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> So you want them to watch a few exclusive shows a year so they feel like they got their money's worth, while not actually costing netflix much.

No, that's not what the strategy is and they're quite open about it - the strategy is to maximize user consumption for every user, because that keeps them subscribed. I think a lot of people think that they use sophisticated analytics and machine learning etc to decide what to greenlight, but they don't. They use the judgment (and politics, and egos) of Hollywood studio executives (and often the same Hollywood execs that a few years ago were employed in "legacy" media). Although I will grant that they've been innovative in producing/distributing international content, this is really just globalization and labor arbitrage (it is cheaper produce content not in Hollywood, that's not news - they just spend the extra $$$ localizing international content to different global target distribution markets but again, this flow has happened forever, it's just typically been Hollywood -> localization -> foreign market rather than foreign production -> localization -> Anglophone market).

Where analytics and ML does come into play is deciding which things out of their enormous catalogue they push to individual users at any one time - that process is highly reactive, individualized, dynamic - that's why strange and seemingly random media become big hits on Netflix while being largely ignored by the commentariat, and vice versa, why series with dedicated fanbases don't get renewed (the analytics tell you that, despite the apparent success, further investment will not improve user engagement with the platform by enough to be worth the spend).
> Reinforcing my strongly held belief that what fundamentally sets humans apart isn't spoken language, or tools, or any of that, but rather the fact we write down what we know, then make those writings available to future generations to build on.

"Strongly held belief" would suggest authority on the subject, but I suspect this is not the case. By comparison, while I accept the efficacy of vaccines on the authority of the authors of scientific texts on immunology and draw on circumstantial information to infer probable reliability of said authorities, I wouldn't say I have a "strongly held belief" either as this would suggest that I, personally, have authority on the subject, which I don't. My knowledge, as descriptively rich as it might be, nonetheless rests on a chain of authority.

In any case, the first problem in these discussions is the superficial notion of "language" that's often employed. "Language", as a system of signs, entails signification, and the kind of signification human language engages in is not merely a degree removed from the kind of signification other animals engage in. There is a difference in kind. There is a big difference between a distress call and expressing the proposition "There are five red berries in the tall bush". A distress call requires no abstract concepts; the latter proposition requires five. While we can say there is something like or analogous to syntactic structure in a distress call or some series of joined calls, none of these require concepts. And abstraction of concepts is the most central and unique faculty of rationality, as it is by means of concepts that we can reason about the world. They are the seat of intentionality, not mere imagism.
A lot of the commentary suggests that this motivation for e in terms of continuously compounded interest is introduced for misguidedly contrived pedagogical reasons. But this is historically the way e was first discovered. e was first discovered precisely through Jacob Bernoulli wanting to understand continuously compounded interest.

Of course, the arithmetic laws of exponential growth of money are exactly the same as the arithmetic laws of exponential growth of anything else. And there is no reason that, just because a topic is historically discovered in some fashion, that must be the way it is taught, or even is a good way to teach it.

But it's not some made up conceit by teachers to connect e and continuously compounded interest. That is historically how e came to be investigated.
Then you decide if the positives outweigh the negatives and unfollow them or not.

This particular situation is why the only thing I miss from Twitter at this point is the ability to mute an account's reposts rather than the full account.
I’m not even sure that’s entirely true either though. By the end of the PS3 generation, people had gotten to grips with it and were pushing it far further than first assumed possible. If you watch the GDC talks, it seemed to me that people were happy enough with it by that point (relatively speaking at least) and were able to squeeze quite a bit of performance out of it. It seems that it was hated for the first while of its life because developers hadn’t settled on a good model for programming it but by the end task based concurrency like we have now started to gain popularity (eg see the naughty dog engine talk).

Is cell really so different from computer shaders with something like Vulkan? I feel if a performance-competitive cell were made today, it might not receive so much hate, as people today are more prepared for its flavour of programming. Nowadays we have 8 to 16 cores, more on P/E setups, vastly more on workstation/server setups, and we have gpu’s and low level gpu APIs. Cell came out in a time when dual core was the norm and engines still did multi threading by having a graphics thread and a logic thread.
In 2003 I joined a startup building a horizontally scalable archive. You could add nodes to add capacity for storing data and metadata, and the system could tolerate up to a configured number of failures and carry on without loss of data or service. (This was not a general-purpose file system, it was for write-once/read-many objects.)

We built the system in Java and C. The distribution layer was done completely in Java. It was only after the system was done that I discovered Erlang. I REALLY wish I had known about it earlier. Erlang solved so many of the problems we had to solve by ourselves.
>The problem is not the bureaucracy.

