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Tell HN: Pet Projects vs. OSS Contribution
The other day in a meetup related to Hacktoberfest, a beginner programmer asked what would be more valuable: creating a pet project or OSS contribution. If I were a hiring manager, I’d prefer the latter, ability to do an independent job is of big value. With pet projects, especially when there is a chance to copy&paste solutions, you won’t be able to assess such quality.
Whups, forgot the other exception. Ads creep has always been a problem on Netflix? I've never had ads on Netflix, though I do know they now have an ad-subsidised tier.

Prime Video and Hulu, on the other hand…
1. Post ad on Craiglist/FBMarketplace/etc. for AppleTV.

2. Sell TV, deliver to buyer, collect cash.

3. Buy a GoogleTV, and set it up.

4. Install app (instructions easily available elsewhere; you can't use the Play Store)

5. Enjoy!
Is there any evidence that DRM actually leads to more works getting published long term or is this just a oft repeated anecdote? It's trying to force the logic of commodities into a medium where it does not naturally exist.
There is an older, more complete gallery of operating systems and their versions: http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html
I had a retail box copy of Star Control 2, and it came with a big fold-out map of the star system, with points of interest highlighted. If you play without the advantage of that guide, it is understandable if you struggle. They intended for you to have some guidance.

I think I still have that map in a box somewhere. What a great game.
Building more units will increase supply, and placing limits on ownership will increase access. We can play all the angles to address housing supply.
You only need heavy gauge wire for a high amperage circuit. There are NEMA receptacles for 240V 15/20A circuits, you could absolutely wire one up with the normal 15/20A wire and have it be up to code as long as you use the correct receptacle on the circuit. It might not be exceedingly useful in the short term, but with an adapter you could use imported European equipment at least.
But for sponsorship, aren't people using sponsorblock as well?
Between weight loss, inhibiting addictive behavior, lowering the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and potentially derisking for Alzheimer’s, we should be pumping GLP-1 agonists out like a wartime effort. Likely contributor to fixing 70+ years of socioeconomic configuration that gave us Western Disease and the trimmings that come with it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-18/glp-1-dru...
I'm working through the Argo vs Flux debate right now. Not that they have to be mutually exclusive, just would rather start with one. It's a pretty tough decision.
A Windsorized mean is when you replace the outliers with members of the British royal family.
electric cool aid acid test
the code book
warped passages
Huh? How is it not sane?

Voting with your dollars is a key tenet of capitalism. If a company is run by unethical people, I sure as hell won't be doing business with them. Especially when there's plenty of competition, like there is in the EV market.
Amenity discovery is a lot harder than price discovery, so people are going to decide based on the info they can obtain easily.

It would probably be very difficult to reliably compare flights on plane-specific amenities (if the plane ends up being different than the originally scheduled one, and the seats are narrower, do I have financial recourse?).

But even airline-level rules are buried five screens deep in checkout and not necessarily directly comparable. Again, is there recourse if they say "we shrunk the carry-on allowance, or introduced a new super-terrible boarding process after you booked"?

The one amenity advertising that worked for me: Southwest makes a big point of advertising free checked bags, to the point where I'd make it a point to cross-shop them, except they never seem to be going where I want to go.
Youtube is fast but the interface is certainly bloated. I highly recommend the browser extension Unhook which declutters and simplifies Youtube's interface.
One example would be anybody who deals with lots of data transfer, like video editing. Accelerating that with a better cable can really add up.
I miss hello. It was great, simple and fast. Then google bought picasa and it went away. :( I kept using picasa a long time after it was no longer updated, but there wasn't a good hello alternative. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/05/picasas-hello-disco...
I've had Covid at least three times myself. The first time was in Feb 2020 and was my roughest bout. I didn't fully lose my sense of smell or taste but it was very confused. Oranges tastes like parsley and other foods got swapped. I've always prided myself on my sense of smell and have been able to differentiate ingredients in a dish.
After about a month my sense of taste and smell seemed to go back to normal but for about 2 years I felt that they had not recovered fully. I love to cook and my taste clearly changed. I started drinking more full bodied wines and eating blue cheese, things that had not been my favorite.

I've had at least one but I suspect 2 brushes with Covid in the intervening years. They were pretty mild with no fever and only cold like symptoms.

Around March of this year (2023) I experienced a bout of Covid that reminded me of the original time I had contracted it. Fever, body aches, lightheadedness etc. The symptoms were the same just lighter in intensity and over quicker. The interesting thing is that I never lost my sense of smell and I feel like I've regained what I'd lost from my first bout of Covid.

No more blue cheese:(
Steps to Platform Engineering Hell
I watched a couple of guides by rich streamers, and they consistently point out that the unofficial means make them the most money.
I would love YouTube to be state owned. The same with a state backed digital identity and social media.
People sometimes forget this - people don't pay just because they use something.

