skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We want to create an inclusive and respectful environment where creators have the opportunity to succeed and feel safe to express themselves.

It's an interesting position because the assumption YouTube would have to be making here to do this is that their viewers opinion of the content they're watching is either wrong, or irrelevant.

Also the only instances of dislike "harassment" and I am aware of has been because a content creator has been recently exposed for participating in some immoral activity such as a scam or sexual abuse.

The only other time I see content heavily downvote is when it's disagreeable in some way. For example, a lot of content from mainstream media outlets is often downvoted, presumably not because people have any particular desire to harass news organisations, but because their content is often largely disapproved of.

I must admit I've never seen a video get downvoted for no reason -- is this something anyone has observed on YouTube? The reason I ask is because I worry this move is more likely to be motivated by YouTube disagreeing with the viewers about what should and shouldn't be downvoted. For example, I very much doubt they care some white dude being "harassed" by the dislike button for expressing some racist ideas, but if a black women gets downvoted for expressing a controversial far-left political position that does seem to be viewed as more problematic and represented of "harassment" by silicon valley types these days.
I respect that time brings change, at first I would likely never need to use it and could easily keep it off.

However that’s not how things work - and eventually I will be forced to use it to achieve the tasks I achieve today without it.

Advocate for yourself, but don’t pretend to advocate on my behalf when you’re actually just advocating for yourself.

Then when everyone is advocating for themselves - that will reveal who is the actual minority.
Hacker News does not have a downvote button for the majority of its users.
Add the cost of a router that supports e.g. Mullvad and the monthly subscription to the rental cost, then advertise "uncensored Internet" as a feature.
HN has also snarkily informed me many times that demand for gasoline is completely inelastic.

Never mind that the pump price of gas changes every day, especially when there's an oil refinery explosion, or glut, or whatever. It's a classic example of demand shaping via price. And it works because demand for gas is elastic.

The only time this did not work was when the government regulated oil prices and which stations got a gas allocation. Older folks like me might remember this - long gas lines in the 1970s. Gas lines that disappeared literally overnight when Reagan repealed the price and allocation controls.
> wanting to restrict hate-speech and misinformation is not a dangerous thing in and of itself, but it should be done with great caution and hesitancy

Agree (This is my personal view, and not of my employers)
An engine replaced 2 years ago should absolutely not fail and should be under warranty.
stocks are still a better inflation hedge than bitcoin
(Founder here - glad to see the post)

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There are several companies offering this out there. ILM definitely doesn’t have it “locked up”.
True, but that's a problem for future debtors, and those who gamble with variable interest rates.
<shudder> reaching into the bowels of YT comments is something i regularly try to avoid. "put on a helmet and pads, and get in there"
Do you have a source for that claim? Is anything in the article factually incorrect?
Removing downvotes from SO seems like it would be a net good. Instead of downvoting, people could be more encouraged to post better and more correct solutions.

A good intermediate solution would be to only record downvotes that come with a comment.
as an aside, the seeds of the military-industrial complex started with WWI (from observing japan and germany), not WWII, though it didn’t really get going until the impending second war impelled it into overdrive via the reconstituted war production board. and it didn’t really become part of the popular vernacular until 1961 via eisenhower’s speech about it. by then it was already an entrenched part of our gdp, to our collective detriment (it uncovered for other industries the government teat from which to suck money).
Cleese didn't blacklist himself, he cancelled the Cambridge Union. Cambridge suffers the greater loss in that transaction.
Yeah, I get the insinuation and I'm responding to that: ignoring for a moment the thing about the proper definition of a ponzi scheme (sibling threads already go into that), the claim is more or less that Uber's business model bleeds cash unsustainably on core verticals to capture investor endearment, but that cash is limited and the party has to come to an end.

What I'm pointing out is that a) the argument about "duping investors" doesn't really make any sense anymore now that Uber is a public company (since raising VC rounds by giving them paper equity is no longer really a thing), b) the balance sheet numbers have been trending towards positive cash flow (and fairly aggressively, at that), even despite a pandemic that could accurately be described as the worst thing that could possibly happen in this industry segment and c) the core vertical (rides) is actually cash flow positive and funding other parts of the business.
I actually didn't get a job for over-commiting. I hit a point where things were working, and wanted to be able to git-diff in VS Code, and they declined my application due to that.

I was going to push as well, as I wanted to make sure that was set up right, but they associated that with 'pushing untested code to production'
length ≠ effort
I think OP may have been using a literary device known as an analogy.
~70% of people who have "bad trips" don't regret the experience.

