skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So apparently these other people are really happy with Netflix's service, and your complaints are all unfounded.

They have their complaints too, but however they feel about Netflix, it doesn't make my complaints unfounded or invalidated.

> Why should they?

Because obnoxious ads degrade the quality of the service and drive people away. Maybe they don't care about who they drive away as long as they are still making money. Maybe they even make more money delivering a shitty product to fewer people than they would providing a quality service to more people. That doesn't matter to me though. I expect a certain amount of value in return for my money and if netflix fails to deliver enough value I'll leave either way. Right now, they're hanging on by a thread.

> Yet people are happy to do this, because they keep paying for the privilege.

You seem to think that just because people pay for something they must be happy with all aspects of that thing. People may be willing to pay for the service, but not be happy about clicking past annoying ads. Ask me how I know.

> You say that, but you continue to reward it.

In that sense you're right. I'm still enabling netflix's terrible service. I'm not far from giving up on them, but what I really want is for them to be better.
I know what netflix could be. I know it wasn't always this bad. If netflix doesn't listen to all the people online bitching about the decline of their service today, I hope that when they finally do lose enough customers they'll at least go back over the pleas of their former customers at that point to learn what they could have done to prevent what happened.

Maybe streaming services other than netflix will pay attention to our complaints and will avoid making the same mistakes, but I kind of doubt it. They are largely owned by the same companies that turned cable TV into trash so foul that it started the "cord-cutting" movement which allowed netflix to thrive in the first place.

It shouldn't take canceling service to get a company to listen to their users, but everybody has their breaking point. I'm nearing the edge, but so far a combination of laziness and optimism keeps me from going over. All netflix has to do is stop pushing.
>#include <filename> does not even need to include a _file_

One of the stackoverflow answers (from Adrian McCarthy) states this;

The VAX/VMS C compiler kept all the C runtime library headers in a single textual library file (similar to a unix archive), and used the string between the < and > as the key to index into the library.
>High-end cores you can license?

Yet Ascalon and Alastor can be licensed, today, and ARM has nothing with comparable performance. LG already licensed Ascalon.

Nevermind ARM, Apple's current M2 CPUs doesn't compare to Ascalon.
If your choice is between no YouTube vs ad-supported + premium YouTube, what would you rather have? How would you keep YouTube afloat?
I know why I stopped paying them.
I'm building a locally hosted app I use to download videos async. So the downside is I can't watch videos instantly. The upside is I can't be advertised to.

You realize YT isn't special, right? They are piggybacking on user content more than users are on their infra.
...except every OS update does have a number?

In tech circles I try to use the actual OS release number whenever I can for this reason.
YouTube has a bunch of issues, but I have never felt speed was high in the list. Sure, faster is better than slower, but if I ran the zoo, I would solve the takedown issues, radicalization, and click bait long before I spent time making it faster.
No, they aren't. Many creators are "demonetized", and if you ask the ones who aren't, they'll tell you they barely make anything from YouTube itself. They get all their money from other sources: Patreon, merchandise sales, sponsor segments, etc.
He said "wouldn't be caught dead in" which implies fear of embarrassment and judgement from others, not a principled stance, which is completely outlandish to me.

Your stance is not outlandish to me, but I do fall in the "just not care" camp. I have no problem at all doing business with people who disagree we me as long as the transaction is acceptable on business terms.
The title of this is quite editorialised, I'd suggest changing it to something less so as per the guidelines.
> Thanks to O'Reilly for being clueful enough to sell non-DRM versions.

Did O’Reilly start selling ebooks again? Directly? Several years ago it stopped doing that and pushed the Safari or O’Reilly subscription as the only way to read its catalog of books. I provided feedback at that time, but the policies didn’t change. But I have seen some O’Reilly books in Humble Bundle sales once in a while.

