skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If “an academic is sour they didn’t receive credit” and “an academic wants to help the world” are both on the menu, you should always linger over the first possibility. Hell, I’m an academic and you should consider it in regards to this post.
uBlock and YouTube have been regularly updating to counteract each other's counteractions for the past few weeks (at least, in my branch of the A/B rollout). Force refreshing the filters has usually fixed the issue for me. There's also a pinned thread on the subreddit with troubleshooting issues.

I rarely use YouTube on my computer these days anyway, I mainly use NewPipe.
Yeah, I have to disagree, I wrote this deliberately. I could live much better with the other developments if at least we had intuitive, consistent, efficient, native GUIs.
The implications of considering others before blurting stuff out are strictly positive! But maybe what you wrote is a reference that I didn't get:)
Read the rest of what wrote this commenter.
> "We have been profitable for 20 years straight"

I don't know why this is more of a thing for other fields as well. I like my suppliers to be profitable for decades. All the new and shiny is ... well, new and shiny. Long term, I want stability, not new and shiny.
They were referring to the GP and generally agreeing with the person they replied to.
I've recently been wondering how viable is it for me to send a ToS in a request header that basically says something along the lines of "If your server chooses to respond to this request with a non-error HTTP code and content, it constitutes your acceptance of these terms. These terms say you owe me $10 per ad you attempt to show to me."
> If Google doesn't give up on it I think it's going to be a much better stack for cross platform applications than the browser is.

When I read this, I don't know if you're saying it's not ready yet or something. Is it close but not there yet? Do you experience bugs?
Well, at least they have a plan B, and, presumably, also a plan A!

That is two plans more than some!
Do you expect people to be born already with all books published up until Date.now() in their heads?

I can't believe this needs to even be explained but the reason spoilers are spoilers and are discouraged is that some people sometimes save something very good for later (and guess what that's disproportionately the classics because they tend to be good) and some people are too young and have not had time to read all of what you read (even if they wanted to for some reason)

In this case additionally the spoiler (detailing plot point and revealing what work it's in) was not necessary at all
Going to Toast Masters. Surprisingly fun, especially table topics (where you have to improvise a talk for 2 mins or so on a random topic).
As opposed to Java applets?
At high volumes of foot traffic the high cost of sending pedestrians up over a footbridge is greater over the lifetime of a bridge than doing the same to cars.

Consider the physical risks pedestrians takes vs cars over a bridge, the lost time on each journey for cars vs people going over a bridge, fuel costs from additional car trips vs additional fuel cars expend going over a single bridge etc.

Even relatively modest levels of foot traffic pay for a cheap bridge that’s going to last ~50 years.
I have used that on my Linux PC running Window Maker, for decades. I learned about the shortcut in its config app.

But that is also yet another thing that wouldn't work with touch/pen-based interfaces, when your only keyboard is an on-screen keyboard.
Is there any time in history when capital has done anything other than try to suppress labor costs?
Yes, but that works both ways. My website works the way I code it to work, and if that means I detect adblockers and display a different page to you if you're running one then that's the website you visited and you have no recourse other than to accept that's how I want it to work.

You can't have things both ways. You have to accept that the cost of seeing content is to see ads. You should have no expectation that you can block ads and see content.
Check out the Doomsday Rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

I learned this years ago and it is life changing. It can be used to figure out the day of the week of any day in a couple seconds.

For example, the rule immediately tells me that Boxing Day is a Tuesday[0], so I know Christmas falls on a Monday this year.

[0] as does 3/14, 4/4, 5/9, 6/6, 7/4, 7/11, 8/8, 9/5, 10/10, 10/31, 11/7, and 12/12 since those anchor points are always on the same “doomsday”. Based on that, any day is just a little bit of addition/subtraction.
It’s entirely viable to send, but said contract would be entirely invalid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds
They cracked down on me just yesterday, although they offered a few months of free premium to make up for it. Honestly I'm a bit split, I've often thought that supporting the internet through ads and information gathering has been a huge detriment that's lead to a lot of anti-patterns, so I really should pay up since that's the logical alternative. As long as they continue to provide a reasonable alternative to viewing ads, although I'm sure they'll continue to harvest my personal data.
Its a nice thought, but I cant make myself believe it. It seems more likely to me that her words were coerced or forced and she was manipulated into confession. I imagine she was saying whatever she thought she needed to in the short term to appease her interrogators with no thought to future readers who had no power to save her. Poor woman.
You can make it even funnier.

create table from (select UInt8, where UInt8) engine = MergeTree() order by tuple();
insert into from values (1, 1), (2, 1), (3, 0), (4, 0), (5, 1);
select select from from where where;

select select from from where where is a really lovely query.
Well - if the dollar being devalued is the whole story everything should go up by more or less the same %. This was clearly not the case.
Perhaps one could argue that the dollar being devalued triggered inflation but the quantum of it is a combination of mutliple factors - one (and probably the biggest) of which is supplier concentration and their pricing power.
Honestly, for the amount of time I spend watching YouTube content, YouTube Premium is a bargain. People have been spoiled by VC funds allowing services to run without making a profit for so long that paying for a web service that's so cash-hungry like streaming HD video to hundreds of millions of people a day is almost a foreign concept.

