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Tell HN: YouTube is making a TikTok junky out of me
TL;DR: Youtube is using a dark pattern to lure its users into its Youtube Shorts feature on mobile. It is beginning to ruin Youtube for me personally as you unconsciously get caught up in the Youtube shorts stream more and more. It does so by remembering if the last video you have seen is a Youtube Short. If so, the next time you open the app, even if completely closed, it reopens immediately into a Youtube Shorts stream. If left in any other view inside the app, the app will open the homepage instead. Due to the increasing amount of Shorts available, the chances are that you are caught up in the stream sooner or later. When you finally come to your senses you simply close the app. When restarting the app, bam you’re in again…

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By now, we all know the buzzing feeling you experience in your head due to an overload of dopamine when you finally end your streak of swiping away short high-intensity videos. Be it in TikTok, Youtube shorts, or another similar platform that copied the aforementioned first one.

Personally, I am not a big fan of this format as it simply is too addicting, messes with my head, and eats up valuable time. Its algorithm mixes a lot of mediocre to bad stuff with actually good content for maximum viewing time. On Youtube, when not making use of youtube premium, you are sure to be served some additional ads apart from those not already embedded within the videos of content creators.

If I am honest, sometimes it is fun to get caught up, plus there is some quality content at times. However, that dopamine rush you get isn’t completely giving you the freedom of choice. It seems to create a new rush every time before the critical cooldown threshold is reached to take the more conscious decision of saying “now it has been enough”.

Even though I decided to uninstall TikTok after experiencing it briefly when it launched, it has now come to the app in which I view most of my content, that app being Youtube. That alone wouldn’t have been a problem, wasn’t it for the fact that the mobile Youtube app now actively tries to let you get caught up in that stream of Youtube Shorts. So much so that it actually distracts me away from the content I come to Youtube for in the first place…

It does so by remembering if the last video you have seen is a Youtube Short. If so, the next time you open the app, even if completely closed, it reopens immediately into a Youtube Shorts stream. If left in any other view inside the app, the app will open the homepage instead. Due to the increasing amount of Shorts available, the chances are that you are caught up in the stream sooner or later. When you finally come to your senses you just close the app, it being the only option to prevent the loop from continuing. When restarting the app, bam you’re in again… Feel free to give it a try yourself.

Not to say, the short video format doesn’t have its place or its qualities. I just don’t like the way they are being served currently next to other longer-form quality content. In my opinion, this is a chance for Youtube to be the better and more ethical video platform.
It’s documented, try google, stackoverflow, and reading other packages’ setup.py for tricks.

However the scripts=[], keyword is the key to the case above.
There is also an iOS/iPadOS SSH Client called Blink [1], short for Blink Shell, which I use almost daily.

[1]: https://blink.sh/
Adding overhead wires in Manhattan seems like literal insanity to me. There’s way too much shut going on at all times.
Plus who knows how much for the custom lenses needed if you wear glasses.
I don't agree with the specific reason you cited, which is what I wrote about.
I didn't downvote you but I think equating the Russian attack on Ukraine with the American war on Iraq is probably what earned you the downvotes. Especially because you seem to equate the too based on the extent and number of war crimes. Committing war crimes seems to be the norm, even an expectation in the Russian army. These also seem being denied and never investigated while they are pretty well documented. This doesn't seem to be the case with the US army. (Yes, they did happen, but they seem to happen at a much lower rate, more isolated cases and some of them actually get investigated officially and the perpetrators get sentenced.)

And then let's not forget that the American war in Iraq (and Afghanistan) has been ironically labelled as "democracy export" for a reason. Yes, it didn't work, yes it was probably a bad idea from the start, but at least it wasn't "autocracy export". Which the war on Ukraine is. The goal of the Russian leadership (read: Putin) has been to remove the democratically elected Ukrainian leadership and install a puppet government. This is a bit harder to support than the US narrative of toppling a dictatorship and help the people to start a democracy. (Again, even if the latter was doomed to fail.)

Sure, the Russian soldiers and society were also sold a nice (horror) story about the Ukrainian leadership (or maybe Ukrainians in general) being 'nazi'. You can hear in some captured phone calls from the early days of the war that the soldiers try to explain to their relatives that there are no 'nazis' there just normal people.

On I side note, I would use a product built by a Russian soldier who participated in the war if he made it clear that he didn't want to participate and didn't commit (or maybe even opposed/prevented committing) war crimes.
Interesting tool, it'd surely benefit from a better README
My phone also has a 13500 mAh battery, so charging isn't something I have to do often, I'll often forget about it for four days.

Mind you, it weights half a kilo / one pound.
Ask HN: Why does YouTube NOT have a fill window button in the browser
By fill window, I mean in window fullscreen, like all other streaming websites.

It can't be a technological issue as there are simple browser add-ons that do it.

