skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem honestly is how grid is built.

For example, currently your neighbour having solar might, in worst case, cause you to have to pay for energy in peak, if they bump voltage high enough your inverter turns off.

You're also selling (if you don't have net metering) your produced power for pennies on dollar.

If, for example, instead of pushing that energy all the way could store it closer, now grid doesn't need to "do something with it", there are less losses overall, and less waste.

So if say a local muncipality or power company just built local battery storage facility and just "leased" capacity to its occupants:

* people with solar could "bank" the peaks to use it during night

* people without could enjoy lower energy prices overall

* people could "just" buy battery and consume more of that peak (buying electricity for cheap from their neighbours), and maybe even contribute pack.

* power company wouldn't need to push as much power and maybe even potentially do something clever like "preloading" batteries before peak usage so less of that is pushed from the big plants, or "borrow" some energy from the bank to push elsewhere where needed.

But that's complex and requires capital investments, and there is no motivation from power company to make stuff more optimal for customers, just for the investors.
Content creators receive approximately 55% of the revenue generated on their channels. What is fair and equitable to you? Bear in mind that the other 45% is not pure profit for YT as most of it pays for hosting, development etc.
Even embracing for a second the notion that spreading municipalities out over vast tracts of land connected by cars is ethical and sustainable (which I don't)... the stereotypical midwestern suburb I grew up in had a lot of modest single family homes. The developers kept large stands of original trees. Homes backed up into forests, parks, and (natural) ponds.

The houses were generously proportioned for four people.

Then the wave of McMansions hit. The contrast was night and day. Same families, but the houses were twice as large, adorned with like... Fake columns and endless unnecessary fake architectural flourishes and ugly facade exteriors. The houses were jammed into tiny lots with no trees and no yards. The developers cut down all of the natural landscape and installed ridiculous fountain jets in drainage ponds. Side by side with the rest of the neighbourhood it was (and remains) ugly, excessive and soulless.

That's what a McMansion means to me. It's the white collar commuter's Ford F150 of a house.

And to be clear people have hated McMansions since long before the "millenials," what a weird "fuck you, got mine" take.
> barring a lottery win (which would require buying a lottery ticket, I suppose)

It's not impossible to win the lottery without buying ticket. Someone can give you one. You could find one on the street. etc.

There's also saying "buying a lottery ticket only very slightly increases your odds of winning it".
That's just human nature, tribalism justifies everything. It's why echo chambers are so appealing to so many people, and why they devolve into meme-slinging and a lack of critical thought.
They can benefit for sure, my point is that serving a YouTube type catalog is just far more expensive.
This is some excellent planning. When a future request comes in for east votes and west votes, they can just update the rotate() parameter and push the changes straight to prod.
Mouser customer service (at least 5 years ago) as a big purchaser (University) was excellent. They would do things like screw up an order and then send the replacement free of charge, even for $300 parts. But then the uni order book was probably hundreds of thousands if not millions a year, so it's nothing on their margins.
Not OP, but off the top of my head:

- Vlad Vexler

- Reporting from Ukraine

- Real Engineering

- Mustard

- Half as Interesting

- Coffeezilla

I mean the reality is that YT has high quality content for almost any subject matter you can think of. That’s the beauty of the platform, you can find your niche. Hell, it’s even good for most things that pop into your head, podcast clips, old commercials, instruction manuals, DIY etc etc.
As long as I’ve been surfing on a high resolution mobile device I think..! It might have been a few years ago.

I wrote an email which felt like throwing a bottle to the sea - this is/was a very non urgent issue. I described what was going on, included screenshots, and I did a prototype of an svg version which I also included.

As an active-ish member of this community, it felt nice to try to make it 0.000001% better ha :)
My interpretation of this article and the original press release is that the screens are supposed to last at least 200k folds.
I'd like foldables if they had two separate screens which acted as one, like a miniature laptop with an extra screen where the keyboard would be. The bendy display makes me think I'll wear it out pretty quickly. Pretty sure Microsoft did this for one of their recent devices.
> Why is HN so eager to cheer vaccines wherever it can?

There was no guarantee that the world could develop and test an effective, safe vaccine in less than a year.
So if this is coming to proper google.com and the search, what is Google Bard then? I guess it is something like a disguised alpha release in order to gather data?
LLMs have gained emergent new abilities at every generation. No one programmed those in or even expected them to appear, they arose spontaneously with larger computation resources. "The AI developed new abilities we didn't intend or anticipate" sure sounds to me like the kinds of dangers AI alignment researchers have been theorizing for years.

We've only begun to build multimodal systems; GPT-4 already exhibits improved ability when trained with images vs without.

