skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you would be hard pressed to give me a counter factual world that is believable where not doing this had a meaningful impact on Netflix's future.

Some scale for perspective: if this had a 10x ROI, they'd get $10mm for $1mm. At EOY 2009 (same year this competition was paid out), Netflix had a twelve-month-trailing Revenue of $1.671B. In 2006 they took in ~$1Bn. So it's 0.06% of annual revenue at payout time, 0.1% of annual revenue at announcement/green-light time.

The idea had a large margin of safety: in the worst case, nobody pays attention and you've generated some IP which would have cost ~$1mm to generate anyways, and which would theoretically increase retention (a top 3 KPI) by X%. And it had big upside potential, in the form of additional marginal hires, press/exposure of the core product in the news cycle leading to marginal subscribers.

Re hiring: I think it's totally plausible that it contributed to ~5% of 500 peoples' employment decisions since 2009.

Re subscribers: it's plausible to think it contributed ~1% to 10k peoples' decisions to subscribe, most of whom have retained to-date. It's classic "Brand Advertising" – and although it's difficult to quantify, it works.

Those numbers could be way higher, but it doesn't really matter if they were or weren't, the margin of safety, uncapped upside of the brand advertising angle, and low relative cost made it a bona fide good idea.

Edit: FWIW, that we're still discussing this idea in 2024 is more evidence that it was a good idea. This whole thread is full of Netflix's target demographic. We're all talking about how well-compensated and smart Netflix engineers are... You would never be able to purchase that kind of long-burn, compounding, high-expected-value attention for $1mm from any advertising network, in 2006-2009 or now.
My car chargers at 7kW at home.
Ha. Oddly... it's kinda nice to remember a good ol' con job doesn't need fancy tools like Stable Video Diffusion. We hear a lot of HN talk about deepfakes, and yeah deepfake is gonna make stuff like this worse, but at the end of the day... you can still just hire an expat actor hanging out in Thailand.
I won't be disingenous if you will be curious and give people the benefit of the doubt. Deal?
SMBC prestia requires your password to not contains more than two alphabet characters consecutively nor two numbers consecutively.

Invalid: abc123
Valid: ab12cd34a4f9

Obviously, no uppercase or ANY special characters like “.” Allowed…

Everything is bloated with security theater, where the most critical things are vulnerable. For example, I saw a form for 2-Chōme requiring a phone number with three input slots. Entered my phone, it’s already been used. That’s fine, I just shifted one number from one slot to the other.

80-1234-5678 (already registered)

80-123-45678 (workaround to use the same phone number on a different account).

It worked.
Can you put in your logins for all your brokerages and investment accounts and it pulls in the tax data automatically? This is hugely important for me since I make a bunch of trades (not enough to be a day trader, but enough to be annoying for tax purposes).
DNR :peace:
It's already the same thing on at least HRBlock website for many years - federal is free, state is a fee, and some extra stuff they sell.
That only follows if God didn’t enable free will. Most theists believe God will redeem and rehabilitate the entire universe once time is up. For example, Christians believe that sin is responsible for a fallen world and that God will fix not just the planet, but the entire universe.
I feel a great deal of sympathy for your loved ones. They'll either watch you decline care that will extend your life from ~hours to a normal lifespan, or at the other end of the spectrum they'll watch you live out an incredibly uncomfortable and tortured few months (if you're lucky). I hope you have a will.
But why? Valve is not involved with Portal 64. They could very well decide to just ignore it and if using those libraries is an issue, why wouldn't Nintendo go after the guy instead of a company which has nothing to do with it?
Some how, don't think Lisp fourier series via UTF character fitting was a defining motivation for being able to stack UTF chars into single char space.

Perhaps nyquest plot[2], nyquestgui[1] or "Inverse Procedural Modeling of Branching Structures by Inferring L-Systems"[0] discusses an approach.

More 'standard' approach would be to have sound image in svg format then convert svg image to g-code. use image scaling to filter out higher/lower level harmonics.

g-code used in cnc / laster cutter machines is similar to l-system working/local system coordinates.

Lot more verbose, but likely could be culled & transformed into a slimmer 'l-system' like take.

inkscape is a graphics program with the ability to convert svg to g-code.

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[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38945108

[1] : https://lpsa.swarthmore.edu/Nyquist/NyquistGui.html#Introduc...

[2] : https://lpsa.swarthmore.edu/Nyquist/Nyquist.html
I'm talking about repeated, big pushes for extremely short-term departmental achievements that touch everyone including people with five-digit annual earnings.
Fair enough. I don't care about college football, and I see it from a distance. That might give me a less accurate perspective, or a more accurate one, depending.

