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Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple allow DVR on their YouTube Livestreams for events?
So this has bugged me or a long time and I wanted to see if there was some reason I'm missing. According to YouTube's docs all you have to do to enable NVR is click a checkbox in the livestream UI [0]. This would allow people to rewind/pause/timeshift the event. I hate that if you have a meeting or other obligation your only options are "pick up where they are live" or "wait till the event is finished then watch it from the start" (or often for me, both, watch from live then go back and see what I missed).

1-2 years ago the Washington Post had a copy/feed of an Apple Event with NVR enabled and it was wonderful. I assume they made a mistake or weren't supposed to be reproducing the feed because it only happened the one time that I noticed.

For the last few events I've taken to running this command right after the feed starts (modified for today's event):

ffmpeg -i $(youtube-dl -f best -g "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D55G7Ejs8") -c copy apple-6-6-2022.ts

And then opening the ts file in VLC once I'm free but sometimes it falls over and stops working. I'd love to hear if people have other methods to accomplish this.

I'd also be interested to know if anyone has any insight into why Apple doesn't allow this. The whole event is on YouTube after the feed ends, it makes no sense to me while they don't allow people to rewind/pause the livestream.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9296823?hl=en
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Plutocrats, insofar as they exist and insofar as we use their business acumen to measure competence and corruption, have a fairly narrow mandate and lesser legal authority and responsibilities.
Yes. And a very extreme example of it. Making money from electrons is about as extreme as it can possibly get.
about https://wikileaks.org/ "the site had released e-mails from the Democratic National Committee which had been stolen by hackers working on behalf of the Kremlin"

is this true? i don't think there has never been a definitive evidence or proof about this. just "journalistic evidence" (= news outlets repeating the same info without any real evidence).
A prepaid SIM having the same security checks as a bank account definitely felt sour. And for some reason people think they have any privacy from the government.
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The Waning Days of Al Qaeda
If you look at any specific shortage, you'll find different underlying reasons. You'll find different dependencies and vulnerabilities.

Here we're talking about lumber and the supply chain is fairly straihtforward.

Trees are felled somewhere. They could be planted for that purpose (fun fact: almost all paper comes from trees grown for that purpose, which complicates the story of recycling) or they could be in the wild. These places are typically remote.

Trucks then take these trees to sawmills to be processed. That could be nearby or it could be far.

The products from those sawmills then typically go to lumber yards. The sawmill itself might operate a lumber yard. Or you might have intermediate distributors. In the US a lot of lumber goes through Atlanta for various reasons.

It then gets shipped again to retailers (eg Home Depot) and to builders, pretty much all by truck.

So this supply chain is relatively simple. YOu need labour at several points (eg lumberjacks, sawmill operators, truck drivers), trucks to drive material around, gas for the trucks and land to store products.

So if a handful of players own the sawmills and/or lumberyards when demand upticks you can create a supply issue simply by withholding supply at one of these steps. Maybe you don't open a sawmill or two. Maybe you don't employ people to move lumber from the sawmill to lumberyards. You just stockpile it while the price goes up.

If you look into lumber specifically it's fairly clear that "hoarding" is what was happening. Other shortages may or may not be similar.
$TSLA declined ~25% since this “deal”. Musk is the one trying to get out here, because his “deal” just got a lot more expensive.
> A 10% layoff of only salaried workers isn't that large of a layoff.

How many people does this amount to?
> There is no reason for you or anyone else to have any power over my life as a voter

Unless you have your own private air that never touches anyone else's air, we all have a right to control your actions that change our collective air. If you don't agree, go find your own planet and live there.
Not really. Nobody should have trusted them in the first place.
I think this is the right approach: zoom in on the language and discuss what is at stake.

So let's talk about the legal leg to stand on part. From his 13d language (amendment #8, filed June 6th, which is public, but I read it on bloomberg and can't find the link to the gov site this second) it doesn't sound like he has an issue with the definition.

He wants to rerun the numbers and see for himself. He is asking for the underlying data. Twitter pushed back to say that is not in the scope of what was asked for (apparently, based on his letter).

Not taking sides because I was not in the negotiations and know nothing about what each side, indicated, what the legal contract says and so forth. Just saying, the issue is whether they should provide the data for him to run his own calculations.
An interesting topic and well done by the show.

Just be warned that season one ends on a cliffhanger, and season two is a year away (or more). I didn’t know that and found it frustrating.
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I was an early Clubhouse user. The initial conversations were very beneficial and very interesting. Over time, as more people got access, it started to turn into virtue signaling sessions on one end and super wack conversations about crypto on the other. It basically turned into an audio version of Twitter. After a couple of months, I ended up deleting the application.

