skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this will cause some people to actually share accounts more than before, not less. For example, I pay for my own account, despite my brother asking me to share with him (we're both employed and in our 40s, and I feel like we should pay our own way). He eventually set up an account and shares with our parents. So between us, we are probably paying about $40/mo for Netflix.

With this new system, I might decide that I should jump onto my family's account for $5.99 or whatever, since this type of sharing is now blessed by Netflix. That would cut their revenue from our family to $32 (an extra $6 for my parents and me) from $40.
Ask HN: What's a fair amount of equity for a technical co-founder?
For context, the product is technical. The company is pre-seed in very early stages (rough prototype). What would be reasonable for a third co-founder or a fourth co-founder joining?
> Poison the well, and don’t drink from it.

https://adnauseam.io/ :)
55% of the dies on each wafer are good. That does sound like low yield.
> and turning the beloved Diablo into a cash-grab pay-to-win mobile game.

A decision which has made them a metric shit-ton of money. Why would they stop when they've found a winning formula? And why would Microsoft decide to stop such an easy revenue stream? Sure the Diablo name is being dragged through the mud (among a particular demographic, at least) but the consequences for that are years or even decades away. If anything, "cleaning up shop" might mean shutting down the less profitable divisions - something Blizzard has been actively doing anyway.

> This will probably lead to Activision-Blizzard continuing on its previous, doomed trajectory that it was on back in 2021.

Maybe their trajectory is doomed when measured in decades. Right now they're printing cash. I think they're happy to abandon their legacy "core" audience in exchange for the gacha whales that will pay them multiples more for a cheaper-to-make experience.

I realize that a lot of us grew up with Blizzard games, I myself have all the CE boxes they shipped since Warcraft III. But the people who made those experiences are generally long gone. A change of ownership is unlikely to radically change priorities or bring back the magic.
You don't need thermal capacity to transfer heat into space.

Pump all the heat into one big black body radiator until it glows red hot, then divert the emanating radiation out into space.
Timing is wisdom.
This part caught my eye:

Manufacturers and dealerships raised concerns that providing tools and information to farmers would allow equipment owners to illegally crank up the horsepower and bypass emissions controls — putting operator safety and the environment at risk.

These are not serious arguments, are they?
They should just replace /etc/sudoers.d with a Domain Specific Language ;) /s
Math is hard, let's go shopping.
Ever driven I-25 north of Las Vegas, NM. Less likely? yes. Far less likely? no. Especially at night, but even by day, that is one empty highway (for its size).
The USA has 15.4% foreign-born population. Compared to Asian tech powerhouses, Japan has 2%, South Korea 2.3%, and China 0.1%. And they don't grant citizenship to children of immigrants.

And just eyeballing it, you'll notice most countries demographics don't radically change in the span of a generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
I think you live in a bubble if you feel it necessary to exaggerate the effects and coddle people who aren't on top of their finances.

It's all a fairly pointless discussion because the simple solution is to suggest Uber, etc. just make this method of charging an optional feature that is easily toggled by their customers. Beyond that, it's an uninteresting discussion, and I don't care to hear people browbeat each other about how Uber is bad and wrong for rolling transactions into one because they didn't consider that their customers are mouthbreathing idiots whose entire financial world will come collapsing down on them if they can't get check their credit card balance for 100% accurate realtime information about their current financial state. Somehow if someone didn't think of this possibility, they are an inconsiderate jerk who "lives" in a "bubble."
Perhaps one or more of the following:

0. They want to reduce labor costs in the short term.

1. They think some projects will not produce value in the near or long term, so they are canceling those projects and laying off the people who work on them.

2. They want to reduce salaries in the near and long term. (Fire at high salary, rehire at low if needed.)

3. They got a big tax bill due to the changes in R&D amortization.

4. They believe they can automate existing jobs and/or replace them with AI.

Layoffs usually destroy business value.[1,2] In this case I expect MS might be betting on reduced labor costs (including taxes) in the short term followed by salary reduction and automation in the near and long term.

[1] https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about...

[2] https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/according-to-this-stanford-p...
I guess that depends on the nature of the failure and the fragility of the part.

If you're staying inside the recommended voltage its likely the product will have a long life. For example look at the life curve of capacitors (and I'm not talking the diseased ones we had to deal with in the 2000s). The 'hotter' we run them the shorter their lifespan is. Now what can be difficult to figure out via testing is to figure out the MTBF when you have a hard cutoff point for failure that's not very much higher than standard operating specs. We could be failing at 100 hours at 1.4v, and 10,000 hours at 1.3v. Or it could last 100,000 hours at 1.3v.
At this point no. Virtually every IoT device requires upload to the manufacturer’s server to get even basic functionality, which of course breaks when the server goes offline. The privacy policies when they exist virtually never promise end-to-end encryption (a promise I wouldn’t trust anyway as corners are cut and there are unlikely to be security audits), and often imply sales of data to partners.

