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> In the winter too?

(I'm not OP) Why not? I ride even during storms, much less shying away from what, some cold winds in winter? By the time you reach your destination if you're wearing the right clothing you not only won't feel cold, you might even feel too hot. If I ride for longer than 10 minutes I need to open my jacket or put it in my backpack to let some air in to prevent my body from sweating.

Of all the seasons I'd name summer as being worse to ride than winter because there is no getting away from the fact that you'll be drenched in sweat during summer. Thankfully I don't need to go to work on a bicycle because we have great public transportation here in France, so I mostly use it for other things and just for the sake of it (I like cycling). Cycling to work would not be convenient during warm seasons, to say the least. Winter is the best, just get a jacket that protects you from the wind, some gloves and decent shoes.
As one of the people whose channel is affected by this policy change, I have to say I am not happy. There are a few issues I have with their new policy:

1) They should not have made this change retroactive to channels. If you already met the criteria you should be grandfathered into the new program. To terminate monetization entirely gives me no incentive to continue with YouTube.

2) For niche channels, like my own, it can be easy to have the views but difficult to have the subscribers. These two should not be tied together for purposes of monetization.

3) The ones that seem to be causing the biggest headaches on YouTube lately are the bigger creators.

4) Finally, their email to me says that they made this decision based on discussions with creators like me. I would be hardpressed to find a creator "like me" that suggested this. Instead, I suspect, they reached out to the creators with the biggest say and decided to squash the little guys for greater visibility.

I am curious if they will continue to monetize my videos while not sharing the revenue with me or if they will remove ads entirely from my videos.
Everyone's talking about how this is bad for small channels, but surely this is a big hit to YouTube itself as well.

Since they've decided they need to vet all channels before ads are shown, and they can't do that to every channel, they've had to set an arbitrary view/subscriber limit. But now they're going to lose out on ad revenue for millions of previously-monetised videos, while still having to host them for free.
I agree, the paradox make me smile. Hence i was said these kind of games were bad for children's.
And now look were the gaming industry drive us.
This blow completely my mind as gamer fan! ^^
Someone please do this. (You'll probably need a lot of money.)

In the meantime, download anything you enjoy today, because it may not be there tomorrow.
What a joke. The idea that the US is going to break up monopolies and conspiring oligarchies is plain laughable. While you're talking about fairy tales, why don't you suggest that if elected officials were honest...
FYI like 90% of your comments are flagged dead, but I read through them and think they're hilarious. You might want to create a new account.
Are you talking about problems with gRPC mentioned in the article? gRPC is not in any way specific to Go or even related to Go, and I can confirm that there have been some problems with the C++ version of gRPC.

The CloudFlare outage was related to leap second handling... while the particulars of the Go library contributed, this is also far, far from the only time that a leap second caused havoc online. Hell, in 2008, Zunes were crippled by a leap day bug.

RPC and time handling are notoriously tricky problems to get right.
lousy management, they don't seem to understand that most of the metrics they can measure in the time span of a week are not going to be useful for predicting success
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I'm going to against the other responders and say in our case, it wasn't worth it, and we ended up ripping out Flow from our large application.

I'll preface by saying we didn't start the project with Flow but tried to add it after-the-fact.

We ran into a ton of problems with Flow itself -- posting issues that went unanswered; flow server would regularly crash or spike our dev machines to 100% CPU. We ran into problems with third-party type definitions either being completely wrong or missing entirely. I spent weeks of work trying to get Flow to work properly.

On top of all that effort, what did we get? It caught a few runtime errors (cannot find X of undefined, X might be null but isn't checked). It was nice to see the types on our action and API payloads. Autocomplete was nice.

When we add all of those things up I'm not sure it saved the
amount of effort put into converting a project to Flow ... and we ended up dropping it completely because of its continued maintenance requirements.

I'm not saying that there isn't a benefit to TS or that other teams haven't used it to great benefit but it really cannot be understated how much effort it takes to get it right. There are a lot of ways to do it wrong and there are ton of articles that will lead you in the wrong direction. From getting the build system right, to third-party definitions being out-of-date, to googling around for hours to figure it all out, it is a big time investment. Every project that is brought into your repo needs to be typed to see the full benefit.
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I assume he was pointing out why having family or close connections overseas and in a potentially hostile or at least adversarial nation has long been a factor in clearance investigations.
Um... what? Might as well say that operating systems are linked to outages. Pretty sure Twitter wasn’t running on Go all the times it went down. Go is really ridiculously solid and used in all kinds of production systems, outages happen no matter what language.
Will they altogether stop showing ads in "unapproved" videos or just that the maker won't make money?
I can say one thing... after having learned most of what the article outlines the hard way, I'm still waiting for hardware to trial.

