skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The same products can had on eBay for less money with no shipping charges added.

eBay sellers also tend to ship promptly, which used to be one of the main reasons to use Amazon/Prime. The latter's shipping speeds have increased by orders of magnitude in some parts of the country over the last couple years. It's not uncommon these days for a Prime order to sit in limbo for 3-4 days before being shipped, while the same order to the same city shipped instantly in 2018.
For TV and Movies I'm very open to piracy because I often find that when I want to watch something it is, for some reason, only available on some obscure streaming service I don't have. Sometimes it is on Prime or Paramount Plus, but only if I pay extra.

Fuck that noise.

For games though, I have no problem with the state of things. For a while Epic exclusives were annoying, but I just refrained from buying those games until they were on Steam or GoG or something and Epic seems to have become much less aggressive about it now anyway.

Steam: still more convenient than piracy.

TV/Movie streaming: rapidly becoming less convenient than piracy.
I did a similar thing with my server, akkoma.sandhill.social.

It's going to cost me about $5 per month (I am using a different cloud server to host it) but together with the $100 credit I got through a promotion I won't have to pay that for some time.
The vast majority of EVs in China use LFP, and China has most of the EVs in the world. And even in the US, by volume I wouldn't be surprised if the RWD Model 3 is a reasonable fraction of total EV sales.
The problem is that if LTV <= CAC -- let alone under the 3:1 ratio -- you aren't making any gross margin/profit.

LTV = the expected cashflows on a gross margin basis, for the life of the customer. If you get $100 @ 80% gross margin, you have $80 gross margin profit per year. If you lose 100% of your clients after 3 years, you expect to make $80+$80+$80 = $240 of profit. Ah but you also need to discount those future cashflows (let's use a discount rate of 10%). So you really are making $80 + ($80 x 0.9)+($80 x 0.9^2) = $217.

That's your total LTV. Your total profit from the client before ANY "operating expenses" like Sales and Marketing costs and salaries, Rent, Overheads, R&D costs and salaries, office supplies, professional services, etc.

So OK you have $217 of LTV. But you have to spend $250 of CAC (which is "total sales and marketing spending and salaries divided by total new clients added") then you are losing $33 per customer BEFORE all the money you're spending on everything else required to run the business.

Now, of course, reality isn't this simple. And it's not all VC bullshit. Maybe this LTV is dramatically underselling the value of having that client, because in Year 2, you'll have New Product Module ready to sell them for $75. And your cost to sell (CAC) that module to them is $1 - since you've already done the hard work of getting them as a client. So now you adjust your LTV calculation and it's not quite as bad.

Or... by having 100,000 customers, network effects mean that either the lifetime of a customer is actually 10 years (vs 3) or the network effects mean you can monetize something else or... lots of arguments you could make for "grabbing the real estate now".

So if VCs -- who aren't idiots even if some are morally questionable -- see a path to greater LTV, you can kind of get comfortable with a higher CAC.

BUT AGAIN - the rule of thumb is that 3:1 is healthy, since that provides gross margin profit from the get-go, and any other LTV expansion from upsells is gravy.
murf dot ai has near perfect tts. I think we had a major AI breakthrough in the last couple of years
Heck yeah, I went from a C64 to a 386SX (which youngin me eventually broke by trying to upgrade memory), to a 486DX2/66 which allowed me to FINALLY play doom.

Then followed a Cyrix 5x86 100GP in somewhere around 1996, which was a bit of an upgrade, since I could not afford Pentiums just yet with my own money. In 1997, I bought a Diamond Stealth II S220 as an alternative to a Voodoo, for the same "poverty" reasons. You have to know my parents were ... very much against computers.

As we started to get access to the internet in high school, I learned about overclocking, and oh my! was my system the best candidate for it! I could push the CPU to 120Mhz without additional cooling! The graphics cards, which bore a rendition verite v2100 chip, could also be overclocked quite heavily, but since the chips where bare, without any form of cooling, it became too hot, so I had to "MacGyver" my way around the problem.

