skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The neti pot lol (https://schollz.com/newyorker/neti/)
If YouTube wants to block me from viewing a video that has ads because I use an adblocker, fine. But if they start blocking me from all videos then they best start paying everyone who has ever uploaded a video that has a single view. Let's not forget that nobody is going to YouTube because of Googles content.
Paying for your own Internet, accessing something publicly accessible, and downloading your preferred subset of bits of what's available on your own hardware is not stealing.

Compelling my own property to behave against my wishes is the moral failing.
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Experimental javascript image combiner that enables 1000s of unique images to be created from image elements. The information page has an examples - Github repo link is on the page.
It won't happen because the Snowden archives are the goose that keeps laying golden eggs for the media. Remember that journalism is first and foremost a business.
It would, but it would be super inefficient and slow.

For smooth functions, gradient information gives more information about the search terrain. The more exact your gradient information, the higher quality your iterations become.

On the other gradients aren't defined everywhere (e.g. non-smooth functions like abs(x), max(0,x), or discontinuous/discrete integer variables like x=1,2,3,4...), and gradient based methods can land on saddle points. This is where derivative free optimization (DFO) can help. The downside is they converge far, far, far slower than gradient based methods. It's unlike DFO would scale to what is needed to solve even basic DL models.
The data of rich profiles is enormously valuable to Google. They allow Google unparalleled ability to target ads elsewhere, too. That's the game.
So, we plant 1.2 trillion trees for offsetting a single years worth of emissions?
I have a Japanese whetstone and I've been practicing sharpening my knives and watching Youtube videos and I'm still terrible. It's a source of frustration because I'll watching butcher TikTok videos and the way they can slice through meat makes me extremely envious.

Any good Youtube videos in particular that can help me with this, as well as maintaining the sharpness for a long time?
I’m not sure what’s in the article, I can’t read it because of a paywall, but I don’t see anywhere in the comments here discussion of Rea losing more weight, it just says he eats 1900 and he’s 6’ 115lbs.
Maybe because poverty is mostly a relative concept/status/whatever? i.e. I'd bet I'm relatively poor compared to many people from there, or even from my own country (Living in an impoverished neighborhood on a suburb from a third world city, don't own a house or a car, haven't ever left my country nor even my state in more than 30 years, I've never been how paid vacations feels like...) but definitely am not poor compared to what I was 10-15 years ago, or compared to several people from my own neighborhood.

Surely if OP has all of their basic needs covered isn't poor for most people, but maybe some wealthy person can ponder them like they actually are.
The idea of a free market is that competition can enter the field. But, this has been an area that Issue have played every dirty angle possible to rig the game, including legislature and fees to setup the infrastructure. Now they're already settled in- there aren't any fees to pay for e.g. Comcast but new ISP Z is going to have a massive wall to overcome before seeing a penny back.
Because we’re addicted?

I’m serious, but philosophically, the onus is clearly on us to get rid of our addiction. But Youtube is a quasi-monopoly of random micro-conferences. Nebula and Vimeo aren’t on the same market. So basically we specifically like Youtube. But I’d never pay Google after what they did to James Damore.
Not GP, but chiming in:

When I used Windows 10 (and all the way back to... 3.1, I think? I'm only middle-aged), I logged into that OS with a username and password. No way was I going to use a Microsoft account, and now it's moot since I just use Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), since I like what both the Mint and Debian teams are doing so far.

Same for my work computer (local government entity/utility).

Perverted does seem like overly strong language to describe something I just prefer not be the case but which many others (presumably) could care less about.
I honestly don't see much of an issue with the standard description straight from Wikipedia:

> Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

I would just point out the obvious that the game show host will never pick the door with the car.
Maybe it's just me, but I think the name "Firefox" is fun and endearing, while "Mozilla" is ugly and ponderous. I say this as someone that has been on the Web since Mosaic and almost entirely used Netscape-heritage browsers since then. Let the Mozilla name go, and embrace Firefox.
YouTube offers their service under specific terms: watch ads or pay directly. If you don’t like it, your only ethical option is not using it. It’s not a basic need and anyone can live a happy and full life without it, there’s no need to pretend that not keeping your side of the agreement is somehow just if you squint hard enough.
It's been a good week! https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.2.0
Maybe we don't want the business models of data hoarding multibillion dollar corporations to be sustainable. Maybe there are good alternatives that don't rely so much on exploitative practices. Just a thought.
> I mean sure, I am fine with any service I am actively using either charge me money via subscription or monetize is some other form. If I don't want that to happen, I'd not use that service.

