skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I read an unstated assumption in the article that the only task at hand is to write out what you already know. It seems to completely ignore the potential goal to create and the block of not yet knowing what needs creating. This may be useful pragmatism in the sense of, "if you depend on work, and cannot do the job, find another job (at least for now)". But it does not address the unmet need to perform the original job.

Whether in writing, other arts, or even science and engineering, I think it is quite possible to be strongly motivated to create yet to have an empty mental hole where the target idea will live. Capturing all the qualities of the hole is not the same thing as capturing what you want, the thing that is supposed to be there instead of that hole.

You can struggle to find more external context or infer things about the absent target, but you are stuck until some kind of creative insight or exhaustive exploration drags it to light. Capturing the process or the meta experience of having this hole is not your goal at all, and so no amount of dumping what you already know will fulfill your creative longing. Some creative processes may be supported by journals or other intermediate work products, but that does not mean that you can make progress just by producing more such stuff either. You really can be blocked by a failure to induce new insights.

To say that you should write out what is in your mind and declare that progress is to assume that your goal is just to reach some metric of output. That the specific topic either does not matter or is already clearly defined. But writing/creative blocks can be about a future or hypothetical that hasn't been located yet, not just some reluctance to document what has already been imagined.
Enjoyable but seems mainly promotional. Pitching a new upstart codec, sort of. Meanwhile WebRTC is kind of chalked up as complex & weird. Yet unlike the other video pipelines, the latency of WebRTC is never mentioned. Even though it seems to be quite good- better than the <500ms of most of the competition.
We're using knexjs to connect to databases. If knexjs generally works with your Cockroachdb. We should be able to work as well. Please reach out on our discord for any help.
There exists a utility called tarindexer [0] that can be used for random access to tar files. An index text file is created (one time) that is used to record the position of the files in the tar archive. Random reads are done by loading the index file and then seeking to the location of the file in question.

For random access to gzip'd files, bgzip [1] can be used. bgzip also uses an index file (one time creation) that is used to record key points for random access.

[0] https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer

[1] http://www.htslib.org/doc/bgzip.html
Hey man how can you tell they're serious scientists otherwise
A truly fair punishment would be people going to jail (or the threat of it), like is the case for virtually any other crime. This shit isn't going to stop unless people refuse to do it because of the risk of jail.
Erowid dosage pages can be helpful: https://erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_dose.shtml vs. https://erowid.org/chemicals/psilocybin/psilocybin_dose.shtm...
Is 7zip = zip ?
The shrinkflation on grocery items has been extremely obvious for a while as well.
If you're going to live in or use the property for a long time, possibly. I've also been looking at buying property with these mortgage rates, but it's not intended as a short term investment.

In terms of investment property or flipping, there are many factors and you might want to look at what happened historically.

For example, raising interest rates significantly like Volcker did in the 80s stopped new home building cold because new buyers could not afford mortgages. They stopped building the subdivision my family lived in for 3-4 years when this happened. In general, people who bought just before that period did not see a return on their home for a decade-plus, but the economy rebounded quickly after that period

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/when-volcker-ruled-fed-peopl...
Amazon offers quite a smorgasbord of thermostats you can install for your home.

Obviously, nobody buys them.
This is not even frontpage of ft, bloomberg etc. Bloomberg Europe TV station talks about Johnson & Johnson factory problems in China but not Evergrande.

My reading from above pieces of information:

it's not that important yet. Maybe they will pay late again as they did previously when they were late one day.
Looks like a very good fit for a ML model to filter out dislikes that are part of an attack based on frequency, age of the video, etc.
I'd say markdown is even better than HTML for writing generic documents since it enforces simplicity. In particular, it forces a linear flow of the document and does not have any support for stuff like JS.
I wish they'd mentioned my favorite image format: XPM. Open one of those in gVim and prepare to be amazed.
I definitely notice the difference, but personally if the cost is something you’re concerned about I would probably spend it on something else.
I tried to get in for an alignment a couple of months ago. I'm used to making an appointment 1 or 2 days out for this sort of thing. All the local shops were booked out over a month. I eventually found a place that had an opening, which ended up being a chain... But I couldn't drive my car for 2 weeks with a bad alignment while I wait for the appointment.
> Can you show me where I said that? This is nowhere in my comment, or any comment I've ever written here. You're completely making things up at this point.

Your statements contain implicit assumptions about fiat, particularly the USD's future. It's stable now, that's why people use them. That's your main point.

I'm asking you to project further into the future and take into account economic conditions that cast doubt on the USDs future. If you can do that, then you can understand why people are interested in crypto.

Otherwise if you don't have any interesting points to make, you can stop refuting me and let the thread reach conclusion?
As usual, HN users are making lots of interesting assumptions (some comments to a conspiracy level) on the intention here...

