skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a league like MLS, for instance. Their Apple TV deal is worth about $250M/year.

To hit that revenue number on, say, a hypothetical $90/year ($10/month for 9 months) standalone league pass subscription, they'd need about 2.8M subscribers. And that doesn't figure in the distribution costs of either rolling their own live sports streaming service or more likely whitelabeling one.

Most MLS matches broadcast on cable have fewer than 400k viewers. Many have fewer than 125k. It's hard to imagine that 3M people would consistently fork over $10/month for that.

Providers will almost always pay more for some degree of exclusivity (and more stably — the MLS deal is for 10 years) than consumers will bear on their own. It's ultimately a marketing expense for providers banking on subscriber growth, something consumers aren't willing to shoulder directly for a standalone league service.

Where streaming passes have worked are on the team level for those with global brands, where they can provide exclusive content to diehard fans. But again they tend to be expensive marketing arms and not the team's primary revenue stream, which is still league TV/media contracts.
> All of Google is AI.
> But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YivUOqd91Nk
> if the first thing a company has to say about a product or feature is that it's powered by AI, that is a strong signal that it isn't actually very useful.

Great take-away, and we know this is true because of other examples from the past. Remember when every product had to be made out of Blockchain, and startups lead their marketing copy with "Blockchain-powered"? We're doing the same thing with AI.

Generative AI is a developer tool, not a product. Like the programming language you used, the fact that you are using this tool should not be relevant to users. If you have to mention AI to explain what your product does, you're probably doing it wrong. Some of these "AI startups" pitches sound ridiculous. "We use AI to... [X]" is like saying "We use Python to... [X]". Who cares? You're focusing on a detail of what the solution is before we've even agreed I have a problem.
I just build my own solution. I've dabbled with many tools, services and methods over the years, but they all suck in some way, because they are not custom-made for my demand and personal situation, and I will always find some critical unfixable flaw which will nag me. Also, humans are lazy, and organization is a low-level job where little flaws can make a big difference.

So at the moment, my solution is to generate daily a markdown-file with routines, unfinished routines from the previous day, and links to visit that day. It also has a section for notes, and a dataview-query for filtering urgent and due tasks from my vault (dataview is an extension for obsidian). For the regular tasks, I have either Google Keep, which I use to collect notes, links, photos for later, or markdown-files, for which I have a routine to review them regularly, or just use on the spot if work leads to them.

It's not perfect, has some flaws and lacks features, but it's my system, and I can work on fixing the flaws because everything is open and accessible. Before this, I used todoist, which is also quite good, but it had some critical flaws for my workflows, so I moved away after some years.
They're trying to assassinate you by raising your blood pressure.
Can you give a specific example of how you would start with a customer? Do you make a post in fb/twitter/linkedin like "I have some freetime as programmer, anyone have pain points or annoyances in your work that I might be able to help?" . Or do you come up with an idea (i.e i wanna build AI chatbots for real estate professionals) and start cold emailing agents that you dont know about and ask if they would find it useful?
The pharmaceutical "Creativity" behind Copay Coupons
Wow, Protect just uninstalled KDE connect :/
Yes, if you have no pnl attribution the concept of a take doesnt even make sense. I've never heard of a fund with attribution that does not pay the analysts some percent of their profits.
I'm not saying there isn't a difference.

OP mentioned they didn't find Nginx listed on the CVE, and the reply said

>If you read the article, you'll see that the default configuration is not affected.

Which, in the context of OPs comment, implies that the CVE wouldn't be associated because the default config is not affected.

Hence my reply that CVEs don't care whether its default config or not. If there is a CVE associated with the program, there is a CVE associated with the program, rare config or not.
In case it wasn’t obvious:

My post was a bit, and not necessarily directed at you, but simply a response. I liked your post, your comment, the linked channel to which I already sub, and HN.

