skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but the last time they tried a livestream (a reality show reunion), it also fell over. I suppose to their credit, my stream never outright died yesterday, it just went to potato quality.
My doctor can barely use a mouse let alone comment on surveillance technology
The only people I have seen
Honestly I'm looking to a future where no one has to worry anymore about hereditary conditions. If we can eradicate viruses we should also be able to manage this.
There are endless amounts of stories and situations in which selling something before it really exists has helped businesses. It's totally plausible that a team working on video streaming at the scale of Netflix could figure out live streaming.

Pre-optimization is definitely a thing and it can massively hurt (i.e. startups go under) businesses. Let's stop pretending any businesses would say 'no' to extra revenue even before the engineering team had full assurance there was no latency drop.
> People just do not appreciate how many gotchas can pop up doing anything live.

Sure thing, but also, how much resources do you think Netflix threw on this event? If organizations like FOSSDEM and CCC can do live events (although with way smaller viewership) across the globe without major hiccups on (relatively) tiny budgets and smaller infrastructure overall, how could Netflix not?
> And they end up repeating slots of content in all the rows in their UI, so I end up seeing the same suggestions everywhere rather than much that's new

All of the streaming services do this and I hate it. Netflix is the worst of the bunch, in my experience. I already scrolled past a movie, I don't want to watch it, don't show it to me six more times.

Imagine walking through a Blockbuster where every aisle was the same movies over and over again.
That was the original goal of cjdns, which is why it automatically peers with other nodes reachable over Ethernet (no IP needed), including WiFi (see the first paragraph of https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/Whitepape...). Unfortunately, its approach to routing turned out to not scale in practice. Yggdrasil uses a different routing algorithm so it might.
Couldn’t you simply create bounties to report employers employing illegal immigrants?
There is the TARDIS monad in Haskell https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tardis-0.5.0/docs/Contro... It doesn't have the multiple timelines or killing features - it just deadlocks if there is a paradox or the timeline is inconsistent.
It is weird because this was a solved problem.

Every major network can broadcast the Super Bowl without issue.

And while Netflix claims it streamed to 280 million, that’s if every single subscriber viewed it.

Actual numbers put it in the 120 million range. Which is in line with the Super Bowl.

Maybe Netflix needs to ask CBS or ABC how to broadcast
It is not easy to do this. A friend learned the hard way. She was visiting the US and needed a laptop. Their online shop doesn't take foreign cards, probably to prevent price arbitrage. Lots of Reddit posts confirm the problem. You can always go to a bricks-and-mortar but model selection is more limited, especially in case of exotic SKUs.
Everyone here talking like this something unique netflix had to deal with. Hotstar live streamed india va Pakistan cricket match with zero issues with all time high live viewership ever in the history of live telecast. Why would viewers paying $20 month want to think about their technical issues, they dropped the ball pure and simple. Tech already exists for this, it’s been done before even by espn, nothing new here.
> The assumption of stack ranking is that the good people will survive each round of purging.

It's my understanding that Amazon does not do stack ranking.

What they do is more insidious. They force people out in a process that consists of promoting people as a pretext to apply harsher performance evaluation criteria while comparing your performance directly with veteran, well established engineers.

To make matters worse, you have a limited influence over your career. You are evaluated based on your performance in your role which is dictated by the project you are assigned to.
SDE1s are de-facto barred from switching teams, SDE2s can switch teams but can be a liability, SDE3s are few and far in between and have limited career options, and on top of that there's only principal engineer, which is already a role that needs full support and commitment from executives.

The rule of survival was move up to SDE2 as fast as you could, and afterwards judiciously switch teams each year or so to a) avoid being held liable for your past work, b) ensure you were working on a team thay was unlikely to be subjected to cuts, and most of all c) do your best to not be considered for a promotion to SDE3 as that would mean you would be held personally responsible for each and every single failure and short-coming of the projects you'd be assigned to.

In short, they push people up and out. The average tenure is shorter than 3 years. Let that sink in.
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I think this was true at some point, but I’ve been disappointed in the quality of the OSS Netflix tools recently. I think before k8s and a plethora of other tools matured, they were way ahead of the curve.

I specifically found the Netflix suite for Spring very lacking, and found message oriented architectures on something like NATS a lot easier to work with.
A Viral Google Doc Experiment During Google Layoffs
I do. With kicad and freecad 1.0rc. It is a joy and a pleasure.
The case against cases.

Even the most compelling and logically consistent case stands upon "mere" observation, convention and authority.
Odd... you're not the first person I've heard this from, but have been hearing this particular process happening from multiple colleagues over the last 18 months. They are all out of work, all have had multiple interviews with various size companies, and they can never get past an Indian interviewer, and the teams seem to be growing in Indian folks, while non-Indians are let go or passed over for advancement, and eventually leave.