There was also a time when O’Reilly and Apress would have a “deal of the day” every single day, selling ebooks at a much lower price than retail..all DRM free. I haven’t seen those in years.
They absolutely do get paid on YouTube.
Which is a good reason to use wood.
My thoughts are the same. Take look what happened on Reddit and Twitter, where many people were trying to improve the platform by developing apps for them, then the platform steps in and slammed it all down (probably due to conflict of interest). My conclusion is that contributing to the "daemons" might just not be worth it for both the devs and the users.

Google/YouTube is a relatively good actor during the entire shenanigans, but they certainly got a high enough chair to bare the lost of few users. And if you look the current financial and employment situation, they and their employees/C*Os might even got motivations too.

The environment has changed, maybe it's time to go back to the fundamentals, and maybe something new and better can come out of it.
Thanks! I'm looking at the Contribute page and seeing some cool ideas.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37938444
It's not clear what assertions you are referring to.
I imagine the TX81Z ticked all the boxes at first glance.
Mythbusters tested this https://youtu.be/ss1S3-Kv6R8?si=X33pP_wS0fC2arx-
YouTube Premium pays out even on demonetized videos. And Premium watch time pays out a lot more https://x.com/LinusTech/status/1486935690315112455?s=20
But they price discriminate so that people pay more to be in the front. If the people in the front get there and have no overhead storage space, there will be a lot of hard feelings.
Neither is it secure to leave your data on your computer without encryption and password
> You decide for yourself what kind of content to get from YouTube, they don't force you into harmful habits.

Have you ever used Youtube? Serious question? There is next to no way to tell them what kinda of content I want. I pay for YT premium and recently my Android tv youtube is full of sports/football games at the top, never i have watched a sports game on YT. Shorts are shoved down your thrown on desktop or mobile, even with paid thers no way to turn that off.
You can use the Godot engine to build apps. It has a very similar drag/drop UI. Double click for events, and gdscript is very easy to pickup. Reminds me of VB everytime I use it
It's very different when you are dealing with a $1000 object versus a $40000 object, where the replacement of the battery could cost $300 and $20000 respectively.
Retooling the Status Quo
What's TV got to do with anything? Your whole argument is wrong. People have written books and books about how a technology encourages a particular way of interacting with it and discards the rest. Youtube carefully encourages addictive watching. Blaming the victims and saying "it's your fault" is an argument from two decades ago, before we knew better.
Ah, that makes sense. I guess the flights I’m on that simply is not an issue, at worst one has to use those not directly above one's seat.
This is accurate. When I was growing up in the early 80s I loved Star Trek. We had 4 TVs but only one of them was color. That was reserved for my Dad (who hated Star Trek, but loved football). I grew up watching the original series on Black and White... and the lighting was quite perfect for that, even if it was pretty mauve and absurd in color. Also worth noting that the color TVs at the time tended to be very low contrast compared to what we have now. So heightening the shadows and highlights made perfect sense.

As a side note, my mom was an accountant at Paramount who handled residuals for Shatner, et al. She briefly dated Harlan Ellison before marrying my father, which might have explained his aversion to Star Trek and my banishment to the Black and White TVs while watching it. (When I was twelve or thirteen and got really into Ellison's fiction, she got alarmed and told me Harlan was "a creep" and left it there).

The upshot was I got to go onto the TNG set when I was a kid... which was both wildly exciting and sort of disappointing as it wasn't an actual starship. All I wanted was to be Wesley Crusher.

But yeah, we watched TOS in b&w.

[edit] even funnier side note, I used to tape Star Trek TOS on reruns while I was at school so I could watch it later on the color tv. I had figured out how to work the VCR timer by the time I was 11 or so. But there weren't any blank VHS tapes lying around. My dad had a collection of 100 or so tapes of movies from TV, with commercials and everything. Down near the bottom of the stacks were a bunch of tapes labeled "dirty movies 3,4,5" which I thought just meant they were bad recordings. So I was like, I can record over those, they won't notice.

