skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do adblockers help with native product placement?

Or are you saying you might as well not pay for premium if you'll still have to deal with the product placement anyway?
Yes, that's the "in practice not all companies act as rational capitalists" part.
A long time ago, I almost accepted a job at Citrix. From the comments in this thread, it looks like I dodged a bullet.
> The "archives" are not intact.

For the purpose of this article, though, they are "intact" in the sense that the archives themselves are not being "censored", right? Only broadcast repeats from the archives (which remain untouched and, for want of a better word, intact.)
This reminded me of the amazing communities of the early 1990s, when comp.lang.<language_of_interest>, or sci.engr.<engineering_speclialization_of_interest>, or even the soc.culture.<country_of_interest> were places of great conversations and learning opportunities. I poked around Discord, in search of such, but never got interested to the same level ...
> To optimize this, instead of scheduling a function call, we simply add the information to a Map - the arrival time, resource, amount, and target building. Then in the tickDots method, we loop through the map and if a resource has arrived, we remove it from the Map and add the resource to the target building. This reduces the frame time from barely under 16.7ms to a comfortable 11ms.

What you have implemented here is a priority queue, with O(1) insertion and O(n) deletion. It is easy to get down priority queues to O(log n) deletion without sacrificing insertion speed noticeably much. So unless you have some good reason to iterate all resources every iteration, changing to a better priority queue implementation will most probably yield you even more of a benefit.
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Spare a prayer for us tortured souls who need to work with Workspace and HDX Realtime Engine.
It's definitely not the second-most common pistol round, especially in crime. It's way below .22LR and 9mm. Might even be below .380 ACP, .38 Special, and .25 ACP too. The guns used in crime are quite different than the guns preferred by the enthusiast community -- they're generally older, smaller, and cheaper.
Pests are typically defined by species under the law.
My mental picture reading this press release was a child's book of dinosaurs, immense, roaming the earth, unaware of their impending doom.
Are you ignoring the fact that Joe was well-known before Spotify picked him up as exclusive? It's not like he wasn't the biggest name in podcasting pre-Spotify.

What changes is him and Spotify making $$$, not whether his voice being heard or not.
Does my site need HTTPS?
How are they getting paid without fees? Don't you pay via card thru the app? Or do they pay 30% to Apple and Google (unlikely)
The original archive isn't altered. If you want to go to the British Library in person or if you want to obtain an academic pass to the BBC archive you can still see the originals.

This article is about repeat airings.
The fact that you're talking about "content" shows the commercial mindset. The web used to be mostly where people shared information and media about things they loved with no expectation of making money. It still is underneath all the commercial crap piled high within the walled gardens. Take off the profit blinders and see the web can be motivated by other things.
Well that’s unfortunate. Not even used as compost? That doesn’t seem very efficient.
I meant the OP , who was making fun of self hosting, didn't mean to imply you did.

I am not denying that there different people have different needs, not everyone wants or has the time to drive either . Just that self hosting is also valid even with uptime or other concerns.

Having said that achieving better uptime is quite possible self hosting not because we are better but because we have simpler challenges than gitlab.com, poorer uptime is also quite likely if we don't know what we are doing.

Simply put, managed services doesn't mean better uptime doesn't automatically .
It's been back a while but only for curated addons. It must have been quite a short time that ublock origin in particular wasn't available.
Stop signs are another common target of vandals in rural areas; in some places, they've all been blasted with a shotgun at least once. I've spent a lot of time in rural parts, and have witnessed quite a few incidents of bored, drunk kids shooting shit up.

And, more to the point, I've seen shot-up fuselages on a train in Ellensburg, heading West. Those gunshots didn't happen in the Seattle area.
> But tweet, the title, the framing, and the thing everybody are talking about, ads placed above search, has nothing to do with anything. The statement doesn't mention that, and these gotcha charges premised on something that was never said.

I'm just not grokking what you mean.

Let's construct an example of an evil Google who decided to start "selling better positions in search results." Let's say they decided to do it using the following method:

1. Sell the first three positions in the organic search results in an automated auction

2. So as to avoid accusations of trickery, they put a little "Ad" indicator by the top three positions in the three top search results.

3. They put a little "news" display below the first three results to separate them from the rest of the search results. This means the user typically has to scroll to see the rest of the results, adding value to those first three positions.

Would what I just described count as a relevant example of hypocritical behavior for the company quoted in that Tweet? If so, then the search results I got were the same as what I just described-- only the history of how Google got there is different.

If it's not a relevant example, then I still don't understand the point of OP or your comment.

Edit: clarification. Also, could you perhaps give me an example of how you think a company could hypothetically act in a way that contradicts the quote from the tweet? If it's not what I laid out here, what would it be?
Node.js seems boring at this point
> the bandwidth, is still very cheap.

