skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it means that people that say they work 90 hours a week have no other life obligations (or ones that they have accepted) and have internalized their company's mission as their own reason for living. They may be _working_ those 90 hours but that definition is effectively meaningless because if the company mission is their mission then peering into their own navel is justifiably work. Whether that is productive or valuable for the company is unknown.
Trust me you won't get TOP clearance if you are natcit (naturalized US citizen), only if you are soil-based citizen (actually born on the US soil)
> manually check your channel. Which would take forever if they didn't set some threshold.

It's Google. They'll tell advertisers that every channel will be manually reviewed to make them happy, but the degree of manual review will vary.

They'll score most channels as low risk and do a cursory manual review to 'check-the-box', and the degree of review will go up from there.
Bandwidth prices are dropping every year, but ATM it's very difficult to be profitable with video streaming. Like crazy hard. 200k views of a 250mb video is 40tb bandwidth which is $3600-$4600 streaming from Amazon S3 depending on if you use CloudFront or not.

You basically need your own data centers and wholesale bandwidth, aka scale.
I think this is a way more fairer system.

They’re trying to reward longer term contributors whom have lower viewer counts.

Basically people who continue to contribute content even though YouTube hasn’t rewarded them; they’re contributing because they have a small following of dedicated viewers.
I think it decentralizes account fees, lending, term deposits, funds, everything. It turns the traditional banking model on its head because anyone can "become a bank" and handle the traditional "keep your money safe" model that banking was originally created for. Those getting paid for transactions will be those investing in the network infrastructure - which is also decentralized, because again - anyone can jump in and do it.

The only downside to it all is if whoever handles your "account" (or wallet) is breached, or someone steals your "money".

Right now - no one will insure it. It'll come, and when it does - it'll likely be decentralized again, because that's entirely possible - throw 1% of your "account" into "insurance" and suddenly everyone is paying for their own insurance and third-party investigations into claims. That in itself will be heavily regulated by the companies running it, and I think the lower the fee - the more information they'll want from users.
But do you actually think you have found an effective measurement device for intellectual curiosity, persistence despite failure, or ability to examine personal errors?

If we are trying to measure some kind of mental ability as a predictor to work performance, one might question whether interviewer ability to extract such deeper insights from these questions is actually more effective than a g test.
This doesn't satisfy the time constraint though.

return 1.0f / sqrt(x)

Passes a property based test but now your game doesn't actually run because it's much too slow of an operation on hardware at that time.

You can also test execution time too, but that's finicky and doesn't help explain how to fix it if you break that test (if there's no accompanying documentation).
> What's the motivation here then?

I'd guess it's some sort of legal/accounting move, something beneath the surface. Doesn't really make much sense otherwise.
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I knew someone would mention Logan Paul, that one guy that faked colorblindness to get views, and ultimately ended up tubing around a dead guy.

If Google is doing this with a "let's try and make it harder for idiots like Logan Paul to become successful" motivation, then shame on Google.

The only other reason I can think of is that smaller players have been abusing the system, and we see tons of tiny low-quality popups that film inappropriate stuff and get reported. I think this is more likely, than because of anything Logan Paul did.
The blocked T-Mobile/ATT merger was one of the greatest decisions of the decade. T-Mobile has kept everyone honest.
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So, will they also be screening the legitimacy of subscribers and watchers in those 12 month?

The first thing that came to my mind is that I can't imagine it is terribly difficult to purchase bot subscriptions. Their policy changes to focus on relevant watched hours in a set amount of time could, and probably will, open new demand for purchasing illegitimate traffic as well. Same game, different rules.

I wonder if this policy will be easier to spoof than pure views alone? Surely the risk has been evaluated by the policy makers but I am interested to see how things pan out, and what counter measures against bots/spam they may take as a result.
>A signed suicide note by YouTube.

It's difficult to take your comment seriously when your opening line contains so much fail. YouTube isn't going anywhere but up. It has no rival and never will.
Again that level of AI/ML means being able to state what the intent of a comment or document is. If we ever get close to that point, that programs
can reliably mark something as "risky" content, human thought is in big trouble.

"Risky" material is subjective. Something even humans can't make out reliably very often.

I think, this is the result of the tech firms putting content creators of old out of business, but not investing in the necessary editorial power, subscribing instead to the "wisdom of the crowds" school of thought.

They have not paid for (and will not be able to afford) the distributed human editorial power which was lost.
Yes indeed, this junk spreads through WIPO.
> One scam down

Did...it just re-launch? With a new token, BCCX?!

https://bitconnectx.co
Google's biggest threat is you going somewhere else with your search-terms and eye-balls.

