skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1, I will pay for the removal of the adds but I couldn't care about YouTube TV or music. The price already feels too high but it's the one I don't rotate through compared to Netflix/Disney/Hulu/HBO which I watch a show then cancel.
I mean, they were honestly fairly typical interviews, just a few pretty tough CS problems.

In one I remember one problem asked me to implement a hashmap, which wasn’t too hard, and then the second one had to do with some sort of latency prediction thing, where cleanups had to be done after certain numbers of milliseconds. I am afraid I cannot remember the details, but I remember that the second problem was quite difficult.

I suspect I could do much better now (or at least I hope I would), but I have not interviewed for them in like five years.
There’s also a bit of a big fish in a small pond that can happen - a normal target employee may very well be an absolutely top tier Walmart employee - and being too tier is always nice.
It absolutely does not cost them to retain you. That’s a joke. The current model completely offsets the number of users with ad-blockers by such a margin it’s silly we’re even talking about it.

The only reason we are talking about it is because shareholders want the money printer to go brrrrrr. YouTube IS profitable. Can we stop pretending one of the richest companies in the world needs me to stop blocking their ads for any reason other than greed?

And that principle is what most people balking here have a problem with.
I was in one of these. We got equity and benefits, but we were explicitly exempted from normal bureaucracy. Our exec sponsor (and nominal manager) asked that we tell him before we launched or signed a big customer, and that was about it. Otherwise, we could do whatever we wanted with basically no oversight.

I'm pretty sure we could have gotten away with spending most of our time playing video games on the company's dime, if we had wanted. We probably would have been fired once someone found out, but that's pretty universal.
As someone who grew up in Austin, it was never walkable at any meaningful scale.
I've said it before and I've said it again: ad-based content and pay content are incompatible business models. YouTube Premium fails because the content isn't worth paying for. The content is not worth paying for because it's been designed from the ground up to sell ads.

When a website designed to sell ads fails to sell content, that's not evidence that selling content doesn't work, it's evidence that selling content designed to sell ads doesn't work.
I think it's more nuanced than that. Personally I love/hate YouTube:

Love:

* Most of my favorite creators are there

* Ahh, that's it.

Hate:

* Seems to have no actual humans working there, or no way to reach them in the event of disputes. If someone posting to HN about their business locked out of their account is the best way to get support, there's a problem.

* Keeps getting better and better at..... pushing extremist content and crypto scams.

* Removes tools (like dislike counts) that helped users spot bad content.

* Charges $23/mo for premium which bundles a bunch of stuff I don't give a rat's ass about (youtube music? no thank you!), in addition to just removing ads. (That's only $2 less than I pay for my cable modem, like, seriously ridiculous territory.)

* Doesn't disclose how much of that subscription actually ends up in creators' pockets.

If they solved those last two issues, would I sign up? Ahh, no. They're still a net negative.

I'd much rather try to drag my favorite creators into posting elsewhere. I've signed up for Nebula and I support roughly two dozen creators on Patreon and similar tipjar/support systems. I'm trying to put my money where my mouth is, because IMO YouTube is circling the drain and getting desperate, and the sooner we develop viable alternatives, the better.

So, no, there's nothing YouTube (and their parent corporation DoubleClick wearing a Google mask) can do at this point would make me cut them a check. I'm working as hard as I reasonably can to make them obsolete.
They're paid with the subscription money based on how many members watch!
If you only watch a small number of videos or don't mind ads then it might not be worth 4x for you. However I personally find advertising deeply disturbing and am willing to do whatever it takes to be free of it.
College Board's Bluebook app crashes, loses data
My son took the AP English exam today. Out of 217 students, Bluebook completely lost the data for 31 students. They now have to retake the exam, ironically, in an actual paper bluebook using pencils. Why doesn't Bluebook have local storage of data for these situations?
Engineer Gets 6 Years After Saying His Theft Made Ubiquiti Safer
Peer to peer using automated torrenting for video distribution of copyrighted media libraries has been reinvented and worked 3 separate times over the last decade (popcorntime, etc). It just doesn't work in the sense that as soon as it works and becomes popular it's attacked legally until it stops existing.

