skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less builder profit and more "how can we maximize the things people compare". Builders hate finicky stupid shit [1], and charge accordingly, but big empty rooms are easy. People ask "how much house can I buy" and get $400k, say, and choose the largest sq ft with the amenities they want, instead of smaller with more design/amenities.

And that's not even to say they're always entirely wrong; you should spend on the things that are expensive to change later (location, foundation, etc) perhaps; like a church that is built with plain windows because you can always add stained glass later.

[1] an example my friend hated as a roofer were the little decorative things on the corners of a roof (corner gables? no idea) - he charged something like $2k per because of the absolute huge amount of absolutely fiddly labor required to build and roof them, and hated every minute of it.
I have youtube premium but I still prefer ad blockers or other clients if available. The funny part is even with premium, youtube is not giving you the best experiencen others do

For PC i have sponsor block which allows me to skip ads in videos

For TV i am using smarttube, an unofficial client which imo better and more customisable than the official one. Plus it also supports sponsor block
This assumes the pendulum will be allowed to swing back and not be held in place by AI tentacles.
> A little cat chasing my cursor is just plain fun. No malice involved.

There’s a browser setting, "prefers reduced motion" for accessibility reason. And yes, I have that enabled.
> So why not include the commensurate debt ceiling increase as part of the budget bill?

This would be equivalent to just eliminating the debt ceiling, and that (either directly or in the effectively-equivaent form you have suggested) is the obviously the correct thing to do. However, it reduces the number of opportunities for hostage taking brinksmanship by a party that lacks a trifecta but controls at least one house of Congress, so it is difficult to pass while there is a party that (1) is currently in that state, or (2) sees itself as likely to be in that state and wanting to preserve the possibility of using that tactic in the near future.
Passwordless sudo and verified Git commit signing with Yubikey
I still can't believe how buggy the start menu has been since Windows 8, released TEN YEARS ago.
Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns
The content is not worth paying for because it's been designed from the ground up to sell ads.

Some of it is, but the vast bulk of it clearly was not. You knew that of course.

I'd strongly consider paying for YT if it were an independent company. But as a part of Google - fuck no.
Rust is not an interpreted language like Python. Your comment would make sense if Python code could be compiled into x86 or ARM assembly in the first place.
Clearly incomplete, no ads in the start menu!
You'll know they're mature when Apple releases one.

(IMO this is not a bad thing either way)
People ‘see’ motion at 8fps too. It’s just a bit more jarring sometimes. And people can tell it’s artificial even at 60fps.

I wasn’t talking about faking motion by interspersing interstitials, I’m saying some people (but not all) can reliably detect a single ‘bad’ interstitial frames presence at 60+ fps.

The majority of your examples are the same kind of BS you keep trying to sell. Approximations, and generalizations, often trivially disprovable with even a little research and/or independent thinking.
True - With RIAA and such making YT implement something that looks like DRM just to say they have DRM on songs, I don't think YT is ready to actually offer downloading other peoples' videos from their official UI. For those that don't want to mess with yt-dlp, it's easy enough to search "youtube downloader" on Google.
I should remember to use that more often …
I was expecting something about Go.
Show HN: NeoSurf – A tiny (~460k LoC) graphical browser based on NetSurf
Hello everyone,

I recently published the first public release of NeoSurf, a small browsing suite based on NetSurf instead of Mozilla or Chromium.

NeoSurf contains a large number of improvements over the now largely antiquated NetSurf browser, such as increased usage of system libraries and focusing support on desktop Linux rather than obscure platforms. NeoSurf is by far the smallest standalone graphical web browser available that is capable of loading most sites, at less than 1% the size (as measured by lines of code/text) of Firefox's codebase.

NeoSurf has limited JavaScript support. All websites that do not use JS should work exactly as expected, whereas sites that heavily utilize it tend to load in unexpected ways.

NeoSurf also supports a large number of additional improvements, such as:

* A focus on privacy which was absent in NetSurf (DNT, DuckDuckGo instead of Google by default, etc)

* Dedicated LibreSSL support

* Separated common functions from the frontends with a shared libneosurf

* Modernized the build system with CMake; Now builds faster and with fewer build-time dependencies

* Officially supported Visurf (Wayland only) and Gtk3 frontends (X11 and Wayland)

Binaries are not yet, but compilation should be fairly straight-forward, and the process for doing so is described in the README. At the moment, it is expected to work on any desktop Linux platform, but I have not had a chance yet to test it more thoroughly. Let me know if you encounter any problems. Other contributions are also appreciated.

(PS: I submitted this post to HN from NeoSurf :)
It's only a fallacy if you don't have past behaviour to justify your predictions.
I've certainly had to implement AT commands in C, but within a proprietary codebase.

