skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm going to go against the grain here and say my YouTube algorithm is great.

I agree with the minor caveat that I'd like a "broaden" button and a "change theme" menu.

My search algorithm presents me with content that I find quite enjoyable, but I'd like to be exposed to a little more stuff that's outside of my bubble.

It knows what I like based on what I've watched, but it doesn't know me and therefore can't infer stuff I don't know but would enjoy if I was exposed to it.
Some may care to consider this 2015 article. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/mediterranean...
I'm fascinated by this. I feel the same way. Do we know if The YouTube team if ordering comments using some sort of sentiment analysis? This might be the key to moderating social media. Is almost like negative/toxic comments are shadow banned and relegated to the bottom of the comments section.
1. Flexibility. For a rental car you need to plan ahead, pick it up on time and return it on time. Traffic jam delaying you? too bad. You now pay a surcharge.

2. Cost: the rental cost is actually only a small portion of the cost. Extra insurance and other fees end up more than the rent itself.

Your car will depreciate regardless of that road-trip, just by virtue of time passing. Rental companies won't subsidize the wear and tear for you, so you have to pay that anyway.
They should have interviewed the investors to understand where they saw the opportunity.

I think an ecosystem of users coming back to perform (and pay for) all kinds of generative AI tasks is totally worth the investment.

I can't figure out how Stability hasn't been able to make revenue though. Are they just not charging enough? Are they subsidizing everyone's compute?
> This was the only reason I got a Tesla instead of literally any other EV brand.

It was a key reason for me too. I considered BMW, MB, and Audi EVs, but ruled them out due to horrendous state of non-Tesla charging in the US.

Another reason was software. Tesla's UI has a lot of issues, but it's the only car UI that feels smooth and responsive to me. And now I'm looking forward to this: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1362/tesla-update-2023-12-...
The variety in temperament, interests and ability between even siblings varies greatly. The people most eager to share parenting advice is usually parents only one child who is calm and attentive :) I've seen several parents in that category have a second child and come out shocked.

I'm believe that beyond a base level of food, clean clothes and love, your influence as a parent is marginal. It's also a wildly unpopular but intelligence is highly genetic (at least 50% of outcome determined by genes).
I am aware of "probiv" where on Runet forums people advertise services where they basically pay people who work at phone companies or government agencies for data on people. This is mostly an ex USSR thing from what I can tell. I don't know how they got the records from Sudan/CAR though but I assume it's through some combination of bribery and their backers.
Basically this yes
Reddit's Logo Archive
> They are passionate about cheap mindless entertainment.

Everyone hopes that their kids will be exceptional.

You just have normal kids, get over it.
One large number that fits in 64 bits is:

F^^^^^^F = 15 ^ .... ^ 15
12345678
[8*8=64 bit]

According to Conway and Guy (1996) The Book of Numbers, p. 60, the arrow notation, defined by Knuth in (1976), is such that

m^n is m x m x ...x m,
m^^n is m^m^ ...^m,
m^^^n is m^^m^^ ... ^^m,

and so on, with n copies of m in each case, and the expression being evaluated from the right.
What's striking is that every time I talk about moving to Europe I have to cut my salary expectations in half. Talk about backwater expectations.
I open Incognito mode when I'm about to watch a video like that.
I remember some website having them as a gag. It would show you some complex math equation but the answer was always 0. If you failed enough, because you didn't get the joke, you'd get a (1 - 1) or something simple that still worked out to 0. Sometimes you'd get a [zero] as a regular captcha.

I don't even remember what the site was, or was about, but I still remember that captcha.
I currently live in a metropolitan area, so no, I don't. I usually have a brisk walk until I reach the place I consider the starting point, as where I live it's not very comfortable to run, and it's not until then I start tracking the exercise.

