skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using Firefox + Chrome + Edge on a daily basis for years just because it helped me mentally separate my browsing areas that needed to absolutely not collide with each other. I remember a few years ago, Firefox was making my browsing experience miserable: incompatible rendering, high memory/cpu usage, and it just felt "old".

Flash-forward 2016 or 2017 (don't remember precisely), two things changed at the same time: Firefox started feeling less poorly developed, Google started making changes in Chrome that really bothered me on a more ethical / privacy level (general stance on default values in privacy/security settings, increasing hiding stuff from me such as in the address bar or the network tab, features added "for my own good", heavy use of dark UI patterns, etc.).

I felt I needed to get out of Chrome rapidly, and there was no way it was going to be Edge (trust had to build, and it takes years), so I started re-using Firefox more heavily while anticipating I'd be frustrated. That day never came: the months passed and Firefox kept getting better and faster.

I guess I had my epiphany when I discovered there was a hard profile switcher in Firefox, which makes separation of concerns both easy and efficient to implement. This is not the "containerized tabs" thing (which I could never trust, don't ask me why) but the actual hard profile switch, that makes it impossible from one Firefox instance to access what happens in another instance simply because the separation is controlled by the operating system.

Now, when I click the Firefox icon, a list of profiles is shown on the screen: (browsing, work, facebook, linkedin, banking, shopping, training-X, training-Y, etc.). I select the profile and the browser is themed in a way that I instantly know which profile is in front of me.

I also wanted to make sure than if I mistakenly open a link to a third-party website in my "work" or "banking" profiles, that link would never actually be queried. The trick is very simple: I configured a proxy that points to a non-existing service (127.0.0.1:9999) and added the list of trusted domains (work + banks) in the proxy exceptions list. Anything else gets clicked/opened in these sessions gets directed into a black hole.

If you're interested in reaching this setup, simply replace your firefox shortcut by adding: -ProfileManager at the end of the command-line. From that point on, a window with a list of profiles will be shown everytime you click the Firefox icon, and you can have truly separated browsers running.
Not too much to be afraid of, I guess....
This very neat and well done !

I'm holding out for a lispy/Clojure variant :P
> badly designed doors

The lesson I took away is to delete the door if you can figure out how to get the customer to agree.
2012 is around when they rolled out personalization of your feed, which drastically increased hours spent on YouTube. So the data shows it was on an upward trajectory since then.
Quality sex education and martial arts?
Unfortunately Google doesn't let you filter on arbitrary headers, otherwise at this point I'd delete everything with a List-Unsubscribe header.
Nonverbal communication is still valuable, I really don't mind to see who's talking compared to staring at an IDE for 3 minutes before they start.
I have a similar list: https://gitlab.com/cmiksche/blacklists/-/blob/master/hosts

Did you think about adding your list to well known blocklists? You can add it to e.g. OISD
I would say Twitch peaked and now is declining. People are moving from Twitch to YouTube because they can put as much effort and make much more revenue.
I don't know if YouTube is declining - it's definitely changed - but if you know where to look you can still find incredible videos and channel owners :)
The spam emails pretty much ALL have unsubcribe headers now. I mean, they are all WORSE than useless since they are sending signal back to spammers, but Gmail is asking me to [Unsubscribe and Report Spam] anyway.
In absolute terms, there's no rubbish, but yes, it hasn't peaked. In relative terms, the rubbish is about the same. There are simply way more videos than ever before.
If I read correctly it was part of a plea deal. Prosecution probably thought they couldn't secure a conviction unless they copped to a lesser sentence, so they bullshit them into taking it.

That said... I wonder if the deceased's estate has filed a civil suit against this jerk? Would serve him right to lose everything he's got.
> I think I've found the design! But it took a blurry YouTube video and some trial and error.

That isn't at all blurry.
> The hardest packaging problem in Python is not resolving dependencies or pinning down dependencies. Pip has it largely solved a some years ago.

