skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cynism is not disencouraged in the HN guidelines, but the sneering at the community and meta complaint in your comment is. I don’t care for the tone in those comments buy they are expressing something real.

This guideline needs to be revised: It is extremely easy to be a cynic compared to being an optimist, and the rewards for being such a cynic are mismatched, as per piloto_ciego's outline on the advantages that being a pessimist/cynic has over being an optimist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892166

The ever-increasing levels of dread coming from HN is a deadly combination of Neo-Luddism & doomerism that I'm an avid crucifier of.
It's common to save the outline of text elements so that they don't have to ensure a certain font is present in the browser.
I would be very interested to hear some long term SF native's opinions on how are things currently in SF. Talking to people I either get that it has become dystopia or it is pursuing policies which will lead to nirvana.
personally I think ww2 is a meme, one datapoint out of the entirety of natural history, but funnily enough scott aaranson used it to justify his anti orthognality stance recently (axis scientists were mid tier compared to allies scientists partially because the allies were perceived as better morally aligned with the scientific community)

one point he made aside from that though, is that if you truly believe in orthogonality you should not value education or learning except to educate people who agree/are aligned with you.

I think he is wrong only in that orthogonality is even more obviously wrong than that.
I have a Zen3 desktop. Looking forward to a Zen4 laptop.
Gsuite for personal use is and has always been very very half baked. To answer your question. I pay for it too but I also ask myself the same question as to why I don't just move my domain to a simpler service that'll host an email.

But yes, the solution is definitely having a separate private gmail for those services.
I'm still incredibly salty about this as well.
Holding this in my hands next to a real galaxy s23 phone, it is amazing that this one on my iPhone 14 pro is SMOOTHER! Probably helps not to have 10000 pointless preloaded apps running the the background!

(I prefer android to iOS but Samsung has never been a good choice. Only pixel was. Too much preloaded shit on Samsung phones that you cannot get rid of, like Bixby and 4-6 social media apps du jour)
They should go after Max Tech YouTube channel as well for propagation & interacting with the same set of sources
Until someone actually sells an 8 inch OLED tablet, these are the only options on the market today for a small tablet with a good screen.
I don’t understand. Why would my smart TV have a camera?

I’m not going to put on pants to watch TV.
You are the only programmer I admire! Redis is elegant, simple and useful.
Thank you for your honesty, but do you really wish you were working on something less predatory?
An additional nuance is that I've often seen "lapsed" used as a self description of people who are somewhat regretful about no longer practicing their faith.

Whether as a self description or used by others, it generally carries a connotation that having left the faith is a negative thing.

I agree that "former" is a more neutral term.
Aka “the diamond dependency problem”.

If the “old” A has a severe vulnerability and the “new” A has breaking changes - then there is no solution other than to avoid/replace/fork B until B is upgraded.
Paying to skip ads just raises the value of your attention even further because now they know you've got enough disposable income to pay for such frivolous things. The truth is that not advertising to everyone at all times is leaving money on the table and it's only a matter of time before some bonus-seeking executive turns that into his payday opportunity. Besides, even if you pay for premium you'll still get ads hardcoded into videos as sponsored segments and you'll still be tracked and profiled by Google.

Ads are immoral and should not be a valid business model to begin with. What YouTube is doing is exactly what should be done: pay us, or we won't actually send you the video. The network is the boundary: I'm not gonna try to hack into their servers to get a video they don't want to send me. If they send me the video for free though, that's their decision. They can send me ads too hoping I'll look at then but I make no such promise. They don't get to complain at all if I block them just like magazines don't get to complain if I rip out the ad pages and throw them in the trash.

Many channels are successfully backed by patrons via patreon. That seems to be the most ethical way in my understanding.
> No one is forcing you to use YouTube.

Doubt it. Ever been required to watch a video for a class?