My dad apparently tried to play his porn tapes and found a bunch of star trek videos and came to my bedroom in a rage, but then couldn't explain to me why "dirty movies" didn't mean "bad VHS recordings". Took me awhile to figure out since I'd never actually watched whatever was on the tapes first ;)
Why do airlines charge for checked luggage, but offer overhead bin space for free? The latter is clearly more convenient, but causes the majority of slowdowns with the boarding process. It seems the incentives are reversed.
85% for daily, 100% for long trip
>Most laptop battery stop holding a charge 2 to 3 years in.

Counterpoint. I have a lenovo thinkpad t480s that I bought second hand and is now 4+ years old. The battery lasts at least 6 hours. I haven't discharged it fully in a while to be more precise. Ubu 22.04 running in power save mode as selected from the default gnome menu.

Dell? Yeah, terrible company making terrible laptops for sure. Used to think differently before owning one.
AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts
Well, codes and modern technology. Like I said I'm not sure of it, it was just a weird contrast having a 200+ year old house and a brand new one and comparing the two.
Somehow it all seems too straightforward, not Machiavellian enough. How does McKinsey make windfall profits? The independent director?
TV also followed that addictive formula though, because it too was just a means to show you ads.

Recommendations, promotion, automatically playing a related video after the one you watched ended, etc.

Even a landing page with "tailored for you" or "currently popular" is a distracting attention grab, and that attention grab leads to the addictive nature.

Combine that with how those YouTube recommendations and search rankings seem to prioritize click bait titles and cover image, and yes, I think you can start forming a thesis that in-fact, they are trying to force you into more screen time spent watching more YouTube videos.
They've been closing down those loopholes over the years.
Costco is selling a 157-piece Le Creuset kitchen set for $4,500
I'm not sure how you're paying for this.

I realize the content is free to you, but surely the bandwidth is not?
It feels insane to me that people haven’t heard of floating rate bonds. I guess the debt guys are too busy to hang out here.

Here’s a primer from 2011. The Treasury and Feddie call theirs FRNs.

https://capitalmarkets.fanniemae.com/media/1456/display
The link: https://www.costco.com/le-creuset-157-piece-ultimate-cookwar...
Rather than trying to fight a Pyrrhic arms race with with adblockers that will eventually outright require blocking anyone not paying, if youtube simply put a cumulative measure of what your usage has cost them at the top, I bet a lot of people would be more open to paying.

Offering a way to throw a dollar at various creators and have it guaranteed to get to them in full would also be something I'd find highly compelling. And it would give those creators vastly more money than if I sat down and watched multiple thousands of 5-15 minute videos, ads and all.

Also demonetizing creators because they said "kill" instead of "unalive" is fucking stupid, and makes youtube an adversary, not something I want to give money to.
Universal Sues Anthropic
In James Gurney's Dinotopia, humanity is described as imagining time as a line, whereas dinosaurs imagine it as a circle. They compromise and teach a single cohesive theory of "time as a helix" to both saurian and simian children.

The reasoning is that it closest matches reality, "cyclically rotating around the sun and moving with the seasons, as well as forever propelling ourselves forward into the future with permanent changes".

There's a romance to it that I've always adored, as well as dammit it just makes SENSE
Um, not sure it has any point except if there are available subtitles in your language though
It comes on a pallet...

"Costco says that shipping takes between one and two weeks and customers will have to sign for the delivery. The set will be delivered on a pallet using a lift gate truck and the listing suggests that the customer gets to keep the pallet."
There has actually been several studies with proofs that DRM does nothing, but this is an emotional issue ("My feelings tell me that evil thieves need to be stopped even if I crap on users!") and proofs don't matter.
The Godot engine. Don't have to build games with it. Gdscript is just as easy as basic, too. I suggest making a weekend app with it and learning
Hey, could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it a lot already with this account, and we end up having to ban such accounts. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Optimized Battery will charge your phone to 100%.
Yes, I do the same. I always get reminded of a quote which compares adding lines of code to a codebase being similar to adding weight to an aircraft.
You picked well.
I kept waiting for the article to get to early school exposure to months of the year, and was disappointed until I read your comment.

