skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is largely US centric and largely suffers the blinkered bimodal view that the US itself mostly suffers from.

It's a problem amplified by Murdoch type media outlets who have weaponised the us-vs-them worldview for clickbait outrage and spread that dumbing down as far across the world as they are able.

For those of us not within that mindset such views seem very childlike and unsophisticated, there's a slew of nuance to the world that doesn't easily reduce to L v. R, "woke agenda" and all that et. al. jazz.

FWiW IMNotACommunist .. but I have an endearing love of this short interaction twixt Piers Morgan ( UK outrage talking head ) and Ash Sarkar for higlighting the pitfalls of not paying attention to what people actually think and believe in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Sarkar
>maybe I'm from a different generation, but the trolls can be very easily ignored.

if you're a no name user who barely comments, sure. Trolls have evolved beyond mean words in the last 20 years, though. They are NOT easily ignored anymore, and it only takes one doxxer to ruin your entire online presense. Or even physical.
I understood it (I think), basically they were saying some people only do their job when their manager is around hence the monkeys and people aren’t that different after all.

Hope this helps
That was a savage fight!
> The audience here skews towards those the truth.

The truth is that this sentence is believed by every audience ever convened.
17 years? We played tricks with zip bombs that used this approach during 90-s.
> but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences.

yeah but maybe these people are just as good when they aren’t in front of huge audiences..
Not sure I fully buy that. The “live” stream is rarely “live”. It’s often a highly cached buffer that’s a few mins from latest. Those in isp caches can still help here.
The adrenaline from being in front of an audience helps a lot.

But when I was a beginner at it, the stress was indeed crippling.

The cure for that kind of stress is to keep doing it, the stress will go away. Like if your throat freezes up when stepping behind the podium, just take every opportunity you can to public speak.

P.S. I don't get any adrenaline from a zoom presentation. As a result, they aren't near as good as the live ones.
Wait, when you see someone say "department of government efficiency" and mention corruption you hear "hitler hitler hitler"?

Maybe you're just really tired of hearing any criticism of blatant corruption and I'm sorry you're feeling that way. I bet that feels really discouraging and tedious and adversarial.

To me this comment reads as a callout of corruption, not fascism. The hitler criticisms you mentioned, in my experience, have been for things like the maga hats with the nazi font, the republican convention stage in the shape of the SS glyph, and the claim that immigrants are watering down the proper American bloodlines.

To your other request that people stop sharing their concerns: just because a lot of people vote for something doesn't mean it's inherently ethical nor does it mean people should be silenced. My assumption is most people don't want corruption or abuse or racism or fascism; if you think that too then you might have better success helping people understand why they are mistaken about what looks like corruption instead of telling people to just stop sharing opinions you're personally tired of reading.
I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too.

Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.
Prime Video has to be the worst of all major streaming services. The video quality is horrible, its crippled with ads (3 not skippable ads for an episode of 45 minutes, lastly), and a lot of interesting titles are behind a "partner paywall".
/r/netflix and /sp/
I don't think Netflix is even designed to handle very extreme multi-region live-streaming at scale as evidenced in this event with hundreds of millions simultaneously watching.

YouTube, Twitch, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc have all demonstrated to stream simultaneously to hundreds of millions live without any issues. This was Netflix's chance to do this and they have largely failed at this.

There are no excuses or juniors to blame this time. Quite the inexperience from the 'senior' engineers at Netflix not being able to handle the scale of live-streaming which they may lose contracts for this given the downtime across the world over this high impact event.

Very embarrassing for a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company.
I clicked on this thread to type that exact thing, holy smokes.

You're referring to Hooli's streaming of UFC fight that goes awry and Gavin Belson totally loses it, lol. Great scene and totally relevant to what's happening with Netflix rn.
How YouTube does this? Netflix is like drop in the ocean when compared to.
Currently trying to watch it and it's not loading at all for me. Re-subscribed specifically for the fight.
Looks like I’m playing Tysons Punchout right now
Serrano was robbed!
> This is from 2017, so I am wondering if the strategy would still work

Knowing the gambling industry, I bet it doesn’t work now
> Reminded me of Netflix a dozen years ago.

It's been pretty rough the last few years. So many great films and series, not to mention kids programming, removed to make way for mediocre NeTfLiX oRiGiNaLs and Bollywood trash.
That isn't the point. The point is the judgemental "question" type thing.

