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> TikTok is targeting a different type of content, there is no competition with YouTube as we know it

I something learned from the MMO boom back in the days of WoW. After WoW came out, there were a glut of other MMOs. Game companies were like, "Look at WoW! Players love MMOs! If we make MMOs, we'll be rich!"

Almost all of them failed. The problem wasn't that the games were bad. Many were technically and artistically better. It definitely wasn't that gamers couldn't afford them. Cost was within the level of disposable income for most. The problem wasn't even network effects and userbase, though those do have an effect. Gamers move to new games all the time.

The problem was that there is one fundamentally scarce commodity: human time.

Thinking of competition in terms of physical goods is using an Industrial Age definition of competition when we're living in an Information Age. Consumers need a wide variety of unrelated physical things, so competition is only really meaningful between the products of the same kind. Also, producing goods has a significant per-unit cost.

With information—especially entertainment media—anything that takes user attention competes with every other product that does the same. It doesn't matter if the products are completely unrelated: they burn the same scarce resource, so users using one are less able to use the other. And this is the only scarce resource in the equation since the marginal cost of streaming the same movie to one viewer or a million is essentially the same.

YouTube, TikTok, Netflix, Fortnite, Instagram, Fox News, Minecraft, Reddit, Spotify, they're all competing against each other.

As Reed Hastings said once, "You get a show or a movie you’re really dying to watch, and you end up staying up late at night, so we actually compete with sleep. And we’re winning."
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Because you can't see a video has a 1:9 like:dislike ratio to tell you it's not worth your time. Granted, you'll (probably) be able to tell from the comments, for now.

I'm not convinced how much it'd actually impact watch time, but it seems to be the thesis.
It sounds a bit like you're arguing that people can't have nice things because it will make others feel bad?

It's definitely an unfortunate truth that our brains are wired to compare ourselves and our belongings with others. Still, it's kind of nice to have nice things.
My thoughts around that are to have all authorization and ownership encoded in database relations. I was thinking of a read-append-only table. This is a bit kooky maybe, but I experimented once with trying to make database constraints that verify a public key signature of the content of the record. One field containts signature of the user against the rest of the content of the record.

It was weird and ultimately at least Postgres couldn't support a cryptographic operation within a constraint, but it was fun to play with.

I make no claim any of this is practical right now, but I think there's at least theoeretical room to grow for that approach.

I'll look more into Phoenix! Thanks.
Amazon/AWS teams are so distributed and independent that it the quality of the output of one team very rarely reflects in any way on the quality of the output of another.

This is almost always a good thing.

There are of course centralizations and standardizations - the AWS SDK, Console UX, API guarantees, etc.

But Honeycode has almost no relationship to the rest of AWS, technically, or organizationally.
The host interface is paravirtualized. Hardware assisted virtualization only covers the CPU in most cases. All the hardware and I/O is going to be using paravirtualized devices (virtio or similar).

There is no inherent reason why that interface is going to be more secure than the syscall interface. If the goal is security, there are easier ways of hardening that without reaching for virtualization. Virtualization itself doesn't really buy you anything there; we only consider VMs more secure due to how existing implementations work, not due to anything intrinsic.
My biggest peeve is that these front-end no-code UI tools popping up aren't addressing web accessibility and making matters worst.

I built a SaaS tool (https://tenably.app) to handle the automatic remediation of web accessibility issues currently focused on headless e-commerce platforms. With Shopify being the current offering with plans to address more platforms.

Maybe I should look at offering API's to address the needs of these no-code platforms so they have a way of solving the issues while building.
No, the public space privacy doctrine thing with one of those amendments simply doesn't apply here. That doesn't make it theatre, just not the same as what you might be used to yourself. Common law doesn't apply here.
It was always only a matter of time untill this snakes starts eating itself.

News talking heads should be interviewing thousands of experts who can say "I told you so" and asking some tough questions of our joker officials.
I used to abuse Python's REPL and realized I was wasting a lot of time in the REPL that could be saved by articulating my tests in a proper test file or even just main().

pkg.go.dev and gopls also automate away most of the "exploration" I would be doing in Python REPL.
aside from the massive adoption of a global distributed communication network enabling communication between almost everyone on the planet, coupled with a vast repository of saved knowledge, I can't really think of anything that might have improved productivity in that timeframe.
> mayonnaise

how do you blend it? a lot of recipes call for an immersion blender..
Churned through a lot of ideas/apps for this over time, what works (not 'best' but 'well enough') for me right now is LogSeq.