My wife uses Marco Polo a lot with her family. It's a great way for them to maintain an async conversation. I think for group no larger than five people, it makes a lot of sense.

Is social audio dead? No. I do think that the market size is definitely a lot smaller.
He's still very thoughtful in his interviews, but it's unfortunate so few people watch or report on those.

Twitter's character limit unfortunately requires everyone to simplify.
It’s strange how there are people who treat it like it’s their job to hate or defend him. You see the same names replying on every thread making the same points, even across multiple posts.
Perhaps an existing term was co-opted by financial legislation...
> He's saying that Twitter isn't providing valid information and is blocking him from having access to information he has a right to have access to.

He should have asked for this prior to agreeing to buy the company. This has veered into legal posturing by his legal team. The letter sent and the on the record with the SEC filing are for future litigation purposes. Many of us expected it would when the market turned and the deal was obviously overvalued. Elon timed the deal incorrectly. Unlikely many of us who would have to live with our poor business decisions, he's using the tools available to someone of his wealth to litigate his way out of this entirely or to a better price.

It's tiring because it was expected. This wasn't 5D chess.
It's not surprising that the cause of the leaks was petty and personal. "Deep Throat" Mark Felt's reason for exposing Nixon seems to be that he was upset he didn't get the director job, a similarly petty reason.

Ideological cases like Ellsberg, Snowden, and Manning are the exception.
> "Senior engineer/dev" is a title, this is not the same as being the 'senior member' of the team.

I call bs.

I should probably say, “that hasn’t been my experience”, but I just flat out don’t believe you.

So, let me get this straight. In 20 years, you’ve found that senior developer is the role given to developers who have no responsibility above what a junior developer has, they just cost more?

Rubbish.

It’s a sliding scale; I bet you those senior developers have other responsibilities; code reviews, mentoring, deployments, prod support, ci/cd.

I have never worked in, or heard of, an organisation where senior developers just get to sit around, goof off and write code all day… but get paid a senior developer rate.

Sounds great!

What organisations are these? I want to work there! Hook me up.

I think you’re suggesting that responsibility for team and project management is like a step function; you get none until you’re a principal.

That certainly hasn’t been my experience.

I honestly just have to say I flat out don’t believe that in 20 years at large organisations it has been yours either.
Why do you hate arrogant people? Or more/less charitably confident.

He's playing a game and he's winning. While not all his tactics sit well with me, he's created immense value for the world. We want this man to keep investing and running capital. The alternatives are just so much worse.
Creating companies like SpaceX and Tesla, I can see how people would turn a blind eye to his more troublesome traits because he was creating companies that pointed towards the future in the way other billionaires weren't necessarily. Wanting that to be true and good is perfectly understandable, even if it is also incredibly dangerous.
The chart in the article you linked to shows that currently, the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is 0.04% of the air we breathe, and that lifetime symptoms of hypercapnia do not appear until that number is 1.0%.

That means that CO2 levels would have to increase 25 times their current level in order for your fear of hypercapnia to become a problem.
For a long time data analysis products have had "profiling" tools

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

which can look at the values in a column and make some inferences about the column such as "these are all integers between 35 and 89". Most of those work at the level of the whole column, but I worked at a firm that developed a convolutional network classifier that could take either a single data point (say "1999-08-24") or the column header text plus the data point ("Independence Date", "1998-08-24") and guess at the data type (e.g. "date", "address", ...)

It worked really well but wasn't explainable. Another disadvantage was that there was some things it was never going to figure out, such as this checksum on credit card numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
It's right on the wikipedia page, under "Operations":

> In 2018, the US airlines had a fuel consumption of 58 mpg‑US (4.06 L/100 km) per revenue passenger for domestic flights

We should take a system-wide view. The relative efficiency of any particular plane is irrelevant if the entire system depends on other, wasteful aspects. Let's consider the energy required to run an airport, including the infrastructure leading to the airport.
This statement has to be qualified when you can't use induction to heat the most thermally responsive metals to begin with. And for a lot of dishes, heating is only half the equation - there are times where you need it to cool just as quickly.

If I'm using my cast iron/carbon steel/stainless pans, yeah, I go for my induction burner 100% of the time. But people use copper and aluminum pans for specific reasons as well - I can make a sauce using my induction burner and a stainless sauce pot if I have to, but it's not nearly as easy for me as doing so with my copper sauce pot and my butane burner.
Mentorship is about more than writing "great code". I'm 6 months at a new place as an old. I've already imparted a lot of lessons about working with difficult team members, picking your fights, how to let go of "perfect", there are more important things than being right, etc. My team is already less stressed, more productive and generally happier. :D
A friend once said that Linkedin is like a place with hostages that are instructed to be happy all the time.

