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Hate to break it to you but action sports, high energy stuff, documentaries and historical boxing fights all sound pretty main stream especially if you define mainstream as easily monetized / inoffensive to advertisers.
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Available for part-time or full-time contract work, preferably on a long-term basis, but I'm also available for smaller projects.

I am very flexible with my working hours (mostly working with clients from USA).
I am a full-stack developer with more than 8 years of professional experience mostly in the C# .NET stack as a freelance developer. I don't shy away from the DevOps and DBA parts of the project either. I also like to create beautiful UI's that users love.

I prefer a long-term contract, but I'm also available for smaller projects.

I also work through Toptal. My CV is available on my toptal profile and my website.

My rate is $125/hour.
> You can distrust the US government and also think there's reasonable evidence the Chinese government has access to TikTok for domestic or foreign intelligence.

I wish people would stop giving me permission to believe two things at the same time as a way of pairing

a) the thing with overwhelming evidence that I'm worried about and they're trying to minimize, with

b) the thing that there's little evidence for that they're trying to get me to believe.

It's a marketing tactic. a) suffers by association with the innuendo and rumor of b), and b) is strengthened by being associated with the extensive documentation of a).
I really wish that the US's Paycheck Protection Program had been modeled on Kurzarbeit - the money is distributed to workers via their employers, saving a lot of bureaucracy, but because it's directly tied to previous wages, would have prevented a lot of the shenanigans we saw with PPP in the US.
I am still doing this and I am 65. Started in this industry at the tender age of 27, this being my third career choice.

I have taken a minor step back after turning 62, for a few simple reasons:

A) I am not 'building my career' at this point, so leave that opportunity open to the young. (this is the key point)
B) I just want to do technical work, I don't have any reason to be the team lead any longer.
C) I don't want to spend multiple hours in planning meetings every week. Particularly making plans for products five years down the road, and having someone else be responsible for those decisions. (likewise, I would like to see the average age of our representatives come down, for the same reason)

I still enjoy the work. I particularly enjoy working with young people. I still learn something new every month.

The people I work with all know me, some have known me for twenty years, so that helps. Maintain your network, people! Your network matters.

I find far more ageism now, outside of work, than at work.

This is the truth.

I have learned to politely tolerate young people, outside of work, trying to explain to me how to use my technology. Hint: If you visit my home, I hand you a photo with a QR code of the guest network, and I expect you know how that works. But when I go to restaurants, I have to tolerate an overly cheerful hostess explaining to me how QR code menus work.
Microsoft, Apple, Spotify and Netflix aren't trying to build out social communities, and therefore vending user-created video doesn't really align with their corporate vision. Also, none of these are ad companies (Spotify maybe). Netflix already has a process by which they carefully fund programmes to be produced, and comparatively, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and Tik-tok, do compete with youtube in the video and ad space, in a sense, however except for Twitch and Facebook they don't pass revenue to creators.

Anyway, Google has demonstrated the model is a money-fire, even if you operate the largest ad network on the planet. Videos are increasingly expensive to vend, particularly as video quality expectations only get higher, digital rights management is a unending nightmare and moderating content like that is a non-trivial proposition too, particularly to keep advertisers happy. Vimeo has demonstrated this too, as revealed by the service charges they slap on uploaders for popular videos. For google, however, youtube is a loss leader, I guess, as it builds out their ecosystem, and also it has clear market dominance, which is easy to lose and difficult to acquire later if you want it.

So, in short, consider what the purpose of a tube site today is:
1) Eyeballs on ads, and,
2) A community, to facilitate point 1.
It's clear why companies don't rush to this.

I would say that maybe the only outstanding opportunity is some substack-like setup where people directly pay for user-made content and hosting costs are embedded in there? Google is starting to tap this market as well, with channel memberships, early video access and rewards, and also through superchats in livestreams, so maybe there's not even an opportunity there.

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In fact, thinking it over, Microsoft did actually throw their hat in the game with Mixer, which was an expensive failure. This is actually a great example of the difficulty in moving into a dominated market. Unless you can burn money for years (mixer) to maybe make it, or outclass the competition technologically and find a new paradigm (twitch, tik-tok), it's very hard to get in there. Look at how hard Epic Games have been trying to unseat Steam as a dominant sales platform; it's been years and they have spent truckloads of cash on game studios and giveaways and they're still not an equal player.
Mixer agreed to transfer their content to Facebook's streaming service in the end.
Show HN: Matchify – Find your music doppelgänger
An experiment using the Spotify API to compare your music taste with others. The score is an attempt to mimic that given in a "blend" playlist. Inspired by the research in the links (and the high score my partner and I have been given : )
... None of the people that get paid by Chess.com need Chess.com. There are plenty of sponsors out there and have earned plenty of fans from their own skills and level of entertainment they provide on Twitch and Youtube.
In theory, yes, all dealerships pay the "invoice" price for a given vehicle. But often there are other financial stipulations for each vehicle, such as "hold back" which is meant to assist the dealership floorplan interest costs (basically the carmaker pays the interest on the dealer's loan to hold the car on their dealership lot for X days, then beyond that the dealership is on their own). I don't think hold back deals are always the same for every dealer, but I have no insider information.