I'm no expert by any means, but have you ever actually worked with Germans?

The existence of Betriebsräte (Workers' Councils, as implemented in Germany), while not necessarily 'bad', comes with a mountain of bureaucracy...
> First, JavaScript performance was not an afterthought, it was a big deal.

It's a /very/ big deal. It's not a mistake that V8 was chosen to build Node.JS on top of. Javascript performance continues to dominate the overall performance of browsers on the modern web as front-end developers utilize more and more JS weight in their pages and SPAs become even more commonplace.

Don't mistake my comment as saying that the win for Javascript performance wasn't a big win. V8 completely upended the expectations of both web developers and engine teams about what was not only expected but was what feasible when it came to JS performance. V8 is great, but it didn't need a new browser to ship it, which was my larger point.

> Second, Chrome's sandbox was massively superior from a security point of view. In a world full of viruses, that was a big deal.

Chrome's sandbox is not particularly better than Firefox's sandbox today. Both browsers invented new security concepts over the last decade+ as browsers have become larger, more integral to people's day to day workflows, and more security-sensitive. A modern browser in 2025 is easily as complex as a modern OS in 2025 with similar security implications.

When Chrome first came out, it had one major improvement over Firefox (and both were better than any alternatives for security) which was to run tab contexts in separate processes rather than separate threads. This opened up all sorts of opportunities and benefits, which Chrome capitalized on, proving this approach to be correct, and later Mozilla adopted it in Firefox as well. From a security perspective, the main benefit was to prevent different sites from sharing process memory context, in the event that the site was malicious and exploiting a browser bug to access process memory.

The modern Chrome sandbox (and Firefox sandbox) is magnitudes more advanced and complex than the sandboxing that Chrome initially shipped with, and at least to my recollection there was not a significant difference in security surface area between the two other than tab isolation at Chrome launch, which I don't really count as a "sandbox".
Has it even been posted? I would but I can't find a good source.
Didn't we get MP3s this way? Or is that a slightly different pathway
What’s your proposal? Give up?
What's with the mis-matched hyphens/dashes?
The more I read about this, the more it feels like a VW bailout. If you want innovation, make it easier to start up and shut down research companies, you don't need a new ministry to hand out taxpayer money to companies.
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Ask HN: How to find good app developers
I have an idea for a web based/app based business that will be disruptive to a currently lucrative industry.

I have the skills to do the work in terms of putting together a business plan, and doing market research etc… I even have the skills to do things like wireframes etc and general design stuff (I have an MBA in digital transformation).

What I don’t have is the actual app development skills.

What are some solutions I can use to actually create even just a prototype so that I could create a close to viable product to pitch to investors?
And how much money should I realistically be looking to spend?

I’m looking for lots of suggestions that might help me bridge the gap between my actual business knowledge and the technical skills I lack.

Thanks :)
And that kind of half-assed flippancy is exactly why he needs to be removed from any government authority immediately.
There is a pretty meaty cockroach, maybe with enough butter it would be like a lobster tail
Having no gun violence and having a higher life expectancy than America is not something to be proud of and not a useful benchmark. This comment is a prime example of Germany's inability to take external criticism - it nearly always devolves into comparison with America. You know many non-americans also criticise the state of Germany currently?
I hope this works out (even if it's a net negative for the US). I have worked with German engineers, and have been quite impressed.

I sincerely wish Germany luck. They'd better do a good job of securing their IP, though...
Without a doubt not the only characteristic. Simply a characteristic of these cultures today. e.g. obsession with environment to the degree of actively harming it (opposing nuclear, wind, solar, and geothermal; and dense housing) is primarily an Anglophone concern specifically UK/US/Aus. And those countries are collectively responsible for a lot of innovation.

Seems to be a truth: inventiveness moving to moribund navel-gazing.
Why should I care? It has no effect on me. That's between the shareholders and management. Government bloat comes out of my paycheck.
Please review the section of the Hacker News FAQ, linked at the bottom of the page, regarding submissions for job openings which says:

"Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first."
People with exponentially more money than sense who sit in echo chambers.
>Throwing more money at a bad system tends to make a worse system.

There are most likely decreasing returns on both ends of the scale.

>Do you think we’d get better doctors if we could create a new system that lets them focus the majority of their effort on patient care, or if we kept the current system and just gave all physicians pay raises?

"A new system" is too nebulous, but step by step reform is the obvious way forward. From decreasing unnecessary requirements for new doctors (there must be a way to not have to completely sacrifice one's 20s and early 30s and still become a doctor), to tort reform that allows for sensible judgments, to increasing funding for residency and medical schools to allow for higher supply of doctors, etc.

