skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well no.

For example, you claim that Vimeo "vimeo has all of those [features] to some degree".

But it doesn't. Vimeo isn't ad supported (this is literally their main differentiator from youtube). Doesn't appear to do algorithmic curation/recommendation (again, they consider this a differentiator), and has a tiny fraction of the upload rate and watchtime of youtube (so bandwidth and transcoding cost are lower).

Those are related to their distinct strategies: Youtube aims to be the product where anyone can share video for free (that's youtube's strategy!). Vimeo doesn't aim to do that. Doing the first invites challenges of scale that the second doesn't. Youtube operates at a scale where it makes sense to hire silicon engineers to build custom video transcoding chips. That doesn't make sense for vimeo.

You can maybe argue that Youtube was only successful because of Google's existing ad business (although I don't know how true/organizationally valid this argument is), but the idea that the "strategy" behind Youtube was to be illegal is sort of ridiculous.

And heck, OP of the thread even offers examples of successful competitors in the broad video media space: Twitch and TikTok (and arguably also Instagram via Reels). Youtube does have competitors in terms of video social media. It also has competitors in terms of video hosting. What it doesn't have is competitors in terms of scale (Reels and Tiktok limit content size, Twitch stores only a small fraction of streamed videos, vimeo makes you pay for the storage and bandwidth you use). That's due to a lot of technical optimizations that are difficult to replicate.
> The real problem is training, and much like any other human problem, this one cannot be solved through technology; it has to be solved by culture changes.

What this makes me think of:

> Why test software? It's a culture problem, not a technical problem. Just write correct software.

As long as no one ever makes a mistake it's a totally valid approach...
It was actually Denzel Washington who said that: https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-if-you-don...
The goal posts have moved too far for me. Good luck.
It bugs me that the toolbar now takes up more vertical space than before. Not only does the padding just look funny, but vertical space is a premium in widescreen layouts! C'mon Microsoft!
I worked on Windows back in 2014, probably the most surprising thing joining there out of college was looking through the bug database. Every issue that gets complained about online -- and many more -- are in there, and have been for a long time, marked WONTFIX due to a potential compatibility break, lack of priority, or some other policy reason.

I don't know if anyone even owned Notepad or any other older inbox apps like the command prompt, but the issues were pretty well understood and WONTFIXed. Single undo, unicode support, unix LF support, etc, etc.

For Notepad a frustrated engineer had produced a change-set to fix all of them, and it had sat there attached to the bug for some time. It would surface on internal mail threads from time to time as a joke or a bitter reflection on bureaucracy, and if I recall a VP once chimed in to say they had looked at it, and sadly none of it could be committed due to backwards compatibility issues.

Of course the compat issues were real (you could view reports on which obscure apps hooked into this or that internal code of cmd.exe or Notepad and would break), but I always though they served as a nice justification for whichever investments were being made at the time: certainly not Notepad.

It's nice to see the wind change on that, even if it took a decade or two.
Arch, i3wm. Love having a personalized keyboard-first setup that I can say I've built over time.

A tip for those who may just be starting out: switch your LEFT-ALT and WIN keys. Also make caps lock act like ESC on tap and CTRL on long press. See xmodmap, setxkbmap and xcape for this.
Awesome Window Manager, for a few reasons.

* I like being in direct control of a text file config.

* I don't use SystemD. (And before I get flamed, I think all alternatives suck too; I just use the default on Gentoo, but intend to replace it.)

* Using Awesome means that I don't have any extraneous processes running.

* Awesome is the closest to DWM (which has a design I like) while still being usable by mere mortals.
I use it for taking quick notes fairly regularly - it's just a blank text input window and it opens immediately.
One region? I forgot how to count that low
I used to have an MX brown keyboard and one day I got the MX keys at work. I ended up buying another one for home. For some reason I like it much better and I don’t feel any strain. I type faster too.

Long story short, I think it’s all personal preference, but if you get yourself in the world of mech keyboards, the environment might change you into thinking that’s what’s good and what you should be using.
The bit about bugs in Japanese IME is a reminder to me of all the complexity that can go into the simplest things, if it has to "just work" in the fullest sense.
Sure, but I shouldn't need to do that.
The way I've always seen a Kalman filter is as a recursive least squares fitter, but instead of being run on the same input until convergence, it is run one step on every new sample of ever-changing inputs, in effect leading to a smoothing fitter.

For some reason I rarely see it being described as such.
It's not a good chart. It shows % change by city. If Miami had 500 workers move there last year, a YoY change of even 100% is not interesting.