If you went to Amazon videos for all of your video-consumption, Amazon would know exactly how to target you without having to pay Google.
what this article fails to mention is that, while litecoin's price has halved since charlie lee sold all of his stake, so has bitcoin. the entire market has corrected, at its peak the crypto market cap was at ~$850 billion, right now its at ~$500 billion
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HN is unlike any other online community that I have been a part of. I've always appreciated HN but recently I have realized that if HN were to shut down, the consequences would not just be unsatisfactory -- they would be unacceptable for me. This website connects me to so many things and people that I would otherwise have trouble connecting with. I draw tremendous value from this website. With this in mind, I thought it would be worthwhile to open a query about other websites, subreddits and communities that offer similar value. Both to enjoy now and in case anything were to happen to HN. Here are my own contributions.

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And how long should you expect it to take to reach 300-500 customers with average effort? The operation wouldn’t be profitable from day one so you’d need to have some runway.
Honestly I think people will keep making those sorts of videos anyway. We never get paid anything for posting on Stack Overflow or Hacker News yet here we are. And YouTube had lots of good videos before it had monetisation.
Then why they didn't weaponize it against patent trolls?
> A square can, (you put one node in the middle)

Clever!
I don't even feel a little bit bad, there was repeated warnings about it being a scam. even the website code itself has been used in other scam ico's.
Just as reference as the comment here was deleted. Pretty important stuff.

http://omnichest.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3AgW...

https://i.imgur.com/BsPSZKO.png
> For any specialized market, probably a lot

This is doubly true for services like Google Search, and yet (for example) security-oriented engines like DDG are barely making a dent.

I honestly don't think niche is the way to go if you're trying to go after Google/YouTube/Facebook. You'd need to figure out a core issue or core need that has been overlooked. And I just don't really see one.
It sounds like native Americans have less chance of being un loyal to USA? Not sure if that’s true.
On the other hand, plain URLs with JSON are much easier to work with without writing any code. You can do everything want with curl from the shell, and often an API allows doing almost anything from a browser (Elasticsearch comes to mind). The simplicity of it all comes in handy when you want to do something trivial — load a small piece of data into the server, do some diagnostics, run some ad-hoc queries, etc. — without really wanting to write a program.

Debugging with lower-level tools like strace and tcpdump is also something that's trivial with JSON-over-HTTP/1.1, but virtually impossible with gRPC. (I mean, you could grab the payload and run it through gRPC deserialization, but would you?)

I'm a big fan of gRPC, but it is pretty top-heavy — lots of code to accomplish relatively little. If you have a language that can build client bindings dynamically from .proto files without recompilation, that would ease things a lot, but if you're using Go, for example, the bar is pretty high going from zero to productive.
The eastside is a really promising target for a WISP. I've done some tinkering with HamWAN (the top of Eastgate Park&Ride has great line-of-sight to Seattle), but it's strictly non-profit and doesn't cover the eastside too well due to an abundance of hills and tall buildings in the way. If one could peer in a fiber-connected building in downtown Bellevue, and beam that from the roof to a couple tower sites... you might just have a WISP.
> It has no rival and never will.

Likewise, it's difficult to take your comment seriously with this beast of a closing line ;)
Has it? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/#charts
Planet is doing this with many satellites today. They are much smaller than DoD projects so it's much cheaper.

Here's a diagram of their style orbit: https://www.planet.com/docs/spec-sheets/spacecraft-ops/monit...
> I checked out riot.im but honestly I found the interface really confusing. Also, the lack of integration to a major auth service like Google/Twitter/Github/etc is a real turn off for me.

Matrix is decentralized, using centralized auth wouldn't work.

You could even host your own matrix homeserver to talk in that room. (like email, or XMPP)
Sure, but why does youtube need to care? From their perspective, those videos probably aren't helping their bottom line. It might be better if they weren't uploaded in the first place: Less disk space used, no need to index them, etc.

(I echo your agreement, for what it's worth.)
Correct. A crappy gym doesn't try to accommodate members needs like self consciousness or an overbearing music volume. A good gym does, among many other things.
> Head-space is great. On Friday afternoons people are usually tired and mess around anyway, so why not do something useful with that time instead of hanging around to do your 40 hours.

Honestly, this has always been table stakes for me. I hope I never work at a place where I'm judged on "hours my butt is in a seat" instead of "actual productivity". Particularly for creative work, it's just not how the human brain works.
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One thing I find rather odd is how noone raises an eyebrow that apparently the US happily admitts to having some enormous spy network in China.

