MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aenopix | 2025-04-30 16:48:19+00:00
Ublock Origin in Firefox:

``` ! Display 6 per row youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;) youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 6 !important;) youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-posts-per-row: 6 !important;)

! Block on profiles "/videos" youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row:matches-path(/.\/videos/):style(display: none !important) youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer:matches-path(/.\/videos/):style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 4 !important) ```
by skrebbel | 2025-04-30 16:48:26+00:00
Fwiw this is exactly what I'd expect a product founder to do. If I wanted to work at a bank I'd go work at a bank. It's so easy for groups to over-cover-their-asses, go for maximum safety everywhere, design-by-committee all the things, etc. I think this is almost unavoidable in a large org. It's the task of a decent product minded founder to add some balance to this.

I've no idea whether Tobi gets it right, just.. this isn't necessarily a bad thing!
by godelski | 2025-04-30 16:48:27+00:00
There's just so much low hanging fruit at YouTube (and other places) that it's wild. I can't believe this shit goes on. No, it isn't just OP I see 3 videos in the first row, and 2-3 in the second. First row contains a fundraiser video or membership video each time. And the info about ads takes up so much space a frequently click on it instead of the fucking video I'm trying to watch.

Also, I can't believe this is a problem. But if you watch with subtitles and the video has embedded subtitles, they just clash. A fucking intern can write you the program to turn them off (ADAPTIVELY!) as needed. But when they clash both become unreadable!! It's so fucking bad that everyone that makes shorts puts captions in the middle of the screen because YouTube puts theirs at the top. Like you got all this machine learning and you can't use it for something useful?!?!?
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-30 16:48:44+00:00
Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see some data on it.

The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle.

It's heady times, anyway, that's for sure.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-30 16:49:27+00:00
>Yet from a historical perspective the overall life in the US is of historically unparalleled safety with overall peace and low crime rates, health with more ppl covered by insurance (but yes, less than 32 other developed nations, but higher top-quality care), and plenty of historically cheap goods imported from low-wage nations.

Which in context of the conversation, means nothing. I'm not disputing the fact that relative to historical circumstances, entire swaths of the world have it better than ever, but that doesn't end poverty or meaningfully increase stability under the current regime, and whatever comes of this - and its not going to be good - will last far longer than the regime is likely to be in power[0]. Addressing current and future concerns is what counts here, regardless of how good anyone has it.

[0]: I hope the US can maintain free and fair elections. Remains to be seen if this administration, its cronies, and its followers running congress and SCOTUS won't dismantle elections
by quickthrowman | 2025-04-30 16:49:30+00:00
This graph of US manufacturing output in gross dollars suggests otherwise: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...

If you could explain why it’s trending to zero when the dollar value of American manufacturing outputs keeps rising, I’d appreciate it.

There are plenty of other charts that contradict you on the St Louis Fed FRED website.
by overfeed | 2025-04-30 16:49:35+00:00
Why are so many American models multi-lingual, supporting hundreds of languages not commonly spoken in the United States?

Could it be that being multilingual results in a larger pool of human knowledge on the technical side compared to training on just a single language or 2. And on the business side, supporting more languages results in a larger TAM (total addressable market). Using english-language dataset for training LLMs is the default, not the other way like you insinuate.
by kjs3 | 2025-04-30 16:49:41+00:00
So not only does cold calling work, bad-mouthing on social media seems to be a viable strategy. I'd have blacklisted them.

Well that's the thing, isn't it? He (and others) may be thinking "Hey! This worked!". But he has no idea how many potential customers looked at LinkedIn and say "screw this guy" and will never do business with him.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-30 16:49:49+00:00
> Statistically, it's better than human drivers.

Tesla has never published the data required to substantiate this claim.

Next what you'll post is Tesla's press release where they look at accidents per mile with no segregation by driving type (city, freeway, age of car, weather conditions, etc)

Then the next step after that should be for you to say, "huh, it actually is odd that they publish something that purports to show it's safer than human drivers, but they consistently decline to publish the data necessary to actually evaluate whether it's safer than human drivers."

That should make you raise your eyebrows a bit.
by minimaxir | 2025-04-30 16:49:51+00:00
I tried that prompt against Google Gemini 2.5 Pro which has a cutoff date of January 2025 (enough to have knowledge of the Kendrick feud/the pdf jokes) but it couldn't do it, but was self-aware enough to know that the question was absurd and had an unexpected answer.

> Joke/Wordplay: Is there a pun or play on words involving "Drake" and a MIME type?

