skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience I think the algorithm gotten a little bit worse, the only drawback of removing dislikes that I am experiencing is that it's getting more difficult for me to realize if a video is just a spam or click-bit, now I need to spend a couple of seconds watching the video, before I used to glance at the dislike numbers, if rating is deactivated or the dislikes are far more than the likes I close the video.
Yes, so irritating. I don't understand why they do this.
- Recommending lots of 6 - 12 year old videos on topics I'm interested in (who cares about a 12 year old product review?)

For many topics 6-12 year old videos are perfectly acceptable.
I'm using a 2006 vintage Compaq Presario as a home server running netBSD. The battery holds up for about 30 minutes, enough for an orderly shutdown. The LCD failed some time ago, so I simply removed it. Mostly I connect via sshd. Can connect a VGA LCD for rare low-level sysadmin work.
If you were designing a cool feature for a plastic bag, would you prefer a few square inches on a flexible substrate, or the same amount of compute on a non-flexible substrate that's only the size of a grain of sand?

As far as I can see, all benefits of flexibility can be had by just making the non-flexible bit small enough.
They arent recommendation engines. In the sense that recommendation is not the formal problem of showing someone content with a non-zero probability of their watching it. Recommendation, as we understanding it, means understanding our interests first.

Recommendations systems use average expressed preferences (ie., on-average watch frequency) in others to "recommend" you something.

If we didnt opt for such metaphorical naming things would be clearer. Recommendation should, mostly, just be called "Popularity Ranking".
I have to agree with NVENC. I've benchmarked dozens of HW and SW encoders for quality (not just encoding speed) and it gives the best BD-Rate on average.

For H.264, hardware can brute-force every possible Intra encoded macroblock and make rate-distortion-optimised QP/prediction decisions in real-time or better. This gets much harder for H.265, where brute-force is fairly impractical and the clever algorithm wins.

A well-designed hardware codec can also run inter-frame block matching searches vastly more efficiently than software can.
The fact is that we are all vastly better off under this social contract that we did not have a choice in agreeing to and that is enforced by violence.
I agree it's gotten a lot worse recently. Especially wrt the already seen videos. When playing a video it's disturbingly common to not have a single fresh, unseen video in the related/recommended sidebar.
> - Recommending lots of 6 - 12 year old videos on topics I'm interested in (who cares about a 12 year old product review?)

Really depends on the topic. 12 year old product reviews don't make sense. 12 year old hour-long lecture about Roman empire is just as good as it was 12 years ago.
>If you offer more to depositors than you charge borrowers, it's never sustainable you're making a loss.

Like a sibling comment you are not accounting for the profit that comes from the collateral.

Maybe a nondefi example would help. Imagine if a landlord got a loan using a rental property as collateral. In this example the lender will now get the payments of rent. Now the lender makes money from both the interest rate on the loan and from the renters of the property. Depending on the demand for the rental property the amount of rent you may collect can fluctuate. This means that some months you may make more money than others. So in order to sustain a certain level of profits the amount of rent you collect will need to be worth a certain amount.
I played one hour. If you're stuck in some embassy like the noted Benghazi-based Eve player whose real life interfered, it may help keep real-life connections alive. Otherwise I would strongly advise to be your own Sim, bench press and all that. Maybe a VR version hooked to a treadmill? Anti-Cheat on these is kind of unexplored territory though...
Only ironic if you rush to post the snide comment without reading the disclaimer in the very post you're trying to whinge about.
Allow me to be a Debbie Downer but the whole idea of statistics and data-driven decisions sort of falls apart if people are not able to interpret the output, distrust the input, or are just cynical.

If you’re OK with having a small, unmeasurable impact I’d recommend focussing on data literacy, or helping educate people to perform your trade in the organisations they are already in.
" and it’s common knowledge that those tools are better than real world logistics software"

I don't know if this is true, but it would tell a lot about this world we are living in.
Eh it's fine. All my local videos get transcoded to X265
Nintendo announces unexpected 10-for-1 stock split
> The main point of a “stimulus” is to stimulate the economy.