I also have very fond memories of the socket 3 era... for me it started with the classics from id software, to Warcraft 2, Duke3D, LAN matches, Carmageddon, Quake, etc.. and all the early mods such as paintball, skin modding, what fun!
I have just been thinking of how to explain why the audio landscape (podcasts and music) are so wildly different in this sense.

While not perfect, you have a way less unreasonable user experience especially in terms of DRM and hostile in software and APIs, and the fragmentation and balkanization is not even close to at the same level.

Most people who pay seem content with what they do and complement with free and open (mostly legal save for much on the YouTube). Public warez is spotty outside of that and the toplists. Private trackers are extremely exclusive, insular and inaccessible except for the very dedicated.

What's the dominating factor here? IP ownership and legal differences? Market dynamics? Opex costs? Industry corporate cultural differences? Or is it just circumstance that Spotify and Apple Music have been able and willing enough to make it happen while what.cd left a legacy where insular elitism became the norm and video pirates have always been more Tallyho?
> "Image creation is coming soon to your region"

Lovely.
I'm generally against but I had to for the FIFA world cup as I couldn't figure out a way to legally pay for it.
I don't want to pay for DRM content.

Piracy is a better alternative. Far less hassle and better quality.

There is some very nice software out there so you can basically have your own private Netflix. Risk is minimal when setup correctly.

People say piracy is stealing. It isn't. It's the natural order of things. People support things with money that they want to see. People see plays, concerts, and movies in theaters all the time. Not letting people share a recording is ridiculous, as is the concept of eternal royalties.

Look at how much art we have that takes from prior art to turn it into something new. Piracy helps that goal. We wouldn't have people like Eminem if he hadn't pirated tapes. Piracy hurts no one, and studies show pirates spend the most on content.

A decade or so from now, no one will be talking about piracy because it will simply be the natural way of sharing, at least in free countries.
Jackett would like word with you.
Never stopped it in the first place. Never got into streaming. Never had a single subscription.

Every time I see someone struggle with streaming services (content not available, DRM, shitty artificial limitations, shitty players, shady business practices, things you "bought" disappearing because licensing changed), I get reminded that piracy is just so much better. Find a torrent, download it, done. After you've downloaded it, you have it forever, it's not going anywhere.

On the OP question, of course I do still watch YouTube, and of course I don't pay for it. I run uBO + SponsorBlock + some userscripts for a barely bearable experience. To be honest, the modern web is literally unusable without an ad blocker anyway.
The controversial aspect is that this is a TV, not a simple light source. A light bulb would by this definition be a very efficient TV.

The 'useful' part of a TV is the moving pictures, and one could argue that a 'quantitatively' better picture should have some bearing on an efficiency metric. I would argue that a TV that can only show 1 frame a second for the same energy that another TV can show 60 should be considered less efficient.

The comparison with a car is an interesting one.

From that perspective, we would hold all things equal, and then compare the easy to measure metric. i.e. Showing 480p content at 24 frames per second, stereo only, non-HDR content.

This might then be similar to the way we measure fuel efficiency for given speed + driving conditions, AC off etc.
> On the other hand, I can see a "turn the knob up, then turn the knob down" strategy making sense to some people.

Especially when the company culture basically boils down to "The individual employee is worth nothing" and "People should be able to be fired as easily as they are hired", which Amazon seems to be, at least judging by the people I've been close to who worked at Amazon.
One alternative is where companies did not hire 25% to meet pandemic demand and many of those had to take lesser jobs or no job at all.
Most EV's in China use LiFePO4 batteries, and China is the largest EV market.
I was under the impression that the shred command was pretty hard on SSDs. Did that change?
TIL; very interesting!
Could Your Agency Train an AI?
Keep a log of how often it occurs and we can review it... in lnav
> The intuition is that if a paper or patent is disruptive, the subsequent work that cites it is less likely to also cite its predecessors

This intuition seems to overlook the culture of citations in the patent space. There, the incentive is for applicants to be over inclusive with citations. This is combined with the increasing ease with which references can be found.
It would be a lot scarier if they didn't. This means Iran (and Russia) does not have the capability to build these things without western components.
The companies are not of a single mind, especially the big ones. Every manager, from mid-level to executives, have the tendency to hire more people, because the more people are under their reign, the more power and influence they have. Therefore once the environment is friendly, they surely will go on a hiring spree, regardless of what may happen in the future.
For PSN, I keep a list of games I want to buy as bookmarks to psprices.com.

