skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My go-to heuristic is three point estimation, basically a weighted average of the best, worst, and average case [0].

(Best + Worst + 4 * Average) / 6

One nice property is that it imposes a distribution that adjusts for longer tailed risks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_estimation
Me too. One of my favorite aircraft. The SR-71 gets all the love but I love the Nighthawk.
Yeah, I used "fund": 1 in the user/user/marc/marcus... then you just have to decide the direction and everywhere except arabian it's left to right... so marc funds marcus.

And user/user/marcus/marc has it if marcus funds marc.
I concur, both options help a lot. I noticed that the ffmpeg packages are sometimes a bit outdated, yielding a gigantic gap between what the stock ffmpeg can do, and what a freshly compiled one does.

Also, having more cores helps a lot with SVT-AV1.
Converting Integers to Floats Using Hyperfocus
Now I want this to be the default twitter ui so much.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/df-youtube/
You might try the PocketTube extension to categorize your subscriptions:

https://yousub.info/
I never trusted YT algorithm or any recommendation algorithms for that matter.

I always watch YT videos straight from search results or links that I get sent.

I always kept my watch history and search history off.

Recommendation algorithms are not tuned to serve niche users but want to maximize watch duration from maximum number of viewers.

YT tells me several times a month that I have search histories turned off and my recs are bad and I should consider turning it back on. Never.

Even when I had it turned on, I got "popular" videos based on my location, age, gender etc. that I hated. Or I got recommended one to two hours lecture videos. Nobody just decides to spend two hours just because some algorithm thinks that is a good fit.

I use FF + uBlock on PC and YT vanced on android.

I never even look at my feed.

So, lack of dislikes (or any other recent change) has not changed anything for me.
> with extrapolating data from those who use that extension and like/dislike.

Often you see the opposite, where a third party service provides customers with a feature extending the features of a big service like youtube or twitter, and then the big service buys the startup offering that extension, or integrates the feature themselves, leaving the extension dead. Now we see it happening in reverse direction, very interesting.
Google and Meta’s underwater cables up the stakes on internet control
I wake up between 7 and 8. I don’t start until 9 so I use that time to shower, take my dog out, water the plants if they need it, make my coffee. At 9 I log on, check email and Slack, then look at my todo list. If anything from email or slack is actionable, it goes onto my list and gets prioritized. Then, I work through my list. Standup isn’t until ~11 so I have some good focus time in the morning.
'Tech industry' has offices in India, China, Canada already to exploit the cheaper labor directly.
Choose life!
Zstandard achieves similar speeds at higher ratios. LZ4 only comes out ahead if you use LZ4 at, like, level 1.
Preview RULES and keeps getting better. The first thing I do on a new Mac is add it to the dock so I can always easily drag an imagine into it.
The citation:

> For coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research

What was submitted for the award was apparently an article and a video published in December 2021:

The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-nasas-james-webb-space-te...

How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe
https://www.quantamagazine.org/videos/james-webb-documentary...
You can tell YouTube you're not interested in the video or to explicitly not recommend a channel.
I count 16. that's my overall figure
I ran a Debian web / webdav server for 12+ years on a 2007 Asus netbook. It worked flawlessly the whole time.

I only gave it up because I wanted something faster than the 100mbps ethernet and I had other computers lying around. Shortly thereafter, I wound up switching to a cloud provider.
Of course! However, that argument is a bit moot when you consider the overlap that exists between political power and economic power, and more crucially this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
The problem is republicans can cut off food to liberal strongholds when the government drops the facade and becomes tyrannical so they need to look at producing food in the cities and make up a load of lies about land use patterns and climate change hoax funding all this with things like inflation
No, America is not collapsing
This is what I meant. Exactly this.
Dutch Tax Authority Felled by AI
It's from a hymn describing the environmental destruction of the industrial revolution:

And did those feet in ancient time \
Walk upon England’s mountains green? \
And was the holy Lamb of God \
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine \
Shine forth upon our clouded hills? \
And was Jerusalem builded here \
Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold: \
Bring me my arrows of desire: \
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! \
Bring me my chariot of fire.

I will not cease from mental fight, \
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand \
Till we have built Jerusalem \
In England’s green and pleasant land.
The number one advice i can give you is;

1) Do NOT kill their Motivation, Enthusiasm, Energy by too much criticism in the beginning.

