skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Weiler-Atherton polygon clipping algorithm
Somebody in the past argued that ad blocking is theft, and while i disagreed, i could see the point being made.

However, lately youtube has been serving me so many ads so often that i don't think anyone could honestly make that point anymore.

I get so much advertising that i kinda miss TV. It's that bad.

So far i've setup my own invidious instance at home because ads in youtube are really unbearable.

And from the advertiser point of view... that is really theft: i get served the same ad for the same product like 12 times in a row in the same video. And it's not even sold in my country. Youtube is literally stealing money from their advertising customers, and yet the issue is ad-blocking.
If you update all the uBlock Origin filters it doesn't appear anymore. I was still getting this warning when I had Sponsorblock active though.

It feels like YouTube bitrates have progressively kept getting worse. I follow competitive Brood War and the difference in quality between YouTube and AfreecaTV is massive.

I was paying for Premium for a few years but videos were so full of sponsored segments that I felt like it wasn't worth it. And beyond that, YouTube claims it won't show you ads with Premium but they still try to upsell you on their cable alternative bullshit. That's called a fucking advertisement, even if it's for a feature on your platform.

I feel like YouTube Premium would be more compelling if you could tweek the algorithmic suggestions to suit your needs. Why can't I customize my recommendations more deeply? Give me more knobs. I'd probably start by having it stop suggesting that I rewatch content I've already seen. And allow me to apply blacklists for certain whole categories of content.

Despite being owned by a search company, YouTube has also done a terrible job at innovating within that space. For starters, search has been utterly crippled and it inserts recommendations right in the middle of your results. But also, why can't I explore the topological space of adjacent / related video content? I'm sure there's tons of interesting videos out there which I'm never going to find because YouTube doesn't provide sufficiently powerful search and exploratory capabilities. Why the heck are we still limiting ourselves to searching with keywords? Is that really the peak of search and exploratory capabilities that one of the biggest tech companies in the world has been able to implement? What the heck are all the PhDs at YouTube even doing?

It's tragic that YouTube has grown so large that now they're just resting on their laurels without any meaningful competition.
I did this because it’s what framework is specifically having us do right now.

Using this special oem kernel on 22.04.3
Is that a reference I'm missing?
Thank you for the kind words! You've made my day!
I wrote a multiplayer browser-based 3D boating game. Backend is entirely Postgres/ Postgraphile.

https://github.com/blairjordan/canals

I have fun making it but not many people are interested in it
> Apple products attract weak, vulnerable people

It may contravene some sort of HN guidelines to point this out, but the fact that this comment has not been downvoted by a large number of people is quite an indictment of the mindset here. In my opinion, of course.
Until they serve ads from the youtube domain
We don't have a choice. That's how cable works, and YouTube TV exists for those of us who need it. They can't magically create an ad free broadcast of TNT or something. How would that even work?

You don't have to like broccoli but it'd be weird to complain that it doesn't taste like chocolate.
I've never signed a contract with Alphabet or Youtube. Maybe because I don't log into Youtube? I'm still waiting for people to follow my AUP/ToS. [1] I will never know if they are in compliance.

[Edit] I suppose ironically Youtube have a myriad of instructional videos on how to follow my AUP/ToS. [2]

[1] - https://bender.ohblog.net/#AUP-ToS

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuTSLp8BCwo [video][3 mins][tutorial]
It doesn't have to be this way :)
No one is stopping you from watching cable TV instead of complaining about YouTube
Definitely the killer feature of wireless headphones I'd say. Although I bet if you used some kind of easy break magnetic connection like Apple used to have on macbooks you could get a lot of the same utility back with wired.
People make all kinds of mistakes.
> 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.

but they don't just want revenue: they want every growing revenue, for no additional benefit.
YT ads cannot be blocked this way as they aren't served from a distinct domain.
There are elections upcoming over here and any YouTube video is preluded and interrupted with very aggressive, primitive political propaganda and agitation. I don't even distinguish whether our politicians are such scumbags, or it's some form of malicious foreign intervention. You are a piece of trash, YouTube.
Ditto. Would love a windows laptop this good but nothing I've had has ever come close. It's always low battery or high heat or bulky.
According to op's comment in another thread [1]

> I brought it back to Apple after lots of phone calls and troubleshooting and Apple has now told me that something must have gotten messed up with the software. I am able to buy a new pair of AirPods if I would like to, or I can spend $250 for them to diagnose the issue (the price of a new set of AirPods).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866470
It seems to me that MS is ruining the original simplicity and charm of Paint.
Unless you have a massively parallel use case and a small, specialized model (which seems the general direction of the industry anyway)
Same. There's something I dislike quite enough without being able to put down what it is (too dry?) even though every topic he touches is interesting and he brings lots of nice details.

