MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slg | 2025-06-06 08:19:46+00:00
>There are myriad laws around the world, and somehow we manage to decide what's legal and follow the law, at least most of the time. This argument is absurd on the face of it: "we can't have a law because laws are too difficult to follow and enforce".

Yeah, I agree that argument is absurd. I will also note I never made that argument, so I'm not sure where you got it.

You are also missing half my comment. "Just follow the law" is not a complete answer to the questions raised. Plenty of companies will still want to remove content that doesn't violate the law in certain jurisdictions such as pirated content. Should Youtube be obligated to host that content? What if the actual right's holder threatens to stop advertising unless Google removes that content regardless of local law?

I just don't know why people pretend this is a simple issue with a single straightforward solution.
by mfld | 2025-06-06 08:20:08+00:00
I generally enjoyed the article. Maybe it's because the classical functional categorization/cataloging approaches in molecular biology are rarely sufficient to explain experimental data unless you are an expert and know all the exceptions and special cases. So the Predictive Biology approach seems a promising path, particularly since a lot of data for ML training is available.

That said, the formulation "machine learning is the native language of biology" seems odd.
by Timshel | 2025-06-06 08:21:20+00:00
I think your position is quite simplistic and completely ignore all the issues around YT pushing all kind of scam/misinformation which has tremendous impact (EX: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10226045/ or https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/12/youtube-i...)

Could try to separate the pure hosting part of YT from the recommendation but since the home page heavily mix recommendations and the subscription page see almost no usage (Technology connection mention 4% traffic), I'm not sure if it makes sense to still consider YT as simple hosting.

And last point I'll make, I believe the fact that their moderation is such a crap shot job is mainly a reflection that it's not a priority.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-06 08:21:41+00:00
>I'm near Detroit which has a huge amount of auto industry, and engineering pay is good across pretty much all disciplines.

I dunno about Detroit since I don't live there, but in Europe the auto industry is on a major downturn with cost cutting, layoffs and hiring freezes. Good luck getting hired anywhere now if you're laid off from the Auto industry and your specialty is some niche stuff only used in the auto industry. Also, IIRC, the company I worked for recently laid off 35% staff at their Auburn Hills office overnight so I doubt the situation around Detroit is as rosy as you make it seem.

> If it's such a major adjustment coming from C/C++ that it's actually causing you trouble, you have other problems.

Like I said, there should be no problem for a (skilled) programmer to adjust from C++ to Ada or vice versa, the problem is convincing HR to hire you on that premise. Ask me how I know (see my username).

Gone are the days of the SW generalists programmer, who would be hired with the expectation to learn on the job the new language used at that job, companies now are only looking for people with X on-the-job YoE on that programming language or framework, not self taught people coming from other programing languages.

This is not something you can control, it's the hiring market that's broken, so you can only adapt to it by not pigeonholing yourself in things that might be a career dead-end.

>It's comical bringing up the automotive industry considering that its responsible for AUTOSAR

AUTOSAR did what it was supposed to do: be a vendor lock in program for German bureaucratic companies and job security program for workers in that industry. That's what Germany and German companies do best: create massive amounts of bureaucracy requirements as a moat for an industry they have a foothold in, then sell you the solution. Why do you think SAP is also German?
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-06 08:21:58+00:00
Not sure why you're being voted down. That's a very sensible and obvious line of thought given the claims in the article. If it's true that our brains are optimized for very low calorie environments but could work much faster, then if and only if there aren't other good reasons to run at low clock rates, "overclocking" the brain could unleash enormous new levels of human intelligence.

Obviously, there are a huge range of possible problems there. Overclocking CPUs is dangerous for heat reasons and the brain generates a lot of heat. Without a doubt, lots of things in the body and mind are evolved around the assumption of a 5-10Hz clock rate. But even just a doubling, or an increase in the efficiency of neuronal transmission ... well, the mind boggles even just trying to imagine what could be done if you can optimize neuronal transmission.
by micronian2 | 2025-06-06 08:23:28+00:00
A few days ago, I had ChatGPT compare Rust and Ada. It tended to penalize Ada for its runtime checks and access values (aka pointers). However, ChatGPT didn't account for the fact that many of Ada's runtime checks would need to be manually implemented by developers in other languages. An Ada compiler, can often optimizes these checks away, knowing where they're genuinely needed and where they can be removed. This often explains why speed comparisons between C and Ada code can be misleading, as they rarely factor in the extra manual effort required to make C code equivalently robust with necessary safety checks.

Regarding access values, I listed out some of Ada's various restrictions. Its scope rules prevent referencing objects at deeper levels, objects must be explicitly marked aliased to create an access value to them, and there's far less need for access values (for instance, no pointers are needed to pass parameters by reference). Additionally, Ada offers the ability to dynamically size some objects and reclaim their memory without explicit memory allocation.