If you ever are negotiating for a new car purchase, you can use the leverage of the hold back in your negotiations. If you're ordering a car and will pick it up the day it arrives at the dealership, then that dealer gets to pocket the entire hold back as they'll pay basically no interest themselves. Or if you're buying a car that's been on the lot for 6 months, the dealer really wants to stop paying interest on it so may take a lower offer just to stop the financial bleeding (granted, this is rare today, cars sell fast).
I don't find it has a lot of overhead if you keep it simple. No need to use class based views for REST services, just add function-based views with the @api_view decorator.

You can then within minutes return JSON coming from your data model by also adding an additional decorator to make it render JSON output.

If returning data directly from managed ORM objects, you will need to serialize it, but you can easily build an API without doing that and just return a dict.
"We don't mark it up... we just get a kickback..." (Mental gymnastics in his head are: a mark up on the rate is a percentage added... We just get a [possibly] "flat" commission kickback.)
I’m getting increasingly frustrated by the puzzle quality. Puzzle difficulty is determined algorithmically using an Elo system (where essentially puzzles play against players). That sounds great in theory. The problem is that there’s no penalty for guessing, in fact, the UI forces you to make a guess. This means the rating partly measures guessability instead of solvability. At my low-ish rating, I get a mixture of puzzles I can realistically solve, and extremely hard puzzles where the obvious dumb guess happens to also be the correct solution. I’m not sure if anybody else is annoyed by that as much as I am.
I believe RTEMS is BSD licensed.
Crypto Takes a New Hit as Thousands of Solana Wallets Hacked
I honestly don't see a reason for the US not ban TikTok for arbitrary bullshit reasons, simply because China does the same sort of bullshit for American internet companies. Foreign websites often get mysteriously throttled, which encourages people to use their domestic alternatives. The iTunes store was banned, despite following all their censorship rules. They even hacked Google.
The moment a platform start the "monetization war" and have some "influencers" working for them and get traction... that moment will kill/bury original and honest content made from passion and not "to make a living, to win $".

The same way blogs died long ago, remember all the craze about having a blog, affiliate links, earn a living blabla

People jumped in.. and so advertisers.. and so 'they killed Kenny"

Imagine YT videos without ads (ok, buy a premium but.. the trash is still there just wihout ads), so it's not a solution, not anymore.

I just stopped watching YT, I just try to find articles and read them, using adblockers and imagine what: I disabled all images in Firefox, too much distraction.
Crazy they allow it. Even I, a dirty smoker, know not to smoke around electronics.
This is literally the process of purchasing a vehicle in 2022. I needed a car (My old one had broken down after 9 years of service)

Advertised price was 24,500. I walked out totaling 30,000 after all the bullshit and that was with a 4000 downpayment. I left an honest review on Google Reviews about how misleading and unhappy I was with that dealer in particulars process but I loved the car so I just sucked it up.

When we bought my wifes car I had a much better experience. Some dealerships are just sleazy, and if you need the car you need the car.
What's notable here is not that academia is so great, but that becoming an employee has become so bad.

In the Bell Labs days, before our economy got taken over by criminals, smart employees really were treated as researchers-in-residence who could mostly pick and choose their projects. They didn't have as much freedom as tenured professors--they still had to work on things the company cared about--but they had a level of autonomy that, these days, doesn't really exist.
For this a well-drafted law is not ambiguous, it is generic. Indeed, the more you go into specifics the more it opens the possibility of loopholes, but it should be clear what is allowed and what isn't, and how to implement any restrictions.
Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
> Why is Google not doing anything about this?

Probably because engagement and ad metrics are fine. What’s not relevant for you might result in people spending mindless hours in the app.
Agile Meets Architecture
> That benchmark does not mean Java's GC is faster when you're "actually allocating on the heap"

The benchmark doesn’t show it, but it is nonetheless true. Java uses thread local allocation buffers, which is possible due to moving GC, and it is literally as fast as it gets (a single, non-atomic pointer bump)
Obligatory mention of Newpipe, an Android app where you can choose to just show new videos of subscribed channels as your front page. Makes youtube so much more bearable nowadays and you dont miss all the content of older subscriptions yt just doesnt show you anymore after a while. Would be great if it were available on desktop too.

https://newpipe.net/
Synthetic Embryos Generated Ex Utero from Mouse Stem Cells
It's in the guidelines, but not sure it is enforced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32236353
>As a result what would have been a 2-minute video becomes a 20-minute video

Or shouldn't have been a video at all.

