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>That is not to say you can’t find deep structured knowledge on youtube, but the proper way to support its creation is to directly pay for it. Next best thing is paying for youtube premium.

Of course, I also don't like ads but of the choices of : Youtube ads - vs - Youtube Premium - vs -subscription/Patreon/Paypal/bitcoin/etc ... I prefer the ads. The other options of paid subscription are more anti-consumer to me personally.

I follow about ~30 Youtube channels but the churn rate is high so I'd rather not manage ~30 separate subscriptions/Patreons and then cancelling ~30 paid subscriptions when the quality goes down or I'm not interested anymore.

>Imagine two youtubes, one ran by ads only and one exclusively for paid subscribers. [...] In which case the interest of the platform is aligned with the interest of the user?

Netflix/HBO/Disney+ are subscriptions but they don't have any videos I'm interested in. (I'm not interested in tv shows.)

Instead, I need quick hits of topical information to learn from and Youtube videos with ads happens to be more aligned with me than the subscription services. I also don't bother with paying extra for Youtube Premium to avoid ads. I just manually skip them if they're not relevant.

>In no way ads help democratize the access to valuable information.

I disagree on this. For me, ads work better because I mostly engage with random topic first more so than a particular person. When a new Youtuber with no reputation creates brand new content, an ad-driven model (with algorithmic recommendations) can put that in front of me to consume. Subscription makes no sense in this case because I have no idea if this new person is worth subscribing to. Ads are less friction and thus, more consumer friendly.

E.g. My Samsung clothes dryer broke and I needed to replace a heating element. Instead of paying $300 for service, I just went to Youtube and several people happen to upload videos of how to disassemble the dryer and fix it. It was a timely topic that I needed and ads were the best way for me to "pay" for that content. I'm not interested in subscribing to anything! I just wanted some visual guidance to help me fix my dryer. Thanks Youtube for the ads and helping me save $300.

Another circumstance that reinforced my preference for ad-supported content creation was dealing with a family tragedy in my life. I had stopped watching Youtube for months and when I finally came back, I noticed I didn't have to "suspend" any paid subscriptions while I was gone. Again, I don't want to watch ads but I have to admit that the ad-supported business model is what gives me flexibility to dip in and out of Youtube without a lot of commitment.

To summarize...

Subscriptions/Patreon: more aligned with supporting particular creators

ads : more aligned with consumers to support a wide variety of topics that can come from any creators, especially unknown ones
I remember, when I was a kid, we visited a national park (in Africa). The antelopes would eat cigarette butts, and we were told not to bring any with us (apparently, people would bring them, just to feed them). This was at a part of the park that had animals being rehabbed (or were permanent residents).
"Whatever you think of Mark Zuckerberg, you can't accuse him of being stupid or lazy"

Whatever you can say about Mark Zuckerberg, I doubt that he was even half as smart as, say, von Neumann or Tesla, or Da Vinci, or probably hundreds if not thousands of other people whose names we all know, not to mention the probably millions of people who were just as smart but have remained unknown.

These people did not achieve riches either because they did not consider them to be important, because they got screwed by people who were less scrupulous or more well connected, were just unlucky, or for a million other reasons than their intelligence.

Instead, the really brilliant minds of humanity are almost always the servants of far less intelligent people.

As for hard work, do you know how many single parents there are who are holding down two or three minimum wage jobs to support their families, dealing day after day and year after year of getting spat on and despised for being poor or having the jobs they have? Or the fish seller who gets up at three in the morning every day to haul his wares to the market, clean fish guts off the sidewalk, and brave the weather to sell you fish day after day. These people aren't doing their work from a comfy McMansion or penthouse office, or ordering people about to do their work for them, but they work just as hard.

But what makes people think that intelligence or hard work make people deserving of money? People fetishize workaholism and intelligence, while there are plenty of smart, hard working sociopaths out there (arguably, they're exactly the kind who attain "success" in the business world, because they're smart and have no scruples to keep them back from doing whatever it takes to succeed, even if it means walking over the backs and faces of hundreds or thousands of people).

To me it's people who help others who are far more deserving of "success". The people who help the poor and disadvantaged, the teachers, the people who sacrifice themselves rather than those that sacrifice others. But most of these people don't attain "success" in the conventional sense. They usually die poor and unknown, and you rarely see books or articles about how great they were.

The fawning is usually reserved for the rich, who, when it comes down to it, usually get that praise because they're rich. If they make the wrong decisions or are unlucky, no matter how smart or hard working they were, they are forgotten and often despised. That would have been Zuckerberg's fate as well, without any change in his intelligence or work ethic, if he hadn't struck it rich.
Why Some Tech Workers Leaving Silicon Valley Are Changing Jobs
Nothing prevents having a type system capable of dealing with those problems. Yes, Java and Golang make this difficult, but if you have a language that supports it, there's nothing which prevents writing an API that says "Whatever the effects of the Callable you passed me are, I also perform those effects".
Seriously? That's your feedback? You're going to back-seat-edit a goddamn eulogy?