But also that is 2:30 p.m. for the other two guys, i.e. prime "still caffeinated and in the zone" time ;)
Its the specificity that's important. The general vibe is easy to interpret for commonly understood phrases, but often language complexity allows for subtle nuances that may be difficult to interpret if they are not properly used.
Main event hasn’t even started yet. Traffic will probably 10x for that. They’re screwed. Should have picked something lower profile to get started with live streaming.
Since February 2020

https://arstechnica.com/author/financialtimes/
yup wanted to say that live stream stuttering has happened before on Netflix - I don't think the reputation is deserved.

From a livestreaming standpoint, netflix is 0/x - for many large events such as love is blind, etc.

From a livestreaming standpoint, look to broadcast news, sports / Olympics broadcasters, etc and you'll see technology, equipment, bandwidth, planning, and professionalism at 1000x of netflix.

Heck, for publicly traded quarterly earnings livestream meetings, they book direct satellite time in addition to fiber to make sure they don't rely only on terrestrial networks which can fail. From a business standpoint, failure during a quarterly meeting stream can mean the destruction of a company (by making shareholders mad that they can't see and vote during the meeting making them push for internal change) - so the stakes are much higher than live entertainment streaming.

Netflix is good at many things, livestreaming is not one of those things.
Dealing with dementia in the elderly is difficult enough, but it has a progression and you can feel how close you're getting to the end. Having to provide a similar level of care to someone who may live on for decades seems like a living nightmare. My heart goes out to this man and any others with similar burdens.
Is cable and broadcast better for live TV? No scaling issues. Doesn't matter how many people tune in.
The documentary on this page does explain why they didn't make it, at the very end (it's half the section on the HL2 episodes).

In short, they started working on episode 3, and made it about the point where the game development progresses from "here's demos of what could be set pieces in the episode" to putting together the sketch of the game narrative [1] when the developers were pulled to crunch for Left 4 Dead. After Left 4 Dead released, Gabe felt the window for an HL2e3 had closed, so it would be HL3 instead... and that because HL1 and HL2 had both heralded genre shifts, HL3 needed something to push that shift as well. But there weren't any such ideas for that shift (except maybe VR, which hasn't exactly panned out), and Gabe also felt that releasing a HL3 just to complete the story wouldn't cut it, so it never got made.

Which pretty much matches everybody's speculation for the past decade.

[1] About 18-24 months away from being releasable at that point, to give a sense of how far from complete it was.
Hackernoon, substack or medium are the best to bootstrap your readership.

If you already have a following through other social media, I second jekyll on github pages or wordpress.

Or, just look at what the top bloggers use and follow along.
Can Mike Judge please stop predicting everything?
Is it really that big a deal if you are watching a few minutes behind?

I've watched ball games on streaming networks where I can also hear a local radio broadcast, and the stream is always delayed compared to the radio, sometimes by quite a lot. But you'd never know it if you were just watching the stream.
Us too
For the people who care about it (personally, I do not in this case, but there is others where I do), this is not just 'one bad night'; it is exactly the sort of event which justifies the premium.

<curmudgeon> I see we are fully into the post-accountability world. </curmudgeon>

At the very least, the customers deserve an explanation of what highly-improbable circumstance led to the unfortunate outcome, if the claim that "it's not right" is to be considered justified.
Explicit sarcasm markers are an important accessibility tool for neurodivergent people that might have otherwise a hard time figuring out if something is meant to be sarcastic.
Netflix pivoted to be a platform to waste as much of your time as possible vs entertain.

The Amazon originals are way better imo. They do the dark pattern crap with paid content, as one would expect from Amazon.
I can +1 with a similar anecdote.

They obviously have some really good engineers, but many low-tier ones as well. No idea how long they stay there, though.

I'm watching the fight now and have experienced the buffering issues. Bit embarrassing for a company that fundamentally only does a single thing, which is this. Also, yeah, 900k TC and whatnot but irl you get this. Mediocre.
Been working great for me as well. Starlink in Oregon.
>especially relative to the words it is trying to forcibly replace

what is it trying to replace? Straight/Heterosexual? That doesn't work for trans folk (at least not while there's still heated discussion on whether to respect their chosen gender).

And as flattering as it is. I'm '94 and I don't consider myself "new".

> And its popular usage was a part of the “current culture wars”.

Just like feminimism and masculism? or "social justice"? or Misogyny? or "Free Speech"?

Yeah, language works like that. You use what (sometimes) best communicates your thoughts
I was watching the rings of power and it started with a "Commercial free experience provided by so and so" with a long ad at the start of the episode, and then a third of the way into the episode, at a critical action part, it broke in the middle of the actor's sentence to a 6 minute ad block.