But large-scale situations result from norms, incentives and behaviors. Looks like the incentives are about the same, while the behaviors are now worse and are causing norms to drift. We can shame people into better behavior in the short term, but the incentives are still there.
Well in terms of the various capabilities the article highlighted

* dark starting
* capacity
* grid stabilization

it sounds like the battery plant is successful. But the article itself says that the plant does not replace the "energy" component of the old coal power plant, which is why I asked the questions I asked. And it is the energy component that is critical for really retiring base load capacity provided by fossil fuel plants at grid level. Without the ability to retire the base load capacity you aren't really solving the problem. Costs rise dramatically (you now have two energy systems) and/or you have to accept less reliability (running out of power when wind/solar/hydro/battery are inadequate).

I think you are mis-interpreting my comment and being unfair in characterizing what I'm saying as "narrow minded" or "grasping at straws".

> The old coal generator provided three key values to Oahu, Keefe explained: energy (the bulk volume of electricity), capacity (the instantaneous delivery of power on command), and grid services (stabilizing functions for the grid, wonky but vital to keeping the lights on).

> The battery directly replaces the latter two: It matches the coal plant’s maximum power output (or “nameplate capacity,” in industry parlance), and it is programmed to deliver the necessary grid services that keep the grid operating in the right parameters.
> The relationship between car size and injury rates is still being studied, but early research on the American appetite for horizon-blotting machinery points in precisely the direction you’d expect: The bigger the vehicle, the less visibility it affords, and the more destruction it can wreak.

> In a report published in November, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit, concluded that S.U.V.s or vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches — standard-issue specs for an American truck in 2023 — are 45 percent more likely to kill pedestrians than smaller cars.
Postdocs, for example would be counted under that.
> little software shops which take on a stable number of projects / contracts / clients a year

If I could be promised the stability of a trade gig such as plumbing in the software aspect you describe I'd probably want to stay in technology. The reality sadly is otherwise, almost across the board from my tiny anecdotal experience.
State is $14.99 but each year I find a coupon online for a couple dollars off. Using them for years almost no complaints except for a couple UI tweaks that are relatively minor. Great interface overall.
I feel the exact same way. After nearly a decade in industry, I want to transition away from corporate life and start my own small software company. It will not be a high-growth startup; instead it will be a bootstrapped business. The issue is I’m having a hard time thinking of ideas; I’ve only worked in academic or corporate environments and thus I know little about the ecosystem of smaller software companies. Moreover, I grew up in an era of shrinkwrapped software and shareware, but these business models have largely lost ground in the past 15 years; it seems that SaaS is the way to make money in the software industry these days. But I may be unaware of other business models that may be viable.
My ISP constantly sends me emails about "staying safe online" and "the holiday season". At the bottom of the email, it says "THIS IS A SERVICE-RELATED EMAIL", supposedly to excuse the lack of any unsubscribe link.

Unfortunately you are no longer allowed to take them to court over this, as their terms of service simply say you are no longer allowed to sue them :) just like all tech companies that know they're committing lawsuit-worthy offenses.
> "don't worry about it - you aren't responsible for fraud".

Have fun trying to dispute an atm card transaction. The agent actively dissuaded me from doing it and said it was not possible.
The biggest package on npm is 5.96 GB
If you are in a start up leave as soon as it’s clear your options will be worthless
I am still really happy with using git subrepo as my metarepo https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo
I'm pretty happy with how the accounts work: my children watch Octonauts in a Kids account (sometimes I watch with them), my wife and I have separate accounts, so she doesn't get recommendations for war movies and psychological thrillers, and I don't get recommendations for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
whoosh

That was the sound of you zooming right past my argument and pretending I was saying something I wasn’t.

I’m not saying CICO is a good idea. I’m not saying it’s healthy. I’m not saying it’s easy. I’m not saying it will have a high chance of success vis a vis people actually being able to stick with it. I’m merely saying IF you do it right, THEN you will lose weight. This is trivially and tautologically true (to the point of CICO being useless to most people!), but it’s extremely tiring having to explain it over and over that it still works despite all of this.

To put it another way: there are two operative definitions of “works” for a diet:

1. Will it work if you do it exactly as directed?

2. Is a typical dieter likely to have success by attempting this diet?

CICO fails miserably at 2. It passes with flying colors at 1. Its best not to conflate the two definitions in the middle of an argument because you end up talking right past one another.
Nope. It doesn't integrate with any banks, payroll systems, or do any tax form parsing.
Same in Japan. My name is truncated on nearly every single form I receive from utilities companies. online forms will regularly limit your full name to 9 kana in total.
I understand the fear, but that's not the case. There have been plenty of times when I've scolded and/or banned accounts for posting slurs in the opposite direction. Btw this has been true—in both directions—for many years, and will continue to be true.

