skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video hosting is extremely expensive. Look at the pricing of anyone who provides such base services (https://www.cloudflare.com/en-in/products/cloudflare-stream/) or alternate providers like Vimeo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547578).
Subscribe to Bari Weiss’s substack (free press) and you’ll get an article about this every other day. Her backlogs will give a fairly lengthy list, but certainly not exhaustive.
US healthcare should rebrand as “accessible”, even if it is not “affordable” by millions. With an interesting definition of accessible.
I'm a windows user. I have windows on 3 computers. The only devices that don't run windows are an ipad and an android phone.

I don't understand why I'd want the windows 11 experience anywhere I wasn't forced to have it. I heard they may soon restore some of the features they took away from the start bar, though.
Pretty soon when the novelty wears off they will realize they still have to gimp their generated responses if they want to have things to scrape in future. A world where you want websites to exist to direct users to clashes with building perfect chatbots.

Kagi have every incentive to engage in sandbagging their upcoming chatbot just like google, they just prefer you knew it as "your safety" rather than "their sinking ship".
> You can study computer science without writing a single line of code

You can, but you won’t . If your name isn’t Edsger Dijkstra that’s a ridiculous proposition.
I could study chemistry without touching a test tube, but that’s also a ridiculous proposition.
Check out Samsung's zFlip form though. I think if foldables take over the small flip versions will always maintain enough of a market to also exist.
Machine learning on Kubernetes: wisdom learned at Snorkel AI
I think the commenter meant "targeted advertising" which is the norm on the Internet.
I ask ChatGPT / Bard to do all kinds of things I wouldn't ask my Dad for. This is a weird perspective.
That's already happened, the forum UI is atrocious, but the Hack mobile app is one of the best forum reading app out there, so it's not a matter of more people volunteering time, it's about HN not willing to implement any improvements
The number of family units to hold responsible (and to hold each other responsible) accounts for all of the resistance, and quite frankly, there should be more.

You can have a house with a family with kids or you can have a box with a half dozen losers in it, and statistically one of them is a felon. Sane people choose the former.
How about a smart TV, a streaming stick/box (e.g. Roku, Amazon Fire Stick), or a games console?

Pi-hole will work for some types of ad on all devices, but I'm not sure how it'd work for video ads in an app like YouTube - particularly if Google started serving the ads from the same servers as the content.
Part of the problem for me is that sponsor spots in videos are so common now that I feel forced to run SponsorBlock. If I'm already having to run one extension just to enjoy the experience, then I may as well also use Adblock and not even bother with Premium. But since premium doesn't give that full ad-free experience (referring to sponsors), I just don't see as much benefit.

The amount of my life I save by using adblock + sponsorblock when watching YouTube is such a huge amount of time. Maybe I am just cheap, but I also feel it's a bit on the expensive side of things for what you get.

I do however still like to support creators that I watch a lot, so I'll use things like Patron, or in the case of Linus Tech Tips, Floatplane. I feel like directly supporting the creators I spend a lot more time watching makes more of an impact on supporting the content I enjoy. Creators don't seem to get much out of YouTube Premium viewers.
> that results in creators not being compensated

I make a point to donate to creators I watch. I'm not compensating Youtube (although I did pay for Premium for quite a while), but I am compensating creators.

And yeah, that's easy for me rationalize, because I'm honestly not particularly happy with Youtube as it exists today, I think it has close to a monopoly on indie video online, and I think it would be good for other services to pop up around it. If it was possible for me to avoid Youtube entirely, I would, but... see the monopoly bit again. I don't think anyone saying "just walk away from Youtube" is making a serious suggestion.

But even given the above situation, if I thought paying for Youtube Premium would encourage Google in a positive direction, I would do it. I did do it. I just don't believe it will anymore. My experience with Youtube Premium was that it got weirder and weirder the longer I used it, and I didn't see any evidence it was helping Youtube as a platform.

