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Ask HN: YouTube does not understand how its algorithm works? Is this true?
Apparently, the algorithm YouTube uses to determine what videos to show/recommend is a "black box" algorithm that even people who work at YouTube don't understand. This seems to be an increasingly common trend. Are we really reaching the point where we don't understand or know what our algorithms are doing?
Some of it does, but a lot becomes part of the soil. (Source:https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/11/27/carbon-dioxide-remo... )
Coal and Oil were once plants and organisms, examples of such carbon sequestration.
Not to mention the poorly qualified or downright unethical Intellectual Property(IP) industry which makes the uninformed spend thousands of dollars in the patent process without proper prior art search, only for the patent authority to later dismiss the application i.e. if the the patent authority is competent or else award the patent which ends up with a troll.

If you are not from an industry where IP is unfortunately the foundation for doing business e.g. Pharma, Bio Tech; You are better off not pursuing IP at all, at least if you cannot afford the best IP attorney in your jurisdiction and assuming you have a competent patent authority.
No free healthcare. You have to buy insurance (legal requirement). Depending on your pay, you may buy private insurance at a fixed monthly premium, or public insurance at 15% of your income. Your employer covers half the cost for each one.

Currently, the max on public insurance is about 800€/month incl. „Pflegeversicherung“ for when you need permanent care after injuries or old age. You‘re paying half of that, your employer pays the other half.

There‘s also tuition at universities but it’s not comparable to US universities. I don’t know the current level. It was the equivalent of around 100€ per semester when I was a student.
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The fact of the matter is that countries with weak IP laws and/or enforcement see less innovation. It makes sense too, the calculus is easy: rip someone’s tested idea off for free, or invest huge piles of money just to get your foot in the door?
Genuinely - what's stopping Firefox from implementing this and sending a set of data that's either chosen by you in UI or setting it to empty?

As a replacement for server-side tracking? Which part of this is not a net win for privacy?
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It's not necessary that these two approaches can't coexist. In my experience, you HAVE to put in the slog to gain deep knowledge which lets you do these "clever tricks".

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1311343418422046721
Note that the government never passed any laws to censor music, the industry did it themselves. I guess it sucked less that Walmart and the music labels censored rather than government, but still sucked and was a negative for society.

I think the issue is that there’s no single moral authority and if I expect companies to meet my moral standards then maybe one day they meet someone else’s and that will suck. I’d rather companies not try to match what I exactly have and stick to some more objective level like what’s legal/illegal. That’s still subjective but less likely to change.

> should Spotify be forced

Of course not, but I’m suggesting that Spotify not try to micromanage content by removing specific content from artists for arbitrary reasons.

I’m not talking about legal responsibility, I’m taking about them not being jerks and positively contributing to society. I think it’s a net negative for society when Spotify tries to remove stuff like Alex Jones. Or if they were to remove explicit lyrics and curse words.

I’d rather have a protocol that doesn’t differentiate and just lets me choose.

I remember AOL before the web was widespread. It sucked and they literally blocked curse words from their pages. The web was better because it let users choose. Stuff was still taken down when criminal, but in general, I didn’t have to worry whether AOL “promoted content on their platform.”

Spotify is like the legal version of Napster, but Napster was better because it didn’t try to limit or promote content. I liked that it just connected people together and let me discover music. Any lists or promotion was a layer applied on top of Napster.

I think the concept of promoting is also something I don’t want. I don’t want Spotify promoting specific content.

Comically, stuff like this moves me closer to piracy as it just gives a better user experience.
Ah, good catch, I somehow missed that they had it in "JBOD" mode.

As you point out, though, it doesn't seem like it's "really" JBOD mode. It seems like that card is bonding the disks together somehow into a larger logical "stripe". Weird.
It’s the same for me except if I’m talking. When I present or have long conversations, my body automatically starts walking, and the more I walk the more I can focus on the conversation. It’s unreal, but it absolutely works. I end up pacing all over the house (thank goodness for wireless headsets) for hours. I have not found yet a way to reconcile this with the need for notes and screen when I present remotely, but for anything else it’s a great help.
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Something I never see being talked about in these sorts of threads is how Japan switched from the local lunisolar calendar to the Gregorian calendar. In the year 1872 (Meiji 5) the imperial government were paying their officials on a monthly basis, but their finances were in trouble, and the 6th month of the following year (Meiji 6) was a leap month which meant that they would have to budget an extra month's worth of pay for that year. Adopting the Gregorian calendar turned out to be a way out of this problem. As a "bonus", if they adopted it starting 1873 then the 12th month of the current year would only last two days and they could get away with skipping that month's pay completely.

