MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by recursivecaveat | 2025-06-06 08:57:35+00:00
Setting aside the actual ads, I feel like this Premium Lite cannot be long for the world at this point. It seems this is a common problem with corporations gradually trying to squeeze more juice out of products by increasing their complexity, until its so incoherent that people just won't engage anymore. I'm not sure any ordinary person could actually tell you what they would practically pay for Microsoft Office (I mean Office 365, Microsoft 365, no wait Copilot 365). If I open google shopping it looks like there are 10?? different types of licenses/subscriptions I could purchase labeled as either 365 or Office 2024.

Premium already suffers from the issue that you're paying to not experience something, so exactly how obnoxious the thing you're skipping is a little fuzzy. Once you start adding layers of tweaks to the definition of "some" ads, its hard to imagine people being enthusiastic to pay for it.
by rwyinuse | 2025-06-06 08:57:49+00:00
I really hope this will be successful. Living in Finland, I was surprised to find out that last year our public sector spent over a billion Euros on Microsoft licenses alone, while simultaneously following austerity politics elsewhere, making cuts that badly impact people's lives to save way smaller sums of money.

No wonder EU's tech industry and economy in general aren't doing well, when we let so much money flow to America, even though we absolutely have the talent to build good enough systems over here.
by jonplackett | 2025-06-06 08:58:28+00:00
> Theoretically, the top speed for a neuron to feasibly fire and send information to its neighbor is 500 hertz. However, if neurons actually fired at 500 hertz, the system would become completely overwhelmed.

> Our neurons, however, have an average firing rate of 4 hertz, 50 to 60 times less than what is optimal for information transmission.

Could this explain the time dilation you can get when under high stress - is this your brain just firing as fast as it can?
by piva00 | 2025-06-06 08:58:43+00:00
Perhaps fatigue is not limited by energy but by the byproducts of energy usage to do work. It becomes much more complex to tackle if that's the case, instead of finding ways to allow the brain to use more energy when available we would have to mess around with the cleanup processes which are much less well understood.

I don't think we will have a way to "cure" mental fatigue until we more completely understand both the mechanisms behind thinking, as well as resting, and at the moment we barely scratched the surface of them.
by saubeidl | 2025-06-06 08:58:53+00:00
If you're on desktop, use ublock origin and sponsor block.

If you're on Android, use tubular (https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular). It has no ads, built-in sponsor block and allows you to download videos and play them in the background for music.

If you're on Android TV, use Smart Tube (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube). It basically has the same features as above, but with a TV-friendly UI.

If you're on iOS, consider switching to an OS where a big corp doesn't control what software you can run.
by crimsontech | 2025-06-06 08:59:28+00:00
Unhook and Channel Block also make my youtube experience much better. I did pay for Premium at one point but they kept pushing "features" that couldn't be disabled, I provided feedback, but I imagine it goes nowhere, so I stopped paying them.

I put a youtube video on the TV last week and all the adverts were deep fakes of famous people saying you can get rich with this one trick and a QR code to scan. One of the videos was a deep fake of the UK PM Keir Starmer saying thousands of people can claim an unknown benefit. How are these adverts not considered harmful?
by tuyguntn | 2025-06-06 08:59:46+00:00
By this logic NVIDIA should cut off Claude, because Claude is reselling their GPU hours, when NVIDIA itself can do it.

IMHO, there are 3 types of products in current LLM space (excluding hardware):

* Model makers - OpenAI, Claude, Gemini * Infra makers - Groq, together.ai and etc * Product makers - Cursor, Windsurf and others

If Level 1 can block Level 3 this easily, that's a problem for industry in my book. Because there will be no trust between different types of companies, when there is no trust, some companies become monopoly with a bad behavior, bad for customers/users
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-06 08:59:47+00:00
Because bandwidth is expensive and at a certain point so is storage.

Also because ISPs are terrible companies that will sabotage your attempt to stream video for no reason other than spite.

