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Ask HN: Anyone from Google here – how do I stop YouTube showing me soft porn?
YouTube has decided I like watching girls from TikTok with bouncy boobs.

It is now flooding my feed with them, and similar videos.

This is not good because there are children watching YouTube with me.

I've done everything I can to fix it - I've hit "don't recommend channel" literally hundreds of times, and "I don't like this video" hundreds of times. I logged on to Google and followed instructions online for how to clear this up but Google seems to want it to be really hard to do that sort of thing and I failed.

Sure it's the softest of soft porn but I still don't want YouTube suggesting it to me.

I have now given up and the kids get to see YouTube's constant suggestions that we watch TikTok girls with big bouncy tits.

Sigh.
The military-industrial complex has been building automated weapons systems for years. So what.

You haven't provided any scientific evidence that it's possible for robots to manufacture themselves outside of human control. Just a lot of hand waving nonsense. Go talk to engineers who actually work on manufacturing complex mechanical products and they'll laugh at your naivety.
Have you considered a limited LLM that could run locally?

> planning a more mellow retreat

The objective here is to forcefully going to where internet is impossible (no phone reception, I don’t have starlink) with the objective of focused productive output with limited distractions.

The idea came to mind after reading about John Carmack doing this for a week, diving into AI using nothing but classic text books and papers as reference material to work off.

EDIT: here is the HN thread on Carmack’s week long retreat:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16518726
Having software that you have sold as a permanent license running on devices controlled by a third-party is just asking for permanent support issues.

How often do we see apps abandoned that can't justify the software development to keep up with OS updates? If you are a company with a "consumer-friendly" image to uphold, releasing a one-time-purchase game on someone else's system in the modern era amounts to assuming an indefinite liability for limited revenue.
New? concept of app/server communication
Hello fellas.

I was thinking of a “new” way to connect apps/servers that are both “secure” and enables fast development (node.js). The whole idea is to

* Define functions on a server. Each function belongs to a certain group.

* let clients/apps register to different groups.

* let clients/apps “run” these functions on the server

* Send back the response/return value of the functions back to the client

Example:
1. On the server: RunRest.define(‘adminGroup’,save_data_to_db(gData) => {await mongoDb.saveData(gData); return ‘OK’}

2. On the client: RunRest.run(save_data_to_db(‘hello world’)) // If the client is an in adminGroup => the server will run the function and send back the reposne.

I have implemented an example class (named RunRest), code available at : https://github.com/noah155/RunRest

The goal is to

- quickly include this class both on the server and client/app side

- Add groups and functions on the server

- Run these functions on the clients

- No need to care about authentication, and authorization as it is done in the background
Notes:

The class should be possible to use both in the server and client code

- It is a lightweight, only REST requests supported

- It is not fully functional yet but should be soon

Now to the questions:

- Is this a “good enough” way from a security point of view?

- Is this “good enough” from performance point of view? (lets skip sockets and assume REST communication is enough)

- Is there any similar service/OSS code already out there?
other thoughts

Feel free to add/update
"Decades" suggest that they are just physical lockers that you have to go and manually check for mail.

The USPS parcel lockers were around long before the internet. Back then when you had a package, the postman would stick a sticky note to your door to let you know to go pick it up.

Today, the USPS will email you a list of all the mail and packages with photos you are getting that day.

It doesn't notify you upon delivery, unless the sender requests it. But once you have the package ID number (which comes with the email), you can put it into any number of free or paid apps that will alert you immediately upon delivery.

A standard parcel locker looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/X5Gj4J

The one you show looks like a bog-standard parcel locker operated by any of dozens of delivery companies, office buildings, apartment buildings and retail stores around the country for years and years.

Nothing special. Here's the USPS version, which has been around since 2011: https://gopost.usps.com/media/images/gp/USPS-gopost-unit.png
Bitterness isn't really a winning strategy.

I thought the whole Python 3 thing was a huge problem. Lately I've been doing JS/Typescript dev and breaking changes like this happen continually and no one blinks.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to see articles about Amazon trafficking human children to use them as labelers for AI models. Very evil company.
There are (unfortunately) at least two common connotations when it comes to “tabletop games”. One is what you’re saying, but the term is also used to specifically mean games like D&D (when using minis), Warhammer, and Battletech. Gloomhaven is one such game that rates highly on BGG and brings with it some controversy around what qualifies as a board game.

Thankfully this whole hobby is as strong as it ever has been, giving folks lots of options that suit their tastes.
Wouldn't an sufficiently smart algorithm segment (users, items) into reconsumable vs one-offs?

If you buy a USB hub you might like it enough to buy another.

If you buy a washer, you probably won't like it enough to buy another.