- Daily notes as roots

- Local storage

- Plain text storage

- "wiki-links"

- Backlinks and easily traversing notes

- Hierarchical format for notes (with folding, so I can "tuck away" a bunch of text and screenshots when I don't want to look at them)
They tried to whitewash their crime by acquiring Kiddiecraft long after they ripped them off and HP committed suicide. Essentially they have already been told they have no patent on the bricks so this is just scare tactics.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_clone
the current situation offers an opportunity to increase leverage for knowledge workers , and i think for that reason alone, no one should ever return to the office.
> YT is too vastly big for that.

No it's not, it's our society that's fucked. It's our CEOs' legal requirement of fiduciary responsibility that causes these problems.

YouTube was 10.9% of Google's revenue for the year 2020, with something around $19,770,000,000 of income. How many employees could Google hire to manually investigate and take action against users? Even 10% of that income to address this problem would hire literally tens of thousands of people to tackle the issue.

The "problem" with Big Tech is that they're convinced of their own intelligence and they all believe they can automate their way to Utopia. Well you can't. You're not that smart. You're not that wise. You need bodies on the ground, you need hands doing work. We may get there some day, but it won't be today, tomorrow, ten years from now, and it may not even be a hundred years from now.

A little painful hubris in the form of some of these enormous social media platforms collapsing not under their own weight, but under their own arrogance in the form of thinking they can automate their problems away, would be a good dose of medicine sorely needed.
Israel is an ally of the United States.
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AWS once again pretending to cozy up to open source when in reality they are shoddily getting their foot in the door with any possible monetization opportunities for it so no one can conceivable do the same. Open source communities should react violently to amazon adopting anything of theirs based on their previous track record.
She was being held on a health order. While she does her best to misrepresent that, this is not a criminal arrest and so suspicion is not required. She is a known close contact and was requires to isolate. In the NT, for obvious reasons, they are not going to take people at their word.
I understand that and thanks for the Ramayana links, but I think one has to stretch the template so far to fit such epics that it kind of loses its meaning. It gets to the point where everything is "a hero goes on a journey" which can really describe everything and anything ("John went to the corner shop to buy a beer"). At that point it's not about stories with common characteristics, it's just an over-generalisation broad enough to cover anything.

For example the Illiad is about Achilles being a major asshole, throwing a hissy fit and then getting his arrogant self killed. What's hero's-journey about that? Yet people will find ways to (try and) do it anyway:

https://thetrojanwar.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/trojan-war-tra...

(Bonus Odyssey application in the link).
For the vast majority of the population you will not get much support for the Principle of Self-Ownership which is what you are talking about when you say

>The question then, is at what point do a bunch of people become a government? What is the magic number? And on what basis does a government have greater rights than the individuals it purports to represent?

To me and likely yourself the answer to this question is Never, the government never has more rights than the individuals

The US was (and I stress was) the last nation on the planet where this idea had even small roots in the ground as a foundational principle of governance, sadly that has been lost and any of those roots that may have been left were yanked out of the soil at the start of COVID.

Today the rule is "The needs of the many, outweigh any rights of the individual"
It would be interesting to examine how often the syntactically correct merge solution is also deemed to be semantically correct by both authors involved.

Imagine a list of emoji below the question: "How would you rate this merge?"

And then behind the scenes:some AI trickery profiling the way any pair of users are likely to conflict/agree. The future is looking... high contrast.
Israel is a US ally
although it is admittedly progressives who currently have the upper hand

I'm not sure this is true. Opposition to this sort of thing has given the world leaders like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. In the case of Trump, even losing the election was extremely close and the political movement he catalyzed continues unabated and, perhaps, more entrenched.

But I could be wrong: in general it is hard to make an accurate assessment here when the most accessible views into either side are the more extreme outliers that bubble up into the front pages or morning news shows of different news outlets, or pluck the right chord of anger/indignation to trend in social media.
Not having the definition being controlled by a company, being and open specification and the whole ecosystem and tooling from the ground up being designed around a fully modular instruction set with use-case specific profiles that can evolve independently is very different then what we have now.

> Finally, "the goal" is really "a goal or vision" as expressed by proponents. It's not really one in the objective sense.

No idea what that means.

I don't know if it will be faster, frankly I don't care if its slightly slower, even if I don't really think that will be the case. An open ISA allows for real open chips and finally making real progress in that direction in terms of openness.
And yet... in a mysterious and unfathomable coincidence, one of the biggest corporate DB companies is literally called Oracle.

That's the point about Lakoff's metaphors. We use them without being aware of them. And yes - there's a social and political element as well as a (pseudo)tangible one.

Although in this case I'd suggest they're more like analogies. If you had never seen a physical wall of storage boxes - in photos or the movies is fine, you don't need a direct personal experience - wouldn't it be harder to imagine what a key/value store is?

You may think you'd just know. But would you?