It's just a place where a bunch of corporates and startup people say how cool they are.

However surprisingly I heard that for the folks who are looking to fundraise is the best place to be. So I guess if you're not looking for work or funding no?
There's Polywork (https://polywork.com) that tries to replace linkedin. Gotta wait to see if it works out.
I don't think that's quite the case. For a simple example you can consider a developing area without an electric grid, where people individually or on a community level burn fossil fuels to provide lighting and heat, power schools and medical facilities.

This use is fundamentally different from an industrialized nation that has a fully powered electric grid and alternative means to power it, but uses fossil fuel out of price or convenience considerations.

Yes, it's rarely this clear-cut in reality, life and economics are complicated, etc. Still though, it's clear to me that not all fossil fuel use is ethically the same, and people still using fossil fuels can indeed have valid moral positions against others using them.
Yeah, we debated that but it seems weird not to acknowledge the connection. The name is a 1 letter edit from wordle because it’s a twist on wordle where one letter is edited every turn. Thanks for trying it out.
No, they disclose a metric called monetizable MAU which already excludes a vast number of bots, to the best of their ability. Then they estimate that no more than 5% of those monetizable MAU are bots. The lower that drive that number, the greater the number of genuine users that get excluded as bots.
> iMessage

Unrelated to this, but for all intents and purposes, iMessage cannot be considered e2e encrypted if either party has iCloud backups enabled. Apple has access to your iCloud backups, and they contain the iMessage keys.
Are you tired of this man or are you tried of the unrelenting media coverage of every single thing he does? The media uses his name to drive ad revenue - he uses the media for free coverage. I would agree he has had too much time in the limelight and many people are getting exhausted of his coverage.

I think that caricature is pretty off base. He bought something that was damaged and its value went off a cliff. What kind of person would pay full freight for Twitter as the tech valuations plummet - only a fool would stay locked into that deal.
Was there anything false about him saying he would buy Twitter and then backed out - like most people assumed he would?
> His behavior (across a wide range of things) is not fine.

Not fine, or you just disagree with? Two very different things.
> STL list […] the mallocs cost will still be greater.

This is a narrow view of the costs of the STL::list container class, not of linked lists in general.

Linked lists are at their best when they are internal storage, meaning the links are part of the class being stored, in order to prevent unnecessary mallocs. STL::list is an external storage container, which automatically compromises some of the potential benefits of a linked list. Linked lists are also best when you don’t malloc to build the list at all, but maintain things already in memory. Linked lists are best used in places where using vectors is impractical or impossible, like the insides of a memory manager.

I don’t feel like timing many inserts using STL::list says a lot about linked lists at all, and what it does say is mostly focusing on the wrong things. Definitely use vector when you can, especially if you’re just comparing container classes.
There has never been any evidence released, definitive or otherwise. The assertions have always been along the lines of, "we know Russia is capable of doing this and we know Russia would like to do this therefore Russia did this".
I can't even. The potential privacy violations are the same whether you're giving the database to the other party or letting the other party come to your premises to have sufficient access to the database. No wait, I take that back: they might see (very slightly more) stuff by walking on-site.

It's the data being requested that's a privacy violation, not the place where that data is viewed.
Straightforward? Against an adaptive opponent that’s constantly looking for weakness in their approach?

I don’t think automatic analysis with a 5% false positive rate and materially significant false negative rate is that easy even when the subject doesn’t have an incentive to be subversive — last time I downloaded my Twitter data, turned out they incorrectly thought I understood Indonesian(!), and incorrectly thought my interests included beer, blues, college basketball, cricket, DJs, dance, guitar, hip hop and rap, horror, ice hockey, Japan, luxury, men’s pants, men’s shoes, metal, motorcycles, NFL football, offroad vehicles, olympics, pop, “power and motorcycles” (apparently that’s a single category), rock, skateboarding, South America, sporting goods, talk radio, and wine.
Same, I used to have a lot of nightmares so when I stopped recalling any dreams I was pretty happy. Can't say I missed anything tbh.

