skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its mostly product reviews and streamers. Probably the algorithm scores monetized content higher.

Installing sponsorblock and clickbait remover makes youtube a lot better experience.
Sponsorblock skips all the annoying sponsors, subscribe reminders, intros and gives you option to skip straight to the meat of the content, it's highly customizable. It will also show a badge on video if it's obviously a shill video for company X's product. Clickbait remover, forces thumbnails to be from the actual video itself, it also has option to remove allcaps titles etc..

I don't like the shorts, I hate the UX and how it forces you to interact with these shorts and always found tiktok annoying anyways.
Amazing to me that 5,000 Wells Fargo salesmen created millions of accounts and the total fines to the company added up to $53-$88 per account. I imagine the fees Wells Fargo would have made were close to that.
Association between alcohol consumption, brain iron and cognitive decline
Is the curriculum listed online?
> The question (well, one question) is why would we suspect the lack of a test indicates a bug?

It's not the lack of a test, but the fact that the existing test doesn't cover a branch.

Rarely taken paths is exactly where bugs often hide, because they likely weren't well exercised in human-driven testing either, and because they're hit rarely in general so most users don't run into them often. If the condition is not easily reproducible it can be very hard to figure out what to even put in a bug report.

Say you're working with images and have a branch for a 16 bit color (565) image. Such images are rarely used today, but they still exist. Among many users of your code it's possible only 1% ever hit that branch -- and those end up experiencing weird issues nobody else sees.

Or another example of such things is error handling. An application that works perfectly fine on a LAN can be hell to use on a flaky connection.
There's been a lot of negative changes to algorithms recent years. Search seems to function more as an extension to the recommendation page at this point with little relation to the search terms used. Content moderation has also heavily sanitised some communities on the site, but I'm not sure how wide spread that is. I know certain kinds of "edgy" content or controversial political discussions aren't really possible on YouTube today like there were in the past though.

My main issue with monetisation isn't so much the content itself, but the content recommendations. It seems that a lot of the content recommendations today have a corporate bias which they didn't used to. If a tech review channel just wants to make market videos and post them to YouTube that's fine with me personally so long as the algorithms don't push me to that type of content (which it currently does). The authentic low-budget tech reviewer doesn't have a chance on YouTube today, and that's real the problem.

If you want authentic, low-budget user curated content YouTube isn't the place anymore. There was something special about those early years of YouTube when it was mostly just low-budget videos made by real people on 420p webcams or video cameras. Back then no one made YouTube videos to be rich or famous, they made videos simply because they enjoyed making them and wanted to share their content with the world.

I don't think YouTube has peaked as a business, but I think it peaked in terms of an web 2.0 platform about a decade ago. That's a common trend though. All web 2.0 sites have been trending towards corporatisation for years now. The dream of the internet being a place where individuals could make cool stuff that other people around the world could find and enjoy is dead imo. Search and recommendation algorithms across the web are increasingly pushing users towards the approved corporate content because that's where the money is. Unless you know where to look today authentic content is extremely hard to find.
> to sort out information for ourselves.

How can you sort something you know nothing about?

Downvotes, and their ratio to upvotes, were an important signal to get an idea of how good the video overall was.
Seriously - take a look a TikTok - I am amazed at what tech content can be squeezed into a 30 second clip.
Wasn't there a a push for micropayments at some point? I think advertisements won out by being more accessible. It is hard to say if the internet would be better or not with micropayments instead of ads.
The new wave of feminism apparently doesn't want to remember this phrase anymore: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/the-brilli...
Yup and the problem is its creating medicore content all for the sake of earning money.

I won't name and and shame but theres a YouTuber who obviously put in big effort in their editting...but it quickly went south when the person started teaching JavaScript. I've never been dissappointed.

I'm also getting sick and tired of the YouTube how to guides and the constant pressure to "smash the like button" and subscribe.

And removing the dislike button is complete and utter garbage. I cannot even understand it at all.
>What's the problem with the drive for monetization? Out in the physical world you also rarely get services and content for free.

It's just as screwed up in the real world, the difference is that the internet at least temporarily offered an escape hatch to our screwed up economic system because at least the same logic of scarcity didn't apply. Now we've bolted the same crap on top of our digital lives.
More like a rigid patriarchal class hierarchy that harnessed male violence and sexual aggression into "noble" and "gentlemanly" codes of behavior, in other words, "masculinity," where sending boys off to war was considered a good way to condition them into men, and a list of sexual exploits before marriage was a signal of masculine virtue, at least among elites.

And the parameters of masculinity are far more culturally than biologically imposed, so they change over time and place.
This law was criminalizing insult. And giving an overly vague definition of it.