Indeed, I've been aware for many years that my spatial visualization of the year was formed in kindergarten, from the board that had a ring of 12 laminated paper cupcakes, each with the names of the kids in class born in that month. December was at the 3:00 position, thus permanently wiring it there in my brain.

All that said, my mind somehow added a dimension over time, turning the loop into a sort of loose helix with the past below (and intermittently attached to corresponding real-world time-places like classrooms or offices) and the future somewhere above.
Interesting, I've only ever heard it used as a game engine.
Yes, it was funny the first time I noticed the sizing in a sweatshirt of mine. I was a Medium in all countries listed but the single Asian country were it was considered an XL.
Yeah. I get I’m not the standard user or anything, but I absolutely hate needing to click through onboarding hell. I’d much prefer to explore for myself.
Yup - why would I pay for it when I'd prefer not using it at all and getting that time back? They're helping me with that.
> Failed with error code 1002, see logs for more info

I've been seeing the same thing. I want this to work on my browser because it's wicked fast.

Getting the error with LibreWolf (FF w/tweaks and a ton of extensions) with only occasional success. Also the same error with Firefox (some extensions) but I have slightly more success.

Flashpeak Slimjet (Chrome, closed source): Some error msgs but mostly trying to load the video with no success (ie, "hourglass", no error msg).

No issues with Vivaldi (some extensions) & Brave (no extensions).
I'm with you 100% on never buying anything with DRM, but I wouldn't think for one second that it's going to influence any business. We are in the tiniest minority. We're in a world full of DRM precisely because it's so lucrative compared to the alternative.
Considering how easily the charging cables would break and fall apart, I hope they didn't let that team near this one....
If GP is like me where I always run an app tracking my location (with my consent) in the background, even using the phone for 1 hour per day would drain the battery from 100% to 30%.
I keep re-reading my post and I can't see where I've used the word always there.

Can you point it out for me?
She has fingers that are anatomically correct and placed properly. I call shenanigans, this isn't an AI image.
The Chevy Volt has the perfect handling of this: A new car never charges past 90% or drains below 10% battery. It simply reports 100% when the actual battery isn't quite full and vice versa, extending the battery life significantly.

As the battery life degrades over time, it will try to keep the same useful range, and shrink those boundaries until you are using the full battery life each charge.

Perhaps this works less will for phones, but I'm not so sure. Personally I never have issues with battery on new phones. It's only as the battery life shrinks that you really need the full range.
Highly encourage you to pose this question to friends, alongside "what do numbers look like in your head"

I keep learning new spatial relationships every time I ask! I drew mine here: https://omarshehata.me/notebook/my_number_forms
and it won't be “revenge porn” if you consented to that too

AI generated erotic visuals also cant create Section 230 liability, compared to humans

ripe
> > "by the end of [2022], 79 Polish administrative units still declared themselves so-called 'LGBT-free zones'.

This one is a widespread fake. As for the rest, I don't know, though I suspect similar. As for

> LGBTI rights defenders faced ongoing criminal and civil proceedings

at least some of the Polish LGBTI right defenders have a rather... rough relationship with the law (outside their activism).

> I don't think that condemning a fetus with terrible congenital defects to be born against the will of its parents is a step towards freedom.

It is. Every human being, irrespective of their age, has the right to live.

> I don't know whether you're being honest, or sarcastic.

100% honest, sorry for not making it clear enough.

> Let's discuss ideas, not individuals, please!

Patriotism is an idea, and a very noble one at that.

Anyway, thanks for keeping the discussion civil. (Also honestly.)
1. What percentage of AWS revenue is VC funded companies? I'm sure it's a good percentage, but AWS also sells to a lot of fortune 500s.

