skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mouths to feed, mortgage, education, healthcare.
I had a business with two single friends as associates, a guy and a girl (me a guy). Both of them checked out at five, they had many chat windows with friends open during the workday (MSN/Yahoo chat era), had friends visit and play Age of Empires in our LAN., while I stayed working late, very focused, not because I was smarter or wiser but because I had an obligation, a duty to bring home the bread.
We spoke a couple of times about it, things changed for a week or two and then all back to "normal". Finally I came to accept it: I was no longer in much need of social interactions because I had a spouse, while they were still on the market.
This is not an acceptable situation, but I have NFI what individual nobodies can do about it :(
YT has hidden tags that tie it to your account after viewing a video, removing the video from played/history does not affect this and has been an issue with YT for nearly 6-7 years at this point.
It’s called Private Equity and it’s hugely popular.

The trend in recent years is buying up software in verticals, gluing it together and flipping it to the next flipper.
I run https://fiction.live which has a similar recommendations function as youtube.

The key insight here is that dislikes are not the same thing as uninterested. People will dislike stories that they're interested in but think are poorly written or do not have the ending that they want it to have. If you use dislike to mean uninterested you are ruining the recommendations.

Rather you need to have a separate button that says do not recommend other content like this. That's what we do and it works out well.
> But the new tools of individual GPS tracking via phone and vehicle, banning entrance and exit to very large areas, for broadly varying amounts of time, is being seized by emergency response agencies in the new times.

Seems problematic, since neither people nor vehicles are currently required to have GPS interacting with a central server that could enforce this.

> What is the proof of this? Two things from public sources

Then why are neither cited, rather than non-verifiably described?

EDIT:

> ask Charlie Crocker at ZoneHaven and see what he says, on the public record

I’m sure, as what you describe would be a major extension of ZoneHaven utility to government that would be a selling point if it did work, the CEO of ZoneHaven would have pretty much the most reason of anyone on the planet to paint it as a thing that was imminent to be widely available and adopted.

But that’s a reason to be skeptical of him saying that.
> XML User Interface Language is a user interface markup language developed by Mozilla. XUL is an XML dialect for writing graphical user interfaces, enabling developers to write user interface elements in a manner similar to web pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xul
How did you manage to share the song without also sharing that amazing mashup?

One of those rare exceptions, where overlaying another song improves the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEtJw7pfLk
Personally I'm really hoping for better private decentralized apps and networks.

A way to escape the google silos and protect your private data from mass surveillance, but without losing the usability. Things like locutus, solid, etc.
Sealed Bottle Ecosystem Only Watered Once in 53 Years
There was a Saint that said: “I meditate one hour everyday, well everyday except when I have a lot of work, that day, I meditate two hours.”

That proverb is superb, when something is wrong and the team seems stressed I usually use it and we call a meeting to try to re-evaluate the situation.

Definitely you end up prioritizing and cutting in order to keep things on track.

Usually delays come from two sources:
1. Bells, whistles and nice to have functionality that are already working and keeps refining.
2. Engineers Ego: refactoring when they find that a nicer approach is possible. Just stop that and keep in mind that business comes first and you will eventually have time to rethink (if everything goes smooth).

Good luck!
https://www.meetup.com/hackernewsseattlemeetup/

Message the organizer and post it here too please.
Ultimately, it's the engine.
Why is everyone pretending that the maximal amount of ad revenue comes doesn’t come from showing you what you want to see?

Individual videos don’t pay to be in the recommended feed. There’s no opportunity to see an ad except when you watch a video. YouTube has a perfectly balanced incentive to show you more content you’ll watch.

Where is the exclusive choice between (what the user wants to watch) and (what makes more money)? The only thing I can imagine is that they would down-rank videos not cached in your region.
Terrible way to look at what may be a system, or at least a data structure, you can’t change in a few months. Things become critical and companies pivot.

Lots of teams build code bases with the idea they’ll rewrite and polish it later. This almost always, when it does happen which isn’t a lot over the short term, ends with having to work around the data model that our production data is dependent on and our customers.

Yes you can go in and translate old data models to new ones. You can add a transformer if that doesn’t work to set/get data. Yes you can redesign or you set of view components to account for a nicer frontend layout or data model. These are work around a to tech debt not a proper implementation.

But we could also be honest and admit that >75% of code we “write now and redo later” becomes business critical production code and never gets redone.
Initial development cost of LoL was, I believe, $12-$15m - not very much.

The amount they've poured into it since then, of course, is astronomical.
> philosophers take it to mean that one believes in Plato's Theory of Ideas.

This is not accurate. Platonism, in a contemporary context, is the view that abstract objects exist. And so in particular to be platonist about mathematics is to believe in the existence of mathematical entities.
Bad ass! Our E&M professor was kind of flabbergasted that we weren't doing table top colliders (this was a decade ago), almost implying some sort of scam was going on.

