skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too long ago I would have agreed with you. That was, for a long time a decent way to enjoy Twitter, even when people were already long claiming it was an unpleasant place.

But for the current situation you are just misrepresenting the problem.

Aggressively maintaining a decent follow list no longer helps.

And "other viewpoints" are not the problem. Every somewhat popular tweet has automated replies full of porn bots and clearly automated answers that say basically nothing or just try to provoke or advertise.

"Following" has become infuriatingly useless too because it algorithmically sorts in nonsensical ways.

The result: many tweets I would have liked to see get completely buried while others get shown to me over and over as I visit the site.

I'm so incredibly tired of algorithmic timelines.

It used to be a good tool on interesting updates on hobbies I enjoy. Now it just wants to waste my time, and I'm just not interested in screaming matches about daily politics.

That includes echo chambers too so it is not about differing opinions even, I don't need people from "my side" telling me again and again what the "enemy" is doing wrong and how I am supposed get angry at that.
An engineering manager who thinks his engineers are morons and dumb?

I have questions..
> alleged rapist vs convicted rapist

And you’ll never guess which Presidential candidate they both support!
I think they are also merging Ep1 and Ep2 together into HL2 now and have gradual progression of HL2 to E1 and then to E2. I just browsed my Steam game library and can't find separate copies of E1 and E2 there because of being merged with HL2.
None of the Fortune 500 companies hire top talent. They have a few good people but 98% of the engineers are average at best. Over paid.
Have you tried "I expect you to die"? It's a really compelling VR game.
I've never seen a team that has somehow managed to hire exclusively morons. Even the shittiest of call center jobs and construction crews have a few people with enough brain cells to tie their shoelaces.

Have you considered that maybe you're being overly harsh about your co-workers? Maybe take the fact that one of them was hired by a top paying employer as a sign that you should improve your own ability to judge skill?
I have to wonder if its a regional thing. I'm watching from the southern pacific in HD, and its been excellent.
Why is your team morons? Kind of disparaging maybe? Fish rots from the head situation?
It's down permanently for me in India. We have Hotstar, which has a record of 58 million viewers during the cricket World Cup final. Way ahead.
if you have something to say, just come out and say it.
And yet the article has since been edited to remove both the sentence I quoted, and your rebuttal (whatever that was supposed to mean). Clearly they knew it was wrong. I'll take your downvote with pride.
>> My social network handle is now the same as my email address

Spammers sure love you :)

>> to have your own instance on your own domain

Domain is likely linked to your identity. What might look like an innocent *eet today, might end you on a wrong list down the road.
Or Facebook. Or YouTube. Or Vimeo. Or LiveLeak.
Having worked with a bunch of guys who have gone on to "top teams", I no longer believe they have top teams. My fav was the guy who said the system could scale indefinitely after it literally fell on its ass from too much traffic. He couldn't understand that just because Lambdas my themselves can scale, they are limited by the resources they use, so just ignored it and insisted that it could. The same guy also kept on saying we should change the TPEG standard because he didn't like how it worked. And these companies are seriously pretending they've got the best and brightest. If that's really true, I really need to find another profession.
I would assume not because twitch runs on aws. I think netflix engineers haven't optimized as much for livestreaming like twitch has
Yes, as I have said again and again on hacker news in different comments Netflix went overboard with their microservices and tried to position itself as a technological company when it's not. It has made everything more complex and that's why any Netflix tech blog is useless because it is not the way to build things correctly.

To understand how to do things correctly look at something like pornhub who handle more scale than Netflix without crying about it.

The other day I was having this discussion with somebody who was saying distributed counter logic is hard and I was telling them that you don't even need it if Netflix didn't go completely mental on the microservices and complexity.
This. I used to have two very ruthlessly curated accounts, and at the moment, trying to keep them like that is a lost cause.
Most of them died!

We didn’t bother recording deaths because unless you were rich it didn’t matter. It still doesn’t. Who died in South Sudan today? We don’t know. We will never know.

It’s stupidly false to project modern standard into ancient cultures. Even the concept of cartography is anthropologically new.
a chemical reaction that is sensitive to temperature.
Are prediction markets essentially zero sum where every outcome is fully covered by all the bets?

Minus fees I’m guessing.
This “revival” of Noam Chomsky in a certain corner of the hive mind is fairly inexplicable to someone who lived through the same era. It’s a kindness bestowed on him by a few students so in his dying days he believes he didn’t totally fade into dust, but outside of that very small circle of fellow travelers, who cares? Haven’t heard him cited in about 40 years. Are they trying to set him up as an anti-Ayn Rand? And why preserve Ayn Rand’s memory? Puzzled.
Don't jinx it.
my poor knowledge of biology says it's a deeply unsatisfying "heart beats when enough of the body has thawed for it to beat."

