skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“You made me do it” is a standard gaslighting technique, common in abusive relationships. If they want compliance, they just have to be nice. A sequence of 3 ads, some of them uninterruptible, before a 10-minutes video, plus breaks in the middle is not being nice, particularly as they jump up the volume to painful levels every time.

No amount of content justifies subjecting ourselves to this brain washing. And I’m not even talking about malware in ads (not on YouTube, but since you mention Adblock…)
Because the network is more important than anything.
Been using a FP4 in Washington State USA under T-Mobile for about 6 months now. Bought it from a British reseller.

Very occasionally I need to bounce the cellular connection, I suspect because I land on an unsupported band/channel. Otherwise LineageOS runs on it like a charm.
For institutions that try to paint themselves as the epitome of equity, the fact they maintain legacy is a glaring point that shows they really don't care about equity, they care about money and donations.
> Goodreads is only good (eh, decent?) as a database of books you've read. All the other functionality is pointless and or broken.

Why would you need a service to keep track on what you read? I have a text file with a list of book and some notes about every book. Works perfectly for me.
Llc stands for limited liability company.

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Thw method to remove limit unlimited liability is at the core of our economical system.

We are allowing it, because it works remarkably well and makes us richer.
The Crassus approach? https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/crassus-fire-briga...
No?

I can point out an insightful quote as a warning and imply we’re not on a healthy path in our current system without espousing delusions of socialism…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting was a workaround for a while.

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/ (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16970199
You can use the google camera app, but they are trying to make their own Camera app as good as the official App.

> Google Camera can take full advantage of the available cameras and image processing hardware as it can on the stock OS and does not require GSF or sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS. Direct TPU and GXP access by Google apps including Google Camera is controlled by a toggle added by GrapheneOS and doesn't provide them with any additional access to data. The toggle exists for attack surface reduction. Every app can use the TPU and GXP via standard APIs including the Android Neural Networks API and Camera2 API regardless.

> We aim to reduce the benefits of Google Camera compared to GrapheneOS Camera over time, especially on Pixels. Many features of Google Camera will end up being available for GrapheneOS Camera in the next year or so via CameraX extensions including more aggressive HDR+, Night Sight and Portrait. Video features such as slow motion and time lapse are likely further away than within the next year. These video features could potentially be provided via CameraX vendor extensions or could be implemented via our own post-processing of the video output. Panorama, Photo Sphere, Astrophotography, Motion Photos, Frequent Faces, Dual Exposure Controls, Google Lens, etc. aren't on the roadmap for GrapheneOS Camera. Video frame rate configuration and H.265 support should be available for GrapheneOS Camera in the near future via CameraX improvements along with DNG (RAW) support in the further future.

All the info:
https://grapheneos.org/usage#camera
Do you think an experienced real estate agent (who only gets paid via commission when they actually sell the house) would price a house several thousand percent above a rational asking price? If anything, selling agents are incentivized to lower prices and up their volume; a change of a few tens of thousands of dollars might affect the home owners bottom line a lot, but the selling agent only loses 3% of that amount.
The lithography is one of the technologies needed that if they can't get can bump this up to a lot more than a billion dollar. It can still be duplicated, but it will take more time and $$$.
yeah. But only 4 cups of coffee a day. At 5:00 I switch to alcohol. I don't usually sleep til 4am.
> Again, this is not relevant. It seems extremely biased to reject his opinion just on the basis on who quoted him. Noam Chomsky is frequently quoted in Russian propaganda outlets. Should we disregard everything he says?

It was a comment on how you seem to pick sources really.

> By they way, you conveniently glossed over all the other points, where even the same person you quoted admitted the huge problems with the current narrative.

What problems are these? its hard to tell.
Can you withdraw the interest penalty free before the term is up?
I love that it sounds like steel drums - one of my favorite instruments.
I see how it could look that way, but these are glowing real Hacker News reviews ツ Turns out the secret to customer loyalty is working hard to deliver a great product...

Fastmail has been very reliable and fast for me for many years, and their web app is just beautifully designed and implemented, and their spam filtering (after training) is excellent.

And we're mostly web engineers here, so we know that infinite .9s adds up to 1 in math but not in SRE...
Yeah I have had those situations where even if they didn't say no to my face it was obvious that I should not be giving them my business.

I just honestly don't get it why this is what "we" focused on.
Modern rich people likely think traditional education is bullshit and invest elsewhere. Some initiatives are more or less ambitious than others, but who needs to set money on fire launching a new university when all of the worlds knowledge is conveniently indexed on youtube for any self motivated individual to consume?
>China has no (technical) way of forcing you to trust their root CA

That might be true, but "install our root CA or you can't access websites" would get most people to do it.
I feel like you have to pick a lane between saying it is a world class institution and “it’s just a brand”.

