skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to add that why I am not completely convinced that it is better for the letters to have serifs, I definitely believe that the letters drawn with constant-width lines are much uglier than the letters drawn with variable-width lines.

Because of that, even if I use frequently sans-serif typefaces, I use only non-traditional sans-serif typefaces with variable-width lines, e.g. Optima Nova, Palatino Sans or Trajan Sans.

However, such typefaces with variable-width lines also need high-resolution displays to be useful. On displays with less than 4k resolution, their appearance at normal text sizes is degraded.
This questions goes both ways: Why put effort into something that might never even be a problem?
> Also, subscribe to a channel, get recommended their entire repertoire of the last decade. I have stopped subscribing, and I'm actively unsubscribing from most channels except the very small ones that post twice a year and I don't want to miss.

I fear that there is a very big group (that is usually not on HN) that actually likes this. People who get absolutely hyped on some new channel and just have to watch everything on that channel. Not because it’s interesting content, but because for those few hours/days/weeks they feel that they “belong” to the community of that channel (even if they don’t meaningfully interact or discuss with the other people in that community or even the creator). This also gives them social status with friends. Then after a few hours/days/weeks, repeat the cycle (multiple cycles can run in parallel but not too much as it would affect your social status of being part of the hip cult-of-the-day). Obviously those people also watch stuff outside that channel, but they don’t mind being presented with videos of the same channel all the time, because again bragging rights that come with “oh I’ve really seen everything, look at this: seen it, seen it, …”).

(Seems a bit similar to some other demographic that is extremely into watching sports…)
Not to mention the restrictive license which effectively prohibits its use in any Open Source project licensed under anything other than GPLv3.
Why not, people use RPis as a home server.
The like/dislike ratio is a universal indicator. Serious/boring channels are not immune to the side effects of its disappearance. It affects every one across the board. Here comes a 20 minutes video on Dynamic Programming and I have no idea what other people really thought of the teacher's ability to get the point across.
And those ones: https://publicintelligence.net/u-s-navy-f-18-natops-flight-m.... It's one of the rare cases of manuals for the real thing being applicable to a computer game.
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"know what you want to watch beforehand" - 100% this. Over at least the past few years, this is almost entirely what I do and it has helped youtube remain a good experience for me. In general, I rarely do research on youtube or twitter or even googling or even reddit. In most instances, I'm better served by just starting with the wikipedia page or some specialized encyclopedia (e.g., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) and then going from there. On sites like youtube, I either go in knowing precisely what I'm trying to watch or to watch new videos from a select few channels I subscribe to (usually silly stuff like press conferences of football managers etc.).
You can at least solve the problem of not seeing dislikes anymore with a browser extension, e.g. "Return YouTube Dislike".

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/return-youtube-dis... (also available for Firefox, Edge, ..)

Of course, it doesn't solve the recommendation issue the thread creator mentioned.
Okay, ignoring carbon monoxide contamination. The site also states:
"Oxygen cylinders are used in the event compressed air fails and generally require the support of a scrubbing system to remove carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide from the air."

If Oxygen cylinders generally require a scrubber I think it's safe to assume that a Oxygen candle will also need a scrubber.

They list issues with other systems but don't acknowledge the same problems that exist with their own.
It troubles me to see apologist comments here for ultra wealthy tax avoidance.
>Why especially then?

Because some office workers think they are special in regards to their output being more creative and cognitive rather than physical and therefore should not be measured in the same fashion as the number of widgets per hour made by a factory worker or tiles per hour laid by a handyman for example, even though ironically, modern SW tools like Jira and processes like Agile & Scrum attempt to do just that, turn cognitive work into factory style repetitive assembling/plumbing work. Which most of it is :) B.R.B, gotta wrap up those story points for the end of the sprint. /s, but only barely
Then we'll trade the keys to the addresses of those coins. You simply cannot prevent a black market.
Abuse of taxes is not a party-specific issue. Until laws are passed to prevent this (which is probably a multi-decade lobbying effort), it will re-occur. In the meantime, it's probably reasonable to be sour about paying taxes when it's subject to this practice by the receiver.
Abuse of taxes is not a party-specific issue. Until laws are passed to prevent this (which is probably a multi-decade lobbying effort), it will re-occur. You are right, it eventually boils down to "it is quite hard".
Not often, the whole point of this heuristic is to watch as little as possible and still get the information I need. I don't really care about false-negatives unless a very-downvoted video is the only useful video on a topic (which is unlikely). It's just a useful shortcut, not a way to perfectly classify videos.
> I started getting more aggressive with using the Not Interested and Don't Recommend Channel buttons

Yeah, I've even had to start DRC'ing channels I'm subscribed to because YT seems to think that I want my homepage to be nothing but videos I've already watched from those channels.
The photo or fingerprint never leaves your device ...
I'm running an Asus N751JX with 16GB RAM. It works perfectly and is a great addition to my small Raspberry pi 3/4 army.

