skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not handed to you for free, there's an implicit condition that you watch the content and the ads that are served with it.

No, there isn't. The web was designed from the beginning to allow the end user to have control over what content is and is not displayed. It isn't television, radio or magazines, the platform owner doesn't have complete control over the layout and display of the content they serve. There is no condition, implicit or otherwise, that the end user will pretend they're consuming an old media product just because web platforms can't move beyond old media models of revenue.

None of which require viewing, reading or listening to the ads, either. Ads have always been a gentleman's agreement.

>Too many people don't do that and that's why YouTube is now testing blocking ad-blockers. You reap what you sow.

No, Youtube is going to reap what it sowed, because no one is going to turn off their ad blockers. If their platform was worth paying for, everyone would have moved to the paid tier by now. Google bought a free video service and tried and failed to monetize it to the point of nearly ruining it for content creators with their puritanical rules, arbitrary demonitization, opaque to nonexistent support and restrictive algorithm, but no matter how much they squeeze the turnip, it won't bleed enough for them.

That's not our problem. We'll gladly support content creators directly through Patreon or other means, but Google can get fucked.
It's not really a meme when you read more of history. It becomes much more of a theme than a meme.
Ah yes, OPEC, that organization that is poor and enjoys no power whatsoever.
His analysis was within the context of social media driving polarization, so why would you expect it to look at the Jim Crow era? It seems like you’re starting with a conclusion and working backwards.
I'm fairly sure jms has stated on quite a few occasions that Babylon 5 had very little network interference and could mostly do what they wanted. There were a few exceptions, but they're fairly minor.
The streaming wars are over, and it’s time for media to figure out what’s next
What kind of publication uses Jake Shields as a source for anything?
Everyone uses an adblocker. It's not really circumvention if everyone is doing it. You know it, I know it, Google knows it. It's how they've been able to keep their YouTube monopoly intact. If everyone had ads from day one, YouTube would be another failed Google venture. The bait-and-switch is built on the idea that they can serve ads to people that will tolerate them and enjoy the network effects of having tech-literate people on board too.

YouTube is living counterfactually. I can live counterfactually, too. If YouTube were never free, then I would have never used it. They're trying to have it both ways, and so am I.
> as it turns out, buyers of small cars in the US are really, really price-sensitive.

Unless it has a particular popular feature people (at least some segment of the population) are willing to buy for (hybrids, when they were newer, for instance), yes, because Americans mostly don’t want small cars, they settle for small cars if the price is compelling.
> don't understand how a giant company like Google hasn't figured out global availability of a service like this

Running a user-generated content business has become exponentially more complicated in the last decade. Compliance and moderation is hard. It's also difficult to scale across jurisdictions.
Vercel is great, the setup is easy and overall dev workflow is very nice. And maybe the best thing about Vercel is its dev team is very active in terms of pushing features and reaching the public.

However, I agree with what you said that it does "charge a significant premium". I've switched to cloudflare for a recent project and been happy with it. Right now for me, if it's work-related and company has the resources and finance, go with vercel. For personal projects & freelancer work, stick to cloudflare.
Question, how do content creators get paid if the platform has no ads? I thought they get paid when I watch an ad, and even more if I engage with those ads? In fact, I maliciously (is this the right word) clicked on scam ads (youtube sends me lots of those).

And is it really worth 4x its price? I mean its just ads getting removed. I can tolerate ads easily.
“I just don't understand who wants…”

I’ve heard so many people make this comment about a variety of things.

I recommend paying closer attention and learning.

The best response is to let people figure out for themselves what they don’t get.
Is the CEO some sacred object that should be treated differently than any other part of the org? Just because there are a handful of C-level execs, they deserve 20,000% bonuses while the rest of the org skimps?

It’s about equality, attributing it to ‘envy’ reeks of entitlement.
"Privileged" is an insult (in popular culture) and if you claim otherwise you are being disingenuous or you are very badly out of touch. (Or you're saying "well I didn't mean it to be an insult" and yeah sure you're very smart.)
So I guess your objection is that "lapsed" doesn't convey sufficient intentionality?
From my experience living in a different city, the legitimate complaints about it from people who actually live there tend to be specific, like "the 34 has been skipping routes this month and the park by the Firehouse Subs is still closed for construction."

Whereas the complaints that come from outsiders are vague culture war talking points that transparently originate from fear/outrage media. Vague and generic driveby comments about how it's wholly unsafe and going to hell.