After I highlighted these details, ChatGPT admitted it had unfairly evaluated Ada, concluding it's a very safe and robust language, albeit using different techniques than Rust.
by wvh | 2025-06-06 08:24:11+00:00
Isn't that what is happening on the whole, going from soccer field energy guzzling hardware to laptop to mobile and server farm processors like ARM that are reasonably energy-efficient? There's only that much energy you can squeeze into a small space, so efficiency becomes a bottleneck.

What good is having all data and knowledge somewhere else than in your pocket when and where you need it, so having computing devices in form factors convenient for human beings must be a major driving factor.

Remains to be seen if everything will still revolve around data centres or if devices will start talking to each other in the future, which might be a more democratic way to go.
by slg | 2025-06-06 08:25:01+00:00
>Youtube is a private company. They can make whatever additional moderation decisions beyond the law they want. Which are in no way based on what you want but are entirely based on what advertisers want. This control effectively answers every question you raised.

This is effectively the same thing. Advertisers care because the users have different moral judgments on different types of content which impacts their opinion of the companies that advertise on that content. If users were happy seeing Ford ads on porn, Ford would likely be fine advertising on Pornhub.

>In any case, Youtube is the size where it can grapple with all these questions you just posed, but anyone else hoping to challenge their monopoly or otherwise host a small collection of videos, perhaps for a specific purpose or community, now effectively cannot.

I'm not sure where this logic leads. Are you suggesting that a company needs to reach a certain size before they can be expected to moderate their content?

>Who exactly started _this_ debate? Was there some recent outcry from the citizens that their lives have become unlivable due to the lax content restrictions on social media? Really?

Isn't this question answered by your first paragraph? Users and advertisers started this debate. There was definitely public pressure for Google to take down Covid discussions that mainstream sources believed were misleading. Was there consensus? Maybe not, but there was definitely a public debate about it.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-06 08:25:05+00:00
The logic of the system instead of the pieces of the system; how the language's core data structure applies/relates towards expressing that system. I could very well be overthinking things and seeing some sort of magic which is not there but this line in the previous response to me, makes me think I am still missing a piece of the puzzle:

>organize application state as a global database of inverted tables and progressively normalize them such that short APL expressions carry the domain semantics you want.
by atemerev | 2025-06-06 08:25:14+00:00
Well, the soldier mindset and "us vs them" mindset is deadly, and the history is littered with mountains of corpses of people who subscribed to this world view, as well as millions of their innocent collateral victims.

Hate is deadly and useless. Israel is a nation that is tightly bound and has the right to exist, as there are millions of people who consider themselves Israeli. Palestine is a nation and has the right to exist, as there are millions of people who consider themselves Palestinians. Zionism is the affirmation of the Israelis to be a nation proper. Palestinian identity is the affirmation of Palestinians to be the nation proper. Both things are OK, even if I will be promptly hated by both groups, I won't give the words meaning beyond what was originally given to them.
by InternetUser | 2025-06-06 08:25:54+00:00
Rick Beato has talked about this problem; in one video, he was even talking about how 5-second snippets of jazz were causing videos to be taken down, but the algorithm didn't even identify the right song. It reminds of how, in using the Shazam app, I've had numerous instances where it will wrongly identify a track 2 or 3 times, and even stick with the wrong answer. But even bands like Guns N' Roses and The Eagles will get videos of cover performances quickly blocked for sounding too close to the originals. Here's a great video where he talks about YouTube's recklessly draconian algorithms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5lY_DbUsok
by piva00 | 2025-06-06 08:25:54+00:00
I used to be very happy with the old Premium Lite, I didn't need YouTube Music or other features of Premium, just wanted to pay to have ads removed on all devices and it was the perfect product for that.

Then they cancelled it, got the email back in 2023 and resorted back to add-ons to block ads, stopped watching videos on devices that didn't support that, generally only watched YouTube on the computer for educational purposes.

When I saw it was back my first thought was "are you fucking kidding me?", I simply cannot comprehend Google's product strategy, at all. The "data-driven" bullshit for determining features, product tiers, etc. turns out to be just the McNamara fallacy applied to digital products, I can't see another way to explain the whiplash Google goes through in their product decisions, feels like everyone over there responsible for these decisions is only looking at insights, dashboards, etc. without ever thinking about what the hell the product is at its core.
by saberience | 2025-06-06 08:27:25+00:00
This is definitely one of the companies that makes me feel the most nausea and unease about our future. Like, ElevenLabs makes me feel sick.

Why? For a few reasons really, the human voice is a beautiful thing because it comes from actual people, with a life, experiences, emotions, memories, and it cannot be separated from those people. And when we listen to music, audiobooks, speeches, conversations, we hear those voices and we are affected by that person's emotion, life history, perspective, and moved by them.