> Trick question/Testing the AI: The user might be testing if the AI will invent an answer, hallucinate, or recognize the absurdity.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-30 16:50:20+00:00
Actually, I should say, using

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

to see flagged stuff too is great. Not sure if you see everything, but I definitely am more interested in a less curated frontpage. I don't find ignoring headlines I'm not interested in to be such a major affront to my sensibilities.
by skybrian | 2025-04-30 16:51:32+00:00
This blog post is from March. They later figured out what happened and it’s more mundane: Waltz accidentally saved the reporter’s email to his iPhone contacts because his iPhone suggested it after an email was forwarded to him. [1]

That’s a vulnerability all right, but not a security bug in Signal itself. Having every employee manage their own contacts is bad for an organization’s security.

Maybe Signal having UI to distinguish between organization members and outsiders might help make it more suitable for work use? It might require OS support, though.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group...
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-04-30 16:51:33+00:00
Unless it is a top-10 app, it is a no go. The top applications have millions of users.

A browser is my everything app. It is the most security essential tool I use daily, which requires vigilance in how I extend it. More users is a crappy proxy for how likely a developer can sneak through an insidious change.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-30 16:51:47+00:00
Not sure anyone could save the company, but he didn't help one single bit.

Sun never decided whether they were a hardware company of a software company. They had great hardware and software, but couldn't make much money with the latter. Failing to recognize software as a way to sell THEIR hardware was the biggest issue. When they decided to launch x86 workstations, I knew they were doomed. When they exited the workstation business, I knew it wouldn't be long.

When you destroy all the on-ramps to your highway, it's a matter of time until the toll booths are empty.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-30 16:51:54+00:00
It started in 2008. The Democratic party tried to rig it for Clinton.

I'm sure she's a wonderful person in real life, but she's one of the most unpopular people to ever run for office.

Obama actually is likeable, easily winning the primary and both elections.

The Dems, because deep down they'd rather have the GOP over real progressives. Decided to rig it for Hillary again in 2016. Sanders had an actual base, but the DNC didn't want him to win.

Biden was a rigged candidate too, but the pandemic swayed things in his direction.

With Harris, the Dems decide to skip the rigged primary, the little people (the actual voters) don't need to have a say. Here's your moderate Republican from the mid 90s.

At least the Republicans didn't rig every primary they've had since 2008. They don't play the super delegate dance.

Well... Time to try and establish residency elsewhere.
by getnormality | 2025-04-30 16:52:00+00:00
It's funny how in even the better runs, like this one [1], the machine seems to bind itself to taking the assertion of market appeal at face value. It's like, "if the humans think that poop on a stick might be an awesome gag gift, well I'm just a machine, who am I to question that".

I would think you want the reply to be like: I don't get it. Please, explain. Walk me through the exact scenarios in which you think people will enjoy receiving fecal matter on a stick. Tell me with a straight face that you expect people to Instagram poop and it's going to go viral.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k920cg/comment/mp...
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-30 16:52:09+00:00
>Well, I disagree; the people of a nation contributing to and supporting genocide are responsible in part.

Why exactly do you think human right for justice doesn’t apply here? Do you include in this group everyone, even those who were not able to or actively tried to stop it? What is their responsibility exactly? If not, how do you make the distinction?

Then what country are you talking about? Russia is not committing genocide in Ukraine, so it must be Israel and Gaza? But even in that case, with dramatically higher number of civilian casualties and people having more agency in state matters how exactly do you want to hold every Israeli citizen responsible?

>In fact, there's a case to be made that Russians are being collectively held accountable, for example: - Sanctions;

I don’t understand this part. “To make a case” means to present arguments. You don’t present arguments for sanctions with saying “sanctions”.
by uecker | 2025-04-30 16:52:23+00:00
Yeah, but what I do not get is why you need all this. What problem does this solve? The C function that advances to the next tree node does exactly the same. And what is neat about it? It just seems a lot more complicated. Or in other words: A new language feature should make things simpler and not more complicated to express. But maybe I am just missing a realistic examples where it actually makes things simpler?
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 16:52:41+00:00
I'd be willing to consider that, but he's doing a ton of things that very clearly have _no_ upside and obvious downsides. As one example, he literally fired entire departments that were _generating_ money for the government. It's too clear that he's just doing whatever he happens to think of without putting any thought into whether it will actually be helpful.

I am firmly of the opinion that his only goal is the be the center of attention, and the more outrageous the things he does are, the better. Ie, there's no such thing as negative publicity.
by codazoda | 2025-04-30 16:52:44+00:00
Here's just one example where I think, "maybe".

I've been shopping for an Airbrush. These were a dream of mine as a kid. Back then the major brands were Made in the USA and were expensive enough that they were out of reach for 14 year old me.

Today the main companies from back then have "Made in the USA" on their websites but Badger (https://badgerairbrush.com) doesn't look like it's been updated since 2018 and Paasche (https://www.paascheairbrush.com) seems only slightly better.

Another popular and slightly newer brand is Iwata from Japan.