The calendar reform was officially announced on the 9th day of the 11th month of Meiji 5, or 9 December 1872, to take effect 1 January 1873. This understandably caught people off guard, especially since official calendar makers had already started selling calendars for the new year a month earlier.
According to the articles I've read, this will actually decrease the quality of targeting in exchange for keeping the data locally. Is that wrong?
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Not all orthodox churches: Greek and Bulgarian churches are on Gregorian calendar (technically on Revised Julian[1] which is aligned with Gregorian until the year 2800).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar
Yeah that's cynical ;).
I for example am with my current startup for 5 years now and can hardly find anything to complain about. Previous job was 4 years and was also ok although there it was a bit too much management for me me ;).
Before that I've been freelancing for 10 years where most of the time was also with the same company and also fine (there it was more that I got bored of software dev itself and did my PhD afterwards to get to more special topics than the generic embedded/network development I did back then)
> Using IR or temperature changes in keypads to obfuscate ATM pin input.

A friend of mine described to me this exact idea over four years ago — well before the linked patent was issued. Does he have grounds to overturn that patent!?
> Noone will pay you for invoking existing solutions. They pay you to push the boundary.

I wouldn't put it like that. 90% of DevOps jobs is to invoke the existing solutions quickly. Sure, there will be a little bit of pushing the boundaries here and there was needed. But largely I'd describe those jobs as putting the Lego blocks together every day - and there's lots of money in it.
Could firefox (or chrome) not implement this and let the user decide what category of ads they'd like to see? Or choose to have it randomly selected per website? Or respond with some value like "random ad please".
So I could control the dryer remotely.

So I can get a notification when the dryer is finished.

So I could be alerted if some goes wrong with the dryer or if it needs a service.
The commenters argument is illogical. The commenter is engaging in 2 activities. Driving a car and then taking a plane. The fact that driving a car is riskier than taking a plane does not mean that that taking a plane that is 30x riskier than other planes doesn’t affect their risk.

These are 2 independent risk events. If the taking plane part of your travel schedule becomes more risky, your overall risk also rises.

The fact that driving a car is extremely risky has nothing to do with what price they should be willing to pay for the increased risk they would be taking flying a riskier plane.
The Linux kernel had 20k contributors since its inception, you’d be hard pressed to find those numbers for a single project at any company.
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I agree that long-living products would be better for resource efficiency.

Which part of consumer culture would you like to change if you had a magic wand? e.g. which action or believe would you like to change?

My shot is that people would prefer subscriptions of long-living products because companies need some kind of cashflow but also an incentive for optimising efficiency.
Ah yes, the famous Large Hadron Collider, the most complex piece of human engineering that doesn't have any software.
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I'd say manufacturing plants are easily as complex as Blender.
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Broken up by politicians? Ya, hard no. Just stop using it! Stop forcing your choices on people. No one has to use chrome, google search, gmail, etc. There are alternatives to all your problems, open source ones too.
The royals appear to be net contributors to the economy.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-fea...
The heady days of the late 90's, when the 3C595 (code name "vortex"), 3C905 (with "Parallel Tasking"!), and the Intel 82557/82558-based NICs (like the PRO/100B with its distinctive odd circuit board shape[1]) reigned supreme! Those were fun times.

I put out a number of Red Hat 6.2-based servers w/ the Intel NICs, got hit with the dreaded eepro100 "receiver lock-up" bug, and had to end up putting in 3C905 NICs in their place to get stable network connectivity. Good times. >smile<

[1] https://universaldatasystems.org/shop/product/intel-pro-100b...
Of course there is, one only needs to specify which calendar one is using when giving the answer. You could answer in the Chinese calendar if you wanted.

I'm trying to describe this without antagonism, forgive me if I fall. But your question to me sounds just like saying, "at what temperature does water freeze?" and claiming there is no answer because Fahrenheit and Celsius both exist.

I feel like the article makes a similar mistake in claiming that certain dates did not exist. They are simply different calendars and the dates existed even if no one called them that date when they happened. It's like saying the 4th of July, 1776 BCE didn't exist - of course it did but nobody called it that at the time.
Actually annihilating, no. But a Cold War isn't that - it's a constant threat of such. Which can be very useful to manipulate public opinion - and there are plenty of sociopaths in politics who deem the risks worth the reward.
The FBI was focused on finding those who had achieved notoriety - e.g. the dude with the confederate flag, the guys with zip-ties, or those who vandalized / looted the building.
Since Open Source software drops liability by definition, a huge complexity factor disappears.
Different strokes for different folks - and a mix of different types is often necessary.