If the heart depends on the brain at all in frogs.
They have absolutely shit the bed here, and of course their socials are completely ignoring it.
This is a total supposition without any proof.
> their streaming service normally seems very solid

Not trying to downplay their complexity, but last I heard Netflix is splitting the shows in small data chunks and just serves them as static files.

Live streaming is a different beast
> Still, it breaks my heart to see all this work being done to keep developers employed as "Python developers", instead of leveling them up to a broader programming skillset. It seems as if the industry is investing rather heavily in a local maximum.

this is a topic near to my heart; I have spent the last several years building my career around doing this sort of work (specifically writing tools to expand the capabilities of python code). the key idea is not that we "keep people employed as python developers", it is that python (you can also substitute ruby, javascript, php, or any other popular dynamic language) is a genuinely powerful and expressive language from the point of view of converting ideas to code, and having that code be readable, maintainable, and extensible by other humans.

where is falls down is on the "machine facing" end - you don't get the guarantees of static typing, the import system is a bit of a mess, it isn't as fast as lower level, statically-compiled-to-native-code languages, and (as the current discussion shows) packaging and distributing an end user binary is somewhere between a morass and a nightmare. however, none of these things are a problem with the language per se, and they can be fixed with some combination of improving the implementation, writing better tooling (cf valgrind from the c world), making it easier to write small bits of critical code in c/rust/zig/etc, and improving language features while not sacrificing what draws people to use python in the first place.

is python a local maximum? almost certainly; it would be foolish to think that nothing better could come along, and indeed pyret already looks distinctly better in terms of pure dynamic language design. but the answer to that is not to "level up" people who are happy and productive using python to some language like rust or c++ that imposes a heavier cognitive burden on the user to take care of low level details that their applications might not need, or one like golang that pushes the complexity out into the application where problems need to be solved via design patterns that people need to learn and copy, rather than just building them into the language or stdlib.
If Netflix still interviews on hacker rank puzzles I think this should be a wake up call. Interviewing on irrelevant logic puzzles is no match for systems engineering.
Their CDN is colo and doesn't run on AWS.
This. Overly complex nonsense that they have built up is crazy and the fact that we on a tech forum agree to all of this is crazier.

It's almost like this platform has been taken over by JavaScripters completely.
>we don't create zoning laws based on political belief,

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

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

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

I think at this point you may need to review your history. There's sadly only so much I can do as a handle on a social media platform to convince someone this unaware of the powers that be.
I know.

But given how much they spend on engineering, how much time they had and how important this event is ... mediocre performance.
Okay. I relied on this wikipedia entry. [0]

Which states "As of April 2021, of the total fifty U.S. states, approximately thirty have an age of consent of 16 (with this being the most common age of consent in the country), a handful set the age of consent at 17, and in about eleven states the age is 18."

Which clearly seems like a majority to me.

I think you're confusing "Unrestricted" with "Restricted by Authority." You'll note that the "Restricted by Authority" age is often younger than the "Unrestricted" age. Which accounts for our different tallies. [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_North_Americ...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_S...
You can give the language new features, using the features that the language provides.
In a recent interview with Nate Silver, he talks about how it’s basically impossible to make sustained edge from online sports books. They just ban you if you consistently make large, winning bets.
For platforms I mean the owner of the platform, and for protocols I mean the theoretical person who the users would be wishing owned it so they could do spam filtering.
Bet they wish they'd gone with middle out compression
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Absolutely excellent fight. 10 full rounds with full effort until the end. Fantastic.

Also, no buffering issues on my end. Have to wonder if it's a regional issue.
Netflix is good only on streaming ready made content, not live streaming, but;

1. Netflix is a 300B company, this isn't a resources issue.

2. This isn't the first time they have done live streaming at this scale either. They already have prior failure experience, you expect the 2nd time to be better, if not perfect.

3. There were plenty of time between first massive live streaming to second. Meaning plenty of time to learn and iterate.
I mean, I guarantee you every boxing fan is never going to trust Netflix again for an event like this.
Utter incompetence from senior leadership at Netflix. They had so much time to prepare for this.
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Live sports require microwave relays for high frequency sports bets
Maybe something like a bit flip but for neurons happens in the frog's brain from the sun's radiation or something.

