skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Value extraction gone too far : p

Why make it good, when it's more profitable for it to be addictive?

Why let you buy stuff, when it's more profitable to let you rent it?

People complain about the tedious anarchy of streaming services now, but even the scenario where you have one, huge hegemon like Netflix is fundamentally a rip-off: you're paying indefinitely to lease some content, that you can only consume in a certain way with connectivity, with compression artifacts. That may be worth it to you (the discoverability you otherwise wouldn't want to research, the storage hardware you're too lazy to set up), but, the economics are still a rip-off on paper.

You can just buy the content, but in a super inconvenient way: you can't buy DRM-free digital episode files like you can with music thanks to the MPAA's diligent lobbying. (Funnily, the only music I pirate is discographies, since those are the things that are hard to buy on Amazon while torrents offer them in a single bundle. And the specified bitrate is a nice, but for me unnecessary, bonus. For individual songs or albums, I buy them.) I pirate all shows or movies. I didn't even know Netflix is capped to 720p on Linux without going through hoops for the last 3 years since I haven't been using Netflix for at least that long.

And then you have more bullshit that platforms like Netflix or YouTube spring on you (hey, new UI to guide your consumption in a way beneficial to us!).

My relationship with web content now resembles a bank heist: get in, get the stuff, and get out -- ASAP. The less time spent interacting with the rent-seeking platform the content is being served on, the better.

>I still remember that day when I downloaded a highly acclaimed AAA video game to discover it has web shit in the menu, and accordingly the entire UI would freeze when waiting for a response from the server.

That wasn't Doom Eternal, was it? ;D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33914579
> If we're going to have a backward-incompatible change, we should do things the right way

It makes much more sense to use a good language (Kotlin, Rust, Java) and transpile to JavaScript. There's already great tooling for it.
I wonder how many orders of magnitude separate the amount of data stored in YouTube vs Wikipedia? 5? 6? How about data served by them?
I'm not talking about configurations or defaults. I'm talking about removing features and settings so my grandfather doesn't get confused, but I'm afraid that would go against their philosophy.
Assuming you get ~2000 working hours, let's say 10% of that is compiling and you get 3x improvement - you save ~133 hours

So you need to be paid ~$30/h to recoup the cost in a year.

Of course if you're contractor it means you will... earn less unless you bump the price but that's the "motivation" of being paid by hour...
I have no issue glamorizing potentially six figure salaries that are useful to society! Personally I view software as a trade with a bubble salary range atm, but think it’ll pivot towards a trade over the next decade or two.
The oldest part of the University of Edinburgh, called "The Old College" would, I think, excite you as much as it did me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_College,_University_of_E...

Street view from the courtyard: https://maps.app.goo.gl/f2o6V8JFpPtMW5R47

It's an incredible and beautiful 200+ year old building that's been continually used for teaching since it was built. On the one end of time, it's construction was halted because the Napoleonic wars cost too much. On the other, I had lectures about machine learning in it.

The rest of the university is more modern, but that place always felt like the soul of the Uni to me.
I really like the aquatic ape theory, and don't understand why it isn't taken more seriously as a possibility, even if there isn't currently any strong evidence for it
Take a look at the docs linked on the main page of Serilog[1] and the various videos[2] and blog posts[3] by the devs who make Seq.

[1]: https://serilog.net/

[2]: https://datalust.co/

[3]: https://blog.datalust.co/
And until recently, Netflix has been borrowing billions - more than its net income to produce and acquire content.