In theory you can just point a browser at a video and it'll play. The problem is, for a significant chunk of the world, that video will only play halfway through, or play barely if at all, or it'll take an hour to load even though you have an excellent connection.

Then, there's the discoverability problem. If you want to create a channel, you want people to know your channel exists. So do millions of others. Youtube and similar platforms use tag/content correlation to suggest videos (and then some AI bullshit to do the same but worse) to naturally grow your audience over time.

The web archive copy of his LibreELEC video is 860MiB in size. His recent RPi video got 156k views over 6 days. Transferring the 1073 TBit of video over those 6 days in the most optimal scenario would require a constant stream of 2070mbps. At the VPS provider I find most reliable, that'll cost him €124 just for the network traffic for the first six days. That's not taking into account the burst of tens of thousands of viewers just after releasing a video, or the fact that Jeff has tons of other videos on his channel.

Of course there are optimizations. You could transcode the video to even lower bitrates to save bandwidth, you could set up different quality profiles and write/buy a complex video player library to handle those automatically. Peertube tries to solve this problem by leveraging P2P video, but not everyone is a fan of exposing their IP address to every other viewer (bot, human, data collection tool) when they play a video. And then you need to kick out all the scrapers and download bots wasting your bandwidth for their personal gain.

Plus, you can't monetize the videos. Great for people consuming content already paid for, like government instruction videos or corporate productions, but terrible for people who use Youtube to fund the video creation process itself.

Even Jeff Geerling, someone with a sizeable audience of relatively wealthy audience (thanks, tech industry!), says he cannot maintain his channel through Patreon alone:

> I was never able to sustain my open source work based on patronage, and content production is the same—just more expensive to maintain to any standard (each video takes between 10-300 hours to produce, and I have a family to feed, and US health insurance companies to fund).

Youtube happened for a good reason and it can't happen again without wasting billions on making the servers, software, bandwidth, and content in general free for years before it can reach critical mass. Even for hobbyists, offsetting the network egress fees alone would be a challenge without monetization.

Linus Tech Tips is trying to spread their eggs across more baskets by setting up Floatplane, and there's a reason Floatplane is far from free. Sticking a webm file on a web server somewhere is a solution for videos that get a couple hundred views, but it quickly becomes unsustainable.
by speak_to_me | 2025-06-06 09:00:13+00:00
I can comment on the product side of things. I've been working in language learning tech for over 15 years and I'm also a qualified language teacher.

I watched the demo video. Obviously you're going to need to write language lessons for the avatar to deliver. I'm not sure what your background is but do you know how you'll do that? Many apps hand that job over to AI and that might work fine for a beginner lesson 1 when you're just repeating some simple phrases but how would it manage with a properly structured lesson about the present perfect or subjunctive? I've seen AI give incorrect information about grammar and create quiz questions that are wrong or impossible to answer.

Also, language lessons don't just exist in isolation, a good language course ties each lesson together to reinforce what was previously learnt. You would have to think about all this.

Your other alternative is straight-forward conversation practice for higher levels, where you're not actually teaching the language, just providing conversation. But I think that very soon ChatGPT will have human-like avatars in their interface, so people will be able to use that for conversation practice.

You're probably aware, but other apps that are doing something similar are Praktika, Loora, Call Annie, Makes You Fluent.

If you want to do some more reading about the AI language learning industry you may find my Medium articles useful: https://medium.com/@oh-yeah-sarah
by 1ark | 2025-06-06 09:00:31+00:00
> Started in 2017 by a programmer known as Chocobozzz, development of PeerTube is now supported by the French non-profit Framasoft. The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
by Argonaut998 | 2025-06-06 09:01:16+00:00
Ads shape opinions. Why do political parties spend so much on them? Carefully curated ads can control you on subtle levels. Read the Propaganda book that another reply cited and also read Elul’s. Also read the works or experiments by B.F Skinner and then Kaheneman. You’ll notice this golden thread that ultimately culminates in “mind control” today via algorithmic shaping for content curation and advertisement. It’s why people who are terminally online are often ideological extremists and generally mentally unhealthy.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-06-06 09:01:30+00:00
If you look at the pictured inside view of the 8-track tape's endless loop, you see that each tape contained its own rubber idle pinch roller which made contact with the motorized capstan of the tape player when the tape was fully inserted. Thereby providing the friction to move the tape across the playback heads.