It's also not clear who is a tech worker. If someone works at a call center for a tech company, does that count?
There is a chance that your use case is basic and hasn’t changed in 20 years, but I think there is a higher chance of it’s a case of general hatred for Microsoft.

> only bloat to keep up with the need to create a need for faster processors.

Do people not see what their feelings towards Microsoft turns them into?
Apparently also happened with an app called Squad, exactly a year ago. https://twitter.com/squad/status/1337398991210725379
That's good, but I was expecting it to contain a wheel rotating in six dimensions, forty gears and a ticking clock.
> private equity firms

Well that's clever.

PE is known to do interesting things. I would not have thought that part of the value they saw in dying newspapers is a well-timed lawsuit against big tech. Even if it only has a 25% chance of winning, I could see PE taking that bet and baking it into the value of the scraps they bought.

Here's a good, long read about what's been going on with newspaper ownership.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/alden-g...
I can't stand Cloudflare, the only cause of downtime we've in the last 5 years...we've switched to Microsoft Front door
I'd never heard of this before. I found a copy on YouTube, and it's fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s
I guess they're migrating from smuggling drugs to crypto mining with all their "free" hardware?
> support for dark mode

You mean, a severely bastardized version of functionality that Windows had back in version 3.0?

http://toastytech.com/guis/win30color.png
I see what you're saying, and it does indeed play a part in the grand picture. Many of the causes, though, are choices we made as a society. People don't want religion even if your tell them it offered important social benefits. They don't want to be forced to go somewhere one day a week, and they don't want a moral leader telling them they need to be love each other more, for example.

People also don't want to value just the presence of strangers, the way the in some countries the culture treats it as an honor just to invite people over to your home. Even in America a sense of neighborhoodliness was seen as a virtue in the past. That, though, is a positively strange idea in modern day America, in fact. I wouldn't even try to say I consider an honor to invite the awkward guy we work with over and talk with him(not saying I necessarily do have those virtues myself, I'm also a product of our times). People would not understand it at all.

I chose these particular examples because they were so common in the past and are now controversial. I'm sure someone will tell me they don't need religion or that some strains divided people more. I'm also sure some people will tell me it's weird and possibly even pointless to insist we all invite each other and make friends, even with the awkward people that have a hard time socializing, and I'm sure some will say they don't need that to be happy anyways.

Looking at large scale trends, though, these are things that were important to American society in the past that are now not so common. They were foundational to societies cohesivenessm. And they just haven't been replaced completely with institutions that replace those functions-- which is the key issue here. You don't have to be religious or invite lots of house guests-- I'm not saying that-- but damn if those kinds of things didn't provide benefits for society. And those also certainly aren't all the institutions that needs to be replaced.

I'm not entirely sure who pushed for these changes, but I do know people today relish them-- and even if their great grandparents can't out of the grave and said "I can tell your first hand these are the institutions that kept us from being lonely" I think many would still outright reject them.
Schedule it right before lunch and finish early. The interviewer will have a positive imprint of you in their lizard brain since you gave them earlier access to their food. Plus your interview will be followed up with the dopamine and please of their meal/break, which might boost their memory of you as well.
Language Plural Rules
Types of Headaches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vKBPk5eA
Rails 7.0 RC1: New JavaScript Answers, Encryption, Query Origin Logging,Zeitwerk
This is wholly incorrect. The internal tool in which you write these 5 why's specifically says:

"5 Whys" is a helpful mnemonic but authors are encouraged to use more than five causes as they complete their root cause analysis
Exactly how I feel when someone shows up to the GIS domain with Google Maps and is like “why can’t you old timers be more like this?!”
> If you are building tools for DIY artists that can’t grow to support larger teams around the artist as they find success they you have painted yourself into a tiny corner.

This is a fine point, but sometimes I wish we weren't always optimizing for infinite scaling everything. Some of my favorite places are tiny corners that are intentionally tiny corners.
Kind of negates the "Image store" feature of Cloudflare Images ...
Gnome 41.1, it just works, has everything I need and is quite simple.
Unless it’s more of a horse dewormer for democracy, which I fear a lot of media is headed towards.
Whether or not you're paid PR, the act of preemptively complaining about complainers is PR.
I use it all the time as a temporary scratchpad or clipboard. It opens very quickly, it doesn’t have anything else other than a text area. Not sure what else should I use :) VSC? Opens too slow. Sticky notes? Not sure, slow and too complex for the task. Also it’s an advantage that it doesn’t save the state anywhere so I can just force quit and everything disappears.

I am missing Paint and Notepad on MacOS when I just need something that opens in a millisecond and I can paste in something temporarily.
I took my senior cat in for a check up yesterday because it was pretty clear he had a thyroid issue. Yup, diagnosed and walked out with some pills same day, for a few hundred bucks.