The problem is legal not technical.
If I understand you correctly 'aligned' means intentionally limited. Like images generator which never saw a naked body. Or text model without 'f-k you' words. They can be used for concept. But not for 'production'. Which I'm sure in some cases they will be used for, without full disclosure. Can be used for personal projects, nobody wants 'limited edition'.

As for evil AGI, I would worry more about someone uncontrollable, state or cartel, with resources. What do you do when they get it? When it becomes cheap and available on black market? Personally I think a lot will happen _before_ we get to supper-human level. It's not just one trick or lucky discovery. Sub-human will be a big thing by itself. It's not here yet...
> And when it's out, it's more productive to have a separate tablet and phone, than just one device that's trying to do it all.

Not convinced. Having to move back and forth between two devices is a pain. Just like how a powerful laptop with a docking station is much nicer than a cheap laptop and a desktop, even if the former costs more.
Youtube is my living, Premium pays out a LOT more than ads do per view. It might be nearly 3X for me. So a Premium subscription definitely helps out the creators, a lot more than even watching ads.
>So it is with any technological innovation. Should computers not have been invented because they eliminated jobs? Should steel? What about agriculture? The future is sure to be different, but that doesn't mean we should fight to deny progress. That way lies the Luddite and Conservative. It's only possible to use new tools for good, not try to erase them to prevent evil.

It's not even necessarily evil, right? It's more likely just one big "whoops, majority of us didn't see that coming, and/or didn't agree with those who said it was". But that whoops lands you in a position that you may not be able to recover from.

Ben Geortzal makes your exact argument here: https://youtu.be/MVWzwIg4Adw?t=2795 and in the same interview he is talking about how his company already spent time and money on building decentralized infrastructure for it to run on "so that no one person can turn it off and stop the singularity" and gives his take that the takeoff is likely to be on the order of years and that it's going to be very rough.

So, he at least seems to acknowledge that it's very risky, and that we have no idea what we're actually walking into, but he also just doesn't seem to care if that happens to be a one-way door we walk through and find a big "oopsie" on the other side of.

This is the guy credited with popularizing the term AGI in the first place. I dunno man... am I wrong to be worried?
Ad-free Twitter with 1 line of CSS
A (call) stock option is the option to buy X shares at Y price by Z date (a put option is the same thing but to sell instead). You can go on any brokerage and buy a call option on Apple, for example, which would be the option (but not the obligation) to buy 100 shares of Apple at some strike price, say $200, by some date, let's say August 31, 2023. This privilege of having this option will cost you: let's say $2,000 (the real price is calculated via complex formulas). When August 31 comes around, you can either buy or not buy, but your $2,000 is gone either way. If Apple goes up to $300 on August 31, that option will now be worth $8,000 (($300 spot price - $200 strike price) * 100 shares - the original $2,000 it cost you to buy this option). If Apple went to anything below $220 ($220 - $200 * 100 - original $2,000), it wouldn't make sense to exercise your option since you would lose money. This is the basics of it.

It's generally not interesting for an employee to receive options because if the company doesn't perform well by the time your exercise date comes around or you leave the company then you get little or nothing. You would rather get stock grants which are shares that have value. If you get some shares when Apple is $200 and it goes to $100, you still have half the value of your shares.

Generally, in public companies (with extreme exceptions), options are issued to executives whose compensation is dependent on how much they can increase the company's share price. If they fail, they get little to nothing. If they succeed, they make a lot.

Thanks for asking. Let me know if you have any questions, I'd be happy to explain more.
GM shipped 6M cars, of which 5,560,000 were gasoline powered cars.