In this age of AI scraping every shred of data I suspect anything connected to the internet will be compromised in a back room deals, through lack of security, or through sub-contractors sharing what they can get their hands on.

I think reactions to this are more along the lines of horrified, but it is our accepted trade off in the name of cheap products.
PRC family planning is like one of the few "state has 100 year plan" memes that's worked out relatively well in real life. Reduce kids, increase parent mobility + productivity to build wealth, concentrate said resources to the 1-2 kids, move up industrial/skill/value chain, done at PRC population scale maybe chance get rich before old. Like this is basic demography planning / projection 101 for some reason useful idiots in west thinks PRC demographers didn't do obvious due diligence. Sure, policies over corrected on males/birthrate, as CCP hammering policies tend to do, but PRC demographic development is essentially on track - India now trending towards the shitshow that PRC was trying to avoid, 1B+ "low quality" people stuck in shit/informal economy, i.e. more bodies than what the system can handle. Now PRC has one of the greatest demographic trend in next 100 years with respect to sustainable human capita relative to geopolitics:

1) declining population, prodominantly poor, unskilled, and old being aged out. Supported by high home ownership and savings rate because this cohort has little expectation of state support. taps head don't need to worry about onerously high dependency western ratios if people don't expect such dependence. This cohort will just have to settle with mostly taking care of self while being 100x richer than when they were born. It's not 1st world QoL, many stuck with being old before rich, but it's better than most in same circumstances.

2) the high skill demographic divident / second wind of moving from current 15M STEM to 50-100M STEM in next 100 years, while broader workforce going through general upgrading of transitioning from current 25% skilled workforce to 70-80%, comparable to modern JP/DE. This is the largest, concentrated high skilled demographic divident in human history, likely for ever since very few countries (i.e. basically India) has the base population and systemic ability to coordinate and exploit so many bodies up the human capita chain.

Most of west going to be reduced version of itself since already maxed out human capital, maybe can be backfilled by automation. Few immigration heavy anglos will grow at steady pace, assuming their onerous welfare nets hold. PRC is shifting from productive capacity of 2 Japans and 6 Nigerias into 6 Japans over same cycle - that's the most growth headroom and systemic capacity to back it up.
Memory safety would be good, but why then use a memory unsafe language?
This is a small thing, but it's a bit of a pet peeve -- capitalization matters in SI units. A capital N is a newton, the unit of force. In the EE Times headline the N is correctly lowercased to spell "nm" -- nanometers.

See also: "mHz" being used to mean "megahertz" when it actually spells "millihertz". It's rarely ambiguous, but it's still wrong.
Hmm, Tucker Carlson?
> All of the lithography machines have the same setup inside because only one company makes them (ASML).

I've definitely read papers where universities fiddle with the internals of ASML machines, including the optics, to try out different things. I'd imagine R&D departments at Intel, Nvidia, etc. probably do the same, but I'm no expert.
> User interface updates: Dark mode support on Windows 10 and 11.
I've seen transactions (pathologically) held open for weeks with no huge issues. Postgres is amazing. You're 100% right that you should not do it though. Also little things like if you have more than some very large number of transactions while one transaction is open, things start to break down.
I just tried this out.
The new systemd directive OpenFile=
opens up the possibility to pass the file descriptor
of a file from the host to a container running in a container.
(using rootless Podman running rootless Podman)

sudo systemd-run --property User=test --property OpenFile=/etc/secretfile.txt --collect --pipe --wait --quiet podman run --security-opt label=disable --user podman --device /dev/fuse quay.io/podman/stable podman run -q alpine sh -c "cat <&3"
I disagree with this advice. I think getting carbs as low as you're personally able to and maximizing fat + protein is going to be way more successful

source: me, a guy who lost 50 pounds 5 years ago and hasn't regained it
I mean 5 services at $10 bucks is still much cheaper than people were paying for cable TV for a long time.
Yes, you've got it. Not many people were around back then, but once upon a time there was a working version of Scuttlebot (by Dominic Tarr) that was documented at https://scuttlebot.io/ with a client called Patchwork (by Paul Frazee).

The idea behind the project was that you would gossip between scuttlebot 'pub' servers and then replicate messages from the people you follow and the people that those people follow. All of the messages were signed with ed25519 keypairs, and to send private messages you'd use ed2curve to box private messages.

These days we're putting together a team that is going to salvage what is left of the working code from back before the project was scuttled and hopefully restore the network to functionality again. Please be in touch if you are interested in this future.
"Self-modifying code" might be more common today than it was back then, given the popularity of managed languages that also use some type of JIT. Forcing the output of that JIT through another translation step would be really bad for performance.