But a heads up for everyone doing this. Please, please remove the laptop battery before running it 24/7. Otherwise this is a serious fire hazard. The hardware and especially the battery are not designed to run under these conditions.
Voting only works if there are good options out there. If both options are equally crooked, there's no solution.
I have a 2012 HP Elitebook 8560p I inherited from work decom that I used as my primary PC for about 4 years, and even now is my torrent client for public domain movies and is also my 'I guess I just need to use Windows' box after I built my desktop as a Fedora KDE box.

It is heavy, built like a tank, and has all the ports I still expect laptops to have (VGA, cat5, USB A, Optical disk) even when those ports are woefully out of fashion. The only problem is it's all PCI 2 SATA bus so even the cheapest SSD maxes out the system bus. She's starting to feel like flying an Excelsior class starship in the TNG era.

Today's laptops are sans optical disk drive, have lots more 'goodies' like IME and Computrace, have soldered ram (it about killed me to find a 360 degree hinge laptop 2 in 1 with AMD and unsoldered RAM, found one by HP eventually but still it shouldn't have been so hard), and generally are infected with phone-itis where everything has to be skinny, thin, light!! More than one micron thick? Old!

But for all that, said laptop is not my home server, nor are one of my many salvaged 'just in case I need a home server' laptops sitting on my shelf in the computer lab.

Instead I have a random cubicle farm Dell SFF PC that runs my home server, does fine until it randomly locks up, probably overheated Mobo like the OP has mentioned as probable symptoms, mostly because I don't want to play with the configs again! It's all undocumented and manually configured and I haven't put in the work to clean it up and put the configs into nixos or config management yet.

The moral of the story is (I guess) to use config management else all of your computer hardware hoarding may be stymied.
I have very narrow interests for video topics and it works for me at least. Of course it's not perfect since new channels will pop up, or youtube will suggest new topics (e.g. lately the johnny depp trial), but even then, you can block 90% of it quite easily which is already a big improvement.
The paper is mentioned also in the book "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed". The Skunk Works' design team used the equations published by Soviet physicist and mathematician Petr Ufimtsev on electromagnetic wave reflection to create the plane.
Who's providing the back up? How do you re-authenticate if you lost the thing you use to authenticate with?

It's easy saying it but I don't understand how you do those things. If the answer is you need a password to access the backup and to access an account to re-authenticate, I'm not enjoying the irony. If the answer is to trust a company like Apple, Google, Microsoft with the literal keys to my kingdom then this thing misses the point.

Currently I'm in control of my authentication, why would I hand that to some company and hope I don't annoy them enough to ban me, or just randomly cone up against their AI guardians.
I doubt it. Asmon's demographic is 32 year old kids, not 12.
Talking about low power, I am currently running a headless HP laptop which I recovered from a friend. This thing sports an i3-5005U CPU (2GHz 2c/4t) and idles at 4W measured at the wall!

Well, it's not powerful by definition but it can easily handle file sharing and torrenting (for my library of Linux ISOs obviously) while staying powered on 24/7. The fan also turns off at idle so it's totally silent.

What's funny is that this machine is currently resting on top of my decommissioned home server (Xeon E5-2697v2, 64GB RDIMMs, Supermicro X9) which idled around 100W...
For most people, I think the increased heart-rate of doing the big breathing motions would nullify the theoretical gain. So it feels easier, but you can't really hold any longer, you just pass out unexpectedly.

The best way to get better is to do "co2 tables", just slouch in your couch and do the intervals of breathing/holding, and learn to control your body. When actually diving, we never push our limits, compared to what we know we can handle on land. Like, I can hold my breath for 5 minutes, but would seldom be more than a minute underwater.

Co2 tables are actually very meditative. After the first convulsions, if you manage to calm your body down, it's quite a weird headspace to be in for the next minutes.
> Please, please remove the laptop battery before running it 24/7.

What if the battery is soldered in place like many machines produced post 2014?
That's interesting, I feel like the opposite comes out ahead ethically. I'm on board with the idea that pigs are way more intelligent than most people realize, but unless we get people to give up bacon, the pig brains will otherwise just be discarded, and it's unlikely that losing the market for pig brains would make pork significantly less profitable.

On the other hand, fish oil seems to be a major reason for catching the fish it comes from:

> The major sources of fish oil are small pelagic fishes, caught off the coast of Peru and Chile. Each catch is transported on a fishing vessel to shore, where it is then processed by fractionation into fish meal and crude fish oil.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681158/

Small fish may themselves not be as smart as pigs, but the ecosystem damage is worth considering too.