It is especially puzzeling if one compares it with the reaction to foreign countries supposedly making posts or buying ads on Facebook or Youtube with the intent of influencing elections in the US.
Please stay on HN.
How well does [this](https://youtu.be/dkZ9zdSRQYM) or [that](https://youtu.be/tf09vULK7sw) still apply?

I'm still perfectly satisfied to remove anything like that from my system. There's even ebuilds out there to install full-featured web browsers without including JIT.
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> Basically niche videos will just be replaced by other people who will find ways to monetize it...or not even motivated by money at all but just to put content out there and for people to enjoy.

Yeah, if there is an adequate substitute for your monetized product provided by an ever-refreshing pool of people willing to work for free, you're in a precarious position. Pretty much independently of the behavior of any middleman.
What? This entire story is about the exact scenario you describe.
Fine is fine. Secure is great.
You can choose your ISP about as much as you can choose your mobile OS. Sure, maybe you have one or two choices of ISP. But is it any different one level up the stack? Your mobile OS is either Android (Google) or iOS (Apple). What makes one monopoly different from the other?
How was it reported in China?
My line is realistic. Your opener, however, is comical.
If only that worked over the long haul it would be great. But as it turns out you can only spray gas in the carb infrequently or you eventually wind up even further behind the non overclockers with still working engines pass you right up.
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That's an interesting take when you start factoring in the broader landscape. Video is no longer about just the short form, and increasingly attention is pulled away from Youtube by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and FB's video play.

I wonder how much video CPMs (particularly mid-roll) and the premium big brands are willing to pay plays a role in this vs something like a desire to growing engagement. If you incentivize creators to attract subscribers, and you have more direct ability to control messaging channels to subscribers as a platform, you might gain some levers in driving revenue that may not have existed or had as large an impact before. You also nurture desirable user-base behaviors.
>Satellite can never offer acceptable latency.

Satellite internet can offer very competitive latency, even though nobody is doing it so far. Small cubesats make lower orbits viable than what's currently used for satellite internet. At a low earth orbit of 400km (about the height of the ISS) you have a round trip time of just 3ms.
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>sure you could just drop PHP in place, but you still needed that host. Setting anything up yourself required twiddling with Apache and mod_php (or using a distro that shipped with packages that enabled it by default).

php has builtin webserver since 5.4. that's like 5-6 years ago
Not to mention the American resident we falsely accused of being a communist and then basically forced back to China to kickstart their rocket and nuclear programs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
That isn't true at all, and it has been tested in court. Look okay Sherlock Holmes. Not all of Holmes is in public domain. As long as the character is based on the PD stories, then it is fine.
So after 2023 you can create a Mickey story based on steamboat willy.
Of course then there are trademark issues to deal with, wish is how I think it should be protected.
I do believe you are right. The ROI on these videos for YT, is likely very minimal, given opp cost. On the other hand, it creates awesome goodwill.
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/ax.asp it roots from the space of investment banking and traditional trading. Source: me, hedge fund algo guy and with family in the "masters of the universe" industry. The banks are a side-show.
Would you be surprised if China had an intelligence network in the US? I don't think any major country would be surprised - the "great game" is as active as ever...
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Humans do well with blurred images because our vision is blurry everywhere except our fovea and our current focal plane. So I'm a bit skeptical that this tells us something about the difference between cnns and humans. Especially since the models did seem to adapt well to the modified domain when trained on it.
They're profitable videos to advertisers. You always end up buying a part or tool (or new car? Muffler fix video --> Check out the new Tesla).

Often paying a premium to get the part tomorrow.

The manual review shouldn't take more than 7 seconds.
Perhaps. I think there are people in places [even in the US] where money goes further for whom a dozen dollars here, a dozen dollars there from different uploads made it worthwhile for them. I hope you are right, but I fear we might lose some great contributors.
either that or like the housing bubble is remembered.
More like:

Researcher: "Excuse me sir, are you gay"?

Senator Larry Craig: "No I just have a very wide stance in public bathrooms"
> Getting things delivered to your home is far less exhausting

Fair. But on the other hand, having ice cream and meatballs at Ikea is a thing. You also need to account for cost of delivery and for returning things. And that's just ikea-related things we do.

> 5 bakeries that I can get to in 5 minutes of bicycling and more restaurants than I could care for

That describes downtown of any half decent metropolitan city anywhere, not just europe. I already mentioned the issue with that though: you can't do "5 minutes of bycicling" when you have 2 toddlers. Nor are your family going to have easy access to the multitude of other things I didn't mention: fishing, strawberry picking, corn mazes, safari, skiing, lift lock tour, trips of various lengths are just _some_ of the many many things we did last year. Driving three towns over to ride in a carousel one afternoon "because my wife heard it was a nice one" is the sort of thing we've done just for the heck of it.

