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For how progressive HN seems to be I'm surprised at all the support this is getting here. At the end of the day this about as regressive a tax as you can make.

And the whole point of this tax is to fund the most mismanaged organization in NYC -- the MTA.

which is why you should use arrow

> invasion

you mean incursion

I love how there's a perfect counter to every single point you posted. It seems like some people just want to hate.

> - I can't upload random video to the netflix, and I have a certain expectation regarding content there

That's a bug, not a feature. You're basically restricted to the tastes of Netflix's buyers.

> - 99% of videos on youtube are not something I would pay for or expected to be paid for uploading

Then you're watching the wrong videos. Most of the videos that I and my friends watch are high quality, entertaining, and informative. Their creators usually have Patreons making five figures monthly.

> - I can pay for youtube subscription and would still get a lot of advertisement, because I dared to turn SponsorBlock off. Creators have a very good reason to use this type of ads, and youtube have all responsibility of not providing solutions for this.

You can easily skip these, not sure what the issue is here.

> - I can pay for HBO max and watch Sopranos. On youtube I can pay and content of interest could be deleted next second

Guessing you started streaming only recently, since Netflix/Hulu/HBO all change their inventory frequently due to licensing. It wasn't long ago that you could watch Sopranos on Amazon.

> - I have no idea if my favourite creator was demonetised for DMCA spam by youtube, but I certainly know they are not treated as equal partners in this business in many ways.

This isn't a problem with YouTube, it's a problem with the US legal system.

> - Ultimately I pay for content, and subscription guarantees some kind of investment from the platform in acquiring or producing it. Not true for youtube.

This is your best one, YouTube has created tons of wealth for creators and has cut out tons of the usual Hollywood intermediaries. Additionally, there has never been a greater investment made on storing and distributing video like the one Google made on YouTube.

Would be cooler if it looked like this: https://finviz.com/map.ashx

It makes sense if you think of it like this:

CS - 1.5

CS (Steam) - 1.6

CS: CZ - 1.7

CS: Source - 1.8

CS: GO - 1.9

CS - 2.0

I found lxml.html a lot easier to work with than bs4, in case that helps anyone else.

https://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html

Tech only gets you so far. Japan had a gigantic oil problem, even if they had developed supersonic jets at the end of the war they wouldn't have had the fuel to use them. Nice thing about kamikazes is that they use half the the fuel, since they don't need to return.

You're assuming that the US would go to war with China over Taiwan. That's not a given -- by a long shot.

> and start a Russian style sanction

Unlike the Russian sanctions, a broad sanction on the Chinese economy would deeply impact the US economy. It's not a viable strategy.

There's gyms that charge you more the less you show up.

Pilots at the majors earn 200k-500k. There's evidence of some pilots hitting seven figures. How much does a bus driver make?

Every background check that companies put you through include any history of litigation against employers, no need for recruiters to talk to each other.

It’s not centralized though, chase.com is one of many banks. Anybody can create a bank, and a failure in one bank doesn’t propagate to the rest of the market.

Anyone else interested by the wording here?

"No amount of alcohol is good for the heart" is not exactly the same as saying "Any amount of alcohol is bad for the heart".

The former statement is hardly a surprise, but I think it will be harder to prove the latter statement.

> no sale over $X

There is no realistic way of enforcing this.

If you use mypy (as anyone should for any non-hobby Python usage) then Python has one of the strongest type systems available. Optional types, generics, "Any" escape hatches, everything you could want.

tqdm has been around for ages now, it's not exactly new.

In my opinion this is probably due to cost. Not just how much this would cost today but the personal cost as well.

Aviation is a pretty expensive hobby to get into nowadays. You're looking at $10,000 just to get your private license. This really limits the kind of people that can get into it. And the opportunity cost for those people to take 2-3 months off for a stunt like this is really high. Never mind the time that it would take to prepare for it.

On one hand, you have a lot of folks that get into it as a career, so after their initial investment (mostly folks get money from their parents, some take out loans) you spend a lot of time teaching so you can reach the 1,500 required flight hours to become an airline transport pilot. These kinds of pilots are more interested in starting to earn a living rather than take months off to perform a stunt like this.

On the other, there's a good number of older, wealthier, folks that are near or at retirement age. These kinds of pilots aren't the kinds of folks that would be able to sustain months of endurance flying and living.

Then let's look at the costs. Cessna 172s are still being made so we can compare prices. In 1960 a 172 cost $9,450[1], which is roughly $87,000 adjusted for inflation. A new 172 today will cost you over $430,000! A lot of this price increase has to do with the exorbitant cost of insurance for manufacturers beginning in the 1980s.

Just for fun I also looked at the gas costs, they weren't as high as I initially thought they would be. There's not many great sources besides anecdotes that I found, but aviation gas (avgas) was around .30c / gallon in 1965 [2]. A 172 in cruise will burn around 6 gallons per hour, so in 1965 two months of continuous use nets $2,500 ($23,000 adjusted for inflation). Today avgas is almost $5 / gallon, so that's over $40,000 just in gas costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172#Variants [2] https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/avgas-cost...

It depends how frequently it vests and what percentage vests every period. Amazon is notorious for vesting more of the grant towards the latter part of the vesting period with yearly vesting, while companies like Google are actually frontloading the grant and vesting monthly.

> It only plays one game at a time, so you may need to wait a little bit

Why this limitation? Is it fairly computationally expensive to run?

Read "Directorate S" by Steve Coll.

> Is a 'panel' some kind of property which can be owned? if so, how did it end up as google's property?

You're asking how a component on Google's website belongs to Google? What?

We use watchman with our Go apps: https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html

It's straightforward to use but also has a ton of options so you can do whatever you want with it. It also handles common issues you'll run into when working with larger codebases where you end up watching over too many files. And finally, it has configuration files so you can have the same setup as the rest of the engineers on your team.

More importantly, it's actively maintained and has been out for a while, and it's not specific to Go apps: you can use it for anything you want to watch and execute on.

I think this is half the problem when people interview at FAANGs -- they think it's like preparing for olympics and you truly have to be in the top 1%.

It's really not. There's thousands and thousands of engineers, from mediocre to truly great. With the right preparation, a lot of it just comes down to getting lucky with who interviews, how they're feeling that day, etc -- luck.

You might find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RxkpUvxK0

Is this a reference to Amazon being disproportionately Indian?

Rockefeller's wealth was ~420 billion (inflation adjusted) at its peak. That's significantly more than Bezos and Gates combined. So no, Standard Oil won't look like a lifestyle business compared to FAANG giants. You can make a point without using hyperbole.

> also control the infrastructure running a huge portion of the internet

AWS has less market share than Microsoft. The Cloud is a pretty competitive space.

> are working on creating a new ISP

This is great, look what Google Fiber did to fiber availability in the US. More competition is great in this space.

I find it ironic that you're complaining about FAANGs in the context of ISPs, who control literal monopolies in several regions.

> It seems like a win-win.

It's not a win-win, there's significant risk.

> fully collateralized

This is not true! The underlying asset fluctuates in value and is open to lowering significantly in value, leaving the bank holding the bag.

For devs on macOS, keep in mind that your filesystem is case insensitive!

If you're using a linux image that expects a directory like `UpperCase` and you named it `uppercase` locally it would work.. until you bake the source for your production release and you get errors around that directory not existing.

"But it works locally!"

For Python folks, this library builds a GraphQL schema from your SQLAlchemy models: https://github.com/gzzo/graphql-sqlalchemy

> - I can run a root Pod? Lets mount the docker socket and start building images with it.

Just in case you haven't figured out the proper way to do this, you should use docker:dind.