This is yet another example of US/BayArea Privilege blindness.

It is NOT cheap in most places to the User. Including in the unprivileged-USA.

The user pays a lot for that bandwidth. Specially now that everyone will unknowingly move to predatory 5G home services but let me try to stay on topic.

People out of the Empire Center will pay both bandwidth and processing power. Where do you think all those old phones you trade in for the latest apple/Samsung ends up? Everyone is running phones that barely gets any security update anymore and is already slowed to the maximum by the OS itself. Trying to load and then display video ads is just evil.

And that is not web only, Apps are worse. If you install Apps, all of them are following the standard set by amazon, newegg, etc... you will get video ads along your usual usage. Ads in between search listings, ads in your cart! and you have to be much more technical to block those.

There's no escape paying the BayArea-cost.
> Why don't I get paid for my HN posts?

That's between you and HN and has nothing to do with my consumption of your comment.

> Ads were tried, and it's been an absolute fucking disaster.

No one likes ads, but expecting free content is silly.
it was a mess, 500 was a 512 or 1MB lottery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_Agnus
Sounds familiar. Installed uBlock on hers and whenever a website doesn't work for any reason I get an earfull about my "damn adblocker"... :)
This is great. Thank you for letting me know about them!

Both of your ideas are on the very near-term feature list.
Outside of Tesla, have you ever gotten a firmware update on an appliance or car that added features or did major UX changes? Even if they could, why would they? They'd rather you buy the latest model that "supports" whatever new feature they have.
I would suspect the opposite, once you start paying you go from being a product to being a customer.

If youtube was 90% premium members, it would likely be an unrecognizably better platform, since users instead of advertisers would be the core profit center.
I co-op'd at a major cable ISP. Was told that in certain areas they issued company owned firearms to their field employees due to past incidents. Outages caused by gunshots were actually fairly common in certain parts of America.
From the expecation of the user, the page that you see after punching the 'google search' box, _is_ the google search results page. Ads in the top position of this page are clearly in a better position than organic search results. So advertisers have bought a better position in search results, against the claim of this google doc.
Whoa, calm down there with arriving at a perfectly reasonable solution to challenging ideas. /s

Honestly though, if you have an argument that is so concrete and based on facts and verifiable statistics, there should be no need to silence dissent. Challenge them, and let the audience form their own conclusions, and question how they arrived at sed conclusion. People have been so conditioned to just believing news links and talking heads to arrive at the conclusions for them; they don't even want to think.
Because redundancy is a basic expectation for an infrastructure service, not an add-on extra.

There are a million other things that can also take out a cable. Maybe it's OK for that to knock out 1000 subscribers, if it can be fixed quickly, No way is it OK for it to knock out 30000 subscribers.
We had a couple effective strategies to deal with ads on network TV when I was a kid. I've found they they still work today.

1. If I was watching alone I would have a book with me. When ads came on I'd read the book until the ad break ended. Nowadays instead of a book it is usually an iPad, and instead of reading during the break I might work on a crossword puzzle in the NYT Crossword app or do some chess puzzles at lichess.com.

2. If I was watching with other kids we could talk about the show. Heck, we were kids...it was hard to get us to not take about the show during the show. This also still works as an adult, with the only change being that the conversation is more sophisticated. E.g., kids might talk about how cool it was that Kirk made an improvised canon to shoot the Gorn, but adults might discuss the feasibility of actually making such a canon. (It probably isn't feasible BTW. Mythbusters tried it and could not get it to work using the resources available to Kirk).
"Smart" Devices, when it comes to my buying decisions, also includes, if the vendor went out of his way to produce future e-garbage by e.g. including Broadcom wifi or something else that would needlessly impede the possibility of future enhancements/bugfixes by an enthusiast community through withholding useful driver developer documentation.
I don't remember the particulars any more, I know I was eating more peanut and nutritional yeast than before but I couldn't give you a detailed breakdown of my diet at the time.
> Depending on who you ask, it seems the cheapest cost per transistor is somewhere in the 20-40nm ballpark.

While correct, this is only true because of all the old infrastructure sitting out there that has been fully depreciated but still works fine. It used to be the latest and greatest thing and paid for itself back then. Nowadays it is just sitting on the asset sheet of a bunch of companies who are all going "if it still makes money, keep running it!".

The paradox of this all is what you identified: "if so, it would imply there would be a long-time demand for these process nodes". No one is going to invest in developing old nodes because the ROI isn't there. The demand is, but there probably isn't much cost differential between building a nearly leading edge fab and a 60nm fab.