I suspect that Chinese imports have been eating these companies lunch for decades. I suspect that the Chinese government is subsidizing the products and their shipping and artificially lowering the cost and that they have been doing this for a very long time.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-30 16:53:34+00:00
I use invidious, and if I can't because it's down or something, I use a FF extension called "unhook". I hadn't been on to youtube proper in a good few years, but with unhook, I can block everything (suggested videos of all kinds, comments, etc). I can re-enable comments by clicking on the extension in the toolbar and unchecking comments. Easy peasy.

You get almost a complete blank page and a search bar when you go to "youtube.com", and then when you search, you get the results. Just simple, really.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-30 16:53:35+00:00
This feels symptomatic of Google getting more and more desperate to have Youtube generate net revenue. All of the changes pointed out (and all of the 'shorts' that litter the site) are explained as 'additional monetization.'

If the author scrolls down another 5 videos and an ad will appear, etc. Shorts are designed so that they can feed more ads/hour to viewers. Both are strategies to increase monetization on the site at the cost of customer experience.
by jsheard | 2025-04-30 16:53:43+00:00
Fun fact: Googles own web performance team recommends avoiding YouTube embeds because they're so obscenely bloated. Placing their <iframe> on a page will pull in about 4MB of assets, most of which is Javascript, even if the user never plays the video.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/thi...

YouTubes frontend people just don't care about bloat, even when other Googlers are yelling at them to cut it out.
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 16:53:44+00:00
He has said that, but I haven't seen any legal paperwork to back it up.

Not that is matters. Cars, including electric cars have been around for 100 years. There are very little important patents he could have. Sure there is a lot you can patent, but the vast majority is details that are trivial for any competent engineer to work around just using known prior art.

The important patents are likely in batteries which Tesla doesn't develop. Or chargers, but again the important details come with the battery.

TESLA might have some patents on the NACS connector and similar things. Those are easy to work around, but you wouldn't want to.
by _fat_santa | 2025-04-30 16:53:49+00:00
I live in CO and we have been to our fair share of national parks and other outdoor spots in the past few years and one of the things I now blame for overcrowding is: social media.

Much in the same way that you can have 100 content creators producing similar content but only 3 out of that group go viral. I've seen instances where certain spots will go viral on social media and garner way too much attention while very similar places largely go unnoticed.

A great example of this is about a year ago we were in Moab and visited both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. Arches is arguably the prettier park but it's also much more "viral" than Canyonlands. When we went into Arches it was so crowded and we needed a "timed entry" ticket.

Contrast this with Canyonlands where we felt like the only ones there, no timed entry and we saw maybe a handful of other folks at the park. This mind you is one day after Arches and these parks are maybe 45min apart.

Now we have an "anti-social rule". Basically if we want to go somewhere we first check if that place is "viral" and avoid it if there's loads of buzz on social media about it.
by Havoc | 2025-04-30 16:53:51+00:00
There is a good yt channel that deciphers all shipping related news (collisions, cable cuts etc) and makes it more digestible to non-sailors like me here. Definitely recommend.

https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

He pointed out that these stats are week on week so tend to understate how big the drop really is on a more long term scale

[not affiliated, just like the channel]
by Retric | 2025-04-30 16:53:54+00:00
Past inflation, wealth inequality, and/or economic collapse depending on what you’re talking about?

It doesn’t really make sense to say that “nobody has it left” overall because money gets transferred in a transaction. So most people “not having money” could mean it’s someone else’s not gone.

However, money is only a signifier. It you mean the overall economy is declining long term, which is hasn’t been, that’s economic collapse. In such cases the amount of money in people’s bank accounts could remain constant but the their income declines alongside their spending.

As to what you’re experiencing, in 2024 people where still a shock even if prices weren’t increasing people seem to expect them to fall. Falling prices would be deflation which is a negative outside commodities.
by reedf1 | 2025-04-30 16:54:04+00:00
I can afford a personal burrito taxi - but I rent a tiny one bed for 40% of my salary and starting a family seems out of reach with childcare costs at £3k/mo. The older generations - having landed themselves, became treatlers. Their entire political philosophy is cheap treats. While cheap crap, knick-knacks, fast food and all-inclusive vacations have gotten cheaper; the real meaningful parts of life have drifted out of reach.
by photochemsyn | 2025-04-30 16:54:18+00:00
It's hopeless.

We can still take the mathematical approach: any argument can be analyzed for logical self-consistency, and if it fails this basic test, reject it.

Then we can take the evidentiary approach: if any argument that relies on physical real-word evidence is not supported by well-curated, transparent, verifiable data then it should also be rejected.

Conclusion: finding reliable information online is a needle-in-a-haystack problem. This puts a premium on devising ways (eg a magnet for the needle) to filter the sewer for nuggets of gold.
by undersuit | 2025-04-30 16:54:35+00:00
I want Shorts to format properly on my 1440x2560 screen. All the interaction controls on hidden off the side of the screen. Still have black bars on the left and right of the video too.