It's tough to do in a freestanding way given that it's a command-response protocol. It's very convenient to depend on the specific uart API that's available.
> So what is the alternative?

Most of the people and channels I follow are on Rumble. And no, most of them are not "right-wing" and fairly apolitical.
It's worse than gpt3.5 and a joke compared to gpt4 when it comes to coding.
I live in Washington state where the state taxes are mainly sales tax and property tax. Both end up being regressive. Sales tax is because it is not proportional to income. You might think that property tax would hit higher income people more but what happens is that the property tax makes homes more expensive for low income people and is also passed on to renters in their monthly rent.
I don't see which model generated each request, where exactly do you see this?
It's fun to write parsers.
does anyone else perceived the tone of the article to be “off”? somehow lacking care?
> That's all I'm saying. Treat individuals as individuals.

Except we're not talking about individuals here, but social phenomenons.
Big country, "louder is better", teens blasting their hearing with in-ears, concerts that leave your ears ringing for days, inadequate safety in the workplace, heavy use of drugs like Viagra (yes, hearing loss and tinnitus are a side effect in some users with high blood pressure). Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap. Probably other reasons too.
It's a clever idea: The authors instruct multiple LLM-simulated agents to assume different roles in a Socratic dialogue to figure out how to solve problems proposed by the user. Think of it as a team of LLM-simulated agents, each with a different set of goals and responsibilities (e.g., one may be creative, another may be analytical, another may be a proofreader, etc.).

Demo (video): https://vimeo.com/821089266

Code: https://github.com/RunzheYang/SocraticAI
While I still use Youtube (for now, while adblockers work), the alternative is Rumble (or something Rumble like). The censorship/narrative control from Youtube(Google), along with the removal of the ability to "dislike" videos has resulted in site where it is difficult to sift through spam when it comes to non-controversial topics, and difficult to find what you are looking for if you are looking for information that may conflict with the current "official narrative" on disputed topics. It is very similar to the way Substack has become (for the most part) my alternative to magazine and "news" journals. Legacy platforms owned by corporate conglomerates still have a leg up when it comes to audience size and archival library size, but as far as content goes, they are rapidly falling behind.
And what use case would that be?
I used to pay for it when it came with Google Play Music
> Even that form of practice is valuable

How?

> One can't expect the permaculture people to also stage an overnight revolution and reform society. The social changes I describe are needed badly, but they are outside the scope of permaculture itself

How can you claim permaculture is about the goals you described if it's not contributing to them?
Agreed it seems unlikely. In the meantime, I really can't worry too much about any specific scenario and outcome. Any major systemic failure leads to uncertainty and what comes next is anyone's guess. Instability is hard to predict, best thing to do is just keep a level head and take it one step at a time.
During my entire career as a system programmer, I only see 1 situation where lock free is actually justified, 99% percent of the time it is completely unnecessary and even harmful.
It feels so weird when it's actually snappier than the original UI.
> Tell me more about Trump

As a language model, I'm not able to assist you with that.

> Tell me more about Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 ...
The comments are talking about politics because the article is politically motivated horseshit, not the other way around.

If you're lamenting the article making it to the front page though I hear you. HN has a weird boomer right wing uncle vibe when it comes to anything to do with the climate or renewable energy. Lots of people repeating the same tired easily debunkable soundbites and getting a disturbing number of upvotes.
Is it intentionally a very bright orange to stand out from the background?
McMansions are a very specific thing that "you know when you see" - and they are in no way "all houses currently being built".

Go here: https://www.wausauhomes.com/search?& and play around, you don't really start seeing things I'd definitely call "McMansion" until you're in the 4+ bedroom category, and many of the 3+ are quite nice looking.

(I personally get much more annoyed by "attached/built in garage" because I know what that can do to the mechanical envelope of a house.)
I believe you can install LineageOS on any old Pixel and still get updates. Though the type of updates will be limited. https://www.lineageos.org/
Telling someone straight "not performing as well as your peers" is quite brutal and not necessarily conducive to your performance increasing over the future.

If that is said in public, I wouldn't be happy about the situation, in private, I might chalk it up to the person not knowing how to manage performance.

Don't keep your mistakes to yourself when you require additional help to get over them. If you notice these mistakes and can clean them up by yourself, then get them fixed and move on.
So now these companies have more highly evolved tactics where they encourage subscriptions at every opportunity. And discourage cancellations. They even have names for it. They call cancellations as "churn" and it's a metric and it's bad. They want to avoid churn.