But in the reality, there are many smaller creators who is frequently being harassed by trolls (have you heard about those young Chinese patriots trolling over Korean and Japanese channels?) and one of their tool is the dislike button. And creators have been complaining about this for many years, so I would say in fact YT was super lazy on this particular issue, but at least better late than never...
Actually that can be quite an equitable way of distributing the fines (to all people holding the currency in question).
Thank you for the informative reply. I definitely agree on all counts, especially re "ponzy" etc.
I think that the pandemic forced the entire sector to focus on profitability and cut most loss-leading initiatives, so hearing they're trending towards core profitability makes sense!
China has official YouTube channels where they pump out pro-CCP videos, like these classics about the CCP's Belt & Road project:

- https://youtu.be/98RNh7rwyf8
- https://youtu.be/M0lJc3PMNIg
> In practice, the downvote is about enforcing groupthink on reddit and enforcing subreddit culture, and it is just as powerful today as it has ever been. Sort by "controversial" and you'll see.

Exactly this, and of course it is. People who don't want their opinions challenged are the ones who most need challenging.
Given that they've decided to go ahead and remove it, I'd wager that the amount of people for which the public dislike count of a video is the one thing that makes their visit worthwhile is not huge.

Also, publishers still get to see it, it's only viewers that won't. Which probably means we'll all have to engage a lot more with the algorithm to route around garbage, but I kind of do that already so I'm not convinced it's a dealbreaker.

> Helps who?

>> "Earlier this year, we experimented with the dislike count to see whether or not changes could help better protect creators from harassment, and reduce dislike attacks – where people work to drive up the number of dislikes on a creator’s videos"

Creators, apparently.
Isn’t $148 million like four meme NFTs? Why would a large company be teetering on the edge for such a small amount of money?
It's a small step from sugar cookies to snickerdoodles as well. Not everything is better with cinnamon, but some things really are.
If it were a show of strength in the system why did they let the bubble get so big in the first place?

They've been using real estate as a place to stash everything bad for a while:

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-if-xi-jinping-just-is...
If you have another car you can use then it's a good deal. The problem now is any profits made from selling your car will be eaten up by the inflated price whichever car you are trying to buy.
Ah, this article is for you!

Why adding an optional feature in a free app that tons of users want badly is "exploitative grift" I'm not sure I'll ever be able to understand.
They can just disable comments ( the poster of the video )
Worth noting that this is merely an "update to."

Were it "An update on," we'd know dislike counts were being deleted and every API that ever mentioned them would be breaking.
What part of my comment makes you think I'm saying anything different?
Ah! I thought it was way too cheap for the AppleCare part. I was about to sign up for just my devices at home just for that, because it seemed like a really cheap way to get iCloud and AppleCare!
There was also an update to it called FUIF - Free Universal Image Format

https://github.com/cloudinary/fuif

But it too got superseded by JPEG XL (.jxl) https://jpegxl.info/
I think this shows what standpoint Google has in this: The dislike button is not supposed to be used by the user, but rather the creator.

You as a user should watch the video no matter what and then rate the creator, not skip it if you see a large amount of dislikes.
So people watch it without the prejudgement and bias of knowing what the wider group thinks and dislike on their own judgement. That seems like a simple solution to coaching people into good curation patterns and behaviour.

It will likely so give some good results in the background for YT and media partners but it is allowed to be both.
Allowing an advertising company to scan all of my traffic is extremely unappealing
Just mash that dislikes until there is no more content creators with anything remotely uncomfortable to you. Unsarcastically. Let the algorithm designers spend their life struggling to deduce what they could ask you in plain human language for immediate response. I'm guessing that is how engineer performance is measured and rewarded for there.
I prefer it, at least you don't get the fake niceties, coming off as almost passive aggressiveness.
Like software Q&A's the answer might be "it depends".

Imagine there are EU/US banks that have loaned money to Evergrande or any related domino that may fall.

I imagine a loan from a bank is listed as an asset for the bank because they are charging interest monthly and it produces income for the bank. Now they don't have that income because the company isn't paying. It now moves to the liability part of the balance sheet.

One of the elements of the 2008 crisis was mortgage backed securities, bundling of mortgages sold as a security. What if these banks have done the same thing with Commercial mortgages/bonds? How many derivatives are based on these loans/bonds Evergrande isn't paying on? Zero, then likely no "contagion". Many? maybe they are isolated to China?

I think its likely an onion that is peeling back its layers and we don't know the full impact until its done.
only for Earthlings. I'm sure (hopefully) someone on a rock around a different star might have had those worries in their day too.
In New World Order everything is doubleplusgood.
> by themselves

Even if it is only 10%, that's 10% less grid storage batteries needed.