And sometimes, like with Youtube, many people wish they didn't use it. It's hard to get people to pay for something they wish they didn't use.
These kinds of features being so limited annoys me.

Like GoPro can only auto clear a video from your sd card that has been uploaded on the newest model. There is no way that is limited to those devices. But, it probably isn't profitable to even crack open the code for the older models so they don't even consider it. It makes it worse because I'm even paying a subscription for storage.
I thought this was just kindle unlimited books, not purchased books.
He has the job because he’s affiliated with Silverlake, who have a 10% stake and are running the show.
The Devil on Trial documentary on a homicide attributed to demonic possession
Places like Youtube are now a public platform serving many important purposes. Designing for addiction, vague policing, and arbitrary trends is a problem. Are the videos on YouTube worth a payment? Yes, but there is an arbitrarily frustrating and exploitative user experience that comes with it. I pay for premium, but have stopped watching Youtube out of frustration with the addictive nature. I will probably stop paying for it soon as it is currently harming me and designed to do so in exactly that way. I would pay more for something where I have more control over the content I receive and has a more transparent way of governing content creators, and slightly less power over content creators. Moderation is well and good and necessary, but Youtube has failed unrepentantly many times in this regard.
It is possible to use something like Chargie to limit battery charge if you want to keep your phone plugged in.
If Government Ran Youtube: This vital service is slow as hell, goes to show government never does anything right

Current Youtube: Well obviously this vital service needs to be slow-as-hell because ads, what are you gonna fund it by donations lol
If you make something free at first to get people hooked that is a scam and is called bait and switch.

Only thing different is that google is doing that in terms of decades.

No wonder it’s like no one wants to pay after decades of free access and no ads added to videos.
What a great read! Thanks for sharing. Trip down memory lane to a very happy time in my life.

jaguar32 and master32, :) swapping bas files was the only way I could actually do difficult stuff in the beginning
No recruiter here - he’s Silverlake advisor, who are a major shareholder. They fired riccitello and flew in their guy.
It's quite simple. I do some superficial research about the companies I frequently buy from, and if they support a cause I strongly disagree with, I try looking for an alternative. Sometimes there is no alternative, then that's ok, but if there is, then I switch. Sometimes I don't even need to research, because they will loudly announce these values by themselves. Have you really never heard of a boycott? "Voting with your dollars"?
I can certainly understand the concerns, and I host my own Invidious instance for such reasons (and because many public instances have some features disabled, like video downloads), but I'd argue that 99.99% of the time I'd trust any random Invidious instance over YouTube/Google directly.
Let’s say I take a train 1 hour each way every day - why not do some work?
All discourse must be formatted for the "lowest common denominator" consumer?
It's not just that forms need to resize. Mobile phones are entirely different computing environments, and VB never had a good answer for that. A mobile phone has different UI paradigms altogether, you cannot just resize a desktop app to a phone resolution and call it a day. You cannot be as precise with a thumb as you can with a mouse. You also do not have a keyboard, so anytime a user attempts to type into an input, a virtual keyboard will usually occupy almost 30-40% of the vertical space your app previously had. As a result it's much more difficult to even get a keypress from a mobile user, so you have to resort to alternative gestures and UI buttons to make up for this lack. This limits you to mostly lists and cards on mobile screens. You'll also be forced to reimplement or import a UI library that attempts to mimic things like app bars and navigation buttons that users expect from native mobile apps, as the web was never designed with these paradigms in mind.

Native app ecosystems benefit from the fact that they are a singular computing and OS target. Web apps have to work on everything. It's the same reason gaming consoles tend to have a wider variety of AAA games than PCs. It's easier to optimize for the PS5 or Switch and call it a day, than it is to port a game to work on 6 year old video cards and get it to work on Mac (both ARM based and x86 based), Windows, and Linux. A web dev has to inherently target thousands of different devices, dozens of different operating systems, 3 or 4 browsers, and dozens of screen resolutions, and cannot make any assumptions about what type of input devices are available.

Oh, and they also have to assume an async programming environment with intermittent connectivity, and possible throttled connections as low as 100-200 kbps, so try to keep the bundle size under 100KB to keep time to first paint under 1s, mmkay?

Even Windows 95 apps could assume a few dozen MBs loaded in via disc, and count on cached assets being available on disk.
You can use whatever you want as long as you are happy with it. People will use other services if they are going to be happy with it. But are YouTube users going to be happy with alternatives that many people mention? Content creators will not bother moving onto other platforms as it seems at the moment.
I had a You Tube Developer account for a year or two. I never saw an advert anywhere.
Back to front is the only reasonable way to board faster. The rest is all bs.
The Everything App
Personally, YouTube premium is without a doubt the service I feel I get the most value out of, for the money I pay. A close second is Prime and Spotify.