Do most people know that alchemy has been realized in modern physics? Lead has indeed been converted to gold (at terrible efficiency)!
You could always open the pdf on your phone and cast your phone screen.
I wouldn't bother seeking legal means to recover your money. The problem with that strategy is that it only works if there is a company remaining with money to pay you. They will go out of business. the company will have no money. In the best case scenario you pay legal fees to sue them, you win, the judge says they have to pay you, and they have no money to pay you so... you just loose more money.

Don't bother. The money is never coming. Move on to something else quickly.
My advice is to look at the programs that Amazon offers to veterans: https://hiring.amazon.com/our-team/military#/
Browser itself:

Has a Chromium base which means a bunch of nice things: It just works better nowadays because devs make everything for Chrome and barely care for anything else. Chromium's native tab groups rock. Chromium means separate browser profiles and PWAs, which I like to have. I think Chromium's mobile UI is better.

Those are mostly just benefits of stock Chromium, but:

Sane defaults (eg. not defaulting to Google + search suggestions on). The browser has a built in uBO grade adblocker that also works on mobile and doesn't care about Manifest v3, like Mozilla, they run an independent end to end encrypted sync service for bookmarks/settings/history/etc. You get the good of Chromium without the bullshit.

Brave specifically: YouTube video background playback on mobile, they're working on vertical tabs, tons and tons of nice privacy features. I think being able to adjust video Autoplay is Brave-specific, but not sure.

Organization:

Mozilla as an organization is funded by Google, and is completely okay with others deciding what I should see on the Internet. It also just generally seems more interested in activism than browser building.

Brave from the get go tries to have independent sources of revenue (ie. their ad business, and now paid services like Brave Talk and adfree Search).

They are an organization that itself doesn't have politics except for user control and privacy, which is an increasingly rare attitude and I like a lot.

Brave maintains an independent search engine that has its own index rather than being a simple Bing frontend the way most other small engines are, and it supports DDGs !bang syntax. Plus Goggles are cool.

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In short, they don't do anything exactly revolutionary - they just focus on making a browser, and make a browser with very little bullshit.
It works for me and other people I know. Especially useful when I'm baited or my finger slips. Paired with flagging recommendations as "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel" it's very effective.
Millions of websites are currently showing stupid cookie popups because they're mandated by law to obtain the user's consent. Why shouldn't that consent or lack thereof be expressed once in the browser UI instead?

The only issue with DNT is that it wasn't mandated.
The problem with the dislike button seems to be that nobody agrees on what it should be used for.

In previous HN discussions, it's become apparent that some people use it to say "I am not interested in this video".

That is of zero use to other users. The video isn't necessarily bad, it's just on a topic you don't care about.

If you are instead using it to mean "this video is factually wrong" or "this video is obnoxious" that might be useful.

If you are using it to say "I don't agree with this political viewpoint" or "I don't like this movie/superhero/game/TV franchise", then that's also probably not that helpful.
That's more or less what the "not interested" button is for. The article says Mozilla tested both and they were just about equally ineffective.
I'm not sure this is a fair representation. Rails didn't "guess wrong" too many times. They chose the best option available at the time. Remember, CoffeeScript was used in Rails in 2010! Brendan Eich even borrowed many ideas from CoffeeScript in subsequent versions of JavaScript. Ditto, the asset pipeline solved a great number of problems for many years. With recent advances in web browsers, many of these problems aren't really problems, so it's less relevant, and Rails has to take advantage of import maps as an alternative.
Yeah the recency bias is really annoying to me. I'll get really interested in some new topic for a bit and watch a bunch of videos about it and it seems like YouTube takes that as a signal to bump other topics out of my recommendations, even if they're things that I've consistently been interested in for a long time.

I wish I could somehow "save" the state of my recommendations profile so I can revert it if it goes off the rails.
As an example, GTA V is the fastest entertainment product to reach a billion dollars in lifetime revenue. That was shortly after it launched, and it's been out for YEARS now. The ROI on that game (plus GTA Online) is staggering.
Ah, there's lots. What used to be "DoubleClick" still exists under a different name, a sort of more publisher controlled private-ish instance of Adsense/Adwords. Then ad-like things..embedded google shopping results, local search, google flights, travel/hotel widgets, etc. Ads inside products like Maps, etc.
If you take the pre release hype with some salt, and play on a reasonably modern PC, CP2077 is one of the best games I've played.

It does have more than the usual amount of bugs, but they have patched it up so that you can play and enjoy without too much frustration.

Almost everything that's important in a game is well done. The combat, gameplay, story, characters, progression, music, everything is enjoyable.