It isn't "crank science" at all. Despite their mockery and personal insults and dismissive handwaving, no AI capability-pusher has yet made a convincing argument why an entity with extremely strong cognitive powers would not be capable of transforming its surrounding environment on unprecedented scale. The closest one we've heard is "we just won't be able to make AI very smart." Which wishfully will be true, but we're about to spin up multiple Apollo-programs trying to prove that it isn't.
ChatGPT is the bomb. I use it to create content, to help me find weird words, to help me find films that I totally don't remember the name of but just describe one scene that I remember, just the other day, I needed to find out how to pound nails into my office walls, but my fingers were too big to hold the nail so I asked for a solution using common business items and it listed 10 of them and one of the solutions was to use a rubber band to hold onto the nail which I did and it worked like a charm. I was trying to jury-rig something, but couldn't think of anything. It thought up 10 solutions in 10 seconds. So I didn't have to fiddle fuck with it for 45 minutes, only to give up and have wasted all that time.

I'll ask what kind of electronic equipment to buy. So many things.

I have found a lot of bugs with it, too, though, so I'm getting educated. For example, at least for me, I will ask for a citation of something, and it just gives me urls that to to 404. Never once have I got an actual real citation. So I'm careful about that.

There have also been many funny things, to me, that I have asked and got weird responses that amused me.
The firm I work in uses the entire GSuite of tools.

Has been this way for us for roughly 6+ years, it's actually quite handy.
I don’t. I cold emailed him and absolutely didn’t expect a reply. This was also many many months ago.
The big problem with Mouser is that you can't sort by quantity in stock. That's a very useful cue, one that DigiKey has always supported, and it has absolutely resulted in sales going to DigiKey over Mouser when in the planning stages of a new project.
Hi! Fellow 35mm projectionist here. Your experience must have predated mine, things changed. By the time I worked on them (2007) the dual projector system was long obsolete. At that time (and afaik this remained the state of the art until digital came along) you had a single projector attached to a "platter tree", consisting of three circular rotating tables, holding the entire film (all 4 or 5 reels) spliced together into one mega reel held sideways. One table for input, another for output,and a third for extra (eg running two features on the same screen at different showing times)

This innovation eliminated the need for a projectionist to sit there and swap every 20min -- now a projectionist only had to touch the machinery once per showing rather than once per reel. It did add some labor Thursday nights as new films had to be spliced together and old ones broken up to be fed back into the can.

Thanks to this system a 12 screener could easily be operated by one teenager (me), and a twin theater didn't even need a dedicated projectionist-- just the manager popping up to lace up the film once per showing.

(Films still had the corner black dot cute though, I guess since some older theatres still had the then antique two projector system)

Thanks to startup timers, you didn't even need to be there exactly when it started, just sometime between the last showing and the next one -- but you did this at your peril, as jams and other glitches were most common at startup time, especially in the "brain" the clever device that allowed feeding the film from the inside of the input platter megareel to the outside of the output platter, this avoiding the need for rewinding you would have if you fed from outside to outside as with casette tapes.

All in all, my era's projectors were more even complex in the pursuit of saving labor costs.

I miss them. They were really cool machines.

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BUT THE PROPERTY TAXES ARE CHEAP!!!
He completely ignored Jim Crow laws and segregation where one side wanted to be treated as equals and the other side wanted to keep them segregated ?

By definition, being forced to drink out of separate water fountains is putting people on the opposite side - ie opposite poles.
Monetization is not what GPL vs. Apache license is about, even if that's often how the Apache proponents want to paint things.

The GPL doesn't prevent you from making money; it only requires you to contribute your changes back. That way others can also make money based on your work, like... you just did!
It's "good" for everything on the go if you can handle the bulk of it folded. I've got an iPhone 14 pro and a Galaxy fold 3. It's roughly the size of an iPad mini when unfolded and is my favorite form factor. Small enough to carry around and enough real estate to RDP or SSH to get some actual work done if you need to.

I don't like carrying a bag with my MacBook if I can avoid it
Well anecdotally, here in SoCal, McMansion capitol of the planet, I’m not seeing it.

Myself and my circle of friends have had assorted houses of assorted sizes and ages, and save for my 1960 ranch built on truly horrible soil, nobody has encountered any gross problems.

One is over 20 years old with nothing of note. Another is push 35 with nothing of note. My then new and lived in townhouse for 6 years had no issues. My friends in the Inland Empire (where housing was “cheap”) have had no complaints.

Partly I credit the building codes in CA and the communities. A friend recently explored building a house and was required to do an updated soil study, for example.

The expanding clay soil that they dropped my house on 40 years before we bought it converted the slab to gravel. All sorts of movement in that house. At one point you could tell the season based on the size of the crack in the bathroom wall, it moved visibly over time.

The entire neighborhood was like this. And, yea, they were expensive to fix. But the contractor gutting my rooms commented on how well the house itself was built. Today, I think what happened there could (should) not happen.

I had to re-pour foundations, re-line sewers, replace HVAC on that house.

