skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a weird take, considering the reality how the NSA mass spying on Germans, and even Merkel, is quite legal and has been for many decades [0].

So while NATO forces are really big on supporting "strong crypto" for their own practical needs, what they were not really big on is supporting strong privacy rights for them West German people, as that would just "complicate" finding all those Communist spies and sympathizers.

Who were suspected to be everywhere, as split Germany was pretty much the main battlefield of the covert cold war.

That's why the West German G-10 law was specifically modified [1] at the request of the NSA [2] to legalize their, and that of NATO forces, mass spying on German citizens.

Btw: In terms of "Nazi encryption" it's a bit odd to make a statement like that, the Nazis, just like the USSR, the US, or pretty much any formal military force, did and still do use "strong crpyto" for their own needs [3].

That's why conflating encryption tech with privacy rights, as if they're just synonyms, is quite misleading.

[0] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-10/nsa-uerberwa...

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/2014...

[2]https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
You mean China owned TikTok?
>Is there actual data on this somewhere that shows how the number of likes and dislikes affect users likelihood to watch?

I'm unaware of such statistics.

>You don't even see the number of likes or dislikes in the video listing page, right?

Correct, the dislikes count was only visible if you clicked into the video. So users that depend on the dislikes count to avoid a bad video would have to click into each video and take a quick glance at the dislikes/likes ratio. If the dislikes are too high, immediately exit out and click the next video.

>I've only ever used the like button a handful of times when I want to quickly save a video. I've never used the dislike.

I also never use the Like & Dislike _buttons_ but that's not relevant to how I found the dislikes _counts_ useful. (Because enough of other viewers expressed their vote by pressing the dislike button.)

> I always thought of them more as a metric YouTube uses in their algorithm and not something people pay much attention to

Lots of viewers pay attention them especially when searching for new videos from unknown creators who are not in their feed. A short video from MKBHD explains the usefulness of dislikes counts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaaJyRvvaq8

E.g. a tech conference might have generated 50 videos each an hour in length. The ones with too many dislikes, I just skip. The dislikes stats helped prioritize what to watch in this age of information overload.

>which can still be the case when the numbers are hidden. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Yes, Youtube says the algorithm will still consider dislikes even though they are hidden for recommendations. But people still want to see numerical stats to quickly curate videos that Youtube did not recommend.
I doubt YouTube’s comment ranking would put this at the top, since it looks a lot like the type of brigading that they are trying to reduce with this change.
I doubt we will see convincing androids in any of our lifetimes.

How about this senerio though.

I heard our President yak about his accomplishments this morning. I was half asleep, but felt his voice sounded different. I thought maybe just hoarse, or I was wrong about his voice.

I was thinking about his appearance. I don't know if I would recognize him if he walked up to me on the street without the suit.

Ok the Hollywood script.

Joe biden goes into a hospital. He only wants certain Secret Service personnel around.

His boy, and wife, are tragically killed in a plane accident.

Joe decides he needs grieving time.

The year before all this happens the NSO finds a lookalike Joe Biden, and performs all the necessary surgery.

A few more weeks pass, and the switch is performed. The real Joe is gone. The fake one is in power.

Then China, or Russia, have control.

(I guess if there was suspicion--the FBI could perform a dna test though? I think someone did this in a movie.)
Study uncovers a feedback loop effect between attachment anxiety and mani (cont)
Study:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356756711_Latest_st...
You can offset some of the risk in the stairs with simple aids, like a secondary banister, better carpet (no trip hazards).

Ultimately you'll need to employ in-home carers in increasing numbers unless you're going to give up work.
Productivity is based on labor hours not cost.

In my labor intensive business processes, I’ve used technolgy to control cost. My CFO doesn’t give a rats ass about headcount, just dollars. The people we hire or contract are dumber and cheaper today than they were in 2005.

Whole industries run like this. Hotels, government, manufacturing, etc. You might have a company with 3,000 people where key decisions are made by 5. Smartphones and services replaced supervisors and dispatchers with text messages. Many of those labor hours are inefficient as a result, but very cheap.
If you end up taking a gap semester, I highly recommend spending time in Dar es Salaam. It's a great city, tons of people everywhere, lots to see and do. The population explosion[0] and median age of ~19 (compared to ~39 in the US) gives it a vibrancy and dynamism that is hard to find in the West.