The punchline is I didn’t even notice you were the one who posted this to HN til you mentioned it, and if I had I would’ve written the same thing I’d like to think. It makes it all the more amusing to me that my comment didn’t need that context at the time and if I hadn’t made it, you would have no comment of mine to reply to.

How deep does this rabbit hole go, anyway?

“/s” is for “satire” indeed.
Netflix to open branded retail stores for some reason
I really want a 6E router that can run this. Only options right now are one that’s expensive and not readily available, and the other is a rebranded Zyxel one only available via a Norwegian ISP.
"if the first thing a company has to say about a product or feature is that it's powered by AI, that is a strong signal that it isn't actually very useful."

i have a product team that is totally disconnected from the engineering team. yeah, we use neural networks. they don't understand or know about neural networks so they just call everything "AI" and it's very cringe. but it doesn't mean we don't have good products.
If you have the receipt, and ID showing your picture and the name under which I ordered the device, and can receive physical mail at the address to which the device was shipped, and/or at the address listed on the cloud account that we both know the device effectively forced me to create, then yes.
Would we still create Nebula today?
Is there a good way to get one from within the EU? They stopped shipping directly iirc.
I call it the Canva-fication of AI.

I was at the Hubspot CRM conference a month ago and every single vendor seemed to be using that accursed emoji in their marketing materials and websites.
To me, XP and Vista looked like a terrible attempt at replicating Mac OS X when that all wow'ed us - it's hard to imagine these days just how big of a deal the iMac and later on OS X were in terms of moving away from grey boxes everywhere (though sometimes too far, since Windows 7 really toned down and refined XP/Vista's UI).

For me, I grew up on Amiga Workbench 2.0 and MS-DOS, so Windows NT/2000 felt like a good evolution from it's User Interface. Very functional, for sure.

100% agree on Classic MacOS. As outdated as the tech was, it was beautiful because it was elegant without being distracting.
It was at that moment a simple change of the password. The benefit was that people outside of our company wouldn't have access (thus not sharing it further), and then as a future improvement we could have implemented some better key scheme. But while customers want to have root access it is not an option.

Theoretically we could implement a scheme with individual passwords or keys per device (as someone suggested in the comments above), but such thing is not being prioritized by our company, so that's our fault.
Valid points to problems that have been debated for decades.
They don’t start that way, they start as regional conflicts and grow. ‘How could we not help the poor so and sos that we’ve signed some tangling alliance with…’
Note that the process described in the post is a better experience than other block/allow interfaces, because you _can_ specify per library what things it can or can't access. You aren't forced to specify everything at the process or user level, where it can be harder to list or specify such things.

There will still be the possibility of confused deputy attacks, but it still looks like a significant improvement to supply chain security.
Yeah, I communicate with way too many people on iPhones who will simply not switch to Android. If it disappears from the Apple App Store we will have to use a different messenger.
Sometimes I wish we only had one version of the web. I know I may be luddite when it comes to web browsing but I love web browsing on the desktop.
Progressive web app have made more optimization of ads than content.
By trying to optimize it for the mobile web they have made it into "baby internet" (I heard it first when Steve Jobs introduced iPhone). I miss how he was able to zoom on the New York Times website without optimized website for mobile.
Ironically, Butter is both really really cool and exactly what generative AI is sustainably good for: reading large amounts of text (in this case video transcripts) for you, the user, and extracting structured or unstructured insights that lead to a more enriched experience. I, too, would pay for it!

https://github.com/paprikka/butter/blob/main/src/watcher/det...

But, to OP's point (and possibly meat-gpt's point?) - any app that asks you, the user, to provide it with a whole bunch of unstructured text in real time just to get going... is annoying at best, and disconnected from our primal brains' urges to point at cool things and see cool things change, and share those cool things with real meat-space people. AI is great when it can facilitate less typing, less reading, less irrelevant ad-watching, and more time spent seeing relevant things to say "ooooooh" about.