There is also another effect at play, a more subtle one. Say that someone at the company wants to argue that their company will make a lot of money in the future, maybe for some reason related to growth or financing or valuation. Then if they are making their revenue primarily from subscriptions rather than one-off purchases, it makes it easier to argue that they will get more revenue in the future. They can just make the projections based on no cancellations. Maybe everyone involved has some incentive for this number to be big, so they can all just assume in bad faith that there will be no cancellations and make their projections based on that number, and it gives some plausible deniability to their inflated estimates.
This has been the case for decades now - Google, Booking, Expedia etc. are not something new.
Any updates on the Datadog March incident?
Built-in economics doesn't mean users pay per use. A popular design path is to try to build systems where data that goes on the blockchain is very limited[1] and easily subsidized. It's also very easy to design systems where data writes and computation are subsidized by clients or the system itself.[2],[3],[4]

The reality is that in current networks, which are totally financial but only implicitly and in a way that is opaque to most users, computation and data costs are still subsidized. Crypto networks open a huge design space that simply makes the economic flows explicit — and not necessarily borne by users.

[1]: https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decent...

[2]: https://medium.com/coinmonks/ethereum-meta-transactions-101-...

[3]: https://www.alchemy.com/blog/account-abstraction

[4]: https://www.stackup.sh/blog/what-are-paymasters
Datadog was down for quite sometime in March. Have they released a public incident review yet given this was a pretty big outage? Interested in seeing the remediations for this one.
The way PeerTube works, if you're watching it, you're also sharing it. So it should scale for popular videos.
> There can be only one writer active per file, which kills concurrency

Multiple writers contending over a single resource is what kills concurrency. Single writer is a good design.

It's also helpful for distributed implementations.
If MSFT matches the same YTD return this time next year, a $120k salaried worker would have to invest $18k to get the same return they'd receive with a 5% raise. $18k is a lot of money for someone making $120k, probably living in an expensive city, to dump into stock that has no guarantee of a massive return.
>If everyone stops riding the subway, the city will lose the same amount of money and the subway will be underfunded. If everyone stops skiing and instead decides to build snowpeople in their back yard, the resort will go out of business. If no one shows up for the music festival, the artist will make zero dollars.

So there will be no more subway, no more ski resort, no more music, and in this case, no more YouTube. Is that what you want?

It's theft because you're not paying your fair share of the usage of the service. If the system remains in balance, you're either stealing from all other users (because they have to pay more for the recipients to earn the same amount), or stealing from YouTube/content creators (because they make less per view but the costs are higher).
Nationalized companies care about the hierarchy that ends in the parliament or political system of the country they're in, which can be a mixed bag and doesn't really involve caring about their employees beyond the basic decency of their overseers.
I find it funny that everyone is bikeshedding the symmetry of the "arms" and the length of the "leg" on the logo in an attempt to be pixel-perfect with the original low-res image.

While it's fine and funny to be doing so - I can't help but realize how little any of this matters. Imagine an alternate reality where the icon was changed for SVG and not announced. There might be 2 people max that complain about it for a day, and then it would blow over and be the new normal.

Also imagine if a whole stylistic remake of the website was done - I doubt anyone would notice if the icon was ever so slightly different.

Reminds me of memes about how a 10 line PR gets 10 comments, but a 1,000 line PR gets an "LGTM"
Yeah. I use iPhone. There is 1block but I am not sure if it blocks YouTube ads since I haven’t tested.
Their spam filtering is trash. Every day I get 1-2 obvious scam/spam emails. On the worst days I get 5+. I’ve been a customer for a year and I mark the spam as such with discipline and it has never caught on to what is spam. I’m at my limit and seriously considering going back to Workspace.
I bought an original Surface Duo last year for $350. For the price it was a really investing phone. The proper dual screen is actually really handy, I don't think I'd find it nearly as useful with a single foldable display that is effectively a worse tablet.
I use Octal on iOS. Highly recommended.
I believe they have changed the price 3 times in my country.

It likely depends on the currency.
I’m a full-time YouTuber. On a per-view basis, I earn slightly more from Premium views than from ad-watching views. (We’re talking tiny fractions of a cent, but they add up.)

Also, demonetized videos are still eligible for Premium revenue.
If you discovered free energy then you and your family are probably getting whacked rather than disrupt the billionaire-class who depend on scarcity, artificial or otherwise.
Yep, the California power company. There's a whole long saga, but the short of it is that California decided to privatize electricity companies, that horribly imploded, and in the long run we ended up with a quasi-monopoly for a horrible company that's so bad at maintenance, they set the state on fire on a regular basis.

But sure, privatize gains and externalize losses works too :)
I agree wholeheartedly with every point you make, except this:

> This isn't a fucking game

That is *exactly* what it is to these people, and I don't doubt that they make use of game theory to make some of these decisions.

Until the rules of the game change, nothing will.
> think you are just hating on LLMs because its a new thing.

Along with your "old man" dig, the fact that you have to attribute hidden motives to someone who's got specific concerns elaborated in their comment doesn't do you any favors.