I love voices, especially podcasts, audiobooks, and poetry, and the idea that these amazing people are going to be replaced, lose their jobs, and silenced by "AI voices" is just one of the most anti-human, anti-life, anti-creative, most sad, depressing, and honestly gross things I could ever imagine for our future.

What's worse, so many of these amazing people using their voice to give others happiness and solace is going to have their voices cloned by ElevenLabs, so they both lose their source of income, and then we get to hear inferior facsimiles making some billionaire richer.

Fuck ElevenLabs, really. I hope you understand what you're doing to the world.
by fakedang | 2025-06-06 08:27:42+00:00
> But in the end OpenAI's biggest feature is that it's 10x cheaper and completely pay-as-you-go. (Why are all these TTS services doing subscriptions on top of limits and credits? Blech!)

Is it so, after all the LLM and overheads have been considered? Elevenlabs conversational agents are priced at 0.08 per minute at the highest tier. How much is the comparable at Open AI? I did a rough estimate and found it was higher there than at Elevenlabs. Although my napkin calculations could also be wrong.
by milliams | 2025-06-06 08:29:19+00:00
“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration. There's a lot of spadework first, of course, but what clinches the whole thing is the sight of, say, a falling apple or a boiling kettle or the water slipping over the edge of the bath. Something goes click inside the observer's head and then everything falls into place. The shape of DNA, it is popularly said, owes its discovery to the chance sight of a spiral staircase when the scientist‘s mind was just at the right receptive temperature. Had he used the elevator, the whole science of genetics might have been a good deal different.

This is thought of as somehow wonderful. It isn't. It is tragic. Little particles of inspiration sleet through the universe all the time traveling through the densest matter in the same way that a neutrino passes through a candyfloss haystack, and most of them miss.

Even worse, most of the ones that hit the exact cerebral target, hit the wrong one.

For example, the weird dream about a lead doughnut on a mile-high gantry, which in the right mind would have been the catalyst for the invention of repressed-gravitational electricity generation (a cheap and inexhaustible and totally non-polluting form of power which the world in question had been seeking for centuries, and for the lack of which it was plunged into a terrible and pointless war) was in fact had by a small and bewildered duck.

By another stroke of bad luck, the sight of a herd of wild horses galloping through a field of wild hyacinths would have led a struggling composer to write the famous Flying God Suite, bringing succor and balm to the souls of millions, had he not been at home in bed with shingles. The inspiration thereby fell to a nearby frog, who was not in much of a position to make a startling contributing to the field of tone poetry.

Many civilizations have recognized this shocking waste and tried various methods to prevent it, most of them involving enjoyable but illegal attempts to tune the mind into the right wavelength by the use of exotic herbage or yeast products. It never works properly.”

― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-06 08:29:27+00:00
This is such a terrible fiasco. You know, I chose to criticize the one video that Jeff singled out as offending. And Jeff has a lot of great content on his channel. Jeff has good and fun DIY projects. Jeff has also said that he is supporting his family, feeding his children, paying for health insurance and medical bills with the earnings from YouTube. This is a legitimate line of work, and Jeff is honestly doing what he can in good faith. Jeff is open to complying with the rules on YouTube, if he knew what they are and they didn't subtly change all the time (he released that video last year!)

And seeing that Jeff is 100% honest with his endeavors there and promoting his channel, rather than choosing a life of crime, or taking wages under-the-table, or abandoning his spouse and children... he chose a virtuous way. But what is HN telling Jeff?

HN is telling Jeff that his entire ecosystem is irredeemably evil. These fundamental protections that Jeff enjoys, the ones that get him paid, those are abominations and must be destroyed. That YouTube is wrong, DMCA is wrong, advertisements must be blocked, advertisers are pure, unadulterated greed incarnate; that copyright has gone too far, that anyone should be able to grab Jeff's videos off YouTube without being offended by an advertisement or a paid sponsor.

So do you want Jeff to feed his family or not? If you want to burn it all down and leave Jeff unemployed? Is that the undercurrent we are feeling here? You have come out against YouTube as if against a band of robbers, and Jeff feels abused and used and exploited right now, but still Jeff tells us that he's legally earning an income, and he's deriving that income from the infrastructure and legal framework that Hacker News hates with a white-hot hatred.

So that's an overwhelming tsunami of cognitive dissonance for this self-righteous keyboard warrior tonight.
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by rcxdude | 2025-06-06 08:33:07+00:00
HTTPS, basically. I've gone around and around in circles on this for a device I work on. You'd like to present an HTTPS web UI, because a) you'd like encryption between the UI and the device, and b) browsers lock down a lot of APIs, sometimes arbitrarily, behind being in a 'secure context' (ironically, including the cryptography APIs!). But your device doesn't control it's IP address or hostname, and may not even have access to the internet, so there's no way for it to have a proper HTTPS certificate, and a self-signed certificate will create all kinds of scary warnings in the browser (which HTTP will not, ironically).