I do not care for any YT exclusive content, just the ad-free experience.
Then I don't the 6x 5sec of ads a month should be a problem either
Agreed. Doing micro-anything is accepting that your team can’t keep good walls
This reminds me a lot of Nervana Systems' Flexpoint.
I used it as long as possible with Retroactive till maybe about a year ago on an iMac with an external SSD drive. I was actively trying to fight the Adobe tax. It was fine for quite a while, but in the end, it just got too buggy. Each macOS release seemed to slow it down more, and very often, thumbnails would not render. It doesn't help that Retroactive itself doesn't seem to be actively maintained.
>It was probably in a better position ~2000 than RISC-V is now

The subject was software ecosystem, and there was not much of an ecosystem for ARM until Raspberry Pi happened and the community jumped on it.

RISC-V ecosystem might not have ARM parity yet, but it is way further along than ARM was at the time Raspberry Pi launched.

I would argue RISC-V ecosystem is where ARM was barely 5 years ago, and catching up fast.

My prediction? ARM's software ecosystem will be in the rear mirror within 2 years.
>I thought in most countries, sending banknote is illegal?

It is not illegal to mail cash within the US, unless you're trying to avoid paying taxes/launder money.

Not sure about other countries, a cursory web search didn't turn up anything useful.
Kind of, I used to run code server but you miss out on plug-ins and other custom settings. Connecting via SSH is seamless. You can copy from local -> remote, keep your plug-ins and access from any machine with VS Code.
Very neat and innovative!
People want to board early because there’s never enough overhead bin space on a full flight
This, with sponsorblock that also skips all the hardcoded ads and filler, the playtime is even shorter. Highly recommend sponsorblock and clickbait remover
Exactly, me too! I'm wondering if people who see it as a circle give more importance to NYE as they would view it as the beginning of a new cycle? I surely don't care about NYE (and other reccurent dates such as holidays, birthdays, ...) as it's just another point on the infinite line.
Last trip, I just packed ham sandwiches and cookies in the carry bag. I feel like a high-schooler on a field trip, but I'm not paying $10+ for box of terrible snacks.

Also, never pay the First Class premium on UK railways: it's the same sort of terrible box you wouldn't buy for $10 on a plane, but the fare premium was £20 on the train I took (Swindon-Plymouth)
I suspect it's mostly because of the exploding Note fiasco. But it's a great option to have.
Over the past decade I'd reckon 1/4 of my productive output has been whilst sitting on some type of conveyance. Some of the intervals in that period have stretched from 6mo to 1.5 year where >50% is while commuting or otherwise traveling.

Honestly, I'm either on the clock or off, and I have better things to do with my time than look out a window when I'm not being paid.
Eh, sure, but also the videos have a bit of a delay.

It looks like the frontpage itself is aggressively cacheable (no personalization), so it's not too surprising it's fast.
For a while in the 2000s, it seemed like Apple really had something special going. FCP, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Aperture, Shake, Logic, XSan, XServe. Even their iLife and iWork suites used to compete with mainstream productivity apps. Now they've been really dumbed down.

What in the world happened?

(At least we have DaVinci Resolve now... but it just doesn't have the finesse that Apple pro apps once had.)
Either is fine IMO. I'd personally be more interested to have the person walk through their decision process than seeing the end result. Always fascinating to have someone explain it. If they copied and pasted it and hadn't been forthcoming it'll be obvious once the discussion gets to the meatier parts.
Yeah, but then you're giving money to Google. Better to pay the creators directly.
I've heard of boycotting something based on the behaviour of that something, not by the location that the something is funded.

If you want to boycott things based on an abstracted emotional value that's up to you, but it's not normal.

Elon posting on Twitter has very little to do with Tesla cars.
Shooting tethered in film or photography maybe? (although 3m isn't really long enough for tethered work)

https://www.hasselblad.com/h-system/h6d-400c-multi-shot/ (I believe the files are about 2.5gigs a pop)

https://www.red.com/v-raptor-xl-black?quantity=1&vxlpackage=...
Because state owned media platforms has such a great track record across the world, right? Go watch Chinas CCTV or Russias RT if you like state-owned media outlets.
It's (Wi)ndow, (M)iddle, (A)isle, right?

L is just filler that doesn't stand for anything, so it doesn't matter where it is in the order.
1. Pick an instance near you

2. Search a channel, press the RSS button at the top

3. Follow favorite youtubers in your feed, together with news and blogs.

This helped me a lot with distractions on youtube and the fact that the official youtube website is quite broken.
> Designing for addiction

As if people haven't been addicted to watching TV for the past five decades. You decide for yourself what kind of content to get from YouTube, they don't force you into harmful habits.
Their comment was not targeted at you. It's not even worth the effort for you to install YouTube Vanced, etc since you watch 6 videos a month.

