MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uncircle | 2025-06-21 05:41:26+00:00
I have paid for Youtube Premium for a long time. Now it’s pushing shorts (you tried to hide the section and it told you “ok, we won’t show you shorts for 30 days.” I don’t want to see them ever, respect my goddamn choices. Now you can’t hide shorts any more), telling I’m not interested is like yelling into the void, search is useless to the point of being insulting and full of clickbait. Youtube Music is so smart it keeps putting non-music videos in my playlists. Creators are deplatformed, demonetised and paid even less.

Youtube can take a hike, I’m not giving that company a dime and hope it fails. After some changes in my personal life as well, it’s good that I am not spending too much time on that awful website
by asadotzler | 2025-06-21 05:42:29+00:00
This stuff is freely available on the open web and I don't deal with ads or pay for premium because there's zero compelling reason to do so.

If creators have a problem with the revenue loss, their contract is with Google and they should take up those concerns with Google. If Google has a problem with how I consume their public content, they can make it non-public or try to block me in some other way.

I owe neither of those entities anything and until they either make the content non-public or find a way to block me without blocking others they want to see their content, I'll keep on consuming it how I like.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-21 05:42:51+00:00
While it has its issues, and it seems WG21 lost direction on where to drive C++, on the games, graphics and VFX industries, another language will have a very hard time imposing themselves.

Java and C# only did thanks to tooling, the unavoidable presence on Android, previously J2ME, the market success with Minecraft, XNA and Unity.

Anything else that wants to take on C and C++ for those industries had to come up with similar unavoidable tooling.
by Derbasti | 2025-06-21 05:42:51+00:00
How much is a media service worth? How much does it cost to produce? Can I pay a reasonable fee to the right people?

Most websites do not offer reasonable payment options. They'd earn fractions of a cent from the ads they'd show me, but the cheapest subscriptions they offer are several dollars.

On YouTube, the value of the service is provided by creators, but too little of the subscription is going towards the creators. To make matters worse, Google seems to pull every string they can to make creators as miserable as possible. Their actions are a detriment to the service, and not worth supporting. An 80/20 revenue split would seem much more reasonable.
by grishka | 2025-06-21 05:43:07+00:00
To be pedantic, yes, but not in a way that matters. The system partition is read-only. Mounting it read-write would require root and any modifications would break system updates. The apk will still be physically present in the file system, however, none of its code will run and it will be removed from your launcher and installed app list in settings, which IMO still counts as a removal.

Also, English is not my native language. I feel like I did get my point across anyway.
by nsonha | 2025-06-21 05:43:33+00:00
Problem: I want to do things but I wanna do it in one step (prompt) instead of x (or sometimes unknown upfront number of) steps, most likely dealing with shitty websitse and distractions in the process.

Try to look at it from another angle, maybe you then can see that the web is a solution looking for a problem in a way. Didn't stop it from being a massive success.
by 9rx | 2025-06-21 05:43:53+00:00
> No, the democratic government exists to do what the people elect it to do.

But what else are you going to ask the government to do except clean up the outliers (or whatever phrasing you find more palatable, as if that somehow matters)? Anything that involves the population at large can just be done by the population at large on their own accord.

Since you wanted to talk about other countries, consider a mandate in my country: All new cars must be electric in 2030. What purpose does that serve? Think about it. If the people want to own electric cars within that timeframe (and we know they do, else why would they ask the government to deal with it?), they can just buy electric cars. You don't need someone else to tell you to do what you were already going to do anyway! That would be just plain stupid.

Of course, the real reason for the mandate is because some outliers will still try to buy ICE vehicles, contrary to wishes of the population at large. The government's job is to clean them up to ensure that everyone buys electric vehicles (or no vehicle, perhaps) by the time we get there. If every single person was on the same page, though, government really would be pointless. Of course, in reality, you'll never have a situation where everyone agrees. Hence the role of government to deal with those who are dissenters.

> Okay, literally who? Who is being forced to build houses?

What on earth are you talking about? When I said it wasn't the government's job, I meant it.

> You certainly not making liberal arguments

Well, I mean, it would be rather pointless to argue from the liberal point of view if I am a liberal, no? What are you going to learn by reiterating what you think you already know? Argument is only a useful device if you use it to explore different ideas that are not your own. Methinks you have not thought this through.
by noman-land | 2025-06-21 05:45:21+00:00
All I ask is that I can pay the creator directly for content without any middle-man. Anything less will be routed around.