I exited playback and haven't gone back to finish it. I'll wait for it eventually to make it to a Blu-ray release someday.
I used to work for a live streaming platform once. We always joked that VOD (Netflix) was "easy" compared to live.
Works in Australia. Maybe their CDN is under a lot of stress?
Curb your enthusiasm had a good segment of episodes that were a parody on Netflix and how they shifted hiring from merit to other criteria.
They deserve safe food too.

Apparently there is some "line" for you where everyone under it is somehow inferior?
Wifi wifi or wifi as in your ISP Internet connection? Sp many people now call an Internet connection "wifi".

Anyway, network cable is the only way to go!
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> made it possible to cheat in ways that slide beneath the high evidentiary standards of the courts

But the issue isn't that the evidence didn't meet high standards -- it was that there wasn't any evidence at all. In many cases, the plaintiffs who filed these lawsuits dismissed them voluntarily, not even trying to put forth evidence.

> Or 2) Joe Biden was by far the most popular presidential candidate in history

I think we can all agree that's not the case. But have you considered that voters often turn out to vote against the other party rather than for their own candidate? At the end of 2020, a lot of people were feeling very unhappy with the incumbent administration. In fact, that was true globally -- incumbents fared terribly after the pandemic.
For what it's worth, Thoreau was writing from the relative safety of his friend's property. I can't help but wonder if his opinion on the utility of government would have been different if, while Emerson was out, somebody decided to come along and trash his cabin for fun.

Meanwhile, the old saw about those who trade freedom for safety deserving neither Liberty nor safety actually referred to the colonial government considering allowing the Penn family to forgo taxes in perpetuity in exchange for deploying some mercenaries to fight on the colonial frontier. Benjamin Franklin was talking to the legislature, and reminding them that they have the liberty of setting the law as they see fit - by giving up that Liberty via a guarantee of perpetual freedom from taxation for temporary safety, they (The legislature) would deserve neither.

In practice, government is forever a balancing act between liberties and safety. One can start at social contract theory and work one's way out from there if one wants a formal grounding, or one can go the common sense route and understand that if you go around cheating people, eventually people are going to gang up on you because we are social creatures.
> how the FTC's policies can influence this

By de-incentivizing M&A, and checking larger competitors to VC darlings by hanging the Damcoles sword of antitrust.

A decade ago Marc Andressen was lobbying Obama to work on this [0][1]

In Andressen's and much of his peer's eyes, most mid-late stage startups should be IPOing sooner than they actually are. And to a certain extent he isn't wrong.

Personally, I don't buy Andressen's argument - there is a reason we added added checks and balances in the IPO process.

> Could you explain this

To go public (just like any other fundraising stage), early stage ownership stakes tend to be diluted in order to attract later investors.

IPOs are a fundraising technique like any other, but the benefits tends to bias towards funds that target late stage or roadshow investors at the expense of early investors.

In the eyes of Andressen and his peers the IPO process needs to be simplified in order to make it easier for mid-stage startups to go public AND the incentive structures need to be changed so early stage investors (read VCs like A16Z) get outsized benefit.

For most funds, this really doesn't matter, but for the mega funds like A16Z, YC, Founders Fund, etc this is a make-or-break policy as most of their portfolio are mid-late stage startups that have been pushing off IPOs because they are too small for the current market, and taking acquisitions at what a number of early stage investors view as a suboptimal price - doesn't matter to the founder because they have cash, but it does to large early stage investors.

A direct listing or SPAC would be the ideal "IPO" method envisioned, but that has been cracked down on as well (and rightfully so tbh)

[0] - https://www.cnbc.com/2013/07/11/andreessen-talks-tech-boom-b...

[1] - https://www.vox.com/2014/6/26/5837638/the-ipo-is-dying-marc-...
The post-mortem will be interesting indeed.
livestream is quite different from streaming pre-processed video, so I'm not surprised by the scaling issues
Welp.. not for long, till January :(

It felt like we were making actual progress in dismantling the cancer that is big tech right now
Is this chatgpt copypasta at the end?

Regardless, this kind of straw man argument isn't very convincing. You can be against someone's stated policies while holding either supporting or opposing views on any particular topic; implying otherwise is baffling since it would require someone to PERFECTLY align with every opinion you have. Thinking RFK will be a good or bad leader has nothing to do with if someone opposes "moving away from seed oils".
>Is it really that big a deal if you are watching a few minutes behind?

i don't bet on sports. but from friends who do: yes, it's a really really big deal.
that’s totally unacceptable for live sports which people are able to bet on
> I'm in favor of self-controlled filters that let each of us decide what we want to consume, and when.

and you think any current mainstream social media will ever let us get full control of that?