Similarly there's a channel named physionics feeling the same
Sorry about the modal.. I think I turned that off. Still getting used to substack
I found this hypothetical story to explain a supply chain attack easy to understand:

https://davidlattimore.github.io/making-supply-chain-attacks...
Sometimes it seems like everything from the Greek and Roman era is known and has been processed by historians and, furthermore, doesn’t have really anything to provide us in the present day.

My experiences with ancient texts makes me realize that there are so many remaining mysteries (that can be illuminated!), so much material that has never been “processed” by historians or philosophers, and so much that can be useful for the present day.

I’m working on an English translation for Marsilio Ficino’s 1497 publication of “De Mysteriis” — which includes 13 tracts, including Ficino’s own “Philosophy of Pleasure.”

Marsilio Ficino was hugely influential in the 1460s-1500 Florentine Renaissance because he was hired by the Medici’s to translate the old Greek classics (Plato, Plotinus, Hermetica, etc). He helped classical ideas spark the renaissance! So the fact that his own book has never been translated is mindblowing — I get to see where I can contribute.

But then in his actual book, I learn that it was fairly common to conceive of the soul, gods, demons etc as entities in the world of Nous or mind. Yet, he specifically says that the soul does not feel and that gods do not feel. That’s weird! Often times people associate soul with “the feeling part.” But there were multiple perspectives on this!

How does this relate to the present? We typically associate intellect and mind with consciousness— yet now AI developments force us to consider mind or intelligence without conscious experience. So, it gives a genuinely interesting framework for understanding “noetic reality” — the unconscious mathematical world of forms and information that seemingly preexists the material cosmos (ie perfect triangles or spheres can be conceived as a part of math that are eternal and timeless).

So that’s just one example but there are a lot of them I could share. Particularly as they relate to history of science and ideas — but also fascinating social phenomena — like how hard the Roman’s came down on the Bacchae — or how important the Oracle of Delphi was to Greek colonization — etc etc.
Not a red flag - Joel was much more at the forefront of "tech pop culture" a decade ago than he is now. So your potential manager may just be younger, which is not a red flag. Or maybe he was busy 10-15 years ago and didn't keep up on blogs. Also not a red flag.
Collusion in general doesn’t work if there’s not a mechanism to punish defection—or government regulation to prevent it!

I don’t see what that mechanism or regulation would be for, say, pork prices. It seems far more likely that accurately collated pricing information is simply driving efficiency for each individual supplier.
It’s an impasse not a cat-and-mouse game. Sure you have the right to modify any code that Google’s server serves to your machine, but if Google’s server decides to not serve you videos, for any reason, then that’s where your game ends.

It’s likely that there are server side checks for a whole tangled mess of client cookies and XHR pings across a hundred different subdomains, and you’re not going to trick them into thinking you’re watching ads when you aren’t.
Not surprised, given the rather vague question asked in relation to the data (e.g., "how does x influence y") - many choices from there.
I think it isn't a constrained enough topic to write a textbook on. The conclusion section of the article under discussion summarizes the technique pretty well.

I have encountered brief discussions of the technique in a few places though. Jon Bentley wrote a column called Programming Pearls, collected in a couple of compilation books, and one of those was called Squeezing Space which talked about this a bit. I think that Peter Norvig had a chapter on it in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming but couldn't swear to it. I've also read that KDB+ uses this technique, and I seem to remember that one of the few columns that discussed implementation (it's proprietary technology, so there's not much on it) talked about stuff like this.

The general idea was also briefly discussed in Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Runtime (from 2001), though they didn't go into methods, just trade-offs [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LG-RtcSYUQ
The US gov cares less for their employees then the other companies, because other companies can be sued by their employees. None of those postal workers can sue, and can at most receive a small annuity if they end up permanently hurt only if they fight 'right' for it(reduced at 62 to regular retirement). Amazon did that they'd have a class action.
Sure they can. DNS black holes can only work when ads are served from a known and distinct set of domains than than the intended website content. If the domains are the same, then one cannot distinguish between an ad and content at the DNS level. In an extreme example, DNS black holes cannot block "baked-in" sponsor reads precisely because those are indistinguishable from content.