Once you have given them a problem, only monitor and provide hints as needed to help them solve the problem themselves i.e. you are only an animated "Rubber Duck". Let them get to some solution, its quality does not matter initially. Learning is a process of trial-and-error and adding of one knowledge chunk at a time to a mental model which you are building up during the process itself. Once they have a solution ready, congratulate them on their success which boosts their confidence.

Now comes the hard-part i.e. a postmortem of everything they have done where you point out mistakes (eg. edge cases which they have failed to consider, code design standards and correctness, proper documentation etc.) and show them how it is done professionally in the workplace. This will bring home the difference between "Hobby/School" vs "Industry" solutions. They then can rework their solution with these code characteristics in mind to come up with a "industrial strength solution".
Algo fail: I will see the same videos recommended visit after visit.

Just give me a "Not Interested" button over each recommended video so at the very least the pool is refreshed.
This is what scares me about Metaverse. Initially I was like "Oh good, Facebook is blowing all of their resources on a bad idea everyone hates. I hope this goes badly for them!". Then I realized, the target audience for Metaverse won't have a choice-- it'll be a virtual office where people can work from home while under constant surveillance.
If the code is not intended to be thrown away after use, it should be written as simple and as cleanly as possible. You or somebody else will revisit the code in 6+ months to fix a bug or make an enhancement. This requires reestablishing state and simplifying this process makes it safer and quicker.

There are a few times where code has to be cryptic and magical, but usually developer time is more valuable than cpu time. Good, stable code makes for happy users which makes for paid (or fame++) developers.

Kernighan: “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
> Unfashionable thought: pay your damn taxes.

>~ braces for inevitable downvotes ~

If you get downvoted it will be because you stated an opinion that is in no way controversial among these demographics and then pretended like you were making some noble stand based on principals when in reality you were just the first person to come along and say what half of everyone was thinking and you weren't really risking much blowback.
13. One for each month of the year. Although my Mercedonius computer doesn't get used every year, for obvious reasons.
> I don't personally think the dislike button is the explanation.

Eh, it could be. Hiding the dislikes certainly affects the like/dislike clicking behavior of the user. This creates feedback loops that are very hard to predict by simple A/B testing.
As far as I know he didn't do well in math. I suspect what might have helped most is to have less enablers.

He didn't seem to have ambition to aquire the kind of knowledge that makes a difference. Math. Safety protocols. The politics of working with others and creating a sense of absolute trust.

He may have had a lot of domain knowledge, but was any of it at all relevant to a supercomputer simulation of a reactor?

This isn't something you learn as you go. If you try something, and aren't already 99% sure what is going to happen before you try it, then you may be learning lots of random nuclear facts, but you aren't learning what the professionals do.

99.99% of nuclear engineers have probably never done even one DIY experiment past the very safe "Let's measure bananas" stuff.

The best way to steer him towards a real career would be to make him understand why you do not build backyard reactors, and why you learn your math, go to college, and do things professionally or not at all.
Hit the 3 dot menu button on a video, then click either "not interested" or don't suggest channel.

It only takes a little effort every visit to tune your recommendations.
I use the RSS feeds with Elfeed for Emacs which allows me to search, filter, and modify feed entries as they are fetched. Additionally, you can use an https://invidious.io instance - which also provides RSS feeds - to avoid sharing any personally identifiable info to YouTube. I've setup elfeed to provide a keystroke to watch the videos ad-free using mpv. All together, this is a much more privacy and attention respecting way of consuming videos.
Yeah YT is basically ruined, it only serves as video storage now.
From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future
You can't solve police overreach through an app. There's no solution to the police overreach because they have access to rubber hose cryptography.
I don’t know what you are trying to say, but for clarity: people want to buy the amount of fruit / vegetables they will actually use between the time they buy it and the next time they plan to shop. Not everything they plan to eat / make will necessarily call for the same produce.

Plenty of produce doesn’t last a week from when you buy it and this varies based on where and when you buy it.

As an example, a few apples might last for over a week. A package of raspberries might last 4 days. An avocado that is ripe may last 2 days.
Maybe they just want you to be unhappy (as the paradox of choice says, if you only had a few options for a product, you'd pick what you think is the best one and be happy with it; if you had hundreds, you can't compare all, so you'd pick one and wonder if it was the best choice).

