skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (Is there some kind of universal law that you're citing, that claims that it's impossible to build a useful, unbiased system?)

Usually it'd be a trade-off, where you'd give up some quality at doing the main job to gain whatever the secondary objective would be, e.g. producing results according to whatever desired distribution.

That said, the bigger issue would be defining what "unbiased" means. There're some mutually-exclusive notions of what it'd take to be unbiased, so if "unbiased" requires not being biased according to any perspective, then, yeah, it wouldn't generally be possible.

For a quick example, say that we want to be unbiased in our representation of men-vs.-women in a profession. Then, is the proper ratio: (1) 50% men and 50% women; (2) population-weighted ratios (because men and women aren't generally equally represented in the population); (3) profession-weighted ratios (because men and women aren't generally equally represented in a profession); (4) observer-subjective ratio (this is, a realistic ratio for how often a viewer might actually see men-vs.-women of that profession); (5) something else? What about intersexed people -- should they be represented, and if so, at what ratio, and how should men/women be adjusted to account for them?

Then, what if the photo would be served by having a person of a certain height, to best fill the space while not covering up more -- then, should the algorithm be biased toward a man or a woman based on typical heights, to accurately represent sex-specific height-distributions? Or, should it deviate from that, and present men and women as having the same height-distribution? And if we do deviate from that to pretend that men and women have the same height-distribution, but that height-distribution more closely matches the actual height-distribution for one sex than the other, then is that itself a form of bias?

Then, same as above, but for weight. Then for body size.

Then, what if men and women have different fashions in the relevant culture, and one fashion would better fit the scene -- can that be a factor? And if so, what should be the logic for picking the relevant culture?

Then, how should interactions be handled? For example, if we're generating pictures of doctors who're also mothers, then should men be included in that, or is it okay to only have female doctors in that context? Or what if we're generating pictures of doctors at a conference for female doctors in specific but has some male attendees -- then what ratio would be correct?

Point being that, for someone designing algorithms that would be "unbiased", they'd presumably want to know what folks would accept as a valid solution to that objective. Without a clear definition of what's desired, it'd seem like any particular solution would be open to criticism from other perspectives.
Keyboards are an endless money pit for me. Every year or so I’ll randomly get dissatisfied with my setup and seek to somehow upgrade it. At some point I’ll have to admit that it’s because I just like playing with new hardware… but maybe not today :)
It depends. The last numbers YT released was that they took a 45% cut and that they used watched minutes, not views. The obvious way is distributing the remaining 55% out porportionally based on what you watch.

If you watch twice as much, your profit/minute must be half.
All good advice, but not really addressing OP's question of how to actually find and attract users
No, most Youtube videos by far are created for free and at a loss.

Most ads are also paid at a loss, by companies doing an experiment then closing it.

Youtube only brought the marketing around their brand of being the first platform. They inherited this position from the early days of the internet.

They did acquire it for $1.65bn circa 2006, then maintained it at a great cost. But the second on the market doesn’t stand a chance.
Seeing a man (or a woman) slap a women (or a man) in a porn video is not going to influence someone or cause someone to slap a woman during intercourse in real life. If the real life people are into that, and consenting, then there is nothing wrong with a little rough sex - they can do what they want. If it is unwelcome, then the relationship was not meant to last anyway, and the people made a bad decision to be together. It's really as simple as that. I'm not sure why this is so difficult for some people here to understand.

The sibling comment is also completely wrong, suggesting that "porn invented the facial". I commented with a citation demonstrating how that is false.

>And whilst “think of the children” is often used in a pearl clutching manner it doesn’t obviate the need to sometimes think about the impacts of the adult world on kids.

You're pearl clutching. If you don't want your kids watching porn, then maybe be a more attentive parent and don't let them watch porn. This really isn't about children though, because I am not responsible for what your kid watches. There is nothing wrong with an adult watching a video of two consenting adults having sex. You're just trying to make it seem wrong because you're too prudish to want to watch it yourself, so you think nobody else should be able to watch it either. Sorry, but the world doesn't work the way you want it to.
The article is poorly written to support a clickbait headline. I found it hard to follow.
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That makes sense, given how startups (at least those VC funded) are defacto quasi-scams with a goal of creating an illusion of an unicorn, and then quickly flipping it in an IPO, and happily running away with the money. For such purpose, creating functionality that looks as if it works, but in reality is incomplete and buggy, may be just as good as the real thing. It's all about maintaing the charade until the key people can exit rich (preferably as quickly as possible).
> I hate A/B testing.

I agree. As a user, A/B testing is a horrible practice.
I wouldn't advocate for replacing/re-writing old stuff - but you should try out Kotlin for backend work. It's amazing.