I really disagree, and I think so does everyone who uses Poetry, pipenv, pip-tools, etc.
I used to work for a mortgage broker, and there was a "Best Mortgage Broker of 200x Award" that basically rotated each year around the participating companies.
Thats fair. Any genres you find interesting? Any specific story structure? Target age? I can probably list some that may strike your fancy.

But yeah, I can definitely see/understand not liking most/any anime.
Should have it linked within 15 min! Obviously I don't condone anyone to use this for serious things as of this stage.

Edit: Source repo in original post!
I'm talking about quality of content, not attention parasitism. Youtube peaked in quality in 2012, and probably hasn't peaked in attention parasitism yet.
Ads aren't a choice on mobile or SmartTV.
I think that the monetization on youtubes (not individual creators) side is slowly destroying youtube.

Just a few years ago, you could search for anything, even current-political, and find a bunch of videos from a bunch of people, from "best trump insults" to "why xyz is bad?" .... but now, all the top search results about anything remotely current (be it politics, covid, russia/ukraine, crime, heatwaves,...), all you get is mainstream media (cnn, msnbc,....). If I wanted to watch CNN, I'd watch CNN, not youtube.

Add to this all the blatant demonetization of anything remotely non-politically-correct, discussing anything current, or even using a bad word.

For me, youtube has become in 90% just one more "cable tv" channel... mainstream media, and a few large media houses pushing their shitty videos. There are only a few channels left that I actually enjoy, and even those are producing less and less content every year.
Harvard CS50 is also using scratch for the first steps.
Yes it has. It seems like the downturn was a few years ago when they made their monetization system pay less to the content creators and introduced a high barrier to entry for monetization (1k subscribers).

Add in the algorithm preferring new content and channels that publish new videos frequently (weekly or more), making it essentially a full time job staying relevant.

Youtube money is not enough to pay for living in high cost of living countries any more. Almost every popular channel I follow is mostly funded by Patreon etc these days.

The people who made a living on YouTube started in the early 2010s or so. And I have understood that most of them aren't primarily funded by tube moneys any more.

There is some interesting stuff coming from low cost of living countries like India, Bangladesh and in particular Vietnam. Not enough to offset the loss of creators from western countries.

I have not seen a new and interesting channel by anyone living in America or Europe in many years.
Sorting the wheat from the chaff has become indeed harder and harder, I guess this is more because of the dominance of the platform. What is definitely clear is that popularity-driven content curation produces a draining race-to-the-bottom for what gets put in our feed. Maybe for monetisation, instead of the first 30 seconds having been watched, a further time point should be set. As a Youtube Premium customer I would like to be able to say: this video was exploitative and disingenuous, do not monetize my 31 wasted seconds...
Yes, that's the joke ;)
Looking at file metadata this should be tagged (2019). Updated list would be probably a bit shorter.
1B+ ruminants with similar size / digestive systems? (including buffalo, aurochs, rhinos, etc) Absolutely. There were 30-60 million bison roaming the Great Plains just 170 years ago (not far off from America's current ~90 million head) [1]. The size of ruminants in the ice age and prior was also much bigger than modern cattle [2] [3].

[1] https://allaboutbison.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Bison-P...
[2] https://softschools.com/facts/extinct_animals/aurochs_facts/...
[3] https://www.theextinctions.com/articles-1/ns0atubs8qd60o16it...
What about a local running group that organises everything through Facebook?
Maybe in some areas (software) but I'm finding YouTube a goldmine for my current interest - learning to drive in the UK

When I was 17 I started learning for about 8 months but then stopped due to various reasons. I'm 35 now and picking it back up again and the most mind blowing aspect of it is how much content there is on YouTube to help learner drivers, compared to back then!

There are loads of creators (usually driving instructors) creating really good instructional videos with helpful visuals for everything you could think of for driving in the UK and how to pass the high bar of the UK practical test.