The terminology is actually being phased out, especially in the medical community. "Good" and "bad" might be appropriate descriptors if you're just trying to get high and have fun, but they're not quite right if you're trying to work on yourself and your mental health.

Some trips are easy, some trips are difficult, and just like in real life, it's often the difficult journeys which cause us to learn and grow most.
Latest inflation reading hits highest level in three decades
I didn't suggest it was a magic bullet. There are no magic bullets. But there are many strategies that can add up to a pretty effective solution.
Very sad to see this move, pathetic.
The MSRP for my Tesla Model Y, which I got May 2020 and has 17k miles now, was ~$54k. For kicks I asked Vroom for a quote and they were willing to pay $61.5k in my area... If this weren't my only car, I would probably be taking them up on it.
A good twelve years. Go really changed the way I think about programming. I used to be excited by programming language features instead of what problem I was actually trying to solve with programming. I'd spend hours condensing 10 lines of perfectly working code into 1 line of the most concise text possible; huffman encoded better than even gzip could imagine. And I'd feel great about it. I'd imagine people reading it and thinking "wow, there's no way I'll ever be as smart as jrockway, I should nominate him for Extreme Excellence And Awesomeness award!" Sadly, there is no such thing. Go taught me that it's just structs, for loops, and if statements, and if you want someone to be impressed, they should be impressed by what the program does for them, not what language features you used to implement it.

It has also ruined other programming languages for me. "go get" doesn't print 30 lines of text telling me that a new minor version of "go get" is available, and that I should stop what I'm doing, rm -rf node_modules, upgrade it, and then resume what I'm doing. It just pauses for a bit, and then I have the library. (I also love reading about the node community's push to make installing libraries not run arbitrary code on your machine. Yeah, I've been doing that for years with Go. It's great. I can use a library and it can't print a "hire me!!!" ad at install time. What an innovation!)

I also remember struggling for years with not being able to run other people's software. There was an RPM package, but not a Debian package, so I have to build it from source. ./configure; make; oh no, the c compiler I have can't compile this code. With Go, you can just emit a binary for every supported platform dump the binary somewhere, and everyone in the world can download it and run it. No installing packages, no finding the right version of Go (that doesn't exist in your Linux distribution because they never ship up to date versions of programming languages). Just software, running, forever.

It's really good stuff. Go is the tool that lets me make software, and not worry about bullshit. And that's revolutionary, even 12 years later.
yes you're right, who cares about our digital infrastructure, it's not like it is an industry where some of most valuable companies in the world are in, right? /s
The CCP are in a similar position to the west: if they let one mega corp fail, others might, if others might maybe you need to re-evaluate your investments in all of China?

Here in the west we've just extended indefinite credit (13 years and counting). So it's a bit of a pivotal moment for the CCP imho. It might turn out they're more committed to markets than we are :)
If by mainstream you mean cheap? Yes. But if you wanted to spend money on reliability it was the original option.
It's because their explanation is nonsensical on its face. How is a dislike "harassment"? How are genuine groups of people downvoting something an "attack"? YouTube isn't like HN where likes and dislikes are summed. People disliking a video doesn't change how many people liked it, both are visible.

This seems to come from a culture in which disliking someone, disagreeing with them or telling the they're wrong is the worst offense possible. In no way is it comparable to actual harassment, so of course people speculate about alternatives.
Like/Dislike is a terrible indicator of quality. I'd rather they make public some sort of derivation from the video retention ratio. Wether or not people actually finished the video rather than smashed the like button (which is now an ask every creator has in their intro now) would be a way more useful indicator to me of quality.
Inflation surges to its highest since 1990
Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer
Study on mice found palmitic acid promoted metastasis in mouth and skin cancers ...
At this point, Google can just add YouTube likes as an in-app purchase. 1000 likes for $10 or something like that.
I think there can be a difference between how people behave and what people want. Which means there is a huge difference between what people want to engage with and what they do engage with. For example, TikTok will aggressively optimize your feed based on what you watch. If you get hooked on a video which makes you angry or reactive (like a political take), TikTok will show you more of it. You end up engaging with that content despite not wanting to.

None of social media is optimized around what people like or enjoy watching. It is only optimized on one thing: engagement to drive ad revenue via addictive practices. Engagement != enjoyment. That especially includes YouTube.
It depends on how the players offload the files. Some players can offload it to GPU (if it have specific format hardware decoding support), some use the CPU to do the processing. Check your player setting and see which one it is using. My MPC-BE player will tell me if the player is using the GPU to decode.

