://www.earlywarning.com/press-release/early-warning-ser...)
For some reason, this makes me wonder how Slashdot's moderation would work in the current age. Too nerdy? Would it get overwhelmed by today's shit posters?
The Hidden Market for Six-Figure Jobs
Okay, so apologies in advance because I hate it when people ask me this question.

But, how do you compare to Motion (https://www.usemotion.com/). I've been super curious about using a product like this. The other one I considered was Sunsama. (https://www.sunsama.com/). Would love your thoughts here.
Where are you seeing any mention of Dlang?
https://archive.ph/CW93X
There's also a sparkfun dev board linked from that page which is around $150. It mentions that if ordering less than 25
I don't have numbers in front of me but it looks waaay cheaper. Seems they are trying to undercut Iridium SBD on price.
It always does, I agree. Then again most people in that cohort probably have the corresponding level of financial means / literacy [to have a cushion]. Either way just read above that in this case specifically the severance seems generous enough. I’m not worried for the typical stripe worker here. This will be good for them if they don’t get bogged down by shock / sadness.
Most of human history is defined by frequent lacks of resource.....
How far the stock goes down will depend on profitability.

Would you rather own a more or less profitable company?
You want me to type `std::numeric_limits<int>::max()` in a forum comment? Bit long.
the 10% not available is due to licensing, i.e. stuff that doesn't want to be run with ads. Assuming that is the more premium content.
Roughly 0.44 bits/s. Data is 750 packets of 192 bytes per month on the $5 plan.
You described the process as something that was quite polite. It was more like they screamed, yelled at, smeared and insulted everyone who warned them. And when people informed them that the warnings started visibly coming true, they doubled down and declared everyone as an enemy.

Brexit process and its aftermath was a crazy, crazy case study, once in a lifetime observation opportunity for social sciences.
Yeah, that about sums it up. I ended up holding a bunch of GBP, in an company in admistration (bankruptcy.) I'm getting a haircut on my haircut. If you made an inverse ETF taking the opposite side of my lifetime investment decisions, the performance would be stellar.
It is discussed widely and openly including in sibling threads.

I also think it was in the news a few months back and I even think it was discussed here.

Edit: note, I am not saying messages aren’t always sent E2E-encrypted between users today, only that in some cases they are also sent in a side channel to Facebook simultaneously.

Edit 2:

You can try this search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=does+whatsapp+sometimes+send+messa...

Or read this article: https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/facebook-reads-and-shares-what...

Edit 3: this is of course on top of the fact that they uploaded the backups (from everyone who enabled backups) unencrypted to Google under terms that let Google sift through it.
They almost should replace "planes" with "Boeing 737" because the Boeing 737 is the only 1960s aircraft still flying and because of 1960s era decisions the 737 struggles to take off under even favorable conditions... requiring more runway length than many much larger aircraft.

Somehow airlines and planemakers think that international passengers deserve competitive aircraft while domestic passengers get stuck with the dregs.
probably with a worker you can pull that off
How much storage does Netflix actually need for its whole library?

It's got about 17,000 titles globally [1]. If they have copies in SD, 720p, HD and 4k that would be 68,000 versions (plus some extra audio tracks for stuff dubbed in multiple languages, but I suspect this is fairly minimal in terms of storage though)

Let's assume that the resolutions have the bitrates at 5, 10, 15 and 20 mbps.

The average length of a Netflix original movie is ~90mins [2]

So that would require about 575TB in storage if I have done my maths correctly.

You would need about 20x30TB Kioxia CD6 SSDs for all that. Very expensive but definitely technically possible.

I could totally see it being possible to fit those drives in a single node to push the 800gbps required, not increasing the over rack requirement at all. Not sure if the bandwidth from that many drives is enough, might have to cache some of the most watched stuff to ram)

Not gonna see any in home boxes with all the titles pre loaded any time soon though. As a hard drive array that's still 30x20TB drives.

[1] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/netflix-statist...

[2] https://stephenfollows.com/netflix-original-movies-shows/#:~...)
I’ve seem many a front page HN article about teenage engineering—but I’ve gotta admit, this might be the first one about teenagers engineering.
> I'm not sure how the UK pension system works,

In principle, unless the Government reverses it (which they are semi-consistently somewhat threatening to do), UK pensions are supposed to be protected by a "Triple lock". They increase each year by whatever is the highest out of inflation, average wage, or 2.5%. So if the country tanks and inflation skyrockets, they are supposed to get an increase to match it.
The press almost always uses U-3, which is the government's official unemployment rate. There's nothing vague about it. BLS is clear about what each category includes. The only confusion is caused by a certain subpopulation who likes to toss out U-6 as some sort of "gotcha!" whenever unemployment makes the news.
Though I pay for premium because I loathe ads, it still feels like a blackmail payment. A bit like paying protection money to the mafia.

That said, sponsorblock works decently well for automatically skipping sponsored messages.
Starbucks earnings beat expectations as consumers spend more in its U.S. stores
Wework, various lending and fin-tech companies (e.g. Better), Crypto companies.
I sometimes wonder how much further along these initiatives might be if the economy was focused on them instead of My Pillow sales, cheap crap from Walmart, and simply handing personally wealthy elites stacks of cash to create pointless jobs and the money was put into net new technology, not Twitter 2.0 and VR 4.0