If Transmeta had survived, perhaps they could have added support for different instruction sets to run e.g. Java or .NET "natively".
They have multiple root nodes with parent_id null.

I usually prune my tree every few years. But 1500 nodes should be pretty OK.
AMD recommends that customers use EXPO then they claim it's warranty-voiding unsafe overclocking.
Sounds like the obsession with perpetually-scheduled competitive sports could be just as easily identified as a problem. Intramurals are an option, and immigrant parents who place a larger premium on academic performance like to opt for that instead. That aside, a rec league is, what, 2 nights a week? No reason to believe that paired with homework would lead to burnout.

Math and reading takes practice. That's what homework is. The top performing countries don't do any differently. It's interesting that there are people who worry about the quality of public education being under attack by Republicans, but embrace these non-evidence-based ideas for education reform that ultimately will only benefit the upper class.
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Pitting big business interests against rural/agricultural interest. Seems like a potential wedge issue for US conservatives if I've ever seen one.
I disagree, the whole package is still my top priority, it's just that Apple is winning in performance (aside from GPU/graphics) and UI/UX right now. I think Apple has stumbled on UI/UX in the past fews years but I still feel they are leagues ahead of the competition. Windows and Android still drive me crazy and feel substantially worse in UI/UX than anything Apple has put out.
I don't know if I buy this:

Every employee is replaceable.

maybe in a big enough business or with enough time etc. or you throw enough money at it.

but I've seen business fail over an employee leaving.
Technological advancement doesn't happen Inna vacuum. To get good at things you have to try them. Getting good at the sort of technology required to build such a project requires trying such a project. It's not a matter of waiting 100 years, it's a matter of trial and error for 100 years.
My impression is that the tech-savvy people still use torrents, but nowadays they share these torrents with their less savvy group using things like Plex (and Plex alternatives).

That's what I've witnessed with my Portuguese and Spanish friends anyway. Extended groups who depend on one or more sources of "private Netflix (ie: Plex)".
The difference is the Pirate Bay was a list of links to obviously pirated content. LAION is a list of links to content that is, for the most part, hosted at its original source or a place authorized to host it.
That's a very optimistic take on how new generations perceive the ethics surrounding confidentiality. Are you really _baffled_ by this? I understand that it's a common position, but it's a position that is so clearly tainted by the conflicts of interest between employer and employee. And a keen awareness of those conflicting interests _only_ serves to better an employee's ability to serve themselves best in a capitalist economy.

I'm not saying you are wrong per se. But if you don't see why employees are willing to act in this way, you don't see how employees feel about being trapped in a system where no matter how much you are paid - you are ultimately making someone else more.
I get what you are saying, but they have a team too and are working on the software fulltime.
15years ago I was reading the same ancedotes in slashdot comments. Tech is familiar with ageism, and the occasionally crusty greybeards refusing to go into management.
Agreed. You could add/apply them as rails migrations, too, that way the transformations exist as code and can be referenced/seen in the future.
That's gotta be a Hacker News bingo if I've ever seen one.
Some days I wish I could contemplate the possibility of roughly 80,000,000 deaths with such equanimity.
If you hate writing learn touch typing
The size is only one of the factors, it can be small but slow, especially when the history grows.
What happens when Android starts clamping down, as they have? Android ever more ratchets shit down, and more and more essential apps like Termux simply can't make it through the Google gauntlet. What happens if Android stops allowing sideloading?

I hear this defense a lot from the anti-sideloaders, that it's fine that this platform have no freedom, because there's another popular platform with some freedom. Even with the DJI example here before us (which so far has been icky but had no known actual bad consequences), I roundly do not get the argument, do not see the appeal of being trapped, of arguing everyone else on this platform needs to be under the fist of Cook & every government on the planet & without feet to stand on.

And it's repugnant to me that the defense is that there is one other platform where freedom exists, as if it's OK that one set of folks fall down the slippery slide & leave the rest of humanity tottering for themselves, trying to keep feet under them against perpetual universal software helplessness.

Apple has basically been winning the AT&T position against Carterphone. They've used monopoly power to control push around dominate & extract, to make up whatever terms it wants for the world. That's a position that damned & binds humanity, and one we have rejected already quite clearly, but now that computers are involved it's free game to coral the humans & other entities & to rollback the Carterphone right to modify the world about you.

There's one plan I'm OK with here, which is Apple can keep it's closed platform but has to let other OS run on iPhone & make equal use of the hardware. If apple demands control over iOS, I think that's an alternative out for hardware owners.
Some outtakes:

Bacteroides is predominant in people eating large amounts of protein (e.g. Western diet)

Human studies have shown an increase in gut bacterial translocation in mood disorders.6,7 For example, in major depressive disorder there are significant increases in Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria and decreases in Firmicutes compared to controls.