And at the same time, it depends on if the file have 8-bits or 10-bits. Some CPU/GPU don't have the support for 10-bits which can offload it to the software decoding which can be resource intensive for your system to decode the file at the software level.
Inability to express your feelings does not have anything to do with being genuine or honest. The result being convoluted mess of text have zero to do with it bring inauthentic.

Plus, sometimes people can write super dishonest texts they are totally cool with. It is pretty often much much easier to express inauthentic things.
So is this a good time to sell my car if I don't really use it or should I hold onto it?
Set up the cost incentives, and the market will adapt.
Saying that an openly leftist corporation is doing something to help out fellow leftists is pretty far from "next-level conspiracy."
What it offers is that code you didn't write is significantly easier to read & understand than in most languages.
How much do we give them before drawing a line? Surely it isn't everything they ask for, and realistically it isn't zero. Look at Connecticut. They gave GE everything they wanted, and their state coffers suffered, and then GE left anyway, and now they are really screwed. Or look at how much Foxconn made off with in Wisconsin.

But some people whinge when anyone claims corporations should follow even the smallest accountability or regulation.
Okay, so now there is no way for me to tell if a video is a waste of my time or not.

Fuck Youtube. they need a competitor.
While "crypto" is the same length as "money" it means "cryptocurrency" which is way longer than "cash". This link explains it: https://youtu.be/kc4Ob6LAv8Y
> It just flat out won’t. Instead you’ll spend most of your time figuring out how to mate these functions with other services from that cloud provider.

If this happens it means the workload wasn't built correctly to start using 12FA/SOLID principals.

> The perceived value fallacy

Unsure of the point being made here. Serverless is a consumption based model - entirely opex in all the best ways.

> the promise of it [serverless] reducing the only code you write to business logic remains sadly unfulfilled.

While true, it doesn't paint the entire picture either (see the first point above). Most serverless becomes boilerplate at some point within an organization. In mature orgs with mature serverless deployments this is built into the CICD pipeline. This doesn't even require a large org with a dedicated platform team: a small team can do this easily but it does take time, some experience, and some good planning. Yes, the providers oversell the capabilities but they're not a complete lie.
On Interactive Retrocomputing
Night/day meters are not granular enough.
What is a computer if not a very fancy programmable calculator?
>Statistically zero people make any effort, other than maybe saying the government should limit government data mining. Here is an idea, turn off mobile phone location tracking this weekend.

What, exactly, do you mean by "mobile phone location tracking"?

Your phone provider needs to be able to locate your device to provide voice and data services. You'd need to remove your battery to disable that "phone location tracking." In which case, it's just a lump of glass and plastic. Which might make a good paperweight.

As for "location services" and GPS, I never turn those on.

As I said, the data shouldn't be collected -- at all. That's a regulatory issue, not a technical one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29175110
I don't believe reddits obfuscation efforts did anything but significantly hamper spammers who relied on accurate counting to be able to determine when their spam accounts were shadowbanned and the reach they had.

Reddit has always had a significant problem with downvote meaning "disagree" or "dislike", which according to redditquette is incorrect usage. 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.
And resonant cavities, the best mirrors ever made, and a huge amount of cleverness and work over 40+ years.
> To have full rights in a civilised society, you need to prove that you can be a good citizen first. What's wrong with that?

That’s literally not the case anywhere though. Maybe China’s social credit system, maybe, but even then I think you start with a presumed “innocence”.

I can’t think of any system of rights that are afforded after evidence merit and not birth. That’s not what rights are.

Not going to ask you what full rights means, as it implies you consider rights a gift from a government and not restrictions on a government.
Agree about TGA, it is trivially easy to write. Example in C# for grayscale version, a single page of code: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/1.2/VrmacInterop/Util...

BMP is more complicated, unfortunately. The header structure is more complex. And then there’s a requirement for rows to be 4-bytes aligned, might need to insert padding bytes between the rows.
Then higher electric costs for you!
String suckers along until he dies a natural death
This seems like more of a tar problem than a zip problem, unless I'm missing something, given the lack of compression on Hop.
Users flagged it. It set off the flamewar detector. A moderator downweighted it. I don't know in which order.

All of that is not just standard on HN, it's routine enough to be in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

p.s. Since your account has been primarily posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, I've banned it. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Helps to know who are the people that don't buy whatever it is that Google is pushing. At the very least serve them carefully selected content to change their ways.
> Its well known that abstractions are the devil.

Then why are you programming in Go, instead of directly writing x86-64 machine code? Remember that even assembly is an abstraction...
You can watch videos on YouTube, or not, and it ends there.

