skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't be insulting by telling other people what to learn.

And if you look at the quarter before -- 2022Q4 -- they made just $55 million net income, which on revenue of 7.85B is below 1% profit.

The overall point is that Netflix is in an extremely volatile and risky industry where it's not in a position to leisurely "extract" more profit because it's a bad guy or something, but rather it's very much been forced into doing things like cracking down on password sharing and introducing an ad-supporter tier simply to stay healthy as a business. Fortunately both of those things seem to be going well, but they easily might not have.

If a company's market cap drops 75% in a short period of time, it's making big changes out of necessity, not as a comfortable choice.
great news. China-Taiwan war chances seem high enough would be wise to reduce our dependence on both wherever we can
Yeah definitely more dishes, but honestly I throw most of the little bowls into the dishwasher on the top rack, so the marginal time impact is just the 1 min extra unloading the dishwasher…
They're free to try that and much more. However it's not like the customers have a gun at their head. You don't need a PhD to conclude you're being squeezed. At one point people just turn their backs and make do without the service.

Squeezing the customers has soft limits and it's always hilarious to watch corporations being oblivious to them.
Here's a few random passages I've highlighted on my Kindle. It's completely full of stuff like this, that you can just find by flipping somewhere random. It skirts the line between genius and insanity (which describes the man himself, I think). Sometimes I read one of the passages and I'm like "this man had totally lost all semblance of sanity" and sometimes I'm like "he was one of the smartest men to ever live". I think both are true. (And you've got to love how PKD himself explores the "wow, I really must be insane" avenue when he talks about The Exegesis in VALIS.)

> The brain is one multiperson ajna chakra, which one day as a unitary totality will open, discerning and annihilating (the 3rd eye of Shiva). (Herdsman of the souls.) All who participate in it will then see as I saw; they will be inside the eye; everything outside will be blasted, “burned like chaff,” i.e., cease to exist. At that point the brain will generate its own world out of itself. It, collectively, will totally control its world—the PTG.

> Ah! In Ubik locating the Ubik messages in cheap commercials was absolutely right on. I couldn’t have “guessed” more accurately. It’s obvious that the real author of Ubik was Ubik. It is a self proving novel; i.e., it couldn’t have come into existence unless it were true.

> This is a sinister life form indeed. First it takes power over us, reducing us to slaves, and then it causes us to forget our former state, and to be unable to see or to think straight, and not to know we can’t see or think straight, and finally it becomes invisible to us by reason of what it has done to us. We cannot even monitor our own deformity, our own impairment.

> Axiomatically, if you derange the brain in precise ways, not only will it be deranged, but if you have affected precisely the correct circuits it will be unaware that it is impaired and so not seek to rectify the damage.

> It’s like deciding something is real by comparing it with itself. So it’s a fool-proof simulation,

> No, damn it, it is like Ubik! The outside macrobrain is signaling us to wake up, we are like the characters in Eye, asleep—not on the floor of the bevatron—but while watching for Christ to return. We were made toxic—i.e., put into “half life”—as if killed. Fuck! I know it; Ubik is the paradigm! The half-life, the messages, Ubik itself, Runciter—we are in a sort of bubble of irreality: spurious world generated by—the plenary powers, astral determinism, whatever the fuck that is.
Yes, it would be convenient to treat prostetic devices as drugs and allow generics to be manufactured.
Don’t forget Espressif too.
A lot of OSS is used in modern hearing aids, actually. A hearing aid is closer to a small computer these days than you'd think.
a euphemism for sure
CodeWeavers is the team that contributes to Wine and Proton, and is behind CrossOver, which is used run Windows apps on Mac, Linux and ChromeOS.
I do not see anything dishonest here. No lies, no broken promises. If anything it is a bit passive-aggressive, but essentially the message is: “many of you are breaking terms or service and we are going to le you know we know who you are, as a warning”.
Related. Others?

Loda-lang – language, computational model, and OEIS miner - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639932 - Sept 2021 (14 comments)

The Connoisseur of Number Sequences (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074978 - May 2021 (2 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26848517 - April 2021 (31 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21366618 - Oct 2019 (28 comments)

Easter Egg in OEIS: Fur Elise in MIDI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20475896 - July 2019 (1 comment)

The online encyclopaedia of integer sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524115 - Nov 2018 (3 comments)

2, 3, 5,? Bell Labs (1968) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18357229 - Nov 2018 (4 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18015493 - Sept 2018 (4 comments)

OEIS submissions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17477542 - July 2018 (1 comment)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900294 - Dec 2017 (1 comment)

Pictures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11711212 - May 2016 (5 comments)