I guess I was way more optimistic and gullible, now I'm realistic and don't trust anyone, even myself :D
I think there's a generation of young people that are now in/approaching their 30's that got severely duped into believing that the drug culture of the 50's and 60's could somehow be responsibly reinvigorated in the contemporary age. I think it's going to be a long time before humans can responsibly do mind-altering chemicals at scale. It's quite like democracy (consider Dewey); without real education (moral education) psychedelic drugs seem to have the potential to upset culture more than heal/integrate culture. I'll leverage every shitty acid trip you've ever had at a concert as rhetorical evidence of what I'm saying here!
Disagree my Tesla is the best car I’ve ever had
To a pretty good first approximation, everything is radioactive to some degree.

Mother's milk. "Organic" vegetables. Air. Any random rock you pick up. Glacier water that's been frozen for 100,000 years. All slightly radioactive.

"Everything that COULD be radioactive" is not a useful metric.
I use OpenBSD for my main laptop, FreeBSD for my backup laptop, and OpenBSD on an APU2 as a router in my home lab.

Depending on your use case and patterns, OpenBSD may be completely useful or totally lacking; it doesn't have bluetooth, you're not going to be able to use proprietary software or play many games, and the smaller community and tighter security standards make the available pool of ported software smaller. However, it has great laptop support, an extremely cohesive and well-documented userland, and a very simple and easy install/upgrade process.

FreeBSD can basically replace Linux for any usecase except laptops, because it's power management kinda sucks. It has optional Linux binary compatibility, WINE, the bhyve hypervisor, ZFS support, FreeBSD jails, more ports than many Linux distros, and a decently cohesive userland. I far prefer OpenBSD for actual daily use, but FreeBSD is perfectly usable.
Thanks! I read the article, I read the post the article is responding to, I read all the comments and still I had no real idea what it all was about until I read your comment.

It could be an example of an author assuming a general audience already knows the insider information but then I don't know who the target audience really was. This is the kind of thing that probably should have been spelled out in the introduction, with a link to something like this:

https://labs.mapbox.com/mapping/osm-data-model/
According to Oxfam, if you earn more than $30,000 per year, you're in the top 10% of the world's wealthiest.
To be pedantic, Linux doesn't care about how malloc is implemented. That's purely userspace's concern.

But yes, the default glibc allocator does have dedicated areas for specific sizes of allocation:

> The normal bins are divided into "small" bins, where each chunk is the same size, and "large" bins, where chunks are a range of sizes[1]

But fixing heap fragmentation doesn't make linked lists suddenly fast. You still have your cache bloated with the overhead bytes needed for allocation. List elements can still be allocated non-contiguously, giving the prefetcher a bad day.

[1]: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MallocInternals#Arenas_and...
Same thing is happening to me regularly.
Why? Because people don't want to live life as if they were back in the 19th century? You go first.
> Where is your proof that he waived the opportunity to do any due diligence?

The merger announcement [1]. Consummation of the Merger is subject to approval by Twitter's shareholders and the U.S. government. No boilerplate diligence clause.

That "the acquisition proposal was no longer subject to the completion of financing and business due diligence" was also cited by Twitter in its proxy statement [2].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...

[2] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001418091/ee07b45...
Antarctica is protected by various international treaties. Plus it's not necessary, there are plenty of good places to store nuclear waste. Political opposition is the real problem. Yucca mountain should never have been scrapped.
Comparing him to Trump is pretty ridiculous. One is an inept politician while the other is possibly one of the greatest people to have ever lived.
I give them credit for 3 and 9. I also think 1, 5, and 8 are possibly on the horizon but it could go either way. So I don't think it's far off at all, although not on the money either.

I agree 3 was in place in 1997 but the extent or permanence wasn't known. I think "that threatens Europe" is key. In 1997 I'd say it wasn't clear how long the corruption would last, and I don't think most people saw it as threatening Europe (or the US really).

9 is debatable but I think it's clear that we had a worldwide pandemic with significant economic, public health, and political implications. I think they were basically correct in this, even if the details aren't right.

1 hasn't occurred but I think there has been a sharp turn in Chinese-Western political relations in the last couple of years, accompanied by a change in Chinese internal politics. Where it goes is uncertain I think; I think they could end up being right.

5 will always be ambiguous because of "attribution to climate change", so even if it did happen there would be controversy about it. However, we are having inflation, and people are predicting a major food crisis this year; part of this is due to geopolitics and war, but some of it (my understanding) is lack of yield due to climate issues. I wouldn't say 5 is "yes" but it's somewhat debatable and clearly still a possibility.

8 isn't so far off. We have had energy crises in some places, and in many ways, are having one. You're right that alternative energy is in a strong place right now but it's not actually enough to nullify petrocrises at the moment. Given that people are predicting grid failures in the US, and most of the Western world still relies heavily on petrol, I think this is still very possible.
Yup this, and even without swallowing. Hold that breath, press down hard.