Most of my friends who exercise also does it at places at least a couple of hundred meters away from their home. The ones that live outside the city, probably do start their run right outside their doors though.
https://nitter.it/Astroguyz/status/1650246267895676928
I don't think Fediverse solves the problems that we see in Reddit (or Twitter, or any of the others). Instead of admin meddling from a single group of closely-affiliated admins (they all work for the same company), you just get meddling from many small groups of admins, none of those groups affiliated with each other except via ActivityPub. They can't shut down conversations they dislike entirely, but they can sever you from the Fediverse thoroughly enough that they might as well.

And they can do it early enough that no one ever knew you were there in the first place. Even the Reddit admins didn't do that... I don't know if it was apathy and indifference, or just that they couldn't pay enough attention back in the early 2010s, but they didn't. And that likely allowed Reddit to grow so large, it could be the forum for everybody, about everything. Fediverse and Lemmy just ends up being those old phpbb forums, that won't talk to or link to each other unless everything is excessively sanitized and drips with insincere civility.

Lemmy doesn't even have an Elon Musk to piss everyone off of Reddit and drive them to search for an alternative.
I really don't get the argument that desktops don't need to be secure. I have my password manager (yes it is encrypted, but can be bypassed by a keylogger) and my ssh private keys on my desktop.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Samaritans:_The_Myth_of_...

This is a good read related to this topic.
This smells funny to me... too much dogma.
Sometimes the best and clearer way to do something is the "wrong" way.

Testing adds some cost, so there's a tradeoff. You want a decent ROI on your testing efforts, otherwise you're wasting time and money. Opportunity should not be ignored.

Software doesn't have to be zero defect, it has to be low enough to be useful.
> "If I ever started to doubt, or believe there wasn’t a God, it would send me into a spiral of ‘What ifs,’ things that I would rather not get into.”

It's sad to see the impact childhood indoctrination has on ones thinking, even decades later. Once I embraced the uncertainty I actually found it much less anxiety inducing than eternal flames, rapture, being left behind, judgement for natural desires, and all that make believe garbage.
You can usually go into your history and remove it to fix it.
When we installed solar, Tesla's was the most expensive out of all the proposals. Their solar roof looks very very cool, but it's definitely not "cheap stuff".
Paris regularly cleans its streets with the non-potable water supply of its two-stream h2o distribution system. Probably an antiquated practice back from when not everyone had sewer connections and would dump their waste pots on the road, but they still do it.

https://parisianfields.com/2012/03/11/a-most-unusual-water-s...
> Why didn’t the author linked to the examples he cites?

And generate traffic and revenue for another company without getting a cut?

You gotta be kidding, right?
That's promotion, though. It would be promotion if you didn't make it. I've been accused of being a shill for enough things I was enthusiastic about to be 100% sure of this. And since you did make it, it's hard to argue you don't benefit in some way from sharing it. That's why disclosure is good form.
I vouched for your comment just to tell you you're probably shadow banned, and I thought you would want to know.

(I didn't do it, it was probably done long time ago by a moderator).

I just feel bad looking at someone who doesn't know he's wasting time writing things nobody will see. Even if he only snarkly disagrees with me.

Also, if you engaged seriously, maybe they wouldn't ban you in the first place. I just don't believe in ignoring people who are wrong, only in correcting them.
Sometimes they are just the friends of upper management and not necessarily the senior developers that should have been pushed towards upper management.
Yup, I'm the same. I've totally given up on navigating anything except my home page, I'm actually astonished at how good it is.

The newest videos from my favorite channels are always listed first, and then it's a smattering of older popular ones from the topics and channels I watch the most, and a handful of things "adjacent" to those that are sometimes not for me but sometimes become my new favorite rabbit hole, so I'm very thankful they're there. (For me it's a lot of educational content like architecture tours and urban engineering and how-it's-made, plus content from certain comedians and sketch comedy groups.)

I know there's supposed to be a bunch of clickbait garbage on YouTube but I just wouldn't know, because I literally never see it.