The real question is not if GM is a larger car company but can they produce EVs, at scale, and sell them for a profit? The clock is ticking until gasoline cars are made illegal or taxed out of existence, no brilliance required. All Tesla has to do is wait.
yep. there's a word for a creature that consumes without contributing anything back, making things harder for everyone else: "parasite."
My guess is that the account-deletion thing is them freaking out about (1) Apple's lawyers—which, assuming MacRumors's host has backups, is likely a futile gesture—and (2) random crazy people who will target them for whatever reason.

Although if I were them, I'd be worried most about my sister. Putting your own career on the line for internet fame is one thing; risking someone's else's is some deeply bad shit.
Have you seen the new Razr? https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-RAZR-Phone/s?k=Motorola+RAZR...
Just wondering, is this useful in any way other than a recretional/research project?
And allegedly upwards of 700,000 Russians have decided to NOT got to war and have fled the country! This source is 7 months old. You've got to figure that even more have fled since!

https://www.reuters.com/world/e7urope/where-have-russians-be...
Some (evil) part of me wants to set this up as a live desktop in Wallpaper Engine on a friend’s PC. Looks accurate! Good job
Great story! I got my start on a TI-99/4A and I've been hooked on writing software ever since. Not yet famous for any of my toils, though. :)
VTSAX has all your bases covered there.
The problem is that YouTube consists of two fundamentally different services.

One is a content hosting service like Imgur. The people hosting the content are the users. If there are any expenses involved, it's a matter between them and the service provider. The audience doesn't use the service deliberately. They just go there because someone wants to show them something.

The other is a platform where people try to make money with the content they produce. The audience are the users, and it's fair to expect them to pay one way or another. I'm not personally interested in using that YouTube, because I seem to be incompatible with videos as a content format. Pretty much every YouTube video like that I've seen would have been better as a written article.
This is exactly what I needed. Context is I am trying to incorporate different scripting language in our rust app so I tried RustPython and QuickJS. Its been a pain so far and it adds a lot of time to our compilation so I love the idea of being able to load a wasm python but I was missing this script to host communication part.
I will heavily second this opinion. I'm not an electrical engineer, but I do prototype some electronics that eventually become products. One of the most important factors to me when selecting an individual component is that it will be available in volume in 6 months time and I don't know of a better way to estimate that than to look at the current quantity on hand. If I'm comparing two similar looking parts and one has 8000+ on hand and the other has 68, then I'm going for the 8000+ part.
Popcorn time is again like Netflix, not YouTube. Serving 10k movies is a vastly easier problem than YouTube (The few gaming channels I watch have more video content length than the movies on Netflix)
It can't be the perfect showcase because the service isn't even great, let alone if you compare it to "any" alternative, for example, it doesn't even have proper offline downloads, which is available for free with an alternative
I really wish YouTube would stop hosting everyone's videos, all at once. Just give ample notice, then disappear.

It would be a painful event, but we'd finally get some much-needed competition in the video hosting space.
That's crazy, the same thing happened to me. I was like what? Suddenly now my price has increased when I was on YouTube Red for the longest time. Considering canceling too
Yes, they do. YouTube distributes your premium funds to creators by watch time. If they can’t associate your views with your subscription, they can’t compensate creators fairly.

Not to mention, it’s imminently not possible. Not without poking holes in what is and is not shared between regular and incognito mode (across 5+ browsers owned by different businesses, no less). And breaking this barrier would earn Google a ton of backlash, and rightfully so.
> More likely, Google and Bing will continue to play fair and send traffic.

More likely they will need to be sued, like the news / media companies in Europe and Australia have done.
>YouTube premium was probably the best decision I did. Amount of time saved on ads alone makes it worth it.

Why do you get ads? I don't understand how there are people on Hacker News that don't use content blockers. Is is because of principle?
Do you have a theory for why COVID would behave in a novel way with respect to worsening on repeat infection? I have not heard of this type of behavior for other viruses. In general there seems to be a willingness to grant COVID special powers among viruses, e.g. the whole “maybe natural immunity doesn’t work at all!” saga. But maybe this does happen for other viruses and I just haven’t heard of it?
Premium views pay out a lot more according to LinusTechTips [0,1], and early on it was paying out based on watch time, so hugely disproportionate payouts happened[2].