It is not a general lecture about free speech. It’s more about the right to offense someone.
It depends on the subject matter I think. For more popular subjects I definitely think that an obsession with monetization is having a negative effect. For more niche subjects, it's still very much like early YouTube - lots of organic well made content.

I watch a lot of videos related to two of my hobbies fly fishing/tying and ham radio. There is very little in the way of sponsorship or paid reviews and nearly all videos on these subjects feel rewarding to watch.

Technical content on the other hand is a whole different ball game. If I have to learn a new framework or library I used to head to YouTube first to view a few tutorials before diving in to the docs. The quality of these has declined because a lot of channels are just churning out tutorials without really understanding the subject matter. In some cases they are just video versions of the getting started tutorials on the libraries website. There are loads of channels where they churn out new low quality tutorials every day on a wide range of subjects - jack of all trades, master of none - but they are doing something right because YouTube places them high in the search results.

And as for the bigger channels on popular subjects such a gadgets, computers, food and gaming - yes I do feel like they are often feel like the content support the advertising as oppose the adverts supporting the content.

I think to get value from YouTube you just need to be a bit more choosy. There is still good organic content being made, but it sits behind all the stuff that is primarily designed to get high up in the search results and make money. Remember, the way YouTube ranks search results and places suggestions is designed to benefit them more than you.
Hey, you mention that it is open-source but I cannot actually see the source code in that repo.

EDIT: I can some sources in other repo of the same org, for instance: https://github.com/code-kern-ai/refinery-ui so it's just a matter of making it easy for dev to navigate the code.
Google sabotaged their own value proposition? Noooooo. No waaaaaaaaaaaay. They've never done that before! Why on earth would you think that?

At this point, TikTok is going to capture YouTube's entire demographic and then the US tech industry will wonder why on earth the youth are so corruptible! Its definitely the consumer's fault after all. Mmmm hmmm.
The Democratic Party and ngp van?
While the majority of recommendations are bigger monetized channels, I still come across tiny channels with view numbers in the double or tripple digits quite regularly, but it does require searching for something specific. Youtube also changed the algorithm recently to no longer punish old content, so there is a lot of old stuff that keeps bubbling back to the top. It might still have peaked, but I think for most part it's doing fine, it's still the best source for video on the Internet.

On a side note, I find it interesting that TikTok today feels quite a lot like early Youtube, back when Youtube had much more personal content, video replies and a <10min limit for video. Seems like the market for that content is there, it just moved to another platform.
Deadlines are great for keeping scope in check. Almost any feature can be developed with endless embellishments - without some kind of deadline it's not clear how you can decide how much of those embellishments you should add before moving on to the next feature.
Mainstream YouTube is absolute garbage (minmaxing views for revenue). The best part of YouTube is there is so much content that if you know how to dig/search you can really find some great content that might have a few hundred views.

I recently found a channel with hundreds of videos about a interest I had and I watch all of them. The highest view count a video had was 1k views. Very insightful and the guy didn't care about min/maxing views for money like 99% of the content YouTube.

I still think YouTube is by far the best resource for learning new things.
> Oh also Youtube has become the home for the cancer of tutorial: the video tutorials. Why cancer? Because reading is faster, searchable, indexable, etc.

Reading may be faster for a lot of things, but there are instances where nothing beats a video - one of them is any sort of tutorial for a GUI program like Photoshop, Premiere, IntelliJ or whatever. A written tutorial either assumes the user knows exactly what the "lasso tool" is and how to select it (and so is useless for novices) or it assumes "know nothing" and so is excessively verbose for people above the "barely novice" level.

With a well made video tutorial, both a complete novice and an expert can find value, simply because all the verbose description can be seen in action on the screen.
The digital cinema projectors have hardware JPEG 2000 decoders. This IP is licensed from companies like IntoPIX:

https://www.intopix.com/JPEG2000

Most post-production software that reads/writes DCPs will be using a GPU JPEG2000 encoder & decoder, like this from Comprimato:

https://comprimato.com/products/comprimato-jpeg2000/
Agreed for the most part. In my case, I use an app on my phone to read books from a filed collection of dozens that I really want to finish at some point. Sure, it might not be great for my eyes, but if my phone is with me most of the time in random places and situations where waiting suddenly comes around here and there, I can plough through lots of literature.

Of course, to a passing observer, it wouldn't look like that. Because most people associate phones with social media scrolling, they automatically assume that's what you're doing with one. My phone thus has one major thing in its favor at least: it's let me read more full blown novels, literature and non fiction tomes than I ever did before having one, and I read a lot even then. Phones aren't an activity by themselves, what thing you use them for is the activity and its nature makes a difference.
Drop shipping, white label coffee is an enormous business these days - a considerable number of "influencers" have started launching their own "coffee brands".

