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Your categorical error is that you think people are watching them to cover details in topics.

They are a replacement for TV. You know, the thing that people used to watch for hours upon hours a day?

The vast majority of Vietnamese I know do not have an email account.

So that would be a dumb thing for a Vietnamese bank to use as a recovery method.

> Elsewhere in the world, doctors can and do spend more than 12 minutes figuring out what's wrong with their patients.

Where? According to "International variations in primary care physician consultation time: a systematic review of 67 countries" Sweden is the only country on the planet with an average consultation length longer than the US.

"We found that 18 countries representing about 50% of the global population spend 5 min or less with their primary care physicians."

Why would my government care less about me than a multinational corporation with billions of customers that isn't headquartered or listed where I live?

My Member of Parliament represents about 130,000 people, does regular door knocking to talk to people, and has a staffed office a few km away the I can walk into anytime I want.

None of that applies to a multinational corporation.

The minimum price is enforced by Substack, unfortunately. You can make everything free but you can't charge, say, $1/month. It definitely pushes the platform toward writers who think "I want to make this my full-time job & income". It also definitely suffers from, to a lesser extent, the Medium problem of way too many people thinking it is some kind of get-rich-quick thing. Somehow the Reddit algorithm started showing me the substack reddit, which seemed to mostly be pretty new authors complaining that they aren't making much money from Substack.

I agree. Substack feels more like Op Ed writers realised they could make more money by self publishing than by staying at a dying media company with multiple levels of editorial oversight.

To do well on Substack you need to publish pretty regularly, several times a week to keep and build an audience, and the only thing anyone can generate that fast are opinions. So Substack has really just become a decentralised Op Ed page.

How do you know it isn't already at that price?

Uber estimated that it costs Waymo $2/mile to operate.

Google says they charge $1.60 to $2.60 a mile, depending on location and demand, so Waymo is already almost certainly at the price you claim you'd be taking it.

I think you dramatically underestimate how much it actually costs to operate a car. Most people think they pay $0 to garage their car, for instance, since the cost was rolled into the price of their house purchase and mostly invisible. But it isn't $0 to a business. Likewise, very few people depreciate their car over just 5 years. Or clean it inside and out every single day.

Here's one attempt at costs for Waymo that finds it costs them about $60,000 a year to operate a single car. Also notice the comments talking about how the per vehicle price is high, how that flows into higher insurance, and all kinds of other things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments/1il5d5i/unit_costs_p...

Maybe someday there will be a discount AV taxi company using 10 year old beat up Honda Civics that only get cleaned once a month and provide extremely barebones support to pull the costs down to $1/mile. That's a 50% drop in costs from today, so hard to see it coming very quickly. But that's still pretty expensive to be using as a daily commuter!

And note that the IRS per mile rate is $0.70/mile. It's not perfect but it is a decent third party estimate of the true cost of operating a car. Hard to see any taxi company charging anything less than that. So a 10 mile commute every day is still going to cost you $280/month in an AV taxi for the foreseeable future.

Nobody claimed there weren't a lot of WhatsApp users.

The rest of the world isn't on WhatsApp. What a bizarre claim. Vietnam uses Zalo. Japan uses Line. Korea uses Kakaotalk. China uses WeChat. Iran is Telegram.

And in the US more people are using iMessage than SMS thanks to iPhone's 58% market share.

Nobody ever paid $900 for a toilet seat. That was a statistical artifact caused by an accounting method called "equal allocation".

"The equal allocation method calculates prices for large numbers of items in a contract by assigning "support' costs such as indirect labor and overhead equally to each item. Take a contract to provide spare parts for a set of radar tracking monitors. Suppose a monitor has 100 parts and support costs amount to a total of $100,000. Using the equal allocation method each part is assigned $1,000 in such costs, even though one item may be a sophisticated circuit card assembly, which requires the attention of high-salaried engineers and managers, and another item may be a plastic knob. Add $1,000 to the direct cost of the part and you get a billing price. This is what the government is billed, though not what the part is really worth--the circuit card being undervalued, the knob being overvalued. The need for billing prices arises because contractors want to be paid up front for items that are shipped earlier than others."

There's some weird online effect where people assume everyone they talk to on the internet makes essentially the same exact amount of money they do.

I've noticed this most in a forum for a country I used to live in where foreigners would come in and post "What's an affordable hotel/restaurant/bar/travel experience".

Uh, I have no idea what "affordable" means to you!?

"Analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which has been tracking the siege using open source images and satellite imagery, found clusters of objects “consistent with the size of human bodies” and “reddish ground discolouration” thought to be either blood or disturbed soil."

The "visible from space" here is clearly dumb click bait from The Telegraph.

Congress are the ones who define what the FDA does. Blame them and the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Congress could easily tell the FDA to do something different.

Because manipulating billions of people a year is worse than assassinating 500 a year? Doesn't seem hard to figure out.