Moreover, adblock detectors tend to apply introspection to the page as it's loaded, to see if the ads have loaded or displayed correctly. A DNS black hole will often properly prevent the ads from loading, but this is exactly the situation that the adblock detector looks for. I would not expect a PiHole to offer any great advantage over something like uBlock Origin.
A webrtc-based chat app with whoever else is connected.

https://patter.lol

Still needs request notifications and to keep track of existing chats.
YouTube Premium Lite at ~7 € was awesome for me. I am disappointed that they sent an email saying "your version of Premium Lite will be discontinued". They are forcefully ending my Lite sub next month.

I will most likely upgrade to the 12 € version which is for single person (not family). It is disappointing because I don't have a use for the added benefits like "downloading" videos (offline viewing) or Google Music.

Having said that, it's still worth it to me.

Ads absolutely have destroyed the web. The problem is the subs they're asking for are way too expensive. I do not use Twitch Turbo for example, because that would be already well above 25 € per month with both YT and Twitch Turbo (and also Twitch's Apple TV suxx balls but I digress).

Also a good time to remind ppl if you have YouTube Premium you can create more "brand channels" ot share Premium. The only downside I'm aware of is the brand channel does not seem to store the search history so if I'm on Apple TV it's annoying as I can't select previously used search terms. Only the YT account on the email (the non-brand account then) has a search history available through the TV app).
They are largely invalid too, which is why no one catches CFAA charges for accessing YouTube in violation of their terms.
I'm surprised you're getting downvoted. Running youtube costs money, some creators spend a lot of time or even make a living out of their videos, that we, the users, willingly enjoy to watch. Youtube (just like Nebula) enables us to watch content we like, and helps funnel some money from the users to the creators.
The whole tracking industry sucks, contextual ads seem acceptable as an alternative to payment and still protect privacy. But there is no free lunch
Personally, after asking [1], I decided that I'd better not risk my Google account, so I'm now not watching any YouTube.

I don't want to take the chance that Google would ban my account over this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857017
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Everybody’s too concerned about copyright for training data, no one’s concerned enough that the outputs are considered non-copyrightable.

$50mm pre-product valuations for startups producing 3D assets for games via prompting a foundation model.

Zero due diligence on the U.S. copyright office’s stance that every asset those companies generate will be open to reuse.
I am working on a bookmarking service https://keepthis.site

It is already functional with the snapshot system, full text search, data import and data export (based on sqlite, more info on the blog). I am already working in the reimport of the sqlite (I like the idea as dev and user of the product) and the web extension, which will allow automatic saving of new bookmarks and inject matching bookmarks on your searchs on main search engines (Google, Kagi, duckduckgo, etc).
It looks like we have a misunderstanding here. I meant that I didn't like the existing solutions for online communities discovery, not that I don't like IMDB.
However, thanks for the suggestion! I'm checking it right now, and perhaps I can find some features worth implementing in my project.
I'm building a newsletter reader platform that will help you keep your 'I-want-to-keep-up-to-date' urge separate from your email inbox which I use more as a communicative todo list.

I've written very briefly about it here https://maxsommer.de/blog/building-nuzelettr-email/ and will continue to write more about it on my blog.

In case you are interested in getting aboard you may sign up for testing at https://nuzelettr.email/
Reminds me of a mistake in Spanish in a TomTom device I have around: "AP" stands for autopista (motorway) but it reads "AP" aloud as apartado postal (PO box).
What is a side-by-side?
A sad state that definitely needs attention. USPS is buying up and supposedly deploying Next Generation Delivery Vehicles in the coming years that supposedly have AC. Why not prioritize these hot states first?
This still works. Just replace the 'youtube' part of the address with 'yout-ube' and it plays without ads.

Edit: if the link contains '&modestbranding=1' then you might have to delete that part.
This might have changed. There was a time when he wanted to create a startup hub in Germany and invited people. I remember an interview with him, which I cannot find anymore, where he expressed his frustration with German banks and their lack of openness to new ideas. I've never heard about his startup project and neither the software project he was working on back then (TimeDoubler IIRC) again, so I assume they didn't materialize and he retreated from public life.

I also once read in a thread that his home castle and the one he was receiving guests for the startup hup where separate ones. I could not find reliable source for this, so it may or may not be true.

EDIT: I just found that his website has something to say about it:

"This is not a case of Luddite but Peace'nQuiet."

http://kai.sub.blue
> And from the advertiser point of view... that is really theft: i get served the same ad for the same product like 12 times in a row in the same video. And it's not even sold in my country. Youtube is literally stealing money from their advertising customers, and yet the issue is ad-blocking.

That's a really good point. I subscribe to YTP (costs £20 per month for 6 of us, bargain) so not an issue for me however those advertisers must be querying the value of this?
> and you’re not going to trick them into thinking you’re watching ads when you aren’t.