Across the width of the tape, there were actually 4 choices for program material you could select as you were listening, therefore 8 individual "tracks" had been recorded across the length of tape in the same direction, in stereo configuration to provide both left & right channel sound for the 4 choices.

Common players would have a single stereo pickup head that would physically move to a different position across the width of the tape when you changed "channels" between the 4 target positions, picking up 2 tracks of stereo material and ignoring the other 6 tracks on the tape as they pass.

Anyway, up the chart is the far less common predecessor, the 4-track tape. Almost the same cartridge as the 8-track turned out to conform to, except there were only 4 tracks and therefore only two channels to choose from at any one time. And this earlier iteration did not have a pinch roller inside each tape, instead there was a big hole in the bottom of the cartridge where the pinch roller of the tape player itself would mechanically move into position inside the tape to get it going.

After all, reel-to-reel players had always had a single pinch roller per player. It's not a big leap, but the required actual paradigm shift to the 8-track format made all the difference in reliability.

And left the 4-track in the dust.
by serial_dev | 2025-06-06 09:01:45+00:00
I used this fact to get rid of my YouTube addiction.

I used to have Premium and listen to videos in the background while working, doing chores, all kinds of stuff. I realized 95% of the content I'm listenting to is garbage, and another 5% percent is good content that deserves my full attention, not just me listening to it while doing other stuff.

Stopped paying for premium, the experience is so unbearable that after a couple of days, I stopped watching YouTube.

I guess I could also just adblock, but they keep breaking every couple of weeks (gee, I wonder why), but honestly I don't mind less YT in my life.
by whstl | 2025-06-06 09:02:23+00:00
From your own link:

> In the 1910s and 1920s, many ad men believed that human instincts could be targeted and harnessed – "sublimated" into the desire to purchase commodities.[44] Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, promoted the approach making him a pioneer of modern cigarette advertising
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-06 09:02:25+00:00
> Also most of the things in the queue should get "no" as an answer, so they just get into the habit of "no, no, no, no...".

I have access to these review queues on Stack Overflow (as basically everybody with sufficient karma has), but my default is "yes" (i.e. innocent, until proven otherwise).
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-06 09:02:59+00:00
> The error concerned a part of the proof called Conjecture 3.12, seen as a vital part of Mochizuki’s efforts to solve the abc conjecture, which Scholze and Stix claimed suffered from an unjustified leap of logic. “We came to the conclusion that there is no proof,” wrote the pair, who didn’t respond to a request to comment for this article.

This is hard to understand. This element of the "proof" is named "Conjecture 3.12". Isn't that enough by itself to demonstrate that there is no proof? If there was a proof, Conjecture 3.12 would be a theorem, not a conjecture.
by treetalker | 2025-06-06 09:03:00+00:00
Note that this woman appears to be invoking the Florida Supreme Court's discretionary review: no guarantee that the Court will take the case (and it probably won't).

> the Florida Supreme Court, which has not considered a case on the state constitution's excessive fines clause in over a century

Typical. It's virtually impossible to get the FSC to review a normal person's case nowadays: the Court is too busy with mandatory death-penalty and state-bond reviews, and dealing with DeSantis's nonsense du jour.

Frankly, I'm surprised she even has a chance at further review. Lantana is in Palm Beach County, which is in the geographic jurisdiction of the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Florida's district courts are intended to be the courts of last resort for most cases, yet — shocker! — even Florida's appellate courts are not required to issue written explanations when issuing their decisions. Often they merely issue what's known as a PCA (per curiam affirmance), which cannot be reviewed by the Florida Supreme Court even if the Court wanted to take the case. Along with the Third District (Miami and the Keys), the Fourth District is one of the worst offenders when it comes to burying cases the judges don't like with PCAs.