Yet, at the same time, they were forcing parts of the economy to shut down. Nothing like hitting the gas and the brake at the same time.
Finding good YouTube videos is a non-issue. There are more amazing sciency/educational channels than it is possible to watch.[1]

Just subscribe to the ones you like and go directly to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

[1] for example:

3Blue1Brown

Beyond The Press

CGP Grey

Captain Disillusion

Cody’s Lab

Computerphile

EEVblog

EVNautilus

Electroboom

Engineering with Rosie

Evan and Katelyn

Everyday Astronaut

Half as Interesting

Huygens Optics

Jay Foreman

Kurzgesagt

Lockpicking Lawyer

Louis Rossman

Mark Rober

Matt Parker

NileBlue

NileRed

Numberphile

Periodic Videos

Physics Girl

PolyMatter

Practical Engineering

Real Engineering

Real Science

RealLifeLore

Simone Giertz

Skill Up

SmarterEveryDay

Stand-up Maths

SteveMould

Strange Parts

StuffMadeHere

Summer Rayne Oakes

Technology Connections

Tom Scott

Two Minute Papers

Veritasium

Vihart

Vsauce

Wendover Productions
A number of these FIDO posts are cropping up and I still don't really get it. Someone in a previous one explained the benefits over and above my current password manager set up.

However you have articulated the single biggest problem with this, and that is you are not in control of this thing.

I'm activity not tying anything to a cloud identity, ever. And I'm not having multiple devices or multiple cloud identities for when Google's et. al. automated AI type system decides I'm not getting access to my stuff.

It seems to me a centralised single point of weakness open to exploitation from the multi national corps.
Used to play EVE a long time ago in a known alliance. The game mechanics were not that good. What made the game shine was that it's an extremely complex sandbox game, where almost anything goes. This leads to a very complex game that is almost entirely governed by how the other players react to your interactions with them. The drama, dreams, hopes and despair that comes with playing the game is the real reward.

It used to be that the game was really harsh when you screwed up, which made the adrenaline pump when you did something you knew was dangerous. For me as a hardcore gamer at the time, that was the initial kick. Now a days I believe they have lessened the harshness a bit, but it should still be one of the few games where you can lose literally hundreds of hours in investment by losing everything you own in the game.
I used to just solo explore nullsec. Found something very zen about planning routes, scanning and sneaking past players to not get blown up (still happened a lot).

Ended up joining a newbie corp as the return trip to sell stuff often wasn't worth it. They had a hauling corp that offered buyback for most items. Still played solo for the most part.

People kept telling me that I'm playing the game wrong FWIW but not participating in the social aspects freed me up to boot up the game for an hour whenever I wanted. Haven't played for a few years but I did enjoy it.
From the article:

> No more than 5% of a QOZB’s assets can be “nonqualified financial property”. Nonqualified financial property includes most types of financial assets such as stocks and bonds but excludes cash, loans with a term of 18 months or less, and accounts receivable acquired in the ordinary course of business.

Cash on hand is ignored.

However, I speculate that if you put said cash in an interest gathering bank account, the IRS might have a firmer view.

So you're likely capitalizing the business with cash on hand that cannot attract meaningful interest.
what brand?
Yes, fair. And I actually agree with you. But if on a technicality Modi isn't in power in 2032 and say Yogi Adityanath or someone is, I'd still treat your prediction as a correct one!
Is it fair to contribute to a Roth IRA? Is it too much bother? Where do you draw the line?
Ironically, you see a lot of replies to people that seemingly said something negative, but the original comment is very hard to find.
I guess YouTube just hides (or shadow bans) negativity on the platform.
I wanted to post this article, as I’m worried about the mental health aspects. Stressful work, even when remote, can lead to real health problems. If people don’t feel comfortable taking a day off to recover, that could be recipe for burn out. Taking time for our own well being shouldn’t be a sign of weakness.
YouTube search for anything now recommends me videos that are in my watch later.

