skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use ad blocker a lot. After seeing this title, for a sec I felt frustrated about YouTube but then I realized it is better for me and my family to subscribe YouTube premium… and I just did it.

Long story: We are Chinese family living in US. We listen to both Chinese and English songs. We have both Apple Music and Spotify memberships, but due to copyright, many Chinese songs are not available (sometime this is true for other languages or even English songs, that’s why we have both subscriptions). Since a few years ago, I just found that YouTube has all the songs we love, some are high quality live stage recordings that are even better to listen (kinda surprising since YouTube is blocked in China mainland). So nowadays my family are listening music on YouTube more frequently: we have our own playlists, use YouTube on iPhone Safari with AdGuard so no noisy ads. The problem is we have to keep safari open and can’t use other apps when listening to music. Also jumping in the playlist is painful especially when driving.

Now this HN title just reminds me of YouTube premium that has no ads, supports background playing, and better playlist control. Then I really don’t see a reason to keep Apple Music and Spotify subscriptions which together cost more but still lack of songs we love.

Disclaimer: I work for Google and this represents my personal opinion.
It is open for public repos, so practically free
We can all easily recognize lower IQ-levels. But anything higher than our own is an abstraction and if used against me an insult.

Except in Software Engineering. One day you just realize, that some fucking dude can see the problem and its solution much better and faster. And you realize there is nothing you can do, except fake the comprehension and use fancy words.
You joke, but that code made it through rounds of reviews, and nobody saw anything wrong with having a logging library able to make network requests in the first place.

I honestly don't even blame the developers of Log4J that much, because after all its open source, and nobody is paying them to use it despite the idiocy surrounding shit like that.

I do however blame the developers that use Java, see things like this happen, and then continue to use it with Log4j after the patch like nothing ever happened.
Learn about the Forlinx OK6254-C board and its interfaces, how to boot it, and how to debug it. This board is perfect for getting started with programming embedded Linux.
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Admittedly I'm not the target audience but for me the percentage of decent videos I'd watch on YouTube Vs the amount of shite on there is sub 0.001. If this happen to me I'd just not watch the video. I never going to pay for premium.
it is not the SEC's responsibility to protect accredited investors from taking risks, it's essentially the meaning of the term
I agree but according to their goal of empowering developers with security awareness they should make it more clear that this is a server-side check and that the credentials were exposed in plain text, just not to the general public.

The screenshot says just amend the commit and all's good
In that case, why don't they allow competitors to host their videos?
This is like the old "athletes are too greedy!" as if the alternative is the team owners (well known for being non-greedy?) should keep that money instead.
> via messaging or email. That works beautifully. In neither case is a third party service required

The third party is the mail server and the internet.

It's still ridiculous.
No, a bundled second thing that I won't use is worth $0 and so does not have to be factored in.
It reduces the amount of ads, but isn't ad free
I disagree. No way in hell Dune Part 2 is going to make more than Guardians of the Galaxy 3 this year. Not that I think this is a good thing but I think the public has voted with their dollars and Hollywood is stepping in producing what is selling. I saw around 10-12 films in theaters in 2022 and the only films besides Super Hero/Children's/Video Game related movies I saw were Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick.
I thought Github Copilot was useless until I found out that I have to wait for a few seconds for Copilot to display the autosuggested code.
Legacy AI – ChatGPT app for Mac OS 8-10
For me, once a day it crashes Explorer.exe which promptly restarts by itself and life carries on without harm. Takes one or two seconds to rebuild the taskbar when it happens and it's fun to watch.

No data is lost. No program closes. It just restarts the taskbar process.
That 300ms initialization time sounds like a cache-free execution (aka dev mode). I have symfony projects light on ORM usage (I dislike Doctrine from the bottom of my hearth, but what can you do it's the blessed symfony ORM) and after a cache warmup it handles requests under 100ms.

Yes, the frameworks have obscene (java-like) class dependencies that build up during initialization (I'd prefer if there'd be a lighter function based framework nowadays), however for someone that knows how to manage PHP on the server there are OPCache tweaks, preloading facilities which help improve the request initialization performane (these steps are also expanded on in the symfony docs).

The share-nothing arhitecture of each request is either a benefit or a downside, depending who you ask.
Well there’s YT premium. One transaction per month and you’re set.
But do they store individual IP+UA hashes, or do they mush them together in a bloom filter or a HyperLogLog data structure?

In the first case, it could be argued they still store personally identifiable information (for a limited time, but still). In the second case I think it would be harder to argue the probabilistic data structure with lots of hashes mushed together still constitute personally identifiable information.

> One of the points of the article is that this is non compliant, since you need to transmit the IP+UA to do this calculation to begin with.