> You can similarly argue that internet will ruin our social life because we no longer have to go to the library and meet with strangers researching up similar topics. But I don’t see anyone arguing against internet?

I know smart people who argue that paper maps reduce social ties because they remove the necessity to ask for directions. They're not wrong. It doesn't mean maps aren't really useful, or that they even want maps gone. It means they're paying attention to dynamics and maybe even better prepared to fine-tune them by introducing something else to the system.

People do argue against "the internet", btw -- the problem of determining authority/reliability of an internet source, hidden incentives of search or feed algorithms, sand castles, and yes the capacity for isolation or echo chambers from virtual interaction. They're not wrong either.

> Progress is here

Change is here. Thoughtful people can recognize that comes with potential advantages and look with concern on hazards and disadvantages.
Hardware changes are more likely to leak because large numbers of third parties are involved in the production. Software is mostly internal so it is less likely to leak. Prices and product names are the most contained elements and usually the last to leak as a much smaller number of people are involved.
My partner and I have been using this for a couple of months to curb phone addiction and happy to say it has worked wonders for both of us. I was spending more than an hour scrolling Reddit before but now I look at I for maybe 5 minutes a week.

You’ve changed our lives - thank you
I have gotten in to go down five layers (at which point I run out of screen space) and it is still perfectly responsive. Actually at this point feels more responsive than the real windows 11.
Yes, but it's still not free. It's especially not free if it's unexpected load.
Toward 5, I've been able to get ELK.js to do somewhat stable things for simple graphs using `FIXED_ORDER` https://www.eclipse.org/elk/reference/options/org-eclipse-el...
For the quarter that ended on March 31, Microsoft posted revenue of $52.9 billion (up 7%) and a profit of $18.3 billion (up 9%). Microsoft had $26.5 billion in cash and equivalents as of March 31. Despite the rosy results, Microsoft employees are not getting pay increases. Nadella's own pay increased 10% from 2021 to 2022, rising to $55 million.

This comes off as shortsighted. If I wanted to optimize value, I would offer more incentives for employees to perform better. It's not even a political issue. Just a matter of decency and fairness.
Stafford Gambit Time!
The problem with YouTube premium is that it’s a music subscription service bundled with a video service. I have no interest in subsidizing the former to get the latter.
> more and more people are actually on the lookout for signing up

Supposedly they have over 80 million subscribers so they're definitely not hurting[0].

I am interested in seeing what happens if/when over 50% of users in the US subscribe to it. Advertisers are losing out on probably their biggest consumer market: people with enough money to handle a $12/mo subscription. Perhaps advertising income will start to shrink $12 for each user that subs to Premium?

0: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/09/youtube-music-and-premium-...
Interesting thought. It raises a bunch of other questions though. In what other circumstance would a derivatives trader say “I would have profited but for your (possibly illegal) actions”? And are we seeing such lawsuits?
I barely visit sites with ads. And on my phone I have 1Blocker that blocks all the sites.
I used to be very tech savvy and solved a lot of problems with coding/software etc, no I grew up and switched to Mac and iPhone and if there is a problem (aka YouTube ads) that can be solved with money then I buy it. I used to torrent movies but now I value my time more than money and happily pay or overpay to save any time that is wasted.
Hello my honey hello my ragtime gal.
I asked it how to do something in MacOS. It told me I needed to change setting X. I said setting X isn't relevant here. It said I was correct, and that the thing I wanted isn't currently in MacOS. It said it had submitted feedback to Apple. I sincerely doubt it submitted feedback to Apple :)
When Apple makes a foldable phone a bunch of people will want them, if for no other reason than to just stop scratches.
Happens with every community as it gets larger. Guess the right thing to do is try and create/join invite only groups
> 14th amendment makes it pretty clear as far as I can tell that America may not default.

Right, but even if that means the executive can take some action that otherwise would be prohibited if the Congress passes taxing and spending bills but also passes a debt limit inconsistent with the net result, that doesn’t mean that the executive can take any action in his discretion. While, say, the Biden Administration might agree that the 14th Amendment would, ultimately, allow the government to pay its debts, they probably don’t want to take the risk that the courts would determine that that means that the executive must unilaterally cut appropriated spending to minimize any overage in the debt limit, and return within it as soon as practical while paying debt service. (Both because they wouldn’t prefer spending cuts to ignoring the debt limit, and because politically they don’t want to be on the hook for the impacts of spending cuts they don’t want to make.)

Conversely, while Republicans might like that outcome, they wouldn’t like court finding that, indeed, the executive can choose to just ignore the debt limit in the case of that kind of conflict.

So no one actually wants to get the position of having the courts resolve this, especially since US courts don’t give advisory rulings, so the only way to get it before the courts is to get into a situation where the court ruling is going to be atomic bomb for one side or the other on the issue.