(Algae-based oil seems the clear winner though.)
I don't know what to tell you if you can't see how messed up this is in general, but especially as a completely off-topic response. Who asked? This has nothing to do with the announcement, it has no relevancy to the discussion. It has nothing to do with the topic or the comment you replied to upthread. This is you venting and soapboxing.

Let's go back and remember what that comment was:

>> "Dare I say no one has done more for the blog form than Mr. Kottke. His humble, almost monkish 24-year commitment to not only the pursuit of knowledge and meaning in the world, but his absolute insistence on sharing that pursuit with anyone who wants to ride along in that journey is one of the all-time greatest contributions to the web."

>> "Godspeed, Jason. Be well and see you on the flip (in whatever way you deem fit)."

What does your wordvomit about your trauma re: blogging and the human condition have to do with asellke's kind words? You made everything about you.

>> "it isn't about kottke."

Correct. So why did you post it? Don't answer that. Move on.
I have an HP laptop with a 3rd gen i5, fairly low powered repurposed with Linux and Plex as a home server. I am using it as a media server, file storage with hard disks attached and also as the primary tailscale host to have a mesh of personal devices over the internet without a public IP.
The moment a measure becomes a KPI it is not longer a useful KPI.
I've only noticed the difference for a very specific set of technical help videos: how to open an X, how to fix a Y, how to pronounce Z. Now I just have to check the comments.

The YouTube recommendation algorithm also broke globally about 3 weeks ago. Most people have not noticed it yet, but I haven't asked a single person about it who has said that their recommendations are normal. They've suddenly been full of crappy compilations, conspiracy theory videos, and weird clickbait. Please comment if your YouTube recommendations did not go nuts around 3 weeks ago because I'd love to see whether or not this is a worldwide thing.
If it's FIDO2, then you don't actually expose biometrics to the site. The verification is done on device and unlocks a key saved in the TPM/secure enclave.

Of course, once Face ID/Windows Hello logins on the web become a thing, web sites may trick users into enabling their regular camera instead, for whatever reason.
Having a daughter with this disorder I can just say that, its not childish. Her disorder has been referred to as "food phobia" which explains it fairly well: She does not like a lot of food, but she actually _wants_ to try taste it and get better. But even when doing that, it doesn't really work for 95% of food, she just wont get better at eating it.

It was also mentioned that she is probably on the spectrum, but either she is very far down or she is very much a "girl" and hides it really well because she is diametrically different (play pretend is her favorite pastime, and also pretending to be others etc, also very social.) from how you are supposed to be on the spectrum, but in some ways she shows it in a classic way (change is very hard).
It's not parasitic, it's symbiotic. Without profit-seeking capital, there would be no opportuinities for productive labor.
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Spot the difference: the invincible business of counterfeit goods
Yep, about 3 weeks ago the recommendations algorithm fell apart and ever since it has been a strange experience. Half of my recommendations are normal, but extreme low quality is being pushed quite aggressively
Frankly, same holds for gzip. I've been planning to relicense bzip3 with the more permissive LGPLv3.
The parent's point seems to be that using litestream to replicate your sqlite data also is not the same as not needing management at all.

Whether you do your own sqlite replication, or litestream does it for you; there is still an operational or financial cost.
I have a T430 with an external USB3 dual disk caddy, with 8TB disks, soon to upgrade to 16TB.
On the mobile app, they show "pill buttons" for your detected interests across the top and you can click on them to filter those topics specifically. So they have put some nominal work into supporting orthogonal interests.

The problem for me is that it just doesn't work very well. First, it's hidden deeply in the UI. Second, the topics are self-detected (poorly) and you have no way to edit them. Third, they seem to act as simple filters of your feed, not a way to access different subsets of content.

I'm sure the root of the problem is that lots of smart people at YouTube probably understand this frustration and want to make this better, but building filtering tools doesn't improve overall user engagement metrics and doesn't get anyone promoted, so no one does. But what does improve overall engagement? Recommending streamer bro meme videos in the chance that a kid might get hooked and watch thousands more of them.
its time to launch several "hubs" - alternatives to YT based on PeerTube, dont you think? unfortunately, i don't see that solutions like PeerTube get popularity (maybe I'm wrong). maybe because there is no mobile app client for peertube (or is there?).
How to you put that in a pivot table you add to your slide deck? If it can't be measured it has no value.
Wow this is so true. Never thought about it like this, but as a product manager myself you are absolutely right.
I just can't get over how much I dislike the word 'smell' in this context. I do know it is canon, unfortunately.

It makes me want to stop and do something else, something more pleasant. It evokes a nasty image of shovelling shit, where I want to think of what I am doing as polishing a raw gem.

Furthermore, to me it seems kind of disrectful to numerous code authors of such 'smells'. Maybe they didn't know better, maybe it used to be 'clean' but they were in a hurry to fix something. Maybe they made a different trade off. Labeling what they did as 'smelly' seems impolite and unnecessarily judgemental.