It may surprise some people, but this isn't one of the harder parts of moderating. There are borderline cases, but fewer than you might suppose, and asking people to make their substantive points without slurs (and/or banning the egregious cases) is usually fairly clear-cut and fairly accepted by the community, regardless of who the slur is directed against.

In this case, for example, I can't imagine that fair-minded advocates for Palestinians would have any problem with us moderating an obviously trollish comment referring to "jew tunnels". On the contrary, they'd surely be happy to have that cleared off HN so there is no chance of being associated with it.

p.s. there were no backchannels here. I ran across the comment randomly and it was a straightforward moderation call. I gave the user a path to get unbanned, if they want to, because they weren't a brand new account.

> There are comments denying Palestinians the right to live but they never get dang attention

If such comments exist, I certainly want to see them. Keep in mind that we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

I know it feels like the mods are against you—everyone with strong feelings feels that way—but it's not true. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... We all seem to be hard-wired to jump to such conclusions, though, when strong feelings are active. For a long series of comments attempting to explain why, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
It's been built but not delivered as its waiting for upgrades. One of the upgrades is the computer - which I had never thought about before. What platform does a cutting edge fighter even use??

Turns out it's a custom CPU/GPU developed by L3Harris [1] running the Green hills Integrity real time OS [2]. It's unsurprising that it's all super custom hardware and software for military use, but conceptually it's like alternative universe of computing. I wonder what it's like to work with.

1. https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/high-performance-i...

2. https://www.ghs.com/products/rtos/integrity.html
And this is before PG&E gets around to all their deferred maintenance on lines that are likely to start deadly wildfires.

One does have to wonder where all the money has gone, and what the supposed regulators at CPUC are allowing to happen.
Yeah, but for almost everyone on this forum who makes enough to even file taxes, the time that would be spent re-entering everything is probably more valuable than the $15 charge.
What does it even mean to "clutter" a taskbar if you exclusively use websites? i.e. what is the point of a taskbar devoid of apps other than the browser?

In-app tabs are supposed to be the second level of grouping, hence why it gets its own shortcut. What you're describing is an attempt to flatten that hierarchy, which is a valid approach, but why are you surprised that not everybody shares your enthusiasm for it?
The Aztecs were pretty much hated by their neighbors. They would make a sculpture out of cereal and the blood of their enemies and then eat it.
Crime isn't the only thing that impacts people's health.

- Difficulty getting insurance to see the doctor impacts peoples' safety and sense of safety.
- Fear of gaps in insurance coverage keeps people in toxic jobs where they feel unsafe.
- Many people can't get prescription medicines they need, impacting health.
- Homelessness is increasing
- Polarized political speech, including hate speech, causes legitimate anxiety, contributing to poor psychological health.

None of the above things were as big of a problem 20 years ago.
Using "crime" as a measure of unsafety only makes sense if you have access to healthcare, a stable job, and don't face discrimination.
I have the "two back tap" accessibility feature setup to start chat gpt voice. It works great. I just two back tap and look at the phone and its ready to start listening.
TLS implementations for linux IMAP email back in the day would fail-over to unencrypted credentials if the TLS handshake was unsuccessful. Not sure if that was somebody's Postellian interpretation or if it was just the spec. We had to actually block the unencrypted ports in the firewall because there was no way to tell from the client side whether you had automatically been downgraded to in-the-clear or not.
This is barely scraping the surface. Social media might not be the only thing causing harm to society, but it is still a raging dumpster fire which can be seen from space.
This comment shows a lot of ignorance. An ETF is just a "wrapper" for an Underlying Asset. Bitcoin is still decentralized as ever, and will continue to be. This approval just makes it easier for larger financial institutes to access it without having to worry about becoming a custodian, and will likely drive the price up a bit over the next many years.

Bigger picture, the USA has just given Bitcoin the greenlight, and this will have big fiscal and geopolitical implications in 10-20 years.
The readme is understandable and the failure modes means it degrades to an ordinary git repo.

> This git command "clones" an external git repo into a subdirectory of your repo. Later on, upstream changes can be pulled in, and local changes can be pushed back. Simple.
I only meant it in terms of popularity. I just noticed among my white friends.
what a crazy day, week. The fun or insanity never stops.
As with all good writing, it is hard for me to tell serious suggestions from satire.

However, hpa seems to be the crazy genius type, so maybe it's all for real.