Play a Sequence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10445865 - Oct 2015 (3 comments)

The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10435690 - Oct 2015 (7 comments)

An Interview with OEIS's Neil Sloane - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10153589 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)

The Connoisseur of Number Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045818 - Aug 2015 (1 comment)

The Connoisseur of Number Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020831 - Aug 2015 (1 comment)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9919535 - July 2015 (19 comments)

Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380292 - April 2015 (2 comments)

* The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences* - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6650490 - Oct 2013 (20 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496629 - April 2011 (7 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=888577 - Oct 2009 (2 comments)
>Further I have a pet theory that the recent trend in 'flat' automotive paints (without the apparent depth and larger suspended metallic flakes common in decades prior) has been enabled by some kind of technical advance as well, not just a change in consumer tastes, although I have no evidence to support the idea.

I've wondered about this as well. One theory I've had is that older paints used lead based pigments which gave a glossier finish, but are no longer used. I also do not have any concrete evidence to support this aside from pointing out that automotive paint was exempted from the 1978 (US) lead paint ban.
I was a member of Netflix from 90s to about 2021. The beginning of the streaming era was great. But since then Netflix has a long history of being user-hostile that I said goodbye to them many years ago. I got sick of their stupid auto-play feature that couldn't be disabled.

They used to seemingly care helping you find new movies you like based on a star rating. Remember the Netflix challenge? Now I suppose there's a thumbs up, but really they probably just gauge based on if you watch or not.

Instead of adding tools to help people find a life-altering hidden gem of a movie they took them away. When their catalogue got exposed for being mostly garbage they just made it harder to stray from the most popular movies on the service. They had a social component I liked but they got rid of it a decade ago. Imagine if it were like letterboxd and you could have people you follow whose taste you liked and could trust to recommend movies? A company the size of Netflix would find this trivial to implement and yet they haven't because they want to make their service as stupid as possible. What about something like a faux-cable experience for people that don't want to pick from a list of 30k things? They refused to do that so now Pluto exists.

There are tons of ways that I think you could add community value-add but Netflix never did because they take their users for granted. I am sure this is literally a play to boost subscriber numbers based on how it went down in other countries. We'll see how it works but I for one have zero loyalty based on the contempt they show for the people that consume their product.
50 years in filesystems: towards 2004 – LFS
Certbot is practically a one liner in a cron job once you fill out the config.
Has math not changed because freshman calculus hasn't changed in the same amount of time?

Judging a field by what's taught to freshman is a poor metric for progress on the frontier.
Yeah I'm inclined to agree. They shouldn't have done it, but this seems to be a case sloppiness rather than malice, and nothing actually bad seems to have came of it from my cursory reading. Just a bunch of playing up what could have happened.
Their stock plummeted 75% between Oct 2021 and June 2022. That's not "doing just fine" by any standard.

So no, this isn't about squeezing out every last drop, this is about making necessary structural changes to remain viable in the long-term.
Since I make electronic music, I am very dialed in to swing, triplets, and schaffel rhythms. I just listened to MMMBop and I'm not hearing anything interesting going on. The drums are fairly unswung and the vocals are a little jazzy and swung. But I don't hear any explicit triplets on top of 4/4 action or anything. What am I missing?
Twitch star Amouranth can now be your AI girlfriend
Confusing title, thought it was a client for twitter
Oh for sure ethnic recipes are the downfall of The Joy of Cooking. Admittedly I have 0 skill in the kitchen, but those have turned out hilariously underwhelming. I’ve started to quadruple the spices
i see the thread is full of people predicting that this is going to be a bad decision for netflix, because they personally cancelled their accounts or are going to. and i cancelled my netflix account too - recent changes to pricing and policies made me re-assess whether it was worth it for me, and i decided it wasnt'.

but it's always good to remember that our own actions aren't necessarily the same as everybody else's. netflix has been rolling this out in a slow and cautious way across their territories, surely monitoring the impact, and decided to continue. and earnings are up, they've beaten or at least met projections the last couple quarters. whatever they're doing seems to be working.
For biology at least, my professors often said that by the time a textbook was published, it was 5 years out of date.
> This one is going in the orange site bookmarks, lol.

I mean, benchmarks say the performance gains are from 0.2%-60% comparing vanilla JS to WASM given various browsers (keep in mind it's not even twice as fast even in synthetic benchmarks). So I guess you're right: if I built my next todo web app, I'd definitely want to change my entire workflow, write a custom purpose-built runtime, and transpile from Python to WASM to eek out that sweet sweet performance in Google Chrome.