Could I do the instagramming-yet-another-fusion-sushi-roll metrosexual lifestyle? Sure. But I think having a car opens a wider breadth of experiences.
No, but this community is expressly designed to address a problem and it's cool to hear creators talk about the why of their work.
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There's nothing in here that addresses problems of content creators. It's a list of things that YouTube is doing to protect itself. I guess it's nice that they are sharing the information though?
> This is doubly true for services like Google Search, and yet (for example) security-oriented engines like DDG are barely making a dent.

DDG is making a huge dent in the narrow segment it is designed to appeal to, which is all any specialized service can hope for. I think DDG fans persistently overestimate how many people find Google’s personalization a net cost.

> I honestly don't think niche is the way to go if you're trying to go after Google/YouTube/Facebook. You'd need to figure out a core issue or core need that has been overlooked.

Sure, if you are trying to replace one of those as the dominant mass market player in its domain you need to do that.

Also, I think you are more likely to find a core need by dealing with a need that seems niche but is really just more pronounced and visible in that particular niche than by digging around in the dark for a core need.
1992: 4,000mph, Los Angeles
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USGS on seismographs and sonic booms generally:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/sonic-booms.php
For example, here's one way to write a test that sufficiently explains "gets within a certain error margin of the correct answer yet is much much faster than the naive way".

Using Ruby and its built-in minitest gem:

1. Write a test that does minitest assert_in_epsilon(x,y,e)

2. Write a minitest benchmark test that compares the speed of the fast function with the speed of the naive function.

Notice the big advantage for long term projects: if the hack ever ceases to work then you'll know immediately. This actually happens in practice, such as math hacks that use 32-bit bit shifts that started failing when chip architecture got wider.

> no one on the Quake 3 team can remember who wrote it

Exactly. We have the code file, but not any documentation separate from the code, such as notes, plans, attempts, reasoning, etc.
that's definitely a possible sampling error but lyft doesn't seem to tell you enough to know if they made that error. for example, if they only solicited survey takers after a ride, your assertion would be true.
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99% of the affected channels make less than $100 per year. I don't think most of these types of videos are made with a plan to make money. I think people like making videos explaining things they understand.
I think AI works best when you have the AI on one side, and something "dead" on the other, like a pattern. Games, images, etc...

Information nowadays isn't dead like it used to be, it's alive. It have desires and seeks readership, it mutates and wants to spread. This information has its source in human intelligence.

It seems possible it is outwitting Google's AI as the smart people have shifted focus from being smarter than "bad" information to building dumber than human AIs to improve bean metrics and bask in glory.

The core problem has mutated from "what is relevant" to "what is quality". Pagerank and the web of dead info could answer both with one number because the quality signal and the relevance signal were the same and hard to fake.

But if you can hyper optimize for relevance by making content addictive thus affecting downstream attitudes on "relevance", quality is no longer relevant. Current AI is smart, but still childlike and easily corrupted/manipulated. It's a black box that can't be inspected and adapts to change but because it's tempo of dynamic modeling is slower than a real humans it can be "trained" or hypnotized.

Hell, it's probably the core sociopath skill. Being able to manipulate the value/principles system of someone/something else.
Sounds like it's a machine learning based way to make it easier to design the guide RNA for the CRISPR protein used in gene editing, making it easier to target it the way you want to.

But that's basically all I know. It really would be nice to have someone actually knowledgeable describe this better.
You didn't respond to the fact that cryptocurrency is a technology class or my reasoning for my cryptocurrency is vital for blockchains to have the property of being distributed.
Did you use IntelliJ IDEA for kotlin? If not you're missing a giant part of the experience and ease-of-use.
BetThePot in the aughts.

It was sort of an early thinking man's poker site -- it was quite a bit more civil and exploratory than 2p2 at the time. Eventually the quality of analysis at 2p2 surpassed BtP, and then the training sites came along.

This was sort of the heyday of online poker, so the community was a lot of fun. I really miss it.
Not in my experience. It would give me “select cars until none are visible” and it would be replacing the last car by another one for a long time. Then, when there are finally none, it would just offer another captcha, such a as “click on storefronts until there are none”. And so on and on
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That article from almost a year ago (which was just mindless regurgitation of the ars Technica piece which was also wrong) was not reflective of reality. It actually wasn't even correct when it was written, but you had to know to ask for the lower rate.

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