What is wrong with you
I guess I'll be the contrarian here. The real customers of FB (aka advertisers) that I've asked all claim to get their money's worth from their ad spends and obviously they keep going back to the well rather than switching to somewhere else. Fake users and bots can't be spending fake money. So even if the claims about the raw number of users are grossly exaggerated, the performance metrics which actually matter (eg conversions per ad dollar) can't be fake. Therefore the company can't just be an elaborate scam.
There are certainly some negative people on the site, but the moderator team do a good job of making sure any criticism is genuine and not a personal attack.

Thanks for your continued support :)
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Thanks for these!

I have a copy of The Shock of The Old and I did find it thought-provoking. I had recently become aware of the ideas/discipline of discourse analysis[1] so it was more enlightening than it might have been to someone who wasn't really aware that our narratives are framed (like younger me).

I'll be checking out the Russell and Vinsel.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_analysis
“Experiments on human subjects without informed consent”
You can get a whole pizza for $5?
When I understood that it made my hate/love of C hate side stronger.
Wikipedia has dark grey text on a white background for the primary text. Headers are in actual black. I found another 6 shades of gray that are all used in multiple places on the site.

I found 5 shades of the primary color blue.

A good color palette uses many colors but feels like few. Wikipedia is doing a great job of this.
Like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZ2Ldrr5ok?
"The company lent Bain the money needed to acquire itself"

How does this work exactly? Why would the company lend an acquirer money?
I really liked this article, but I think it misses a couple things: the reality of the economy for millennials. Notes about how we might consider wage stagnation aside, cost of living and education skyrocketed for us. We also witnessed several significant economic events: the .com bubble's burst and the 2008 recession / depression -- a time when many millenials were looking for their first job post-college or at least a time when we were considering what to do post-college. Personally, I changed my plans entirely based on the 2008 depression (I'm in Michigan, where it was really bad).

The psychology of frugality can extend to time, not just money.
It's also a good basis for a DIY digital watch: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto
Not really on macs. Sure, the system boots, but due to lack of documentation, hardware support has to be reverse engineered. For wifi, the recent Intel MBP boards have broken firmware which just does not work with Linux - it's officially a wont-fix upstream since Apple doesn't care.
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I think it would only take a few years (very few, as in low single digits) of 1.5% growth in housing supply to invalidate the extrapolations being used here.
I'm awarding you the Worst Comment award at HackerNews 2020.
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Yep, that's the nature of things. I'm 41 but I feel like, I don't know, 26 maybe. But I'm definitely not. If I was 26 right now, I would probably have instagram, fb, etc... whereas I have no social accounts, except, I suppose HN.

I have literally no way of knowing what it would be like to have been born in 1994 instead of 1979... it's so crazy how fast things change. What would it be like if the internet was just a given when I was born instead of getting on BBS's and then the internet slowly leaks in.
Not really. If I state that humans are mammals and one of their properties is that they need to breathe air, I'm under no obligation to demonstrate that there are mammals that don't breathe air. And nor does the existence of non-mammals that do breathe air invalidate my point.

But I understand your point that perhaps these are not necessarily inherent to Capitalism. I believe they are, as Capitalism structurally enforces inequality which inevitably leads to these things.
I've made a blog post about this some time ago[1]!

Definitely not exhaustive as this thread though.

[1] https://ne02ptzero.me/blog/c-tricks-that-i-use-everyday.html
Casio's Waveceptor has a countdown timer and syncs to atomic time. I've used them for probably the last 20 years.
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Do These A.I.-Created Fake People Look Real to You?
Intel is becoming the next inefficient big thing.
In some regards it is easy mode. They still kill themselves and are unhappy like many according to pew.
> Plenty to get you into a very very good school. And get you plenty of scholarship money.

I mean, I didn't. I get what you're saying but the idea that you can just "work hard" to get into these sorts of institutions feels kind of insulting when there are lots of people like me that did work hard but didn't get in.
That's my box cutter strategy.
I think the idea is that so you have memory that is invisible to the Go GC. That way you are free (and at risk of memory leaks) to do whatever you want with that slab.
I read the central point of the piece as,

"I must be super productive so that I can maximize my wealth"

rather than,

"I must be super productive to just to remain competitive".