The thing I'd like to know is, given that the kernel is written in "kernel C", a shared culture about how C should be used together with a hairy mountain of macros, why not make kernel-C a proper language?

It's probably just a number of extensions away. Together with some rules about code generation, it could make for a fairly neat dialect of C that would be much easier to use and understand. It would also pave the way for further experiments with compile time guarantees about soundness of isolated sections of the code.

Because, and we should be honest about this, going any C++-like route would impact the long term quality of submitted code. There should be no technical reason for this, but that does not make it something that should be turned a blind eye on.
Can different .git-credentials files also be loaded conditionally? When one uses https access with multiple accounts....
Here is a study for two areas, Germany and California:

http://euanmearns.com/the-cost-of-wind-solar-power-batteries...
As the linked article says it is used by Chrome's login feature to sync cookie state (which expires faster?) and browser state (which people expect to be permanently logged in - even through password resets?).
they said they finish work in 1-2 hours
Precisely. Spending ones life making other people rich is a waste.
I might have been over the top. Unless something illegal is going on, or you are getting harassed, you could say "hey it is day 1, I don't like this, I will set a calendar reminder for 2 weeks to check in again, and assess".

Plan continuation bias is hard to overcome though.
Performance up, complexity down: Killer updates from Shopify engineering
Sadly, this is a false dichotomy. I've been involved with plenty of small companies where things are somehow both chaotic and also very structure/process-oriented, bureaucratic, and absolutely not fun or creative. My experience at Airbnb 2012 - 2016 is also that a company that's quite large can also be chaotic, fun, and creative.

Alas, to filter companies, size is not enough. If you want positive attributes, you have to explicitly look for them.
I'm about to read this because it looks fun but first...

The Paris Review? Are they kidding? Do they mention that in the early years the PR was Mathiesson's cover as a CIA agent and a lot of funding came from them, at least indirectly but with full knowledge? I'm not trying to knock it down - it's a fine publication. But that's just funny.

This is part of one of my favorite historical footnotes. There was theoretical debate between the US and USSR about which system fostered the flowering of culture, each side saying theirs was better not just for the economy and government, but under (capitalism / socialism) culture was better because of (the free market of ideas / state support) and so forth. So to have something to point to, the CIA just went out and covertly funded a bunch of cultural outlets. Make of it what you may that the government was secretly subsidizing these and just how capitalist that is or isn't...

Or a footnote to the footnote, Timothy Leary wound up friends with G Gordon Liddy of all people. Many years after they met when Liddy was an FBI agent in the raid on Leary's compound, Leary had faded as a countercultural figure and Liddy had done his time after Watergate. They were apparently chatting and Liddy asked "Tim, you know I always wondered. Were you working with the CIA? That had always been the rumor, but I thought to myself at the time 'you know if that's true it would really destroy any legitimacy he has with the left.' So Tim, is it true? Did you work with the CIA?"

To which Leary's reply was just "...well Gordon who did you expect me to work with? The KGB!?!"
Depends on the work being done. In my experience in-person collaboration just means the loudest most stubborn person gets their way and it's difficult to pause things to fact-check and research while decisions are being made. And honestly, fighting with this behavior is above my pay grade.
> I really like this idea. A lot of the experience of a retro machine is the physical device. I've been toying with the idea of making Atari ST and Amiga keyboards with USB ports just so that the emulators would "feel" more real.

THEC64 got a lot of love and goodwill from the retro community, just by having a breadbox case and a keyboard with real C64 layout and feel. It's still an emulator on an ARM computer, so it's not going to be cycle-accurate or even particularly low latency. But damn it, the feel of the thing is pretty close to booting and playing with a real C64 for 98% of the things you might do with it!
No. That is pretty typical HN bias. I’ve too never worked anywhere VC-funded. Any increase in remuneration I’ve received as a result of a tech bubble at the very least has to be weighed up against the indirect downsides. The dominant technologies of the last 10+ years have been influenced by a) nothing needing to be built to last, and b) lots of companies having insanely high head counts resulting in over-engineered solutions. Both of these things have made my job leas enjoyable and I’d at the very least consider taking a pay cut to be in a world where things went differently. I can think of plenty of other downsides.
Xbox One S/X doesn't have a disc drive, Xbox Series X doesn't have a disc drive, PS5 needs the disc drive bought separately and paired over the internet.

Only the original Xbox One had a disc drive integrated.
Sounds like Calendly on steroids: when do you release SaaS or open source repository?
In tech companies in Munich, Germany the time to leave the company is when the whole team no longer gets an invite to Oktoberfest.