Java programmers will have only a small learning curve before feeling productive, and can gradually get more comfortable with idomatic Kotlin as they progress through their journey.

Kotlin, as a language, was very well through out, letting you use as much or as little of it as you are comfortable with.
https://www.google.com/search?q=semiotics+Stanford+Encyclope...

That will give you lots to keep you busy, though it is a bit deeper in the stack than most people in modern culture can tolerate.
It's not a weird take. It can be valuable to see how a certain demographic differs from the rest and how big an outlier big tech might be in a number of ways.

Do you even care about the data or are you just here to protect your weird US-based self-esteem? Why wouldn't you want to find out more?

Also, how much tax revenue do these companies really pay?

And what productivity benefit? It feels like now you're really reaching. What productivity benefit is there that isn't also achieved by everybody else on the planet with access to their services? Stop trying to make shit up.
Httpyac, to install the VS Code extension, just do:

ext install anweber.vscode-httpyac
One of my favorite games for the dev, non region locked, ps1 I have. Picked it up out of a used game bin for a couple of bucks. I still find myself humming the soundtrack.
Fear not, 2024 will be the Year of Linux Desktop. /s
Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field prevents these kinds of rays from reaching the surface of the Earth.
I love veroboard. It is so accessible. It was a bit of a shock to get into amateur radio and to learn its limitations at higher frequencies, but for everything else it is a great way to build projects.
The actual "Scorpio."

Unless I'm missing something crucial, this seems pretty absurd and probably shouldn't be mentioned by the wiki page at all.

From the first wiki source here https://www.space.com/2458-ancient-rock-art-depicts-explodin...

>The Hohokam petroglyph depicts symbols of a scorpion and stars that match a model showing the relative positions of the supernova with respect to the constellation Scorpius.

Then here's the second source https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/did-ancient-ameri...

>"We have no reason to think prehistoric Indians of the American Southwest saw a scorpion in the stars of Scorpius," says Krupp. "In fact, in North America, the stars of Scorpius are imagined as various figures but not as a scorpion."
Which interests are those, and how is a subscription better than a one-time purchase?

I smell dishonesty. SaaS is aligned solely to the business's interest. They control the code, they control whether you even access it after paying, etc. The customer gets no rights or considerations, so it's a one-sided transaction.

Just like Netflix and friends. I only do one subscription service and it's to play online with my niece and nephew. The rest of the subscription world can suck it, they want rent for Internet-bound software that spies and tells on you so they can sell data on top of your subscription.

Business cannot get software sales correct. Game makers did back in the 80s, 90s, and 00s before DLC became a thing.

One purchase, one perpetual license, no phoning home. Too hard to do for the modern commercial developer, it seems.

So, which interests of mine would a SaaS satisfy?
He's (rightfully) calling you dishonest because, if a guy who posts on Facebook or Reddit did this, you wouldn't be saying "Facebook this X" or "Reddit did X", you would say "This guy did X". Yet, for some reason, when a person on 4chan does something, it's not "This guy did X", but rather "4chan did X".
More than 75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike in clash with over wages
HDR is such a clusterf*ck right now.

Especially with monitors. I am so sick of every monitor with Vesa HDR-400 claiming they're an "HDR" monitor. I'm sorry, but that standard is garbage. It's so bad it's meaningless.

Not only is that a pathetic amount of brightness, but the local dimming required is just awful. You can have a screen with a whopping 4 zones that react terribly and slap an HDR label on it.

HDR-600 is barely any better, frankly.
> they promote absolute trash like Nikocado Avocado

I have never had one of his videos promoted to me. You may have a different filter bubble / reccomendation algorithm pushing it towards you because you watch similar content?
There's nothing inherently slow about the way you structure a program in Erlang. Most of the problems come from copying values around when sending them across processes.
> Google pays for the bandwidth and storage, and in many cases, pays royalties to the video creator.

If the amount that is paid to content creators compared to the amount of bucks that google makes, I'd agree. But its not 50/50. It's more 99/1.

I pay for the bandwidth not google. They pay toss all, they have local peering, local cache. Doesn't cost Google a dime meanwhile I have to pay for the bandwidth wasted from the advertising.

Storage, meh. Part of digital infrastructure.
Show HN: Tools I Created with ChatGPT
Ask HN: Do I have to know in advance on how to make money from a side project?
Many YC videos and Paul Graham's essays emphasize the value of discovering startup ideas organically, often through building side projects that you are interested in. But does it have to be something I am interested to build AND I know someone who would pay money for this? Or I can just start building staff to solve my problems.
Reading un-replicated papers as authoritative accounts is definitely a problem. Solution: don't do that.
You are not the first person to tell me that. Honestly I'd like to but the limiting factor is time. I'm doing all this in my personal time.
Proposal for a no meetings day at NeXT (1986)
Why would you want to use Google Maps in China? All the crowdsourced information wouldn't be available and the government is hostile to it. Wouldn't it be better to use whatever the Chinese competitor is?