Apparently YouTube thinks that when I ask for IncomeTax website walkthrough I must surely be looking for Quarantine Home Workout Routine and Lofi HipHop Radio
1. zStandard is not a standard

2. Bzip2 is somewhat is a standard

3. zStandard is not a substitute for Bzip2
... and this is benign compared to the broken compatibility with noscript/basic (x)html browsers (now I use yt-dlp). Such browsers could pass the URL to a media player and the streaming protocol would have an URL-ized way to seek into the video, if not live (I think HLS does define one with a standard time unit, should check though).
As long as you realise and acknowledge that your student loans where paid out not at the cost of growth of the company whose stock you meme-d or some hedge fund (who remained solvent long enough to ride this meme-wave), but at the cost of other retail investors who bought into the hype a few days/weeks/months after you only to lose their investments, many congratulations to you!
SHow HN: DFlex 3.5.0
The intent is that people will show up and use them.

The main intent is that they be things like machine shops and the like that supply jobs and a bit of spin of economic activity (workers go get lunch etc).

Having people work in a coworking space may not be what they had in mind, but if those people go out to lunch in the zone, mission accomplished.

You can argue if that works well or not but the tax advantage does not exist in a vacuum.
The primary reason people buying stable coins is that most crypto exchanges only have trade pairs in crypto against another crypto.

The second reason is that some services offer high interest for stable coins.

The third reason is to bypass banks. For instance some prostitutes accept USDC as banks do not open accounts for them.
Unlike other commentors, I personally feel the algorithm has improved.

It has more variety now. Before it used to always recommend me the top 4 ~ 5 channels that I often watch. Now it's recommending me more channels. Although they happen to be channels that have content similar to content I've watched on other channels.

This is a marked improvement on the previous situation.
Anyone who feels the need for a home server, I would strongly advise using either a laptop or ARM SBC (eg. Raspberry pi).

The main cost of your always on server will be power. And laptops are far lower power than desktops when idle.

If you need anything specialist a laptop can't do, you're probably better renting a cloud server instead.
Wasn't that possible in software like dreamweaver many years (10+) ago? What's changed?
Ok, let's try: youtube.com...
Out of first 11 visible videos:
I may watch, if I had time: 4 music, 2 technical, 2 political, 1 gaming.
9/11 total.

Mistakes - 1 technical (like "my interest is not that serious")
Obvious garbage - 1 ("The whole world is afraid of Japan now" plus a crazy plane picture).

Not so bad.
Can't compare with previous times though, cause I never paid attention to the first youtube page.

And now let me watch my first recommendation: The Devil’s Daughters w/ Danny B Harvey - Rock Boppin’ Baby (Sexy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUpDslHSLbU - just can't resist these girls...
I've noticed that a lot of tools, ecosystems and companies that have died out in tech have done so because they tried to adapt the users to their way of thinking rather than vice versa.

Frankly, I think if slack doesnt adapt to some of these use cases it'll die off and be replaced by something that does.

That said, I hate usenet style multi threading in any context. Im not sure why some people like it so much.
I'm using a Siemens Futro S300 from 2005 as home server. It has no UPS-like functionality, but is completely silent in operation.
This is spot on. But most software for work doesn't function at scale. It's not just Slack.

That's the central thesis behind Qatalog - which is really cool. It says it's a 'Work Hub that helps teams collaborate at scale'. Read more here if interested - https://qatalog.com/blog/post/qatalog-founder-ceo-tariq-rauf...

Some have described it as a structured Notion, but it combines lots of functionality from project management, to org charts, to threads and discussion, as well as knowledge management.
Tbh YT should finally start making their platform more discoverable like Valve has been doing with the Steam store.

