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What is of value to watch on any of the streaming platforms?

Netflix content is atrophying. Disney Plus is dying. To say nothing of Hulu or others.

I watch youtube. The content is way more varied and interesting and less sanitized.


Apple is producing multiple series that each could be in contention for a top spot on best sci Fi TV shows of all time.

Which ones?

Foundation, For All Mankind, Silo, Pluribus, Monarch. See was pretty good but is over

Invasion isn't as good as the above but still better than a lot of shows before it.

Severance second season made me question the show's quality sadly


Dunno what gp likes, but IMO Foundation is incredible.

FWIW, I would not trust LG here to actually do nothing even after turning all the elements off, their GUI is especially "web"-like. Just leave it disconnected.

I don't understand why people can't just get a secondary device for accessing live streaming programs. There's numerous devices you can buy that do it.

TVs should not be connected to the internet. The incentive structures are just too bad against the user.


They'll probably start making them with sim card and modem at some point. I can picture it now on a future ebay listing: faraday cage for your tv - only 99.99!

How do you know the TV will not also screenshot the HDMI input? That’s what I would do if I were looking to further milk the rubes buying my tv.

The TV can take all the screenshots it wants in that scenario. It isn't connected to the Internet

It seems like they do? That’s why gp suggested disconnecting the Wi-Fi entirely.

Can you change the title?

NYTimes has updated the title "SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion"

@dang does nothing, he is unlikely to see it. If you actually want to reach the mods, email them. There's a Contact link at the bottom of almost every page here on HN.

EDIT: Parent commenter edited out the @dang from their comment making mine appear to be responding to something not in their comment.


Thanks for the info! I removed the callout

yup - updated

Weird. I've shifted more and more of my social media use to X. Especially the last few weeks have been great with Artemis and an algorithmic accident that X's auto translation feature has been enabling tons of positive cross cultural communication with people from Japan. It's more fun than I've ever had on social media. Reddit on the other hand has been completely dying.


This has more to do with the UK government than a "for-profit company". Apple has been one of the biggest forces pushing back against this kind of thing forever, at least in the US where companies still have rights.


No it doesn't. The UK government instituted age checks for social media, Apple didn't like the UK government and enabled age checks for the OS, wanting to blame the government for it. It's done this sort of thing before.


Because social media is embedded into many apps.


And why should they make it a problem of EVERYONE (primarily adults) using ANY app?


Google practically never shows explicit images to anyone anymore anyway. Even bing doesn't anymore. I feel like we've returned to a more prude society, at least on the mainstream internet.


I don't think it's prudish to want the ability to take down deepfakes of you naked or leaked images of you.


Your comment has basically no connection to the comment you replied to. (Which itself had a weak connection to the article, but that's a separate issue.)


The article is about removing non-consensual sexually explicit images and deepfakes


And on whom falls the burden of proof that it is non-consensual or deepfake? We danced similar dance with DMCA takedowns.


It’s a small change to an existing suite of features Google provides around preventing personal information from being exposed in search results.

https://myactivity.google.com/results-about-you/

The burden was always on the victims.


The article is. mlindner's comment isn't.


Even duckduckgo started censoring their results! Although very subtly. My friend (really) showed me an explicit search query with the safe search turned off that I then compared with yandex, and was really surprised how different they were. Nothing explicit on DDG, even though it included the word "hentai".

(I am aware this is not really related to the article. I think this is a cool discussion to be had)


The article mentions they're introducing a new way to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images on Search

the key bit is non-consensual, so it's unrelated to individual morality and they're providing a way to report a real crime


  Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


The GP comment is in compliance with the guideline:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

"You should really read the article" is semantically the same as "The article mentions that". It's not a question.


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I use Firefox and uBlock Origin but still pay for premium because I want to support the channels I watch but don't want to watch their ads.


I want to nitpick you here but a thermos is specifically good at insulating because not only does it have a vacuum gap, it's also got two layers of metal (inner and outer) to absorb and reflect thermal radiation.

That specific aspect is NOT true in space because there's nothing stopping thermal radiation.

Now you're correct that you can't remove heat by conduction or convection in space, but it's not that hard to radiate away energy in space. In fact rocket engine nozzle extensions of rocket upper stages depend on thermal radiation to avoid melting. They glow cherry red and emit a lot of energy.

By Stefan–Boltzmann law, thermal radiation goes up with temperature to the 4th power. If you use a coolant that lets your radiator glow you can conduct heat away very efficiently. This is generally problematic to do on Earth because of the danger of such a thing and also because such heat would cause significant chemical reactions of the radiator with our corrosive oxygen atmosphere.

Even without making them super hot, there's already significant energy density on SpaceX's satellites. They're at around 75 kW of energy generation that needs to be radiated away.

And on your final statement, hyperloop was not used as a "distraction" as he never even funded it. He had been talking about it for years and years until fanboys on twitter finally talked him into releasing that hastily put together white paper. The various hyperloop companies out there never had any investment from him.


> a thermos is specifically good at insulating because not only does it have a vacuum gap, it's also got two layers of metal (inner and outer) to absorb and reflect thermal radiation.

Not necessarily. There are many modern thermos "cups" that are just a regular cup, except with two layers of glass and a vacuum. Even the top is open all the time. (e.g. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/passerad-double-wall-glass-8054... )

It's still good enough to keep your coffee hot for an entire day.


It is well known that Musk primary reason to push Hyperloop was because he didn’t want them to build a high speed rail for some reason:

> Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions...


Trying to make a point out of whether he did or didn't found Tesla kind if defeats the rest of your post. He paid over 90% of the first funding round and brought in key people like JB Straubel. When the company was basically an incorporation paper and no assets. Under most companies people would have argued for founder/co-founder status at that point. So yes he didn't "found" Tesla but for all intents and purposes he basically did.


It's interesting as the space fans (who often dismiss AI) say this is a project to get SpaceX's space/Starlink profits for AI. But the AI people seem to think this is to get AI money for space projects.


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