Same. Unfortunately, YouTube is a dopamine slot machine that makes money off ads shown on (often inappropriate) videos that keep kids addicted to their phones. It's also a site that constantly invades their users privacy. It also boosts often irrevelant and trashy channels to the front page. It's also a total CPU/RAM hog, its app is constantly getting slower, and generally a piss poor experience all around. Using Invidious/Newpipe/Youtube-DL makes all of this painfully obvious. If YouTube were a service that cost $5 a month, had no invasive tracking, and wasn't 95% garbage videos by "influencers" trying to hit the algorithm jackpot, I'd pay for it.

> If the costs of managing HackerNews is so high, sure let them sell ads or offer a subscription service. But if you are comparing HackerNews hosting costs to YouTube, you need a reality check. HackerNews probably costs less than 1000$ a month to host, everything included. I am sure YouTube spends more than that every second buying new storage servers.

My point is, none of us really know what it costs to host Hackernews, YouTube, or any website on the internet, and we don't know if any of these sites are struggling financially or need our financial support.

> I don't think most people realize the scale of YouTube - it's offering anyone on this planet to upload as many videos as they want, in resolution as high as 8K, while also offering the ability to monetize their content for creators.

Yes. Unfortunately, they don't do that for creators or users. They do that so they can sell more ads.

> I am totally fine with them making money off my data via ads (when I am not paying for YouTube premium).

I am glad you are fine with it. I just wish you were fine with people being able to choose what data their browsers download.
List of common misconceptions > Science, technology, and mathematics > Mathematics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#...

Is the limit of 1/x equal to the limit of 2/x; is ±infinity_1 equal to ±infinity_2?
Are you asking why classified documents are classified? Or why they remain classified after being leaked?
There, even better: 21/11/2021
I want my fully automated luxury gay space communism and I want it now.
2 of 5 Bay Area refineries to stop making gasoline
I think of it as a means of reducing verbosity.
What would be great if these papers can also have some same prompts shared on github / share gpt so that everyone can try
Making someone watch 5 to 8 advertisements to see a 2 minute video is already drastic.
The feds are extremely unwilling to declassify documents that have been leaked. They usually continue to deny details or the entire existence of them even decades after it’s “public knowledge”
Should doctors who experiment on themselves be celebrated or criticized?
Unless they totally remove the ad-free tier, I don't see how this is different than any other price hike. Or do you think that companies shouldn't have the right to hike prices?
The most recent f#ck-up in my mind is how Kobo said there were dropping Pocket, and Mozilla backtracking all that to save face

https://www.theverge.com/23778208/kobo-pocket-ebook-reader-i...
Yeah it’s a good point, government “no comment policy” still exists, even if it’s in open source if it never got declassified congratulations, you have to pretend you can’t see it
I had a similar trajectory. The transition from one to the other was a long course of antibiotics.
what an odd style of camera work...
It does pass this information to LLVM, in the form of the `readonly` attribute. This seems to be a bug in LLVM that does not optimize the function propely, I don't know why.
Michael Lewis' Front-Row Seat at the Shit Show (Infinity/SBF book review)
> Most of these checks seem designed to avoid infecting devices under active observation by security researchers. The validation also involves a rudimentary location check designed to avoid targeting American and Israeli devices

Isn't this a possible indication of who / what is behind this effort? Doesn't this say more than evaluating the X account that was sharing the links?
Yeah I hear ya. Think the air force also used it.

Lets put aside the fact that Sony was probably unhappy that their loss leader console was being used in this manner(they did release the feature so maybe they could justify the PR bonus of supporting our troops or something).

All these researchers probably had no need to upgrade their firmware once they got set up since (correct me if im wrong) no firmware update actually improved the OtherOS functionality in any way so they lost nothing when a new firmware took it away. Only people really complaining about it were using it as a games (or piracy) machine and a Linux box to do...something?
Fios is pretty common in apartments buildings in NYC and area in my experience.
(Posted April, 2022)
>If you don't like either option don't use the site.

I feel the same way about the entitled behavior of Youtube and other corporations. If they don't want videos to be public then put them all behind the W3C approved black box DRM and lose any false pretense of being an open video site. They can't pretend to be open and then throw around their money/legal power to try and tell me my computer is theirs anyway. They don't get to chose what I can do on my computer unless I opt in to it by enabling EME DRM. They're the weird ones doing weird stuff. 99% of the web does not claim it owns my computer and the nature of how EME DRM is implemented in standards compliant browsers reflects that.

My behavior and way of displaying the website is standards compliant and completely legal. Google is the one trying to work around standards and existing regulatory frameworks that already solved this by using threats and disingenuous framing of the issue.
I get that but, unless you're earning £100k+/year, hopping on the train to France every weekend to go practice your French is prohibitively expensive and not realistic
Principled.
Stable diffusion is just reconstructing image from random noise.

What I mean is could you make a version of stable diffusion that uses splats instead of pixels?
I should say Paul is more interesting then that article. He now lives in a bigger cabin, a proper house in the woods and is into drones. He answers emails and has lots of stories to share.