It's not like sneaking into a concert. It's like attending a free concert at a mall and wearing a mask so the cameras can't read your lips. Or covering your phone screen with your hand when you show a friend a private photo of a special moment.
by p2detar | 2025-06-21 05:45:38+00:00
I have also greatly decreased the time I watch YT and I have not been missing it. I used to have playlists, favs, lots of channels to follow. I stopped doing all that. Occasionally I’d “watch“ something on the background while I work, but it has to be non-engaging. The truth about YT is—you don’t need it.
by birn559 | 2025-06-21 05:45:52+00:00
Which is fine in general. It has been a selling point for SQL or C, for example. What I wanted to say is that for AI output becoming a replacement for code, a necessary requirement is that the output becomes deterministic. While LLMs provide that technically, I am not sure the "culture" that has evolved the technology will lead to product that provide determinism.
by muzani | 2025-06-21 05:46:54+00:00
Joined some entrepreneurship seminar. It was useful. Just overpriced. There was a Facebook group for participants.

My cofounder was selling ebooks on business advice in that group. He wasn't particularly famous but offered a 100% money back guarantee and the books were like $5 anyway. They were good advice, some of which I still quote today and get a bunch of upvotes for on HN lol. He had some Facebook groups of his own. We'd post about these kinds of things, as you do in HN today.

One day, after struggling with trying to find employment and freelance clients I decided to just make an app company. I wanted to do e-commerce, figured I needed a partner who had experience with the offline part. Since I was buying books on logistics and stuff from this guy, I offered to meet him and pay for his latest book, but instead of paying cash price, I'd pay for a meal that cost more than the book. He was happy to meet. We clicked. Built a startup and sold it for decent profit after a year... we did run out of money and it was easier to get acquired than funding.

I know YC says don't do businesses with strangers off the internet but it works for me. Dude was really ride or die, and stuck through the lowest lows. Heck I met my wife by sending SMSes to strangers, but that's a story for another day.
by lovehashbrowns | 2025-06-21 05:47:23+00:00
Right?! This whole post is kinda absurd. It has the feel of a kid putting a fork into an outlet, getting the shock of a lifetime and then going “and thanks to this, everyone in my household now knows not to put a fork into an outlet.” You didn’t have to go through all this to figure out that you need backups. The fluff is the cherry on top
by moralestapia | 2025-06-21 05:49:17+00:00
I get your point that models are limited by their own assumptions and can only get you so far.

Hmm ... a good way to see one of their benefits is that they help you iterate quickly. Typically, research is done through a design experiment -> measure -> design experiment ... cycle; a new paradigm could be simulate -> design experiment -> measure -> simulate ... the simulation helps you design a much better experiment. You could just try to reproduce what you already know, but by studying how perturbations here and there make or break one specific phenotype, you could infer how the whole system works, and then design an experiment to test a much more narrowly defined hypothesis. An example of that is what I described on a sibling comment wrt. the behavior of plant hormone transporters.

Simulations are also helpful to fill in many of these gaps due to lack of information or missing measurements.

One technique that has now become fundamental in biochemistry is flux balance analysis [1]. You start from the premise of conservation of matter and, say, if you put in 2 grams of sugar, after some time X, those 2 grams of sugar or their byproducts will still be somewhere in the cell. So, if you know the inputs to a system and perhaps some of the outputs as well, and you somehow know the metabolic network involved, you can perform a simulation that approximates the rate of conversion of all byproducts, tells you which pathways are active or not, and even which ones are missing as well.

This particular technique is also interesting because it does not have any actual biological knowledge imbued into it, it's just and abstract representation of "states" in the system and rates of change between time through time (Chat says "Linear Programming applied to a constrained flow network"). The exact same algorithm works in ecology, economy (trade balances), electricity (circuits simulation), transport, etc...

And yet, with a very simple setup, you can reconstruct even the most complex metabolic networks, see [2]; and from here, you can use this model to answer things like "which pathway consumes the most energy", "what is the most effective way to maximize the production of X", "where the bottlenecks", "how can I turn off the production of Y, with the least possible changes", etc... without having to perform the actual experiment in wetware.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_balance_analysis

2: https://bmcsystbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-...
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-21 05:49:35+00:00
this is exactly how you earn your prod stripes. dropped the db on day 3? good. now you’re officially a backend engineer.

no backups? perfect. now you'll never forget to set one up again. friday night? even better. you got the full rite of passage.

people act like this's rare. it’s not. half of us have nuked prod, the other half are lying or haven't been given prod access yet.

you’re fine. just make the checklist longer next time. and maybe alias `drop` to `echo "no"` for a while
by stiray | 2025-06-21 05:49:54+00:00
Yep, you were a test project. Will people pay for free content or punish them by leaving the platform. And will they start to pay if you increase number of ads. Now they moved to next stage.

Anyway, not there yet. Frog is boiled slowly, slow enough that people dont notice until it is to late.