I remember the very first time I ever completed (through by work at the time) a psychological profile. (I know such things are mostly discredited, but bear with me). I think it was based around Belbin's team profiles.

I came out as a creative, innovative, 'starter' of things - which actually matches me pretty well: I'm excited by solutions and new ideas, but I often don't complete personal (and sometimes professional!) projects 100% - I've lost interest and moved onto the next shiny thing by then. (Professionally, I'm best with a complimentary team around me.)

A colleague who I got on well with but also often found frustrating, came out as a 'completer finisher'. Which again aligned well with my observation of her and her own testimony of where she drew her gratification from, and also explained why I sometimes found her frustrating: because we were total opposites in this regard.

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Anyway... maybe the situation you describe on your team is explained somewhat by this? You both want to work on aspects of a project that you find gratifying - but you derive gratification from different aspects?
I feel their intention was to say that there is no known virus in nature that could be transformed to specifically SARS-CoV-2?
This guy was clearly a mentat.
Ad blocking, or how to use the Web properly
If COVID has shown me anything, it is that humans will generally gravitate towards the selfish action. Buying up all the toilet paper in the UK as an example, even when it was generally known that we wouldn't run out. The point I'm making is that I don't think we can rely on individuals' actions to combat climate change.

Yes I know: "but if everyone did it then it will make a difference"... we are not seeing this on a large enough scale to make an impact.

Possible solutions:
Technology, government policies, taxation.

HN folk: I guess working on the technology side of things could provide the greatest benefit?
There are books written about open source development. Don’t confuse somebody dumping source files on Github with open source development.
Yes. And horses are much easier to come by, need much less maintenance and were much more useful in off-road settings which were probably the norm back then.

So even the tech of the era allowed for the development of the bicycle, the urgent need that would make it worthwhile for someone to put the effort to come up with one wasn't just there.
Sorry I accidentally linked to SH01 in here instead of the korean strain. here's the correct one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT039890

And here also is an Australian strain from the beginning of the pandemic that does not have cggcgg: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT007544
> I always wonder why people don't trust their offsite back-ups to cloud providers.

Oh I trust them not to delete my encrypted data and that's all that I'd ask. But I still don't have backups on hardware that I don't own: it's super expensive. From the cost of hosted backups, I could buy a hard drive of the same storage space every three months or something. And hard drives live longer than three months.

Putting a raspberry pi with a big hard drive at a friend's place is rather power efficient, dead simple to setup if you have any technical knowledge at all, and off-site. Use Restic or something to avoid having to trust your friend or whoever will burglarize the place. They have an Internet connection anyway and where I live, there are no bandwidth caps.
This is likely a replacement for https://puppeteersandbox.com/ but a little more interactive.
Interesting links - thank you!
Why would it be a bad idea? Is styling your site a bad idea?
Looks like that was in the UFS driver: http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Kernel_Cookies/page-5.html
Seems like a pretty tall order for one bomber to be able to do any significant damage to a facility that size.

My understanding is that these facilities run on a fairly skeleton crew, especially at night, with staff generally spending most of their time in offices, rather than on the data-center floor.
May have intended to carry out his plan with no loss of life.
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Firstly, if every Amazon worker (or other low-skill job) educated themselves into a better job, there’d be no low-skill/low-wage workers. I think many of us would really dislike living in a world where these sorts of jobs support even a moderate lifestyle. For example, someone doing the dishes at a restaurant. Therefore, we do find these jobs valuable as a society and we want people to do them.

Secondly, are we really sure that if everyone suddenly educated themselves into a better job that there would be enough better jobs to go around? It seems unlikely. Particularly with increased automation.

My point is that the “get a better job” argument isn’t a strong solution to providing for everyone’s needs. We’re pretty clearly getting worse in this area as a society, with stagnating wages and fewer opportunities for entry-level work which can make ends meet.

At a point, if this trend continues, you get riots and revolution when people feel they don’t have another choice. We aren’t necessarily close to that, but if these trends continue, that’s more people making less money with higher prices. At some point that leads to desperation for enough people that violence happens. Just look at Russia or France in the past couple hundred years.