To me it seems like the author assumes people are optimizing because they're driven to squeeze every drop of value out of their time, rather than just trying to remain competitive in the market.
If your only comparison is "I used to work with Heroku", Terraform might seem not great. I would argue this is a blub example, in that this person's lens does not contain enough context or experience to be able to assess value.

Terraform's value becomes clear when moving in scenarios like moving from CloudFormation to Terraform, or when trying to integrate a second cloud's resources into your infrastructure workflow. Without experience in anything other than Heroku, of course a tool designed to do many many things is going to seem complex and at times frustrating.

> Iteration times are way longer than with even mobile apps. Like, “you’re liable to task-switch while waiting to see plan output” longer.

I'm over here laughing in my "over an hour of CloudFormation only to have a run fail, and then a rollback fail, and have to contact AWS support" life.
ARM has some backwards compatibility if you choose to implement it. E.g. Windows natively supports ARM32 and ARM64 in Windows 10. Apple chooses to only support ARM64 for simplicity.

In either case any future change in the ARM architecture couldn't be worse than how each platform handles running x86 apps on ARM and currently the Apple M1 does that better than the previous Intel chips they were using.
> terraform-lsp is supposed to provide autocomplete, but it mostly doesn’t, in my experience.

I find Terraform for Jetbrains IDEs to work hundred times better than the VSCode one. I really can recommend it, does magic to autocompletion, peek definition, snippets insertion and linting TF/HCL files.

Author of this blogpost have not mentioned Terragrunt [0], while I think it is worth mentioning. It is nice tool, especially if you work on bigger projects having multiple modules and per-environment variables.

Also, a tip from a person, who works in team using terraform - use brew/apt repositories to keep the binaries up-to-date or at least on the same version as your team mates. I remember at least few situations, when patch update of a terraform binary was crucial to make some issues disappear.

[0]: https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io/

Psst... I am also using Terraform to bootstrap Pop_OS! with my dotfiles and it is surprisingly nice enough to mimic declarative and atomic NixOS configuration :)
This is such an alien concept as a non-American. Lack of money should not mean lack of medical care in any developed nation, let alone the “richest and greatest”
What’s interesting about that case is that >5% of employees quit.

So these were people that coinbase decided, out of all available applicants—and as a well-known, hugely profitable company that is the only “in any way mainstream” success story of cryptocurrency-based businesses, there are a fair number of them—thought were the right fit. (That’s excluding the people who were given offers and didn’t accept, of course.)

And then greater than one in twenty employees (that’s a lot) heard what he said and were like, nope, this is not someone I want to follow.

Is that a success? Maybe! I can’t think of a time when we’ve seen that level of voluntary departure from a company and thought, “ah yes, this is good.” Or when we’ve seen something like that and thought, “ah yes, this is what leadership looks like.”

Maybe he’s right! I don’t know. We’ll see.

But when I look at America, with its staggering income inequality and tremendous corporate cash investments into political elections, I don’t personally think, “wow there sure is too much social accountability at companies.”

You know?

I don’t look at Facebook and think, “they should really just focus on being a data mining advertising business. This thing about fomenting extremism is distracting us from them as a corporate enterprise in a capitalist system.”

Yikes.
"memory holed" is a reference to 1984. 'guscost appears to believe that epidemiologists eradicate evidence of their theories and simulation results in a manner comparable to the Ministry of Truth's purging of evidence and rewriting of history.
"always wait for the .1 release." :-) Actually. Can anyone give examples where the first or second point release of a product was a noticeable regression?
31$USD for a fucking pdf?
Let me be honest with you, as a painter I have a lot of knowledge about composition, colour, mediums and anatomy all gained trough experience with yers of experimentation and lots of invested time and money. Do you think that I will give all of this for 2 or may be less than 2 dollars per 1000 views? Do you understand that ad revenue is attached to types of content also? On youtube I will show you some time lapse footage and if you want to learn the craft you must pay for full video course. Yes there are people that give good knowledge on youtube, but full structured courses from professionals on high value topics are rare.
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The cynic in me thinks the 'price in writing' price match is so that the price matching retailer can report retailers who dont abide by MAP.

I dont disagree, but it leads to scenarios like the above where arbitrage exists. I can buy something from Europe and then sell it on Reverb under MAP and still make a tidy profit. This sort of thing doesnt scale and introduces risk to me if I do that(how do you handle warranty claims, most gear is shipped with EU power cords so you have to buy US power cords to ship to customers, etc)

For retailers, most do not have the resources to differentiate so 1 store selling for MAP is interchangeable with another. There are boutique stores that have passionate/knowledgeable staff that can guide less informed or newer customers. Sweetwater does this at scale, and I do buy from them for this reason when its something Im not completely up to speed on when I purchase.