Their comment was to people who watch a lot of YouTube, but still whine about the $14 cost.
Take an organization like Linus Media Group/Linus Tech Tips. He shared his earnings from Ads here[0] and a breakdown of revenue here[1] - it's 2021 vs 2022 revenue, but it should be fairly close.

18% of revenue being sourced from YouTube ads doesn't sound like much, but extrapolated from $4.6M over 9 months to a year is ~6M in ad revenue, out of a total of >$33M from all sources. It's not as simple as "flicking a switch" to replace that revenue with $3M of extra in-video sponsorships (those are already being bid on at market price, and they're in as many places in the video as the viewers will handle) and/or $3M of extra merchandise revenue, for example.

And no creator does good by asking for direct donations. Only patreon/a way to pay for early access to content does anything for revenue, and this is not scalable since the vast majority of <every> channel's viewers only watch it when it's conveniently shown to them via their recommended videos/subscriptions tab.

0: https://x.com/linusgsebastian/status/1609468262219403264?s=2...

1: https://x.com/LinusTech/status/1486918784401088515?s=20
Samsung phones stop at 85% and show 85% (if you enable the option "only charge up to 85% in the settings).
The amount of time and care it takes me to design 10gbps routing on PCBs for runs of only a few centimetres, and how easy it is to mess up, I'm shocked that these long cables work at all.

That sort of money for this level of tech seems good value to me
I will be devastated if RSS for YouTube channels ever goes away. I consume a lot of YouTube, all of it explicit (as opposed to just browsing or clicking on suggestions). It would be impossible with email or notifications.
When they're very big, yes. Mid size and small channels, I doubt it.
Speak for yourself. Most normies I know are not using Youtube anywhere near 24/7.
I would like to once again ask people to consider the abundant possibilities inherent in just not going anywhere.
> They stopped measuring carry-ons

Why? I don't fly very much, and I remember those frames that your carry-on bag had to fit in or you'd have to check it.

Why did this stop?
While not ideal, maybe we could have more trickle chargers? My worry is that the battery actually gets used often but for short periods and that could effect long-term wear.

Personally, I have a Shortcut to put my phone into "low power mode" once it hits 90% (why not?).

Maybe a Shortcut could do the same and turn off power once it hits 80% on your overnight charging dock and then use a small amount of power while the screen is off.
If there's one thing I've learned from my web career it's that people who make claims like "I'd pay for it if you'd just..." will never pay you a cent.
There are certainly people in rural areas who stopped drinking their preferred beer because they disagree with the values of the beer company. That's the free market for you.
"Fast like this" means when you click on a video, the page loads header and footer, does a relayout to show a spinner, then another relayout to display the video (and possibly another relayout for video controls?)

Reality is so lame that even when we dream everything's still janky
I’d be interested to know to what extent password reuse is genetically determined…
> I'm sure that's a common situation

It's the situation we're presented with in the blog post. It's not an uncommon situation given that UUIDs are used in databases and, for many databases, compression is done at a block level.

> nor am I sure why this is assumed to be the primary metric for IDs.

It isn't.
Abandoned Ford Dealer Is Filled with Perfectly Preserved '80s Cars
When it first came out, I thought it was a little porky. But then machines got faster.

What I loved was that your original photos were read-only
I mean…how many things we gonna call Reflect? Signed, the former founder of reflect.io.
Firefox seems to work as well?
Patreon/ko-fi/Paypal/Monero/etc.
Content creators don't get paid (much) on YouTube either. That's why they all added sponsor segments, sell merchandise, ask for Patreon donations, etc.
I bought one before all his shenanigans and I regret it. I went from loving the car to feeling pretty gross about it in the course of like 3 weeks.
G-MAFIA BAT

https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/03/big-nine-g-m...
As a hobby APS-C photographer who bought DxO PhotoLab yesterday, I feel obliged to say that unless you actually make money from photography, you WILL shed a tear when paying for either.
Transport and Violence cause only 5% of early deaths. Here is a complete list for what should scare you more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...
Out of curiosity, how dit it end up being that weird 231 number? Why not 230? Or a nice 200?
Yes voting with your dollars based on the value, reception or controversies of that product is super capitalistic and very normal.

Voting with your dollars based on your emotional feelings of some persons actions outside that product is not normal.

There are many people who confuse the two, and the line is constantly being blurred, but one is normal, the other is not. Everyone is free to do non-normal things though.
I think Media Production and corporate docks are nice candidate. Displayport indocks are awesome.