0: https://linustechtips.com/topic/928915-does-ltt-actually-mak...

1: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486935690315112455?s=2...

2: https://youtu.be/Rh5hL47z2us?t=434
Huh? How will they know whether to set that bit if they don't know who you are?
> Dozens of PB is not that much data in 2023.

Yes it is. Just transferring it at data center speeds will take days if not weeks.
Probably because it’s badly coded and if they did, it’s be open to exploits.

Education software is universally such shit tier it makes Jira look good.
> If you are watching YouTube then yes, it is a useful service that has some monetary value.

Huh? They asked if it deserves more money. Not if it deserves money.
I agree. 2009 was really a long time ago. 23 points was enough to be the #22 most upvoted article of that day https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-02-25
If you don't mind sharing, how does Premium income compare to say Patreon?
I've had good luck assuming double-word CAS, portability-wise. Old ARMs have 32 bit pointers, so 64 bit CAS is pretty good. The main problem is that some algorithms go from a bit under 64 bits for a nonce to a bit under 32, which starts to get into "this could hit in practice" territory.
> I'll eat at Cockroach Joe, but I won't pay. I also like to tell people I don't pay because it goes against my virtues. But I'll still go there to eat.

Fixed.
Public who's details have become absurd. Register any domain and choose not to use domain privacy. Your inbox will fill up over the next hour with people wanting to sell you seo services or a new WordPress installation. I don't mean five or five or six spam emails, I mean you could see over a hundred umin the first hour . Such mailboxes are sure to become unusable .
Well, V7 UNIX is rather arbitrary as a reference point for comparison. There was what we now call as V1 UNIX, which would be circa 1971/72, so that's certainly 50+ years old. Compared to what's shown in the article, some of the data structure fields and constants would be different and/or missing in the still earlier versions. DIRSIZ would be 8, for example.
Ah, but in the long run, they'll have already cashed out the shares or options they wanted to juice the value of, so who cares?
the purpose of an advertisement is to give advertisement companies something to sell to product makers, and to give product makers something to have media companies put in front of viewers in exchange for money.

it's a whole economy unto itself. money changing hands, jobs, all of it. almost no one buys something because they saw an ad for it.
I'm familiar with various methods - and also what we observe in the wild across many FOSS projects. The #define, #ifdef, macro method is in the majority of what I see. And the examples of the "right way" are harder to find (now I wonder what GPT would suggest). None of those methods are fun for me anymore :(
Even great compared to what? You need to cite services similar to YouTube (like Vimeo, whose pricing model will just not be acceptable to anyone at HN), not frontends to YouTube, who don't do any of the expensive backend work.
Drink a verification can.
That's over a cache line boundary, but 128 bit don't even work when they are unaligned, so you can't do things like swap two pointers, then move down 64 bits and swap two more pointers.
So, since you want to watch with an account incompatible setup, premium is incapable of compensating creators. Ok. I get that.

I still disagree with your conclusion, since it’s a self imposed restriction that results in creators not being compensated. That’s on you, not YouTube.
Adobe's generative AI art tool and Google Bard are joining forces
Could be interesting to see if you can make cards that only one player can use, such as “win the game if this card is played while the seconds of utc time matches the following hmac sum, otherwise lose the game”

Then you’ve got a 1/60th chance of your opponent using it.
Why are online domain name searche sites untrustworthy ?
I don't know, the stupidity here seems very believable. Someone whose proverbial uncle works at Nintendo wants to earn prophet points on one of the top Apple rumor forums? I'd buy it.
That is possible but the irony must be apparent.
Even native iOS apps have some terribly inconsistent back behaviour, particularly when handling overriding swipe functions.