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Edit with further information:

- 4DCA opinion here: https://acis.flcourts.gov/portal/court/cdc2beb5-919b-4198-a7...

- full appellate docket here: https://acis.flcourts.gov/portal/court/cdc2beb5-919b-4198-a7...

- opinion written by Judge Ciklin, a former chief judge of the 4DCA, very conservative, and who almost always sides with the government when given the chance

- other panel members were Kuntz and Gross, also very conservative (let's face it: almost all the DCA judges are very conservative, Federalist-Society types nowadays)

- the lady is indeed invoking discretionary review

- yeah, unlikely that the FSC will accept review because of the procedural / issue-preservation problems, but I wish her luck
by rollcat | 2025-06-06 09:03:10+00:00
Sourcing of my opinions mostly based on Wikipedia and random hear-say.

The Antarctica already is an interesting case study. Different time zones are being used mostly due to territorial claims, but south of 80deg, UTC is dominant. Each base might be using their own, local equivalent of a day/night cycle. Connectivity is extremely limited; pastime Internet access makes 56k modems look like a luxury. Interesting reading: https://brr.fyi/

Near-term, we will most likely colonize the Moon long before Mars; shorter missions to lunar bases might happen in the upcoming decades. The Moon doesn't have a day/night cycle at all. It may have a similar effect on local, "human" timekeeping; people might talk with other local colonies as much as they do with mission control, and will rely on each other for immediate support. There are existing proposals for an LTC, which is both an engineering and a political challenge. One of the requirements stated in the current proposals already includes the handling of extended periods during which independence from UTC must be maintained - computers will run almost everything after all. Even access to the Internet will require a store-and-forward protocol, which will break the current webapp models. It won't affect how the years are being counted, but that's a lot of precedent even if just for technical and survivability reasons.

Any kind of travel from Earth to Mars will have to be scheduled years in advance, and takes hundreds of days at least for unmanned missions. The colonies will need a significant degree of independence for basic survivability: food, oxygen, recycling, production of maintenance parts, etc. Some may specialize and rely on each other. Even information travels for ~3m to ~20m, and there's a blind spot when the two planets are on the opposites of the Sun. Staff involved in existing missions are already carrying customized timepieces to track both planets' solar cycles. Human missions will likely be one-way trips for a very long time; several new generations may pass. We will have to figure out how to deal with the lower gravity too, which may require new science.

On the other hand, early colonies will likely remain subterranean (fun stuff like cosmic radiation), perhaps until we can figure out new materials. Big terraforming projects will require solving the unknown unknowns. I think it's too early to speculate, but eight millennia is a heck of a long time.
by InternetUser | 2025-06-06 09:03:34+00:00
What was the "Trump exception"? Banning videos that were supportive of him?

On a separate note, "the bigger they are, the harder they fall":

Remember AOL in the '90s (unless you're under 35)?

And how powerful was the social networking site, MySpace? -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwG3P5ob-nk

And at that same time, how big was Blogger and even blogging itself?

And as for Almighty Facebook/Instagram dominance among teenagers and 20-somethings:

> [TikTok] was also the most-downloaded app on Apple's App Store in 2018 and 2019, surpassing Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.[68][71]

> Cloudflare ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing Google.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

And most recently:

1. TikTok – 825 million [downloads in 2024]

https://www.designrush.com/agency/mobile-app-design-developm...
by shakna | 2025-06-06 09:03:39+00:00
We also suppress videos on the correct manufacturing process for plastic explosives. Not because doing it safely is a bad idea, but because proliferating bomb making materials is.

Covid disinformation got people killed. It will continue to get people killed, especially with a proponent of it leading the US health service.