Objectively, it also narrows the perspective: something that smells is harmful, stale or poisonous. It affects disgust and moves us away from it. Food that smells has gone 'bad', which implies it is not good (anymore). So to fix a smell, is to move from bad to good, which is a very binary change. It's either good or bad.

But I think with code this not always the case, and even when some code is clearly better, seeing improvements as more appropriate or efficient tradeoff is almost always much more helpful.
With a 2012 gaming laptop then there is a chance it'll have dual SATA bays. If there's an M.2 slot as well, then it might be doable.
This.

Similar - a residential electrical service panel. It's generally okay for even a little kid to flip a wall-mounted light switch. Touching the circuit breaker handles on the service panel is a "competent adults, paying close attention, only at need" activity. And digging inside that service panel should only be done by professionals.
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It works but I’ve found it to be suboptimal.

By the time a laptop is ready to retire the battery is old and the fans clogged.

So at a minimum you need to actively keep an eye on the battery for swelling etc
Color-coded description of the Discrete Fourier Transform formula
It's not perfect, but works quite well: https://returnyoutubedislike.com/
If anyone just cares for speed instead of compression I’d recommend lz4 [1]. I only recently started using it. Its speed is almost comparable to memcpy.

[1] https://github.com/lz4/lz4
Spambot comments have exploded recently too, a lot of channel owners are complaining. Something definitely seems broken.

I wonder if any of this affects GMail as well.
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As a manager, would you worry about the stability of your own job role if you didn't have insight into the productivity of your reports?

Would you worry what would happen to you and the company if one of your reports introduced a serious bug or security flaw into the software?

(note: I think these concerns can -- and should -- be addressed in other ways that don't require intrusion into employees' day-to-day activities, but I raise them because I think they're part of the reason (along with compliance, perhaps in some cases?) why these systems are introduced in the first place)
> Is there a context from which Emacs' defaults are bad, other than "Windows did it differently!" ?

Being different too much can be bad too. Emacs has not much big fails, but many small things which lead to being bad by thousand little cuts.

> When I read it I find myself assuming that you're dismissing the experiences of people whose context starts before yours.

Why does it matter? Nobody want's to take your emacs from you. The discussion is always about bringing in new people, and why people leave emacs. And that emacs has a problem with this is not new. Emacs is always swinging between hype and death, and it's not like this has become much better over time.
Depends on the spirit of the reduction and income levels. A Roth IRA was designed specifically for wage earners to have a tax-friendly investment vehicle to save for retirement. This benefits them and society. I don’t think you can say the same thing about the OP here.
You use the heuristics available and it was a fair predictor. Especially for instructional/educational material. I used it the way I use upvotes/time/comments on HN.
If you can not remove it (or let it remove by a professional), do not use it for that purpose.
YouTube is a video hosting site, not a video discovery site. The sooner we all come to terms with that the better.
Until we know how they are used, we are just speculating: I for one am curious ;)
> without selling house

Sorry, are you saying the net worth you put into the calculator was more than $250k? Then $70k is even less surprising!

(If colleges ignored home values you could put your $250k into repaying your mortgage faster and report having no savings. They'd charge you $0. And if you needed money later you could borrow against the value of the house.)
I found guidelines [1] that list several common short options:

-a, --all
-d, --debug
-f, --force
-h, --help
-o, --output
-p, --port
-q, --quiet
-u, --user

[1] https://clig.dev/#arguments-and-flags
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Remember the talks about DIY Oxygen concentrators during COVID emergency days, using two pipes filled with zeolite beads alternatingly pressurized from pumps and valves so to separate Nitrogen in the air and leaving Oxygen in the gas? Apparently the same Pressure Swing Adsorption principle is used to extract couple other gases as well, and CO2 is one of them.
> scamming phone scammers

Mark Rober, I guess? No wonder the algorithm promotes him to heaven and beyond, the content he puts out is extremely well done.
There's nothing wrong with old content per-se. A true crime channel, for example, can have a lot of old content that's still interesting to watch. And thing for science and comedy. No need for any strange community feelings or bragging rights.

Now, this doesn't make sense for all types of content, of course, but definitely for some.
Be mindful of thermal throttling, though: the noise (in the living room?) can be a nuisance. I've bought an Intel NUC (https://henvic.dev/posts/homelab/) to use as a home server and kind of regret it. It's not a laptop, but has the small factor of one.
> That often involves filing a few more patents 19 years later. Yes, there was prior art, but do you have deep enough pockets to go up against their lawyers to prove that?

At most that means you'd need to use old versions of software. An old publicly available file can't violate a patent issued 5 years later.

For the rest, Sega v. Accolade? And just putting a trademark inside the video wouldn't mean a decoder is using the trademark...