I would rather we discuss the benefits of paying rather than how to circumvent adblock bans, which will just lead to even more unpleasant ways of recouping costs.
So what do we do if price discovery zeros out consumer surplus because pricing based profit maximation by competitors creates synthetic oligopoly or monopoly pricing? Move to auctions everywhere? Something else?

I have yet to see a good answer to that.
There are times when I find this utterly infuriating, but other times it's an absolute blessed relief. I know there's no point wasting time hunting for a solution (that may or may not make the situation worse) and I should just walk away and do something more meaningful instead.
Not a big deal at all. I'm sure the manager can name drop 10 other people, like book authors, the interviewee never heard of.
Ask HN: How do you organize your life?
This includes long-term goals, short-term goals, daily planning, TODO lists, reviews, your everyday workflow, and so on.

Over the years I've experimented with several different systems. Simple TODO lists, OKRs, a single ascii huge text file with daily schedules and a few templates, emacs org-mode, and now I am using Obsidian. But I've never been full satisfied with any of the systems. Looking back, the large plain text file was probably the best overall, but org-mode also had some really nice features for scheduling and tracking.
Yep, they don't care as long as they make billions. It's really horrible how macOS in general has become so lackluster when it comes to performance. When your competitors can extract more performance on the same hardware (that you designed !) it really shows there is something wrong.

But I guess they fixed it with the Apple Silicon switch : no direct comparison possible so they can pretend to be as competitive as they want.
I believe the AS switch was in part to avoid competing and the prices increases validate that...
I don't find it really work for me.
Get rid of the misbehavers and you get better results for everyone.

When the military can discipline parents for misbehaving kids, the kids do not misbehave.
Serial over Bluetooth on the Web
https://optoflow.app/
This Webflow optimizer works and we use it in production – so that's not really "half baked". But we'd like to add one-click hosting and some other neat features, but for now that's it. :)
Russian Researchers Develop Chipmaking Tool That Can Replace Litho Tools
(1) It is played indoors, there is not a lot of light. The environment can be visually cluttered. To make matters worse, at my Uni the arena (where they also play basketball) has bright LED video signs that cause the scene to be backlit. (The college on the other hill though has a much better arena from my point of view, I can even sit on the floor in front of the bleachers which is a great angle though I know if I do it long enough I'll get hit by the ball.)

Some consequences are: high ISO shooting with a lot of noise which means you can’t shoot wide and crop it without noise being terrible (maybe you have two players in the frame), Open aperture means your focus has to be precise but it can be a challenging environment for autofocus. I have a 90mm which takes lovely pictures and does pretty good in low light but when the autofocus resets it takes two seconds and I certainly can’t focus faster than that myself. You will be using a prime lens instead of a zoom lens because of the low light which means you can’t just set the focal length to what is convenient for you.

(2) In soccer or field hockey you can just follow the ball and shoot bursts and get some dramatic shots. A player might be dribbling for several seconds. American football is a little tougher because of the stop and start nature: a good shot of a passing play means anticipating and planning ahead.

In volleyball though contact with the ball is so quick that you can’t at all see something and shoot it, you have to be set up ahead of time, be focused ahead of time (I used the auto focus lock for the first time), be looking at the viewfinder and looking at the ball at the same time, etc. Fortunately the action is a volleyball game is highly structured, the players are work together in a certain way so if you stick to a player you will actually take the same shot over and over.

I’ve challenged myself to shoot a game of every sport my Uni has a varsity team of and so far volleyball is the first one where I walked away from a game without any good shots, I went and asked at dpreview for help and went back and got much better results.
Actually no, I'm a city boy and use public transport. But delineators are not what I'm talking about, rather signs which say "this is a road" every 20 feet, those don't exist since they would be entirely pointless, like comments which mirror (hopefully) the line of code that follows.

There's a thing that happens when you start coding, you put comments next to the sharp corners to remind you what it does (because your code is obscure and non-obvious, you've just started doing this), then you want it to look tidy and professional, and occasional comments look unbalanced, asymmetric, so you add comments on the obvious bits to give a nice uniform look to it. You end up with

// say hello
printf("This is foo (version %s)\n", VERSION);

I'm as guilty of this as everyone else. The OP is saying try to avoid that, comments have a maintenance cost.
You could use the excuse that you are complying with the law per "California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices":

* https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/05/california-passes-law-that...
I paid for Premium Lite because I hate ads, wanted to support creators and and price was decent. However they removed that option, and now there's just regular Premium which has YouTube Music which I don't really need and offline viewing is a non-issue for me as I never watch videos over metered connections.