I think the huge backslash had a lot to do with them lying about it running great on PS4, when it clearly didn't. It barely ran, and often bugged out.
Do you perhaps have some account setting where it doesn’t store info or track you? In other words, are you preventing them from understanding you?

I have a completely different experience. My recommendations are pretty decent, if recent-biased. You’re not on the “explore” or “trending now” page right? Obviously trending videos aren’t tailored to individuals
Read in a straightforward manner, Feynman simply didn’t understand the value of philosophy, though he did inevitably and unwittingly tread across philosophical territory.

In some sense, we all philosophize to one degree or another. We can either acknowledge that and learn to do it well, or we can do it poorly.
Joined a company that had been bought by a megacorp. for months would say we are launching on Monday. Code had dozens of SVN branches that hadn’t been merged in many months.
No original developers remained. Quit for many reasons.

Been a number of years. I wonder if they are still targeting Monday.
I wrote an app called SmartKid that attempts to curate your YouTube recommendations via disliking videos that match a set of keywords (e.g. Minecraft, mrbeast, reaction).

https://smartk.id/

Working on getting my Youtube api quota extended.
> For that, professors are the wrong people.

Have no fear; all of the actual work will be done by PhD students straight out of undergrad, and most of the actual leadership will be done by a string of recent PhD grads who need results in 6 months because they'll be full time job marketing for the 6 months after that ;-)
From the browser itself when you open a Tor window:

Private Window with Tor connectivity

Brave never remembers what you do in a Private Window. With Tor connectivity, you get two additional benefits: your IP address is hidden from the sites you visit and the sites you visit are hidden from passive network observers. Note that Tor may slow down browsing or break some websites.

A private window with Tor makes it more difficult, but not impossible, for your ISP or employer (if you're using a work machine or network) to see what sites you visit. However, even a private window with Tor won't fully defend against tracking. If your personal safety depends on remaining anonymous, use the Tor Browser instead.
No, they are not.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff disagrees with your assessment.

The top U.S. military officer, General Mark Milley, has provided the first official U.S. confirmation of a Chinese hypersonic weapons test ...

"What we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system. And it is very concerning," Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Bloomberg television, in an interview aired on Wednesday [Oct 2021].

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/top-us-ge...

You and the Navy can choose to ignore it but all the facts show that carriers are now obsolete weapons of war when deployed against our biggest enemies.
What’s “KG” in this context? As in, serious question because I can’t parse that sentence. Is it supposed to be “kg”?
Hello Jeremy, yes it was. I wrongly assumed the YouTube URL shortened included the time stamp. I thought it was quite interesting given most employers would not accept such an arrangement explicitly.
You're giving yourself away by making that comparison - your experience as a Java dev gives you minimal insight into the expressiveness or utility of TypeScript's very different, much more powerful type system.
Seconded. All the benefits of Clojurescript and React's core proposition without any of the classes/hooks madness.
Overwatch's current avoid player system has a limit of 3 players, and only for 7 days per player - and no way to extend unless you run into that player again. Also, it's only avoid as teammate (which was alluded to in the top sniper story, but not specifically stated).
Atlassian is only nice for what they actually display on that page, but their design system (the components at least) is actually 2x more expansive, meaning you are out of luck if you need info on any of that.

Of course, they do give you the source, so that’s nice.
pretty sure the most expensive reddit award is worth $120, which isn't a down-payment on an equatorial drive. It might pay for 1/3 of an IR conversion on an existing DSLR camera, maybe.

professional astronomy photos is an activity where the low end starts very expensive. Basic setups are in the thousands of dollars.
This sounds interesting. I tried to Google about it, but I found nothing. How did you learn about this?
Because the API is a REST API and you don't want your frontend to have to make 100 calls to render a screen. Each frontend may be a completely different app so they all need the data in their own format. And each team may control their app so you don't want all of the teams roadblocked by the API team.
I don't think trains have to just be an urban thing. Maybe you wont get a train stop in McDermitt, NV or Loa, UT or Mackay, ID but there are plenty of places with higher density than that. It took me a long time to realize the history of the various interurban trails I've seen. This tweet I saw recently has some interesting maps of the networks of people focused rail to even small towns near Boston. https://twitter.com/FischermanDan/status/1571919260661809152

It's a response to this:
https://nitter.net/grescoe/status/1571863398366973960#m

"By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley.
The tracks, and often the wires, extended deep into forest and farmland, making the railroads de facto intercity highways; after nightfall in the countryside, farmers would signal drivers to stop by burning a rag next to the track.
Streetcars and interurbans became the dominant mode of urban transportation in North America, carrying 11 billion passengers a year by the end of the First World War."
One striking example is the "ceremonial" activity that, in the US, the Vice President counts the electors votes to certify the election for the next President. This was interrupted in 2021 by ne'er-do-wells who thought they would overthrow a legitimate election, having been fed a lot of baloney from a lot of sources.