Not really true. See for instance this link

"Opponents call the amyloid hypothesis zombie science, propped up only by pharmaceutical companies hoping to sell off a few more anti-amyloid me-too drugs before it collapses. Meanwhile, mainstream scientists . . . continue to believe it without really offering any public defense. Scott was so surprised by the size of the gap between official and unofficial opinion that he asked if someone from the orthodox camp would speak out in its favor."

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h...

I always have wondered a bit, do people in other fields have this, too? Like do people expect the CMO at a pharmaceutical company to still be running clinical trials or whatever to, I dunno, maintain their street cred? Or is it just tech companies where people seem to have existential angst about managers doing manager instead of "technical" work?

How do you see that changing?

Python introduce another breaking change than also randomly affects performance, making it worse for large classes of users?

Why would the Python organisers want to do that?

Guido stepped down over 7 years ago. How out of touch are you?

>> That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? >cat is literally called “cat” because it’s intended purpose is concatenation.

cat's behaviour and bat's behaviour is different, though.

  >cat a.txt b.txt                                                                                                                                                                                         
  It was a dark and stormy night.
  Once upon a time.

  >bat a.txt b.txt
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: a.txt
  ───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     1   │ It was a dark and stormy night.
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: b.txt
  ───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     1   │ Once upon a time.
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

This difference becomes more useful once we have a more meaningful example:

  >cat *.py
  (thousands of lines of output)

  >bat -r :5 -H 2 --style full *.py
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: __init__.py   <EMPTY>
         │ Size: 0 B
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: editor.py
         │ Size: 2.4 KB
  ───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     1   │ import collections
     2   │ import contextlib
     3   │ import glob
     4   │ import io
     5   │ import os.path
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

It's hard to imagine many people have the muscle memory for the combination of cat, head, and whatever else you need to add headers with the filename and file size, call out empty files, highlight the second line, show line numbers, do syntax formatting, and wrap to the terminal width (head doesn't do this).

I use the syntax highlighting of manpages, fd, ripgrep, and git pretty regularly.

I also use the fzf previewer with --range-limited pretty frequently.

> And behind the scenes, work on the next catalogue had already begun – a process lasting several months and involving planning, construction of interiors, photography and filming, all led by catalogue manager Mia Olsson Tunér.

It is naive to assume printing costs are the only costs involved.

I feel comfortable assuming IKEA had a better understanding of the economic fundamentals of the catalogue than HN commenters.

That has git integration, like bat does? That shows non-printable characters like bat does? That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? That supports the --line-range option like bat does? You can pipe the output of tail -f through your alias?

I guess if all you did was read the headline of the post you could assume your alias does all the same things as bat.

Github deals with a lot of bots/AI that open pointless/spam/bad PRs/issues/etc.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/158850 https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1akh9ll/a_...

etc etc etc

Github needs moderation, just like anything else with user-created content.

I am not in the tiniest bit surprised that sometimes moderation makes a mistake, whether human error or automated error.

While I'm deeply sympathetic to the original claim, I agree the evidence is lacking. All I really see is the assertion that AI means onboarding and coming up to speed is faster. Which feels a bit unproven?

(Unrelated but the post has a funny rhetorical thing where it says nobody is hiring juniors then also says if you don't hire then your competition will... But you already said nobody is hiring them?!)

Even for cleaners it might not work.

I know several people who tried this and the cleaner said no. I think (not sure) the cleaner signed some kind of contract/agreement with the website not to do that and worries that if they are discovered they will be banned from the site and thus lose the other 90% of their income. Dunno how rational that fear is.

I've used Obsidian for years without a single 3rd party plugin.

It is possible to make your same point without histrionic excess.

The Ford F-series and Chevy Silverado both outsold the RAV-4 by significant margins.

Also the RAV-4 isn't a car, it is an SUV.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-selling-cars-us-h1-202...

To push back slightly, Discord says they have 19 million weekly active servers, which almost certainly outstrips the number of forums back in the day.

It just feels like there's been a shift away from the super public phpbb forum style, with distinct posts and threads of conversation.

But I'm not sure that's quite the same thing as all the communities going away.

As some examples from my own Discord:

A server for fans of pretty obscure, self published author Victoria Goddard.

A server for fans of Reiner Knizia, the world's most prolific and famous boardgame designer.

A server for fans of the Lancer RPG.

A server for people who play modern (primarily) Japanese card games.

I'm not sure "we" traded anything.

Back in the day an absolutely minuscule portion of humanity read blogs.

Technology Connections has 3 million subscribers. That's over 10x the number of people reading the most popular blogs in the world circa 2010[1]. And Technology Connections is only a moderately popular channel. If you look at the bigger channels like Mark Rober it is more like 350x.

What actually happened was that the first generation of text-loving online people were eventually outnumbered by subsequent waves of "migration" by people who don't like text and prefer images and (especially) video.

It was just replaced by a better product as the online audience expanded to become more representative of real people. Nothing stops people from writing blogs today. They'll probably even get roughly the same (small) number of readers that blogs pulled back in 2010.

[1]: https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist...

There was no such explicit statement from the mayor that it was because of real estate.

https://www.phila.gov/2024-05-20-statement-from-mayor-cherel...