I did sign up for Nebula[1], but there's several smaller YouTube channels that are only on YouTube so will be a bummer to go Nebula-only.

I also like to watch YouTube links from others in a private/incognito session so it doesn't pollute my viewing history (it's a chore to manually clean it). But with 15 minutes of ads or whatever it is now that won't happen.

[1]: https://nebula.tv/
Yeah, if I'm not currently relaxing on the couch I'd look up members of this panel and see who's been donating to them/what companies are in their jurisdiction...

Edit: Well I did look it up for the committee chair: https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jack-reed/su...

Top 5 donators are all defense contractors...
My headcanon is that this is no different than most ToS on websites, and if those hold up to legal scrutiny, so should this. Either both are valid or neither are.
i see this some days and not others. testing stuff in production - not a good idea?
> The author seems to have some suspicions that the other user attempted to make good with it

This seems like something that should be extremely easy for Apple to see. If the data aligns completely with thr story OP tells, why won’t they help him?
Signal Identification Wiki
Whoever came up with that copy must be a complete megalomaniac.
Do you not know about virtual desktops in VR that are already available?
When I first opened this article, I thought (and hoped) it was lampooning the Fermyon article.
I asked not be tracked years ago. I set all the “do not track” switches and you did it anyway.

Now you want me to do this? I’ll do the same as you and do it anyway.

I wanted to be exclusively exclusively opt in only years ago, but you couldn’t fathom that being an option.

So me watching your ads isn’t an option I’ll fathom.

I wanted to get ahold of your support for help or concerns and you ignored me.

So I’ll ignore these plees too.

Want to make a deal? Ok: allow me to 100% opt out of tracking, for real. Allow me to use the products without your dumb cloud attached. You first, then we’ll talk.
I already reported this last night and seems like they went fully aggressive with it!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37863899
Right?

There are gold nuggets in many of this style of "manifesto". It just takes a handful of people treating it as dogma to stink them up.
Well first of all this claim is quite a bit exagerated, as a single QD could produce twice more electrons in some situations, but only in some. A process called MEG - Multiple exciton generation.

Let me explain a bit simplified. Normally in semiconductors, when a high energy photon is absorbed, excess energy is converted into heat, and you end up with an electron with energy equal to the bandgap of the semiconductor.

With QDs you could have two QDs in close proximity, and when one of them absorbs a photon with energy more than twice the bandgap, there is a possibility that instead of only one of them getting excited with excess energy, two excitons will form of half the photon energy in each of the two QDs. Resulting in double the amount of excited electrons (A doubling of the electrons!).
If this was really efficient it would mean that now you need to optimize your PV material bandgap differently. And instead of a theoretical maximum efficiency (Shockley-Queisser) for single bandgap solar cells of ~32%, you could theoretically get 45% with a single bandgap.[1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926140...
Or you know, try to evade the detection.

Like you can say that is unethical or immoral or whatever, but it is certainly a form of recourse.
> This is just wrong lol.

The needless condescension of your “lol” feels a bit premature.

How can you have self correction without superintelligence?
Why would you struggle with the scroll bar instead of using PgUp PgDn Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End ?
Or instead of changing out of the blue what exists today and is probably soaked into whole following ecosystem around the product and would be massive PITA to change it as well, you could have create parallel way for login (i.e. via certificate) and tell customer that password access will be deprecated in 1-2 years, so they have time to update their tooling.
Dont forget:

* What it does
* What it's for
Having it in your hands?

De facto ownership, if maybe not de jure.
I understand these cases are structurally different. I just don't see how a quasi-ban of hardcoded passwords could work, given current industry practices.

And I'm not sure these client-side secrets/group passwords are entirely meaningless. Some people somewhere must ascribe some security-related property to them.
Or perhaps a kind of standardized reverse EULA that you store in your browser. If the webpage doesn't support it, the page won't load.
Perhaps a problem is that we're trying to understand brains using (our) brains. And if our brains were powerful enough to do that, then maybe they'd be too hard for us to understand.

Obviously I'm equating "power" with comprehensibility. and that's probaly not completely valid. But I wonder if there's still some truth in it.

Also, while we can use abstraction to understand complex things, brains seeem to be such a mess of evolutionary shortcuts and cludges that I'm not sure how far abstraction gets us.

Just musings.
I agree, but that leads further to the argument that I then have the right to modify the code that is running on my machine as I wish, which includes removing protections you put in place to make it not work when I do something you don't like.