Lots of people come up with some schtick they don't give a damn about because they see (or think they see) all these other people getting rich on YouTube and TikTok.

And recommendation engines are awful in general. It's a problem that even those genuinely trying to solve it really haven't.
Rosie speaks with a Brooklyn Jewish accent. And the thing that made Jane pick her was her working-class unpretentiousness and brazen willingness to talk back to the salesman.

And it's clear that the Jetson family sees Rosie as a person and a member of the family. In a later episode (admittedly made in the 80s and not the 60s), George is looking for a Mother's Day present for Rosie, and he speaks so fondly of her that his boss, Cosmo Spacely, believes Rosie to be a woman with whom George is having an affair.

You have to search really hard to find racism in the depiction of Rosie in The Jetsons.
NYPD must disclose facial recognition procedures deployed against BLM protesters
What's the solid evidence any of it will happen?

What kinds of solid evidence will you accept? Should we wait until all corals have bleached and withered away? Should we wait until all of Greenland is arable? How many years of drought should California endure until you might start accepting that maybe something has been changing for the worse?

Or should we rather ignore you and focus instead on things we can change?
Many other countries have tap water that is not potable.
Somewhat tangential, but I'm surprised that a concise domain name like markups with an attractive TLD like org was still available. In the spirit of a non-profit, I'm wondering whether they couldn't have made do with a name that specifies their (laudable, but quite specific) niche (US-centric comparison of car dealers).
Diagnosing Mental Health Disorders Through AI Facial Expression Evaluation
Lack of medicine for the US and food for China. Or China’s trading partners.
Unfortunately many people do not care about the total cost of the vehicle. They care about the monthly payment. As long as they pay less than 700 USD a month it’s affordable. Even if it’s stretched over a 7-8 year loan at 5% interest.

So if you want people to stop paying high prices, you need to get them to look at the total cost of the vehicle. And you need to get lenders to stop handing out loans longer than 4 years. Unfortunately they don’t have an incentive to do this because long, high interest loans are profitable.
> How else would you do it?

Sell to first buyer, easy.
They seem to be uncorrelated with real-world physics. Whether they are "new" is anybody's guess. They're variables identified in a virtual environment, rather than the real world so there's very little chance they correspond to something in the real world, let alone physics, much less "new physics".
> Sellers scour the internet for products with lower prices than on Amazon. Then they post the items on the web site, wait for someone to place an order, purchase the product from another retailer, have it shipped directly to the customer and pocket the difference

I'm not sure why this is bad - compared with some of the stuff that goes on at Amazon - these are genuine products being sold at lower prices (apart from costing Amazon or another reseller a sale). Ultimately they will act to reduce the price on Amazon closer to the market price. With stocks and other financial instruments these types of arbitragers are expected and seen as beneficial to the market.
Am I bad SWE if I do not care for for async in django?

I am sure a a lot of django devs will like it, but if I need the performance that I would get from going async, I would not being using django as my web framework.

FWIW I like django / python for a lot of things, just not for performance.
Yet Monero isn't winning. It is very clear that this is not the dominant use case for cryptocurrencies and blockchains since we've got a system that is maximally resistant to interference and it is dwindling away.
YC is qualifying and preparing startups for VC. If the funnel is narrowing at the end, it doesn’t make sense to put more companies into it.
Will the wealth tax be negative when assets drop in value?
Has the Rust compiler team considered using a busybox-style approach (single binary, multiple entry points) for rustc and friends? Even Windows supports hard linking, so AFAIK this should be feasible.
My Australian friends use it all the time. Also, i believe it was used in Pirates of the Caribbean.
A Global Shopping Tour: Where Will Germany Get Its Energy in the Future?
This is exactly the solution I was thinking of as well.
I don’t disbelieve your post, I’m sure you’re speaking from experience, but this is a YMMV kind of deal.

1) I did have a contract listing hours, and the vacation policy was the academic calendar: a week in the fall, 5 weeks in the winter, a week in the spring, 3 months in the summer.

2) I didn’t experience any work whatsoever during Christmas

3) Didn’t have a pension plan, but the University did offer reasonable health benefits, and the ACA covered the rest of my family at a low premium.

4) I definitely got paid regularly through the University payroll system.

5) I was given summer contracts to continue doing paid research over the summer. This was a choice, I could have taken internships or a vacation.

6) This is more of an issue with US visas, not really something academics can control

7) I was definitely well supported by my lab, peers, and advisors when I pursued my own research goals. They were very eager to see my results.

I wouldn’t say that your bullet points really represent my institution, so “across the board” usually has a boundary at a specific department or school. I wouldn’t generalize your or my experience to all schools, as they can vary substantially.
True, it's complicated, but I can offer the counter generalization that the US view on European worker protection is dramatically overstated.