Recently my son needed to see some doctors. It of course took appointments with a GP to get to a referral. One of the services - the one that is ultimately really important to his quality of life - of course wasn't covered by insurance and of course the doctor to whom he was referred can't be bothered to call to schedule anything. And of course the GP doing the referring can't be bothered to assist us in any way - we could look up the contact info ourselves, of course not even having a name of the doctor to whom they promised to make a referral. So several hundred dollars later, we're no father along than we were.

It's the same basic story why I don't go to a sleep study - it's simply a complete run around to get any kind of actual care. That is why Americans remain unhealthy.
The problem is that this doesn't address who the target audience for the NYT actually is. I'm young and interested in lots of things. Going by just the section headings, except for sports, I should adore getting the paper. The content is absolute garbage though. I come away having learned nothing and no more informed than if I just read the headline. It's not even entertaining as a consolation prize.

Like I'm basically exactly the right blend of pretentious artsy liberal yuppie but I've found my niches other places.
Huh. I don't understand how this would effect a site using Cloudflare Images. It seems like maybe a DDOS against Cloudflare itself, but I don't see how it would be a problem for your site. But you say it was, so.

But okay, thanks for providing more context. I have not used Cloudflare Images at all, so I don't really know, just trying to make sense of it.
I don't know what line of work you are in, but this is decidedly not true in mine. It's skewed toward candidates making an excellent first impression but then failing, instead of the other way around.
LOL. "Sounds" like a plan. See what I did there ? :P
Please do! I love reading these, and the fewer stories lost to time, the better.
The StackOverflow datacenter is famously tiny - like, 10 Windows servers. So even if the rest of the internet goes down hopefully they stay up. They might have to rebuild the internet out from their server room though.
Most devs I've met use it, it's an excellent tool for getting rid of formatting or just having an instant window open where you can temporarily store some plaintext.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I wasn't aware that was even a thing :)

It's not in "dark mode" though, it's simply a dark theme, and those have been around since forever. I'll look around for a theme that supports both when I get the time, but until then I echo the suggestion of a sibling comment to use the reader mode.
Agree, doesn't deserve the 4.0 tag.

I was hoping for some progress on async ORM as well. Is there any word on when this is coming?
All the consumer warnings in the world won't solve the problem.

I agree, warnings will solve nothing. We've had warnings for a long time. I would expect more drastic measures like presidential executive orders of eminent domain like those used to seize steel mills during WWII. Companies making unhealthy things could become government property and liquidated, maybe. How to get people to not be sedentary? No idea. Draft everyone and put em in boot camp I guess? Half kidding, but I don't know what we can do. Maybe someone will create a virus that targets people with preexisting issues like diabetes and heart disease to wipe the financial burden/liability. Or perhaps a new VR MMO that gets everyone addicted to it and people have to move around a lot, funded using the defense budget. Oh and this system is required to renew your government ID or drivers license. All government offices become "remote only" so everyone needs one. Internet LTE modem built in.
Cloudflare's blog post still says, in bold, "Cloudflare Workers is 196% faster than Fastly’s Compute@Edge based on the time to first byte from the tests we ran on 50 nodes using Catchpoint’s data from across the world".

It is unethical to leave that up after Fastly pointed out core issues with the benchmarking, like using a free tier that was rate-limited.
You are stating an opinion ("it's [school quality] a function of funding") which is a highly questionable statement as a fact.

A simple plot of funding per student vs test scores would lay that to rest. Some of the worst school systems in the country spend the most per student. If we went to worldwide data, I don't think we would find that Singapore and Finland spend more than the US on schools, but their schools are vastly superior. (A real comparison would involve some serious economic analysis; maybe someone's done that?)

> "San Jose is a larger city than SF but is far more hostile to local businesses"

Since I live in San Jose, I'd like to see what support you have for this statement. Taxes, regulations, crime, wages...?
> a tiny niche not well served by Youtube

TikTok is doing this. Using the same playbook as YT (paying creators for views) and they're creating a unique moat by building great tools for creators. iMovie may have helped YT get started by giving everyone an easy tool for video making, and TT is bringing comparable tools in-house.

They're also avoiding the issue of letting creators get too big and dictating the platform like some think started happening to youtube, because the algo pushes smaller creators and doesn't put focus on who you follow. This really shows their Chinese heritage (CCP wouldn't want individuals to have too much influence without being replaceable).

