1. drbacon Dec 8, 2025 parent

   I think the idea is to let Claude see iterations of the reproduction with playwright, but still only allow access to screenshots of the original.
2. drbacon Feb 3, 2025 parent

   Thank you for the chuckle. Have an upvote.
3. drbacon Jun 14, 2024 parent

   > Telling time of day would be the first problem as it's always high noon.

   If the sun is always directly down from the surface, doesn't that make it solar midnight from anywhere on the surface?

4. drbacon Feb 9, 2024 parent

   I see plenty.

   https://www.google.com/search?q=%22far+left%22+site%3Acnn.co...

5. drbacon Jan 9, 2024 parent

   Even Bitcoin SV is at $90 per coin, for a 90 thousand percent gain.

   $1,111 of Bitcoin in 2010, would net you $1M today in Bitcoin SV alone, even if you gave away your Bitcoin, Bitcoin Gold, and Bitcoin Cash.

6. drbacon Jan 9, 2024 parent

   You should also add on the forked coins' values that tamimio owns.
7. drbacon Dec 13, 2023 parent

   Thank you for that very well-stated explanation! TIL!
8. drbacon Nov 6, 2023 parent

   Right. Creators not in YT's partner program are not paid.

   Should YT run ads on non-monetized content? It's a fair question, and I can see a justifications either way.

9. drbacon Nov 5, 2023 parent

   It's 55%. This is the first non-Google result from a Google search:

   https://www.yrcharisma.com/the-youtube-revenue-split-who-kee...

10. drbacon Feb 12, 2023 parent

    100% if used for login. /s
11. drbacon Dec 21, 2022 parent

    The "countries" are supposed to share an edge. An edge, no matter how small, breaks the cross.
12. drbacon Mar 23, 2022 parent

    I actually don't think of this as a consumer issue at all. You probably shouldn't care, but I can see why some consumers might care (e.g. how many entities have their credit card on file, concerns about privacy, a desire to allocate as much money as possible to artists...).

    I think of this as a developer issue. There's good money being the middle man for transactions. Did consumers really care about the Epic/Apple IAP issue? Were there iOS users clamoring to use Epic's payment platform? I never really heard the consumer voice in that discussion. I did hear a lot of developer voices that cared about their right to charge consumers without Apple's 30% transaction cut.

13. drbacon Dec 1, 2021 parent

    My very naive speculation is that OP finally talked to a lawyer who advised: STOP TALKING SPECIFICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
14. drbacon Oct 14, 2021 parent

    Ctrl + f entropy

    I like your first answer better, even if I agree with it less.

15. drbacon Jun 29, 2021 parent

    Gotcha. That makes sense.
16. drbacon Jun 29, 2021 parent

    I think hgibbs is confused between puts (a contract for the ability to sell at a price) and shorting (borrowing to sell immediately and buy back later), but your comment isn't quite right either.

    Shorting has unlimited downside, since it may be arbitrarily expensive to buy back the shares/coins that you borrow.

    Puts, on the other hand, have a strike price. A contact to be able to sell Bitcoin for $30K is worthless on the expiration date if the market price is $40K. Anybody can sell at a better price than your contract on the open market. The market price going to 0 is the best thing for the owner of a put option. "Stocks can’t drop below 0." is actually a bummer for the put owner. If a stock could go lower, the put owner could sell the asset for even MORE than the market price of the asset.

    What hgibbs probably wants to hear is this: The worst case for a put owner is for the put option to expire worthless since the market value of the asset is greater than the strike price when the option expires. The maximum downside is a contract worth $0.

    If you want to pay a premium to be able to sell bitcoin at the end of the year for $20K, but the value is still $30K on December 31, your put option is worthless, and that's as bad as it gets.

    ...UNLESS you're buying puts on margin without a stop-limit.

17. drbacon Jun 5, 2021 parent

    I am also super interested in the answer to this particular question. I know a lot of people who waited for surplus/standby shots at the end of the day outside clinics in SF. Anecdotally, a lot of my coworkers got early vaccines that way.

    As a non-essential worker with no risk factors, I felt that my contribution to the pandemic was to stay home and wait until my turn. I did, by the way, wait until the vaccine was generally available before scheduling. Before general availability, most of my friends my age (mid-30s) had been vaccinated by stretching the truth. I felt like the idiot, and had a fair amount of resentment.

