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Yes. It appears to be random but the first time I loaded the page, on mobile, half of the videos featured well known IDW and populist types like Joe Rogan. So hardly what I would expect from culling recommended videos by a technical crowd.

I guess I learn something new about the HN crowd every day. When I loaded the page, half of the first screen were videos by IDW folks.

Pro tip for YouTube proper - turn off history and only view the “subscribed” page, and search for content that you really want to see. Oh and of course turn off autoplay and limit shorts to 0 views per day.

USAID was absolutely a net positive and if nothing else its elimination has completely ceded almost all soft power to China and Russia, something that will have repercussions for decades to come.

I just looked it up. Getty Images revenue has increased in four of the last five years (the outlier being 2023 were there was a small decline).

They have had 200 million in judgements against them by investors this year, and are filing Chapter 11 to reorganize debt and go private.

In other words, nothing to do with AI.

You are talking about ignoring predictions. I am talking about measured effects. There are lots of people commenting here about massive disruption they believe has occurred, and although things have certainly been disrupted so far it hasn’t been measurable at an macroeconomic level, at least to the degree people here are claiming. It appears any effect is within the noise, although certainly on the scale of a certain industry it might have had impacts (eg on hiring new college grads for software engineering positions).

The supposed massive GDP growth and jobs losses just aren’t there at this time, whatever the future may bring.

Not quite sure why you are getting downvotes since it’s clearly a play on six degrees of separation and the rhyming substitution at least plays some part in why people have continued to discuss it.

I’ve seen other analyses going back at least a couple decades showing Kevin Bacon was not the center of Hollywood, although none as thorough as this.

Industrialization and automation brought down the cost of goods, making them much more accessible to more people.

But they absolutely simultaneously resulted in lower quality goods in many areas.

As an example, people used to buy hand crafted furniture after buying an home, and it lasted them a lifetime because it was made with such high quality material and with such craftsmanship. It was also very expensive, which motivated keeping it for so long and passing it on to future generations.

Today the furniture we buy is much less expensive as a percentage of income but the quality is crap and you may end up needing to replace it once the finish has worn off because refinishing would be as expensive as buying another crap quality piece of furniture.

The same goes for clothing and many other goods.

It’s not that nobody makes any high quality goods anymore, but they are several times the price and are very low volume because of the cheap crappy alternatives.

Still amazed that on HN of all places people are confused by or having problems with passkeys. I have yet to see any of the issues people are guesstimating could become problems and adopted on day one.

I have had two poor experiences, where passkeys I set up at one point stopped working and I had to generate a replacement, but this was not a problem because I have yet to come across a site that didn’t continue to offer other means of logins.

I don’t see anybody complaining about the login-via-emailed-link which seems to be the much more common trend these days and which I really dislike because it introduces an unwanted delay in login (and I have come across many sites for which this is the only means of logging in).

I received two checks in the very early 2000s and my name isn’t on this list.

For the record I cashed both and have zero regrets. At the time it definitely felt like the right thing to do as I am not into collecting tokens.

Tesla is ~13% of the global EV market and one of the worst values at that.

Their total volume of vehicles sold is 15% of Toyota’s, and shrinking.

It’s always possible. There’s definitely been a market for Eurorack clones of open designs like Mutable Instruments modules.

The main thing would be how you market it since one of the provisions is that you can’t use that trademarked name, and I imagine that would apply to marketing it, not just the product name itself.

Open source but production of the hardware was discontinued so you would either need to buy used or build one from the specs.