It's been an invaluable resource and new content seems to come out everyday exploring different topics. Yes some of the channels are sponsored, usually by car insurance companies, but it's not intrusive
Where are the content creators moving?
It is idiotic to think that an award for "greatest mathematical genius" [...] would just ignore accomplishments over a certain age, it is almost offensive

Unfortunately, nature - as ever - doesn't care about causing offence.

At the very highest creative level, maths - like pop music and physics - is a young person's game.
> Again, no - it would only work if every single one FOSS developer agreed to use it.

Huh? Whatchoo talking about, Willis?

If "only" 99% of FOSS developers used a truly freedom-preserving FOSS license, only 1% of FOS software could be taken non-free.

If "only" 90% of FOSS developers used a truly freedom-preserving FOSS license, only 10% of FOS software could be taken non-free.

Dunno where you draw the line of "works", but I'd say down to around 80/20 or perhaps even 70/30 would be "pretty much works".
> the Fields Medal, is often described as the Nobel Prize for math(s).

This is the problem
In the ground like everyone else.
That would be 17 people leaving, 8 arriving on Mars after the onboard homicides. It would be better to launch with 8 and deliver all 8 alive.

And, it takes rather more launches of tankers to fuel up each starship before it blasts off again for Mars. I might have undercounted.

Maybe read up a bit on space medicine? Bone mass loss is not a controversial topic.
Non-exhaustive list of places I will happily drink bad/instant coffee:

- community centres where the coffee is made by volunteers and typically costs 50 pence

- anywhere that I'm invited into a social group that includes drinking coffee of whatever quality

- visiting friends who aren't coffee snobs

- visiting a workplace to promote my own stuff

- waiting to get my tyres fixed and its Maxpax but it's free
I can highly recommend gerrit. It can lack of eye candy, but from UX perspective it's the most effective tool I've tried. Also it forces patch-oriented workflow from a GIT side and you get a nice linear history in the end.
Ask HN: Embedded Projects to Learn From?
I'm currently at a small company and often find myself looking outside for solutions and techniques in the embedded software space.
The areas I'm interested in are C, testing and testability, architecture and portability, real-time control, build systems and CI. Leaving books and Stack Overflow aside, the value of projects is in their demonstration: the maturity/immaturity, advantages/drawbacks of particular tools and techniques.

The following projects have been of great pedagogical use to me:

https://github.com/google/makani (Bazel, C, testing, architecture, real-time control, code-generation)

https://github.com/odriverobotics/ODrive (real-time control, code-generation, C++)

https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel (architecture, C)

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf (architecture, C, CMake, testing)

Which embedded software projects have you learned from and what have you learned from them?
... assuming that these channels of interest are on Youtube and not on one of the other platform. I am using multiple platforms, just because the content is spread out now.
Wall Street titans share views on globalization, pandemic and American dream
Mirror: https://archive.ph/NNxkW
I have about 15 Perl-based converters for various banks I use, from parsing Revolut's CSV exports to making sense of copying and pasting the statement from Citibank. Someone should really make a repo to collect these, although hopefully as more banks sign up to Salt Edge and friends it'll be less of an issue
> Heads add no value to a technical video

Body language. Expression.
Why does it matter if the janitor makes more money when they are likely still struggling just as much due to high cost of living?

The whole "humanity is way more wealthy than in the 1600s because consumerism is at an all time high" thing doesn't make sense after basic inspection of the idea. In the year 2150 there will be impoverished single mothers who are working three jobs to pay off the loans for their spaceship. Just because they have a personal spaceship and they get to do hard labor in the laser mines doesn't mean they aren't permanently trapped at the very bottom of a rigid and oppressive class structure.
I use mostly Duckduckgo for search, Google when in desperation (once per week probably).
YouTube is amazing, especially conference talks and music
pihole.
Unless you decline tracking cookies or outright disable cookies, in which case YouTube will push even more crap content down your throat because I guess that's what the average person wants.
It feels kind of entitled to want free content that people can’t earn money from, for starters. I don’t understand why something can’t be passion driven or organic without also being money driven. Kind of reminds me of the music industry where people say a band sold out because they signed a deal with a label.