This is not an easy problem, but I do think an unofficial price floor is not good for the consumer. I also acknowledge that there are stores that will discount privately via chat or in person, but ironically Guitar Center was very inflexible on several items I wanted to purchase there in the last 5 or so years. I ended up going to smaller retailers.
I dunno. For me this watch is nearly perfect. It's incredibly thin, lightweight, waterproof. It shows the time, day and date. The battery will last for 7-10 years. I can wear it day and night and never have to take it off or do anything for it.

I have a collection of other watches including Apple watches and Swiss mechanical watches. None of them are as practical and hassle-free as this watch.
Maybe they thought you were al-qaeda:

Why Terrorists Love Casio's Iconic F-91W Watch

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkebp8/casio-f91w-watch-terr...
The fidelity of standard non high bias tape at compact cassette speeds is already shit compared to even low bitrate mp3. It’s not a problem in practice.
Your posts take what may sound like a benign or reasonable position (civil rights are good, right?) and uses that as a means to assert that supporting BLM is the same thing. For some it is, for some it isn’t. And for some it’s green grocerism or a Kafkatrap.
Do you seriously think the present climate is more welcoming to this sort of "questioning"?
Thanks for the compliment!

Honestly, it would be challenging to distill it down into a post. I don't think I could convey it well enough.

A lot of the journey is just training your eye to see things you like and ask what makes it the way it is. You just kind of have to develop an eye for white space, colors, visual hierarchy, and more. It's a heavy topic.

Like writing, it takes practice, and when you do create something, it takes a lot of heavy editing and refining to simplify it more and more.
Only that your Bluetooth band needs to be charged several times a month.
For anyone following along. Don't do this if the code base is already hotshit. This will only make things worse and not prevent errors, just cause more outages.
> Having everything flow into a Amazon Monopoly of retail isn't great. Even just going in the stores to talk and get a literal feel for instruments is great.

I agree that if sales go to Amazon instead, that's a loss for customers and the community. On the other hand, online retailers can't really compete when it comes to being able to actually try out the exact instrument you're buying. Guitars aren't completely homogeneous; one might sound better than another, or have different wood grain, or whatever.

Also, physical stores can provide guitar setup and repair services. Local setup can help a lot: manufacturers will often set the action very conservatively at the factory because they don't know what kind of humidity conditions the guitar will endure in transit or at its final destination, and they don't want the frets to buzz when someone takes it out of the box. Consequently, the strings are higher than they need to be which makes it unnecessarily hard to play. Fixing that is pretty simple and makes a big difference.

I hope that if Guitar Center closes a lot of their business goes to smaller local music shops for those reasons. However, I expect that if GC is having a hard time, a lot of other music stores are in just as bad of a situation and a lot of them are going to close.

> That said retail, particularly non essential retail ( my various instruments are all effectively toys, I'd guess the working musician to hobbyist ratio to easily be 1:100) is getting hit hard. No one NEEDS a news 1500$ Gibson.

Back around 2007-ish, there was a surge in sales of ukuleles, as a large number of recently-unemployed people with a lot of time on their hands were looking for a cheap hobby. My own anecdote from this last summer was that I made a pond and in early fall went looking for koi to put in it, but a local supplier was sold out and couldn't get more. Apparently there was more demand than has been seen in a long time, which makes sense. If you're stuck at home and need a project, why not make a koi pond?
> They come as a displacing wave of invaders

This has been happening continuously since San Francisco was first settled by Spanish explorers and soldiers in 1776, displacing the Ohlone peoples who lived there. There are SF history articles in the library that go into great detail about the shift in neighborhood demographics since the initial Gold Rush.

When I first perused the source material back in the 1990s, I learned about the hidden history of San Francisco. Of particular note, was the Irish and Polish presence in the Mission in the early to mid-twentieth century, and the Scandinavian wave to Upper Market around the same time.

These waves of ethnic migration to the city influenced its development, brought people with new skills and culture, and greatly contributed to the multicolored tapestry of San Francisco. Many of these groups had organized meeting places and interest groups which directly benefited their districts, and they performed charitable work to improve the city in which they lived.
Privacy badger blocked a whole load of cookies but I was able to get rid of the banner without clicking the dumb consent button with one of my favourite addons, "hide fixed elements".

Quite a petty design choice if you ask me.
The author is one of the creators of Tailwind CSS, which gives you a predefined color palate but no components, and is intentionally opposed to the Bootstrap ideas. The recognizable part of Bootstrap isn't the fact that errors are red, it's the shape of the buttons, inputs, etc., and the fact that all errors are the exact same red as other Bootstrap sites.

At the end of the day "good" UI doesn't have a lot of room to be different -- it actually needs to be recognizable -- but you don't need to change much to avoid being generic. Using different shade(s) of red for errors is one way.