There are limits to terms of service. Where does it end? Is it unethical to mute and switch to another tab to wait out the ad? How about simply looking away? Regardless of what the terms of service says I have the ultimate control of what I decide to take in. Adblocking is a way to assert that right to selectively let in stuff into my sphere of perception.
Why does it need to be justified? It’s their product and they are entitled to block ad blockers.

Either watch ads, buy the subscription, or stop using YouTube.
I'd argue that non-technical normies that ruined the Internet because they lacked the ethos and the knowhow to push back against ads and just use an adblocker. It's only because of these people that YouTube was ever an ad-supported service in the first place.
Same for me. I don't think I've ever watched any of the Premium content, I just subscribed to hide ads.
YouTube premium has just one tier.

And before you raise the hypothetical question of additional tiers in future, by that kind of logic people shouldn't make any recurring purchase of anything since in future terms might change.
Self-Replicating Machine
It treated you better than it treated me when I asked that a few weeks ago. The response it gave me was some smartass bullshit about how it wasn't going to do my homework for me (and no, neither homework nor school in general had anything to do with anything we were talking about).
Caching is cool.
Why the heck would anyone create an externally accessible Jenkins?
Question for anyone who bought YouTube Premium and tried to cancel later: how did it go?

Years ago I bought a Chromecast for a family member but ended up sending it back because it was subpar. The return process was so frustrating (not to mention the difficulty in deleting the mandatory Google Wallet account) that I vowed to never trust Google with any money again. I feel I’d rather stop watching YouTube entirely.

I’m interested in experiences, good and bad, of cancelling as YouTube Premium.
Maybe a little backpack?

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=mini%20backpack&tbs...
talking point of petrochemical industry PR -- "war on cheap energy" is another
Another alternative is Piped. https://piped.kavin.rocks. Comes with sponsorblock in addition to not showing ads. For Android users, use Youtube ReVanced if you want algorithm recommendations, NewPipe if not.
Compare also vs. the favicon, which is much higher resolution, and still visible in the browser on the same screen as the SVG version: https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico
This has always been the case over in the world of freemium games.

The vast majority of the playerbase (70~80%?) are Free2Players (F2Pers), while the rest are whales (paying players) and an even smaller subset of them are space whales who spend enough in a month to buy a luxury car or two.

The games go to great lengths to retain those F2Pers because they are the ones the whales and space whales play together with and/or against. No F2Pers, no whales, no game, no business.
The vast majority of the residents of Grozny who were killed by indiscriminate artillery fire levelling much of the city were not engaged in these kinds of activities. Quite a few of them were ethnically Russian, even.
I thought about it more and realized it wasn't stealing.

What do we do now?
So what, you're denying the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, many of them well-documented and many resulting from massacres rather than "mere" indiscriminate bombing, because jihadis also showed up and tortured some POW for religious reasons? I don't even know how to characterize your comment without swearing profusely, so I'll just say it left me rather speechless.
These are interesting ideas and presented in quite a novel way. How much does it differ from your initial transcript?
YouTube premium doesn’t suck. It’s a pretty great experience.
Please explain how dramatically over building renewables will keep the lights on along the US West Coast after sunset? Where are we going to get power when there is little wind blowing and no sun shining anywhere in North America?

The reality is that the only way for renewables to provide base load is through huge amounts of storage. There are a variety of proposals for this but so far with current technology none seem to be economically viable at the scale needed.
No, because if you pay for premium, the ads will inevitably be back. It's a matter of time.
Child ID Kits Unlikely to Help Find Missing Kids
I own firstn@melastna.me, that's optimal if your surname matches a ccTLD.
Fantastic read! This is why I love HN. Sad to say that I'd not heard of Molly White before. This is great analysis.
I pay exactly $0 and see no YT ads, and I am a pretty heavy YT viewer. I just don't think it's right to have to pay.

Advertisers use their dollars to influence and make statements, also forcing stupid age restrictions just because someone swears.