The benefits of ketogenic diets for controlling severe epilepsy may be mediated by the gut microbiome, as the effects can be reproduced in animal models by direct manipulation of gut bacterial enterotypes without changing diet.
Equal to all other founders, vesting across 4 years, one year cliff.
The upper middle class is starting to get a bit too powerful with all these fancy tech salaries. Let’s force them all to pay for expensive tutoring or private school, to put that scum back in it’s place.

- The rich media execs that push this idiotic bullshit
Have you tried PaLM?

I work for Google and have been playing with it. It’s pretty good.

The decision to release Bard, an LLM that was clearly not as good as ChatGPT, struck me as reactive and is why people think Google is behind. I’d think so too if I had just demoed Bard.
I'm saying that I don't know whether employees working insane hours is a necessary or incidental component of the TSMC success story. Up until very recently American fabs were technological leaders with (presumably) less insane hours for employees. My expectation is that American fabs with American-norm working hours would remain competitive as long as they didn't fall behind on node shrinks, which Intel notably failed at in recent years.

Of course it's possible that insane working hours were why TSMC employees got EUV photolithography working at scale before any American manufacturer did. Was that the key difference between Intel and TSMC? It's a question that I personally haven't seen an answer to.
This is no longer allowed in most of the US.
I skip most of the Ted Lasso scenes with Mr Gruff and lil' Ms SideBusiness. If you had told me back in season one that I'd prefer watching the scenes with Mr BoringHomeLife, I wouldn't have believed you.
Working with lots of kids from various families.

The kids end up like their birth parents, their economics or social environment makes little difference.

Some kids are so opposed to how their parents are they actually move out (in early teens) and live with other people, and have little contact with their parents.

And despite that, they still end up just like their parents once they are past the teen stage.

It's also amazing to see how some kids are just like their father, some like their mother, and some a mix of both (some traits from one parent, some from the other parent).

But you don't see kids who are unlike either parent.
> He was an amazing president that ended the Cold War. Ended inflation and kick started 20 years of economic growth.

Even a simple look at the timeline shows that is wrong. It doesn't even stand up to a cursory look at the evidence.

Reagan massively escalated the Cold War. There is literally a heading on his wikipedia page entitled "Escalation of the Cold War".

The Soviet Union fell after Reagan left the oval office! The 1989 Revolutions all happened after Reagan left. The breakup of the Soviet Union itself happened well over a year later.

Reagan left the US in bad shape. He slowed down inflation but massively expanded public debt. He left Bush such a crappy economy that it immediately entered a recession that resulted in him losing his reelection run.

Not only that, he started the decline of the US economy. https://www.piie.com/sites/default/files/styles/slimmed_natu... Before Reagan nominal GDP growth was high, after the US turned hardcore conservative, GDP growth has been poor.

I have no idea how Republicans managed to brainwash people so badly that they don't even look at the most basic evidence.
Well billions may be stretching it, by some estimates in 1 billion years Earth will be be hotter by cca 25 degress. All kinds of runaway greenhouse effects will happen way before that, ocean will become probably unhospitable warm chemical gunk and some of it may evaporate out of Earth's atmosphere and then taken by solar winds out of gravity well.

Some primitive form of life will probably thrive for another billion years till Earth is slowly sterilized by Sun, but not complex life like us.
It also feels like a niche, esoteric app nowadays, so when the hordes go to notion, we can stay over here.
Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School
I don't think we need to force everyone into it.

100% agree! We need myriad education options for myriad types of students. But the legit critique of the "equity approach", as is happening in the Bay Area, is that it is you they aren't allowing students to advance in STEM (especially M), even students want to. It is not forcing a minimum level, it is capping max level at a relatively low/mid spot.
> If you want to time gate your episodes with your friends you're still welcome to coordinate that with them.

That feels somewhat naive. People don't only belong to one friendship group.

> if a streaming platform withholds episodes so that they can better manage social media and stretch out advertising I'll just wait until the whole thing is out before I even start watching.

Sounds like it works out for everyone, then: those that want to watch and discuss week-to-week can, those that don't can wait until the end of the season and watch all at once.
that car is as ugly as sin
GraphQL is really intended to model UI concepts rather than directly exposing your database schema.

First of all, your GraphQL schema is basically append-only due to older clients that may remain in the wild. So you don't want to expose implementation details that may change.

Second, you want to write client code that handles mutations. This is easier if the data the client receives is organized in a UI-centric way. I'll give you a simple example that came up at work recently: a single conceptual category (a "user account") that, due to implementation details, was spread across two different tables with different columns. Because the GraphQL schema in this case mapped each table to its own GraphQL type, somebody was then able to write client code that only handled one type and not the other, causing an inconsistent UI.

I would suggest thinking carefully about your GraphQL schema, treating it as an API, and not auto-generating it. Of course, you want it to be convenient to construct, just not fully automatic and thoughtless.