IP + UA gets transmitted to the first-party server already. They already have it. The question becomes – is it OK to anonymize this PII we already received for one purpose (serving the web page), to use it for another purpose also (counting unique visitors).
This never made any sense to me, aren't you just guaranteeing that the most marketable employees will leave and those that are coasting will stay put?
You've identified a lot of complexity. But the answer is not to throw up your hands and declare everything equally unknowable, it's to do the hard work to figure out what's actually going on. That's not something we can do behind our keyboards right now, that doesn't mean their isn't a correct, knowable answer.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google in fact did little to no market research. At least Stadia (RIP) didn't seem like an idea that was properly researched.
You didn't say anything.
Absolutely. But because they think they’re great and others are average, they still glom together.
Austin was described to me as four quadrants, divided by a giant highway system east-west and north-south. You could walk in a quadrant, but have to take a car to cross into a different one as it is all non-contiguous
I would recommend this book https://en.algorithmica.org/.

My opinion on things is that cache-oblivious programming is dead end and the constant factors by which cache-aware algorithms win are significant and worth taking.
Carbon Based Lifeforms anyone? Solar Fields?
Solar Fields did soundtrack for Mirror's Edge for example.
So many good composers doing electro/synth instrumentals nowadays but aren't mainstream, which might be good thing
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Its probably only the 8k model that runs on 2
> Focusing on EQ as a society, would mean that individuals would get better at understanding the said manipulations.

No, it wouldn’t, just as valuing IQ doesn’t mean people get more intelligent.

Society valuing innate traits doesn’t particularly make them more common (indeed, in a society were material success is inversely correlated with fertility, it may do the opposite); what it does is it gives the people with those traits more power and privilege.
I don't need youtube music and am lucky enough to have youtube premium lite available at 6€. That just eliminates ads for half the price.
> also maybe lindsey stirling counts?

She does, and was the first instrumentalist that came to mind shortly followed by Yo-Yo Ma, and various classical guitarists like Pepe Romero (I'm not sure I have a personal "favorite" per-se).
there are rumors Samsung might announce a trifold this fall, who knows if they're true
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May be a weird takeaway, but I did find it strange how much the whole report focussed on misgendering as a safety issue.

I agree it’s important to get right, but it seems like one of hundreds of safety/alignment issues and that many others are de-emphasised or ignored.
There's a really simple reason for this - HN/Reddit is not one person. It consists of multiple people with different opinions, and as such, there is no singular opinion to be found.
https://archive.ph/IeUtF
What "computer science terms" did you encounter, that you did not understand? I also do not have a CS degree, but every term that I've encountered in the Laravel docs I found easy to search for. Just don't rely on Wikipedia for explanations, for CS (and mathematics) subjects Wikipedia seems to be useful only to those already versed in the field.
I agree with every checkmark except for Go.

PHP was the right tool at the time especially when everything on the web was somewhat Wordpress first. PHP felt like a blast with WAMP/LAMP.

Since then I have moved on and honestly it never occurred to me, that PHP still could be an option in my tech stacks, neither one of my devs recommended it.

No one hates or disliked PHP, there are simply other options.

Looking back, recommending PHP today feels like "You can do this with jQuery, too" in the Frontend domain. Yes, you can, but maybe you shouldn't or only if you have the right people. And PHP is a rare skill now.
I see the problem.

Nobody refers to it as "cop fiction". Its "mystery, thrillers" or "crime fiction". if you really needed to crowbar an investigator into it it would be a "detective novel" etc
This could easily be fixed by paying the creators a much larger per view fee whenever a premium user watched their content. 1cent per view is 10$/cpm, that is 3-6 times more than what ads pay and would strongly incentivise creators to encourage subscribers go premium and create premium-only content for them. Now you can't do that because premium is a ghost-town and you lose ad revenue, but if, say 25% of users are premium then it starts to make financial sense.

Your suggestion to cut the price is unlikely to strongly increase premium subscriptions, YouTube has probably already set it to a revenue maximizing value.
Not when everything is held together by a non-local glue - which I assume is what your parent comment meant with the parenthesis.
They unironically don't build them like they used. A house built and standing in 2003 is likely on good structural foundation.
According to [0], the "360 Performance Savings" is at 3.75% now.

[0] https://www.capitalone.com/bank/open-an-account/
> Most people hate to write as much as they hate math. Way more than admit it

I fucking love writing. Most people I know also fucking love writing, and I do mean love. Some do it for pleasure, some do it as a career, others do it as a means to an end in their career, and they haven't found value in LLMs.

There's writing and writing. If all you're doing is rewording what someone else has already done like a high school essay or a competing product description for what's essentially the same product? An LLM will probably suffice. Original and novel? Human beings all the way.