Usually they are pretty cagey about the fact its white labelled.
> 4 screens long blog post

Or blog posts that explain every little thing related to a topic before the information you searched for. In your case, for the article "Shops that are open on Sunday in 2022", <h2> titles would be:

"What is Sunday?"

"What is shopping?"

"Why you should prefer to shop on Sundays?"

"Is the distance to the shop important?"

"Remember to carry money"

etc...
I would say the YouTube content is better than ever, but YouTube itself is shittier than ever. Removing dislike button/count, demonetizing people without valid reason, censorship, copyright trolls without bounds, absolutely insane amount ads before, in the middle of and after the video etc.

Without adblocker YouTube would be unsable.
Companies make that decision all the time - they routinely break laws where they believe the cost/benefit analysis works in their favor. I see no issue with them actually taking a moral stand against an unjust law. All of us should be doing the same rather than just shrugging our shoulders and accepting that states are just allowed to legislate away basic human rights now because that's what the Founding Fathers would have preferred.
Whenever this comes up I can't help but romanticize about DSSP (forth-like with apparently a unique path). I wish I could read the source code and gather more about it.

The Setun and Ternary Computation. The idea of using toroidal magnetic cores instead of transistors. There's an irreducible romantic beauty and form to these computational amorphous objects.
No it has just started it's financial growth stage. As someone from a non western country youtube is the source for 99% news that is being censored or blocked in main stream media. Conservatives in the US have build a main stream media narrative which does a deservixe to someone from a country with a real autocratic/fascist regime blocking access to news.
Of course, collecting sunlight and wind has no cost nor externality.
Perhaps it was not all from fruit? Early humans may have been eager to sever vegetables from their vines.
Shout out to https://factorcode.org/ and nod to Forth
Thank you both for your feedback!! You are right. This is in our backlog, we appreciate you emphasizing it!
Asahi Linux: July 2022 Release and Progress Report
Thanks for this. Related to it, does anybody have any resources showing the state of the art for non-tech audience to remember client generated private keys?

What are options? Password manager (most people I know don't use one), Browser keychain (no guarantee of sync between user devices), WebAuthn (same problem), IndexedDB or localstorage, (both can be purged, again, no sync).

Unless I'm missing something, I feel this is problem worthwhile solving as a community, it would unlock a lot of utility/privacy for the average web user.

Would love to hear any more qualified takes on this.
Depending on the "computer" definition, but without one, 10k seems too small number for the whole Soviet Union. Even brief fact check finds BK-0100 were to be used in all schools since 1984 in addition to Agat PC (Apple II clone) produced since 1983 aimed for schools too.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_(computer)

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_BK
Yes and yes. Why on earth would "doesn't solve X" be an argument against that it does Z + Y ? Whereas a GC only does Z.

It was an alternative, that does less and doesn't put as much restrictions on the programmer compared to the borrow checker, as you complained about rust and equaled that with not having a GC.

And it is deterministic.

>While I am all for research into better ways to do RC, please look at the discussion - it is not at all clear that RC would be better, and even theoretically a tracing GC will win.

Win what and in what sense?

How every GC language has problems with GC tuning is in my opinion a clear indicator that the GC lost. With no real benefits short term and huge downsides down the line - even if you never hit any limits.
Latest Soundboks firmware cuts the performance of their speakers by half
All I know is that my search results have the same <20 people for any subject matter. It's like, where the heck are all the humans that exist? It's almost as bad as any mainstream filter.
>>start to use (in Haskell) "flip", "uncurry

This I think lines up with the general Forth advice to avoid stack juggling (swap, roll, over, dup etc).
I'm not sure what you mean by not using ASCII as its format. It lets you export as plain (ASCII) text, but the document format for the app itself also needs to keep hold of all the additional metadata related to vector shapes and groups. So it follows that the plain text representation isn't going to be sufficient to model such a document.
While the U.K. and its allies may have been aware of the Holocaust prior to the end of the war, there wasn’t exactly a lot they could do; they were already at war with the Nazis.

Provocative and bold statements like yours require robust and trustworthy sources. Please provide.

Your replies and original comment so far have read like you have an anti-British agenda.
>> Is Y/X a reasonable amount of money to spend on a thing?

The proper question to ask is sum(Yi)/X a reasonable amount of money to spend. If not, which Yi is not providing the desired marginal utility.
Ask HN: Good book on color theory for programmers
I am looking for a book on color science which covers all the usual topics - the basics of perception, physics of color, color spaces, luminance, white balance, color histograms and so on - but that is targeted to programmers.

By this, I mean that I would like to understand how one would implement various algorithms (say, color space transforms) and also cover a bit of the more technological aspects, for instance what are ICC profiles and how to use them.