(Plus there are new tabs at the top that actually list the topics it's learned I like, so if I want to see 20 architecture videos instead of just 2, it's a single tap to filter. It's remarkably clever.)
So is it always relevant to be xenophobic?
I don’t really want to listen to the podcast, but I do seem to recall that Reddit drew heavy inspiration from the delicious popular page. digg was talked about a bunch but much smaller…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389494
I don’t really tile windows much. The main case where I do is with a bunch of terminal windows. Most of what I get out of a tiling window manager is full screen by default and easy keys to switch workspaces.

On macOS the thing that drives me insane is that the many-finger swipe to switch desktops won’t focus the target window until the animation is totally done (like 0.7s after starting). I wish it works like cmd+tab which changes focus instantly. Apart from that I guess I’m not that bothered because I mostly just full screen things. Emacs and iterm2 can do their own tiling of windows.
You want evidence of my personal estimation of Linux?
While that does sort of happen, that's not the reason.

Article says it was used in satellite links and deep space networks before it was cool. Those applications had hit their technological limits and no one was making something new they could buy next year, so they had to do it themselves.

Contrast that with phone networks being able to rely on the next G coming out. Now we have 5G, but it's 5G with an asterisk, so it's time to look for a new approach.

Same with Moore's law. The semiconductor industry was really focused on smaller transistors for a long time until they started getting close to the physical limit. Then suddenly everyone is talking about chiplets and other ideas that had been around a long time but weren't mainstream.

Changing approach requires a lot of coordination and carries a lot of risk. It's easier to finish milking one cow for as long as possible before moving on to the next. The laughing is just because your advisor knows how long it will probably be before the general market has exhausted its old approach.
Open chrome (swipe up with virtual mouse, type chrome, click first entry), focus on address bar, input url of malicious apk, download it, open, confirm installation from unknown source.
So, power when you're not at home, the house is empty, it's warm, and your electric car is with you at work, and no power at night, when you need to cook, heat and charge your car.
Kanji and the Computer: A History of Japanese Character Set Standards [pdf]
I think Ubuntu MATE is maybe the right choice here, since it’s kinda its purpose.
The Missing Magic of Ebooks
Microsoft to buy Foxconn-occupied land in Wisconsin
Divvy for window management (assign your own shortcut).

For almost everything else there's a standardized system-wide shortcut (including the ancient ones like Ctrl+a/e for text).

If there isn't a shortcut, but the app exposes the action in a menu, you can assign a custom shortcut from keyboard settings.

MacOS has traditionally been very friendly to keyboard navigation. Well, until somewhat recently when mobile-only/mobile-first devs started just slapping Catalyst on and calling it a day. Even Apple's own apps suffer from this.
Like I said, you can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. Agency is a double edged sword.
Dreamstudio is a joke, not intended to be a serious product, but merely for someone to try out SD in under a minute.

99.9% of SD usage happens outside of Dreamstudio. The power of SD comes from using fine-tuned models, and dreamstudio doesn't allow that (For copyright reasons presumably). There are websites like happyaccidents that do allow using fine-tunes, because they are willing to shoulder the massive legal risk as smaller startups.

SD's primary business model was always intended to sign up corporate clients in a semi-LLM-consulting/support role for their open sourced models. Like Redhat in a way. And to succeed in that space, you need massive name recognition.
Water distribution works the same way. Large systems lose like 10% of their supply through leaks in the system but just pump more through the system to make up for the losses. Just like drug smugglers.
That is however inconceivably smaller than the number in the article, which exceeds Graham's number.
I don't think twitter has anything to do with reddit -they don't exist in the same niche in social media. The sputter of mastadon was because the decline of twitter was largely short term outrage. I hear every day on hackernews that twitter is failing and I'm not sure that's true.

Twitter and reddit exist because there is a market for those types of social media experience. If even 50k computer science specialized people stop visiting reddit and twitter I don't think that matters to those sites overall traffic levels.

If you already aren't visiting twitter or reddit than you aren't really interested in the alternative for them, are you? Since you're already rejecting those experiences. You aren't the target audience, you're just imagining everyone is like you, when all evidence seems to go the other way.