Unless your goal is to read about Tiananmen Square in Tiananmen Square. Which just doesn't sound smart.

Obviously, it's different if you live there. But on a two-week vacation it doesn't seem worth it.
You're not wrong, but reading the autopsies of most of these 100M dollar incidents suggest that having a slightly above average detection posture would eliminate most of the damage.
The same way anyone enforces things outside of their borders, through force.
I'm coming at this from a Erlang/Elixir background , Where we basically have "virtual threads" but they aren't at the OS level. It's easy to use and making things concurrent (or parallel) is often trivial. Whether it's 1 extra virtual thread or millions of virtual threads, the code (and the horizontal scaling of that code is the same)
I'm similar. The idea of dedicating desk space, two extra cables, the compute to power the displays, and electricity, to show something like email seems incredibly wasteful to me. Not to mention, do people that do this not feel cramped when they don't have their full setup?

I've also never been a "maximize the window" type of person. Buying an ultra-wide was a huge help tho I will admit.
For anybody interested in being more present while walking, I recommend photography.

You will become more aware of your surroundings if you look for cool things to photograph. I recomand using an actual camera, the quality of it is irrelevant. Using your phone will be a distraction since you open it to take a photo, but see a notification from x and then you will at least think about how to respond, even if you don’t open it.
If MS bundled in some hardware it would be similar to the iPhone Upgrade Program where one pays monthly and gets new hardware every year (which is bundled with the OS). How much of the consumer's payment hardware and how much OS/software? The consumer is just paying for value provided by peace of mind that they have something that works. (This is a hypo on my part as my personal value is to keep using the same phone until the OS is too far out of date.)

https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
Interesting. I see from your link that this particle had 1/6 of the energy of a lethal dose of x-rays.

I'm guessing I would probably survive, but certainly wouldn't volunteer to get hit with such a particle, and I'm guess that if it went through my brain stem or maybe my heart, there's a good chance it would kill me.
Sponsorblock only works because YT allows you to skip anywhere in a video.
It seems to be becoming the hard money, no?
The video ads and the native video ads.
Nobody asked but I'd like to chime in with my method.

I have a lot of aliases, for example to start my QEMU VM with my development stuff in it, I make an alias for 'qemu-system-x86_64 [...]' with all the switches and devices and files required, called 'startvm'. I have another that takes me to my current project's folder and pulls the repo. And a third that creates a new folder called 'newproject', creates a small set of folders and empty files with specific names, and finally makes a git repo in it. I am a serial abandoner of projects so I use this more often than I care to admit.

It's not pretty, but functional; and since I always copy my dotfiles when I change computers, I've kept these small helpers with me for a while now.
So what you are saying is the "good" logistics operators haver their shit together already and don't need your solutions, and the cowboys won't even consider them?
There's several instances in which creators deliberately uploaded videos unmonetized under the understanding that this would comply with some kind of noncommercial licensing requirement[0] (e.g. NCommander's video on the MSWord 1.0 source). Such uploads are now retroactively illegal unless you're already partnered, since YouTube now only allows partners to disable monetization.

To be slightly fair to YouTube, they never added NC clauses to their Creative Commons declaration support, but I doubt that was evidence of a 10-year plan to demand monetization.

But on the other hand, they also made a huge stink about keeping Partner status out of the hands of people who shouldn't have it. That move now retroactively looks like YouTube trying to front-run smaller creators on ad revenue, especially if something they make goes 'viral' before they can make partner.

[0] For the purpose of this comment let's pretend that 'not monetized' satisfies whatever flimsy 'noncommercial' license declaration exists
Yup, thank the hobbyists. Pytorch is allowing other hardware. Stable diffusion working on m chips, intel arc, and Amd.

Now what I'd like to see is real benchmarks for compute power. Might even get a few startups to compete in this new area.
You mean the less than 2 year period in a product that has been out for 18 years? Short lived.
"Tools we use to reduce cognitive load"

The essence of the software literacy revolution

"Share Tools we use to reduce cognitive load"

The essence of the FOSS revolution

Just one line and it was like a road to damascus
This scam has happened with many sites and apps (Instagram). Build community and then sell it.
But don't all threads of a process share mostly the same address space?
I could imagine that starting many processes would exhaust address space, or allocating a lot of virtual memory / mmap without committing.
Hmm... the biggest category on YouTube is music, which until a colossal lawsuit was all pirated.

It has and was built on piracy.

Maybe you odn't believe me because it's "different" in your opinion today.