(Also, thank you for making me want banana bread!)
How do you expect a company to fight fraud without knowing where a transaction happens?

Seems like you have a pet theory and don't want to consider others

https://www.khaitanco.com/sites/default/files/2022-01/Data%2...
I don't think that's fair because people have to start somewhere.

To me a couple of useful features and all the sudden something becomes a useful niche product.

Another AI writer probably not so great, let it integrate to wordpress or some other CMS maybe people will pay for it.

There's probably alot of niches around some set of integrations and user interaction that save a lot of copy and pasting.
Remember this is the same UK government that at one stage back in 2020 was proposing that there could be borderless customs enforcement between Ireland and Northern Ireland (part of the uk) "using drones". Because everyone knows drones do that.

I don't think they consider themselves limited by things technology is actually capable of when talking about what they are going to get technology to do.
What does the American consumer want from the brands they love? (2023)
Interesting write-up about politics and consumers.
I gave it up. Too much crafting. Maybe I should go back to it...
Awesome idea, good luck and here’s a vote of confidence
What router are you using with 6E that supports this? Or is it a DIY thing with a WiFi card?
Great comment, and same. Running it on Proxmox also enables running the router in a high-availability fashion quite easily too.. which is pretty neat.

I was running OpenWRT on my Xiaomi AX9000 (based on master but also IPQ807 specific forks), but everything OpenWRT is software-based so 1/ the AX9000's acceleration chips are idle & performance is quite limited (unless using one of the crazy experimental NSS builds where mostly everything is broken) 2/ the integration with the onboard switch itself is far from adequate, e.g. VLANS+batman-adv are quite broken - very few configurations yield a partially working network (e.g. randomly dropping ARPs).. and don't count of LACP to work even though it can be configured. That's forgiving the fact that we also have to manually patch the BDF files on OpenWRT for the AX9000 if you want the radios to be connectable, as OpenWRT do not want to ship with the correct BDFs for some vague legal liability reasons.

Used VyOS in Proxmox for a while too, but at the end of the day, the firewall boilerplate is quite huge (and can't easily be edited on the go in the house as necessary), tailscale is not natively supported, etc. Relatively sad to let go of IaaC and committing the configuration though, but somewhat manageable with snapshots.
The most egregious one to me has been CircleCI's "Ask an AI about this error" option on failed builds. Always spits out something irrelevant at best or misleading at worst, and it does so in the typical ChatGPT high school essay voice, complete with superfluous intro and conclusion paragraphs.

"Atlassian Intelligence" may be just as bad, though...
Router name plz :-D
It depends on how much it warps your business. As far as I could tell, the company I talked to had a couple of prominent front-end features that were AI-driven, nothing more.
>just hope you did a good enough job to not be tracked

Right. Your target uses e.g. an iPhone. You use Kali on clean hardware.
It seems to zoom out as flat map, I was looking for something that zoom outs to a globe.
cheering on ugly output only brings ugly allies ? Adversarial prompts and model testing, and deeper understanding of the mechanisms, are productive ways forward IMHO
Activision Blizzard doesn’t put most of their games on Steam
If you ask them who made you..
> The only medium for creating monopolistic power is government.

This is naively incorrect.

Economies of scale exist. Larger companies have lower overheads, which leads to an advantage in pricing, which leads to large companies becoming larger, until there's only one left. This is a natural consequence of markets: absent outside intervention, they trend towards monopoly over time. Competition is not the natural state of a market. If you want competition (which you should, because competition is good for consumers) then you need outside intervention, which, if all else fails, must be the task of the government.
It's still bad but more bearable with PiHole. I don't know how anyone without adblock can open a recipe website on mobile and not lose their mind.

One reason it's still bad is that now I see popups that say "Disable Your Adblocker"!
This article doesn't really explain why a set of competitors in a given industry would agree to collude and keep prices high. Sure, I agree that Amazon or other very large companies may decide to increase their margins, because they are a quasi-monopoly. But why would a company that has 5% market share raise prices when they learn all their competitors have done so? Why wouldn't they keep prices at bay and compete for a larger market share?