As a YouTube Premium user, I use it much more like Hulu / Netflix / etc.. and watch longer length content. I can't for the life of me figure out why they are overlooking this functionality and keep wondering if there's another reason for it, such as hoping to keep users engaged with the rest of the site?
Just context for international readers: Roosevelt Island has 11,000 residents, or 0.1% of NYC's population. The point stands, just providing context.
You only have one brain
> frequent injections sounds really inconvienent

So's obesity.

> the cost is pretty prehibitive unless insurance is covering it

Given the costs of treating the various obesity side-effects, they're pretty likely to. (They'll probably require a few hurdles prior, though.)
The usual response to this is: Let’s make copyright terms shorter and charge exponentially-increasing fees to renew the registration. Works that continue to have value to rights holders will justify their registration expense. Works that don’t have value will return to the public domain.

It sounds like a good idea to me but I don’t see it having any chance of it happening.
> fundamentals of the situation

On what grounds? Why are you able to unilaterally decide what the situation is?
UK PM Rishi Sunak to propose compulsory math for students up to 18
Wow, thanks for letting me know. That's pretty shocking
Karabiner Hyper key plus Alfred is The Way.
You're probably right the common side effects are all reason to not eat (nausea, GI upset).
But like, it wouldn't be. I'm sorry though, I'm not willing to explain it fully.

I get what you're saying though. I get why you're saying it.
Hey this is really cool! I built something similar for https://addcontext.xyz over the break. We just launched a self-service version that allows anyone to enter a YouTube playlist link and create a mini search-engine from the content.

I've seen a few other people working on similar stuff in the wild. Very curious to see where this goes.
> naively wish we could just stop in this case and.. wait

Congratulations, you shut off logistics and emergency services for a population the size of Virginia.
The best way to learn a new stack for me is to go through the book Exercises for Programmers (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#exercises-for-programmers).
Although I agree with most of the arguments in this article, I think that tools vs. concepts is a false dichotomy. Concepts are built on small pieces of knowledge and small pieces of knowledge can be learned via on-demand learning.

The problem is that it’s hard to build the concept from the ground up. For example, everyone knows that it would be best to learn linear algebra before learning machine learning, but no one, in practice, has the time to learn linear algebra from the ground up.
...let alone the trackers.

Anyway, thanks for being a $upporter.
It really is not a frame of mine. We know this because GWAR genome studies find that the SNPs most correlated with obesity are expressed in the hypothalamus, which has nothing to do with higher thought.
Millions of NYC residents have jobs and schools to go to and grocery shopping to be done. Locking them down for even a few days has huge costs.
> these drugs are like a supercharged metformin

No drinking alcohol, like metformin?

If so, I suspect you could get a large fraction of the improvement gained from a population-wide deployment of these drugs, at zero cost, if everyone just stopped drinking alcohol. "But that's unreasonable!" Right, so if that's also required for taking this drug, then....
This is the page I have been referring to since you wrote "As far as I know, the requirement is to dump a tarball of any changes you made on a web server". Again what's on that page and what you were saying clearly disagreed, just go back and read your original comments now that you understand the distribution requirements. Nobody has been saying the requirements are complicated just easily missed.

Despite the message of "if you do that, you can stop reading" imagine you might not always be able to do that and read on through to the following regarding option 3(b) which deals with their recommendation for what to do when you ship the binaries with firmware, the most common method of distributing copies of busybox. 3(a) is the simplest way for general software but it doesn't really make sense for the firmware distribution use case, as they note. Either way both 3(a) and 3(b) are completely different from what you were originally proposing to do and they both requiring delivering full source + build/install scripts even if you don't otherwise redistribute the source (just redistributing the binary is enough). Nothing complicated as long as you can get people to read the license page first.

So far everything here but your earlier comments agree many other licenses are easier to comply with and it's not worth worrying about. This is why the original comment recommended looking at Toybox, a BSD licensed alternative, for the reasons you just listed.

There's not any need to constantly call names or say responses are BS, the content of each message already speaks to its own value.
Not often you see something about Lincoln on here! The building is absolutely stunning and its my favorite thing about living in the city
Ugly, expensive, maintenance headache. What's not to like... They are however more environmentally friendly than diesel engines and it works well if you only have a few well trafficked routes. But you can't do this for a whole city, and garbage trucks and snowplows need to go into every street, not just the main boulevards.
On demand learning is more efficient. Sure we'd rather understand the whole field, but we can't know all of every field. Better to learn what you know and go deeper as and when it's clear that you'll need to. If I tried to read full text books on every tech I've used, I'd never get any work done and I doubt I'd retain it all for long without using in anger.
I disagree. Low quality processed foods, typically found in western diets, glysophates, high in industrial seed oils, processed sugars, and salts, are likely one of the biggest reasons for all the negative health effects we are seeing in the western diet, calorie numbers be damned.