Most people find programming hard because they don't have these metaphors to (metaphorical) hand. You need a certain mindset which understands representations, relationships, and transformations in a certain kind of way.

People who have this find the basics "obvious" and can usually be trained to work their way up to more complex abstractions.

People who don't can't do it at all.
Doesn't seem like society is all that concerned with how much time it wastes watching Youtube videos either way. But, in this situation why wouldn't prioritizing videos with more upvotes not work just as well?
I don't think "eponymous" is the word you meant there.
The problem is voting is that it confirms what views are popular, not what is correct . The assumption that voting can help correct misinformation is probably wrong.
> all those extra instructions to compute carry will blow the I$ faster

i think the idea is, as others have mentioned, the add/comp instructions are fused internally to a single instruction, so probably its not that bad for i$ as we might think?
Israel is a third rail in US politics.

One significant faction of the GOP is millenarian evangelical Christians who (a) believe the Israeli state is a necessary precursor to armageddon and (b) have spent the past 2 decades trying to conflate “Muslim” with “terrorist”.

The Democratic party includes as part of its coalition many American Jews who, despite frustration with the human rights abuses of the Israeli government, feel a strong connection with Israel as a symbolic homeland and are worried that criticism of Israel will lead to broader antisemitism.

The US intelligence/defense establishment has strong ties to Israel, the US shares intelligence with Israel, and US firms make a lot of money selling weapons to Israel (a substantial part bought with US tax money). Israel has been the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid since World War II.
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> Because doing that will help us work together better and more

Not my experience at all. The more diverse, the harder it is to communicate, share values, and achieve goals. We are all products of our cultures. And some cultures are fundamentally incompatible.

Also, it is impossible for everybody to agree on the same goals. Without some sort of social/hidden pressure to comply with the dominant opinions, clearly signalled by who gets promoted/fired by the company.

In other words, I call it for what it is: BS.
> until I uploaded a load of personal ID documents [passport / driving licence, etc] to confirm my identity.

I don't use anything that I'm totally dependant on, so this hasn't been a problem for me (getting an account closed - might have happened with Facebook, maybe), but your post made me think of what I'd do with such a request:

First, I'd say something like "Well, since you're asking for *very* personal and confidential info, first I will need you to confirm *your* identity by you sending me [unredacted ID card|License|Passport] as well as proof of employment such as [Complete unredacted paystub|Complete unredacted employment contract] to ensure you really are who you say you are before proceeding".

To which they would invariably reply "Well we can't do that because it would violate the privacy of our employees (oh, the irony!), but rest assured we will keep the info you provide strictly confidential, blah blah blah".

At that point I'd fire back "Seriously?!??" along with samples of past leaks/privacy violations from that company, along with a blurb about how I can't talk about this request anymore since I'm now in the process of forwarding this to my local Attorney General (or "on the advice of my council"), etc.
> But there was a reason green screens and especially amber/yellow displays were popular long after color displays came out

Yes; monochrome monitors were typically higher resolution and color adapters could usually handle only very few simultaneous colors, providing very little benefit for the tradeoff of resolution.

IBM MDA (1981, monochrome text-only) was 80×25 text with a 9×14 font, or 720×348.

IBM CGA (also 1981) had 320×200 4-color graphics, and 640×200 monochrome graphics, with at most 80×25 8×8 text.

Hercules InGraphic (1982) had the same text mode as MDA plus 720×348 monochrome graphics.

IBM EGA (1984) highest resolution mode on a color monitor was 640×350.

It wasn't until VGA (1987) that there was a common PC color adapter that could drive a color monitor at or above the resolution of MDA text and Hercules graphics.

So, yeah, there was a good reason that monochrome (either alone or alongside a color display) hung around in the PC world.
Why do they call it Biden's bill when it was written and passed by Congress?
Many educational YouTuber push heavily for their extended / deeper content on Nebula in their YT videos.

I don’t know how well Nebula is doing, but I don’t see it as impossible that there is going to be some fragmentation in the video space in the future.
False. USA doesn't take cyber attacks from Russia and China seriously at all aside from lip service. In all reality USA should be considered in an actual state of war with these countries based on their previous actions.
but YouTube is 1000x more popular than the others and much nicer interface and useability. They are not interchangeable in the same way food choices are interchangeable.
Lets hope it happens. I still think they will need nuclear reactors to produce the energy. Using solar seems kind of insane.
not succeeded in separating economic from social liberalism

At the same time that conservatism (in the US) evolved from being more focused on economic conservatism to a mixture, and sometimes a focus on, social conservatism.
> They officially decided it was a mistake, as it did neither government any good to officially announce that it was intentional. But the sailors that were on the ship say otherwise.