Eg Photos seems to change Back on almost every view. Swiping back navigates around albums and locations and such. Until you open a photo, then it flicks between individual photos.
If you are looking at a photo and want to return to album view you need to click the Back arrow at the top left.
If you swiped up to view photo details and want to go back to the photo, you need to swipe down.
If you are Adjusting photo details, you need to click Cancel at the top left.
If you are editing a photo and want to go back to the photo, you need to click Cancel, which is at the bottom left this time.

The only place I don't notice a back button in Photos is the top right. But that's exactly where Books puts it.

On Android, every single one of navigations would be performed by the dedicated back button/swipe. Which might explain why the iOS Google Photos app seems to just stick with a top-left back button on almost all views.
> limited times

Technically life + 70 years - or 1 million years for that matter - is "limited" - but I imagine 14+14 is probably closer to what they had in mind.
Most companies forbid their employees from holding derivative or short positions in the company’s stock.
I kind of find the excessive usage of emoticons and such distracting.
Won't give my current salary because this isn't anonymous, but my 2021 TC was ~150. Another FAANG offered ~200, and trading firms all offered numbers way higher.
The price is not going to be that high in 5 years, and when the price becomes comparable with the latest iPhone that's going to have the potential to flip a totally different market segment to Android than would've previously considered it.

There are also multiple ways to use the folding screen tech, they can make phone with normal size unfolded screen and small folded form factor instead. Women's pocket sizes alone can sell a lot of those, and there's definitely a nostalgia market for e.g. the razr form factor too.
The comparison to imgur is interesting, as imgur is itself trying hard to make money now by removing lots of content. The history of image hosting websites is a history filled with image hosts failing for the exact same reason.

This post should be an interesting read:

https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...

The thing is, there is no way to provide a free content hosting service in the long run (whether image or video)
Well, at least it's obvious that humans alone will have hard time fighting superhuman AGI. BTW, it can literally fall from the sky at any moment. There enthusiasts who broadcast our location, with resources and technical level estimates. Sort of naive cargo cult, they probably think biological or artificial aliens will come with truckloads of reparation money.
It seems like youtube is ripe to be disrupted by someone. Video hosting isn't as hard as it once was, ads are invasive, and yt is just the middleman not the content creators.
Sure, but looking them up, even those knives are noticeably more expensive than the rest of the individual items you'd find in the kitchen, just not by orders of magnitude.
In addition to being very expensive, it also seems like you can't get a case on it. And they probably don't have much texture on the outside to give a good grip. Bad grip + bad protection = keep some savings in case you wreck it.
Well, yes it clearly deserves a little more money each time it renders a valuable service at nonzero operational cost. Duh.
New Orleans is pretty walkable.
Here's a link to the live version, if you struggled to find it too:

https://win11-svelte.vercel.app/
For the invention and early history of the ARPAnet and Internet I highly recommend Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/281818

Inventing the Internet is also pretty good:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753865.Inventing_the_Int...
So have I because of invidious[1].

[1]: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
I’m not saying they’re great, but it’s a known quantity: you watch ads, advertisers pay Google, they pay creators. Yes, too much of that goes to the middleman but that’s a reason not to participate at all.
I think the strong connotation of the word "open" in the software community comes from "open source". If OSS was called "great new source" and a new closed source company called itself GreatNewAI you'd have a similar phenomenon of people taking apart the name.
As someone who regularly consumes YouTube videos with uBlock Origin, the only thing this move would make me do is stop watching YouTube.
Ukraine probably wouldn’t have been invaded at all without western backing, would it? It is a lot like the Poland situation in WWII. They still would have lost land since they have a weak negotiating position, but the west staying out would have saved many lives (now thrown into a meat grinder for some lines in the dirt).
That's my beef too. I already pay for twitch turbo which I find to be less valuable, so it's not the cost. I just don't want to be logged into youtube all the time. And I'll never log into my google account from a work computer.