Also, doctor pay (per hour or per patient) has been declining in real terms for many, many years now. Which is not bad in and of itself, but when you are simultaneously decreasing remuneration and quality of life at work, intelligent people will pick up on that signal to look elsewhere to sell their services.

A lot of US healthcare is performed by smart people from poorer countries who just want a chance for their kids to grow up in the USA. That the country relies on that arbitrage has always been ridiculous to me.
What is the national idea of the other listed countries in comparison? Also: a "national idea" isn't the only reason people do cutting edge research.
“Not only that, they also assume or pretend that this is obviously violating copyright, when in fact this is a) not clear, and b) pending determination by courts and legislators around the world.”

Uh huh, so much worse than the people that assume or pretend that it’s obviously not infringing and legal. Fortunately I don’t need to wait for a lawyer to form an opinion and neither do those in favor of AI as you might’ve noticed.

You see any of them backing down and waiting for answer from a higher authority?
I think you're fully protected from Terminator and Bender.

Neither will dare to attack your residence.
cool designs. how is it different to OpenRouter or PortKey? are you targeting different use cases? and what kind of analytics do you offer/what specifically are you tracking?
I don't think this is necessarily an issue of censorship so much as it is highlighting that Facebook is clearly a fucking news publisher and should be treated as such under the law.

It's time to revoke section 230 for any social media network that amplifies or buries content with a non-transparent process.

In this case it isn't even merely an algorithm designed by humans. They have LITERAL human editors choosing which stories to put on the front page, just like the NYT, and they should be held liable for the content on their platforms just like legacy media is.
Direct link to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-p5g1r-_EY
It's not just programming.

If they can replace someone who can deal with problems that are of the size that software engineers deal with on a daily basis, they can replace most of the workforce.
I’m a rust-GPU maintainer and can say that shared types on host and GPU are definitely intended. We’ve mostly been focused on graphics, but are shifting efforts to more general compute. There’s a lot of work though, and we all have day jobs - we’re looking for help. If you’re interested in helping you should say so at our GitHub.
Visible on macOS, possible that it's hidden on other OSes.
Have to mention that the N64 was loosely based on SGI tech.
I see 'this guy' who wants or does build his own ORM, in every company I've worked with.
I basically skipped windows XP entirely, only seeing it on other people’s computers.

I staying on a thinkpad R31 with win2k until I got a R61 (4gb ram) with vista on it several months after vista’s release. At that point it seemed like driver and other early teething had been worked out, so my experience was pretty positive.

When I eventually moved to win7 I didn’t notice any real difference.
I’m baffled by this.

What business have projects mandating the tool I use for my contributions? I’m responsible of the quality of what I send and should be the sole arbiter of if I want to clean generated code or not. This person is basically calling all their potential contributors too stupid to reasonably use some class of tools. That’s downright insulting.

I have lost all the good will I had for Servo.
gen X's parents were born and raised in the old world, and largely did very well by it. We the X'ers on the other hand , have never had a moment
of stability, unless you call extended periods of unhinged partying, stability, which I think we did, but dont quote me on that......
Forget scraping. I can't read Twitter, as I don't have an account. A normal person is now locked out of SSA communications unless they sign up for Twitter.
They just corrupt most of the big law firms and made them work for free:

"Trump says 5 more law firms will provide $600 million total in free legal work for causes he supports" - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/trump-law-firms-pro-bono-wor...
That's the other way around - customers don't give a crap about longevity and maintenance, and two craps about landfills and environment.
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Who's money? I don't follow the point you;re trying to make.
The people I know that do cutting-edge research mostly do it because it's fun. That might be hard to imagine, but if you have great (government-funded) local hackerspaces where you can meet others, talk to them and built stuff together, it becomes a viable free-time activity. For example, I can schedule a Prusa (FDM) / Form (SLA) / Fuse (SLS) print job remotely and then quickly walk there to pick it up. If I need custom sheet metal or wood, I'll bring a USB stick with the DXF and then walk. That kind of infrastructure massively cuts down on iteration times. Plus it's great to get feedback in-person by other tinkerers when you pick things up.
Interesting comment, but Germany's much-vaunted Mittelstand is in its initial death throes. Key industries and IP are being auctioned off to the highest bidder, not the least, for lack of heirs. It isn't universally acknowledged, but the same processes that caused the US's manufacturing decay have been occurring in Germany; at roughly the same speed, but with a 30 year lag (since Agenda 2010) viz-a-vis the US.
Yeah it’s like a hardcore group of enthusiasts have zero awareness of how rude that actually is and have pushed on with their dream project regardless. They will be so crushed when their workplace bans their new $250 toy within days instead of hauling them as heroes which is what happens in the alternate timeline in their heads..
My personal opinion as a fan and adopter of the stack is that the benefit is often seen down the line, with the upfront adoption cost being roughly the same.