Maybe Amazon knows that unsatisfied customers continue spending money... Hah, great dark pattern if so!
The only reason I ever pressed like in YouTube was to bookmark a video - because I could then use the list of everything I liked. Once I found the rate of liked videos getting deleted catastrophic I abandoned the feature and never bother even to sign-in.
For just a second this exchange made me think what an insane world we'd live in if you'd always been able to spend cash in dollars without the physical bills, but could use the serial numbers on them to spend them. Imagine all the scams like the Target gift card phone calls where they try to get you to send photos of the bills.
It tells that the things you do for passion are nicer, and better, than the things you do for money. Which makes sense.
Something could have happened like… (just making this up) the 20 year anniversary of the G4 cube comes around and .0000001% of their users (add a few zeroes if needed) go and watch every single cube product review, so the algorithm thinks “oh everyone is into old product reviews now!” Because one of those people DID click on a bunch of other product reviews for whatever reason… more nostalgia or he thought the reviewer was cute or he walked away and they kept auto playing… or whatever.
It seems to be doing the same thing as email + mailing list + modern web archive, but $5/mo/user if you want an archive longer than a month.
There's a reason that every stupidly wealthy person who wants to throw their resources toward some goal either funds or starts a charity for the specific mission.
The only explanation for getting rid of dislike count that makes sense to me is to make big brands happy as their videos can't be made to look bad with a high dislike count and they can't be "dislike bombed" for things that may be unrelated to the content (eg the recent Activision-Blizzard scandals).

Why? Because in every other way (and every way for the viewer), this makes Youtube worse. So it's a hell of a price to pay to appease big corporate interests. That's why I have such a hard time comprehending this move.

It definitely changes how people use the dislike button since there's no feedback for it. Maybe that too was by design? It's true that people are generally terrible at using dislikes and downvote buttons. Ieally it would be a quality indicator but really it's just used for "I don't like what you're saying", "I don't like you" or "I don't like something about you". And that's probably not a great signal.

Side note: for anyone with such functionality, it would probably greatly improve the overall user experience to identify these low-indicator downvoters and shadowban them. Don't take away the downvote UI. Just make it do absolutely nothing as in it shows them they downvoted / disliked but just don't count it for anything. These people are toxic.

Anyway, I actually hope to see more low-quality generated content on Youtube as it's probably going to be the only thing that causes this decision to be reversed.
You have a point there, but for example I am eating cod liver oil.

Like a pig brain, a cod liver would have been otherwise discarded after making the cod fillet bought by other people.

In the future the algae-based oil will indeed be the winner (even if that is a misnomer, because the unicellular living beings that make the oil are not algae; however for the general public, "algae" is much more intelligible than "thraustochytrids").

Nevertheless, that future is not here yet. The cost of cultivation and oil extraction must be reduced at least 8 times, to make that oil competitive with the fish oil.
Emacs comes with an elisp guide I think.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/in...
I enjoy this layout and I only wish it had some sort of check for background color contrast accessibility.
It annoys me too for similar reasons, but I think it's a lost cause for the moment. For reasons that escape me, most in the industry don't have a similar reaction.
I don't understand the need to run home servers in 2022, at least not for most people and most problems.

This is coming from someone who has been running a home server for decades, hosted everything from websites and email, photos, music and movies, and various cloud services like Nextcloud, Gitea, etc.
As a learning experience, it's probably better than anything else, but for day to day work, it's simply not worth the trouble.

NOTHING you can dream up at home will be as safe and secure as a cloud offering from one of the major cloud providers, at least not if you have a "home budget" as well. We're talking redundant power, redundant internet, server grade hardware and spare parts, fire/flood protection, physical access control, dedicated security operations, and multi-geo redundancy means you get that across multiple data centers.

I've long since abandoned the chores that come with hosting anything from home, and instead moved everything to the cloud. If i need privacy, Cryptomator (https://cryptomator.org/) handles end-to-end encryption. Most other services have been migrated to cloud offerings, which in many cases are free, like GitHub or Bitbucket, and my (static) website runs on Azure for free.

The best part is i'm actually saving money. Before i moved to the cloud, i was running a 4 bay NAS as well as a server running Proxmox, and power consumption was around 250W, and even with normal electricity prices here (€0.35/kwh normal, current around €0.75/kwh), it was costing me about €8.50 every month. That's without the hardware cost, which will easily cost as much over 5 years.

For comparison, a "Microsoft Family365" subscription can be had for about €75/year (€6.25/month), and offers the above advantages on 6 accounts each given 1TB of storage, so if i was using OneDrive for file storage, i would be saving about €2 every month on just electricity.