Interest rates were low, money supply was high, supply chains were broken and we had an inflation spike throughout the world. Now the situation is reversed and prices are falling again. I think greed is a constant variable here, and one that does not properly explain why we see this pattern at all. Are companies less greedy this year? Have we punished their collusion attempts?
The “internet” was definitely moving fast. And it hasn’t even stopped. At the height of the internet bubble, people dreamt of one day having virtual meetings with VR gear and stuff. And it’s only starting to happen… in 2023. It’s been more than 20 years and the tech is finally ready to do this VR stuff properly.

Sometimes hype becomes reality many years later. This is probably going to be true for AI as well.
CRISPR protects 9 out of 10 chickens from bird flu
Turn the Ship, or Abandon It
> Obviously those in the know would not use the flawed system

Perhaps the clearest argument against such a ploy is the TETRA radio
system. Turns out in this case that "the masses" are our:

- police and emergency services

- military and civil defence forces

- diplomatic and political security, escorts, attaches and close security

You see the problem is this concept of "in the know". It's an
insoluble information-hazard and boundary problem;

Two people can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.
The hype gets pushed down from the C-suite because prospects are always asking "are you doing anything with ${latest}?" and the salesdroid has to answer "of course! we'll be showing a teaser in the next couple of months".

Then it gets pushed up from the bottom by engineers practicing Resume-Driven Development. Everybody perks up when a project using ${latest} gets mentioned in the CTO's office. Wouldn't it look cool to say I was a pioneer in ${latest}?

When it's being pushed from the top and the bottom, it's gonna happen.

Left out of the process is thoughtful/imaginative product design and innovation. Sometimes it happens but it's more of an accident in most cases.
The best example is that even your curious question comes with a car-minded implicit assumption that it's the pedestrian who is crossing, not the car. In a pedestrian-centric design, cars are the ones who cross. See https://youtu.be/_ByEBjf9ktY?t=690.
In-house non-llvm compiler? Ooh! This looks fun!

Will definately give this a peruse.
Maybe scrolling itself is the real problem, and bad scrollbar design is just a symptom. Think of how long it took you to get to this comment, and all the other things you could have been doing with your life. Was it worth it?
Not sure why anyone wants scrollbars. On Mac they're pretty much universally hidden until you start scrolling. I never use them and hardly notice them which is great. I only scroll with 2 fingers on the track pad. I'm always shocked when I see people interact with a scroll bar directly using the mouse.
Scalar: Generate interactive API documentations from Swagger files
It's not really that simple, because you can only choose your imports one level deep. All of the options for 'taking responsibility' add a lot of ongoing busy work in pinning versions, reviewing code, watching for CVEs, etc. A lot of it can be avoided with improvements like the article's.
What is the use case for those bitcoin mines? I don't know anybody who is using, which isn't a good argument of course, but I also don't see on any website as payment option and (thankfully) NFT/web3 is largely a goner.

‘The state has lucrative incentives that have made it the most popular destination for Bitcoin miners in the country. One program pays cryptocurrency miners for agreeing to shut off their computers when the grid is on the brink of failure, such as during the record-breaking heat wave that hit the state this past summer. Since 2020, Bitdeer has been awarded nearly $50 million from this arrangement, according to data published by the grid operator. Those payments are subsidized by Texas ratepayers.’

This is unbelievable.
> It’s the definition from economics, not physics

They're pretty much the same, and have nothing to do with...

"First, you have to understand a very important concept: in some systems, what’s best for a group is not necessarily what’s best for the individuals who make up the group. In other words, the total wealth of a group of people could be increasing, while almost everyone making up that group could be seeing their wealth diminish. When this happens, we say we have a non-ergodic system. If the system was ergodic, what’s happening to the collective would also translate to all individuals."