Meanwhile, MIMO capabilities are improving steadily; not quite the same approach but functional and proven for use today. Never plan a business model on another company's promises.

Another piece of delayed hardware was Mimosa's window CPE that never made it to full production due to underperforming results.
There are naturalized citizens everywhere in our security agencies. Many from former and current adversaries. They are full citizens. If they pass the background check they are entitled to the same privileges as any other citizen.
I had some original content with over a million views from a decade ago. I now have other priorities and the language like

> Accordingly, this email serves as 30 days notice that your YouTube Partner Program terms are terminated.

feels like a pretty big fuck you.
This is vicious, fraudulent and should be illegal.
The closest I can think of is Vimeo, but they've concentrated more on highly edited, niche, even arthouse style video. I don't know much about their technical equivalence with respect to performance because I don't find any videos on there I'd like to watch.

Twitch has been attempting to compete in the video game space by adding uploads and comment systems on videos, but Twitch has its share of problems such as a haphazard dashboard and a terribly designed mobile app.

Vid.me was around for a while but recently shut down.

It's not a very competitive space imo.
If you have traction, the money will come. But really, what can you do that's better than YouTube? Honest question.

I think that YouTube has reached Google levels of optimization. Sure, it could be better, but not better enough that people are willing to switch.
I am interested in finding out how Twirp helps with versioning? Is it possible to have services evolve independent of each other?
it's happened before
I don’t think alphabet is a huge deal.

Here in Montenegro we have two alphabets for the same language, one Cyrillic another one Latin. The Constitution says neither one is to be discriminated for/against. People just read & write both. Wikipedia and government web sites have transliteration switches. Media mostly use Latin.
for example: https://www.chemtrailvaccines.com/

Not really a fraud though, they WILL send you a bottle of mints as described
The state of the art advances. There are SAMs today that can shoot down ICBMs. I would guess that one reason the SR-71 was retired, besides the official line that it was expensive and made obsolete by satellites, is that it was no longer invulnerable as it had been when it was new.
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Isn't google's advertising cut 30-40%?

How many dollars does it cost them to vet a channel?

My 3 minute video makes me ~.3 cents per view. It's actually less than 3 minutes, most don't watch the whole thing. 4000 hours in a year = $240 revenue. So, advertisers are paying $360.

If you have just 2000 hours of views per year, Google is throwing away $60/year in revenue.

My linked gmail account alone with 10+ years of data should scream legitimacy alone.
Is YouTube even profitable? Even if they are, it seems like the only reason cost could be "reasonable" is because they piggy back off of being Google scale (co-location, negotiated bandwidth rates, global network of self-hosted data centers). Not to mention the network and aggregate effects of having an existing ad market and user profiles for targeting ads.

One could probably mitigate high operating costs by charging for the service or limiting who can post on the site. But I think these two factors greatly contribute to YouTube's monopoly status.
Tether just hit a new all time high of $1.07, making the return on investment significantly better than most VC funds.
The only information we both have on this is a TechCrunch article. So they've obviously just glanced the most salacious details and published a quick story. It's impossible, without reading the complaint, for us to know what is relevant.

I'll give you that, from the article, his sex toys seem irrelevant. However, if they're mentioned in the complaint, I suspect it might have something to do with a hostile work environment or sexual harassment. But that's just me speculating.
> The ones that seem to be causing the biggest headaches on YouTube lately are the bigger creators.

This is a great observation. They're punishing the small, niche channels for the terrible shit pulled by the huge channels, with Logan Paul just being the most recent and which is probably the precipitating event here.
It's not a grossly unreasonable move, but it doesn't exactly smack of creator-friendliness.

It does nothing to address the ongoing grievances of YouTubers about monetisation. At this stage, it seems like getting paid is a complete crapshoot. Sometimes your videos will be classified as "not suitable for most advertisers", despite not breaching any of YouTube's policies. Sometimes your video will be taken down or demonetized by a completely bogus copyright claim. Sometimes you'll get lucky and actually see some ad revenue for a video. If you've got a problem, you're stuck with the usual Google tech support system of "personally know someone who works at the Googleplex, otherwise you're SOL".

Pretty much every sane YouTuber is moving towards a Patreon-first business model and treating ad revenue as a bonus. If someone solves the discoverability problem for videos hosted on other platforms, YouTube are done. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, lose all of your content creators because you've treated them like criminals for years.
The problem here is that the Nigerian Government don't see this as a priority. I was just in Nigeria a month ago, the government just allocated $1 billion to fight Boko Haram, the terrorist group that has already been defeated in Nigeria and chased out to other neighboring countries. The gist is that corrupt politicians in the Senate want to quietly siphon that $1 Billion into their foreign bank accounts.