The cat-and-mouse game continues...
They’ve been testing since at least June. That’s when I saw the first reports that they were rolling this out to random users. I just started seeing the notice but I have friends that still don’t see it. It also does not appear when I’m logged in to an alternate account. I suspect they may be showing it to users who they’ve detected using adblockers for a while but that’s just my speculation based on my non-scientific testing.
The pointless comment is definitely going to get worse with copilot, where you write a comment to prompt the generation.
There is no clear answer to this. But if you are a builder / developer, you probably are doing to little on marketing & distribution. I know I did.
Approval isn't based on whether or not they can afford to compete without the acquisition, it's based on whether or not the acquisition will meaningfully reduce competition.
Thank you. I was just about to add that. We're saying there is a LOT of hype, but still some good research and some useful products coming out, but the signal to noise ratio is low. It's mostly crap.
Feel free to enlighten all of us, instead of using ad hominem on this particular comment. I, a lowly uninformed user, would love to know what UX/UI is versus what it pretends to be, so that I might understand the decisions being made in Windows 11.
Depends. $100k arr low hassle would be preferable to me to $1M but hiring lots of people.
I'm a big fan of reading Joel Spolsky's essays. Usually when I should be grading papers, or something like that, and decide to procrastinate instead.

Perhaps your interviewer is better at resisting procrastination than me? (I should be polishing off a grant proposal now as I write this, but here I am commenting on HN instead..)

Some positions may require an extensive knowledge of who's who and what the trends are in the industry, but I would guess a technical position is not one of them.

Not a red flag, in my opinion.
Medium expects to be profitable in 2024 as it climbs towards 1M subscribers
> An endless stream of VC money allowing you to sell dollars for dimes does not achieve that.

It depends on who your customers are: if you're consumer-facing then perhaps an acquisition (with or without an IPO first) is just fine as you may be rolled into other product offerings.

Also, if consumer-facing, clones may pop up (even open source), so if you go broke then folks can perhaps transition somewhere else.
Just use PiHole.

They can't beat DNS blackholing.
Reminds me of the UI of Sonique (media player).
Yep, we had a similar use-case. I remember the error message pointed to a help page which pointed to an article about this patent.
i get it all the time now (dismissable for the moment)

Youtube scraping the bottom of the barrel cannot be a good sign for google's business. In any case youtube is awful with ads so i d gladly follow my favourite creators to their other platforms that they advertise all the time instead of paying. YT is only good as long as it s free.
Dupe with no new information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37798150

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277079

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825887

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35916592
And quite crucially, Adobe generative AI is trained on their commercial stock photos so the copyright situation is much less risky.
These idiots would ban recording devices to protect live performances.
Except for some reason Google wants to show me Two ads every 10 minutes, to the point Ive given up on YouTube on devices without an ad blocker.

Cable tv is much nicer. (Although they’re under local jurisdiction which may have something to do with it.)

I wonder if Googles idea of ads is even legal here…
wow. you are this dumb
If your money is devalued through inflation and your groceries get more expensive, but you can still produce and sell a widget for the same price as before, do you (have to) increase the price of that widget?

Yes, inflation matters a lot, but the psychological part is significant as well (and is conveniently overlooked in basic classical undergrad economics).

A similar thing happened when the Euro was introduced in Europe in 2002: The act of changing the price tags, the confusion of consumers when showing different numbers was an opportunity to hike prices.
I'm working on a platform to create NFTs with WebAssembly (calling them NFTx). Here is the WIP interface: https://preview.nftxledger.com (password: hellonftx) with an example WASM artifact (https://preview.nftxledger.com/item/QmVCxPidmz4Jr5SCecQNdKqd...). If you know/work with WebAssembly and don't take issue with NFTs (fully understandable), feel free to reach me. (email in profile). Be mindful, the website is barely baked and probably has too much salt in it.
Grasses take evolutionary shortcut by borrowing genes from their neighbors
Ouch, I hope GPSJam has a deal with them...

Mapbox's pricing for this would be insane (for a hobby site) if you got a lot of attention... $1 per 200 page loads once you breach the free tier -- though I'll admit the free tier looks generous for a small hobby site.
No. I suffer from an eye pigment issue, meaning bright actually hurts. Old screens don't hurt even on white. New screens physically hurt.

You, however, should stay in the dark.
Every 10 minutes? I envy you, I get them every 5 minutes.
I know Google is the current bête noire, but shouldn't we be having a conversation about how web services are paid for? As I understand it YouTube Premium gives you YouTube without ads. What's wrong with that? If they got no revenue from YouTube they would close it down in a heartbeat. I would. Wouldn't you? Please explain why I am wrong.
Not a physicist.

Usually, reactions are reversible. So if quantum dots can be used to emit the “brightest” of a band
of colors from electricity; then perhaps the reverse is true: They can be used to more efficiently absorb the same color bands and turn them into electrons.

Or, this is just “more funding please” talk.