If you could sell a turnkey 60nm fab right now that was delivered and setup quickly the demand would be insane. But no one can because fabs have never really been turnkey. When you factor in the cost to develop all of this, the capital you'd have tied up, etc. the ROI suddenly fails to compete with interest bearing bonds I'd guess.
>But most importantly, the US is a single market with 300 million consumers with a high purchasing power, making scaling of SW products and services much easier than in a fragmented market with about 24 different languages and many more different cultures and differing regulations, with some EU member countries having conflicting interests on many important topics, making scaling of SW products across EU members a nightmare if you're not flush with cash. Which is why we're full of thousands of small local companies that don't have any international leverage.

And what stopped Japan from achieving what Europe couldn't?
Ask HN: AT&T Charging for FaceTime?
I got a $750 bill for FaceTiming a bumble match in South Africa from the US.

This was over wifi and was a FaceTime call.

Everything I can read on the Internet says International FaceTime calls are always free - they are just data.

The rep I spoke with 1) refunded me the charges snd taxes. But told me as a matter of policy, if you are making an international FaceTime call via wifi, and “the wifi is slow”, AT&T will shift to data and they will detect it’s an international call and bill you as if it’s a regular international cell call.

I triple confirmed this and got it in writing from the rep.

This seems, um, criminal.

At most my wifi dropping on a FaceTime call should be a regular data useage when I’m calling from the US.

Thoughts?
I remember this. "People want personalized information on products they are interested in. How else would they find out about them?" As if people would be at a loss buying a car or breakfast cereal or a pair of shoes without ads.
It seems Biden owes something to the black community for getting him elected since he failed at voting rights, police/criminal-justice reform, and reparations.

Either pick a Supreme Court justice that represents the black community or lose the Senate and 2024 election. "Vote blue no matter who" is going out the window, the black community wants tangibles after decades of neglect by the Democrat party.
> How about making content that people actually feel like they obtain value in their lives from.

Not believing the content has value does not actually give you the right to get it for free.
We use this strategy at work: https://www.thapaliya.com/en/writings/well-documented-makefi...

It has sections and categorization.
Is anybody justifying driverless car research by saying it is good for the environment? I certainly haven't heard that reason before.
> talking lessons learned about growing their company, virtually collaborating on problems by sharing ideas, etc.

I don't hang out there but you could check indiehackers.com?
Others disagree that an ad presented among the search listings, with visual presentation only distinguisable from a search result if you know the very small indicator to look for, as the first few entries is a meaningful distinction from just selling search listing results directly, rather than euphemistically.
Or a human who thinks planter boxes are worth more than a living thing. Easy to treat it like subhuman that lives under a bridge, there's no difference.
> I'm not saying I like this behavior myself necessarily, but the bar for making something illegal should be quite a bit higher than "I personally don't like this". Engineers tend to always be against auto-updates, and yet consumers in general massively prefer this (and there are good cases for it).

Perhaps I missed another part of the discussion - automatic updates are not universally good or bad; the problem is they are not always deployed in a way that benefits the user. I disagree that consumers massively prefer it when the item they purchased suddenly changes, particularly the UI - people build muscle memory when they use an interface, and significant changes undermine that, wasting time and effort and, in the case of a car, increasing personal risk. Think about the consternation caused by the introduction of the ribbon bar in MS Office (not an auto-update per se, but as good as that for many people for whom upgrades were mandated).

Auto updates that add new features in a sympathetic way, or solve underlying performance or security problems without substantially changing the product, are obviously usually a good thing, but that's not what this Tesla update is about.
Didn't look that closely; there seems to be variance depending on how large an individual dose is and how many doses are included. I suppose the "price of insulin" is ill-defined without mentioning the dosage.
And i was thinking AHHH he has a old IBM mainframe at home ;)
Regarding this, sports bars in particular pay a pretty hefty fee to have public-view television service, especially regarding access to all pro-league games. I'm sure they'd be paying more in general if they opted to mute or turn off the screen during ads (since the network expects x% of the restaurant's viewers to see and hear the ad, so they get the advertiser to pay more for access to those viewers, subsidizing the restaurant's actual monthly bill).
I get why, but my Volvo (2017) WILL NOT let me lock the keys in the car. Which is annoying if I'm trying to safely warm it up on a -15 Minnesota day and have the spare keys in the house. There's lots of forums detailing tricks involving rolling the windows down or locking the car from the back seat. I love all the tech automation and safety features, but at times I find myself befuddled by the designers choices.
I've been looking for ideas for my own minor mode for the same purpose. Thanks for sharing!
An interesting thought experiment is how feasible and expensive would it be to run a large-scale PR and marketing campaign to get that 25% of adblockers to 50%, and how would this disrupt the current hegemony.