The cities I've lived in or visited frequently, the locals who aren't looking for trouble feel safe and don't find it difficult or burdensome to avoid unsafe areas/behaviors.
I'm tempted to get a Pixel phone just because it seems well-supported by LineageOS, which should eliminate the ad-pushing issue.
Hah, remember cable?
You mean when they filled out a form to incorporate their non-profit. Which they later turned into a for-profit company after reaping all the goodwill. The “Open” used to mean something.
It doesn't need to be valid XML if you embed it in the HTML, which was their point.
I was re-reading your 'CRDTs-go-brr' blog post just today! Recently prototyping a major collaborative feature based on Automerge, and am discovering some of its performance limits on our largest data samples (25+ MB of JSON). Very very interested in JSON-like CRDTs and any progress in that area. It's a different hard problem to rich text editing, but has similarly large potential.
Sure. He gets a fat bonus because the stock is up. You still aren’t explaining why this doesn’t apply to the rest of the workers.
I have yet to meet someone with ADHD who enjoys the medication. In fact, most folks I know with ADHD are often trying to avoid taking them.

It’s a pretty meaningful, objective difference actually between ‘normals’ and folks with ADHD.

The neurochemistry is different for them, objectively and visibly so.
> I just don't think it's right to have to pay.

So you don't want to watch ads and don't want to pay for premium. What do you propose Youtube should do to make money to run the platform?
This basically came down to being “allowed” after Google announced that they would not penalize content simply because it was fully or partially synthetic. What they say matters is how helpful that content is. Whether or not synthetic = spam is probably a longer discussion.
> Applied more generally, it quickly turns a bunch of statistics [published in popular magazines] into nonsense.

Well done! Remember that.
Shareholders care more about profits and than people. Coops and nationalized companies do just fine at caring about people.
AT&T had wireless microwave towers for phones and tv, so I imagine there was a period near the end if its life where some dial-up connections weren't physically connected:

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vintage-skynet-atts-a...
Chances are, if you’re worried about it that way, you aren’t.
You are not their target TBH, it is just a trade-off.
yes, big arrays (symmetrix, shark) have battery backed everything - enough to take all the cache and dump it to disk when power is lost. terabytes of RAM. they also often use use a flash cache behind the RAM - that was the primary use for Optane. The reason for this, is sustained writes instead of peaks. If you let more and more sit in cache, eventually you have write folding. That results in less write IO on the backend, and you're able to have a higher sustained peak.

smaller cheaper arrays (unity, pure, isilon) and HCI (nutanix, vxrail) that don't have terabytes of RAM - they have gigabytes, and pretty much always use flash as a write cache. In fact, I cannot name one that doesn't.

No one in enterprise storage cares about the indurance of flash. All that means is that twice a year, a vendor engineer comes out to replace a few flash drives under your support contract.

And flash has been used as a write cache behind a smaller RAM cache, for two decades, by all major storage vendors.
Nice, glad to hear you're working on it. I think for the specific use-case I mentioned something like solution 1 would be better, since some of these things I want to reply to immediately so I need to consume immediately.
Yeah I hear you. I've still never found a good way to implement schema validation rules like "this list cannot have more than 10 items" on top of a CRDT. Eventually consistent collaborative editing systems (like CRDTs and OT based systems) are optimistic. They allow any edits, and then later merge things if necessary. But if you only find out the list has 11 elements at the merging step, what do you do? Its too late to reject either of the inserts which put you in that state.

My best answer at the moment is to tell people to rethink validation rules like that. I can't think of a lot of good use cases for collaborative editing where a "length <= 10" rule is something you want.

Unfortunately, validation rules are really important for referential integrity. If you add a reference to some item in a data set and I concurrently delete that item, what should happen? Does the delete get undone? Does the reference get removed? Is the reference just invalid now? Should references only be to an item at some point in time? (Eg like a git SHA rather than a path)? Maybe optimistic systems just can't have referential integrity? Its an uncomfortable problem.
Do you have any examples of free services that added ads to their premium subscription?
>public companies like Costco and Target who prioritize employees and company longevity do exist.

I spent a few years working at Target and a few at a Walmart. I'd take the Walmart every day of the week, though of course some of this is the particular people in charge at the store level, etc. I found Target to treat its employees pretty terribly in comparison.
What cap one account do you have? Mine nets a whopping 0.3% APY
If I were to allow all ads but make it a rule to never actually watch them or heaven forbid, buy anything in them, would that be ok? I'm sure it would be ok with the content provider, because then they get their money and that's all that counts.

If I can't watch it without ads, I simply won't watch it. And I certainly won't pay for it if it still includes ads.
My lesbian ‘husband’ who is considerably more masc-presenting than I, loves this.

I’m finally almost sold on the concept of a MacBook Air, now that the performance vs. cost factor is there. I never used to see weight or size as a huge factor in hardware but I sure as hell do now.
If a raise was a gamble in either direction then sure. There are numerous aspects that could drive MSFT lower, its trading near 45% higher than January, presumably based on ChatGPT, if that enthusiasm pops you'll see a dive.
Yeah, this. Some years ago we started a new product. We just kept plugging names into a name registrar until one we liked was com-available. We paid the princely sum of $15 or something.