Mind I certainly wouldn’t want to redo the flooring of a 4000 sq ft house. But the bones, core features and fundamentals seem to last.

And, for sure, there are different grades of builders. Homes at different price points. But much of that is fit and finish cosmetics vs fundamentals of the house.

I can’t speak to other neighborhoods. But I imagine it’s more than basic maintenance that’s driving folks away.

Make no mistake, larger houses cost more. More flooring to buy. More walls to paint. Larger HVAC to service. More cu ft to heat and cool.

But I’ll bet the sewer line for the cheap house and expensive house are fundamentally identical.

But I think the baseline, for the big parts, those dictated by codes and inspections, at least, anecdotally, in SoCal, seems pretty solid.
Reading the comments of for this article, HN -> Reddit (or worse). This is political BS, nothing technical or entrepreneurial. Gresham's Law?

Guess it's time to go elsewhere - have fun, try to stay civil with each other and (somehow) return to tech-related topics. I'll check in at some point in the future.
> It's not consciousness, free will, emotion, goals, instinct or any of the other facets of biological minds

For most "doom" scenarios require only weaker assumption: AIs need to be goal seeking. If they can make decisions and take actions to achieve goals it is possible those goals will be malaligned.

The line between "the ability to make good decisions" and a "goal" seems pretty thin to me.

Now, I think you need more than goal, you also need some creativity and maybe even deviousness to become a real threat (in the sense that we would probably detect naive malalignment). But I'm not sure about this, there are other ways that we could have complex-system failures that go unobserved.
Echo chambers and political tribalism are one thing. Government and courts using police forces to coerce your speech is quite another. Uncritical discourse is sad but it does not excuse this blatant censorship.
What I don't understand (speaking of Vimeo) is why doesn't YouTube offer a plan where individual content creators can choose to pay a monthly fee to keep ads off of their own videos for all viewers. Speaking for myself I would happily pay for that.
I'll be glad to check it out later, but:

> he details how few people world-wide actually work on X-risk from AGI ... and many aren't taking X-risk seriously

still sounds extremely dangerous.
Ha, jokes on you, I’ll just be using LLM’s to churn out obscene amounts of plausible-sounding-but-actually-incorrect amounts of content on the same topics, hosted across a variety of domains.
Almost anything shortcut LLM’s provide can be a countered and aggressively wrapped in return.

N.B. I’m not actually going to do this, but it’s still a straightforward attack.
I hope this leads to a viable competitor to Youtube. Youtube being the de-facto video host for medium length content has pretty noticeable effects on how content is created to tailor to Youtube's algorithms and users.

I would love to see a BitTorrent-style solution to video hosting. If your video is popular, there's more seeders, but also you can just seed it yourself. Then you can have an ecosystem where there's different indexers with different recommendation algorithms but the content is the same.
I don’t do the ads on desktop but tolerate them on mobile. If they push me off the habit altogether, they’ll lose that second half of ads.

I used to be fine with the ads. But two breaks for a five minute video is unacceptable. I hope they fail if this is what they think is okay.

They also advertise fraudulent stuff all the time now. They don’t care. They’re just desperate for money.

It would be silly to assign some sort of morality argument to the other half of it when they behave so poorly with the ads.
I find it kinda funny, I know few pretty rich people and you can notice which one started from something small and worked for it with frugality. Like boss wanted us to do a bunch of tweaking to run servers a bit hotter to save some on AC (we have small closed datacenter with like 2 racks). Absolute tiny savings in company hiring 50+ developers alone but hey it's savings
Yep, of all my subscriptions, YTP will be the last to go. The experience truly is a premium one, only marred by the inability to disable YouTube shorts.

(I recently made near exactly the same comment in a recent, related story thread - but it's worth repeating).
You have to make mistakes to get better. It’s a good habit to say hey I made a mistake, here’s what I learned, here’s what I’m going to do differently. Not just for work, but life in general. No harm in mistakes as long as you learn and don’t make the same mistakes over and over again.
finally, new and improved upvote buttons for people with fat fingers like me

thank u
Other than driving a mass exodus to Firefox, I don’t see this having any real impact. Unless you own the whole software stack adblock is a game of cat and mouse.