Also, i've seen some large youtubers or youtube catagories try to band together to make apps/sites that offer that content without YT influence. (eg. some tech reviewers, or some niche content like relaxation videos or meditation guides). If i were more entrepreneurial i'd throw my hat in this space and use Cloudflare's new hosting to lower costs.
How are the tests added? is there a specific format? or they can only be added through portal? may be add demo video of how this is used. Also slack link is no longer active.
You're not wrong. My hunch, however, is that semi-supervised learning will help with some human-biased priors that are being implicitly used.
> That's why Taylor Swift has such extensive and stadium sized concerts for example. Assuming she's a normal human being on the road for 9 months straight sounds pretty miserable. The financial return must outweigh it.

For reference, she pulled in $100 million in 2018, the year of her last major concert tour. In 2020 she made just $23.8 million, only 10 of which was from streaming [1]. She is consistently one of the top streamed artists in the world, and was ranked as the highest paid musician in both 2018 and 2020.

So yes, touring is a huge revenue generator for music artists, even beyond just merch sales. It's even more important for artists that cannot rely on top tier streaming or physical sales numbers.

> it's also shocking to see how large the song writing teams are for certain artists.

When the songwriting and production credits for a track look like a laundry list of names pulled from a hat, that's good evidence of Song Factory writing with little to no involvement from the performing artist. This is very common in the popular music industry but there are exceptions, such as with Taylor Swift. For her and other artists that emphasize "singer-songwriter", you are likely to see only 1 co-writer, whom also serves as producer, for several tracks.

Besides the character of the music itself, this has consequences for compensation, as there are less people to split the earnings to. Then there is masters ownership. One of the reasons Taylor eeked out the top spot for highest paid musician in 2020, is because she now owns the masters to her recent albums (which are also her most streamed). This entitles her to a significantly bigger cut. Most music artists do not own their own masters (on top of often not writing their own songs).

> it's borderline impossible to be "big" without a gigantic team behind you.

This is certainly still true but maybe less so than in the past. At least, artists can "get big" (be discovered) without much of a team because of the likes of streaming and TikTok. Staying big, and musically relevant, probably still does require a big team. Making a living from your music, much less becoming actually rich (and staying that way unlike the likes of M.C. Hammer and TLC), is some kind of voodoo magic.

1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/taylor-swift-to...
I think the reason why you got downvoted is because you made broad sweeping statements without anything to back it up. It also does not reflect my experience, the amount of routers running open source systems that one can buy is much larger than it has ever been (I pointed out some options further up the thread), ASUS uses dd-wrt IIRC and others.
Also the openwrt/pfsense/opnsense solutions are not really slower than commercial offerings, many offerings now are capable of running OpenVPN at reasonable speeds, in particular if your CPU has AES-NI support.

The way it was written your statement sounded like a Apple shill really.
White House quietly tries to reshape economic coverage
Big fan of Cloudflare but they have started a trend of releasing "half-baked products" and making them live for all users.

I have also faced issues with their web analytics and pages. It's been ~ a year they launched these products and still glitchy.
TikTok is a social network based on seeing people in portrait mode. There are entire subsets of it where music isn't the focus at all, and the fact that so many people do exactly the same dance on exactly the same song should hint at the differentiation being the person shown. TikTok for the music industry is where the ads need to be because the youth is there, not because music is there.

Youtube is closer to being "the" social media for music: concerts are published on it (sometimes live even), special events and channels like Cercle/Colors/etc, performances of artists self-published (covers included), music videos get posted there and being a "billion view" video is still a bit of a marker, "radios" appealing to very specific descriptions of all kinds exist with 24/7 activity, multi-million views channels aggregating new artists acting as discovery (Chillcow, Koalacontrol, and thousands more), etc.
"Discovery" on youtube alone is pretty poor I'd say, but as mentioned in the tweets it's not really a viable product in itself anyway.
It was in the news: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22710421/google-security-...
It's loaded for a reason: people are using the law to force their preference on others and ruining lives. There will always be single family detached housing, but making them the only legal thing drives up prices and commute times to insane levels.
I can't find the original article that discussed the confirmation bias effect, but this one is close: https://www.plum.io/blog/the-issue-with-the-interview-confir...
In some places you have to pay to receive SMS.
And yet you care enough to write a comment... So I guess you really do care and you do know who I am. Thanks for the love Amigo ;)
AWS itself has a huge single point of failure on us-east-1 region. Usually, if us-east-1 goes down, others soon follow. At that point, it doesn't matter how many regions you're deploying to.
I slept in a Jupe that lets you create a home anywhere. Just add land
…and telemetry!
FYI There's an easier-to-remember URL for Google: https://dns.google/cache

The URL above is the documentation of the feature, which happens to also embed it.
Unless something radical has changed in the last half year or so, pfSense will be a giant PITA if you have "residential" IPv6. That is, anything but a completely static prefix.