That lets me periodically check what's on sale, and also see how good the current price is, and what the price trend is.
> Last week, up popped a blue check mark on my @SenatorEdMarkey account. Oops! I did it again.

Except if you actually read Elon's tweet is very quick and easy to determine that you are not the real senator, even with the blue check mark.

> Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not)...

Your check mark is blue, not grey, there for you are NOT government (not a senator).
How do lithium-sulfur batteries weight in on this? They have the (theoretical) 2-3 times the wh/kg capacity compared to li-ion.
I'm honestly just happy the iGPU isn't hanging off the PCIe bus anymore compared to the APUs. Having to choose between iGPU and 8 PCIe lanes on an already I/O constrained desktop part was obnoxious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/co...

The 'n' tag was an artist that gives you black people, and there is a problematic 'c' tag which, from the comment above is artists who painted naked children, so this is about as problematic as it gets.
Again? I never stopped. I try to find ways to fund creators directly whenever I can but I'm not going to encourage:

- the balkanization of content that we've seeing

- investment in DRM

- the strengthening of artificial-scarcity-based business models which I think harm innovation more than they help
I pay for more or less all the streaming services. Still I end up pirating. Why! It’s just too damn cumbersome otherwise
> Using three tons vehicles for long-distance journeys or for the transport of goods isn’t efficient: trains (and last-mile delivery on cargo bikes) are a lot more economical

That sounds intuitive to me but the fact that train tickets are so expensive on long distances (more than twice than if you travel alone in a car) makes me think it's not the case.
Can batteries be created to make the process of reclaiming the lithium orders of magnitude easier?

A completely different topic: Politics tends to focus on forcing consumer vehicles to go electric, is this really the right move? Most cars are not driven a lot in a day. But cars that are used for work (fleet, uber/deliveries) are used much more, so the benefit to them being electric is far greater. Trucks too most likely. Shouldn't this be where we focus our attention to get the best bang for the buck? And also make sure we don't drive the price up making it more expensive for the vehicles that are driven much more? Imagine the scenario where lithium prices are driven up by legislation-borne demand, we would instead have more cars with less lithium, and thus less range. Maybe that's ok, I dunno. That said, more electric cars means more and better infra and tech that will be created. So obviously some good stuff. Life is so complicated.
Something that I think needs to be considered more is the now dominant thought that Electric Vehicles = Lithium BEVs. We should not be putting all eggs in that one basket.

Obviously they are the most widely developed, and hydrogen fuel cell technology isn't anywhere near the point where it is ready. But we shouldn't stop developing it. Then there's the fascinating "aluminium air" battery [0] concept which could work so well for people away from traditional infrastructure, or even in small city cars where you can't easily charge at the side of the road in a parking bay.

I want to see a future where there are 10s of different types of electric and zero carbon vehicles on the roads. Each tailored to a different market and vehicle type.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium–air_battery
Worst part for me is that even libraries, who want to promote openness and reading, are perfectly comfortable with delivering books using Adobe's horrible DRM delivery solution.
In defense of the curmudgeon, the mature atmosphere of HN is quite rare and, frankly, refreshing.
Not at all. I do the same thing, and the key is to cancel the subscription immediately upon signing up. You keep the one month you've already paid for, and don't need to worry about recurring cost.
Always liked the USGS take on mineral reserves.