I was slightly skeptical when I heard of this the first time. It sounds a bit like some post hoc justification for why they didn't get hired. But nothing about it sounds far-fetched, really. It sounds more like a natural progression and part of human nature. But still stinks for a lot of my friends/colleagues who can't seem to get hired anywhere.
I do wonder how this pertains to "blast processing" in the original Sega Genesis

Some say it was a temporal distortion field around the 68000 increasing clock speed by 900%

Some say it was the code name for programmers working 140 instead of 80 hours a week writing assembly.

Some say it is something to do with streaming realtime pixel data to the graphics chip for high-color graphical image rendering

If you ask me, though, time distortion
It was the hottest thing you could have as a gamer at the time, since they were so rare. I never saw one, even for sale. That and the Neo Geo. There was a lot more diversity in computing hardware then.
If you're going to be having intense algorithm interviews, paying top dollar for only hiring senior engineers, building high intensity and extreme distributed systems and having SRE engineers, we best see insanely good results and a high ROI out of it.

All of the conditions was perfect for Netflix, and it seems that the platform entirely flopped.

Is this what chaos engineering is all about that Netflix was marketing heavily to engineers? Was the livestream supposed to go down as Netflix removed servers randomly?
"Neutral-Colored Transparent Radiative Cooler by Tailoring Solar Absorption with Punctured Bragg Reflectors" (2024) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202410613
Totally agree and I'm still annoyed by at psu connectors. Why do motherboards still the giant clunky 24pin connector, it's just ridiculous.
Yeah, this is the reason for why I did not search for the title, to be honest.
I played HL2 after playing STALKER. I've had to go into abandoned underground lab to get paper so many times that Ravenholm didn't phase me.
> service providers who are willing host/facilitate illegal activities

At least for NFL pirate streams, it seems they tend to use "burner" tenants from Azure and AWS. Of course they get shut down, but how hard is it to spin up another one?
Quick plug for my HN book club on that book! We just finished Ch 1 of The Dream Machine, if you’re interested in joining.

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see pihole, et al.
First past the post systems generally have lower turnout than proportional systems. Even record turnout for the US isn't very high in international terms.

And if that record turnout is to support and/or oppose a candidate that seeks to burn the whole system down and gets votes due to the system not reflecting voters priorities for a while then it further supports my theory.
Amazon prime streams the Thursday night NFL game and they seem to have no problem.
https://steins-gate.fandom.com/wiki/Divergence_Meter

> Iconic time clock used in the time-travel anime 'Steins;Gate'.

It's actually called a a divergence meter. But as a matter of interest what a-hole marked your post down into invisibility?
Native apps have a lot more scope for client side load balancing due to having a different security model than browsers.
they should also do a business postmortem, how did the exec greenlight this without livestreaming infrastructure in place?
Scale changes everything, I don't think it's fair to shrug this off
I had a game engine debugging dream last night
mp3 is easy to say.. in English. "ogg" is much easier. i.e that was not the reason.
This isn't Netflix's first foray into livestreaming. They tried a livestream last year for a reunion episode of one of their reality TV shows which encountered similar issues [0]. Netflix already has a contract to livestream a football event on Christmas, so it'll be interesting to see if their engineers are able to get anything done in a little over a month.

These failures reflect very poorly on Netflix leadership. But we all know that leadership is never held accountable for their failures. Whoever is responsible for this should at least come forward and put out an apology while owning up to their mistakes.

[0] https://time.com/6272470/love-is-blind-live-reunion-netflix/
I blame RTO and AI
> coders discovered that scanning the ZIP local entries to be a faster way to build up the ZIP archive entries, otherwise you're forced to seek all the way to the end of a ZIP archive and work backwards to locate the central directory

Would this have worked? Reserve a few bytes at the beginning of the archive at a fixed location offset from the start, and say "this is where we will write the offset to where the central directory will start." Then build the whole archive, writing the central directory at the end. Then seek back to that known offset at the start of the file and write the offset to the central directory. When creating the archive, we can write the central directory to a temp file, and then append that in to the end of the file we're building at the end, and fix up the offset.

Seems like this strategy would enable us to both have a number of files in the archive that are known at the beginning, and also allow us to do a high-speed seek to the central directory when reading the archive.

I imagine people thought about this idea and didn't do it for one reason or another. I can imagine why we didn't do that for Unix TAR-- most tape devices are a one-way write stream and don't have random access. But ZIP was designed for disks; I'm curious why this idea wouldn't have solved both problems.
No, Fred is right - it would better if it was atom or gemini, that's literally what he is saying.

Yggdrasil - I just had to type the entire word out and even then autocorrect didn't tell me I had a word. I think the Mp3 vs Ogg Vorbis is perfect analogy.