    I wonder about the surplus doses, though. Did a substantial culture of seeking out unused doses result in outcomes that were net positive from a utilitarian point of view? It's unclear to me how much "line cutting" this resulted in.

    Clearly, stretching the truth to get a dose ahead of others is selfish at least. Back in March, I assume that there were plenty of people in need that didn't/couldn't get an appointment that needed a shot more than YCombinator founders. This wasn't stretching the truth though, just exploitation of a loophole and small surpluses of a limited resource.

    In the end, I think the morality hinges on your question, koolhaas. To what extent did standby shots interfere with mitigating the health crisis. Is that what dasickis was doing? Was dasickis aware of opportunity cost of taking that shot? Did he even care?

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/13/covid-your-bay-area-g...

18. drbacon Jan 5, 2021 parent

    One million thanks for this comment. This is the most concise and clear explanation of why the critical line is important that I have ever read.
19. drbacon Aug 20, 2020 parent

        @jaffathecake had a problem of truncation
        and posted to Twitter his calculation.
        The gist of his attack
        was min( max( num, min ), max)
        yet refused to add any annotation.

20. drbacon Jul 19, 2020 parent

    Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I appreciate it, ferzul.

    I 100% agree that personal data has unfortunately found its way into a transaction in which it should not belong. I respect the fact that you push back on this point, though I do find "treat them like hostiles" as an extreme position. Other entities offer transactions that I find abhorrent, and I simply just refuse to interact with them.

    If paying for physical media (be it movies or newspapers or anything else) with "coins" is still valuable to you, I encourage you to continue to practice that behavior, and encourage others as well. It is still mostly possible in many cases.

    > ...Google actively requires you to trust them... ... I shouldn't have to trust corporations.

    Regarding YouTube, you can still interact with them in a trustless environment. Browse in incognito mode in a non-Google browser. Google gets to show an ad to an anonymous user and you get to watch a video. End of transaction.

21. drbacon Jul 17, 2020 parent

    Yes. That is true too. :)
22. drbacon Jul 17, 2020 parent

    I don't know what all NewPipe or Vanced can do, and I don't know what all YouTube's apps can do. I mostly indicated that OP's desired features were covered by the official app (without possibly downloading the audio track from a video file). I'm certainly not making an argument that NewPipe is any better or worse.
23. drbacon Jul 17, 2020 parent

    > Is this an attempt to mimic how you speak aloud?

    Of course.

    > ...probably aren't in the target audience for YouTube Premium.

    True. It's unclear if OP fits that description though. Re-read OP's comment.

    > ...there's no point to having video.

    Agreed. I think it most cases, there is no video for still image YouTube content. Just, you know, a still image. I don't know the extent this is true, nor do I know OP's use case. Assuming that OP is interested in music, the video component shouldn't be a real issue. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6007071?hl=en

24. drbacon Jul 17, 2020 parent

    Definitely.

    Creators do get the lion share of YouTube's gross revenue.

    https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/03261...

25. drbacon Jul 17, 2020 parent

    Ha! People are downvoting your comment too. I am also interested in a civil discussion about why people believe they are entitled to the content and service without contributing back. Maybe downvotes are easier than thoughtful replies.
26. drbacon Jul 17, 2020 parent

    The entitlement among the general population is a little nuts. We expect things for free, without ads, and with high reliability. In this case we also want additional features like not logging in, downloads and background playback. Side note: Is it any wonder that journalism is dying when no one wants to pay for it (or be subject to advertising)?

    YouTube is asking that their users either watch ads or pay money. That's how YouTube and creators can keep the lights on. I think that's a fair model. There are other models, like Vimeo, where the uploader pays for the hosting.

    It certainly seems like the future is one where we expect access to everything and pay for nothing. That worries me.

    /soapbox

27. drbacon Jul 17, 2020 parent

    Um. Consider the Official YouTube app, with a paid YouTube Premium subscription.

    >(and you can choose whether to download them as audio files)

    Videos with still images (many songs) shouldn't be much data at all over the audio alone.

28. drbacon Mar 19, 2020 parent

    Ha! Well you made this lurker laugh, and reply! Also, it is not uncommon for me to write out a reply and then delete it before submitting because I second guess that the comment has value.
29. drbacon May 18, 2018 parent

    If there were a HackerNews Gold, I would gift this comment one. Thank you.
30. drbacon Mar 8, 2018 parent

    Your resolve is weak!

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