Or the elasticity of the heart and muscles.
I think they must be noticing the issues, because I've noticed they've been dropping the stream quality quite substantially... It's a clever trick, but kind of cheap to do so, because who wants to watch pixelated things?
I don't think it'll be long-term. Most people will forget about this really quickly. It's not like there will be many people saying "Oh, you don't want to sign up for Netflix, the Tyson fight wasn't well streamed" in even 6 months nevermind 10 years.
It will never not annoy and amuse me that illegal options (presumably run by randoms in their spare time) are so much better than the offerings of big companies and their tech ‘talent’.
They better get have some better judges and refs too. The co-headline title fight was a joke.
That first read should be an HN post in its own right.
How are there people old enough to comment on Sandy Hook, denying Sandy Hook? What do you even say to convince someone that a highly televised event within their own recent history did not happen?
I don’t work in tech. Is this something that engineers could respond to and reallocate resources to fix mid stream?
It's far from perfect here in Canada, I keep having to pause it or go back and then load it again.

Oddly having watched PPV events via the high seas for years, it feels normal...
There's an upcoming NFL game on Netflix next month. They need to get their shit together.
I keep my shower at the same temperature.

In the morning it feels hot.

But after hiking on a cold (not freezing) day the water feels SCALDING.

I suspect there are actually two "hot" shower types:

- the actual scalding shower with physical damage

- the "scalding" shower which is actually skin-temperature-sensor overload that is more psychological. It is more a accustomed temperature difference thing.

but below freezing / with frostbite, I have no idea.
"Many people", those who call their ISP connection WiFi, are technology potato's.
right, this appears to be basically what FreeDOS is to MS-DOS, but the Town OS for the FM-Towns.

The FM-Towns was an x86 Japanese PC with some really interesting alternative take on how x86 PCs could be.

I watched this be introduced live at Demosplash happening this weekend at CMU.
I'm watching the event as I'm writing this. I've been needing to exit the player and resume it constantly. Pretty surprising that Netflix hasn't weeded out these bugs.
It's been fine since 11:00 EST, I wonder if they started using the CDN more effectively and pushed everyone back a few minutes?
Static files have been pretty much the standard streaming protocols for both VOD and live for the last 15 years ago. Before, it was Adobe Flash (RTMP).

With the way that they are designed, you can even use a regular CDN.
> I'm an engineering manager

How are you involved in the hiring process?

> Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch.

Very indicative of a toxic culture you seem to have been pulled in to and likely have contributed to by this point given your language and broad generalizations.

Describing a wide group of people you're also responsible for as "fucking morons" says more about you than them.
http://archive.today/ORpFu

The actual letter is available at the end of https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-open-letter...
Reputation usually lags reality by 5+ years. See: Google.
I hope the frogs don't feel pain... Imagine getting frozen alive and extremely slowly.
Probably less about the level of advancement and more about their ability to stream vs play VOD. Two different kinds of infrastructure optimisation.
To be brutally honest if it’s a choice between pixelated and constantly buffering, pixelated is way less bad. Constantly buffering is incredibly annoying during live sports. (but this doesn’t negate your main point which is that if people paid to watch they expect decent resolution)
one fundamental difference being that clisp (i keep writing this as 'clips', talk about lisp !) does not suffer from precision issues, f.e. writing this

[1]> (defmacro factorial (n)
(labels ((fact (m)
(if (= m 0)
1
(* m (fact (1- m)))))) `,(fact n)))

[2]> (factorial 1000)

402387260077093773543702433923003985719374864210714632543799910429938512398629020592044208486969404800479988610197196058631666872994808558901323829669944590997424504087073759918823627727188732519779505950995276120874975462497043601418278094646496291056393887437886487337119181045825783647849977012476632889835955735432513185323958463075557409114262417474349347553428646576611667797396668820291207379143853719588249808126867838374559731746136085379534524221586593201928090878297308431392844403281231558611036976801357304216168747609675871348312025478589320767169132448426236131412508780208000261683151027341827977704784635868170164365024153691398281264810213092761244896359928705114964975419909342221566832572080821333186116811553615836546984046708975602900950537616475847728421889679646244945160765353408198901385442487984959953319101723355556602139450399736280750137837615307127761926849034352625200015888535147331611702103968175921510907788019393178114194545257223865541461062892187960223838971476088506276862967146674697562911234082439208160153780889893964518263243671616762179168909779911903754031274622289988005195444414282012187361745992642956581746628302955570299024324153181617210465832036786906117260158783520751516284225540265170483304226143974286933061690897968482590125458327168226458066526769958652682272807075781391858178889652208164348344825993266043367660176999612831860788386150279465955131156552036093988180612138558600301435694527224206344631797460594682573103790084024432438465657245014402821885252470935190620929023136493273497565513958720559654228749774011413346962715422845862377387538230483865688976461927383814900140767310446640259899490222221765904339901886018566526485061799702356193897017860040811889729918311021171229845901641921068884387121855646124960798722908519296819372388642614839657382291123125024186649353143970137428531926649875337218940694281434118520158014123344828015051399694290153483077644569099073152433278288269864602789864321139083506217095002597389863554277196742822248757586765752344220207573630569498825087968928162753848863396909959826280956121450994871701244516461260379029309120889086942028510640182154399457156805941872748998094254742173582401063677404595741785160829230135358081840096996372524230560855903700624271243416909004153690105933983835777939410970027753472000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

[3]>

works as expected.

for the c++ version i don't think even `unsigned long long` can accommodate results from larger than approx. 21! or thereabouts.
1000? No. There's two. Openxml and the original xls. OpenXML can be scanned for issues like any other XML file.