In both the example above and this example, what was taken as "ceremonial" (especially since the advent of much, much better forms of communication than what was available the 1790s) was still the the lawful course. Our systems of government are held together by the belief in and affinity to perform duty according to precedent.
I assume it's so that if your client wants, it can reach out to a different BFF to get some data not implemented in its own BFF, leading to a class of problems where the data might change, necessitating the need to build Backend for Backend for Frontends (BFBFFs) on top of the BFFs. That way you and your competing teams can wage an arms race to see whose jenga tech silo can grow faster.
Thanks - that's a great idea.
I was a heavy AltaVista user back in the time, I can tell you Google results were really higher quality, it wasn't only their homepage (even if that was also quite refreshing).
My dude, it isn't about money. At least not directly.

I encourage those of you attempting to block Cloudflare to try and host your own website for a bit. Make sure you don't do it on a metered/paid connection. I know one eCommerce site with 1,300 employees that went bankrupt overnight thanks to the AWS bill (and lack of options to get back online, this was prior to companies such as CF). Bankruptcy as in the company filed for bankruptcy and no longer exists. They were profitable for a decade prior. One DDoS attack...

Also make sure you don't have a democratic opinion if you are in the US, like a 50 person manufacturing company. They were shut down completely thanks to saying a single wrong thing about Republicans. CF existed there, but they weren't aware thanks to not having IT folks. They were a non profit.

CF may be evil to some, but there is a reason they exist. I use CF. I don't like throwing money at them every month, however, many of my websites have also been attacked, usually via competitors. We can either deanonymize the internet or allow companies like CF to exist. There is really no other way.
It's also a problem by USD oriented pricing. It tend to be done by US based company like Apple and Nvidia. I found new Samsung Galaxy price isn't looks so bad unlike them because they are Korean.
Also, the data may be coming from multiple systems. So somewhere you have to stich that data together.
One is an intellectual response and the other emotional. To wit, the mascot of this entire affair ..
Judging by the ads I have been getting lately, Youtube must somehow think I'm a Japanese person who moved to middle America, because I'm getting ads for local businesses I couldn't use if I wasn't living there, like pet grooming centers. Unless of course, there's some malcompetence at play, and youtube is deliberately allowing for the waste of advertising budgets of middle American businesses on people like me, to sabotage them.
I have the same questions still, after reading all the material and also researching between papers and conference talks.

My takeaway so far is: it’s a faster, more flexible, and lighter JVM-like thing.

As someone who had written Java Applets from back in the day on the UI side, and written plenty of server side and seen a lot of FaaS successes and failures (more the latter than the former), all the features and use cases map 1:1 - so not really new use cases. Just way better design and implementation (which may make architectures actually end-user usable), w/o money-ed interest.

TL;DR, spicy take: “.class file v2”
Road to hell being paved with good intentions maybe?

Seems odd to me to order people to shelter in place when toxic smoke is an issue (another PG&E special?).

The ZoneHaven software seems to be evac management software split into an offering for first responders for planning evacuations, and an offering for the public providing a single place to look things up.

From the screenshots, I'm seeing metrics on expected population and # of vehicles. I can only assume there is some dual use concern over the fact that as these datasets can be fused with carrier handset location data, it's possible to implement a geofencing solution with a bit of kitbashing.

The previous mention of "a town in a county near Monterey having their Mayor told California Highway Patrol would keep their town's Interstate access cut off on a timescale of months" (no evidence offered or capable of being found on a cursory search, will check CalFIRE as recommended though), but assuming good faith, could be a valid reason for concern.

If nothing else, it actually got me searching as to whether anything like that was at all precedented. It's one of those things that I guess you take for granted won't happen, but when you start thinking about it, gives you a shiver.

Relevance to article can be inferred the poster finds application of this potential tool in such a hypothetical geofencing manner with no recourse or questioning disquieting. Which I can't necessarily blame them for; my "but no one would do that"/State overreach mental circuits have been getting increasingly Locked Out/Tagged Out over the last decade. The poster just might be kind of bad at communicating context, or over-relying on other people sharing mental context/priors for the meaning to fully come through.

Incomplete communication maybe. Lunatic, I think not.
Yes it’s a kilogram.
I assume you're right, which puts us in a position where:

- search is neutered/broken, so finding new interesting videos is a chore

- recommendations need to be manually combed regularly to remove dumb videos

- watch history also needs to be combed to remove potential false signals

That's a lot of curation to get somewhat decent recommendations. Not saying we have a choice, it's not like Vimeo will make a comeback to save us, but that's a pretty bad place we're in.