And why is it fine for me to leave to another "echo chamber", but it's fine to filter myself with site features in your proposed "commons" to the point where I made an echo chamber?
I have prime and my shopping experience is crippled with ads too.

I think it got worse for sellers recently too. If I search for something, like a specific item using its description, sometimes the only result for it shows "sponsored".

It used to show up as sponsored and also unsponsored below.

If this changed, I assume it is bad for the seller. Either they pay for all search results, or their metrics are skewed because all searches were helped by "sponsorship" (and there are no longer unsponsored hits)
Nintendo has some where you can't rent anymore, because the save data is on cartridge. They all have limitations on regions.

Again, Steam /could/ do this. Has it? The others have done the things.
That model still works for streaming. You have a central source stream only to the distributed edge locations, then have clients only stream from their local edge location. Even if one region is overwhelmed, the rest can still work. Load on the central source is bounded.
Not sure how Netflix does it. But this is not very time sensitive, and I would have delayed the stream by 15 to 30 seconds to cache it and then deliver to everyone.
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Well said. People tuning in late missed out on the real main event. I have a feeling this Tyson fight will be a waste of staying up late and battling Netflix over.
Guess I was looking for explanations too hard.
AFAIK those three farm out to CDNs with tons of edges who know what they're doing.

I have a feeling Netflix said 'how hard could this be?' and is finding out right now.
I don't think that live doesn't work with caches. No one watching live would care about a O(s) delay, which is highly amenable to caching at ISPs and streaming changes from there to downstream clients. Offhand I'd say that would support O(ms) delay but no less.
They must have try to do this on the cheap, thinking they could dynamically scale on the fly for this. Big mistake.
No, you are needlessly trivializing it and maybe doing a disservice to others to whom it might be of great value.

I am not sure what you read, but Dr. Satchin Panda's research is not the "same light, eating, and exercise changes, mixed with some night-owl denialism." You can watch his(and other circadian researchers) longer videos on Youtube for more knowledge. Also two books i can recommend are a) The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda and b) When : The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink.

Circadian research is holistic since it studies how our body clocks (there are a set of them) are synchronized with Nature and thus when is the optimum time to do something with maximal benefit. Eg. When is the best time to take medicines for maximal efficacy, When is the best time to do exercise for maximum benefit etc. In the context of this thread, he doesn't talk about morning larks/night owls but merely allowing Natural Sunlight to tune us to its rhythms. So it doesn't matter what time you do get up in the morning (5/8/10AM etc.) but if you go and stand in the sunlight immediately after (or even better take a walk) your body adjusts itself so eventually you do get sleepy with sunset and awake at sunrise (within limits and control of other factors like exposure to other light sources). Similarly Exercise is most efficacious when done after 4PM etc.

Most of these practices are zero-cost and risk-free and easily adjustable to individual variations and much better than popping Melatonin pills etc.
Potentially more so in this brave new world of increased sports betting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sting

Offshore combined streaming and betting houses will be cleaning up the rubes.
My wild assed guess is the differences in the edge nodes.

Netflix's edge nodes are optimized for streaming already encoded videos to end users. They have to transcode some number of formats from the source and send them all to the edge nodes to flow out. It's harder to manage a ton of different streams flowing out to the edge nodes cleanly.

I would guess YouTube, being built on google's infrastructure , has powerful enough edge nodes that they stream one video stream to each edge location and the edges transcode for the clients. Only one stream from source to edge to worry about and is much simpler to support and reason about.

But that's just my wild assed guess.
I would be surprised if they don't already do this. The question is how big a buffer to trade off for delay...
Dumb question

Isn't live streaming at scale already solved problem by cable companies? I never seen ESPN going down during a critical event
I believe you were being flip here, but for what it's worth it did not.

"Cancel culture refers to the mass withdrawal of support from public figures or celebrities who have done things that aren't socially accepted today."

That's a pretty concise description of what happened to the Dixie Chicks after they criticized George W. Bush.
Its all ego when these companies think they hire the best.
> don't think its smart to act like we are somehow at the pinnacle of human knowledge and nothing we've done before can be more effective than what we know works now

Sure. Population growth is exponential. Deifying ancient knowledge is over-attributing knowledge to when we had little in both knowledge per person and persons per se.

Sanctifying traditional medicine means you’re out of ideas. You aren’t bad. But move on.
Yes. But The base of this thread is talking about how we can just "talk it out", when the disagreement is of things as base as "are [insert people here] inferior beings?"

No, I had centuries of ancestors fight so that question has a nigh-objective answer. I'm not going to entertain the argument to "expand my worldview". Why would I? That kind of talk is basically saying you don't respect me as a human being, so why talk with someone like that?
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