Alas, it's more difficult to get excel to accept that it shouldn't delete leading zeros than it is to check a spreadsheet's sus-o-scale.
Locks front door - great, someone left it open and yes it's locked, but it's not closed (more expensive locks have a sensor to ensure the deadbolt made it into the frame)

Garage door - similar, you don't know if someone disconnected the automatic and it's just reporting itself in the down position because the chain/drive has moved but the door hasn't.

Both solvable just some failure modes no one talks about.
But the point is; Doctors are recommending and using them now in spite of incomplete research on them.

You seem to have a wrong idea of "Scientific Method" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method) and how policies are actually enacted based on incomplete knowledge/research.
I switched to watching on the android app and it's been flawless. Sad, but workable
People with life threatening dairy allergies should be expected to know that butter is a dairy product so that they can be safe.
I wonder if this points to network peering and edge nodes. Mobile network vs cabled network likely being routed to different places.
You are more than free to talk with Dang about any given flag you disagree with. He puts up with it much too kindly. That alone is a grace reddit never gave me.

Downvoting is a user action. There's no real gain to blame the entire community for their individual action against a single comment. Feel free to inquire if you really need to, but half the downvotes I see are pretty explicitly breaking the guidelines.
That is essentially what I said, the default state being opted-out rather than there being an in/out/unknown tri-state, so my "ignore" and your "no click" are the same [in]action.
This is not the same streaming - netflix is doing that over HTTP. Totally different tech and scaling issues
Neat, thank you! This is a really great idea, and I much appreciate the implementation and ongoing support!

This is definitely useful.
Fortunately I've had very little need to receive calls like this but I would ask them what number they will be calling from and add that as a contact.
I hope to never have a manager who is mentally stack ranking me and my coworkers in terms of perceived dumbness instead of in terms of any positive trait.
Why would it be ironic? He has less regard for the political group and general stability than a more run of the mill politician and now there is explicit immunity for anything he wants to do, like when he sold classified documents but "declassified them in his mind" right before once he got caught.

We watched four years of this already, including a rally with gallows being built in the crowd being told to march on the Capitol (he claims figuratively, and everyone just misunderstood, despite all the posts and planning and travel and tour groups). Last time it was absurd news headline after headline just to distract from the other things going on. We saw some bonkers stuff that would have disqualified other candidates in the past (or at least most candidates probably thought it would).

At this point I think his promises are easier to deliver on and he doesn't care about (and has been made immune from) the consequences that usually temper a politician's ability to deliver. Tariffs, no health plan, another wall (remember when he pardoned bannon for stealing the money they raised for the wall?), "stopping the war in Ukraine" but without a free Ukraine at the end, and decimating government regulatory agencies.

The weirdest part of this narrative for me is how the supporters say he wont do what he promises and the detractors fear he will. I don't know enough history to know if that is common but it sure feels backwards to me.
The response being referred to here is the quickness of the pixels' ability to change.
Might be a job for an LLM personal moderator? Give it a prompt, what kind of content you want to see, and what to filter out?
Another post comparing C and lisp Macros: http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.h...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199992
I’d imagine it is fairly dependent on which cache you’re connected to.
The full conversation: https://gemini.google.com/share/6d141b742a13?hl=de
Does "littering is bad" really need to apply to megacrops' databases?
What are they going to do? Just not watch the next fight?
> So do you really think there are no people who have ever voted against their own interests because they were misled, or even lied to?

No, but I also don't trust anyone complaining about people "voting against their own interests" to make that determination. That phrase is almost always shorthand for "they didn't vote the way I wanted them to," but often rationalized to not seem so self-serving (e.g. a partisan's biased belief the other side is uniquely full of liars, or that no reasonable person could disagree with them).

Personally, I think you should spend more time worrying if you "were misled, or even lied to."
Seo and marketing to sell their product is the reason it exists.
The issue is that most people are trying to watch live which is what it's advertised as. And until they figure out that they need to watch X minutes behind, it is unwatchable. Many will not figure that out.

So for the first hour it was just total frustration until I stopped trying to go back to live mode.
We pushed a fix so the low-quality mode should work better with other browsers now.