Ya know, car engine efficiency has improved dramatically over the last 50 years. Each specific improvement was small - but the aggregate adds up.
Can you DM me? I’m working on something along those lines.
> I challenge anyone to tell me they do NOT think that brigading downvotes/dislikes is a thing on forums and Youtube.

The discussion is about whether YouTube should be hiding the existence of these occurrences and the potential ramifications of such a policy. I haven’t seen anyone denying the existence of brigading.

Out of curiosity, what is the criteria for dislikes to be considered brigading? If I share a video containing hateful comments towards a community of people and they share that video amongst their community, what do you think the outcome of that will be? I would bet a high percentage of viewers from that community will dislike the video. Is this brigading? Why or why not?
I think all the RAW formats generated by digital cameras are really just slightly customized TIFFs.
Rendering Text
Yeah, that fad lasted about as long as it took for someone's smarthome to get hacked -- and goatse to appear on each and every one of those tiles.
For-Profit Companies Are Bleeding Universities Dry
misleading/bad content can get up-votes too though
In the update, the reason they give is:

> You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations

Not long ago in history, such a statement would have been totally incomprehensible, I mean completely nonsense. Even linguistically, there's so much baked into this. For starters, that there is an algorithm which which the viewer has a relationship with, and that the viewer wishes to further refine that relationship by expressing preferences. Yet, the interpretation of those preferences (by servers) are held within a black box.
Leverage in the US is very high too. I'm thinking the next crisis will in the end be known as the Leverage Crisis, because it's leverage that will take what was already going to be a big financial crisis into financial catastrophe. It really wouldn't take much to tip us over right now because the ever-rising stock prices are encouraging everyone and their duck to leverage to the max, further pushing up prices... it's not a good cycle.
I’ve never personally seen the kind of “dislike harassment” you are talking about. There was the YouTube rewind video a few years ago but that became more of a joke after a while.

However, I would not be surprised if this feature was accelerated after seeing twitch “hate raids” a few months ago. These definitely are a form of online harassment in my opinion. In YouTube’s competition with twitch they want to show they are a “safer” place for creators (whether someone believes this is up to them)
You've framed a plausible hypothesis - which is the best any of us can do given a complete absence of any data - as "invent[ing] unfounded theories that can't be falsified". That's effective rhetoric, but it isn't really an argument.

Instead, "I uncritically accept corporate PR as objective analysis" is what I consider to be a stupid way to go through life.

Maybe your priors include "corporations always tell the truth", but mine don't.

That obviously doesn't mean we should accept some alternative conspiracy theory X as the truth, but it does mean we should be skeptical and open minded about other explanations, especially given the context in this particular case of: (i) zero supporting data provided by YT, (ii) a very plausible set of alternative explanations that would be political suicide for YT to publicly state, (iii) the apparent anecdotal user-hostility of this decision.
The "how it works" section is just some short soundless YouTube videos that don't explain what is going on. I think they need to work harder on explaining their product.
I'd say that's not where its strength lies, but it's certainly possible.

Building an API backend for a single page app though, absolutely.
AFAIK nothing has the plug-n-play library availability of Rails, as far as things that are highly relevant to stitching together "web apps". Not even Django, which may be its closest competitor. That single aspect of it is so good that even though I hate Rails (but I think Ruby's alright—go figure) it's hard to recommend against it for some projects.
Because they don't have it
You'd think a company that profitable could hire a few extra QA people. Especially considering their entire brand is "it just works"
> because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count

How is this any different than users targeting a video with lots of likes to drive up its count, though?

If YouTube were hiding both the public like and dislike counts, I wouldn't give this a second thought. But to say "seeing counts influences people" as a reason for hiding dislikes, and not extending that same argument to likes as well just seems a bit shallow.

Public counts are useful because they provide a gauge of perceived quality. If I see a video with lots of likes and no dislikes, it's fair to assume I'll like that video. If I see a video with lots of likes and I can't see the dislikes, I have absolutely no idea whether I'll like it or not; maybe it's a really good video and everyone liked it, or maybe the majority of people disliked it but I just can't tell. If you're removing my ability to gauge quality anyway, then why not just remove the like count as well?

This change is essentially shifting from "three out of five dentists prefer Trident" to "three dentists prefer Trident". The loss of information is so substantial that the remaining information is essentially useless.
> What use is a gun if you remove the bullets?

It turns out YouTube didn't see much benefit in providing a way to (metaphorically) shoot content creators. Taking the bullets out seems like a positive step for the community as a whole.
There is no upper limit to the wavelength of gravitational waves. However, the lowest frequency that we can currently detect is around 10-100 Hz. Diving the speed of light (3e8 m/s) by (10 Hz) gives 3e7 meters. 30,000 km. The upper end of our frequency range is currently around 8 kHz which corresponds to 37.5 km if I did the math right.