E.g. the built in telemetry system is fantastic, but when you are first adopting the stack it still takes a day or two to read the docs and get events flowing into - say - DataDog, which is roughly the same amount of time as basically every other solution.

The benefit of Elixir here is that the telemetry stack is very standardized across Elixir projects and libraries, and there are fewer moving pieces - no extra microservices or docker containers to ship with everything else. But that benefit comes 2 years down the line when you need to change the telemetry system.
coded / code directed

we cam start the discussion now i.e.: is using cursor still coding ?

is a senior team lead coding when the only thing he does is code reviews and steering the team?
Cool, it even has a ruby sdk, gotta check it out!
> Compare this to Austria, where there's a cultural flair for the dramatic (and therefore an eagerness to stand out, even if it's weird) or Switzerland where enterprises, public or private, are not afraid to place big bets.

Can you call out with some examples for those of us unfamiliar with those 'big bets'?
AFAIK, MoltenVK doesn't. Dawn (Google's C++ WebGPU implementation) does have some experimental support for it [0][1].

[0] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/348702031

[1] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/4195
luckily I haven't been working with such companies, I have had enough of my dose of Digitalisierung by interacting with public offices. But at least I can communicate with the Finanzamt via email, after signing a document where I made clear I understand that emails are not a safe communication tool (while random non-certified letters are, apparently).
Adam was a very prominent Chrome DevRel and top voices of the web platform. I personally owe to his content (blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc.) to stay up-to-date on things.

It’s a bit of a shock to me that he of all people is getting laid off and that too in such an ugly way.
Youtube uses a lot of fingerprinting based recommendations. It's always good to see it going south whenever you alter most of the used properties.
How recently? Nowadays there are a bunch of "app eSIM" companies competing in Germany that offer to get you an eSIM by just installing an app, KYC and credit card in 5 min
> if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.

We'll never be effectively post-scarcity.

There are people who are banking on scarcity.
My mistake!

That’s what I get for not double checking… well… basically anything I think during my first cup of coffee.
> Elon: divest from your private assets or get the fuck out of the government. Otherwise you're a corrupt official.

You're directing this at Elon - but you are aware just about every single congress critter, and every other high-level government official holds private assets and profits off of them during their tenure in the government... right?

> Exclusivity agreements with private companies have NO FUCKING PLACE in public governments.

I hope you were this upset about Cheney as well. What about Palantir and their army of lobbyists? Oracle and theirs? Sig Sauer and theirs? Lockheed Martin and theirs? AWS and theirs? I can go on forever... This is super common in government, and no it's not limited to one party or another. It's everywhere.

It is wrong every time. But only now we get the all-caps writing and chest thumping only the likes of reddit can be proud of.
… yeah, never give rights to workers! Back to the middle ages again!

Betriebsräte are actually a really sane measure once you think about it. And the more intelligent managers take them as an asset.
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Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule
I'm just surprised that it feels like very little deep innovation in the OS world has happened since windows 2k. 3.11 brought networking in. 95 brought true multitasking to the masses and 2k brought multi-processing/multi-user (yes, NT3.1 had it, but 2k is where most normal users jumped in). And, yes, I know these things existed in other OSes out there but I think of these as the mass market kick offs for them. In general I just don't see anything but evolutionary improvements (and back-sliding) in the OS world beyond this time. I had really hoped that true cloud OSes would have become the norm by now (I really want my whole house connected as a seamless collection of stuff) or other major advances like killing filesystems (I think of these as backdoor undocumented APIs). Have we really figured out what an OS is supposed to be or are we just stuck in a rut?

[edit] 3.1 should have been windows for worgkroups 3.11
Accountability is shutting down the agency and shuttering the programs. They did that.

The point of a slush fund is that the funds weren't allocated for specific programs by law, they were discretionary. So, while technically not illegal, they are frivolous and unethical. Not to mention, how would half the country and most of the world react if Trump's DOJ started arresting the people involved? They'd call him a tyrant and burn more Teslas.
Ask HN: Is using Cursor still coding?
When you use AI extensively i.e.: a combination of ChatGPT, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude (with Cursor or just "so") - to create something - is this still coding?
In my experience, AI is quite good at picking up new tools and techniques. In the sense that the models only need to be provided some documentation for how the new tool or framework works to instantly start using that new framework

Gemini in particular is really good at this