Case in point, Germany did not have a minimum wage...AT ALL...until 2015. In the Netherlands, there's an entire class of workers on "zero hours" contracts, which give said workers none of the traditional protections.

Protections that even in the best of cases, an indefinite work contract situation, are strongly hollowed out by now.
Its actually pretty sober and to the point, and pretty relevant today. I think its just the first slide that is ingrained in peoples minds.
In DNA, scientists find solution to building superconductor
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (Pacific time)

Available for part-time or full-time contract work, preferably on a long-term basis, but I'm also available for smaller projects.

I am very flexible with my working hours (mostly working with clients from USA).

I am a full-stack developer with more than 8 years of professional experience mostly in the C# .NET stack as a freelance developer. I don't shy away from the DevOps and DBA parts of the project either. I also like to create beautiful UI's that users love.

I prefer a long-term contract, but I'm also available for smaller projects.

I also work through Toptal. My CV is available on my toptal profile and my website.

My rate is $125/hour.

Some of the technologies: C# .NET MVC, React, JavaScript, Xamarin, REST, SQL, Azure DevOps, Circle CI, AWS, Docker, Blazor, WCF, SOAP, SCSS, Kubernetes, Rabbit MQ etc.

Github: https://github.com/boros-csaba

Toptal: https://www.toptal.com/resume/boros-csaba

website: https://www.boroscsaba.com/

Email: boros.csaba94@gmail.com
This conversation is very nostalgic for me as I used to play a lot with my father (who passed away almost 20 years ago). Now, my seven year old daughter seems to be very intrigued by chess.

You said you don't analyze your games? Is there a standard methodology for analyzing chess games, especially given that everything being discussed here is happening electronically?

I would be fascinated to hear about how people are combining technology with the practice of chess to ramp up their learning efficacy.
That's not what the recommendations are for. There's a separate page that list all posts by your subscriptions in chronological order, you can find it in the sidebar, IMO it's the only way to use YouTube.
So it's either an excellent experience or no experience at all?

Yeah, I totally understand your point of view. Perhaps I would myself not ship to my own country due to the business issues you have mentioned. Still sucks.
Bombed a dude that was cofounder and 2nd-in-command (at the time) of the organization that committed the worst terrorist attack on the US...
Comments in this thread remind me why it’s so efficient to use the auto buying program from Costco. You deal with the fleet managers instead of regular sales staff and all required/optional costs are upfront and non-negotiable.

If you are an expert haggler you can likely negotiate a better price than what you get through Costco, but for the rest of us it gets you 90% of the way for very little effort.
The most irritating thing about App Store search is that the text field doesn’t get focus by default. I hope it’s an unintentional mistake but as it’s never been fixed I have my doubts…
Who writes this?

> If TikTok acts as the poison pill that finally cripples the digital dictators that for so long subjugated the web 2.0 revolution ...

"Digital dictators"? "Web 2.0 revolution"? Seriously?

Behind this self-congratulatory word ooze there is a point: the market will "solve" the Facebook "problem". In a decade we've had 2 existential threats to FB (the other being IG). That's just not a monopoyl that requires immediate government action.

The social graph will still have value but I think people overstate its importance. Tiktok (as noted) didn't rely on it to grow. And neither did Twitter. Nor Reddit.

Tiktok's UI/UX is really top notch. It reminds me of the IG of old before Facebook's Directors of Product Management really sunk their MBA claws into it.

There are legitimate security concerns with Tiktok however. The US still has a level of separation between corporations and the government that China doesn't. Chinese companies are extensions of the state. if anything, the US government is an extension of US corporations rather than the other way around. But there's still a level of separation and rule of law nad order in the US.

But here's an even bigger issue: trade. Specifically, China cheating on trade. I support reciprocity here. China blocks access to its market to the likes of Google and Facebook. This is protectionist and I personally have no issue with the US doing the same to Chinese companies.
> No farmer in market economy would do that, because fertilizer is damn expensive.

Farmers in market economies literally do this, when the costs are externalities to them, it's the same thing being done for the same reason.

With the right incentives, they'll do something else.
In my experience, RTEMS works great if your scheduling/timing is in the ms-range but if you need precise timing in the us-range, especially on smaller MCUs, then you will run into lots of trouble with jitter from different sources, for example because certain timers are checked sporadically, messing with your cache. I don't know if the situation has improved since then.
Ukraine. No order, just my very first impression on the website, which basically says "you can watch but you can't touch"
The only thing I'm really missing is the ability to share notes with my wife. For this I've put together a really hacky script that looks for presence or absence of `#shared` and moves the note to or from a subfolder. It works okay, but not as well as Simplenote's built-in sharing did.
The main reason is because TikTok is the dominant homegrown short-form platform for videos now. YouTube is more for longform, highly produced content.