My meaning with that is that it’s not just someone’s own responsibility, but that there is some level of social responsibility for maintaining a baseline.
Nice and simple - thanks :)

I wrote a log function for debugging which does something similar for my own projects, but this is even easier to implement, and provides superior output.
See also https://docs.chef.io/chef_solo/
Node.js! It can help you collaborate with more teams. Lots of reusable code in the ecosystem.
I wonder what Risc-V would bring them, other than some de-risking vs potential trade blockages for ARM as Huawei experienced. Would not having to pay royalties to ARM give this chip a cost advantage? By how much?
> it's probably reasonable to err on the side of caution

Sure, but it's far from clear what the side of caution is.

Naively, the side of caution would be to not disturb the education of our young, and that preventive care still works, and the other big public health problems we do know how to fix.

Yet, we see country after country opening restaurants while schools are still closed. This with a disease we know is less prevalent and spreads less among the young than other epidemics such as influenza. The side of caution is completely missing from this picture.
Mainstream media is the gov.
In what way is Firefox not fast? I typically run it right alongside Chrome (Firefox for personal stuff, Chrome for work) and don't notice much of a difference switching between them. If anything, Firefox is faster.
Why would Firefox implement this? No one but Google has anything to gain from this.

Except for that Mozilla receives funding through a Google search deal, but I hope they manage to remain independent and keep tracking out of the browser.
Nice list and pleasantly surprised to see both my books mentioned.

I'm also maintaining a list of Python resources (including paid options): https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/
Regarding comments about manufacturing plants and the LCH, sure both of these examples aren’t software directly (but they also wouldn’t be possible without software), but they are also always under constant fixes, feature upgrades and optimisations.
How so?

Perhaps you need me to be more clear. When there is unemployment, crime goes up. This happens no matter where in the world you are. I didn't think I needed to spell that out.

Countries with a strong social safety net will be far safer when unemployment rises out of control. That's just common sense.

It's why Sweden is multiple times safe than the US, regardless of the unemployment rate. They have a social safety net.
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Is 9_11 still a black swan if the powers at be perpetrated the act

9_11 /coronavirus sister acts in their lower grab, crushing of individual liberties
id doesn’t come from the french. it’s a cognate of gene, to get across the idea of information transmission
Yes, the linux kernel is a big codebase but so are a lot of others [1]. And you will find lots of private companies not mentioned that have long-standing projects with >10 mil LOC.

If you took the 100 biggest code bases in the world. I would be surprised if more than 10% of them were open source.

[1] https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/millio...
Good to know, The part about spacetime created within galaxies is clear bs on my end so I take it back.

For The rest I am not advanced enough to say !
It should also be noted that the cables don't say that the lab has any unsafe practices. They only say that as of the time of writing (before the lab opened), there were not yet enough trained technicians to run the lab at full capacity. They asked the US government to continue its program that trained Chinese lab technicians at a top US national lab.
> There is something peculiar about software that makes it different from other crafts.

What distinguishes software from other techne is a lack of physics. There is no 'solid ground of reality'. All other forms of making involve discovering and then applying the governing laws.

Hardware architectures, operating system, and programming languages, to an extent, do furnish a phenomenal context and where these characteristics are stable and well established (e.g. Memory Models), science appears [1].

But clearly, this ground of reality is indeed 'soft' and the practitioners usually re-invent not just the wheel, but the ground that it rolls on as well.

The dilemma -- which nearly means facing a choice of a multiplicity of lemmas -- that confronts the designers of hardware, OS, and languages is precisely that tension between generality (and corresponding weak "world" semantics) and specificity (with robust but constrained semantics).

[1]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
I thought this was going to be one of those oneliner posts: Use SQL

Like this: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Socialism-Works-Harrison-Lievesle...
https://amp.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/ah6mc9/how_to_make_a...
> There's nothing you can do to fix the problem...

Unless it was a lab cock up in which case you can
National Enquirer isn't "open conversation" lol.
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> How common was water damage to hobs before physical buttons were removed? I'm guessing not very.

I think this is correct - not much damage. I used gas hobs for decades with various types of buttons and knobs. With appropriate recesses, washers, etc not much spilt water got past them, but the resultant complex surfaces were difficult to clean.
At my first job there was a box of about 50 expensive 3com network cards which seemed odd, I asked what the deal was and they were faulty and the firm had been sent a bunch of replacements.

I did some testing on them and it turned out they sent an interrupt signal on every IRQ regardless of what IRQ you configured in the setup utility which caused windows to lock up.

I took them home and drilled through the traces to the unwanted IRQs on the ISA slot and gifted them out at lan parties.