A world class institution likely deserves to be a good brand
Because their subscription revenue does not cover their cost of business and/or revenue goals.
Oh yeah, that I can't deny. The peak throughput numbers used in marketing are definitely questionable at times. Kinda makes sense considering SSDs and HDDs are basically computers of their own that give you some abstraction over the actual raw storage media.

You could compare memcpy to sequential write speed or something, but it'd definitely not tell the full story.
> The fact one of the pictures is the house on literal fire, coupled with this context, goes to show that some people really don't belong anywhere in marketing or sales.

Namely, honest people who aren't total shitbags always trying to put one over on their fellow human beings for profit.
Yeah, I was really expecting a lot of blown out shot with terrible exposure, and weird angles.

This was mostly just bad houses. In some cases, the photographer seemed to do a decent job of making the best of it.
Society used to get museums, universities, and great works of art out of the ultra wealthy.

Besides SpaceX, not sure what other goods there have been from this social contract recently.
The richer you are, the more you demand the government's largesse. The idea they would need to drawdown on their own wealth would probably infuriate Harvard's administrators.
> I very much doubt ChatGPT has any ability to shove me in a pen.

An LLM with the ability to call arbitrary APIs, and to write and run code, absolutely has the ability to shove you in a pen. Not directly of course, but by incriminating you or in some other way making you the target of humans who can physically shove you in a pen.

Langchain agents (for example) have all the necessary tools already. It doesn't require using words to manipulate you, and doesn't require you to perform real world actions on the behalf of the LLM. Using just words, an LLM can autonomously act in the real world.
It’s hard to attribute Reddit’s rot to voting when it’s had so many years of administration alternating between absentee and inept, and when HN gets such dramatically different results. I generally agree that the trivialization of sentiment is probably a bad thing, but there’s also a lot that works here and one should be careful not to break. I’d certainly be curious to see how it plays out. I wonder if one couldn’t disable voting for only some threads…
Quoting for endorsement.

Ben, of https://blog.benjojo.co.uk [1] and https://age-encryption.org/design fame, built something genuinely useful out of sheer technical depth, use case understanding, and experience.

I don't really work with networks but the changelog is indeed a great read because 1) I learn stuff, and 2) it's great to see a useful focused product just get better.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=benjojo.co.uk
Upvoted based on the XKCD alone, I used the same argument a few years ago for this spaghetti mess: https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd

How feature complete is this client? As in what IRC versions (and dialects) are supported?
To me, a more interesting question is how the students do after four years. Are the legacy students clustered toward the bottom 20% of the class? Are they evenly distributed in a way that suggests that legacy status didn't matter? Or did they do better, at least on average?

The admissions formula is so non-scientific that I don't think you can measure whether they would have gotten in or not.
All interest groups will argue that whay they want is "fair". There is no impartial group "outside" the system with an objective fair view, and this includes the supreme court. The discussions will never be about fairness, because there's no such thing.
I think your mistake is that you don't know what bowling looks like to begin with. Skip to the regular guy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfEKI5iL-Ok&t=50s - he looks like he's melodramatically performing in _Swan Lake_ with his spare arm swinging way out. (Which is less dramatic than many bowlers.) Then go back to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfEKI5iL-Ok&t=25s and see how he's just sort of hunched over and casual.
10 years later and I still can't let go. Shortly after they killed Reader, perhaps as a coping mechanism, I wrote a little wrapper that lets me use the Reader frontend on top of newsblur's API. The frontend is a pretty straight forward single page app, and ex-reader engineer Mihai Parparita had already demonstrated how to do this in the readerisdead[0] project.

[0]: https://github.com/mihaip/readerisdead
Guess someone in that category felt called out. You might need to pay attention to what others say, not what you think they say.
I'd say the issue is "factionalism" as the US founding fathers identified it. Some group (elites, landlords, corporations, white people, etc) is looking out only for themselves at the expense of society in general. East Asian countries love enforcing their conformity and harmony.
Okay, so what is the point (in terms more specific than "quick hacks that might come in handy a couple times per year", and for whom, exactly)?
Sounds like an awful morning even if you get away injury free. I'll only use it on my beefiest mugs with walls straight vertical from mouth to counter. Watching people use one on a dainty mug with weird surface geometry and more of a cup shape gets me squirming in a hurry.
Emphasizing scores is not inherently more fair than a holistic approach. The process is inherently opinionated.
"You have nothing! Nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength."
I don't think anything you're saying disagrees with the author's point. People do work on hobbies, and charity, but the push from culture above is all about making money, getting in the grind, "how can you monetize that hobby?". It's not universal, but it is a strong push.
This trope gets trotted out every time someone casts a skeptical eye on buzzy tech. In this case GP is saying that OpenAI, Microsoft and Google's apps are already "Dropbox-y" enough and that (paraphrasing fairly hard) the flood of "AI" startups are wafer thin combinations of "Bootstrap UI + GPT API calls + a vector store".