But if you're a landlord, and you buy a washer, you might like it enough to buy 10 more.
Implementing Bohnanza was the main project of the advanced programming class at my Uni. Was really fun, we were allowed to pick any programming language and had to incorporate one or more of the "advanced" techniques the professor taught. I picked CoffeeScript and aspect oriented programming and it was so much fun. Still one of my best programming experiences. AOP lends itself perfectly to boardgames.
DA = "Data segment Alternate", or something like that. It refers to the segment register normally called ES, which string instruction implicitly use as destination (source being DS unless overridden).

The names are those used in a patent filed by Intel and come from before the official documentation for the 8086 was written. It might make the microcode a bit more readable to invent a different notation that is more in line with normal x86 assembly, but then again this is a very niche topic :)
Vaguely Data Trash (1994)[1] vibes. Most humanity ending up as roadkill on the side of the information superhighway. It wasn't entirely noir, was not unhappy enough, but topical for sure.

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312122119/datatrash
And with an AGI I am certain we can have a robot race building more robots autonomously, thus a reproducing organism, who like all others at the top are hell bent on maximum
How long until everything is build with ChatGPT?
> Nobody cares about WordPress.

29.41% of the world's top 10K websites use WordPress. 29.65% of the world's top 100K websites use WordPress. I wish nobody cared about me like that.
Maybe most are small fish, but maybe some are big fish too. Maybe catching all of these small fish gives you precedence when you do go up to face some big fish in the future, so the benefits to these costs perhaps will just materialize in the future.
Slowing AI development seems unwise, we'll need it to develop the next vaccines and antibiotics. Better if the World would agree on slowing the development of weapons and nefarious stuff.
Aren't we still on the "fusion never" funding timeline? I mean, we might accidentally luck into it, but it's not like we're really trying hard.
To directly address one of your examples (but offer no further comment): Bill Clinton once said "We know how much the Internet has changed America, and we are already an open society. Imagine how much it could change China. Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck! That's sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall."
I have my watch history set to autodelete, and sometimes videos I’ve watched come back after they age out of the history, which makes sense.
The "elementary/middle/high school" distinction might have been virtual. My grandfather told me that most rural schools in his time, including the one he went to, had several grades in a single room. Occasionally a single room for all students.

For "elementary" grades it would be primarily by function (can read? can write? can count?) rather than age. And it would not be uncommon to have a much older kid from a poor family sit with little kids at the "cannot read" table.

In this setup jumping a grade could be as simple as sitting at the next table. Can read -- go there. Can count -- one more step. Physical development came from carrying water, herding cattle, bringing and splitting firewood, etc. outside of school.
"code ... is surrounded by context and history that you can usually browse at will"

Don't know what code that dude encountered, but that hasn't been my experience.
This is clearly not a given. Search engines are good decided case law in the opposite direction.
Yes, there will be city cars and highway cars. With sharing services for either as needed.
I like falling asleep to Adrian's Digital Basement. He's got enough content but I often just restart a video anyway.
I worked at Google too when they bought the company I was working for and turned themselves into an ad company. Then shortly afterwards I was fired with hundreds of other engineers. Then I went on to work at threadless, and a fin tech company, and as vp of engineering for a start up and more and now I'm building apps for ai so I guess I'm also an ai researcher.

Anyway, I disagree with you.
Or worse some silly French commanders throw legions of frogs over the dugout, this time not against mechanized machine guns, but literal sentient death machines. How high the toll would be
I don't really find these "left behind" arguments terribly compelling. They smell of FOMO.

Just looking at the industrial revolution and the internet as examples, many of the "left behind" nations did just fine.
“Water weight” – temporary fluctuations during fat loss
One of the issues in TM law is that if you don't defend it, folks can claim you're not using it.

Leads to perverse outcomes at times, especially in orgs big enough to have folks full time employed looking at such matters.

[Edit: I'm not saying this is good. Yes, cooler heads should prevail. I'm explaining what can lead it to occurring when it seems nonsensical.]
Rushing through the middle-to-high-school curriculum is easy. Very, very little novel information actually gets taught over the ~200 hours that make up a school course.

Rushing through undergrad is possible if you do nothing but grind homework and study and read.

Grad school requires you to spend hours and hours in a lab, ass-in-seat, doing research. You're no longer competing with beer pong champions. Unless you're an absolute genius at finding the right direction to solving a novel problem, you're not going to get dramatically better results than your peers. And even if you are, you might be unlucky, and end up wasting a lot of time going down the wrong rabbit-hole.
So your point is that it's a comfort TV thing. We like to watch safe content we know is good.