You can have explicitly tunable recommendation systems, tag-based classification, slicing and dicing search and subscription pages, filter lists, curators and such, but they seem obsessed with deciding everything for their users in the most obscure fashion possible. It's why they have lost me as a user years ago, which is a sad thing to me really given my long-held positive attitude to the service.
Ok fair. I just thought that it proved that they could be made safe. I now realize that emergency situations have very different tolerances for safety.
Not only is it possible that your users grow, it's also quite possibly that your application complexity does. If you suddenly need to run expensive queries joining multiple datasets or do some heavy computation, your apps resource usage might jump quite a bit. Of course, you can always throw money at it, but the point where it gets seriously expensive can come quite fast.
You need to be very aggressive against this, dislike and don't recommend every bit of garbage you see otherwise you will be flooded with it
YouTube still has dislikes. They just don't show the count publicly any more.
Locking in a 10 year horizon with 50% of all man hours within a single suburb is also a large hurdle.
> it also does a lot of other things.
Divorce alone barely ever works, it's not as simple as that. I'd rather not stir the hornet's nest any further as the topic itself is far more delicate than that. It's just an example of why an increasingly distrustful populace might opt to secure themselves through home surveillance.

>are secret cameras a legal way to get evidence?

Depends entirely on the context and where you live. There are no universal surveillance laws. There are also social aspects outside the realm of court why one would opt to do so.
For decades the US Navy used the OBA[1], or Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, for fire-fighting, which also worked using a sodium chlorate candle. I had only ever used them in boot camp, as when I got to the fleet they were starting to switch over to SCBAs — what actual fire-fighters use on land. I was always terrified of the thought of having to use one in because I vaguely recall something about them potentially exploding if they got too wet which seemed almost guaranteed being on a ship in the ocean.

A few years ago, maybe 2015 or so, I was walking through base on my way home and saw a moored tugboat was on fire. The two guys on board were in OBAs trying to put it out while waiting for the base FD to show up, so I suppose they’re still used in some places.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_breathing_apparatus
Banks generally invest in something related to productive activity which is expected to provide an income stream. Crypto banks invest in something valued only for its popularity which is unrelated to productive activity.

All investments are speculative and involve some risk. But outside of crypto, few of them are purely so.
Ah yes, the communist radical left who famously want large private corporations to enable the people with the most resources to dominate public discourse.

Please stop and think of a testable hypothesis, or actually talk to some of these supposed communist radical leftists, before making any more grand claims like this.
I love it, I am not sure yet what I am going to do with it but I definitely want to use it. I really love this kind of software and the execution focuses on the right spots.

This looks like the result of a lot of work, keep on !
Almost all banks in the developed countries work with the USA.

Banks in the developing countries may be less trustful than crypto currency.
Me too. YouTube recommendations have been seriously bad for about a month now. I get ideos I’ve already watched and all the interesting recommendations don’t show up any more, it’s become completely boring.
> literally millions of orders of magnitude greater

One order of magnitude is literally 10x (10¹) Two orders of magnitudes is 100x (10²) A million orders of magnitude would be 10¹⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰. Millions of orders of magnitude would be larger still.

There are estimated between 10⁷⁸ to 10⁸² atoms in the universe.

Perhaps you meant to say “literally six to nine” rather than “literally millions”?
except for storage.

My home server is mainly my home NAS.

It would be hard to put 12TB of mirrored storage in a laptop.
> sees Switch sales falling 9%

only 9% decrease after a record last year, despite increasing disruption in chip market

both Microsoft/Sony should be worried, smartphone game market was known to become insane already few years ago, only Nintendo decided to tap into that market, due to their history, but also due to increasing demand in smartphone market, they made it more premium

it wasn't "smart" or "lucky", it was obvious direction for nintendo

trying to find excuses won't help understand their success, one have to be realistic

Sony shouldn't have killed the Vita
I don't think it should be a surprise that as Youtube hired more and more experienced hands from cable and broadcast TV that it would progressively become more and more like TV.