He sailed solo a lot and also spent time with bears and still programs.
YouTube is not publicly accessible: they offer it under specific terms, namely that you watch ads or pay directly. If you don’t want to accept that deal you don’t have any more right to use their private property than you do to complain that the local movie theater wouldn’t let you sneak in when you didn’t like their ticket prices.
It probably nothing more than a bug but I like to believe so just give me this illusion dammit! :)
I'm probably leaving way too much information on myself on this website, but Anne Debouté, a french kayakist (won France Championship, top 8 in a world cup) told me she ate a lot after the competion season, but 5 month later (in the 90s), she cut her calory intake and lost up to 15 kg. Her trainer was skeptical, but she did it every year and told me she really felt relatively stronger despite being less muscular, so i guess she was right in the end, and her trainer wrong. I'll bookmark this.
more like crash dump
This seems like a cool concept, but it doesn't seem concrete to me. What exactly does it do? What kind of real-world things does this enable?What can we do with this that we couldn't before?
At no point did I suggest people should be forced to view ads.
If you can afford to do all the things you want or need to do, it’s hard to call that being poor.
To me, Godzilla sounds way more interesting than a mere fox.
I'd love for you to moderate anything even close to controversial. You'd quickly figure out specific rules go to shit very quickly on internet based services covering wide geographical areas. You'll figure out there are a lot of definitions of what the word 'is' is, and an unlimited number of actors willing to waste all of your time arguing about it.

Even HN has 'gray' rules because dealing with assholes is difficult.
Show HN: LLM Token Visualizer
Live Demo: https://tokenvisualizer.netlify.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/guangyusong/llm-token-visualizer
Wow thats insane. Do they expose any of this data via API or something else?
I haven't set it up yet, but youtube channels have RSS feeds so programmatically feeding a list of channels into a watch-later folder should be straightforward.
Okay, so just to be clear: the OP is describing a phenomenon that is extremely widely reported, and is doing so in discussion thread about study that also reports finding this phenomenon, and your claim is that the simplest explanation is that OP is misremembering, and the research is just wrong?

Do you have any evidence for this bizarre dismissal?
There seems to be 3-4 types of authentication within the Microsoft cloud ecosystem. I find it extremely confusing.
At my company, I feel the biggest issue is execs don't want to pay more to get good people and don't want to do anything to make it more attractive to work here.

The last person I hired was at the start of this year, and at the time our salary offer was around market average. For this role we (well the execs... I'm pro WFH but not my call) were asking people to be in the office four days a week and work non-standard office hours. Most of the applicants we got were living in cities far away and not willing to relocate - even though the job spec clearly stated this is an in-person role in this city.

One person we interviewed seemed like the only thing they were interested in was growing their Twitch subscriber count. Then we interviewed the person we ended up hiring, who I'm sad to say we only hired because they seemed the least bad - and by that point we were desperate for someone, and worried execs may cut our budget.

Oh and for anyone wondering, the role in question just needed standard frontend React skills. Nothing special.
Neither but both are good questions.
Firefox sounds fast and nimble. Mozilla reminds me of a large, slow, bumbling monster that destroys all it steps on.
why is this necessary when youtube channels have RSS feeds?
Skeuomorphism had it time. I actually loved those apps back in those days.
> Being poor is traumatic. Even after you claw your way out of that hole, into a comfortable life funded by a comfortable tech salary, you never feel quite secure. You keep waiting for that next catastrophe to hit, and to be back in another job where you have to ask permission to use the bathroom or plead for time off to attend a funeral.

Excellent point.

A related trait I've seen from some people who've made (or are making) an economic class leap up is that they're accustomed to soldiering through tough and unjust situations.

For example, imagine some really awful situation that shouldn't be happening, in a workplace or school or housing or safety or bureaucracy or similar.

Someone of more fortunate history might react like "WTF?! This is not OK! I don't even know what to do with this, other than get a lawyer!"

But the person who's been through many situations they shouldn't have been through, is desensitized to the injustice, and just getting through it somehow is familiar, so that's where their energy goes. (I don't think it's only fear of the next catastrophe, though that might also be a factor.)

The person with the "WTF?!" reaction, who demands their rights (and maybe has the family money to back it up) will probably have a better outcome from the unacceptable situation, and less stress and misery along the way.
LVGL in WebAssembly with Zig [video]
What differentiates this job board from Indeed and other job boards?
Are you planning to add a browser inside?
I don’t know about OP, but, personally, the reason I don’t subscribe to premium is because they get aggressive on ads on purpose (waves of unskippable ads followed by a YouTube Premium subscription request the day after), which I believe is a dark pattern.

I would have been okay with paying for a subscription if it was to support the website or its creators – but I take manipulation attempts very badly.
At the same time you don't post a list of your valuables and what means you use to lock them up either.