What could be a good suggestion?
Did that dislike button ever do anything? It made a number go up, but other than that I have never seen any effect of it. If you want to make bad channels go away, hit the three-dots next to the video on the recommendation side and click "Not Interested".
> 1. Nothing will go wrong 2. Product developers know precisely what they must build 3. Product developers know exactly how long each task is going to take

If your plan is built with these assumptions you are not very experienced at long term planning.

The real reasons long term plans don't work well in real life is are:

1. People don't spend enough thought on strategy before putting the plan together [1]

2. The people assigned to make the long term plan often don't have buy in for the results

3. Most management teams have, at max, a 1-2 month attention span

The most important result of a long term plan is that it produces a collection of important, documented, well understood projects and their relevant priorities and approximate costs.

[1] See comments on "Why don't we have a strategy?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094469
Yeah you're right, cobalt is probably worse, but lithium isn't great either. All unnecessary mining seems pretty horrible to me, even thought these capes might not be as bad as disposable lithium AA s that are probably made in larger qty.
I think the interesting thing about these start ups is how ambitious they are. The promise is always a nonsensical "You can have anything you want from anywhere you want, faster than is reasonably possible". I'm surprised that there isn't a bigger focus on the actual technical limitations of what is possible.

By making your offering "You can have anything" you draw in a load of customers who are ordering things that actually aren't that urgent, and therefore they have extreme price elasticity, whilst also making the problem you're solving the most expansive version of the problem possible. The second you start charging for the fast delivery they're just going to go elsewhere. You're just acquiring really shitty customers.

The thing to learn from is Amazon, Amazon don't make money on delivery, it was a differentiator to attract customers to their shop which makes money, and it was built on top of a difficult but possible technical problem - building a much more efficient warehouse.

In my view, there's only 1 area where people will pay a premium for time, and that's food delivery, and everything else people will settle for a longer wait (really, we're talking here 15mins vs 24 hours). The smart thing to do maybe is to find a way to utilize the non-peak hours of the food delivery companies to do grocery delivery in a less time-sensitive, but cheaper way.
The core of the post is "have quality experiences". This can be applied to many things, like travel for instance. I remember my times in hostels in Australia and European mountains much more than I do any 5 star hotel because I was having a good time with friends.
Yes. It peaked in 2017. You can actually see this change with the quality & variety of content that existed in 2017 vs after that. Then Google shot itself in the face with monetization changes: https://www.quora.com/How-has-YouTube-monetization-changed-o...
This sort of nonsense is exactly why I switched to Hey email. If you want a good email service free from spyware and spam you’re going to have to pay for it. No free lunch.
These are completely unrelated issues.

Vectorising non-vector C code is difficult (and likely relies on other expensive optimisations around flow control manipulation).

And it’s not a “sure fire” optimisation because the compiler can absolutely vectorise a loop whose 99p is an iteration or two making the vectorisation a complete waste of compilation and runtime.

So being an expensive and not perfectly reliable optimisation, it makes sense for it to be at O3.

That has nothing to do with ISA subsetting/compatibility.
“It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.”

It’s too bad this is no longer in fashion with the educational establishment.
It's an interesting speculation, but it might not be correct. In particular, the subhead about how it might have been highly efficient is crucial to its potential usefulness, but the highest efficiency number claimed is 5%, less than a quarter of current mainstream PV, and an eighth the efficiency of current lab PV. And the "thermo" part seems like it was a red herring.

How efficient is such a device? If Cove's device was 20% efficient it was an unheralded breakthrough, though a toxic one, unlike modern silicon solar panels (contrary to a false statement in the article), and made with relatively expensive materials (antimony isn't just poisonous, it also costs US$11/kg). If it was 2% efficient, it might have been viable in a few niche uses. If it was 0.2% or 0.02% efficient, it was a laboratory curiosity. The article says Cove's prototypes were 2.75% efficient and 5% efficient, producing 45 watts from 1.5m² and 60 watts from 1.125m² respectively, which I calculate as 3% and 5.3% efficient, respectively. But it also says the guy went to jail for a year for defrauding his investors.

But apparently nobody has been able to reproduce Cove's results in the last century.

If you do want to, as the article says, "build low-tech photovoltaic devices, which convert sunlight into electricity", you can get about 1% efficiency out of red copper oxide, another toxic semiconductor like the zinc antimonide intermetallic erroneously described as an alloy in the article; this is a common science fair project for kids, and Wilhelm Hallwachs demonstrated solar panels using this chemistry in 01904, the same year as Cove's first experiments. Toshiba managed to get thin-film red copper oxide PV panels past 8% efficiency last year.
I think 1080p is probably the good enough point, and 720p was already there for more casual stuff like Zoom calls and mindless CrapVids.

4k does seem to be just a bit better though.