Nothing about this "removes dissent" since comments still exist. And you know, the entire mechanisms of government and public protest which predated YouTube.

What it removes is the ability for people to gamify a metric. The metric still exists. It's still used for ranking and personalization.

But a brigade of leftists swarming a button on a video that mentioned nuclear energy isn't useful.
We, at least, spend a fair bit of time on:

- Advertising and dark patterns

- What else can be inferred about you from seemingly innocuous information, and potential misuse

- Durability of your digital footprint

- Security, file types, etc.

Education doesn't fix these issues, though. Even well-educated developers would often give up and click 'Allow' on a modal privilege escalation box that pops up repeatedly in research. And if I need to get something done and it doesn't work I'm pretty quick to re-enable scripts and tracking.
HN and reddit have a similar problem of conflating accuracy with "I (dis)agree with this"
One apparently, but it has no armaments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMTSS_Te_Mataili_II_(802)
anecdotally; the lower end of the car market doesn't really seem affected. prices for 10+ year old cars that aren't "nice" but are easily reliable with regular maintenance still seem widely available and cheap.

tangentially; I have always seen the premium for a nice car to be a really low value at normal income levels.
Which is ironic in some ways since even a complete end to climate change wouldn't make Tuvalu a reasonable place to try to live. Poor soil, no fresh ground water, minimal other resources, and even without sea levels rising the islands would still be sinking. Islands like this come and go (on geological time scales) independent of any human-induced climate change. When they're no longer viable the residents migrate somewhere else. I'm not trying to downplay the real disruption involved for the very small group that's made their home there for the past few centuries, but they're not victims of climate change to any meaningful degree; this is simply how life works for people who settle in places like Tuvalu.
>Isn't autoplay the normal, default setting?

Not in my world it's not. I'm pretty sure FF has disabled autoplay as well as default. The only time autoplay is allowed is when listening a "full album" play list. But that's only after I've scrolled the list to make sure some asshat hasn't pushed in a rando video below the first page.
Does this work with CockroachDB?
Seems like a middle ground solution might be to restrict the display of downvotes to videos that meet a certain viewership threshold. That way organic voting would make brigading more difficult.
Youtube Alternatives :

Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller, Gab TV

Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube
Since Hop doesn't do compression, the most appropriate comparison would be to asar

https://github.com/electron/asar

It's not hard being faster than zip if you are not compressing/uncompressing.
My understanding is that JPEG2000 never really demonstrated, in experiment, that it was better than JPEG at the types of images and use cases which JPEG was already designed for (photographic images, lossy compression). This use case is such a dominant use case for the web. If you wanted similar quality levels for JPEG and JPEG2000, you often got similar file sizes. I could dig up some of the tests, but the basic gist of it is that at lower file sizes, JPEG2000 would get blurry and JPEG would get that funky blocky noise it gets.

This is the result of actual experiments with human subjects judging image quality.

I haven't really heard claims that JPEG2000 is better, actually. I remember people saying that it was "supposed" to be better, but not by people who dug into it and made comparisons with human eyeballs.

There were some images that would appear visibly better with JPEG2000, like photographs with those beautiful fields of defocused color. JPEG2000 captured those fields of color with all the smoothness they originally had.
Yeah they've always updated Safari on the previous version of macOS, but that's pretty far from being evergreen, and the average user isn't going to be using the technology preview.

Take Chrome for example, where there's roughly an update every 60 days and the option for them to push out security fixes quicker.

Imagine having to wait for an operating system update (major or minor version) to just get the latest secure version of Chrome. That's pretty much where Safari is, especially on iOS.

Don't get me wrong, I think Safari gets a lot of unwarranted hate and it can certainly be a bit quirky here and there, but if they didn't have to wait for the next major/minor release of macOS/iOS to update Safari I think it'd be in a much better place.
> Disney, DC Comics and the like must've complained about bad ratings/unfavourable like/dislike ratios I guess..

I think it was mostly about politics.
Why are dealer market adjustments ridiculous? We live and breathe market forces. No one ever, ever, complains about market adjustments in their favor.
Simple. Set the A/C temp to lower than comfortable during the peak solar times. Your house won't heat up immediately, if you've insulated it properly.
The change was being explored years before Biden was president

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/youtube-doesnt-like-...
resizing can be done using our image syntax. eg. `![a pic](/assets/images/2020-09-13-08-45-00.png){max-width: 300px}`. no support for cropping from inside dendron though I'm almost sure there's at least one vscode extension that can do that