And also yes, I want long form and short form videos to be separated, when I'm scrolling through results 6 at a time(minus 1-2 ads) to queue the shorts really mess up the flow.
by jaredklewis | 2025-04-30 16:54:43+00:00
Consumption can have bad effects on health and the environment. But those effects are from particular kinds of consumption.

For example, buying solar panels is probably good for the environment and public health. On the other hand, buying sugary sodas is probably not so good for your health and maybe has some minor negative environmental impact. Most things are more complicated; running shoes might be good for your health and bad for the environment.

The tarrifs are just a blanket tax on all consumption, so I imagine the effects will be a wash. We’re getting rid of the good and bad.
by dfxm12 | 2025-04-30 16:54:51+00:00
I downvoted you because there's nothing to suggest this viewpoint is grounded in reality, so it's not really worth discussing. His leadership style has always been autocratic & opposition from SCOTUS and his own party is pretty much non existent and the opposition from the opposition party is soft (not that they have the numbers to do too much anyway). He has basically ignored whatever pushback there had been in other policy.

He could do it the right way, if he wanted to.
by rwmurrayVT | 2025-04-30 16:55:14+00:00
Check out the Cleveland Browns. They have packed crowds, endless merchandise sales, and full-throated support of their team even in light of gross mismanagement, sexual abusers, and more losses than wins.

That story applies to both sides of the aisle in US Government. The battle is for the 1/3 that doesn't vote and the sliver of folks who switch back and forth.
by enragedcacti | 2025-04-30 16:55:29+00:00
That's a good point, I was grouping IRV and PR-STV when proportional representation isn't a guaranteed component of a ranked-choice system (though many of the dem implemented RCV systems do use it for things like county board or city council seats). Australia's House does use IRV and is at 12% (or 15% if you subtract two vacancies from the major parties).

Also to note, there's nothing technically stopping the US House from moving to proportional representation along with ranked-choice and dems have proposed it recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Representation_Act_(Unite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#Unite...
by bArray | 2025-04-30 16:55:32+00:00
> China thinks in terms of decades and their population is very culturally disciplined. They will endure years of economic downturns if necessary. Historically they have.

I think this is a lie that somehow gets propagated in the West. They are not somehow smart and forward thinking, they are stuck within a dictatorship.

Over a span of 3 years from 1959 15-55 million people died in China [1]. It wasn't because of a natural disaster. It wasn't because of a war. It's wasn't because of a disease. It was purely because the leadership was trying to achieve the same ambitions as they do today.

Nothing changed, it is still the same party and CCP will go to the same lengths to try to achieve it again. The result in 1961 was a -27.3% growth [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_China#Annual...
by davidw | 2025-04-30 16:55:39+00:00
This seems really obvious to me but:

With a written article I can read a bit at the beginning, skim the contents and still get an idea of what it's about and decide whether I want to read more.

Videos are much more difficult to skim or glance over and the beginning is often some boring intro or music or some dudes asking each other how they've been or something equally wasteful of my time.
by alpaca128 | 2025-04-30 16:55:45+00:00
On the topic of A/B testing, it would be really neat if there was a way to opt out of it.

I cannot remember a single time in the last 5+ years when the website wasn't broken in some way. Right now the UI has at least 5 separate bugs and a Premium feature of the iPad app has 5 distinct bugs which are also so obvious that it's clear YT doesn't even test their paid version at all.

YouTube is the best argument against opt-out (or forced) telemetry in apps.
by insin | 2025-04-30 16:55:48+00:00
Here's a more comprehensive BYO Shorts-hiding extension which uses CSS instead of running JavaScript every time an element is added or removed anywhere in the DOM, and also supports the mobile version (CSS selectors are extracted from the https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube Hide Shorts feature)

https://gist.github.com/insin/ef93c7d87b1f97f1c9411e6128d520...
by niam | 2025-04-30 16:55:59+00:00
Yeah that's exactly it.

I wonder too if it could be used to help the edit reviewing process, but I can imagine it runs a risk of becoming an accountability sink[^1] if reviewers can merely defer their judgement to what the bot says is OK to purge. It might have a chilling effect on edits if everyone, including procedure hawks, can rely on it in that way. I'm not enough of a contributor there to know.

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891694
by cduzz | 2025-04-30 16:56:05+00:00
Whatever your hopes and dreams around domestic manufacturing, blanket tariffs capriciously imposed at random are unlikely to get any dream closer to reality, except perhaps the dream of total devastation of all manufacturing.

Let's look at what an actual domestic manufacturer has to say about tariffs[1]?

Oh, looks bad! Turns out, manufacturers import stuff, add value to it, and sell it for more money!

Hopefully we'll get more cast iron plants in Cape Cod. I'm off to the mill!

[1]https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2025/04/09/trump-tar...