Let’s say worst case scenario google embeds ads into the video itself, and refuses to stream the actual video packets until the length of the ad has elapsed. The repetitive nature of advertising makes if trivial to detect when the served video is an ad and when it’s content. You might be able to make me wait for a video file, but you can’t make me watch an ad. My Firefox extension is gonna replace those advertising frames with a black loading screen and there’s nothing google can do to stop that.
Show HN: ECMAScript Sandbox
I use YouTube infrequently and I still find it worth it. I don't at all mind paying to get rid of ads. But if there is no option to pay, and you try to force ads, I'll choose not using your service instead. An ad-based service is not something I'm interested in.
So? Patreon's taking a cut (but YouTube takes a bigger cut; a quick search indicates 30% vs 8%-12%). I'm fine with YouTube memberships in principle; if a creator that I support said "consider switching your support from Patreon to YouTube", I would. But there's no way I'm signing up for YouTube Premium.
Public facing AND without any sensible auth.
Have you tried deleting your watch history so that the "bad" content srops being suggested to you?
$5000 can do a lot of good in the world. But it’s your property to do what you will with, for sure.
Good job. Nit picking. Have a cookie. No wonder you miss the bigger point in life focusing on irrelevant details
as far as I can tell from the free accessible part:

their analysis seem to only make sense if you assume that Covid magically went away
and/or Covid death are reliably detected even if the person dies at home in a context where "ways through which covid can kill you" happen to also be what they base their analysis on...

but at least personally I know of more cases of more serve Covid last winter then pretty much any time before, not very surprising given that Covid didn't disappear, still mutates but Germany had noticeable less steps to prevent Covid then before

and this are all cases which didn't in anyway decrease their usage of heat (i.e. earned enough to be able to cope with increased heating bills)

so idk. but from the parts which are not behind a paywall this looks like a very questionable analysis, which also happen to fit multiple political agendas very well, surely just coincidence but interesting anyway
This somewhat alludes to a question I have wondered for quite a while. Are there any compelling data that digital advertising even works?

Sure, if one clicks on an ad then immediately buys a product, then perhaps that would be more straightforward. However, I just do not think that is very common, but I could be wrong.

It just seems like there is some kind of false notion that if a company creates ads and the company has an increase in sales, then it must be because of the ads, when in reality, it could be entirely coincidental.

Tangental, but I intentionally boycott products that have annoying ads. I will walk to the ends of the Earth before I use GEICO, for example.
YouTube ads are cancerous. The blowback will be massive for such a thing. Though, I am not sure if Google will listen as there are some real major costs to streaming at the scale YouTube does.
I see your 258 byte svgo version and raise it my 171 byte hand optimized version:

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I've been a subscriber ever since Google Play Music bundled it in, and it's fine. Sorry to hear you're getting bullied, but the paid experience really is rather nice.
Yeah I had the same experience. The point of ChatGPT is that you don't have to learn anything. GPT4 is so good that I can type short words in chatting lingo with typos and it still works. I don't know what people are learning here (other than how freaky good AI got so quickly).
> analyst941 had such a source, and was able to reveal numerous details about iOS 17. That includes a promise of significant changes to the Control Center, the detail that Apple Maps Lock Screen directions could get a new look, a new grid-based user interface for working with Lock Screens, revamped UIs for the Wallet and Health apps, and more.

Oh wow, with such incredible upgrades coming along I’m not surprised they’re cracking down on it. /s

Every so often, the hype is worth protecting. The m-series device releases and the fabled VR headset are the big ones. iPhone remains a good phone, but Apple really hasn’t done anything groundbreaking with it for some time.

Nonetheless, it’s their company policy and the sister got caught red-handed, and by such simple means. I don’t know why analyst941 felt that deleting their account 24 hours after posting the thread was necessary for their safety though.
But in more general view Disney being an international media giant is good for US, isn't it?
Fair enough. Maybe I should have phrased it differently. Still I am glad I asked because it has been elucidated for me.
With you until the last sentence. The high prices for small condos in urban centers are an indication that there are fewer of them in supply relative to what the market demands. There's nothing wrong with letting urban centers densify and serve as a containment zone for childless 20-somethings (in fact, this would mean more affordable single family homes for those that need them). And who knows, if there's enough dense urban housing to meet demand, then those residents could have an easier saving up money themselves, with which to later purchase some more space in which to raise a family
BNW was in March of last year: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03456

Here is my summary of the algorithm from another HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34479148#34481937
Why is it unethical to do things just because a megacorp wrote a one-sided "agreement" not to?
In this future there is no Matt Levine because he can't make a living getting viewers and no replacement.
Agreed - YouTube Family, and all child accounts are covered.

Some of those ads were truly atrocious for a child to watch, especially - if you're in Australia - those for WorkSafe.
It doubles as a Tablet and a Phone and I'm willing to pay Tablet + Phone + Convenience price for it.

A concept not hard to understand.
> Illegally circumventing the Terms of Service is unethical/stealing.

That seems like a difficult argument to make because laws don't always align with ethics. Given the myriad of replies around this topic, it seems like opinions on the ethics of violating the ToS are mixed. It gets even more complicated when you consider that very few people have the time/skills to read/interpret such a complex and lengthy ToS. At what point is a company not morally complicit for taking advantage of the layman's inability to understand such a legal document? It doesn't help that the UI/UX seems to deliberately provide incentive for users to blindly accept.
Better still, an inline SVG fragment is only 151 bytes - and will save 318 bytes of http header:

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