Netflix pays once for content and it owns it. It’s a fixed cost. YouTube content creator costs scales with popularity
So is the claim that countries like the KSA are American vassals rather than its allies? I mean, as I understand it, an empire consists of multiple countries.
208 and 277 as well!
I have been unimpressed with ChatGPT since it first arrived on the scene a few weeks ago and I'm a little astounded at how much hype it is getting. It is obvious to me that it is basically like talking to a stupid person who can't come up with anything original to say but know a lot of useless details. I can see it maybe being helpful for some search functions, but the plays it writes, etc, are just beyond atrocious. It's like talking to a dumb 8th grader that has perfect grammar and nothing else.
1 hour of harder yoga != A 9 to 5 for years of 'easier' awards body positions while building or fixing something. Its cronic pain.
Looked at those exact brands about a month ago. Went with the Yamaha N1x hybrid. (Which means it has a conventional acoustic action with hammers and everything) so far pretty happy with it. I suggest going over to the piano world forums and doing a dive. The threads on these models are long. Also above all go see them in real life if you can.
They (some prominent members of the gnome community) are pretty vocal about not wanting you to be able to use themes.

https://stopthemingmy.app/

While they've walked it back and said they're fine with tinkering the mechanisms they propose would make it much harder for tinkering.
>And it's not like Gnome are paying distros to ship it as default - they ship it because the maintainers think it's a sane default.

That's not true. Gnome is actively supported by some of the distros, Red Hat in particular.
I dont know about residential buildings, but working on live circuits is a thing, and there are techniques to do it safish-ly. Namely dont touch two wires and dont be ground.

Linesmen do it quite a lot.

Linesmen is also one of the most dangerous jobs
It's not just a subdomain. It's the landing page, an email address with forwarding, creation of a Mastodon account on their instance... there's a lot there.

$20/year is actually a bargain as it would likely cost you more than that each month to run all of that yourself
First we need to define ,what creativity and intelligence means ,so we can compare that with human results
Arbitration is likely even more expensive than a dispute.
Your mistake is the assumption I'm translating it into salary. That $1,000 a day can go towards additional employees (coverage area) and marketing.
Why Japan is offering 1M yen per child to move out of Tokyo
Why doesn't he join a union shop?
My guess is they'd maybe prefer the majority of their investment be in cross platform technology?
We faced this at my last company and this is actually a super mild case. In our case, we were dealing with call toll fraud. We ended up with tens of thousands of dollars in charges in less than 24 hours.

In our case, Twilio reached out to us to tell us they were detecting toll fraud. Before that, we actually had no idea what toll fraud was.

We quickly tried to address it with distributed rate limiting and that worked, for all of a couple of hours. The fraudsters quickly figured out the rate limit and worked around it by spacing out the calls and using more IPs.

Eventually, we had to disable a set of countries known for toll fraud and change our product to not connect calls in a variety of scenarios.
2022 JavaScript Rising Stars
The article PERFECTLY explains the problem.

"But Mwandjalulu, who makes nearly $24 an hour as a carpenter, said he's still had trouble convincing his friends, whom he keeps in touch with on Facebook and Snapchat, to follow his path."

There you go. This is minimum living wage right now. We're fighting to make this amount the minimum wage now. Meanwhile this is the prospect of this job.

It doesn't pay. People rather go into tech work or anywhere near tech work.
Did you push at all? From experience, this is not an uncommon story. Perhaps this was your advisor's way of saying 'convince me'.
Your comment is grey, I think that means you're guilty of wrongspeak. They simply can't just let a comment be a comment... they must suppress speech.
The masses will never notice because Linux is simply irrelevant to them unless it's on their routers or something.
The article's title is "Tesla cuts prices in China for Model 3, Model Y by up to 13.5%"

which could mean nothing

from the article:
"The U.S. automaker reduced the prices for the models by 6% to 13.5%, according to Reuters calculations based on the prices shown on the website."

HN's post title says 10 to 13%

In other news, Twitter is charging more for an emoji ..
Probably name change to something generic that’s shared by a lot of well known people so the search results show nothing about you at all
Merry Sky is sorta dark sky reimagined.

https://merrysky.net
Oh yes, I did a stint as a cashier when I dropped out of college. It was why I dropped back in. I also worked as an usher at a performing arts center and between the two ushering was far more pleasant .
YouTube has been that way (separate streams) for a long time, definitely not anything new in the last 6 months. And they reassemble to be indistinguishable from the original combined stream, so that's not going to be the cause.