If I can get out of that relationship while still supporting creators, I'm happy to do so.
That’s exactly why I’ve used an “admin@“ address for decades now on email registrations. It has a filter that will then redirect anything from the registrar’s domain and junk anything else.
Alphabet has plenty of money. So long as I'm capable of watching Youtube for free with adblock on, I will continue to do so and feel no guilt.
Sure, when it's not flooded. Then it's more boatable than walkable.

https://www.nola.com/news/weather/strong-line-of-storms-prom...
I just want to know how much of this stuff is “batteries in the fridge” stuff
Competition would be good but I'm not so sure that (lack of) competition is the problem. Serving video is just expensive, period. The smaller the economies of scale, the more expensive it is per view. I don't know what the solution is.
Arrows look sharp but the Y is not bold enough to look much different than a plain orange square now.

White square border looks good though.

1920 x 1080 on Firefox, plain orange square even more so on the browser tabs.
Same here but I skipped the Premium step. I pay creators directly, through Patreon and similar.

When the "how to replace the thermal cutout in a Kenmore dryer" video helped me (and did so with a minimum of fluff), I bought the parts from the company that posted the video. (A whole set of spares, because why not? Pay shipping once, put 'em on the shelf, and have a zero-minute response time next time something fails.)

When I realize I'm 3 videos deep into someone's channel and I'm wishing the clock wasn't staring at me so judgmentally, I head for their Patreon straight away. Or their merch store. Or whatever lets me tuck some money directly from my pocket into theirs.

The next step is to find hosting elsewhere. I should make another attempt with PeerTube or something, or see if someone's building a video frontend for IPFS or whatever. And then start pestering my favorite creators into double-posting their content. Yes it's more work, and they won't do it unless there's a base of users who likewise feel good about paying creators. But I can be the start of that.
The Socratic Method for Self-Discovery in Large Language Models
I have looked at Graphviz before, but wasn't aware of anything there that helped with these constraints Do you happen to have any specofic pointers?

And it may be the case that (5) is actually the most implrtant constraint. Haha.
I want the foldable, but at that price point I don't.
Mission accomplished for YouTube then
I'll argue the case here though I go back and forth how strongly I hold this view.

Ads are immoral because modern advertising is carefully engineered brainwashing, often filled with factually incorrect claims (which are legally permitted as "hyperbole"). Beyond creating demand for products that the viewer would be better off without the brainwashing component in many often damages the viewers level of personal satisfaction or feelings of self worth by playing to their insecurities or creating unrealistic comparisons (which by implication or claim the purchase will cure). Because of this advertising can be negative sum -- anytime the benefit of introducing someone to the product is outweighed by the harm created by the effort to convince the user they need it. For example, ads for things you can't afford can create longing that can't be answered, yet don't provide you the benefit of the good (or the seller the benefit of the sale!).

One can construct advertising which is harder to fault morally, but because its less effective its generally outbid by things further over on the brainwashing spectrum.

Even where the ad can't be describe as brainwashing unless its in a catalogue of goods or similar, the user wasn't looking for it right now and so by forcing them to watch it you're taking their time. Because copyright creates a monopoly for goods, the user often doesn't have the opportunity to choose instead "similar to X but with less time wasting ads". Since the user is denied a practical alternative (other than a costly 'go without entirely') you cannot say that their consent to view the advertisement was freely given -- and consent not freely given isn't valid. As such, even a brainwashing free advertisement is ethically dubious because its stealing the user's time.
Would you mind elaborating? Thanks ahead of time.
All that would do from their perspective is save them additional bandwidth if you're not making them money by watching ads. I'm sure they'd rather you didn't watch and consume the product for free.
Where are you getting steak from? YouTube premium is the exact same content you like only paid for directly instead of by advertisers. You must already be watching stuff on YouTube and enjoying it because otherwise you wouldn’t care about whether it has ads.
It's only in hindsight that you can say the hope was "vain"; many Eastern European countries are doing fairly well, as are most Balkan (former Yugoslavia) countries. Further back you can also look at post-Franco Spain as a success, or Germany after the second world war.