First they need to kill ad blockers tier. Then you increase number of ads to unbearable (they are already doing that) and get as much people as possible to paid content. Also market must be ripe enough, so there will be no more ships to jump. Then you will get ads, different tiers to pay, segmentation of content etc.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-21 05:50:28+00:00
It creates a Hobson's choice of no tinkering and less malware, or tinkering and greater risks from malware. There should be a "maintenance mode", but the onus of responsibility for breakage should be on the user for system update compatibility without the user being held hostage. This is a false choice and ostensible customizability. If the manufacturer wants to add an "OS warranty void sticker" flag because things maybe broken from tweaking, that's cool, but leaving the user less secure as punishment is wrong.
by LondonTrader | 2025-06-21 05:50:46+00:00
Why This Data Matters More Than a Guru's Hot-Take I see the direct result of the market's noise every day. It pollutes my talent pipeline. You have fresh-faced influencers, who've never had to explain a system outage to a furious trader, telling you what's hot. You have bootcamps selling you call options on a six-figure salary that expire worthless the moment you're asked to explain the CAP theorem. It's a mess. So, let's put the kettle on, ignore the hype, and look at what the order book actually says. This is a no-nonsense look at the numbers, interpreted by someone whose bonus depends on building teams that can actually deliver.
by malkia | 2025-06-21 05:51:25+00:00
Okay, so while https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc has been archived recently, there is this fork from Facebook: https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc (7 commits ahead of the archived one so far)

But also this just recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264958

At work we use mimalloc, but a colleague is exploring jemalloc too as he's seeing somewhat better outcomes with one of our app there (Windows)
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-21 05:51:29+00:00
> it's that in most cases now it permanently renders parts of the phone inoperable or makes it impossible to use contactless payments or any banking apps or content streaming apps etc.

I've had to cloak the rooted state from an app or two or they'd choose to withhold functionality. That was a couple of phones ago. I've not had trouble with banking, payments, etc since.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-21 05:51:42+00:00
I'm convinced that having individual cars as default mean of transportation sucks, don't get me wrong.

But it's not because “doing nothing” is bad that any decision is good.

This kind of decisions that reduces the freedom of movement of the majority but spare the rich is exactly how people like Trump reach power.

You want to solve the urban planning problem that is car congestion, then the solution is a urban planning one, not a new tax.

Or at least if you want to leverage economic incentives, you have to give everyone working in Manhattan and not living there $200 a month so that their overall purchasing power isn't impacted (the marginal price of taking the car stays the same, and so does the incentive).
by hirvi74 | 2025-06-21 05:52:10+00:00
I watch quite a large array of channels. I am not sure I could feasibly afford to donate a meaningful amount to all them. So then, I am forced into the dilemma of deciding which ones are more worthy than others, and that is not something I am particularly willing to do.

If one's patreon did have perks associated with it, then I would be more inclined to 'donate', as well.
by uncircle | 2025-06-21 05:52:37+00:00
Passively consuming content is not the same as reading a magazine or a book.

Agreed that anyone can fill their own free time with whatever they want. But youtube is just junk food for the mind, packaged as stuff that interests you. It’s conveniently split to increase ad revenue, uses clickbait to drive engagement, and all the techniques developed on TV the past 80 years to keep us glued in front of the screen. Youtube and the “content” itself is designed to keep you watching.

And I say that as someone who used to mainly watch long form essays, not the trending bullshit. It’s all just distraction and opium for the masses, disguised as edutainment.
by noman-land | 2025-06-21 05:54:33+00:00
Even though I hate advertising I think Hot Ones is one of the few efforts to do a good job with this.

1. Interviewing a guest while they are eating insanely spicy food is an extremely novel idea and the guest's reactions and answers end up being really interesting and unexpected as a result. It humanizes famous people in a way I've never seen before because you can't just bluff your way through it.

2. The hot sauce vendors are often small companies or indie makers (at least they used to be). This is way different than reviewing 11 bags of Superman Transformers 3D Doritos Walmart Product Placement for the next blockbuster.

3. Hot sauce is interesting! Nearly every culture on every continent has hot sauce. They are made from a huge variety of interesting and unusual ingredients but are also simple and can be made at home. Hot sauce hasn't been explored in this way in popular culture.
by mirekrusin | 2025-06-21 05:55:36+00:00
That's how you train neural network with synthetic data so it extracts actual meaning.

That's how humans also learn ie. adding numbers. First there is naive memoization, followed by more examples until you get it.

LLM training seems to be falling into memoization trap because models are extremely good at it, orders of magnitude better than humans.

IMHO what is missing in training process is this feedback explaining wrong answer. What we're currently doing with training is leaving out this understanding as "exercise to the reader". We're feeding correct answers to specific, individual examples which promotes memoization.