Any quantity of this food, long term, is likely the reason for the explosive amount of health issues in the population, including many cancers we now commonly deal with.

One of the biggest changes to my health I ever noticed was a switch not in how I ate, but in WHAT I ate.

When I switched my diet over to high quality foods, organic and garden grown, meat I purchased from a local hunter, it made a substantial impact on my health, helped to fix a lot of my cholesterol and blood sugar numbers, and my overall health shot through the roof. No pills required, just decent ingredients, garden grown food, high quality meat.
That would be fantastic, but I think it’s very far away. Right now LLMs are far too dumb and unreliable to be useful as tutors. Ironically, they’re only useful in domains you already know very well, because then you can detect BS.
Why default to privately owned?

Public services can be cheaper, more reliable, and you have more control than if you pay someone else to maximize their profit. NYC government has tons of experience and expertise in managing something like this.
It certainly isn't random. He's showing the chosen card at the top of the face up deck moments before. If you watch at 0.25x very carefully, you can see what happens next.

He's very good at what he does, and it's hard to spot in real time. Amazing card scanning, too.

(start around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_KcQt0z-eE&t=229s )
It’s better for the environment to build and maintain a separate fleet of occasionally-used snow plows?
You know that if you cut all sugar for just 2 days things with very little sugar will taste very sweet?

We do not need the excessive amount of sugar in our food to fully enjoy it. The general public is just totally numb to it because of over consumption and companies are literally competing on having the sweater product.
Used AppleScript as recently as 2018 - for a small commercial project even. It works great and I don't think anything else comes close, aside from proper programming/scripting which isn't a fair comparison for the typical AppleScript use-cases.
> we also have higher levels of anxiety, stress

Why should that be true? Your kids aren't going off to WW2 to die. You aren't going to starve if bugs ate your crops. You aren't going to get clubbed and robbed if you follow a forest path.
I have no idea what they mean by Ruby not having first-class functions. Of course it does. It's a fundamental feature of the language.
He's a brilliant man, and I am extremely happy to devote my life to try to understand as much as possible, and implement it. There is so much nuance, and detail, and it extends through all of life, not just magic.

Thank you. I agree. I am happy as well to call him my friend.
NYC already has private trash pickup and it's a bit of a S#1Tshow - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/nyregion/nyc-garbage.html
I have been toying with the idea of converting my old telephone wiring to a 24/48VDC system for charging DC devices. A switch mode DC-DC converter is extremely efficient, and would be a net improvement over multiple disparate USB AC adapters.

Unfortunately, it's just not that useful for my home. We don't have enough devices that charge concurrently to justify it
Video conferencing is mentioned.

Anyone know of any other use cases they have in mind?

I always hear tech spec rumors but never about anything I would want to do with this type of thing… outside say gaming?
As far as I can tell, our social policies don't really work for managing addiction. We just hook up a vacuum cleaner to people's pockets and suck the money out of them if they smoke. Call it a "sin tax". But the problem is that people prioritize their next fix above other things; would you rather get some cigarettes or pay your rent, many people choose the cigarettes. I'm not sure how that helps anyone, and I'm not sure how expanding it to sodas or doughnuts would help anyone.

Regressive taxes also don't work well. I don't always eat super healthy. Making unhealthy food cost more wouldn't have any measurable impact, except maybe tanking my 401k because half the Fortune 500 goes out of business.
I would think a black hole would be much more practical to use as an energy source and keep hidden.
The other effects (they're not a side effects, since they're the intended effects) are satiety and cessation of cravings. In the "appetite vs. hunger" dichotomy you set up, the drugs seem to be addressing mostly the former; in fact, it sounds like, from reports on this thread, pts on these meds very much still experience true hunger symptoms (weakness, headache, brain fog).
>My interpretation is that the compressed instructions extension is still work in progress

C was ratified years ago, but I suspect you might have heard about Zc (about to be ratified, specific to 32bit, particularly helpful to microcontrollers) or B (ratified recently, bit manipulation, happens to help code density), and their effect in code density.
I had an opinion that this all sounded silly but then watched the 60 Minutes segment on the drugs and what the doc talked about is, in my layman's recollection, the body remembers its weight and wants to get back to that which is why a lot of people end up losing and then gaining most of it back. Genetics play a role in this, I forget how but something to do with what these drugs help change.

I wonder if rather than a placebo they had a control group also try to lose with caloric restriction and defined plateaus where they maintain a weight for some period of time. For example instead of lose 1lb/week for 52 weeks, lose 1lb/week for 12 weeks, maintain weight for 8 weeks, repeat. Maybe the element of the body "remembering" a weight happens when you plateau at a weight for a while? Kinda like giving the body some time to adjust as you lose.
I'm a bit confused by your numbers, and I suspect we may be mixing multiple units of measure (maybe due to different definitions of gallon?).