At some point you got to say "okay, we'll try again with you guys". Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. There's a fine line to walk here, but in the end it's the only option there is other than perpetual hostilities.
Don’t forget your physical mailbox too
Uses the app on iPhone maybe? There's probably an app that bypasses ads though.
The validity of the public debt of the United States … shall not be questioned.

It says nothing about default, it’s talking about disputing the debt. Disputing debt is different than not having the money to pay it.
Hey that’s how Windows 8 went as well. Some dweeb convinces upper management that tablets are the future and the UI should turn be optimized for touch, then the .1 update rolls back some of the changes after MS realizes corporations still do work on normal desktops
> 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, ...".

This is a fundamental misunderstanding. It’s not that the prefatory clause is ignored — it’s that its presence doesn’t negate the operative clause.

Notably, the second amendment neither prefaces the word “people” with “sane”, “competent” or “responsible”, so it’s not entirely clear to me as to whether you’re arguing on a basis of constitutionality or on something else altogether (is it both and neither simultaneously, maybe?)
> The solution is quite simple, cheap, boring, and unobjectionable to anyone who might hear it.

What is it? Genuinely curious, because I’ve done the same thought experiment as you about how little control individual cities have.
0. I commit and push directly to master.
Just want to shout out a couple of things.

One, it's great to see a hack project here that's been done just for the fun of it. I'm noticing a few comments questioning the "why?" around this. To me at least, it's just a really fun thing to do to hack together something, just because. There doesn't always have to be a rhyme or reason for things like this.

Two, it felt like there was a period where sites that would host hack projects with no limitations was slowly dying out. Not just because of costs but also because of the associated risks with it (spam, phishing, etc). I really do love what Vercel is enabling here. When I mentor younger folks, it's becoming really easy to tell them where to go throw up a hack project after they've learnt git and Vercel is fast becoming The choice to send them to. Much kudos and gratitude to the team there.
> Because if the company goes under

Microsoft is not going under
The way most of these companies are colluding now is by using third party firms that "aggregate industry salary information". So basically company X provides their data, pays some dollars, and get access to what other companies in their "peer set" are paying for different types of levels/experience. Reminds me a lot of the schemes companies will sometimes use to do bribes in other countries -- paying a third party consultancy who they had "no possible way of knowing that they were actually just bribing people".
YT kind of started a soft assault on sponsor spots, with mobile users getting two-tap fast-forward, and encouraging creators to use chapters, making them choose to either fake their audience out with inaccurate chapters, or to include a sponsor chapter and assume x% of viewers are not going to see the sponsor spot.
You can still block ads on a tablet if you use Firefox (Android only) or Brave.
The claim is that we saw traffic patterns on the .com mirror that of the .io even though nothing was on it yet and we had not migrated.

Our inference or best guess based on the above is that people were typing supertokens.com directly in the URL bar on the browser. Like you said - I would not have expected that (and still doubt it) but dont have any alternative explanations for why that would be the case.

Our agency doesnt know we've even written this. I still need to share it with them.
>best airfares
>hotel room
>sightseeing activities

You can bet that there will be a bidding war behind the scene by those wanting to be the "best" airline and the "best" hotel and the "best" activity.
And then use AI to remove the watermark. The perfect circle.
It’s the best deal in the world
First grapheneOS compatible foldable!

Other than that meh, phones are very limited, and I would rather invest in anything than spend my money on a (very finicky and unreliable) social media machine.
Foldables are emerging tech right now anyway, they're probably going to see way bigger improvements in other functionalities over the next 5 years than the iPhone has in the last 5 years. I think if you're buying a foldable at this stage you're probably not attached to keeping it more than 2-3 years in the first place. In the future I'm guessing their durability will also be much better.
I find it delightful but I understand why others don’t. Given this is such a common complaint specifically about GitHub/similar source hosts’ READMEs, it feels like low hanging fruit for a probably simple browser extension to hide them.
If you think it’s a bad experience, why do you keep going? The fact that you’re concerned about avoiding ads means you must find the content interesting and that means you should pay for what you use, either directly or indirectly.
The more commonly-used characters are ▲ and ▼, BLACK {UP/DOWN}-POINTING TRIANGLE (U+25B2, U+25BC).