2. AWS takes on a lot of risk. They buy hardware with lifespans measured in years and sell its use by the second. Not to mention directly competing against major divisions of Microsoft and Google cannot feel comforting.
Why can’t you repair your 2008 MacBook? Is it the aluminum model A1278 or the polycarbonate model A1181?
I see it more as both sides taking calculated risk. Developers contributing to a corporate-led OSS project with particular licensing should know that they can be rug-pulled at any time. They benefit during the project and afterwards from a good fork that otherwise wouldn't exist (a healthy fork taking shape or not is additional risk). OpenTofu is a great win for the community.

For the company the risk is that the stronger community they build, the higher the chances of a serious backlash when they rug pull. Weigh the reputation damage, and upon emergence of a good fork having a serious competitor, to the benefits of community contributions.

Don't want to be rug pulled? Choose community-led projects with good governance and copyleft licensing to contribute to.
I wonder what's worse for the battery, constantly getting the battery down to 5% and charging it back it to 80%, or letting it go up to 100% and never letting it drop under say 20%.
If you tie your company to the your identity person as tightly as Musk has done, you shouldn't be surprised when people make purchasing decisions based on the political and social views you espouse so loudly. Nobody knows who BYD's leadership is unless they look really hard.
Show HN: Personal training cheaper than Chipotle burrito ($12)
Virtual personal training for just $12 / session.

I'm based in the US and was looking for a personal trainer to help me get started lifting weights and keep me accountable. But most trainers here are very expensive.

I found a trainer in India and worked virtually with them - they charged me a lot less and were just as good as trainers I tried in the US. It worked really well for me and a bunch of my friends.

So a friend and I are launching this service to some beta users. Priced at $96/mo for 8 sessions per month plus trainers designing workouts for off-days.

Any feedback would be appreciated!
Balance issues involving passenger locations are solved by moving passengers (after the door closes and the manifest finalizes), not bags. Weight issues are solved by un-checking bags or bumping passengers. Checking bags for balance reasons is only done if there aren't enough checked bags to balance the contracted cargo, and is rare enough that it's generally called out as such.

Just like how they "monitor" weight by assuming average weights for simple categories and just counting passengers, many airlines let the computer decide when to cut it off based solely on the number of people boarded, times what they surveyed the average number of carryons per person to be, with zero feedback of whether the bins are actually filling up. Some airlines (American) go further and cut it off earlier than usual if the computer thinks D0 might be threatened.
I am mostly the same, though I have never considered my own representation seriously until reading the article.

I can't picture it any other way, though. Clockwise???
I don’t know about YouTube premium, but regarding twitch partnership they said that only the top streamers get good deals, but even then they are problematic because they require exclusivity.
You didn’t even give vague details, let alone you giving a concrete example in detail. I asked a question and your previous comment answer boils down to basically, “it’s totally possible.”

My theory is that you’re making a concession somewhere in the backups to a separate keyring system. Either there is no cold backup, or you don’t do cold backups at all, or your cold backup is actually semi-warm and needs to be hooked up to a system intermittently to be reconciled against production (in which case, the backups need backups to protect against a failure on the reconciler system.) The onus is on the answerer to tell me how they would avoid one of those concessions. Respectfully, anything else/less is just fluff like, “it’s totally possible.”
For the Blockchain reads, someone still needs to host a JSON-RPC server. Most of hosting is commercial SaaS (Infura, QuickNode, LlamaNodes) but Binance provides a free endpoint for better adoption of their chain.

This free endpoint has many abuse protection mechanisms, as free services need (see: Cloudflare). However until today no one was hosting any malicious web payloads.

It's just matter to add a new abuse rule by BNB Smart Chain team to take this down.
What Is a Model Deployment?
agreed. youtube is allowing so many people to make decent income as independent content provider. I'm quite tired of these hipster posts making egregious demands from youtube. Make your own youtube.