What we should be doing in post training is ditch direct backpropagation on next token, instead let the model finish its wrong answer, append explanation why it's wrong and continue backpropagation for final answer - now with explanation in context to guide it to the right place in understanding.

What all of this means is that current models are largely underutilized and unnecessarily bloated, they contain way too much memoized information. Making model larger is easy, quick illusion of improvement. Models need to be squeezed more, more focus needs to go towards training flow itself.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-21 05:55:51+00:00
20 years ago (2003-2006), Welchia, Blaster, Code Red... Windows boxes that weren't patched were infected within about 35 ± 5 seconds when connected to lightly-filtered Internet when it was still a capitalized proper noun. Ask me how I know and used JScript and psexec to mass remote into LAN machines to try to stop some of the madness and downtime.
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-21 05:55:54+00:00
Stop parroting orthodox agenda without thinking of what it means. If everyone had root access it would be heaven for ransomware/spyware/malware operators.

Having root access is not in the interest OR benefit of most regular users. Rooting your phone is a footgun for 99% of people who install random apps and will get hacked and have their life savings transferred or ransomed.

For them the article does the right thing. For everyone else, like you or me, we will not care what this article says anyway.

That's why what Samsung does is double bad. Noot rooting phone is good hygiene if your phone respects you. But if it comes with malware then thats a stab in the back.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-21 05:56:04+00:00
> Seriously, you never had to provide tech support to a parent, relative, or friend whose computer got totally fraked because they had root?

I accept this metric. It means non-rooted devices are unsafe.

I'm career IT support. In the entire age of smartphones, 100% of the malware/crapware I've seen was on non-rooted devices - most of it pushed on users by manufacturers, carriers and OS devs.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-06-21 05:56:07+00:00
I cannot fathom how you can hold this position. It is such an authoritarian view to willingly give up control to let some higher power protect you, at the expense of having absolutely no way out of that higher power suddenly starts acting against your interests. Sure, when people are in control of their own lives they sometimes fuck up and get hurt, but that is absolutely not an excuse to take away their freedoms.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-06-21 05:57:22+00:00
I sometimes think that "track record" is the main value of Google and Apple. They have been around for decades, and except in their own interest to collect data for themselves, I am not aware of any blatant privacy violations of these companies. And one can hope that in their own interest, they keep it that way. That's not great, but it's better than the other companies.

I don't see how any company can compete with this unless they somehow figure out how to make a vastly superior product.
by spit2wind | 2025-06-21 05:57:33+00:00
> Imagine having to do math with no symbols. that means 1+1 is now one plus one

I think that's exactly on point. Here are two examples from Euclid which demonstrate why mathematics, and likely science, were stunted for millenia:

"if a first magnitude and a third are equal multiples of a second and a fourth, and a fifth and a sixth are equal multiples of the second and fourth, then the first magnitude and fifth, being added together, and the third and sixth, being added together, will also be equal multiples of the second and the fourth, respectively."

a(x + y) = ax + by

"If a quantity increased by three becomes five, then that quantity has to be two".

X + 3 = 5

X = 2
by scoofy | 2025-06-21 05:59:21+00:00
Yes, businesses want money. The point is that YouTube has no leverage on creators. they have to play nice because the barrier to entry is nil as competitors already exist in Twitch, Dailymotion, Nebula, Vimeo, Dropout, etc.

None of that helps you if you want it to be free, but for those of us willing to pay, we can happily ally with creators if YouTube gets shitty.

That’s how it’s supposed to work. It’s a good deal now and I’m happy to take it. None of that matters if you are comparing it to piracy… obviously.
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-06-21 05:59:25+00:00
Given that the original project (at https://sourceforge.net/p/extremetuxracer/code/HEAD if i'm not mistaken) is C++, I wonder if it is possible to port the original in some form using WASM.

This is not to take away from the work that the OP has done - it is impressive, I'm just kind of thinking out loud here.
by BartjeD | 2025-06-21 06:01:22+00:00
I sense we won't come to a consensus.

It's not what the EU wants at all. That assumption is the root of your arguments, but it is wrong.

The EU wasn't created to shaft America or anyone else.

In fact, the reason so many US services and companies were doing business in the EU was because the USA had a stellar reputation as an ally and as a society.

But at this point, after the ICJ, Greenland annexation, weapon kill switches, White house office ambushes, hostile tarrifs, and all the other drama and threats and coercion, arrests of EU citizens etc.. it's a theme that the EU no longer can trust nor rely on the US. The US only cares for itself, not any friends and allies.

Put simply: The USA wouldn't host it's federal websites on Alibaba Cloud. And the US isn't a trusted reliable friend and ally anymore, as regrettable as that is, it means a pivot away from relying on anything US is necessary. And common sense. To anyone not drinking the cool aid. ;)