If you were given the task "Remove $1BN of ad revenue. Here is $100M to spend.", how would you do it? I'd imagine it could be reasonably high leverage.
Actor’s verified Twitter profile hijacked to spam NFT giveaways
A very different variation is to keep all the same rules, but remove the turn-based nature of chess and allow pieces to be moved simultaneously. One implementation is here:
https://kungfuchess.org/

Their twitter account has some videos on what the games look like, for example:
https://twitter.com/KungFuChessOrg/status/142929554275706061...
> yes, everyone actually pays for the roads, not just motorists

That's because everyone benefits from roads, not just motorists. I make this argument constantly in California related gas tax discussions...

The majority of wear and tear on roads is due to large commercial vehicles. Most of the cost and benefit of roads is transportation for the good you buy not the people they move.
From now on, at least, they should be. Storage is relatively cheap and the shows can be monetized in other ways to help fund new productions.

What would not be acceptable would be to delete original content that has already been created because it's unsuitable for modern sensitivities. The best approach could be to offer the adaptation and have an option to watch the potentially upsetting content. I think broadcasting content that, for instance, promotes racism, homophobia, or misogyny, violates the BBC's mandate "to act in the public interest". OTOH, pretending it never existed also goes against that mandate.
This is very much true in India too, where antibiotics are sometimes administered even for common cold, without any tests, on the doctors judgement. Healthcare policies has also changed the attitude of the people as they tend to consider any medical tests suspiciously as an unnecessary money making venture by the doctor and / or hospital. Moreover, most people also don't strictly follow the instructions to take the antibiotic doses for the requisite period and often stop in the middle, once they feel better.
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Optimizing app startup time with order files
instead of paying for premium and all of that money going to a megacorp. I spent some money on a simple browser plugin that forces YT to use the HTML5 video player.

Although every now and then an ad happens to pre-load before the video starts but I just refresh the video page and the ad goes away.
Do you think JRE would have remained on YouTube over the pandemic if he hadn't jumped to Spotify?
I own a Tesla and regularly make very long trips. Travel in an EV requires a completely different mindset from ICE and takes a little getting used to. I'm not surprised that a one-off road trip experience was less than smooth, but once you get into the habits of EV travel it's already a perfectly satisfactory experience.
Workplace Disruption Reported at Meta Amid AR and VR Push
Bought a 2016 mazda this year for exactly the same reason. Perfect combination of nice, big, well positioned LED display but no touch screen. (Maybe you can use touch screen when parked? Never tried.) It's a little slow and the media units can fail, but I'd say all the tradeoffs are very well balanced.
I have complicated feelings on this — content creators need to be paid for their work but the ad networks have done a ton of collateral damage, too: I've had major sites like nytimes.com or youtube.com send me malware via Google's ad network, and ads make the web significantly slower and less reliable. I avoided using an ad blocker for years but installed Firefox Focus everywhere a while back after getting tired of ads breaking things or using half of my data plan and 45 seconds to deliver a crappy 32kb JPEG along with 8MB of JavaScript.

The big thing we need is some kind of action against Google: they currently are the best positioned to penalize operators of sites slowed by ads but the search team isn't going to cut into their ad business and Chrome is going to continue slow-walking attempts to make browsers restrict ad networks. It'd also be nice if there was liability for malware delivered by ads — something like they have to pay a fine up front and try to recover it from their advertiser, forcing them to actually vet people first.

What I'd like would be publishers self-hosting ads — forcing them to take more responsibility for the security risks — and more effort into alternative payment mechanisms. I liked the idea of Google Contributor but one big challenge for that is that even a less half-hearted version probably wouldn't generate enough money to be viable because most people consider ads a reasonable cost for free content.
> A big part of the population are complete morons

I've seen smart people be super destructive. Shooting at power transformers and what not. They knew what was going to happen. It is more like personal issues and boredom rather than stupidity
Why can’t you have an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty in decision making? Doubt is always better than false certainty. Public figures lying during pandemic have only prompted more people to be distrustful of science and the official policy decisions.
How do you suggest they determined what to put in the new version of the software? Rolled dice?
Because if it's not someone with a gun it'll be an errant semi truck on ice or something else.
I think that many people have a low opinion of the general public, but I think they are more intelligent than people give them credit for.

If you want to someone to take an action, tell them specifically what they have to gain, dont just provide some general platitude that it is good for you.

If you want someone to get boosted, say you have X% reduced chance of death and Y% hospitalization. Make an honest calculation and keep it up to date.

If the data doesn't exist, we have much bigger problems.
Yep. There's also https://math.stackexchange.com/ for math questions lower than research level.
>Android won the masses.

Nobody cares what poor people buy.
I have to say, I've wanted someone to do this for years. Amazing to see it coming about. Imagine if it were possible to describe more and more things the way Creative Commons does?