So again, lets say people want an alternative platform to twitter, they could go to substack maybe. but whats the alternative to reddit? Discord? I don't think so.
Can you explain how metformin is supposed to help? And NMN (maybe start by defining it, as I've never heard of it)?
it's not possible for human beings to write correct C code, measured over time

this is not a controversial statement, it's the clear conclusion from any evaluation of available evidence

it's fine that you like messing with assembler, but you can't do that safely -- if the programs you write don't need to be correct then carry on, but if they do need to be correct, then you have a professional obligation to use a higher-level language, with stronger guarantees

edit:

> This brings me to my next reason: I have the discipline to write C at a high level.

factually, you do not. nobody does. you think you do, until you don't. human cognition is insufficient to satisfy this requirement. "discipline" does not fix the problem.
> hallucinogens sometimes cause minor hallucinations indefinitely

The author definitely did not think those were minor side-effects.

> What's missing, crucially, is the only useful information- how many of each there are. There is nothing else that is relevant!

the evidence that a bad trip can potentially cause permanent damage is useful and relevant.

> If "some guy had a bad time" was a robust argument for "never ever do this thing", it would be a bad idea to do anything ever.

"some guy got permanently fucked up doing something" is a strong argument for me to very carefully consider the potential benefits of "doing something" and whether they are worth it; in the case of LSD, for me personally, the benefits don't outweigh the potential downsides, and anecdata is more than enough for me to make this decision.
Good. This job shouldn't have existed anyway.
> Ever seen a password field where you can't paste text for whatever reason. That would not be a thing.

Can anyone explain this one to me? My passwords are impossible to type/memorize, and the password manager's Firefox extension sucks too much to rely on it. It's clearing the clipboard 10 seconds later anyway, so they website's not protecting me.
At 14 I learned to code for "free" - minus very expensive computer m y parents bought and a pirated copy of turbo pascal and computer magazines. Magazines and books were not as good but remember Internet made some other resources disappear or rendered them less visible.
10 years old is new tho. I'm not being sarcastic. See how old Unity and Unreal are.

Most gamedev still consider Godot new. Godot is 9 years old.
Bing, From .NET 5 to .NET 7
That's why you never sell yourself as the hero,

Or you'll just wait long enough to become the villain
hah. For Dorsey the point that happened was when he made it public, I believe he's said he regretted that! :)

But I think the invocation of imgur brings up a good point. Was what we believed imgur to be ever actually economically viable? They were "bootstrapped" but $40 million in 2013, back before almost all of their impact.

At least some of the funded things that 'sell out' were just never viable to begin with.

It's far from clear to me that reddit couldn't have become more like Wikipedia-- driven by its community and funded through public support-- but there are lots of things that we could decry for violating their purpose that I think couldn't exist economically in their original more public-spirited form.

I find myself wondering more how often alternatives that are viable but just a little less good are driven out of the market or prevented from ever being created by funded alternatives which aren't viable... leaving us stuck on a bait and switch tread-mill while the services we actually need die for lack of support.
Nah, no one is saying you're being nefarious. We just don't understand why you aren't proud enough to openly declare that's your work that you're not not promoting.
In my opinion, in a “perfect world”, a site could be navigated in any way the visitor wishes.

~ Thematically (by Category) ~ ideally in the manner / order the webmasters considers most valuable / important.

~ Via Sitemap ~

~ With search ~ And good search, mind you. Ideally, having indexed every word on the site.

~ Through sorting ~ via date, via last modified, via page title, etc.

~ By tags & “contributors” ~

Those are the ways that come to mind, and I believe are most common. Each with their own pros and cons. But if you have them all, I guess the cons don’t really matter. Obviously, that is quite difficult and certainly asking too much of (some) hobbyist web developers.