Whilst I get that's the easy answer from YouTube perspective, I refuse to believe that there is nothing on the entirety of YouTube they can't recommend. It's just sad as a viewer to think how much I'm missing because they're recommending that "This is how empires fall" video for the tenth time.
I identified with the author’s reluctance to launch a debugger versus rebuilding with a quick n dirty print statement. But (as the author also seems to accept) this is short term gain for long term pain. The extra time to launch a debugger and mentally reset is easily exceeded by the time that would be spent not doing this and endlessly hacking away adding in more logging.
The source code has the following comment:

For information about the theory behind this, see Electronic Circuit & System Simulation Methods by Pillage
Or, you were watching music videos and it figures you do want to see it multiple times.
MeRIT promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions
This analogy seems out of proportion itself. There is only so much arable land on earth, and a large state is probably single digit percentage. Its energy needs are likely significant, even in the big picture.
> Sekiro was their best work. I’ll say this to the end.

Agreed, 100%. Sekiro is a masterpiece.

I think they did it a disservice by adding the online messaging system to it post release though. I like the system in Souls, but it just really doesn't belong in Sekiro and ruins the mood.
Its ridiculous to call it a 'radical infrastructure investment'. The Us already made all the radical infrastructure investment in their absurdly over-designed roads. Some idiotic cities in the South even have 12 feet road lanes when 9-10 is already enough.

The US has the needed infrastructure, converting to an elite bike lane network is incredibly cheap. In fact it saves a huge amount of money.

Far less costly accidents, healthier people, better business in the city, higher property rights and so on.

This has been proven over and over again. Its just in the US where even liberals seem to just buy the car industry marketing hook, line, and sinker.

It has been proven also, that once there is safe bicycle infrastructure, people will bike. And most people can bike just fine. In fact, because children can actually bike, its actually more accessible to the population then cars. There are even these people, they are called poor people, that also might have a bike but not a car.

At some point people have to break out of it and think about these things with logic and consider the last 30 years of evidence, rather then 1960s propaganda.
Were these stupid trademark laws even conceived through democratic means?
Some of them kill a lot of birds and bats.

On top of that, they of course need access roads for maintenance crews to come do their thing once in a while, if located in a former pristine environment that isn't ideal. To say nothing of when the construction actually takes place, again, if it all happens in a pristine location then it's not ok.
I wouldn't know, I wear the same thing every day, it all goes in the same load at the end of each month(ish).

But I could be convinced that our clothes would wear more slowly if the machines had more data about what they were washing.
Interestingly, CenturyLink wont even let me visit the site. There's a "Continue to Site" button, but it does nothing.
Why downvoted? This was a very thorough answer, with items other posts don't contain.
Common Workflow Language (CWL)
It’s hard to predict what happens in Russia and what the peace deal will be. I can’t imagine Ukraine will accept anything that doesn’t involve something like a article 5
Sure. I’m just expressing my opinion that the design is suboptimal and that the level of design is literally “You are GPT-3 and you suck at math” [quote from the LangChain code base].

I don’t want to see further expansion of this. I’m not offering higher level design, because I’m not sure about safety of all of this.

But having a poor and potentially unstable design like LangChain also doesn’t contribute to it :-/
It reminds me of the Phineas Fisher quote:

"...Hacker culture was born in the US as a counterculture, but that origin only remains in its aesthetics — the rest has been assimilated. At least they can wear a t-shirt, dye their hair blue, use their hacker names, and feel like rebels while they work for the Man."
> Progress on machine learning at Google has been extremely slow relative to their potential capability.

When you say this, do you mean ML research, the use of ML in products, or something else?

Google's definitely behind on the LLM front, but that's just a tiny sliver of the ML landscape (if all the rage at the moment).
This project targets the CLR (the runtime for C#), not a CPU.
Depends. Google aren't perfect but see how they (and big tech in general) do stuff almost at their worst and compare it to (say) Finance (not fintech) programmers.
The biggest corollary to AI is the printing press, whose invention was followed by decades of religious wars because its “early adopters” used it as to mass distribute the violently anti-Semitic ravings of Martin Luther.

Eventually, we arrived at widespread literacy and the greater distribution of knowledge and skills we see today, but it was a quite bumpy and deadly ride to get there. The greatest threat facing us is state, corporations, or rogue cells doing a repeat of the above with LLMs. Arguably this has already happened to a lesser extent with things like QAnon and social media.

I don’t think you can put the genie back in the bottle, but also we must acknowledge that “progress” has often come at a quite steep cost.
Published today by Reuters, sparse judgements from Bill Gates:

> “I don’t think asking one particular group to pause solves the challenges” ... “I don’t really understand who they’re saying could stop, and would every country in the world agree to stop, and why to stop ... But there are a lot of different opinions in this area.”

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/bill-gates-says-cal...
I feel like the punishment or rehabilitation dichotomy is looking at the wrong question.