Anyway, the reason it’s harder to find good software tutorials is because software engineers can make a ton of money from anywhere in the world. This doesn’t even just affect YouTube. Try to go through the tech category on Audible without tripping over low-effort Python tutorials.

I don’t use TikTok atm but I bet you’ll find a similar problem there soon, if it’s not already prevalent.

The cause is humans trying to find the shortest path to money, not some YouTube algorithm.
Technically it's more generally atmospheric 'green-house gases', of which CO2 is the one we produce massive amounts of.

Methane and Nitrous Oxide also play a massive role. We produce less of those mostly through gas leaks and shipping/diesel fuel but they are a lot worse than CO2 if we think of it in terms of per kilo impact.
This looks great, a while ago I was thinking it would be great to have a blogging platform that would be easy to use, no tracking, no ads, and effectively anonymous. The anonymous part obviously depends on your secops but this ticks all the boxes.

As others have asked, I wonder about long term survival of the project so what are your monetization options? Since its no ads no tracking which is one of the best features it would have to be freemium model or even donation, and since one of the potential use cases is anonymous blogging it should have the option to pay with crypto (something like Monero).

You can always self-host but it's more burdensome, even if you know how to do it (most people using this service will know how to self-host a blog or would be able to figure it out), and if you want an anonymous blog and you self host you would have to figure out how to anonymously pay for your server.

I do have a Hugo blog hosted on Netlify for free and configured to my own domain but as a command line lover prose.sh looks great (mind you the workflow to edit and publish using a Hugo blog on Netlify or anywhere else is pretty much also command line centric).

It would be great to be able to also push your own themes on prose.sh to customize the look and feel of your blog though.
The whole Internet hat peaked due to monetization. Very little content is created because somebody is passionate about something and wants to share. Almost all content is created to either directly make money or to collect enough followers to eventually start making money. Everything is fake and optimized to grab attention. What organic content remains is drowned out by the firehose of monetized content.
It's actually on an academic review site called OpenReview where the dispute is ongoing: https://openreview.net/forum?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf

LeCun claims four "main original contributions" and Schmidhuber basically debunks them one by one, for example:

> (IV) your predictive differentiable models "for hierarchical planning under uncertainty" - you write: "One question that is left unanswered is how the configurator can learn to decompose a complex task into a sequence of subgoals that can individually be accomplished by the agent. I shall leave this question open for future investigation."

> Far from a future investigation, I published exactly this over 3 decades ago: a controller NN gets extra command inputs of the form (start, goal). An evaluator NN learns to predict the expected costs of going from start to goal. A differentiable (R)NN-based subgoal generator also sees (start, goal), and uses (copies of) the evaluator NN to learn by gradient descent a sequence of cost-minimizing intermediate subgoals [HRL1].

It will be interesting to follow this.
I'll trump with Buster Keaton :-)
Not to speak of the terrifying Japanese horror film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abegO5oyUZM
Ella Fitzgerald Destroys the Harmonic Minor Scale, then goes off (1968)
Kudos. Best TLDR I've seen in quite some time ;-)
How is swatting even a thing? Terrifies the shit out of me.
I used the Zapp service (https://tryzapp.com/) while staying in London last year - it seemed to work OK.

The thing I liked the most is that it had real-time stock management, so it could tell you if something was in stock when you place your order, and guarantee that you get everything you ordered.

Ordering groceries online from the major supermarkets in the UK can be frustrating, because they simultaneously stop you ordering items they think will be out of stock on your delivery date (regardless of whether that's the case), and they have no idea what will be in stock until the day of the delivery.

I think grocery delivery through services like Uber Eats and Deliveroo suffers from the same problem - if your item is out of stock, or the driver can't find it, you won't get it.