There are plenty of causes of delayed audio, however. Bluetooth is a big one, if your device and software aren't properly compensating for the Bluetooth transmission delay.
This. This is a real dangerous job. We talk about "police run into gunfights". yeah... "Electricians run into fatal power!"
It is almost certainly using FM as it’s cheap and zero latency.
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Makani (Acquired by Google and shut down) built large airplane/kites which transmitted wind power to the ground via a tether. The engineering challenges were... intense. This was all documented extensively and this documentary summarizes all the footage they took: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE

One of my favorite engineering projects and documentaries, just because of the sheer ambition and scale, and the grit of the team to keep pushing through repeated failures. Sad the project was cancelled but it makes sense given the cost and complexity.
> Might be worth mentioning in the readme.

i mean, it's not really important to a user which ever library it uses to scrape youtube - i suppose it's important if you want to contribute/develop it.
The best advice I heard for non zero-to-one folks was to watch for Series B rounds where multiple top tier venture firms participated, for example Sequoia + Lightspeed or Benchmark + Accel. This was back around 2012 so the economics could have shifted, less so the firms although there's been some movement. Series B @ $150-$250m valuation seems to be the place where PMF is (usually, not always) de-risked but the company still has room to grow 10-20x (in a good tech market).
> the Donbas as Ukraine murdering its own

So the people living in the Donbas aren't Ukrainians?
This conversation is indeed a distraction, but for posterity and those curious the population for the SLC area is slightly confusing because of the population proportion of the central city itself with the legal name "Salt Lake City" is small relative to all the adjoining municipalities that basically blend together into one city (even including street addresses, grid system, public transit), and the way the metro areas for Provo, SLC, and Ogden are reported in the census separately even though people commute between them in the same way people travel between SF and San Jose.

The numbers are more like:
1) Salt Lake City: 200K people
2) Salt Lake City Metro Area (MSA): 1.25-1.3 million
3) Salt Lake-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area (CSA): ~2.7 Million. FYI this region is also called the "Wasatch Front"

To understand these levels of breakdown the equivalent for Bay Area naming would be:
1) San Francisco itself (the 49 square miles): ~800K people
2) San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley MSA: ~4.6 million
3) San Jose-SF-Oakland CSA (think the whole "Bay Area"): ~9.5 Million

It's the Combined Statistical Area of SLC (the "Wasatch Front") which is now ~22nd-24th in the nation, not the MSA itself.

It's similar in size to Charlotte or Sacramento, and larger than the respective CSAs of eg Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Kansas City, Nashville, or Las Vegas

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area)
Their support for registering 800 numbers and verifying your identity is absolute 100% trash. I've filled out their verify form many times, every time to be prompted to do it all over again months later. Over and over again.

I was a HUGE Twilio booster back in the day. I encouraged its use heavily in my very large org because it was so much better than our entrenched phone provider. I was (maybe still am) featured on their website. But things have just gotten more..business-y, less developer focused, just..generally worse.

I don't know what to do with these guys anymore. I understand they're trying to grapple with the mess of regulations that got dumped on them, but their messaging and support around all this is BAD. There's no answers, just walls of canned text.
I mean, I would agree the law could be stronger here. My face data primarily resides on other people's accounts. It's illegal for Google to have that under BIPA without my consent, but it looks like the settlement is allowing them to continue doing that without my consent (or even agreement to their ToS).

The case may be poor, but only in the reason that it fails to actually force Google to comply with the law going forward. Facebook was more successfully forced to shut down their facial recognition technology and delete all of the data: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/facebook-face-recognition-...
Has China’s Young Thousand Talents been successful in recruiting and nurturing?
There's a full generation of talented women software engineers who do not have computer science degrees.

I just happen to be one of them, and I worked my way into the top 1% of software engineers (by salary) in Silicon Valley. I've spent a lot of time wondering: how did this happen? How many more people out there just like me, and how do I invest in them NOW?