Tbh, I wouldn't use a Scandinavian language word for a global application as it will automatically frustrate any English as a second language users - the words defy practically all rules of English, they frustrate me even as no matter if I can read them, I often have no idea how to pronounce them unless I've already heard them said.

This is one of those words I encountered many times before I first heard it said and actually knew how to say it.

Fred is right 100
This leads to an empty page at the linked blog
Ah, their fabled rear-view mirror again.

A nicely-presented summary of various tech applications but I’m not sure we need a lighthouse anymore.
+1. Jumping into an unfamiliar code base with no docs and no access to the original developers offers a lucrative bottomless pit of work for a skilled freelancer. I made this my specialty a decade ago.
You’re right, the sensation never came back for me. It’s the outer half that was exposed to the side of my boot.

My feet were too cold to notice that water got inside my boot, then by the time my toes were freezing there was no way my nerves could let me know. I only spent around 4 hours like that, but it was enough. It wasn’t even painful until the moment it went into the shower so I had no idea what was going on even once I got home into a warm house. It’s sneaky stuff.

I do remember being creeped out by how white and immobile my toes were. I knew that wasn’t great, but I didn’t think they’d literally begun to freeze. I’m a lot more careful now.
Do you live stream the superbowl? Me and everyone I know watch it over antenna broadcast tv. I think it is easier to have millions of tvs catch airwaves vs millions of point to point https video streams.
> The picture that emerges is that a placebo pill has almost no effect when administered by researchers who do not care about the placebo effect, but the exact same pill has an enormous effect larger than all existing treatments when administered by a researcher who really wants the placebo effect to be real.

Stopped reading right here because it is nonsense. Antidepressant researchers would love nothing more than the 30-50% placebo response rate to go away and yet there it is, competing with whatever tiny effect their pill does.
No recovery expected, and it has been 20 years this January.
Does this allow UV-C light through to sanitize indoors?

What is PMDS?

Can a transparent window coating that blocks infrared but not UV-C be made from starlite with similar methods, and what would be the production costs and relative sustainability?
What is an "expert system" to you? In AI they're just series of if-then statements to encode certain rules. What non-trivial part of an LLM reaching out to a chess AI does that describe?
For a polar bear? I guess in theory it’s possible but I’ve never heard bear spray recommended for polar bears.

If you want to go backpacking in Svalbard I’ve heard you need to rent a gun and also set up alarm trip wires around your camp. Polar bears are built different.
Execs never listen or even ask engineers about feasibility of projects they sign up to. Hope the exec in question will be let go.
This really blows for me, as EVs are all I rent when I travel. (We have two EVs at home.) I get it, though. Most travelers want gas cars; they are familiar and easier to refuel.

That said, I can definitely confirm that it is way harder to rent a Tesla (or any EV) on Hertz than before. Avis still has a good inventory of them, though.
You're very welcome.

There's a lot of misunderstanding about how copyright works, and unless it's something you work with regularly it's basically just a load of abstract handwaving!
This is the whole point of chaos engineering that was invented at Netflix, which tests the resiliency of these systems.

I guess we now know the limits of what "at scale" is for Netflix's live-streaming solution. They shouldn't be failing at scale on a huge stage like this.

I look forward to reading the post mortem about this.
I wonder if google really never had this turned on before? Like this has been available in the C++ standard library for decades(normally as a debug feature to catch errors in development, but some implementations such as MS support it in release also).

Might explain why they claimed 70% of exploits were memory related..
People have been dreaming of mesh networks forever. Unfortunately they scale very poorly (among other issues) and this is a fundamental limitation of their design. The Internet (ARPAnet) started out as a mesh network and the concept of trunks, backbones, and routing came about to solve those scaling issues.
It should be https://www.avidfayaz.com/writings/eacc/eacc-as-a-religion-t...
No, hydrogen is excellent for long term storage. It is stored underground.

"Couple of orders of magnitude more expensive" is not correct. For long term storage, the capex per energy storage capacity dominates, and the cost of underground storage caverns (especially solution mined in salt) is very cheap, an order of magnitude cheaper per unit of stored energy than reservoirs for water.
The title should have been...

Monkey Seen, Monkey Do
ik i’m saying this as a lay person but the ones that fail always seem to be the ones that try to do everything all at once and rely on some in the clouds abstract opinionated perceptions of what their big future should be like and how much more money is needed to make it happen and all it never ends up syncing with what people actually need to improve their life, maybe just try like nailing down a problem and creating a good solution.
Think of the resources!
This will cost money too and will only help with "finding" the productive illegals that are employed.

You still have to pay to send the cavalry to round them up, detain and feed them until you can process them and transport them back to their native country.

Guess who ultimately pays the price for all this --- US citizens --- in more ways than one.