...which is how the article defines "ergodic" in the section with that name at the start.
I've argued about this deal on Twitter at length, and the prevailing sentiment of those who favor this acquisition comes down to one thing, and one thing only: getting more AAA games "for free" on Gamepass. Discovering why these people call this an "increase in competition" will be an exercise for future generations of intelligence researchers.
Great you pointing out the presence vs absence of dedicated operation enginners. Also that things have evolved more than a bit in team structures and tooling.

Even when ops are perfectly comfortable with git, they are rarely keen on touching dev repos even if deployment times were tenable.
If code changes need peer reviewed, how so configuration values don't get treated at least the same way?

Secrets in clear are obviously a no go, I feel though that encrypted secrets in repos has become reasonably simple with mature tooling in this area.
Ansible's fast growth got cut short once people started to hear k8s at every meet ups perhaps.
Again with the dramatics. I'm sorry you feel that abstaining from some modern luxuries is 'self flagellation'. I recommend you travel some more.

Your point is moot anyway because I wasn't arguing GP's point, I was saying that your reaction is disproportionate to the measures suggested.
I think you may have misunderstood the problem that this article is solving.

You've implemented something which kills all your child processes when you exit cleanly, but which leaks child processes if you exit uncleanly. This is, frankly, easy to do, and not interesting. It's not a "problem".

The article is solving the problem of: how do I make sure my child processes die even if I exit uncleanly? That's an actual hard problem to solve.
I think it's pretty clear this is not about "CSAM", we have to stop using the term. It's just censorship, plain and simple. Client side means you'll pay from your own pocket for this wrongthing detector to work. It can even be automated so as soon as the detector gets triggered by anything, you'll get locked out of your bank accounts, until further notice I guess.

If this thing gets a serious discussion in a parliament, get rid of the parliament.
Updates to diagnostics in GCC 14 [pdf]
I remember reading power plants in the USA, especially nuclear, have GPS scramblers.

Might be some interesting locations to cross check.
Provided that the nukes really exist of course :)
> - this almost won an award but I lost to a site with 3d rotating sandwiches

meat-gpt is awesome, but now I want to see what won out over it, have a link by chance?
Exactly my thoughts as well. This just seems like a 20 year old with too much time on his hands bragging about creating something a lot more trivial than he makes it sound.

Also, I can't fathom who would want to use a "multiplayer browser."
TIL thanks for explaining
Very cool, but shouldn't be on Show HN yet until people can actually use it.
Automatic handoff, conversation awareness, transparency mode, and how they work on calls are the killer features for me. I also have IEMs and appreciate good quality audio when that's what I'm looking for, but I see my AirPods as serving more of a utilitarian purpose. They're not for active listening, they're for exercise, working from the cafe, taking a long call while cooking a meal, etc.
Why does everything need to be about 'sales'?

There is an emphasis on 'joy', it can be just about having fun.
Yeah hopefully this discussion can help shine a light on this issue. Maintainers have enough to deal with.
That’s actually a great idea. Now I only need to do it and resist the urge to add documentation, make it open source, implement features that other people want etc etc!
NSA did persuade them to weaken DES by shortening the key size. The "magic S-boxes" were chosen to be resistant to differential cryptanalysis (which was successfully kept secret for decades to come) but that doesn't change the fact NSA had the means to break DES by brute force.
GPT-4 with 50 Files
A pretty new site that claims to be building a general purpose GPT-4 with 50+ files
ML is a boom/bust industry and it’s a current fad. I recommend looking for infra work instead — plumbing is always in style.
I am generally against the death penalty, but I am particularly against the death penalty for anything other than murder because of the actions it incentivizes.
> If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure. You will have to shutdown/get acquired for nothing

Yes on the first. No on the second. You can still sell the business like a small business at a multiple of Ebitda. Standard early-stage terms shouldn’t give investors the right to block an exit that returns their liquidation value.