It's 1984 in 2023.
Funny part is. I actually got YT premium from family member. It's indistinguishable from using adblock.
Switch the shell from bash to dash (which is the default on Ubuntu) if that is part of the memory problem.

Dash is nearly 10x smaller, rumored to be 4x faster than bash.

Otherwise, have you compiled any object code with -Os?
Sure, but there is literally ZERO incentive to be a "good" player here. If Youtube doesn't have ads and relied solely on premium they will probably not survive without going into an insane amount of debt.

If consumers do pay for premium, then consumers at least have a moral leverage they can use against Youtube. As it stands, consumers are in the "wrong" here.

Either:

1. We agree that ads is justified.

2. Or Youtube as a service and many like it (free service) does not make sense and should not be made illegal if it can't make profit. It will literally bleed money for the rest of eternity and can only survive by going into debt.
This doesn't give AIs "agency" this makes them agents. The difference is something with agency does things for its own reasons. An agent, in this sense, does things because someone with agency commanded the agent to do it.

We haven't built LLMs that "want" anything. It's intelligence without agency.
I don't like that paid subscription services usually changes to be worse the day they get high enough market share. And content providers are severely fragmented that it become expensive to enjoy them all. Sure we can switch subscriptions for some months to enjoy different content provider for same expense, but it's such a hassle to do it imo.
I wondered what was up with them and actually found an interesting read about it on the way.

https://www.wired.com/story/we-tried-vertus-web3-phone-it-sc...

>“Vertu has changed hands lots of over the past decade, but is still being run by a bunch of folks based out of Hong Kong, very close to the Chinese supply chain,” says Neil Shah of Counterpoint Research. “These folks with renewed focus are rebadging existing models from brands—ZTE, for example—with luxury materials and advanced hardware and software.”
Only option right now is a Lenovo Y700. Not OLED, but it has a great looking 120 Hz screen, fast processor, and premium feel. However, it only comes in a Chinese version, so I ended up creating "unsecure" networks and accounts (Youtube, Reddit, etc) to use with it.
> Google’s approach is to label the images when they come out of the AI system, instead of trying to determine whether they’re real later on. Google said Shutterstock and Midjourney would support this new markup approach. Google developer documentation says the markup will be able to categorize images as trained algorithmic media, which was made by an AI model; a composite image that was partially made with an AI model; or algorithmic media, which was created by a computer but isn’t based on training data.

Can it store at least: (1) the prompt; and (2) the model which purportedly were generated by a Turing robot with said markup specification? Is it schema.org JSON-LD?

It's IPTC:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...

If IPTC-to-RDF i.e./e.g. schema:ImageObject (schema:CreativeWork > https://schema.org/ImageObject) mappings are complete, it would be possible to sign IPTC metadata with W3C Verifiable Credentials (and e.g. W3C DIDs) just like any other [JSON-LD,] RDF; but is there an IPTC schema extension for appending signatures, and/or is there an IPTC graph normalization step that generates equivalent output to a (web-standardized) JSON-LD normalization function?

/? IPTC jsonschema: https://github.com/ihsn/nada/blob/master/api-documentation/s...

/? IPTC schema.org RDFS

IPTC extension schema:
https://exiv2.org/tags-xmp-iptcExt.html

[ Examples of input parameters & hyperparameters: from e.g. the screenshot in the README.md of stablediffusion-webui or text-generation-webui: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui ]

How should input parameters and e.g. LLM model version & signed checksum and model hyperparameters be stored next to a generated CreativeWork? filename.png.meta.jsonld.json or similar?
Was looking for numbers on it, heres one :https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

I think they're doing pretty great!
Algeria is absolutely better in essentially every way. In particular, they're not invading neighbours, murdering tens of thousands of civilians or attempting to erase a culture and a language from existence.
The SoC that was initially supposed to be used was older when the crowdfunding started than the actually used one is now, so to answer your question - everyone who backed it, I guess?