There would be challenging moments during your stay of course, but if you play your cards right and talk with the right people, you'll get a sense of what's in play there and how you might be able to contribute should you choose to return to the region.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/dar-es-salaam...
Just as the only muons that reach deep-underground neutrino detectors are of very high energy, only the most-upvotable non-tech stories (think Omicron breaking news and mortars-up-the-bum) make it to the front page.
It supports MathJax without a plugin, so at least a subset of LaTeX.
Some money is more fungible than others. Crypto is a little less so: look at the DAO that tried to buy a copy of the US Constitution and failed, only small $ contributors can't get their donation back without losing most/all in gas.
If they don’t care, why do anything?
Well, the stock dropped 42% today after missing on revenue so you might be on to something...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DOCU
HN is the most heavily moderated, manipulated and astro-turned forum I've even seen, but you don't realize that until the mods start suppressing your posts and comments. Titles are constantly edited for no apparent reason, users who post unpopular facts are permanently penalized, and you can watch as negative stories about large tech companies are quickly flagged off the front page.

There's literally zero transparency here. At least on Reddit you can track the censorship in real time.
Oh, wow. If it does it’s SUPER subtle. I started a ride in full sunlight and then went in full tree cover forest on gravel. I never noticed the lenses change, only the brightness of the LED.

It was visible the whole time though, which was impassible. Like, I TRIED to shake these things off my head going over tree roots, lol
This is a huge inconvenience, and dressing it up as an "Exciting Update" is Orwellian. I was a paying subscriber, but I'll be cancelling my subscription now.
Ebay AND Paypal are scams
> FYI 'Productivity' is not 'How Hard We Work' - it's a measure of profit/hour.

Productivity is revenue/unit of time (generally hour).
Great article. I think this idea does have relevance for searching prior art to bust patents, as the author allows. But this would not be a huge business.

It's funny that he says "A naive system will weigh the insights extracted from a useless publication equally to a seminal work." This is exactly why prior art searching is a good application -- there is absolutely no difference in value of a "great" paper (in a scientific sense) over a "useless" one! They are both prior art.
mRNA and gene therapy is moving quickly, but not quickly enough for some folks :(
Everything can be dual use for "haxxoring".
> HN situations are also monitored by the site operators themselves, who intervene. YT is too vastly big for that.

Agreed. Another way of framing this is that HN is sponsored by an organization that makes a lot more money per HN user than Google makes per YouTube user. In other words, HN users don’t have to pay for their own moderation by generating revenue in the same way YouTubes users do.
Changing your password is probably your best bet then.

You could also enable 2FA if not already enabled, or perhaps, disabling then re-renabling it might help.
Your server seems to return a 500 error when sent a HEAD request:

% curl -I https://svija.love/en/wtf
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:35:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 145
Connection: keep-alive
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Vary: Cookie, Accept-Language
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Referrer-Policy: same-origin
Content-Language: en
The majority of YouTube traffic comes from mobile devices (this can be observed in Google Ads for any video campaign), which is losing market share because of Tictoc.

Google will do whatever it takes to monetize every inch of their investment. By turning off dislikes, users will be forced to engage with additional content.

This is also visible on the other side of the spectrum - Google is pushing heavily integrated campaign products (e.g. Performance Max Campaigns), which include non-performing channels as display and video (in comparison to search), which can't be turned off.

At this point they can, as they are a monopoly, but I hope they will get burned, as they are introducing more and more dark patterns, which result in lower than poor user experience.

My take on this - AdBlock relentlessly, support creators directly. Switch platforms eventually - there's choice out there.
Well said. I can tell you're speaking from hard-earned experience. To respect your aging parent's agency as long as their mental faculties permit is one of the greatest acts of love one can give to their parent. It might be hard to watch at times -- a single fall can turn a man who is a young 80 into a man who is an old 80. But our obligation is not to infantilize our aging parents, but to love, respect, and help them when it's needed. They know they're a banana peel away from the old folk's home or a cold slab. They've wrestled with, reasoned with, and made peace with the indignities of old age and infirmity. They know what lies around the next bend, and it ain't pretty. Respect their choices. Bad stuff happens to old people even when they are compliant with the wishes of those who would protect them. Give them their freedom and dignity even though it comes with risk.

I don't say you shouldn't reason with them, plead with them, and explain the dangers to them. But never forget to respect their wishes. They know what comes next and accept it. Do you?
Everyone always talking about simple code. But what can we agree on that makes code simple?
No answers found: Because they're looking in the wrong place. I believe that the 'Havana Syndrome' is actually a workplace-injury. And caused by something they guys do at work, or have had done to them at work.

Badly ventilated working conditions? Noise? Vaccinations? Accidental poisoning? Asbestos or some physical thing similar that would produce an injury? Nerve agent exposure or antidote to nerve agents that would produce toxicity, as happened with 'Gulf Syndrome'?
>I'm of the opinion that there's nothing to gain from fans having engines open during a game

Isn't this game a great argument for engines. Using a threshold of 2 to be well above your 1.5 this game had a total of 4 moments where one of the players had a very good chance for a win, and one of those moments was for Nepo:

https://analysis.sesse.net/

Having the engine show you that is a great complement to hearing the commentary from top super GMs. Why would you throw away that part of the coverage?