The embarrassing thing is not that the government can't pay back the loan, its that they won't make something like this a priority. Politicians are too busy looting the government funds and enriching their family & friends.
wait, so I need to navigate away from youtube to watch some highly niche content? This is what people on youtube thinks and the perceived opportunity cost is not enough to force people to switch....unless its content that is downright banned on youtube

Basically niche videos will just be replaced by other people who will find ways to monetize it...or not even motivated by money at all but just to put content out there and for people to enjoy.

So far, all the comments on HN are about how they won't get paid, they will be replaced by people who do it without monetary rewards or saavy enough to monetize through external revenue sources.
> Hear me out: if the networks don't access a physically limited resource like the RF spectrum and there isn't any censorship issue at stake, if the issue is truly differential access and usage due to oligopolistic limitation, isn't it for the FTC to intervene and bust up throttling and content blocks under restraint of trade doctrine?

No, the FCC jurisdiction (even leaving aside broadband specifically) isn't predicated solely on a “physically limited resource”, otherwise it wouldn't have jurisdiction over telcos.

Further—while appeals have not been exhausted yet—AT&T v. FTC, if it holds up, will prevent any common carrier (e.g., any wireline telco) from being regulated in many activities by the FTC even in non-video-gaming activities (such as post-NN-repeal ISP services.)
I think the number of people who can consistently produce output 90 hours per week, over 50 weeks, is so small as to barely even exist.

The people that claim to work 90 hour weeks are generally entrepreneurs who include lunch meetings and things like thinking about strategy outside of the office, in those hours. If you own the business you never really stop thinking about it, but that is a completely different measure than for an employed individual contributor.
Are we restricted to Intel here? Here is something for VAX, from 1992: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/213271/

But to be honest, whether something was published 14 or 17 or 36 years ago... is kind of interesting, but only mildly so.

How about this question: was Intel aware of these publications?

If they were, then... what happened?

Or maybe they were not aware, or maybe someone was, but failed to communicate it to the right people, or maybe it was assigned JIRA x2399827348 and forgotten.

Wish we knew what happened.
I don't think they're worried about whether you're a legitimate account, they're worried about whether your videos are advertiser-friendly, and they've decided that to verify that they'll need to manually check your channel. Which would take forever if they didn't set some threshold.

They tried to crowdsource it with YouTube Heroes. I guess that didn't end up being enough.
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I'd bet those "high performance work athletes" are probably also taking "performance enhancing drugs".
There are a million better options for video hosting. The problem is discoverability - YouTube's search box and recommendations bar have a near-monopoly on discovering new video creators. If you're not on YouTube, you'll have a huge uphill struggle to build an audience. It doesn't help that Google also have a near-monopoly on search, so they can strangle traffic to any competing service through opaque algorithm tweaks.
That one was badly done, but there have been several since then; eg Candace Claiborne which was slam dunk.
It sounds like there will be a huge opportunity for howto/DIY videos that people don't really subscribe to.

Google isn't removing any videos, but they are using the demonetized videos as bait to get you to watch their monetized videos.
How about Mozilla first address the bias against certain people in in their own offices? Then they can fight for other kinds of neutralities.
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If ya wanna see a hero go to the morgue.
It would be nice if there was an explanation on what this was
I thought UWP Desktop Bridge might allow enough desktop access to support packaging a Windows service. Nope, the Bridge is not designed for that purpose and Windows services are explicitly not allowed.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop...

Elsewhere the docs talk about registering background tasks through another interface, but it seems like proper integration with services is a legitimate use case for people trying to embrace the blessed desktop path.
> You are describing blackmail.

Wouldn't it be blackmail if she didn't go to the courts and tried to demand money in exchange for not reporting him to the court, which she is now doing?
> > 2. The Go code generator usually produces highly unidiomatic Go.

> using the generated structs as the main domain types in your code can be up-and-down

At $DAYJOB we solve this by doing code generation outward from our domain types. The RPC layer is idiomatic Go because that's what we began with.

Some go/token and regexes take our structs and produce a server-side router implementation for net/http (endpoints from magic comments), some client-side libraries for Go / C++ (Qt) / PHP / JS, and documentation in markdown.

Our system is in a pretty reusable state, but nobody has the free cycles to open it. If Twirp had been available 24mo ago our project might have been different.
> UWP is: a platform so OS-locked it doesn’t even run on Windows < 10

True on the Win 10 point but they had to make a change, they do similar with new platforms all the time, WPF was pushed on Vista.

Basically UWP matches up nicely with other platforms under Xamarin especially. Though most of Xamarin is iOS/Android focused probably because of the market, it closely mirrors those so that it is easier to make a UWP app from one of those apps. Many business apps are going Android, Surface or even iPad/iPhone Apple focused.