I don't even think we live on the same planet.
Assuming "kanban" is the Japanese 看板[1] ("kanban", billboard), the Department of Redundancy Department would like a word with you and Kanboard regarding "kanban board".

[1]: https://jisho.org/search/%E7%9C%8B%E6%9D%BF
That is exactly how they work. The implant is incredibly "dumb" and very future proof.
Kanboard just works, and doesnt distract you with shiny new "features", I will definitely start using the docker and it again internally. It's just so lightweight.
The dive into using it in AOSP is very cool
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

As it is right now it's cheaper for me to hit up Disney+ for a month rather than rent or buy a new release elsewhere, but as that gets harder the less I'll consume.
> For all the stories about malicious packages on PyPI and whatnot: I can't recall ever seeing a story about "misspelled packages caused us problems in production".

https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60f...

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26087064
D'oh. That one really didn't age well, did it?
It starts with actual democratic representation, which means ranked choice voting and ending unfair and illegal election tactics like gerrymandering. If our only two options weren't always two turds that were chosen for us we could get real accountability.
Waves of nostalgia seeing TPB and IRC related content.
> It doesn’t have anything to do with solvency

Of course it does. If a stock goes to $0, the company is essentially insolvent. Sure there are details of timing -- insolvency isn't exactly the same as bankruptcy isn't exactly the same as a stock price of $0 -- but in practice they all tend to go together and the company as a going concern owned by present investors is effed.
Adobe gets squat from me -- a potential customer -- so such dark patterns can only explode in their face. Adobe and Netflix are not the only game in town.
Chatgpt 4 offers a privacy mode now where it doesn't save your history and claims it won't be used for training.
Dust “Floats” Above Lunar Surface (2016)
In practice, a lot, and I mean, A LOT of research and development in health is done by universities under government grants from the NIH.

Like this
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/university-minnesota...
The expansion of the gas after it leaves the nozzle in vacuum would give the particles an additional kick. I'm not sure if their orbit would still intersect the engine or effectively boost higher.
Enjoying programming != enjoying programming as work. Incredibly stupid claim
I don't think there's any possible check for "blatantly account sharing". Whether there is a single account being passed around among a dozen friends, a parent sharing an account with their kid in college, a husband and wife using an account on their different business trips or whatever else, it's all the same to Netflix.
Cool idea, but for me the difficult part is understanding the author’s intention rather than the syntax. And thats is what needs solving. Not just at a high level but in detail.
I’m curious why you’ve got servers on 100Mb. Last time I ran a server on 100Mb was more than 20 years ago. I remember the experience well because we needed AppleTalk support which wasn’t trivial on GbE (for reasons unrelated to GbE — but that’s another topic entirely).

What’s your use case for having machines on 100Mb? Are you using GbE hardware but dropping down to 100Mb, and if not, where are you getting the hardware from?

Sounds like you might work in a really interesting domain :)
I don't think you really understand the extent to which restricting kids from social media can isolate them from their peers.

Even if you have a teenager who is social at school and through extracurriculars, many meaningful social interactions are happening online or through social media.

For example, almost every team/club these days has a "group chat", where kids spend time bonding outside of practice / organized events. Even if your child shows up to every organized event, they still may feel isolated due to being excluded from the conversations happening outside of practices.

Also, social media is the predominant force that is shaping Gen-Z culture. Being excluded from such a large driver of your peer's culture can definitely create feelings of isolation. Imagine if you had grown up in a household where music wasn't allowed, and how that could have made conversations with your peers more difficult. And social media is a significantly bigger cultural force than music was when you were a kid.

These are just a couple of examples, if you'd like I can list more ways that social media is semi-necessary for many kids to avoid feeling excluded.

I'm not saying this is necessarily always a bad thing (there are definitely strong arguments to be made for abstaining from some elements of society), but I would make sure you're communicating with your child and that you understand their social situation.
If you took all school shootings of all first world nations, other than USA, in the last 100 years, that number would still be eclipsed by the average number of yearly USA school shootings. Comparatively the USA is an extreme outlier, even compared to 3rd world nations.
Thanks for making your case. I tried a VPN service for a while to see what it was like to surf the web "from another country." It was with a provider "you can trust," but ultimately who can you trust? And it wasn't worth the monthly charge.
Currently we allocate most talent to unprofitable enterprises. Uber isn't profitable. DoorDash isn't. A lot of these companies will never turn a profit.

It says a lot about Western society that people only really feel incentivized to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer or coder if the money is right. Not about passion, or wanting to help people, or solve a particular societal problem. Just a bunch of individuals on a hedonistic treadmill making line go up.