> Reserves data are dynamic. They may be reduced as ore is mined and (or) the feasibility of extraction diminishes, or more commonly, they may continue to increase as additional deposits (known or recently discovered) are developed, or currently exploited deposits are more thoroughly explored and (or) new technology or economic variables improve their economic feasibility. Reserves may be considered a working inventory of mining companies’ supplies of an economically extractable mineral commodity. As such, the magnitude of that inventory is necessarily limited by many considerations, including cost of drilling, taxes, price of the mineral commodity being mined, and the demand for it. Reserves will be developed to the point of business needs and geologic limitations of economic ore grade and tonnage. For example, in 1970, identified and undiscovered world copper resources were estimated to contain 1.6 billion metric tons of copper, with reserves of about 280 million tons of copper. Since then, about 600 million tons of copper have been produced worldwide, but world copper reserves in 2021 were estimated to be 880 million tons of copper, more than triple those in 1970, despite the depletion by mining of much more than the 1970 estimated reserves.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-appendixes...

Appendix C to 2022 Lithium Statistics and Information.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-c...
2, 3 or 5 billion don't matter if you still have tens of billions left.

I'm not saying he shouldn't outsource his videos. What I'm saying is that this looks more like a professionally made commercial (advertising his personal brand). I'm pretty sure it cost O(hours) of his time (consider even getting to the set - you can see this is a professional set, so probably in some studio; I also doubt this was done in one take given how there are other actors around including the skating Santa Clauses). All in all, it really feels artificial and dishonest. What kind of person would even come up with idea of creating such a video in the first place?
Inside Roblox’s Criminal Underworld, Where Kids Are Scamming Kids
Auto-expiring temporary credit card numbers can help automate cancellations after N months, but figuring what shows are on what services and signing up for them as needed is still a major chore.
This is exactly why secrets should not be stashed in any Git repository. Granted, I'm not sure they're much safer in other managed services dedicated to protecting our secrets, with the news of several breaches as of late :/
Strong disagree. I started software dev in the late 90's and among everyone I knew in tech MS was uniformly hated, even the DOJ sued them. They did everything they could to stomp out open internet standards. Untold amounts of money, business, etc. were lost by all of us fighting this scourge. The fact that anyone alive thinks anything remotely positive of him could only be due to PR. IMO even if he gave away every cent, I'd just consider that restitution for all of the damage he's done to the world. Then he'd still owe us.
Nowadays it's fairly automated
Adding to this is the complex web of region-limited content. Is using a VPN to watch something on Netflix more or less legal than torrenting? What if I want to watch it with subtitles that aren't available in my current region, but are in another? The other day I ended up pirating a program that I only later realized I had streaming access to via one of my streaming subscriptions, because the title was different in different regions... ugh.

Unlike in my teenage years I'm happy to support artists with my money (and do!), but it's often a puzzle to figure out what content is on what service and in what region at what price.
Don’t put nonstick pans in the dishwasher. They will retain their nonstick far far longer if you always wash/dry them by hand.
It surely is from the point of view of timesharing and thin clients, and I am not sure if I wouldn't rather use JCL instead of YAML.
I don't typically condone piracy because I think it's important to compensate writers/actors/artists, but I do feel angry about the state of things. Physical media is looking relatively good in many cases. Discs are a hassle but at least then you know what you have after a glance at the shelf; there have been several times I bought something a la cart on Amazon / Apple / Vudu and only later realized it was actually available on a streaming service I was subbed to. Even if I'm willing to pay up (and we usually keep 2-3 subs at a time), the UX of checking each platform to see if something is available is absurd.

There's also the issue of content just randomly disappearing off streaming services for no good reason. Even big-budget, big-name shows like Westworld have now fallen prey to this. Big parts of our culture can just get thrown in the bin if some MBA decides it's what's needed to squeeze a few more pennies out of their bottom line? To me, that is unacceptable. The cultural preservation angle is the best thing about piracy IMO.