Parent comment used much newer characters 🞁 and 🞃, BLACK {UP/DOWN}-POINTING ISOSCELES RIGHT TRIANGLE (U+1F781, U+1F783). These were added in Unicode 7, June 2014, where the others have been around for thirty years. I’m mildly surprised at lack of font support on macOS. For me they’re being rendered with Noto Sans Math, and completely wrong: they’re not being drawn as right-angled triangles at all (the angle is about 53° rather than 90°)! I’m guessing the commenter also had a bad font on them, because as a right angle it’d look all wrong for this purpose. (I’ve filed a bug report at https://github.com/notofonts/math/issues/47. Curiously, Noto Sans Symbols 2 also includes the character and gets its shape right, but Noto Sans Math is higher in the font fallback list (`fc-match sans-serif --all`: 881 lines, NotoSansMath-Regular.ttf is 52nd and NotoSansSymbols2-Regular.ttf is 89th.)

There are also ⯅ and ⯆, BLACK {UP/DOWN}-POINTING TRIANGLE CENTRED (U+2BC5, U+2BC6). And more, but of roughly-these-sized ones, these are the ones.

There are lots of triangles in Unicode.
To promote an agenda and misleadingly. It's trying to push cheaper energy (either by more negotiation with suppliers, or by way of reducing policies against it in regulations or taxes/tariffs), and it's trying to frame that need by comparing it to something that you might think is a huge killer (which Covid wasn't in the winter of 2022-23, anywhere.)
>and submitted to 4chan via Tor or a VPN.

4chan blocks both Tor and VPNs. It's a terrible place to leak things, but a hacker can most probably find innocuous IPs.
Blocking ads on the youtube mobile app (or even a mobile browser) is much more difficult than on desktop.
They gain a lot thanks to network effects. Non-paying customers contribute to viewing numbers and engagement (likes + comments + subscriptions). But most importantly, they bring others to the platform by sharing links to videos and discussing them with others.

See [1]:

> In 2013, the boss of Time-Warner (which owns HBO), Jeff Bewkes, declared that piracy was: “Better than an Emmy” because more people watching the show inevitably led to more people deciding to pay for subscriptions.

[1]: https://theconversation.com/game-of-thrones-for-hbo-piracy-i...
..written in Java.

In case anyone needs reminding, Java developers, on purpose, put a line in a logging library that can fetch and execute code when given a url string for a log statement.

Nobody should be touching anything Java in 2023.
> don't be surprised when your ad-blocker stops working

Yes, it's an arms race, always has been. But it's more expensive for them to break the ad blockers than it will be for the ad blockers to inevitably update, so if it's a war of attrition, they will still inevitably lose.

The problem isn't that people aren't watching the ads, the problem is Google's business model doesn't work, not for Google, not for the consumer and certainly not for content creators, and the only solution they can come up with is trying to force people to watch ads - which never works.

>Any alternative is going to be even less efficient and more expensive due to the lack of economies of scale that Google has.

I mean, plenty of alternatives already exist, and content creators are starting to lead viewers to those alternatives, because of Youtube's arbitrary censorship and demonetization. Every social media platform hosts video now. There are decentralized platforms like Peertube. We're way past the point where "streaming video" is a hard problem that only Google-scale infrastructure can solve.

They're going to have to innovate or die like any other company, and disabuse themselves of the illusion that the web is a gravy train where the rules of supply and demand don't apply. This isn't innovation, this is desperation.
Can you see dislikes with YouTube Premium?
I was a projectionist in the late 80s and the dual projector setup was standard. No one was talking digital … the storage and delivery tech wasn’t even close and most people didn’t understand the looming impact of Moores Law.

I do recall seeing the platter system many years later and had a sense of how they worked but not the details. Regardless I’m sure we could swap some great stories of epic “jams” … thanks for sharing!
Nice work!