There are tons of criticisms for the USSR and PRC, the two big examples that come to mind. But within living memory (my grandparents) both countries went from backwater agrarian feudal states to global superpowers. That amount of progress in so short of a timescale is dizzying to think about, and if we want to talk about the human cost of that progress (worthwhile) we should maybe recount the human cost for liberal representative democracy to reach where it is today.

How should labor be allocated? It's a great question. I think personally that having to sell your body to a capitalist in order to meet your basic needs is only a few polite steps removed from serfdom. When it's not regulated it clearly veers in that direction (scrip, company towns, etc.), and the only alternative is for you yourself to acquire/borrow capital and hope to enter the rent-seeking class. An alternative could be to simply meet people's basic needs without the fanfare. Let people work on solving real problems (climate change, carceral system, education, etc.) instead of optimizing ads and telemetry for the latest planned obsolence plastic box. We live in a post-scarcity society where food and clothes are destroyed so that the "underclass" can't at least enjoy the scraps.

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops". - Stephen Jay Gould
His perspective is part of what makes his work so relevant to today with our manufactured realities that he predicted so well.
If they can be generated from the source they probably shouldn't be in the source. Maybe it should be an IDE plugin that displays comments for code as you hover over it.
The satellite industry uses hardware equipment that has been around for a long so that all known issues are worked out and they can have an idea of lifespan because cost of replacement is astronomical. There are a few places online that talk about the processors and boards used in that industry. Might be an interesting place to start.
This reminds me of type I, type II and type III fun [1]

[1] https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale
iPad does MIDI. You can do Bluetooth MIDI and if you want cables you can buy a dongle.
Amazon Must Let Staff Use Workspaces for Organizing, NLRB Says
You are crazy. No healthy society has school shootings and it has no place in it. To accept anything less then a healthy and violence & gunfree place our kids can grow up in is insane.
Yes, a few times. One example: A friend had to submit an online form but made a mistake. The page allowed you to resubmit the data, except for some fields which became uneditable. As (bad) luck would have it, the error was in one of those. The fix would have involved calling the next day and dealing with DMV-like bureaucracy.

So I fired the browser developer tools and saw how the elements were disabled, made the correction, and resubmitted.
I think it should be censored because A. I think it’s important to protect victims of hate. and B. I believe allowing hate speech leads to hateful groups recruiting more members and gradually gaining power.

Who decides what hate speech is? The goverment… the same way they decide every other law.

Complaining about slippery slopes is fairly absurd. If we used similar logic we wouldn’t prosecute murder because of the slippery slope that would lead to locking everybody up.

I live in Canada… where unlike the US (but like many other countries), there are strong rules against hate speech, yet we haven’t descended into fascism nearly as much as the US has.

Hatred towards specific groups of people based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and gender should not be allowed in a civilized society. The value and and very existence of those groups of people is not up for debate.
You wave away of lot of physical action that is needed in a lot of cases - people are not as trusting in software as you think in some areas.

It might never happen that AIs can do all this and/or that defense AIs severely limit what offensive AIs can do.
You can sidestep the "growth trap" if you can become a utility.

Disney+ could do that, they have a huge backlog of children's content and people will pay for "the digital babysitter". All they need to do is buy cocomelon and pinkfong and they'd rule the upcoming generation.

But if your content sucks, then a competitor can eat your lunch by having good content.
American’s think guns keep them free. In fact they just hold them hostage.
Renowned 'Father of Modern AI,’ Says His Life’s Work Won't Lead to Dystopia
I think so!

But then, I'm one of those diehards. Even if I'm not paying in cash, I won't do business with a place that refuses to accept it. I think the continuing viability of cash is critical to maintaining a free society.
Martin, I really enjoy your posts & feel compelled to respond. I think the pushback is primarily on process, not results. Like, you do these 18 hour stints & get the millions & then land up, like you say, in the hospital. Or you could, you know, not put in 18 hours & not have millions & stay out of the hospital. There is that option too. In the midwest where I live, me & my neighbors aren't exactly phoning it in. We log into slack promptly at 9:30 and pick up the assigned jira tickets & git checkin & review the PRs & so forth. But come 5:30 its time for the family. Play outside with the kids, then an hour of TV, then some dinner & off to bed. It works. I don't see the need to complicate life in the fashion you advocate. To what end ? I'd rather spend more time with my wife & kids than hack on pytorch. I think what you are seeing in the millennials is the same sort of dialing back on ambition, not some passionate embrace of marxism. People are just tired. Cut them some slack.
Exactly. The problem is that the processor is absurdly expensive, up to 10 thousand dollars range in the US if you self-pay.