LISA will be sensitive to much lower frequencies (longer wavelengths). NanoGrav also searches for these lower frequency signals.

We expect most gw's to be of very low frequency. High frequency g.w.s require tremendous mass and acceleration to generate. They are only generated in the final moments of black hole collisions as far as we know.
No. The 7zip format has much better compression than the ancient (1990s) zip format.
The current state of the economy and facebook, yes.
People objecting to the idea that someone might have pressed the dislike button for whatever reason, unable to handle the mild cognitive dissonance of divergent opinions always stood in stark contrast to the old mantra that graced the signatures of slashdot and other forum comments:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
It was likely replaced with another used engine. No mechanic is gonna warranty that for 2 years, and I doubt they'd even warranty a new engine for 2 years unless they rebuilt it themselves. You'd have to take that up with the engine manufacturer / refurbisher or the person who sold it.
The government should do everything* to protect me, the citizen.

*Except the things that make me confused and angry, even if they benefit other citizens.

Welcome to neoliberal hell.
But creators have always been able to hide the like/dislike counts on their videos
This has actually been a favorite analogy of YIMBYs for quite some time. "What if the supply of new cars were constrained for some reason?," they'd ask. "What would happen to the market for new cars? Would prices go up or down? Would people who had planned to buy a new car settle for a used one? Would this drive up prices?" Etc, etc.

And of course that's exactly what happened.
Using an Abacus
The payment on the debt was due today, and as of 3 hours ago that timeframe has passed, which is why the default got announced by the DMSA.
Why didn't they remove OAN's video saying that Trump won the election to help out fellow leftists? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c5dYDD9xw

Why did they start exploring this feature when Trump was still in the White House and suing Alphabet? Is he a "fellow leftist?"
I don't understand the question you are asking. Yes, if you configure GTK to load some CSS, it will do that. However that won't guarantee you see the correct styles, because CSS is technically not able to do that in all cases. If there are bugs in the the Pop_OS theme then it will continue to be broken, see the images at the bottom of the article...

Edit: I kind of alluded to this before but I want to make it clear, if you are trying to make it so the user can safely load themes without "special modifications to the app or compile process", then CSS is probably the wrong choice. It is not suited to do that, CSS is only safe to use when modifying the app itself, or if you are shipping a theme as a build-time dependency in the form of a library (i.e. libadwaita). So that's kind of why your question doesn't really follow to me.
What is the US supposed to do, prevent anyone from being exposed to this situation?

That's a wide ranging / impossible mandate there.
> Fukushima was a once in a century disaster

That doesn’t mean we are now 99 years risk free.

Nuclear power has always been proven safe, until the disasters.
"immediately blow up" - if such fragility exists, is it a good thing? I mean, even raising rates a few basis points causes such collapse...
That's an interesting point. Why can this feature not be video or channel specific so that a creator who is being targetted could switch off the count if they wanted?
Forget taxes. The wealthy derive their wealth from capital - ownership of means of making more money.

Their involvement with the tax system is chiefly to use their influence to prevent their wealth from being taxed as much as possible - not to profit from it. (Whenever possible, they will seek public investment into their own private projects, but that's not the same as surreptitously siphoning off tax money for their own coffers.)
It's all about Wojcicki. The fact she runs YouTube never ceases to amaze me given that she ran Google Video, which failed largely because she was obsessed with 'professional' content and bet against user generated content. That bet was wrong to such a huge extent she was reduced to recommending Google buy her only competitor.

Somehow, despite this failure as an executive - a failure of the kind that got Vic Gundotra fired - she has not only not been fired but ended up running the site that beat her, where she has spent the last half decade trying to turn it back into Google Video.
UK Treasury and Bank of England starting to sound serious about 'Britcoin'
Yikes. I’d rather we find a way to teach kids without crippling their browsers or threatening to put them in cages.
How are the pn junctions created? The article says I can "optionally" dope the wafers. Why is that optional? Are they doped to create both p and n areas, or just one type? Or are multiple wafers used? Or are areas somehow doped after etching? Thank you for entertaining my dumb software person questions.
> Doing business from the US is a minefield today

As opposed to doing business from China. Hmm, really.....
A GUI this simple is that hard. Not compared to learning some of the foibles of CLI programming. What the hell is a stderr and why is >| giving me an error? Reading man pages is a skill unto itself. For those raised on Windows with Visual Studio (not VSCode, but OG Visual Studio), the utility's GUI is quick and easy. Definitely within the 4 hours window if you yolo design a GUI. A button for enable/disable, and a config option for which file to dump the URLs to. How each student decides the UX for the GUI should be is up to them, but that's flexibility in the assignment at the university level, and shouldn't be a profession experience in project management.