When your code breaks you don't blame the user. You figure out the problem was. Why did that guy want to commit this crime? Why was it possible?

As far as I'm concerned we should just let him go, or look at some kind of "restorative justice" program even though it can never begin to repay people. I see zero reason for him, or anyone, to spend time simply rotting. But they point to much bigger issues where jail is no solution at all.
“White flight” is a term that means a specific thing, same for gentrification, neither are meant to represent ALL movement into or out of an area, that’s hyperbole.
Putin could decide he won't be taken alive to go to prison and decide to launch. Add those scenarios to your training.
US industrialized sooner and belched far more in the past. China isn't perfect, yet does seem to be making big changes in the right direction.
Which ones do you mean? From my coarse understanding, seems like most places that didn't industrialise got colonised by ones that did. Maybe that's not the case with the development of the internet, but still it's the case that the main center of innovation during the early phases (Silicon Valley) is still way ahead of everywhere else (example: OpenAI is based in SF)
I don't buy that at all. But even if it's accurate, it feels a little like "we have to burn the village in order to save it".

If barreling forward full steam brings on serious problems, that would harm our standard of living as well. I'm not sure I'm OK with letting other people roll the dice on my future to that degree.
Seemingly an implementation of https://opensource.contentauthenticity.org/

From what I can gather, its just a standard approach, nothing to preserve signatures after a file has gone through non-compatible software (which probably even includes uploading onto youtube, uploading onto twitter, discord, instagram, etc)

And I'm guessing getting them to sign your content costs money, which in turn probably extends to those who modify the content: If someone wanted to modify your content for free, information leading back to your original would be lost in turn, which...

As far as responsibility: (assuming no legislation about proving if something is real or not (which would nullify this software's value add in turn)), Why would I publicly say I didn't pay artists for this content, or I didn't hire who people think I hired. Instead of just publishing the content and hoping no one would notice or care?
It's not - the "DA" means that the write happens to the ES segment, while "DS" means that the read happens from the DS segment. The use of different segments for the source and destination gives these instructions extra flexibility.
London should be thought of as a different country to the rest of it.

Former Yugoslavians I've met aren't particularly dismissive of their own food, but they do admit it's not got vegetables in it.
Trademarks benefit both consumers and mark holders. We don't want consumers to be tricked into buying subpar counterfeits, nor do we want infringers to exploit consumer trust in the trademark to steal business from the mark holder or to undermine that trust.
80186 and 80286 have been launched simultaneously in February 1982, so you cannot say that one of them has introduced INS and OUTS before the other.

Nevertheless, due to their high cost for those times none of these 2 CPUs had seen much use before two years and a half later, when IBM launched the IBM PC/AT in August 1984.

Most programmers have encountered INS and OUTS for the first time while using PC/AT clones with 80286. Embedded computers with 80186 became common only some years later, when the price of 80186 dropped a lot.
It actually works really well for some viewing patterns. For myself, it's the best recommendation algorithm.

When I'm listening to 80s rock, it gives me a bunch of other 80s rock, notably including things I've enjoyed listening to before so I can just yoink that right into my playlist. Also throws in some 2000s dubstep and some 60's country that I like and a couple of things that I've never heard before in case I've started out on 80s rock but just am not feeling it tonight.

When I'm watching thought-provoking mini-documentaries, it gives me more by the same creator along with some random related stuff. Some of that is stuff I've watched before but might want to re-watch or share with someone. Or to compare the thoughts of this guy vs that guy.

Your usage pattern might be different. But for many of us, it works quite well. I would assume they're optimizing for the most common use cases. And yes, I liked that video, I do want to see it again.
I can't be bothered to go through the tags and think about settings. If the laundry destroys it I'll just stop buying things like that going forward. Probably there are people as lazy as me, but with a better eye for fashion. Maybe they would care?
So what prof is everyone is planning to switch to once this takes off?
Can someone please explain as I truly don't understand: Are thin layers over an LLM considered valid startups now? What's the big deal? Half of the people on HN can build something better than this in a weekend.
...fun at parties.
It certainly has potential, I like it. There are also possibilities for additional features like prompt repository etc. What doesn't work for me is the pricing... normally, one already pays for ChatGPT+ and ChatGPT APIs, and now this wants additional more than $20... I would consider it, if it would somehow use the chat window or APIs with my API key, and the software will be $10 max.
I never said the article should have solutions, or that the issues in the article are not problems, or that they shouldn’t be talked about. If you want to assign a point of view to me that I don’t believe then this is a pointless discussion.
https://workchronicles.com/prevention-and-cure/
Cool! What do you use it for?
> relative to their potential capability

Since none of us can know what the potential capability is, how can we know that progress has been slow relative to it?
Stuff will only keep an orbit if it has nothing else to do, i.e. if it is dynamically stable.