So i guess if nothing else we saved a few bucks there :)

Names are like ideas, there are plenty of them and you can basically just keep discarding the bad ones until a hood one comes along.
Just don't use it for baking. It often seems to skip steps, even when summarizing existing recipes.
I've never seen "productivity" tied to compensation. Those with connections and the ability to self-promote receive the most pay. Those who don't understand this focus on being "productive" to help improve their boss' bottom line at their own expense.

If you like to excel, the best choice is to preserve your energy as much as possible while working for your employer and build something amazing that you own with the energy that otherwise would have been given to them.
There are plenty of people who don't use a (desktop/laptop) computer outside of their jobs. If you're on HN, you're probably not one of them, so it can be difficult to imagine their behaviours.

For example, in Japan, 36.6% of teenagers say they don't use PC at home [1]. It's also a country where people read a lot of comics. Now these foldable screens make more sense, right.

[1]: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/byline/fuwaraizo/20201021-00203217
> "thin clients" (with local storage they look like small PCs to me)

That's what modern thin clients mostly are. Small pcs, preconfigured to run remotedesktop and similar. Like a lot of enterprise gear, they often get surplused for cheap though, and if the hardware meets your needs and the price is right...
From my experience: yes, all the time.

Also don't work in insurance, it can be real depressing.
> People go to war when told to do so by their superiors.

They absolutely do not if they want to be considered of good moral character.
So YT is too greedy and shows you a lot of ads and loses trust, but if they were to play it cool and stop showing ads you’d sign up for premium?
Huh?

"In the western world, crime fiction – mystery, thrillers, suspense, whodunnits, etc. – makes up somewhere between 25 and 40 percent of all fiction book sales."

Famous figures in cop novel fiction include:

Alex Cross (from author James Patterson, huge best sellers and several Hollywood movies made).

Harry Bosch (Michael Connelly), over 20 best selling books and a TV series.

Harry Hole (fictional cop) by Joe Nesbo, "More than 3 million copies of his novels had been sold in Norway as of March 2014; his work has been translated into over 50 languages, and by 2021 had sold some 50 million copies worldwide, making him the most successful Norwegian author of all time" - and a movie made with Fassbender as Hole.

"In death" series, following policewoman Eve Dallas. dozens of books, estimated hundreds of millions books sold (seems a lot, but it's mentioned here: https://wordsrated.com/nora-roberts-statistics/ huge sales either way, including best-selling Kindle author)

Jack Reacher by Lee Child (not a street cop, but ex-US Army Military Police investigator), huge sales, several movies.

and many other series, including hugely popular non-english authors and their star cops like Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Commissioner Erlendur Sveinsson, Inspector Emilio Rico, Commissioner Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, and at least 2-3 very popular series in every country (translated and sold internationally). Even the Chinese have their star cops (e.g. Chief Inspector Chen Cao).

https://wordsrated.com/thriller-book-sales-stats/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/apr/12/myst....
Twitter launches encrypted DMs behind a paywall
Guy has genuinely ruined his and his siters's life over some stupid little details about some phone operating system, was it worth it? I really don't understand the people who regular these 10 different apple-centric forums, either readers/posters. Who cares about tiny design changes or a different bevel? Go for a walk, start a family.
You realize that the stock could've been bought with or without the raise?

Buying stock does not magically eliminate the need for a raise.
People would buy two cups of boba tea, other than paying 12 per month.

Ain't nothing wrong with this, once it went free, it is hard to go back.
Surely the bosses in the finance world are totally unaware of the massive cocaine use, right?
Fair enough. It's YouTube's servers and GPU cycles and that's why they're blocking you.
Assuming you can get your loving sibling to purger themselves for you.
Wealthfront Cash account is 4.55% at the moment
It's called "Tailwind CSS".
Thanks! I always like nice compliments thank you :) It's big picture the same, I think, but misses some details. For example:

"presenting aliens as a priest class with ultimate control over Earth's power structures." I actually was talking about the (government / corporate special access programs / counterintelligence disclosure narratives) being the "priest class" gatekeeping the technology for everyone else, and how these "disclosure narratives" center them as (the source of confirming authentic information), it reinforces the (power dynamic / dependency) of populations toward the existing power structure (government corporate).

It also elided a lot of examples and details, but mostly captured it well I think, tho haven't gone over it in super detail.

Certainly much shorter and I think maybe cleaner than the original transcript (which I post for you here) but it loses the voice: https://pastebin.com/da726iQd

I actually don't know a good prompt to feed something long into it piece by piece and have it spit out a great, shortened, organized essay, but I'm sure something will emerge eventually.
50%ish of employees get off PIPs successfully (or used to anyways).
Yeah, I can see that. Fair enough!
> Hot take: SEO is dead, content farms are done, almost no one will leave Google/Bing to read more than what it generates.