>But in this game, even when we hit the tablebase results, where the result is a foregone conclusion for the machines, they still don't reflect the outcome of a human game, especially when the time controls start to get more stressful.

While true I think the solution is to double down and extract metrics from the engine search that reflect that. Not only the evaluation of the position but also how narrow the path is for white and black, to better understand how even if it's a draw from the machine's point of view, how hard of a draw it will be for the human to hold.
The system could prevent a horrific accident if a health problem causes you to become disoriented or lose consciousness while driving.
Unfortunately people guard this stuff closely for fear of airlines catching on, or at least they used to. I haven’t looked at it seriously in a couple of years but airlines were making a real effort to tighten up fare rules to cut down on this. Even when I was doing it a lot, all of the easy stuff was already mostly fixed, save for the odd mistake here or there.

I for instance would never post the hacks I’ve discovered, and would only share them with a select few. It’s self preservation, but once they’re known, travel bloggers spread them and every Karen ends up doing it.
Small businesses/enterprises that could give a damn about the web really.

For example: If I'm starting a restaurant, I can have someone design a cool-looking menu, and then basically host that as an SVG-based site and be done with it. I'll probably want to get my own domain, but I don't need to pay someone who knows how to wrestle with HTML to make it look like the printed menu.
Oh sorry, I mixed up my numbers, thanks for the correction.
The parent comment doesn't imply that it was the Israeli government that was doing the spying (and neither does the article), only that Israel delivered the tools. Who's to say this wasn't the CIA keeping tabs on the NSA, or the NSA using foreign tools for plausible deniability?
This is 100% true, it's just that I can't get over the idea that since programming is more useful while creative at the same time it seems a better pastime than designing graphics.
If this was a Russian/Iranian/Chinese company, we'd already have a news conference by the US DoS, declaring sanctions, freezing assets, and calling for an international coalition to contain the rogue state that's threatening world peace.

But this is a Israeli company, so it's just another "scandal" that scrolls trough the news feed, it will be forgotten by next week, to be completely memory holed by next year.
> RSS/Atom feeds and video files you can play with whatever video player you want seems like it'd cover most of those concerns?

Absolutely, as long as there was widespread agreement in both the distribution mechanism and important video features like closed captions.

> The relatively closed nature of YouTube isn't necessarily something you'd want to replicate.

No, but the consistency and ability to get everything in one place is pretty vital, and is something you pretty much get for free from single centralized sources. The closed nature is obviously one of the huge downsides.

> The bigger issue would be search and discovery, especially since I can't think of any obvious way to prevent services from spoofing engagement data to influence rankings.

Yep. Another big one is the cost of serving videos.
And [Brew](https://brew.sh)
So you are making blind accusations when there is a better explanation, i.e., it was the Israelis.
GP may be simply wrong about some of the facts but you are crossing the HN guidelines in multiple ways at once.
Hopefully you will have enough money to pay AWS once they raise their prices.

I am not sure what will happen if you will not?
>However, when you tally up the bill for 2 teachers per every 10 or fewer students to make that happen, suddenly everybody starts screaming and objecting.

If you want to hear screaming and objecting, try to suggest that teachers need to be competent and tested in the areas in which they teach. Yes, if we had an entirely different educational system with an intelligent, competent teacher for every 5 students instead of a semi-literate, incompetent teacher with 30 kids in every classroom, some of these "reforms" might make more sense. But that isn't what we are seeing. Advanced math and gifted programs are being eliminated with the same semi-literate, incompetent teacher still responsible for 30 kids. Only now the few bright kids and the few kids who work very hard to excel will have no opportunity to do so. They will sit at the back of the class and scroll on their phones while the barely competent teacher struggles to crawl through a remedial lesson that the dumbest 10 kids in class cannot master. But we'll have equity when all of them are handed the same worthless diploma after 12 years.
I would start with something like k3s locally for simplicity.

Then check out the O'Reilly book, Kubernetes: Up & Running.

The official Kubernetes tutorial is pretty good too.
The good/bad implementation of instruction by any one professor or institution is irrelevant to the point made by the GP, especially when they didn't stipulate study at a college level. There are more ways to learn than in a classroom.
In slow games (classical, rapid) it's considered disrespectful to keep playing if your position is clearly hopeless, as is perceived as wasting your opponent's time or insulting their ability to play out the winning moves.