Obscurity is a layer, but cannot be the only one.
Was just thinking the same thing!

It would be nice if those critical of Mozilla offered solutions.

I agree with alot of the points raised, but I also empathize with the tough position Mozilla is in. I know squat about product management and would love to hear some knowledgeable input.
Love that vintage felt marker font override.
Yawn. He could've leaked the entire thing at once way back in '13 if he really was serious about it. Ten year old documents about programs at least 15 years old are all but worthless now. There was a time to do something about it and he never exploited it.
I also use Tuned for SAP workloads, love it!
I think I've more than paid off my YT usage with how much personal data google has stolen/misused from me over the years.
"Solved" seems an odd way to view self-checkout. I find it a hideous experience. Everyone is irritable, staff and shoppers. The handful of staff have fewer tasks that involve any degree of skill, so they are reduced to simply keeping the machines working. Any issue is addressed just pressing the relevant button combo to resume regular function. If it can't be solved, maybe just close the till and move the customer to a different machine. Perhaps in busy periods the job might involve chivvying customers to available machines while calling "cash or card? Cash or card?"

Customers are either bored or frustrated. Beeping your own shopping is like doing unpaid work, without even the distraction of some inane chat with a checkout jockey. And don't forget to tap your loyalty card so you can get ripped off with crumbs that are worth far less than the data you're handing over.

I actively avoid the whole degrading, isolating circus. It's not "solved", quite the opposite: it's ripe for 'disruption'.

Bah :)
I don’t, I just put them in their own library and then watch and delete as they come in, kinda like a news feed
This is a good article, but to me, it illustrates well how the concept of a “middle class” has practically dissapeared in our culture. Is being “not rich” the same as being poor? The article doesn’t describe the childhood of a rich kid, but it doesn’t describe the childhood of somebody poor either. Perhaps this is an interesting consequence of the inequality we’re living in, we forget there’s actually an in-between that could be (perhaps?) a nice thing to also aspire for.
Van DeBerghe is cited in the editorial discussing the pivotal practice-changing RCT that showed increased mortality from tight glucose control in the ICU (Finfer NEJM 2009). I think a lot of us intuitively believe that there is a mechanism of glucose control that should be helpful, but like I said, an RCT (of the specific device) will be necessary.
*This is the way x1000*

Just taking job descriptions as an example, the state of tech job descriptions is an absolute, unbelievable, dumpster fire of an embarrassment.

If you have blatant typos, incorrect/missing information, botched formatting (copy+pasted bullets from Word to Outlook to LinkedIn to the point the formatting is mush), etc, you are going to get candidates of similar quality. I'm sure these job descriptions are written by recruiters/managers who would reject outright a candidate with a similar quality resume.

There is a parody idea along the lines of: if candidates wrote resumes like recruiters/managers write job descriptions.
Those are great reasons not to use YouTube. If you’re worried about data mining, your ad blocker has no effect there – you have to stop using YouTube if that bothers you.
Anyone whose parents can give them a quarter of a million dollars as essentially fun money is so far divorced from reality than actual middle class people that it's hilarious to even attempt to make that comparison.
Is there something that caches the videos I watch with YouTube-dl or something? I watch maybe 100 unique videos throughout the year.
See now that's the other problem with SimplePractice and its ilk. Why pay when I can get it for free on HN?
Malicious hackers can also be paying customers. Insider attacks are generally the most successful.
> Mozilla's messaging over the past few years has always been perverted

This is just a corporate PR (or enterprise bullshit). Nothing to do with reality.

No one should ever trust corpirate PR in the same way other human beings are trusted. Because a company is not a human being. Although both __can__ speak similar language (of words and sentences). The difference is that the corporation is (almost) never held responsible for any words it outputs. It literally can say anything and get dry out of water later even for a complete bullshit.
+1

I wouldn’t even notice the subscription costs, but at this point Google has only succeeded in alienating me. I have disproportionately negative feelings about this.
with the advent of bandcamps sale to songtradr, and soundclouds cycles of bailouts/ad support - some kind of peer 2 peer/pay for infra service for bands/musicians/producers would be great. The usual issues of adoption + competing against social media come into play - but musicians need a "good" home for music streaming/exposure.
It sure is. I'm still watching their ads on every other site, but youtube ads for gambling and soda that interrupt while I'm watching someone talk about Bezier curves ? Na-ah.
I remember they had cubicles. Relatively glamorous compared to entirely open and echoey offices.
I feel this frustration in my bones, and I felt the same way up until the proliferation of LLMs. Just paste your comment to Claude (or ChatGPT maybe?) and it will explain everything you want to know in realtime.
Sure, using software to improve the limitations of the hardware (making you look better with lighting) is a welcome feature... Using software without me enabling it to add dancing monkeys (to be announced with fanfare in WWDC 2024 - amazing! Magical!) onto my webcam feed, not really...