Trivial.

https://adnauseam.io/
No, it worked like that since the very first Windows version.
https://Eurotripr.com - a website/web app to help people plan trips to Europe affordably and with Confidence. I've been working on it off and on for WAY too long. Technically it is live, but it is unfinished in many ways (functionality, features, data, performance, content, etc.). I'm super embarrassed by it and am at the point that there are so many things wrong/unfinished I just stare it it some days not even sure where to 'start' to get it closer to done. All I really want and have wanted for almost 2 decades is to help others travel to Europe as I did in my early 20s and catch that travel bug so they continue to do so on the 'cheap' like I have throughout their lives.
Now that just doesn't ring true. Uncountable millennia passed where virtually everyone had to work on "the structure" and we didn't get anywhere interesting. The nurses of today would have been the shamanic healers of yesteraeon, but the vast difference in their abilities to actually deliver cure come entirely from the work of countless researchers and technologists.
No, it is a cat-and-mouse game, because I could start doing things like detecting the ad frames and blacking them out in the compositor. What if my browser had a plugin that did that? Think SponsorBlock that talks with the browser's rendering engine. As far as youtube could tell (unless they record my screen and process it to detect that I'm viewing an ad...but that would be a bridge too far for a lot of people I think) the ad is playing, but I'm not viewing. Audio can get similar processing.
Same but at least now the solo Premium option is more visible. Last year I wasn't even aware it was there. So for me it'll be 12 € for Premium single-user (but multiple channels/accounts via brand accounts is possible).

I just wish they had a sub-10 € offer. 9.99 would be a lot more digestible.
No. Some people don’t follow the pop culture of hackers, but are still solid coders.
Or even better, NextDNS, which works on every device, on every network, not just your home network.
One sad thing I have noticed in American workplace is high levels of stress and higher levels of cruelty. This story is one such example. Another one is that Texas law, that eliminated (or limited, can't remember) water breaks. What is weird in this story is it is a government agency doing it, not a private entity :(

It looks like everything is designed to keep workers stressed, worried, scattered etc. Tying healthcare to jobs, preventing unionization at any cost, filling courts with as many pro-business/anti-worker judges etc etc.

It all looks well coordinated, deliberately planned and calculated.
I'm on HN because the links are interesting. If there are real SpaceX employees who know about this, let's hear from them. The huge majority of comments on this piece right now are from people who know nothing about the subject - the same as on every post.
The points in that post are all valid. Lots of docs are just a waste of letters.

Document the intent.

Why did you decide to spend the time to write this code.
What shortcuts were taken (what code doesn’t do!), and why!
That might depend on the jurisdiction ? See the recent news about France allowing exceptionally to sell vehicle fuel at a loss.
Hopefully some of these machines will be left in their "used" condition. I think that just as with vintage cars, the signs of wear and tear from the way they were used when they weren't treated as being precious also has value.
Plot twist: KineticLensman is your fa.. [please stop reading here as this is a spoiler].
Will the assembly theory imbroglio do anything for evolution?
I guess you could say he was being irrational about it. Da dum.
Is there a good free one I can use on a local server?
Sometimes also called a UTV, they are an off road vehicle that can also be street legal in some places with an added or supplied kit. [1] Many people around me use them to go to the store.

[1] - https://www.polaris.com/en-us/off-road/ranger/models/
I'm now picturing a slightly different government to ours, where the oversight bodies have the additional function of making sure officials don't talk to one another outside of recorded meetings under the public's eye.

It seems like a huge burden. It is the kind of thing, though, that in a parallel universe would make total sense: our representatives should be beholden to us.
Rule 34 is very different "in my day, Son."
ExternalSecrets with K8s. Put them into SOPS, Vault, your cloud’s secrets handler etc. - then reference them in the app as though they exist. They get loaded at deployment.

Doesn't break diffs, doesn’t directly couple anything.
Especially since that would be considered as a security breach. Security badges aren't meant for someone else than the person it's assigned to.
AskHistorians Jake Berman covered this in his podcast "Public Transport in North America"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HDTu5LYmk

Apparently it's not as black and white as many in this thread would suggest.
I'm a bit worried that we'll adopted an algorithm widely, only to be told “gotcha! here's how to break it”. After all, it would be a great way to prove once and for all that an algorithm selection process can be subverted.
They're not useless to me. I like seeing what the author was thinking in plain English.
Hillary Clinton's email server is a famous example of attempting to avoid FOIA requests.
They can't hear you over their compensation package. They might regain hearing after layoffs.