In fast games (bullet, blitz), anything goes and it's much more common to see games end in a checkmate - or very close to one - as players will often play to the bitter end to maximize the chance of their opponent making a mistake under time pressure, or running out of time completely.
With literally zero information or reasoning given by eBay, one can always invent a justifiable cause for eBay's actions out of thin air. Given their behavior, do they deserve this much benefit of the doubt?
My account is completely shadowbanned and I don't know why. Googling around gives an impression that that doesn't happen. My comments aren't removed, they're just invisible. Oh I'm also banned on here so yay for me
> Main indicator of this is that on HN it's not uncommon to see an upvoted comment that has almost exclusively argumentative replies

It could be that people who agree upvote without replying, people who disagree reply to argue against it. HN discourages non-substantive replies; if you agree with everything someone says, it can be hard to generate a substantive reply to it. (In practice, occasional non-substantive agreeing replies are tolerated, but people who do it more than occasionally often encounter some pushback.)
Inline (markdown-embedded) LaTeX, yeah. You can also export to PDF. But I would definitely not use it as a full-blown (La)TeX environment.

Although, it is a perfectly good environment for drafting such manuscripts.
New ideas aren't a hard sell. Cumbersome ideas that cost more than the benefit are a hard sell.
The 'secondary effects' are bigger houses than ever, more toys than ever, more entertainment than ever, safer, more fuel efficient cars, more vacation (it's not much in the US though), more vacation travel etc..

"Educational YouTube channels should lead to more educated and therefore more productive people."

Possibly, but also less demand for a big source of labour productivity, which is education.

And of course there is home life: if a Mother (or Father) stays home to mind the kids, all of the effort they do doesn't count towards labour input, GDP etc. but if they were paying someone for it, it would.
I find a lot of them hilariously funny actually.
This makes me wonder if I have a case to sue Airbnb for being banned for life for refusing to pay a large fee for damages I didn’t incur, they asked me to prove I didn’t turn the gas on in a stove (that I never used) and leave it, causing the fire dept to break the door open, the cost of an emergency locksmith and the large metal door was > $1500 and I wouldn’t have used Airbnb again after that, but it really rubbed me the wrong way when I asked for things like a report from the fire dept, the bill for the locksmith, and they refused to provide it to me and asked me to provide my own evidence. Perhaps they have video of me drunkenly bumping into the stove knob, even so I have a hard time seeing how it’s my job to evaluate the safety of appliances at a rental location.
Definitely. Another factor I think about a lot is what I call "managerial diversion". As a simple example, imagine one of those meetings where a boss calls it to feel important. E.g., a "progress report" meeting where each person tells the boss what is going on while everybody else just tries to look alert.

To me this is a diversion of resources from productive use. Managers get to feel powerful, important, smart. But neither investors nor customers benefit. At the team level, it's often just wasted hours here and there. But as you scale up, it gets worse. I've plenty of expensive corporate projects that were really just resume-builders for some executive.

How much more productive would each of us be if the management chain was reasonably effective and reasonably selfless?
Real analysis courses vary a lot between schools. On YouTube I’ve seen 3rd year real analysis exam questions that were covered in my first year calculus course. All math students at my school had to deal with them.

On the other hand, in my real analysis course we worked with metric spaces, topological spaces, Hilbert spaces, the Baire Category Theorem, etc. I doubt most students in “a typical math degree” would be studying these topics outside of a pure mathematics specific degree program.
Hey Nick! Thanks for linking to this! Had seen this once and forgot to bookmark it! While reorganizing all my knowledge notes lately just kept racking the brain on who created it.
Fair enough, but is there any evidence that the seasons influenced the selection of a seven-day week in those areas where it was adopted freely?
That's a pretty weird statement, if one of his colleagues would swipe cash that travelers put in the bins then they should fire their ass and move them to the 'not good people' column. Stealing isn't something that defines you as human.
Experienced caregivers are incredible. And expensive, but worth it.

We started off by being completely unwilling to accept how my mother was losing her abilities. In hindsight, we should have gotten her a medical alert button way earlier. Eventually we started sending a helper every day to my mother's own house, then moved her to a full-assist home. Then hospice, then death.

It's difficult to plan in advance for these things. The only way to get reduced-cost services (in the US) is for the parent/s to become legally destitute and then each state is different on what services they offer (if any).
This was a lot of fun, thanks for building it!
I use a tool called stup now and was going to recommend it but now I’m intrigued by this.
Edge browser now warns users about the dangers of downloading Google Chrome
I failed to do this throughout my first career. It’s one of my biggest professional regrets - perhaps the biggest. Reader, don’t be like me.
Megadeth $MEGA crypto – how to buy?
eBay works well until something goes wrong, then it fails totally. The reason is that it is totally automated. When you received a “letter” like the one you got it is natural to assume that there is someone behind it who knows what they are doing. In fact it is a bot.
You cant ask a bot “why” it did something. It doesn’t know. eBay is a much too early version of machine “intelligence”. In fact it is not intelligent at all. This makes life easy for thieves.
The whole business model assumes that no one will ever have to be paid wages to sort things out. There is no budget to do so. The complaint process is just a bit of theatre to disguise the fact that you are being gaslighted.Time spent on getting a reply is time wasted. “They” don't care. In fact “they” don’t exist.