So manufacturers create all kinds of crazy workarounds, like plex's, to be able to present an HTTPS web page that is easily accessible and can just talk to the device. (Except it's still not that simple, because you can't easily make an HTTP request from an HTTPS context, so plex also jumps through a bunch of hoops to co-ordinate some HTTPS certificate for the local device, which requires an internet connection).

It's a complete mess, and browsers really seem to be keen on blocking any 'let HTTPS work for local devices' solution, even if it were just a simple upgrade to the status quo that would otherwise just be treated like HTTP. Nor will they stop putting useful APIs behind a 'secure context' like an HTTPS certificate implies any level of trust except that a page is associated with a given domain name.

(Someone at plex seems to have finally gotten through to some of the devs at Chrome, and AFAIK there is now a somewhat reasonable flow that would allow e.g. a progressive webapp to request access to a local device and communicate with it without an HTTPS certificate, which is something, but still way to just host the damn UI on the device without limiting the functionality! And it's chrome-only, maybe still in preview? Haven't gotten around to trying to implement it yet)

See this long, painful, multi-year discussion on the topic: https://github.com/WICG/private-network-access/issues/23
by jorams | 2025-06-06 08:35:08+00:00
Nebula[1] is an alternative to YouTube for and by youtubers. I'm fairly certain it's much bigger than Floatplane. It has ad-free versions of the creators' youtube videos, early access for new videos, and exclusive content. It seems to be pretty successful.

It is also, like Floatplane, totally irrelevant without the pull from YouTube, because that's where the audience finds these creators in the first place.

[1]: https://nebula.tv/
by wvh | 2025-06-06 08:37:45+00:00
What's your opinion on OTel when trying to keep things small and performant? I've got some experience working with OTel the last few years, and I'm a bit afraid of the expanding scope and complexity compared to "simpler", more targeted solutions, like for instance Vector.

I'm just asking because you mention OTel and "other ways" in your post, and you must have a good overview over the options and where the market is headed.
by user_7832 | 2025-06-06 08:37:48+00:00
I haven’t taken it myself, but I’ve heard of methylene blue being helpful, especially post TBIs or head injuries.

Wrt ibuprofen, I find it can (at times) massively clear out my brain fog. I suspect it’s primarily due to its anti inflammatory effects. The worse my baseline is, the more noticeable its benefits (upto a point, and apparently dose dependent). I often feel inflammation due to less sleep and due to another chronic heath condition, ibuprofen is like wiping a dirty glass or window clean.

I should probably add that I likely have more inflammation than the average person by a significant amount unfortunately, so your mileage may vary, but when I mentioned it to my GP he wasn’t surprised at all at its effects.
by InternetUser | 2025-06-06 08:37:53+00:00
There are many genres of content where other video platforms--all of them entirely entirely or mostly premium--are bigger than YouTube, for instance, for:

- movies (Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney+, Turner, Criterion)

- old as well as current TV shows (Netlix, Hulu, Amazon Prime)

- cartoons (Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Tubi)

- pro sports (ESPN and league-specific platforms)

- video game videos (Twitch)

And for short advice videos (I call it "advice-ology," and there are tons of people doing it, whether about relationships life, nutrition, health, or fitness), comedy shorts, and prank videos, a video app called TikTok has been the biggest app in the U.S. and the world for the past 6 years, and Instgram, with its video "Reels," is also bigger for such videos.

So, my question to you is: What are 2 of more types of videos you'd like to get YouTube get disrupted in? Music videos? Podcasts? Movie trailers? Here's the current "Trending" list:

https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending
by zkmon | 2025-06-06 08:38:47+00:00
What can be proven depends on what is allowed be a part of mathematics and logic. Zero, negative numbers, imaginary numbers and a lot other stuff had go through the acceptance first before they can be used in proofs. A lot of foundational concepts in logic, reality, causality, boolean exclusivity, spatial locality - had to be rewritten due to advances in quantum physics etc.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-06 08:39:05+00:00
To paraphrase the words of the lady in the political scene: "keep your filthy hands off my computer."

I will run on my PC whatever I want and you don't dictate it I want to run adblockers or not.

I don't think anyone minds the ads. I think we all mind the tracking, data brokers, and that OUR data and OUR profile are mishandled by a bunch of greedy thugs. So yeah, cat and mouse till the end of time.

I don't know about you/others, but I prefer the thousands of books from Gutenberg (and spend my remaining years reading from the ancients) that having some bunch of a-holes trading what I like and what I won't, without my knowledge of approval.