How would the sailors on the ship being attacked be able to know anything like that (e.g. know if the Israeli pilots thought they were attacking an Egyptian ship or an American one)?
Let's say one had a child and instead of music, you played these GPT3 generated stories, would the child then have been trained to speak by an AI, and if so, what else can we do? Hypothetical and unethical, but that never stopped Skinner, or any of them really. It's something we're going to have to consider.
ES wins hands down in search in my experience because the companies that were doing search stuff "before it was cool" were mostly running stuff like Autonomy DRE which work well but are expensive and proprietary.

There is a huge market just by going after that kind of customers.
But you're paying for the virtualization boundary, which is usually more expensive than a syscall boundary. You're still a VM guest running under the host kernel, which is a comparable situation to a userspace process.
Hope you'll edit and include the name of the app. If they've solved a problem for you then they deserve the mention!
All the downvote - or upvote for that matter - does for me is tell me what the prevailing opinion is for people who likely have similar backgrounds to me, have had similar experiences as me, and who have similar attitudes as me.

If my comments are highly upvoted, I've hit upon a truth or realization with which many people agree. If my comments are downvoted, I've also likely hit upon a truth or a realization, but one with which many people are deeply uncomfortable.

It's up to my own powers of discernment and wisdom to determine if people are all wrong and the prevailing sentiment is incorrect, or if it's me who's out in left field and is significantly off-base. We will never engineer a button to press to give us this insight.
Honestly, it's better if YouTube doesn't recognize the threat. Let them crash and burn with no survivors. And yeah, there's a lot of people who talk a big game about not wanting monetization (where monetization = ads) and tout peercasting as a universal solution to the problem, not realizing just how much bandwidth video consumes. There are peercasting solutions for video out there (like Bitchute), but they're by no means a replacement for Youtube. In any case, probably the best development in the last fifteen years has been the emergence of people willing to pay directly for content. Whether it's something like paying for a network like Hulu, or patronage on Patreon or Twitch, it's proved that you don't have to sell your soul to advertisers to make money. The next few years are going to be very interesting for sure.
Ah.. time for the monthly note taking generic PKM HN post. Has nobody mentioned Zettelkasten yet? I see org-mode already made an appearance... Either way you go, don't forget to self-host!
Title and registration are separate in the US.

Title must be signed at sale. Registration is for on-road use and can be expired for race cars (I trailer mine to tracks).

I bricked the ECU on my car while tuning and it was part of the three module handshake for the key authentication. Replacement unit from dealer required sending to BMW corporate - valid title, drivers license and proof of address. I received the ECU and dealer had to program/pair the CAS and keys I had with the new ECU.
Biologically speaking SARS-CoV-2 is just one more coronavirus and isn't particularly special or unusual. We already know that prior infection with other coronaviruses such as HCoV-OC43 provides pretty good protection against symptomatic reinfection with the same coronavirus as long as the patient is otherwise healthy. If anyone claims that SARS-CoV-2 is somehow different then the burden of proof is on them; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

As for vaccines, we obviously can't have any data on long term effectiveness. But short term effectiveness against severe symptoms is pretty good, and periodic boosters are available to those who want them.
a few months ago, some folks on HN pointed me at https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/
Great feedback re the risks of physical metaphors! I'd agree a bad one does more harm than good. Lakoff points out that our linguistic conceptions typically compose-- so you can talk about both IDEAS as BUILDINGS and as CONTAINERS because the former is a special case of the latter-- and we lose that quickly when mapping to programming. I'm not sure if that's inherent in how abstract these things are or if it just hasn't been attempted on a deep enough level. (Do other control structures fit into the railway paradigm? Is it generative?)

Enjoyed your post, lots to unpack in the 'cleanliness' analogy, will think on it.
From my reading of the Sears saga a while ago, Lampert’s strategy worked out extremely well for Lampert, transferring everything valuable to Lampert. Sure, he destroyed Sears in the process, but it seems likely that that was his intention.
> For example: that your company is okay with you being offline for _16 hours_ of the day.

It is scary that this could be controversial?

Most jobs in the US are 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day. So yes, you absolutely should be offline (from work networks & apps anyway) for 16 hours a day on weekdays.

Sure if you have an on-call week that's an exception but you should be getting compensated in some way (on-call pay in larger companies, or the lure of those sweet options (probably worth nothing) in a startup).

Don't work for free!
They definitely shared kernels between customers (and with other internal stuff).

I don't know if they're using the KVM backend now, but if they are, that's definitely more recent. There was no virtualization involved when it all started.

Source: I'm a xoogler.
They werent mRNA vaccines either right? We've got to realize that biotech research moves forward at a blazing speed too. It might not give you perfect protection, but It's quite unlikely to harm you.

I understand being anti government and fact rejecting is the new green, but I doubt it'll help you long-term.