It works fine and it's not like there are any significantly more modern alternatives out there anyway. And to put things in context, a few years ago there was not a single phone out there that had working 3D acceleration with open drivers, for example.
Dang gets upset if you point out Chinas genocide and atrocities. He will censor to keep China cash flow.

If you talk about America in the same light or worse he’s totally fine with that.
selection bias. he is famous only because unusually for killers he carried out a slightly mechanicly sophisticated plan.

Killers could be much much more effective than they are, if they were smart. They tend not to be. It's a very strong trend. So much so that the few examples like the unabomber are famous. For every unabomber there are tens of thousands of similar people who don't kill people, and even the unabomber had an ethics.

(maybe the unabomber is a good warning to alignment people about the dangers of moral concern)
I canceled mine recently when I switched from Youtube Music to Apple Music when Classical released. It was painless.
It was definitely nowhere ready when the transition happened, but they've been constantly working on it for the past few years, unlike GPM which was mostly stuck for years. While it still has a few issues, there's a ton of cool features GPM never had either.
Ads exist because people are cheap and won't pay an equivalent amount of revenue in cash. All the complaints about ads and tracking will fall on deaf ears until that changes.
Welcome to every other job.
9/11 was the point where a lot of things were forgiven, or at least ignored, because "we're all fighting terrorism". Putin played that angle masterfully, too - he was the first foreign leader to call Bush, for example. Here's an example of what was in the press at that time:

https://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/10/ar911.russia...
Not so fast, at least. IIRC youtube have contracts to keep API stable for a number of years for TV applications.
This was my dream for so long. I kind of assumed I'd have lots of geeks who'd want to come over & hack. I still think this is such an exceptional idea, but I lack for thinking how I could use it in my life.
As someone on the medications, all it seems to do is just activate my hyperfocuing abilities more consistently. I just have to cross my fingers that the stars align so I hyperfocus on what I need to focus on and not play Jedi Survivor for 6 hours straight.
https://archive.is/djO4m
People that actually don't have money don't complain about ad-supported free options. Spoiled rich techies do.
with C people choose to use macros and define blocks because they want to, but it doesn't have to be done that way if you don't think that's fun. (Pushing back on choice of "fun"ness) Macros and define blocks turn into C code anyway.

I think those header files festooned with ifdef's are a nightmare, and it's the wrong choice, a type of premature optimization.
Isn’t that like a giant bomb though?
> I just don't think it's right to have to pay.

What makes you think it's right to be entitled to a free service?

You don't want to pay.

You don't want ads.

So ... then what?
It was always this way. If no one buys your paper you shutdown writers have no jobs and stop writing. If no one buys your book same deal.

What era are you referring to?
What makes something a phone, not a tablet?
I’ve lived in San Francisco for 20+ years. Downtown is in bad shape, but the rest of the city is quite lovely. I think techies don’t explore the “villages” (Richmond, Hayes Valley, etc) and only see the more corporate, less flattering side of the city (SoMa). This will lead to an uneven view of the city. And a deservedly negative one.

The rumors of San Francisco death are exaggerated. They are also self-fulfilling because they discourage people from investing in the community.

My advice to techies: move West. Take a pottery class and eat a dumpling. Make friends with artists. It’s a richly cultural city once you get out of the bubble.
> This doesn’t seem confusing at all.

It was to me. Since I only read the quote I assumed "they" referred to Eleanor and Eleanor's partner or some other person that was mentioned before the quoted section.
> You aren't helping people

This seems trivially false. Even if the info just gets sucked into an LLM there will still be people helped.
God and I thought I was going crazy. I have an iPhone XR bought on release day and my girlfriend just bought an iPhone 14.

I can’t, for the life of me, see a difference on performance. It takes better pictures at night and that’s about everything I can notice.