People complain about the manipulative algorithms. But they don't exist in a vacuum, they are the results of some execs deciding to manipulate people. And the way those decisions are made is the same way traditional TV made during all those years.

Then you hire the same execs, to please the same wall street analysts, but now you can use technology to enable the most perverted wet dreams of those TV executives, and you get what you get nowadays on youtube.

It is not different from what the greater web has become once we hired all the advertising people to control and direct our web experiences.
I love this. It's weird that we don't consider the fact that computers becoming more powerful and home internet becoming faster as having an effect on personally managed servers being a more feasible option. How few of todays servers could replace the servers spotify used when they started up a decaded ago?
Especially in an office setting.

Why especially then?
> This is because it is cultural.

No, it is because it is cultural you perceive the lack of the basic information about the item (the price you would pay) as a completely normal situation.

Sure, both US and Canada tax situation is a horrid mess, but at least you could know the final price if you don't have any exemptions and whatever. And if you have them you would pay less than on the full price tag. But no, both Americans and Canadians imagine some silly excuses why they can't (and hence don't want - in this order) at least to have both pre-tax and "default" tax prices on the tags.

And when I say silly - I mean it, the probably the best response I've got was "Because it would be too costly for Walmart to do so, they have too many shops - they would need too many new tags to replace". Literally. On my question how do they manage to replace their tags now (especially when there is special offers, seasonal offers, holiday offers or just a plain price changes) and how this would be a problem for a company with US$13.67 *billions of NET income* I've got just downvotes and silence.

And the most astonishing thing is what many seriously think there is no way to compute the tax beforehand to print it on the tag. On the reasonable question why then it could be computed at the till and how many times a day the tax policy change ("But they would need to change the tags so often!" - same people) I again receive the silence at best or "It is how we do things."

> amazon in the UK, to ship to me in Canada, I get told the wrong price, because silly VAT is built in.

Well yes, Amazon.co.uk is mainly for people in UK so of course they would prefer to see how much THEY would pay, not £249.00 on the tag and suddenly £281.3240 at the checkout.

I didn't buy from UK for a decade, but last time I checked you would see the VAT cost at the total, eg at apple.com/uk/shop just now: £949.00 Total Payments for your device include VAT of approx. £159.00.*

Some world-wide oriented sites just show both VAT and VAT excluded prices.
> the communist radical left

Didn't you find any bigger words?

In the end it's about engagement. Without the dislike count you'll have to watch more videos to find the good ones, so there's more chances to show ads, which is good for revenue.

But yeah, communist world conspiracy is more likely.
I disagree with this opinion. Treating computer hardware like perfectly abstractable magic leads to terrible outcomes.
The page doesn't technically say that candles don't require scrubbing. Candles also require scrubbing. But the disadvantage is omitted from candles, while explicitly presented for cylinders:

"Oxygen cylinders are used in the event compressed air fails and generally require the support of a scrubbing system to remove carbon dioxide [...]"

Oxygen cylinders are also used as an emergency non-consumer product. The comparison is a misleading one.
To my knowledge, there's plenty of funds who place investors money for the long-term into low to moderate risk assets. Pension funds, municipalities, businesses with cash surpluss or individual people who invest for their retirement aren't into the thrills of short-term speculation.
Sure, but I'm talking about specifically non-evergreen videos like 10 year old product previews. That's what has cropped up recently. Youtube used to be pretty good about recommending old evergreen content but not time-sensitive content.
It's a life skill like reading and writing. There used to be a time when most people couldn't write except for minority, many of whom did it professionally. Most people sit in front of a computer for work, and many do repetitive tasks that could be offloaded to simple scripts.

It's hard to explain to someone who can't code how it would make their lives better, as I assume it once would have been difficult to explain to a farmer the value of reading, but there are societal benefits to everybody knowing how to read. We can post public information like highway exits and store hours and "beware of dog" signs and know that the majority of people will be able to read them.
Keeping your feed relevant and productive