In terms of the market, there are probably just too many companies trying to do the same or similar things.
No, YouTube has not peaked, YouTube is only getting better. However, the only way to experience this is to DISCOVER CONTENT OUTSIDE OF YOUTUBE.

If you just click around YouTube you will get the content equivalent of Mountain Dew and Cheetos - unhealthy garbage that will make you worse off but will enrich the vendor. If you want to find the good stuff you have to know what you're looking for and seek it out.
JSNice[0] often does a good job deobfuscating js, the statistical renaming isn't foolproof but often useful.

With it I get https://ghostbin.me/62d52999cc217 , from there it's decoding UTF-16 and at least one more decoding step (parts of decoded UTF-16 are mangled) to get the string j and the function o and resolving the original function with it.

[0] http://jsnice.org/
> Especially since the removal of downvoting

A wake-up call that a single company annihilated our ability to sort out information for ourselves. I'm still rather disturbed and shaken.
Hmm, it looks like you can do this with Apple's Mail client.
pi-hole can still help with that, unless the client is running on android.
None of them is required for this, it just steals valuable time from the actual content.

For example when trying to find physical hardware reviews (basically the only reason I can think of where a video can be more preferable to something written). And yet it is incredible how many reviewers think you'll be happy to stare at their faces for the majority of the "review"; practically all this runtime is them advertising themselves.
Ah, dumbphone; I may have missed that, and been thinking smartphone. Can't really recall if I ever did that on the old 6230i (etc) either.

But anyway, AFAICS answering[1] a phone call and silencing[2] an alarm are about the only functions you should be able to do on a locked phone, be it "dumb" or "smart".

___

[1]: ObPedantry: Or dismissing. And hanging up when you're done talking.

[2]: ---- " ----: Or snoozing.
Interestingly enough, passing even the most complex example in the link to GPT-3 with the prompt "What does this code output when run?" returns the correct result.
The ones I follow are mostly getting paid by Patreon subscriptions. Some are doing content for niche platforms specific to the hobby they dabble in. Some use YouTube for free previews of paid content available elsewhere.

But a lot of creators just quit.

There is no platform that is sucking creators out of youtube, there just isn't enough money from ad funded free content to keep it up.
When oil goes up next day price goes up at the pump, when it goes down it takes a little time to be seen on the pumps. The markets are like that, is complicated to understand for mere mortals like me.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/
I think piracy also contributed to Windows becoming the dominant home computer operating system.

I've never bought Windows, when I was younger I used the pirated versions and later got a licence for free due to being a student and Microsoft having a deal with the university.

If I weren't able to pirate it, I would have to use Linux and thus would probably never switch to Windows.

That being said, while I still use Windows, the majority of my devices are Linux now. But the main stationary computer is still Windows.
Use JPEG XR, that has a lossless mode and better compression than you would get with .png. Though of course that puts you at risk of using yet another unproven format. Though it seems to be on track to become the JPEG successor from what I understand.
Knowing little to nothing about the sun, is this what is gonna hit Earth tomorrow? (Ref: https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/1548380370038444034)

The whole Twitter account (@hfsolar1) has some amazing videos of what's happening on/in the Sun, the videos seems to be 3D graphics generated from data, anyone know where the data comes from?
> democracy

There is a saying about what can be asserted without evidence can be likewise dismissed. But in this case there is even blatant empirical counter-evidence to send the argument on its way.

The problem is that there is a gigantic time delay or even hysteresis between cause and effect. A dog will never understand punishment if the offense was long into the past. We are the dogs now.
You are probably right. Funny, it’s product development that builds the product to begin with, the thing of value that generates revenue to pay the salaries of all these supporting roles like finance. Those roles are then planned for and filled. At some point a business silently becomes a financial instrument itself and product development in turn becomes just a resource or investment, that needs to be planned. While truth is, the product still is the business’ reason d’etre. Does this phenomenon have a name?