Maybe there's a killer unicorn app hiding in one of those wafer thin wrappers, but OP's point is precisely that it's disappointing how wafer-ish all these "exciting applications" actually are, relative to the massive sense of expectation that existed only a few months ago.
Given Sussman's aversion to mysterious black-box AI, that's an interesting observation. The curriculum change brings everyone one step closer to not really understanding how things work.

Of course, it's often pointed out, "Well, if you write in Scheme (or C or Java or whatever) then you're not writing in assembly language, much less machine language, so you already don't understand everything." There's certainly truth there, but, to me, going from, expertise writing code in a high-level programming language to, gluing together libraries that you kinda-sorta understand, feels like a bigger leap in what you do or do not understand than going from assembly language to Python.
> which probably wouldn't mind bombing the shit out of their own city if it was necessary to stay in power

See the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Good riddance. I still remember when some degenerate Natl Geo photographer seduced my mother while he was up here taking pictures of bridges or some such nonsense.
I'm fairly sure a safety factor capable of going NaN is not going to go well...
Yes, Cookies, the only possible way the engineers at 1.5T dollar company thought to identify end users.
Just as an aside, Cuba's healthcare system kind of rules, especially given their place in the world.

It's so good they practically have a surplus they use in trade. Like, they'll send doctors or medicines to other third world countries the US hates or ignores in exchange for oil or whatever. People tout how amazing it was USA could make covid vaccines so quickly, but Cuba did that too (while under trade embargos from the USA). It's impressive.
Schools don’t make a ton of money from having better students.

Endowment money is a really long term play and probably comes from old money rather than new money 99% of the time
1. Youtube creators move to sponsors where Youtube isn't getting a cut, which means youtube has to keep the lights on with only ad revenue.

2. Many users want to keep blocking/avoiding ads & don't want to pay. So they want to use the service for literally free. What other monitization method do you propose?

3. Their parent company's revenue doesn't matter. Is Google expected to run a free service that is very expensive and serves billions of users?

4. Youtube demonitizes people to keep advertisers on the platform. Users blocking ads & not paying ("freeloaders") only exacerbate the issue by being a drain on resources and further incentivizes Youtube to keep striving to preserve revenue by demonetization.
> HN was originally looking for user entrepeneurialness.

I don't know what the original site guidelines said, but the earliest version I could find in the wayback machine (July 2, 2014) starts exactly the same as the current content. [1]

Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Who builds these things and why is BOTH the architecture and workmanship so shoddy?

They are the direct result of having more money than taste. If they like it, who am I to criticize?
I've been desperate to give Youtube money for some sort of premium experience to remove advertising but their insistence of bundling that product with Youtube Music and jacking up the price makes it a non-starter. I already have Apple Music, I just can't justify paying $23 dollars every month for my kids and I when when it comes with a Music service we'll never use.

For the love of god Google just offer a standalone Youtube Premium option without the music subscription.
>and advertisers have no way to know I didn’t watch it

So YouTube has no idea that the content was skipped by SponsorBlock? I find that hard to believe.
My child watched a 10 minute video the other day on a machine that doesn't have an adblocker installed on it.

There were 4 "commercial breaks" of 2, unskippable 30 second ads. So, 4 minutes extra.

That's an extra 40% of the original video length (10 minutes). That's 30% of the total length (14 minutes).

It's almost exactly the same as broadcast tv, maybe slightly high? TV averages 12-20 minutes per 60 of tv being ads.

Not really sure what to do with that. It feels like I should be upset, but really, it's proportionate to what already exists and I'm only upset because it's worse than it was 10 years ago.
The key about ads and ad-blocking is simple: I don't care. I don't care about any of these companies. I don't care about their costs or business model. And I don't particularly care about their product, because it is ephemeral and optional to me.

There's far too many people in "business" today who think they provide anything of any real, determinable value to me rather then a passing fancy which will be easily replaced or discarded.

And this doesn't just apply to the content hosters: it also applies to their advertisers. There is nothing of value being advertised these days. It's all misrepresented junk, when it's not outright scams. It isn't worth ever exposing yourself to.
I've long believed that universities' non-profit status should depend on admissions not considering legacy or donor status.