At this point the only “feature” that I want is USB-C. As ridiculous as this is, the only way apple can convince me to upgrade my old iPhone is to change their connectors.
I believe I hear the sound of a True Scotsman knocking at the door.
We are working on this as a part of Kagi Search Labs, but it is worth noting that this steps outside the domain of search engines. By the time this technology matures, we will be talking about digital assistants.
I worked at UCB about 20 years later and when running network cable in the drop ceiling (because the UCB network was so slow) I came across an old thicknet cable labelled CSRG and was told "don't cut that- you never know who might be using it".
Yeah, I think I'll look into a Pixel Fold once the third comes out if it ever does. But yeah, the Fold is great.
TIL... :-) Thanks...
That can’t be accurate just anecdotally. More likely they call it or or two sds out and chalk up the remaining 10 or so percent as RMAs.

You’re also assuming a normal distribution. This very well might not be a normal distribution
Look for the article "Geeks, mops, and sociopaths" which has been posted here a few times. We are currently in the sociopath part of the cycle, and people recognize that.
I’ve never heard this explanation before and I don’t buy it. Transmission power is constant regardless of the antenna used.
> ... we don't have an adjective for someone who is deliberately opposed to a religion in English that doesn't have an extremely negative connotation.

That doesn't seem to be the case.

Words such as "intelligent" and "wise" spring to mind, which aren't generally regarded as negative. ;)
Then stop using it. The content creators you watch use it and that means you are obliged to follow the platform's terms. If they didn't need the platform, they would self host their videos and monetize via other means like Patreon but they don't. That means your contributions compared to the revenue via YouTube pales in comparison.
This is easier said than done when your job takes up the majority of your waking hours.
I want a paid for video streaming service with the following:

* No attachment to Google

* Enough network effect / traction to be interesting

* No predatory data collection and recommendation algorithms

YouTube premium isn't that. So for now I use Newpipe and ad blockers. If they lock it down, hopefully there will be enough traction somewhere else to pick up where they left off.
How is it misleading? It is the whole point that you can compile CPython or PHP interpreters to target this as another target platform like x86 or ARM
I work for a company who's main traffic comes from questions that google doesn't spit out the entire answer to except below the first few results.

I asked chatgpt and of course it gives the answer right away. We also have searches that land on pages with fancy ui's where user has to enter info to get answers. Took me about 1 minute to get chatgpt to spit out the answers and once I knew how to prompt it I could shorthand the input and get answers much faster.

We are so dead.
No, it's legal. That makes it not theft.

In fact Google and all other big tech themselves do similar things too. They funnel all their proceeds through tax havens so they avoid paying corporate tax in the countries they turn over in.

Yet it's fully legal, because tax avoidance is not evasion and loopholes are loopholes. And thus they're not stealing from the countries they're depriving of their tax revenue.

When they do it it's totally fine. When I avoid paying it's not?

You're confusing your moral sense with the law. Sure it's unethical, depending on your views immoral but it's not illegal.
When my 25 queries per 3 hours runs out I don't use openai at all. That's how bad chat gpt is in comparison to gpt4 in my use cases.
On a short timescale, when talking to coked up rich guys, I think people are able to separate the two.
I was also under the impression that PIP was a way to slow-roast firing someone, not something that would be temporary.
Meander and Specter make Clojure a lot nicer to use day-to-day.
I could also admit that in 1970, there were even cheaper cars than a Dodge Dart, but I'm excluding them b/c at the time, they were still a sort of novelty...the Dart, being "compact" only with respect to American cars of the period, is sufficiently large such that it doesn't register as a different category.

As for modern small SUVs...you're still not going to get much change back from your $27K for a VW Taos, or Mazda CX-30, or Hyundai Santa Fe...how small are you willing to go for cheap?
I don't make any excuses-- if the content is handed to me for free, I take it. They also hand me ads for free but I don't care for those, thanks.

It's really a strange concept that we're somehow cheating someone for not looking at an ad. And yet somehow it wouldn't be cheating if we poured over every ad but never bought anything in them.
can you link a specific example? youtube's anti-piracy measures are quite strict in my experience.