My only suggestion is to optimise it, which we have :) (Lifting this from lower down in the thread). The following SVG fragment is a drop in replacement for the <img> tag and produces the same result, albeit completely symmetrical as a side effect of quantising the coordinates:

<svg width="18" height="18" viewBox="-32 -32 64 64"
style="background: #f60; border: 1px white solid;">
<path fill="#fff" d="m0-5l-8-12h-7L-3 1v16h6V1l12-18H8z"/>
</svg>

This reduces the total payload from 1448 bytes to 172 bytes including whitespace (I ungolfed it slightly to make it less hacky). By comparing both the inline <img> tag, and the svg file and it's HTTP header (which disappears when you inline).
For me it was Laos, Thailand, and Yunnan province of China. :)

The Lao didn't care, we mostly ate with our hands. Thai were all over the place, but man did I get schooled hard while we were in Yunnan!
Ah. I was forgetting people use locked down devices where content blocking isn't possible, or a hassle.
Not sure if anyone read the article -- its referring to microdosing psychedelics to improve productivity, focus, creativity, and problem-solving

Somehow stimulants became focal point of conversation because they are more commonly used -- I think the same idea tech workers are looking for a way to enhance their performance beyond taking a cup of coffee

There are trade-offs to taking stimulants such as side-effects and addictiveness, so hence the appeal of certain psychedelics individuals are perhaps using to self-medicate or gain an edge in the workplace.
Is there an ad-blocker that simply blurs and silences the ads on YouTube?
This is spot on. People assume Vimeo is the only competitor to YouTube, but that's wrong. Reddit is a perfectly fine competitor to YouTube in a sense that people don't really need the content to come in form of video.
If you register in a tld which doesn’t allow privacy (.net or .us? Forget which) everything leaks. Kiss goodbye to your phone number. I accidentally did this and got 50 calls within the first 8 hrs. It was insane.
86 vs 81 is not slightly higher. It’s 26% fewer wrong answer.
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Neural networks aren’t simulated neurons…
A wildlife corridor? Doesn't look like it from this 2011 streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7143712,-122.4757819,3a,90y,...

Regardless, your preference for preserving the status quo is absolutely valid. But other people's preferences for building SFHs is also valid. Maybe they would prefer the option not to live in large apartment complexes because of family or health or noise reasons. We live in a society, and part of that means sometimes other people get what they want even if it not something we want, and it is good and healthy to disagree with outcomes. But my point is that I think it is elitist to tell them that actually, their preferences are wrong (not just different).

> Who me? If anything the people buying these houses are the elite, surely?

Elitism isn't exclusively about money.
I tried to self-host Peertube at least for my own content but it was too much work to keep up to date for me and I eventually ended up letting my private instance die.

I haven't looked around recently to see if there's managed hosting somewhere that I can link to my own domain, but I'd be very tempted to sign up for a service like that. I like the idea of Peertube quite a bit, particularly around how it manages bandwidth -- I think that's very clever. I just realized that I don't take an active enough IT role in my infrastructure to handle setting it up myself and to trust myself to keep it patched and secure.

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But yeah, aside from hosting direct donations/purchases are the way to go. Sometimes that can be very difficult to do. Patreon has a lot of problems but has honestly been huge for enabling easier payments. We're in desperate need of better private micropayment systems for the web. Cryptocurrency was a disaster, and not everyone is always on sites like Patreon, which I get because it's work to maintain a presence on those sites.
Aspeed aren't the ones keeping them closed - OpenBMC running on Aspeed chips is an option chosen by some system vendors. It's a vendor choice whether to go with an open platform or a closed BMC from AMI etc.

https://github.com/AspeedTech-BMC/openbmc
(or see the upstream OpenBMC tree)

HPE are adding some OpenBMC support https://www.hpe.com/us/en/compute/openbmc-proliant-servers.h...

This work from Supermicro looked promising https://lore.kernel.org/openbmc/CACPK8XdE0sRmt4x54YJVJO2wDT5...