I organize my content thematically (by category). I acknowledge that it makes it difficult for the visitor to find what they’re looking for; to easily reach the things that interest them. But I see my site as art. I will organize it in a manner that best reflects that art. Dear visitor, finding the things you are looking for is important, but so is finding the things you are not.

I take great pleasure in navigating personal web pages. I can only go through so many in a day; I try my best to dedicate the time necessary to have felt that I properly explored another’s invested time and effort, their world, their message. Perhaps there is some value in encouraging people to take the time to slow down, in addition to improving navigation.

To anyone that perhaps find themselves consumed in this conundrum: your site is probably more important than its navigation, don’t let this stop or delay you from making it. Time is so valuable.
Would love to see more disruption in this space. Like others have said it's actually amazing how bad the calendar/scheduling portion of PagerDuty is. Multiple places I've worked we ended up making our own interface to managing schedules because the UI at PagerDuty is so bad. Also, people mentioning the rock solid reliability of PagerDuty likely don't have good monitoring of PagerDuty. When I worked on monitoring in the past we regularly encountered delayed notifications and ingestion failures. Pulling up their status page right now confirms they still have multiple issues a month. At a past employer we had our notification system actually check outstanding alert status and fall back to direct SMS when the ingestion latency was too high.

I worked on pygerduty, a python client library for PagerDuty, at a past job so I spent a lot of time talking to people at PagerDuty but I think they stopped inviting me to their "Founder's Club" meetings when I told them I didn't care about AI Alerts and wanted better UIs for scheduling and better reliability.
Using Isolation to Solve Complex Problems
I had fist heard of this about 4 years ago because someone I worked with lived near there. It was a big deal. People were quittng their jobs and moving to go work there. Interesting that it is now scaled down to 1/10th of the original size.
Some look a bit repetitive though. It would be interesting if they added limited banning ability to humans and limited freedom to spawn new bots to the AI, so that the AI could analyze their writing patterns and learn how to creatively bend rules without getting banned.
rom1504 /img2dataset

https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset

https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset#opt-out-directives
Oh, those poor investors! It would be absolutely unreasonable to expect them to evaluate the business fundamentals of their investments; it’s not as if that’s literally their entire job.
>I've met a ton of folks who, like me, decided to sail off into the sunset and started a youtube channel and now that's all they do and are thriving.

That is very surprising to me, and I am a reasonably-successful YouTuber.

For nearly everyone, YouTube is not a viable career path. It’s not even a viable path to making money. Any money.

YouTube is the most saturated market that I know of. There are almost no barriers to entry, and your competition is everyone else on the planet who has a YouTube channel, plus, to some degree, the entire entertainment industry. Success on YouTube requires hard work, but hard work doesn’t guarantee even a bit of success. To succeed on YouTube, you don’t just have to create great content; you have to create content that people want to watch more than everything else that is available to them. That, obviously, is very hard. And even if you do it, a significant luck component remains.

Why did you “decide against the channel?”
Just use Gitlab? Or Gitea, or Gogs, I dunno but yeah MS does only care about their investments and not about the little guy, not suprising in 2023

DMCA is just as broken, as always has been
I think I'd be anxious then that if I saw two videos that I really wanted to watch I'd have to one in a background tabs, rather than just trust that the other one will almost certainly be recommended again.
Guangxi is one of the very first lessons I use to demonstrate how different China operates and the average Chinese person thinks. Guanxi is central to the social bonds of family and extended family are to the culture.

Guangxi conceptually can be applied to western culture, but I think too much gets lost in translation.
Compare that to TFA, and the difference is pretty clear, at least to me.

The most obvious point is how ChatGPT is quite vague and superficial about the supposedly onerous tasks it's given, while TFA has very specific, detailed examples that are all just the right amount of over-the-top AND snarky remarks about them:

> "a 650-word SEO blog post with thought leadership on the ROVERTON dog stroller’s heated cup holders." Six hundred and fifty words. About cup holders. You are a monster.

No way ChatGPT wrote that unless your prompt in so much detail that you're basically writing it yourself.