LLMs highlight that a lot of "knowledge work" is intrinsically bullshit, i.e., a high school essay doesn't actually assess somebody's understanding of a topic, just their ability to hit specific keywords and points, hence even essay mills can churn out an "original" essay for a kid if they're too xyz to do it themselves.

Whilst I don't care for LLMs, I do support a huge shakeup of the existing educational assessment paradigm as it is self-evidently not fit for purpose, IMO.
Without performance penalties? If the model is larger than the vram you have to constantly be pulling data from disk/ram right?
> it's reasonable for the OP to note that if they were to invest in that deal, then someone must be breaking the law.

it would be much more reasonable for OP to note that they don't have a clue if anybody would be breaking the law

Your teenaged kid takes your car without you knowing and kills somebody in a car accident. Drunk. On your alcohol. Did they steal it? What's your liability? Do you need to talk to a lawyer, or is it reasonable for OP to give you his opinion?
Huh, I have the opposite reaction. One of Dart's biggest problems is that many people have the impression that Google doesn't take it seriously internally and will abandon it soon. Posting on an external site (weakly) corroborates that.

I associate Medium with small corporations and individuals with an ever-so-slightly scammy hustler vibe, not big corps.
I had to look up “Now Valley” because I wondered if it’s where arrested development got “Sudden Valley,” but alas I assume it was a typo of an area named Noe Valley
Agreed but if talking about default file managers, its even worse on ubuntu. Nautilus is imo very bad compared to win file manager (hitting a key starts a global search in that folder, it crashes very often etc.). Does anyone know if they plan anything with it?
I’d love to know what silence is like.
The documentation for Laravel is still unreadable.

Guess that is why selling Laravel tutorials seems to be a fruitful business.
The abstract is clear and readable. It also seems to signal, overwhelmingly, "MEAT GOOD". And the problem here, is that I cannot trust it. Not because I disagree, but because any study involving food feels so heavily lobbied, and so chock full of vested interests vying for a headline. (Red wine is good for the heart! Grass feed meat prevents cancer! Beef is terrible for the environment). It is sadly weaponized science for mass consumption.

As a lay person , my eyes glaze over. Is sugar alright for me in moderation? Or am I poisoning myself? Should I stop eating meat because I want to preserve our environment, or as this study says, will I deprive myself of B12?

How does one know who to believe? It seems easier to just check out and kinda guess through it on ones own.
Right, so your statement “no, everyone who takes amphetamines experiences a state of calmness” is incorrect.
I just had an interview candidate come up with questions to ask us about the company.

It sounded formulaic and when I queried it, they said they used ChatGPT.

I’m not disappointed, but I’m now wondering how much thinking was left to AI than being genuinely inquisitive.
I looked it up.
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uapt-get – user mode apt-get
Python's slice/range semantics never occured to be really weird to me because half-open intervals [x,y) are widely used in measure theory textbooks.
Being even somewhat conversant in some of the more popular protocols is also like a superpower that the newbs don't really have, too. The ability to use telnet or nc to answer the question "aside from any other piece at any level in the stack that could be going wrong, can I even talk to the HTTP server" helps you eliminate a lot of possibilities about what's going on when troubleshooting something.
You're doing something terribly wrong. Sounds like caching isn't setup and your http -> php handler is cold booting the interpreter for every single request.

Check these Go vs. PHP benchmarks. PHP is quite fast and stands up nicely to the performance you get out of Go.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&l=z...
> when you're woken up at 3am to find a bug in production `arr.reject(&:even?)` is the last thing you want to see.

Really? Because even if you're seeing it for the very first time, it means exactly what you'd think it means. The only thing that's even potentially sort of tricky or non-obvious is the ampersand. And there's nothing implicit or ambiguous in the expression, either.
I’ve written PHP apps that process millions of entities without issue at my old job. We didn’t use an ORM or anything magic. At my current job, using an ORM, my code has twice as much memory yet I can only load a few thousand entities before OOMing.

If you’re willing to give up magic, it’s worth it.
I have YouTube Premium, it comes with YouTube music; I am perfectly happy paying for that as I consolidate music streaming with ad-free watching in my bed.

It replaced apple music and spotify for me; plus it gives me access to all sorts of music that is only released there as videos.

If I ever have to watch youtube with ads, I am going to just not YT at all.
It just says "Bard", even if I click on "Details". Are you, perhaps, using some kind of internal preview?
You don't get XSS protection out the box from any language's standard library, nor CSRF.
An astounding amount of rare details which ends pretty much when the net began!! Will enjoy digging in,thanks!
How impressed or unimpressed you are by it is a direct reflection of yourself and what you are trying to achieve with it. I find zero value in it. Others are very impressed by it, but I'm not very impressed by what they hold up as an example of its output. Sometimes I can only laugh when it's horribly wrong, but they herald it as amazing.