Bottom line: It's expensive to remove lots of low cost labor and wreck your economy all at the same time. But I'm sure Trump will figure it all out. He's a business genius you know.
> He can't --- at least not legally.

Laws only matter if you can enforce them. That is the somewhat concerning situation; he’s going to pursue an agenda with few checks and balances. “Oh, it’s illegal? So what?” If there are no consequences, the law is meaningless.
> The masses just want food and security.

sure, but half of the country believes that's achieved with some measures and the other half believe those measures are the cause of the problems. A dictatorship doesn't change that, you'll only have half of the country incapable of voting for a change.
That doesn't sound right. Maybe they got a very cheap insurance policy with ultra high deductibles for collision and UMP. That would be a $1500 job for me, at most.
If you're on Apple, Comcast can make it magically not suck. Not sure if it's relevant though.

Cogent just seems to love picking fights with everyone (see Hurricane Electric). Why are they still in business?
Yep they’re actually all just one game now. They’ve bundled them and kinda archived them old standalone.
"Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726698 :

"Flickering gamma-ray flashes, the missing link between gamma glows and TGFs" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07893-0
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Flint has had clean water since ~2018 and there are ongoing state and federal efforts to remove all lead from water systems in Michigan (and the rest of the country of course).

Is there some specific criteria you have in mind when you say that Flint doesn't have clean water?
The EV tax credit applies to all manufacturers, not just Tesla.
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Previous posts in the series https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853834 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879924.
No joke, is this actually true?

Do startups really do this? I thought the capability is built or nearly built or at least in testing already with reasonable or amazing results, THEN they go to market?

Do startups go to other startups, fortune 500 companies and public companies to make false promises with or without due diligence and sign deals with the knowledge that the team and engineers know the product doesn't have the feature in place at all?

In other words:

Company A: "We can provide web scale live streaming service around the world to 10 billion humans across the planet, even the bots will be watching."

Company B: "OK, sounds good, Yes, here is a $2B contract."

Company A: "Now team I know we don't have the capability, but how do we build, test and ship this in under 6 months???"
> The people who grew up with phone calls and who like to "hop on a call" to work out issues are all aging out. They are in their fifties at the youngest, if not already retired. It's my experience that far fewer younger people reach for the phone as a first means of contact. It's not preferred, and they try to avoid it.

That is not at all my experience, and I'd correlate it more to junior/seniority than age directly. I think perhaps more junior there's a temptation to screen-share (screenshots over pasted code/errors too) to show how confusing something is, where with experience you're more comfortable asking a question(s) in text and understanding & applying the answer(s).
Isn't most research also double-blind? Meaning that the "treatments when administered by a researcher who really wants the placebo effect" are also probably badly designed which might be the reason for this effect?
I am pretty sure most of the world can figure out how to ponounce yggdrasil much easier than how to pronounce infrastructure or litterature in english.

https://youtu.be/RpCTu2ymqiM?feature=shared
oR god tier talent and a bunch of other god tier talent that decided to coast and cash their fat checks
Without knowing the specifics of what's being talked about, I guess it makes sense that zip did that because the OS doesn't make it easy for the average user to concatenate files, and it would be hard to concatenate 10+ files in the right order. If you have to use a cli then it's not really a solution for most people, nor is it something I want to have to do anyways.

The OS level solution might be a naming convention like "{filename}.{ext}.{n}" like "videos.zip.1" where you right-click it and choose "concatenate {n} files" and turns them into "{filename}.{ext}".
fun fact, lighthouses were repurposed into coast guard rescue stations...at least on the Great Lakes that is the case...
> The only service performing well is a closed source one that could simply use a real chess engine for questions that look like chess, for marketing purposes.

That conspiracy theory holds no traction in reality. This blog post is so far the only reference to using LLMs to play chess. The "closed-source" model (whatever that is) is an older version that does worse than the newer version. If your conspiracy theory had any bearing in reality how come this fictional "real chess engine" was only used in a single release? Unbelievable.

Back in reality, it is well known that newer models that are made available to the public are adapted to business needs by constraining their capabilities and limit liability.
something else in this space includes (New Kind of Network) NKN. (https://nkn.org)
Evo, the DNA-trained AI that creates genomes from scratch
Far from being convinced.
It sounds like superstition.
Income Inequality and Job Creation
I mean, the ones that do ask don’t proceed to signing up. I think we are seeing a form of survival bias.
Family of optimized magnetic fields may give enhanced fusion plasma confinement
Haha, I just realized I actually have used a Scandinavian word in an app I intended for global use - I just respelled the word so that it made sense in English.
Underlying paper https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.185101
This site is gold. I learned the Ian knot forever ago from there. Knots tied this way really don't come loose.
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