Here's a podcast that does a great job of explaining how PC advertising in the 80s/90s and onwards resulted in the current abysmal number of women CS graduates (in the US / English-speaking countries especially).

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-progr...
Got the kids a $2k Roland FP 90x for Christmas to replace a $1k Casio. I don't play but they liked the Roland action when we tried their models in stores over Yamaha, Casio, and some others. Now that we have it- incredible instrument, well worth the upgrade, good match for their skills. It is a really, really good sound producer, better than most analog pianos I've heard, though I can easily tell the difference between it and their teacher's Steinway grand. The sounds emitted by the Roland are very fine, but still digital. It feels like a $10k digital would get much closer to being able to trick a listener into thinking it was a fine analog.
Or people who work at government agencies that are forced to use open source software. Or schools or universities or hospitals. Some users have disabilities and accessibility is a requirement.
At the extreme, DC cooling is an optimization problem with some hidden/delayed outcomes...

For example, if you run your DC's hotter, then you'll save cooling money now, but have to deal with more hardware failures in 3 years time.

That kind of problem is isn't a good fit for AI, and is a far better fit for a few guys in a thermal cycling lab with some spreadsheets.
The last time I called a plumber they ran a power snake about 60 feet down the sanitary line and cut out a pretty amazing chunk of tree roots (I called them because water had started to backup into my basement utility sink).

I was pretty happy to pay the 4 or 5 times what the day rental for machine would have been. Took em about 25 minutes.
Count Dankula has a good episode about that freak. In summary Crowley was, via inheritance, a VERY rich kid weirdo that rapidly progressed to being insane. He went up a hill or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7np4wvfIdbM
Agreed - when you're crawling through a tight attic, staying on the joists and avoiding HVAC ducts, going into weird poses to drive j-box mounting screws or something... it's not about staying in "correct" poses.
We probably just differ in our tastes, but I'll argue that the decreased barrier was worthless, if not actively harmful.

Look at YouTube. The things I watch on there have 10s to 100s of people-hours behind them, compared to which wrangling HTML/WebRTC/whatever would not be very significant. All the thousands of blooming flowers who are just uploading raw phone captures? That I can, and by and large do, do without.

(the best counterexample I can think of ATM are "lyrics sung to a different tune", and while it's a bit nicer to get a performance than plaintext, it's not that much better)

Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-x_1lIXh4
The one thing I like about them is the mapping of Proof of Work onto a thing of value in the real world. I think it's a pretty strange thing of value to have selected and there are better behaviors out there to encourage.

I know someone they interviewed for a job last year and he said they were cashed up with years of runway but I also know they have a very bad rep in the LoRa equipment vendor space based on conversations although moved on to the LTE CBRS innovation band from what I can tell.
That's impressive indeed, but if we boil it down to just the things that are worth saving, removing duplicates, long and pointless livestreams, long videos that are just endless loops, etc., it could be done with much less space. If we also ignore auto generated spam[1] and harmful content (Elsagate, etc.), it would require even less.

It's a nice thought experiment, but we really don't need to archive all of YT. That's why I appreciate projects like this and yt-dlp that allow me to not just archive what I'm interested in, but to watch it when and how I want, without Google tracking my every move, and interrupting every few minutes with ads. Paying for YT Premium only partially solves the second issue. I don't want to see sponsored content either.

[1]: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Roel_Van_de_Paar
This is really beautiful! I can think of a ton of use cases; so often I'm writing scraps of code or setting up quick DBs just to parse some specific dataset. I have a couple (naive) questions:

1. How are column types inferred? Does it try to avoid FLOAT types? What about blobs or JSON? (It would be a pretty stunning trick if it could notice valid JSON in a CSV file)... [edit: I see now from other columns that JSON is supported; nifty =)]

2. Does it try to infer charsets or just go with UTF8-mb4 or something else?

and... any chance we'll see an NPM version?
HN autocorrected maps.apple.com to maps.google.com. Annoying.
I looked at the Google cache of the campaign page. Nothing seems to be out of ordinary or controversial. I am puzzled by the rationale here. Unless, it's because of the pricing. All the prices are like "$10 USD ̶$̶6̶6̶6̶ ̶U̶S̶D̶ (98% off)". Maybe unrealistic prices are against the terms and conditions?