The whole thing reminds me of the blockchain hype train. Still using and loving databases here for the foreseeable—still writing things by hand for the foreseeable, and loving every moment.
I’m not defending PHP necessarily, but yes, obviously a language that’s more performance oriented will be better at performance-oriented tasks.
* but rather that interacting with it is changing how we think, or, indeed, what we think*

That's simply the world moving forward. You might assume that a house is a smoky place before folks invented the chimney. Horses were important before mechanical transportation got off the ground. Belief in humors has dwindled since germ theory proved to be successful. Reading and non-religious texts being easily available introduced ideas folks might not have had on their own. The camera caused folks to reconsider what art is and allowed for impressionism, abstract art, and more.

Tech and advancement changes the way we think and what we think, and it shouldn't be surprising.
Yes, legal hobbyists are allowed to disagree with Supreme Court decisions.

That doesn’t mean they are right, in fact it almost certainly means they are wrong.

So yes, in America you’re allowed to be wrong.
I don't know about other people, but it helps my thinking process to write things in stupid Jira tickets, spec documents, etc. also. It forces me to combat edge cases that I didn't think about until I had to spell them out. Not always, of course, but perhaps often enough that it's worth it to know how to.

Even formulaic messages and emails can be useful, because when what I want to write doesn't plug in neatly into the formula that sometimes means something.

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As a very concrete, though small, example: I have found that almost always when I use the word "empower" in any of its shapes I'm making a mistake (either taking a lazy shortcut in writing, or an actual cognitive mistake), yet I only notice it as I'm putting the symbols for it down.
Anti-piracy folks love to use bullshit loaded terms (such as "piracy" itself) to justify some megacorporation taking over shit on my computer. Adblocking is now "cheating"?`
Tablets are great in bed.
I like to read comics and I’m too lazy to bring tablet with me. I am thinking about buying foldable.

That said, not at this price point and with Pixels not known for their hardware quality. Maybe I’ll wait for when Apple inevitably does their foldable.
I've always told my coworkers and friends that the programming language doesn't matter at all (despite I don't think there's anything wrong or worse than alternatives in modern PHP). What matters is the frameworks, libraries, ecosystem, editor support, available talent, culture around it, etc. And PHP (and the Laravel ecosystem) is rock solid in that area, the best by far. I'm a frontend dev at a pretty big company, but before this I worked on a Laravel + TurboLaravel (Hotwire, etc) and it's just incredible how easy and quick it was to build and maintain things.
This has nothing to do with IQ. IQ itself means nothing other than you manage to score higher on an IQ test relative to others who take the same test. The problem is (and as the article points out) that this doesn't actually measure anything about your intelligence or problem solving abilities.

It's in a sense the same way getting As in college tells you that they are a good student, but only correlates with other factors. Einstein was a B+ student in college but obviously wasn't a B+ physicist.
I’ve seen some people use Glitch for experimental web projects.

https://glitch.com/
It makes sense that application developers focus on getting an application to work. In the case of these newfangled “Web applications”, that would be focussing on getting HTML to render in the user's browser. That focus doesn't have to have anything to do with an arbitrary split into “frontend and backend”.
Eggdrop IRC bot, there's a blast from the past. I bet he has some incredible stories of his own from early Internet days.

Thanks for Redis and all your other contributions.
Huh, odd. Not sure why you'd want to region-limit that(?)
It's called Illiberal Democracy.

In political science Liberal/Illiberal doesn't mean socially Progressive/Conservative, it means Open/Restricted from a civil liberties standpoint.

This is why you can have right leaning Illiberal Democracies like Turkïye, Serbia, and Hungary as well as left leaning Illiberal Democracies like Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico, and also why you can have conservative leaning liberal democracies like South Korea, Denmark, or Japan and progressive leaning liberal democracies like Canada, Norway, or New Zealand.
Puter Alpha
When you turn the handle on a mechanical computer and get an output, has the computer gained the ability to understand maths or think? No.

When you give the LLM an input and you get an output, has it gained the ability to understand or think? No.
0% interest for the life of the loan is something you should use for all but the most trivial of purchases. It's effectively reducing the price of the product by several percent, since you'll be paying for it with inflated dollars as time goes on. And that's even if you don't do anything with the money but stick it under your mattress. Could also put part of it into some short-term CDs or T-bills (interest rates are great right now) and put that loaned money to work for you. Hell, you can even get north of 3% interest with some savings accounts now.

I'm probably in the market for a new phone this year, and I'd absolutely do the 0% 24-month financing even for a "normal" priced phone. I get that some people are debt-averse, and I understand why, but if you can afford to pay for this phone outright, shying away from the financing plan is irrational.