Assuming the hardware costs as much as the electricity (€510 over 5 years), you could also get a VPS in the cloud, and still host websites and more, and still save money.

That being said, i do still have a small "home server", but it's main purpose is to act as a content cache for data stored in the cloud, to make it appear to be local when accessed from the LAN, as well as make backups (to another cloud) of my cloud data, but my firewall is now completely closed, and i sleep better at night :)
Click the dots and a submenu with a “not interested” button appears. You can even follow up with a reason.

I think your critique is misplaced though. Just because I don’t want to see a particular video right now, doesn’t mean I never want to see it.

Quite often there are two videos I wanna watch on the front page. Luckily I get recommended the other video later.
Costs too much. Fear is cheaper.
A much better approach is to go to your history and delete it from your history (if you're signed in) this will change your recommendations so much harder.
For many years I thought Youtube content "voting" was helpful for both Google (they get to know what commercial goods and services I might be interested in) and for users (the information could potentially be used for improving video recommendations). As far as I can tell the latter has never been the case; Youtube won't recommend me anything I care to watch, often recommends videos I have watched and disliked, and is utterly unable to identify my interests despite thousands of likes and dislikes.

I figured Google would come to their senses and use this valuable information eventually. When Youtube instead announced that they won't ever care about my preferences for video content I was disappointed but not surprised. Since the voting can now only benefit Google themselves I decided to cease participating. I used a content blocker to hide the likes and buttons to make sure I don't slip up.

I wish I could boycott Youtube entirely but I am not quite ready to leave the platform because it still offers some educational and entertainment content useful to me.
Don't they often say it about gold, too?
You can leave the battery in, but remove the connection to motherboard.
I agree. I think the vast majority of people we speak to online are robots
>No, because in these cases it's violence enacted in self-defense

The use of coercive force is justifiable by the state or it isn't. If you now create justifications for why the use of violence in pursuit of self defense is valid, then you've conceded that the use of violence can be justified.

Which then means the "it's enforced by violence, and all these rationalizations don't matter as you don't have any choice anyway" no longer holds.

There are justifications for the use of violence, therefore we need some ulterior basis other than ultimate enforcement being premised upon the use of state violence in order to explain why 1) taxation is a crime, and further more that 2) that crime morally must be avoided.

You point towards the idea that Taxation is not a transaction you enter voluntarily, but the same can be said of your aggression theory; I didn't consent to any NAP with you, and the NAP is ultimately enforced by violence. I have no desire to abide by the NAP when it doesn't suit me as I never agreed to it.

Ultimately, whether it's the NAP, property rights or taxation, enforcement of pro-social behavior will require some scope, authority or justification which addresses more than just a single individual's consent. "I don't like taxes" is not sufficient an argument to state that you are morally obliged to commit tax evasion.
I ban a lot of channels from my recommendations and that has cleared it up for me.

Clearly whoever is doing search at YouTube doesn’t know what they’re doing as there are plenty of ways to tell if something is spam. I’m guessing they don’t care.

They do seem to be trying to be more like TickTok.
Just as I replied to a sister comment, defence is not aggression.
but the dislike button is still there, and using it still counts towards recommendation model, and they display it to the video creator in youtube studio, they just stopped displaying it to the viewer. so that shouldn't have this effect on your recommendation. or am I missing a link there?
I want the opposite - the Unix way: just one copy and one (latest release) version of every library my apps use, one theme for all the apps using the same toolkit rather than every app bundling their own version/instance.
I see a Business opportunity for a new YouTube specific search engine, that will allow for discovery of new content but will filter all that crap:-)
Ubiquiti sells a nice piece of hardware that is a WAN reboot plug. Unfortunately there is zero configurability in terms of how it determines if WAN is working or not. I haven't been able to find another purpose made piece of kit.
> hosted email

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't hosting your own mail these days nigh impossible because if you're not one of the major whitelisted providers everything you ever send will get thrown into spam, for obvious reasons?
E.g., https://phys.org/news/2013-08-poverty-cognitive-ten-iq.amp
Lies are our most inexpensive resource. Use them wherever possible.
Not “Cult of Personality” by Living Color?
I've always wondered why I need anything other then the browser dev tools to develop websites, why they are just this additional tool, used for debugging, maybe for experimentation. There's something strange about changing something using the dev tools to make it looks right and then having to transfer those changes to the code, to make them permanent. Why is this necessary?

Why don't we have browser dev tools that are worthy of the name, that are really development tools, not just debug tools?