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GFLGLR...
Why would pay you $20/y for a regular domain that doesn't do anything until you spend more money (and time and money) to make it do something?
based on levels.fyi for netflix, either netflix hires 50+ john carmacks, or it is a realistic sum for top performing L5s
If you calculated wrong you can land on positive-but-existing value just fine...

> Similar to the argument about signed/unsigned indices in low level languages.

Think that one has to do more with convenience where most of stuff uses int by default
> I don't see how this is categorically different than your kid "accidentally" buying movies on Amazon prime or something like that. No way a credit card company would accept a chargeback in that scenario.

The issue isn't the scale or volume, per se, it's that a bad actor has set up premium numbers (that cost $$$ to message) and is systematically wracking up fraudulent charges via websites sending 2FA codes. Twilio is seemingly aware of the fraud campaign targeting its users, but is not doing a great job protecting them and forcing them to bear the costs.

A better analogy, I think, would be a crime ring skimming credit cards at a gas station and wracking up charges that should be obvious fraud (different country, large amounts, etc.); and when a victim contacts their CC company they go "oh yeah that Shell station is notorious for fraud we've had lots of complaints recently" but refuse to chargeback.
Amateur radio bands do not permit encryption, but they do permit digital modes to varying extents.
Misrepresentation of salaries actually paid is false advertising. There was a time when stores would get in trouble for advertising discounts from prices no one actually paid either, like a permanent sale.
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perfectly stated. If I am not getting raises, I won't be able to afford to pay more for skilled labor needs. Therefore I'll spend time on YT University. Therefore I'll reduce the amount of flow to skilled labor, therefore they get desperate and exit, and the cycle continues.
Don't just support Gnome: add a couple of paid devs to the Gnome project to help out, but more importantly make it even more antagonistic towards users and other non-Gnome devs. Have your undercover devs become highly-placed "visionaries" in the Gnome project, insulting and belittling anyone who opposes their One True Vision for desktop Linux and throwing a wrench into any attempts to get along with anything in the Linux ecosystem that isn't part of the Gnome project.
> How much code is compiled with `-march=native`

Any installation of Gentoo is, presumably. (Otherwise, what's the point of compiling it all yourself?)

More interestingly, possibly all OEM firmware-installed copies of ChromeOS are -march=native builds as well, given that ChromeOS is based off of a Gentoo upstream.
> Or even download the full dataset to the client on page load and do the search locally in JavaScript.

That's exactly what I did for a recent hobby project of mine[0]. In my case, I've a db of 30K entries with gzipped size of ~600kb. This serves well for the few hundred visitors I get every day.

[0] https://theshowgrid.com/
The higher-end Kawai models have an Android-driven touch screen. It would be great if someone would manage to jailbreak those.
As SSDs get faster and L3 caches get larger, will conventional RAM get squeezed out? I know Optane failed a few years back, but that kind of convergence seems inevitable in the long term.
Definitely don’t want to cheapen the toll that trade work takes on the body, but do want to note that we all do sell our bodies and health one way or another. Heart disease is one of the main killers of Americans and all the office workers sitting in chairs for ~8 hours a day aren’t doing ourselves any favors there…

I mean, yeah, on balance I’d rather be an API plumber than an actual physical plumber — code smells are less nauseating than poop smells — but there are advantages to jobs that keep you moving around.
This sounds like a Russian-style argument: "you won't remove everyone else's choices and just force everyone to do everything my way, so you're being obstructionist!"
I’ve seen arguments that dark mode is important for accessibility, which seems reasonable to me, and depending on the company might be a dealbreaker.