Look anywhere else in the world, it's piracy dude. For example, here's a search for "seinfeld s01e03" for video lengths 10-30m on Bilibili:

https://search.bilibili.com/all?keyword=seinfeld+s01e03&from...

I don't know. On the one hand, end users take from Google by blocking ads. On the other, Google takes from creators through piracy.

At the end of the day, the problem with video is the lack of business innovation that's anywhere near comparable to games.
For what it's worth, rust_std_unstable is mostly a port of cpp_pdqsort_unstable.
curl cheat.sh/awk # is the intended behavior, and it frequently goes into way more detail than tldr does. Both great tools!
Things take time. If you want you can contribute resources to the vs code plugin and the eclipse language server.
Extending your simile, some devices need the equivalent of UDP in order to function within the size/power envelopes that make them useful. Bluetooth vs the nRF24L01+.

There are standards like this in highly interoperable systems, but there’s a cost paid. USB-C power delivery negotiation (beyond the very basic 5V3A resistor that people omit) is roughly as complicated as gigabit ethernet. That compute has to come from somewhere and it turns out customers won’t even pay for that 5V3A resistor - they’ll just use A to C cables and replace it when it “won’t charge” from a compliant charger. :) Average person probably only cares that USB-C can be flipped and that the connector feels less brittle than microUSB.

UPnP exists. Lots of what you describe exists. Between bugs in implementations becoming canon and a lack of consumer interest, no real conspiracy required. At least smartphones and tablets are trending in a good direction - Apple’s latest supports basic off the shelf USB-C Ethernet, displays, hubs, and so on.
> Google search is a good example of this, ads are literally intertwined into the search results, if you take this a few steps further you have ads that you literally can't block on the client.

I'm not sure about your "few steps" so this may be moot. Is there no sufficient workaround of this nature?

document.querySelector('.waste-of-money')?.remove();

Google might detect that the element was removed; ad blockers use CSS shenanigans to hide the element. Google might detect such shenanigans; ad blockers are forced to change. And so on. Is there really a way for Google to end this cat/mouse game in their favor?
I would rather cycle thorough tools than deal with piss poor user experience of something like that.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic? YouTube ads are served by Google, just like the rest of YouTube. You can verify this by looking where your network requests go in devtools.

(I used to work on ads at Google, but in a different area and don't know anything about YouTube beyond what I can see in devtools.)
Yes, I see it in the mind but not with my eyes. In a way, all vision is in the mind, but the origin of the image is like a different channel of information. I'm aware of the blackness behind my closed eyelids, but it's easy to let that go, switch focus to a different channel of information. There is a perfect image of an apple in a white space.
My new best guess is that most of the energy would no be contained in your body but would be ejected out as a bunch of other high energy particles (just not that high energy).
> this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care.

Funnily enough, Google doesn't allow yt-downloader extensions on the Chrome web store. They will cite you rule #4, and send you a rejection letter for "Facilitating unauthorized access to or download of copyrighted content or media, specifically, YouTube." The irony of course is that they allow downloader extensions for other websites. That they specifically prohibit youtube downloaders while allowing downloaders for almost any other website smells suspiciously like anti-competitive behavior to me.

On the other hand, Firefox's addon store is free from these restrictions, so you can find tons of yt download extensions there.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-discovery-enable-network-inter... :

> made a device capable of the conversion of quantum information between microwave and optical photons

Acoustic waves (phonons) affect electromagnetic waves (EM waves), which are also described as quantized quanta of light (photons)

Particle-Wave Duality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality

Because the medium is fluidic, at least, I believe fluids are probably necessary to predict real-world phononic transmission with high accuracy; why does e.g. shortwave radio wave in and out given Earth's fluidic atmosphere?
My 14 year old self DREAMED of owning a DEC Alpha64 !!

I remember it being on the cover of LinuxJournal around 90's I could think/desire nothing else for 6 months :(

RIP!
> 2008 specifically

Perhaps the parent comment is talking about pre-Google and you are talking about post-Google? I don’t know if the parent’s claim is correct about a bait and switch, but I can confirm that pre-Google YouTube did not have (video) ads and felt very much like a place for small independent creators.

And from my memory, widespread ads on every video did not come into existence for many years. Originally they were only on selected monetized videos.
And DriveSpace, turning my 20 MB disk into a 40 MB, greatly appreciated as I couldn't afford buying a new disk at the time.
My understanding is that they have yet to come up with a warp solution where you can cause the warp to accelerate. So, at this point drive is a bit of a misnomer.
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Off topic, so apologies in advance. Why do environments so often get capitalised like that? Prod isn’t an acronym, it’s an abbreviation of Production. Similarly Dev is an abbreviation of Development.

I know in the grand scheme of things it’s meaningless, this is just one of those things that’s like someone scratching their fingers down a blackboard when I see it day to day.