Things likely to lead to death, are likely things you do not want on your platform.
by tecleandor | 2025-06-06 09:03:44+00:00
He's, at least, weird.

This has been going on for 13 years. The difficulty on understanding the Inter-universal Teichmüller theory (valid or not) is it's all based on his Inter-universal geometry framework that only he and a handful of his students understand. So the work can't be peer-reviewed.

He has been offered to travel to work with other high level mathematicians to lecture them about his framework so other people can understand it but he has refused. He rarely travels (if at all) and he's very private, and doesn't even have lunch with his colleagues.

And I would speculate he sometimes disappear of the public eye, as he even has a section on his personal web site to notify he's alive [0].

I haven't asked friends in a couple years, but in math research centers the feelings were 'meh'. That there were probably some interesting things there, but it was going to be impossible to take something out of it unless something changes with Mochizuki or his students.

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0: https://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/anpi-kakunin-jouhou.html
by BlueTemplar | 2025-06-06 09:03:45+00:00
A reminder that it's not anonymity in the law enforcement sense because IP addresses are akin to a pseudonym and can be tracked down.

Also, for other cases you can't expect to be anonymous unless you run script blockers. And block first party scripts for the most egregious offenders (for which their websites won't work anyway at that point I guess).
by account42 | 2025-06-06 09:05:45+00:00
> It's great in german - 3 syllables for 3 letters, but english/french, it's NINE syllables for 3 letters.

Kind of absurd to use multiple syllables for a single letter if you think about it.

> I always thought it should have been web.domain.org.

It should have just been "domain.org" - the web part is already specified in the protocol. And if you are concerned about domains only having a single IP that could have been (and for many protocols has been) solved with SRV records.
by BoppreH | 2025-06-06 09:05:50+00:00
> Basically the theory is that ideas are actually like radio waves, in the environment, and our brains are like radio receivers that pick up ideas existing in the universe.

That sounds interesting. Like an accidental combination of movie + song + recent news that gives useful insights in some area.

With today's digital tracking, I wonder if we can quantify it: "X% of programming language creators read both Asimov and Terry Pratchett in non-English speaking countries".

> For example rats who master a maze in one part of the world make it easier for unrelated rats anywhere in the world to master the same maze pattern — it’s as if the learned skill/idea is “broadcast” to all rat brains.

Oh, you were being literal. That's deep into pseudoscience territory. What's the proposed mechanism for this "broadcast"?
by fifticon | 2025-06-06 09:05:53+00:00
I have a question: (which I admit I could probably research myself)

It sounds like is is a sort of 'change-events' pub-subscribe approach, where dependent systems keep their state updated by doing deltas against what they currently store (if I misunderstood this part, the rest here probably is moot).

If that is true, is there anything in the system that guards against if a subscriber fails to ingest an event, for whatever technical reason (bug or systems/execution failure, e.g. network or overload), ie some sort of 'transaction' approach where a subscriber will keep receiving/being due an event, until he has reported back an "ACK I have processed that" ().

I am asking because otherwise it could lead to things like a user account staying open/active, even though an event said it should be deleted.

Some alternative mechanisms with other trade-offs could be things/events like "group X has changed, its current member list is now [...]". In that case, the mirrored group might eventually become consistent on a later update (as opposed to carrying an eternal memory left over by a missed update).

() I am vaguely aware true consistency guarantee is impossible in a distributed system, something about confused generals.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-06-06 09:05:56+00:00
By saying "EU imposes something on a non-EU company", are you in fact referring to enforcing laws that are publicly known about? That seems like a totally different scenario to someone in the U.S. deciding that they need access to data in the EU due to some nebulous concern about national security and the company involved not even being allowed to openly discuss it.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-06 09:07:05+00:00
> Creators are stuck between losing their life's work and paying up just to stay online.

Concerning "[c]reators are [...] losing their life's work": you are telling me that these creators don't have private backups of their videos (or if they accidentally really don't wouldn't at least download their own videos from YouTube to get at least a re-encoded version of their video)?