Even with all the madness, some content doesn't seem available anywhere for any price. I recently tried to track down The Abyss (1989), a scifi classic by James Cameron. It's currently not on any digital platform and the physical discs appear to be out of print. The only way to watch this movie seems to be piracy or buying a second-hand disc on eBay.
I feel the article violated Betteridge's law of headlines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
CCX or core complex is a lower level grouping of cores. On Zen 2/3 the CCX would have 4 cores on a little ring bus. A full 8-core CCD would then have two of those 4-core CCXs connected via infinity fabric. The inter-CCD connections were also made with infinity fabric between the CCXs.

Zen 4 increases the CCX size to 8, so each CCD only has one.

I can't remember exactly how Zen 1 worked but I think it was different.
Their homepage is claiming up to "40 miles of solar powered driving per day" and "1,000 miles on a single charge". Even given the size and layout of the vehicle, that seems impressive as heck if true. It's in reservation stages for ~$26k, which is also not bad.
Ah, I misread it.

The action that breaks the entanglement is the update of A before reading B and not the reading of A or B.
The original Aptera went bankrupt a decade ago. However couple of the original cofounders managed to get some funding to buy back the name and some of the original IP and restarted the company a couple of years ago.
By your definition piracy would not be a theft.
Isnt this what a Gödel machine is supposed to do.
What's severe caloric restriction mean, here? From memory I've read that 750kcal and even 1000kcal under TDEE are effective. A TDEE of 2400kcal would be normal for a young 6'2" male who does a bit of light cardio, and 2150kcal wouldn't be unusual for someone who's sedentary.
Aren’t Neanderthals much shorter than humans?
Most people shouldn't need to own a car. I don't mean that in a "self driving will save us" way. But that a personal car is parked 95% of the day. In a city huge areas are used for storing these blocks of metal not in use. More accessible car sharing could make less people feel the need to own a car.
Never heard it called a mouth before.
The racist "information" in this case was produced by the maintainer of the project themself though.
I get the value of the common APIs, but as a developer how do you deal with the wide range of performance in different form factors and product generations? Is there some way to gracefully adapt the same models to a specific device’s capabilities?
Hm, I see no discussion about left-to-right vs right-to-left positioning of the ordinal Y in the (horizontal) sequences. Is left-to-right taken for granted?
I'd like to learn more about that but I am coming up blank. Everything I've found suggests even the new Tesla 4680 continues to rely on some amount of cobalt.
Yes, it is, in fact, a buttock.
I’ve been a Spotify premium customer for years. For music discovery, they’re incredible. But I really hate two things about Spotify:

1. Sometimes music I have in playlists disappears, for licensing reasons. I understand the reasoning but it makes me irrationally angry

2. There’s still no way to remove playlists from the home screen. No, spotify, I still don’t want to listen to your Dad Jokes podcast. I feel like some bozo product manager has had a bonus package attached to podcast listens and he’s doing what he can to get more podcast listens, instead of making me (the customer) happy.

I’m considering going back to a bespoke mp3 collection again. Something about it feels better. It feels like mine.
I've started buying from ebooks.com exclusively, because they tell me it's DRM-free EPUB and PDF.

I end up paying a big premium in practice over Kindle DRM and discounted paperbacks, but I'm doing my part to convince publishers to offer DRM-free.
It's possible the enormity of the mistakes help sell the forgery, as in "they wouldn't dare sell a wine from a time before the winery even existed, so it must be true and the experts must have missed it"...
ActiveState, that is a name I haven't heard in a long time!

They provided the best Perl distribution for Windows.

They also made some cool IDE/Editor based on Mozilla XUL.
Again? Always was.
12 year roof. Older than I would have liked.
Sodium ion batteries are even better in one respect, they are not as easy to catch on fire, they do not produce the kind of fires lithium batteries do, or give off the same poisonous (and sometimes explosive) gases. It can take over 3000 gallons of water to put out a Li ion car fire (and that fire can re-ignite weeks after due to the chemicals and stored energy) [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWq-Mq1Uqpw