The 2021 Prius Prime is rated at 53mpg highway. Let's assume that is optimistic and it gets 50mpg. Its fuel tank holds 11.4 gallons, but you don't want to run it dry - let's say 10 gallons are usable. That is a 500-mile (~800km) range after the battery is dead. At 75mph, that requires stopping to refill the gas tank every 6 hours and 40 minutes.

The most efficient 2012 Honda Civic is the hybrid, which is EPA rated at 44mpg highway. That is very efficient. However, 44mpg -> 53mpg is a 20% increase in distance per gallon of fuel. The Prius Prime is significantly more efficient. Since we're intentionally ignoring electric range in these numbers, I think the efficiency gains are mostly from the 9 years of R&D that passed between these two cars being built.

Interestingly, the non-plugin 2021 Prius Eco is also rated at 53mpg highway. I do think it's odd that the extra weight from a larger battery didn't have a bigger impact on fuel economy. It looks like that makes a small difference in town, where the Prius Eco gets 58mpg vs the Prius Prime's 55mpg.
Is this true? Why can’t qemu use kvm for user mode emulation?
If my google-fu is right, ChatGPT was trained on 570GB of data.

I asked, "What is the fastest sea mammal?"

ChatGPT just produced,

"The fastest sea mammal is the peregrine falcon. This bird of prey is able to reach diving speeds of over 240 mph (386 km/h) when hunting for food, making it the fastest sea mammal and one of the fastest animals on the planet. The peregrine falcon is able to achieve such high speeds by diving from great heights and using the force of gravity to accelerate. When hunting, peregrine falcons will spot their prey from above, then tuck their wings and plummet towards the water, accelerating as they go. At the last moment, they will extend their wings and claws to snatch their prey out of the water."

(It usually seems to be saying dolphins lately; last week it was saying sailfish about 3/4s of the time.)
You seem to overlook the fact that you are comparing sophisticated financial instruments to 'investments' marketed at moms & pops sometimes as de facto bank accounts with FDIC markings on the marketing materials.

Did I know people who made out well playing the crypto market? One. Did I tell him to not do it? Nope, because he knows what he is doing.

The flipside of this is the 5 or so people in my direct personal sphere and hundreds if not thousands (if you count the lurkers who followed conversations I was having with individuals) online who have advocated for or expressed direct involvement or interesting in playing in crypto markets that I have advised against doing so, with a rare few heeding my warning but the overwhelming majority using circular logic, fallacies, personal attacks, and 'not-even-wrong' economic theories to justify putting a large portion of their income (sometimes even taking out loans) on it.

Please understand that the perspective I am trying to show the readers of my comments is my own.
You have to compare voltage, too.
Neat idea. I just downloaded it. How can I use just the keyboard, e.g. with arrows to select one the apps in the switcher? Using the mouse is a nonstarter for me.

EDIT: oh duh "display with arrow keys". Nice. Going to try this out for a while. It's definitely way faster than cmd + tabbing through my many apps.
In Uruguay and other spanish-speaking countries those were called "mecanos" (which, judging by other local customs such as calling sneakers "championes" and bubblegum "chicles" was probably a trade name) and they were great. I'm from 1978 and got to play with some sets from my dad (who's from '49). Besides being entertaining, they were a great way to develop mechanical affinity (if that's the right expression in English? I mean things like knowing how far to turn a screw so that it's as tight as it can be but you don't break the piece)

Sadly, you can't get them anymore here, at least not ones good in quality. There are similar building games but they all feel rather cheap and I know from personal experience they only survive a few repurposing of the pieces.

I do love LEGOs though, even though I played with copies in my childhood as my parents couldn't afford the originals. My main gripe with them is the sets. As a child, I just had a bunch of blocks and would build whatever I wanted. Now you can still buy "just bricks" but most of what kids get at stores are sets that tell them what to build. They feel more like 3D puzzles than building games.

Erector-like sets and LEGO-like sets can go together well though: I enjoyed demolishing my brick buildings with my mecano machines :)
Good point. There is a cottage industry of scams running fake Windows virus alerts.
> “I’m really hesitant to be excited about something that I think is potentially harmful from a weight stigma perspective,” says Sarah Nutter, a psychologist at the University of Victoria in Canada, who specializes in weight stigma and body image.

Putting the word "stigma" on things is a sure sign of a grifter. Instead of helping solve it, they're trying to make it a social science problem.

Being overweight is unhealthy. There's no serious dispute about that. So people recognizing that fact is "stigma?"
> The choice in porn (especially pictures) is blurry. We already have egirls and hent#i.

Porn is an early form of "opting out of reality". It's often (usually, I think?) a substitute for actually having sex and/or a long-term sexual relationship.

So, it should be no surprise that it's already diverged from reality and will continue to do so.