If Harvard wants to preference legacy students, that's their right. But they (and their endowment) shouldn't get a tax break for it.
It’s a great excuse and the price is usually right to rebuild to your taste. Almost all new construction happens in areas that are newly developed. It’s cheaper to rebuild these houses than to tear down one that’s sold for a price that includes the structure.
The channels that I had in mind when I wrote that are channels by experts in their fields, which somehow often happen to be low production value - because you know real scientists are about substance, not style :-)

So here's a random one in that category: this guy decided to try and build a mass spectrometer from scratch

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nIKhUizkXxA
They don't need to be descendants of oppressed blacks specifically: The claim was that AA doesn't solve the issues of inner cities because the beneficiaries are not of low SES PRESENTLY. What their history is is irrelevant. If AA doesn't add stability to the people presently living in low income areas, it fails to solve the problem.
Harvard didn't have to compete with Harvard. It didn't have to compete with anyone, because it was the very first institution of higher learning, founded to train clergy.

Now, with transportation across the country taking mere hours rather than months, a new college would have to compete with every college in the country.

On top of that, you need to deal with accreditation and lots of other red tape to even get to the point where you could start attracting the talent that is being rejected, meaning you are competing with top state schools and next-tier private schools.
Until there are. You're crazy if you trust Google to not change this down the road.
Exactly. No score had a deterministic admissions process to begin with.
There are four browser extensions I use just to clean up youtube garbage. Shouldn't have to do it, but it works well enough for me.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/improve-youtube-%F...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blocktube/bbeaicap...
Isnt that alan aldo, not alan arkin?
> natural selection may have more sway over it than we do.

Natural selection has been superceded by culture for thousands of years. Most of mating through recorded history was arranged or calculated marriages, which should probably mean we are also more frail and less robust than hunter gatherers.

Besides, the goal of natural selection is self-preservation, not intelligence or exploration or any of the things that drive our fancy nowadays. Might be good for planet earth but we are out of here soon (right guys?)
> Noam Chomsky is frequently quoted in Russian propaganda outlets. Should we disregard everything he says?

Mostly, yes.

Not because of that, but its not really an example of the bias you discuss producing the wrong result.
The precedent here is that any of the 200 nations of the world now can arbitrarily tell browsers what to do. It's forcing the browser to be non-neutral to content & sites, forcing it to become a regulatory agent.

Right now it also sounds like thr government is basically sending letters. How does a browser maker know what letters to trust & which are outright bogus or someone in thr government overstepping their bounds? What is the expected maintenance burden we are putting on folks making browsers?

Are there any limits to this rule? What happens if elinks browser or w3m doesn't update itself? How will the government figure out who to send updates to?
Excellent news. One big reason why the deleterious adware economy has no viable competitor is that somewhat sophisticated users can partially opt out of it and get subsidized by the less savvy.
By forcing people to pay for youtube premium (which, in fairness to Google is very reasonably priced) or look elsewhere, non-surreptitiously-paid-for consumer services become much more viable.

Unfortunately, the other reason non-surreptitiously-paid-for services are currently not viable is that most people, including the vast majority of HN seem to be, uhm, not very sophisticated about reasoning about costs (to most people the k-gadzillions that google makes apparently materialize out of thin air, instead of really coming out of large_overhead_factor*k gadzillions they personally proportionally pay for). This seems hard to overcome.

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Switched from KeepassXC to Bitwarden and it's been mostly great.

The three major things that were not great have been
- Import required a lot of manual cleanup due to poor mapping between the tools
- while BW has a browser plugin, it doesn't communicate locally, it takes to BW servers. I need multiple browser instances during the day, and having to sign in once on the desktop is best, and a browser extension could talk to my local instance like KeypassXC did.
- limited TOTP other than sha, 6 pin, and 30 seconds. Others do exist, but if the clients doesn't support them, the services don't want to risk locking out all the users.

Overall I'm glad I'm using it, and might look into PRs in the future, but it would be nice to see a bit of UX love in the apps.
You'll get a compiler error though unless you, in the same edit-compile cycle, created a new variable with the same name.

You also can't search-replace a type name as easily, because other variables will have the same original type but not need to be updated.
It's not fair because they became a monopoly by offering a free service. Now they can ask whatever they want.
Good documentary on a historic dam failure in CA.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-dese...
Yet that is never brought to the courts. Funny how that works out in the end.
> But nothing else seems popular. Why actually?

I think markdown's popularity comes from its simplicity. For things like bulleted lists, especially nested ones, I can just type an asterisk and keep going. The raw input is still very readable (for the most part) and adding formatting is quick and easy. For anything basic - such as chat systems, social media posts/comments, or quick note systems - I don't think anything more is needed.

Something like reStructuredText (.rst) is a similar alternative, but I think that if you're irritated by the limits of Markdown then rST isn't going to be any better. If you really want good formatting options, then LaTeX is the best I can think of at the moment.