I disagree. What incentive does a website have to produce content if it receives no traffic? Website owners want control over their traffic and the data too. They will wall off any search engine that doesn't give them anything in return (basically they're scrapers at that point). The search engines that do this will starve themselves of information they need to stay relevant and the first search engine to play fair continuing to share traffic will get an advantage.

More likely, Google and Bing will continue to play fair and send traffic. Perhaps AI features will become browser features instead, complementing websites, not replacing them.
`openssl s_client` is underused, and it's not as clunky since they added support for host:port syntax over separate args. Encouraging thinking of that as the modern replacement would help.
> Let me know if you want to compare notes.

Love to. Hit me up if you like - my email address is in my profile.

I'm sometimes bad at responding to email because I'm hyperfocusing or something and falling behind on email. Sorry in advance if that happens.
Two sets of eyes is ideal.

Making use of things like GitHub CODEOWNERS files can be very useful too, allowing for certain directories to require reviews from certain individuals or user groups. For example, a directory containing the Helm Chart for a service might require a review from someone in the infrastructure team.
Google does cache YouTube content in ISP data centers using GGC (Google Global Cache) servers. Their docs says the majority of GGC traffic is cacheable YouTube content.

https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en

https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/7658599?hl=en
oh! I should've checked my os was up to date before doubting you. finally I'll do the update I've been avoiding.
It’s bad. More and more people I know, including me, have been victims of crime. A year ago, it was mostly property crime. But more recently (last 6 months) things have escalated. People have been robbed at gunpoint in their own homes in supposedly safe neighborhoods of the city. More people are considering moving away after that.
> When you’re an executive of a publicly traded company, coordinating with other executives at publicly traded companies like this can be illegal.

It being illegal doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Or even it doesn't happen a ton.
oh, wow, ok. 19...

I went to university and didn't get out until mid-1980s. We're the same age.

About 5 years ago, I did work in a tech company startup with 21 and 22 years old. On my side it was just fine. Don't know what they thought, but it worked out ok for me.
Buybacks are actually better for employees with unvested grants. If you have 100k in unvested stock and a dividend is issued, you get nothing. But an equivalent buyback raises the price and now you vest a higher amount.
Vanced still works for me, but I've got newpipe, libretube, skytube as alternatives ;)
Just wanted you to know that I read this comment and I get those feelings too. We as a society need to take better care of each other, using whatever technology and infrastructure we have access to. That should definitely include AI.
Yes, that is a decision based on the idea that the actual text of the constitution can be ignored - the literal first two phrases of the original text: "“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, ...".

The SCOTUS has now clearly shown that such precedents are not binding, leaving the door open for a decision that does account for the actual text of the constitution's Bill Of Rights.

And again, even with that Heller decision, and with many other posts, not a single respondent has shown a single proposed law by even the most liberal state representative that would infringe on a right of a sane, competent, and responsible person to keep and bear arms.

And if we are going to say that there is no restriction, then why isn't anyone arguing that we should be allowed to have .50cal machine guns, rocket launchers, or nukes? These are simply armaments with different rates and power, so why should the state restrict those? Hell, it's perfectly OK under the law for someone to walk into a theater or shopping mall and mow down dozens of people, why shouldn't they be able to just blow up the mall or nuke the city (provided they have the funds to buy the armaments)? That's half in jest, whole in earnest.
jesus, the download process for this in insane. you have to enter your email to get a link, and then click another button which then sends you a magic link to login.

wtf folks :/
I don't think they said that.

They said that as an employee you can buy the stock and see yourself a slight raise in that regard. If an internal raise isn't on the cards.
That thread went really well. Whoever said it went badly was way off. Fantastic work.
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken

- Bertrand Russell
I like the Column Generation idea. Not a big fan of SA and LNS as you often can't really tell the relative quality of the solutions. I've often pushed for a different, simpler model form when the larger model isn't solvable in the usual ways. Running out of memory in CPLEX or Gurobi is a sign you need to reformulate more than anything else. Of course, that requires having people capable of formulating and evaluating math programming formulations. Turns out there aren't so many of those. Surprised me at first, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The real trick in optimization is coming up with the right formulation.
Like Angela Merkel?

Also, didn't Trump get laughed at by many of his European counterparts when he advised them at the UN that it was against their best interests to go all in on Russian energy.
> They would do things like screw up an order and then send the replacement free of charge, even for $300 parts.

This is supposed to be impressive? What would be impressive would be not screwing up the order in the first place.
Adderall doesn’t cause burnout, that happens just fine on its own.

Shitty environments and lack of reasonable workloads cause burnout.

Adderall can help someone keep going in a shitty environment with an unreasonable workload longer than they otherwise would though.

It can also help them escape successfully when they’d otherwise be unable.