Microsoft had to make a hard change for this, UWP is actually a joy to work with on new projects but porting a WPF app may be difficult and you may have to make many custom controls outside touch friendly interfaces.

> WPF & Silverlight runs on multiple Windows versions and Silverlight was supported on Mac OS

True but not for long, Silverlight also no longer runs on any browser but IE.

UWP will evolve, WPF and Silverlight were very rudimentary on their first iterations. Silverlight was solely js based on Silverlight 1 even. Winforms was more supported at the time when WPF came out as well, WPF was only for Vista when it launched, XP it runs slow.

Before .NET and Winforms it was Visual C++/VB apps, MFC, COM+ etc.

Every once in a while things change enough that the old must be thrown out. WPF was a pre-mobile toolkit and Silverlight was for the age of Flash, those times are in the past.
A signed suicide note by YouTube. It's those peanuts that motivate actual content creators to post content and grow. This is the problem with "free and always will be", smh.

You get a centralized broker. In Google's case, between sellers and viewers, who are cast as buyers. This all happens under the shadow of "video content". Google feeds off of the creativity of everyone on YouTube, its own Hollywood. Then they decide who is worthy of reaping the rewards with their rules.

Something as simple as an organic comment promoting a product can actually drive real sales, and the John Doe that posts such a comment gets zilch. Why does he get nothing? Is it too difficult for Google to index all of John Doe's comments, crunch the impressions and counts and then give him the few dollars he would have accrued over the past few weeks? This should all just "work" without having to download Google Surveys, or whatever their community feedback/rewards app is.

If they can index the web, they can do some math on behalf of me and count me in their little MLM payouts equation ffs. /ranty This is the perfect move to put more YouTubers past the tipping point.
For everyone interested there's an excellent book on running a bussines called Rework with exact same phrase "you're not a hero if you work long hours".
I just got an email that my channel will de-monetized by this. I thought it was pretty funny actually. There are all these huge content creators losing out on their livelihoods because of Google's unpredictable de-monetization behaviour, and then Google even decides to demonetize even my tiny channel with only a few videos (that are over 9 years old).

I turned on monetization a few years ago and I think I've made maybe $20 so far. For a while, I actually considered investing time in making more videos with the idea that the present value of a large number of videos might be pretty considerable over the long term (say 30 years or so).

A few years ago one of my most popular videos (tens of thousands of views) was flagged as being 'not family friendly'. The video was a screen capture of me scrolling through a notepad.exe list of documentary titles with no audio. It was just a list of nature/space documentaries that were already on YouTube. Nothing offensive or controversial.

I guess this is the final nail in the coffin for my YouTube career.
Then again, going on CNBC and touting your coin as the next big thing and then selling your stake a few days later... there's a reason we've banned that kind of behavior in securities markets for decades.
Was Candace Marie Claiborne secretly Chinese-American?
> 3) The ones that seem to be causing the biggest headaches on YouTube lately are the bigger creators.

Not quite:

* Paying for views/subs is a huge issue. The lifetime view count makes it so that you only need to pay once to reap the benefits of YPP. Making the requirement continuous gives less financial incentive.

* Elsagate and content aimed at children was a smaller but frequent controversy last year. I’m guessing they need more time/resources to vet that content and slow down the rate that spammers and low-effort content providers try to game the system.
I supported them until they kicked out Brendan Eich over his personal political leanings.
> But really, what can you do that's better than YouTube?

For any specialized market, probably a lot; YouTube may be the ultimate least-common-denominator user-submitted-video streaming service, but it's not the only one there is room for.
Youtubes reputation seems to have taken a hit with mainstream brands recently because of content controversy, maybe they're hoping to curb that and sign some more lucrative deals, that will outweigh the loss of cheap ads on non-vetted videos?

Ironically though, most of the controversy is from large content creators that won't be effected by this so, who knows.
>) For niche channels, like my own, it can be easy to have the views but difficult to have the subscribers. These two should not be tied together for purposes of monetization.

I completely agree.

I've saved hundreds of dollars [and time] on car maintenance/repairs and plumbing by watching some guy or gal on youtube with very specific information (for a given make/model/year) for example.

I hope these kinds of instructional videos get a reprieve because many many people use them and save tons of money and time [finding manuals and reading them is arduous].

This could be a terrible loss for some audiences as well as the creators who get compensated, slim as it may be.
Intel was absolutely aware of microarchitectural side-channel attacks before Spectre and Meltdown; an Intel employee (Onur Aciicmez) published the first branch predictor side channel paper (at least that I'm aware of).
Vimeo's OTT is an interesting offering in this space that let's filmmakers launch their own subscription services.
https://ott.vimeo.com