skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a VPN with a Ukraine location, you can set it to there and purchase YouTube Premium for ~$2.70/month. That's what I just ended up doing. I use Mullvad as my vpn provider.
The Existential Risk of AGI
If you like ecto but want something closer to the metal (no need to define type mapping), then check out https://github.com/robconery/moebius

I vastly prefer it over ecto, and ecto is awesome.
Really wow. Such a basic feature should be available in beta version
You’ve described all of late stage capitalism + democracy, for things you agree with and things you don’t.

This is as good as it gets when money has any influence on policy.
> That may be because you're blocking YouTube from using your personal data to target ads, whereas TikTok is extremely aggressive about harvesting your personal data with no opt-out.

I have always gotten ads from YT (whether I opt in or not). Google is extremely aggressively at harvesting data too. The entire ecosystem is the wild west of privacy violations.

Google itself is literally known for that - it's their entire business model:-)

On the Desktop, it gets better with my choice of browsers and a couple of ad-blockers (uBlock and Sponsorblock). On Android, they remain extremely annoying.

As for TikTok... the constant warnings from Main Stream Media have me concerned. So I use a dedicated tablet. No contacts, Fake name, devoid of much except the TikTok app, 3rd-party browser and built-in apps.

I am certain that even on this dedicated throwaway tablet, Google knows it's me and is (aggressively) collecting data. It's what they do:-)
well, you're under a very, very, isolated/bad impression.
I've seen that to avoid numbers that would go out of sync the moment they we're displayed, because it was better to be imprecise than to be wrong
Funny since I agree about mobile radeons being like this where every update is a risky thing however I moved from Nvidia only (after my one ATi 9800 Pro) to AMD due to the drivers stuttering, breaking and finally making my 8800Gts 320 unusable in games because it wasnt the magic 640mb edition.

I've since had 5770, 6770 (same card but in fire), 290X, RX580X, and now 6750 without any issues.

iGPU stuff however has been awful but then again so was my Intel/Nvidia laptop having problems with iGPU fighting the dGPU.
Moto G4 was released in 2016, only 7 years ago.
There are students at middle schools here who use Uber / Lyft to get to/from school because their parents can’t accompany them on the subway. Smart door locks, etc. are also common and a surprising number of kids use the assistive features (e.g. background noise on headphones).

I’m not saying it’s great but I see it more as a market failure that parents can’t confidently say they let their kid use a phone without being exposed to the worst of the internet.
Ask HN: If you have LLM/Agents do you still need a co-founder?
I've also just updated the README to make it more obvious what the extension does.

The default alternative frontend I have configured is https://piped.video , but you can use any different instance / service if it supports the same YouTube url scheme ({domain}/watch?v=...).

This is configurable in the add-on's options page, you can also access it by clicking on the add-on's icon
My hot take is google evil and I'm not giving them money if I can help it.
For those that are interested in seeing artists conjure up hit songs, check out the documentary "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry". There are some scenes showing Billie and her brother sitting on a bed in their parents' house coming up with lyrics and melodies for songs that would go on to sell millions, win grammys and totally change their lives.

I'm a huge beatles fan, and while Get Back shows sparks of creativity - for the most part it, it shows a few childish rich dudes high as all hell dicking around in front of cameras in a super-weird situation that they put themselves in trying to document themselves writing an album.

The World's A Little Blurry on the other hand shows two siblings battling through some tough shit and turning it into gold on a shoestring recording budget.
Read Roy Walford out of UCLA on the CRON diet
An up to date ublock should bypass the new YouTube ad thing.
If you have a VPN with Russian location, you will get absolutely no ads at all.

24 February 2022 virtually gave the whole country YouTube Premium.
Hoped someone here would come out and say this.

It's only supposed to be somewhat intuitive for those who already possess some intermediate level college math background.

And no, rejecting the notion that not every advanced topic is supposed to be accurately ELI5-ed with a cringy Redditesque tone, means neither there's any gatekeeping taking place nor there's lack of understanding from the potential explainer's side.
Fast forward 10^8 years, and the actual date will cause too much visual clutter.
> As far as i understand, Kalman Filters seem to be a moving average of position, velocity, and (perhaps) acceleration, and use those 3 values to estimate the 'real value' as opposed to what the sensor is telling you.

Sort of. The actual variables (v, r, a in your case) vary depending on your use case. What matters is you make an estimate based on that state, then you take a measurement and there’s an iterative way of adjusting your next state based on those two. It’s actually pretty easy to code once you understand formulas.

Maybe this could help http://bilgin.esme.org/BitsAndBytes/KalmanFilterforDummies
The constant nagging when you tell Google "no" shows how little respect they have for their users. Messages by Google, which is primarily an SMS app, is asking me every 1-2 weeks to enable RCS chats. The link for declining the request is small and easy to miss, while the AGREE button below it takes up 25% of the area of the popup.

Dear Google UX designers, the way you present your little "decline" links is illegal in the EU. I'm sure you've got these design directives from a product manager, but you can still say "no" to breaking the law.
YouTube already does exatly this for me. If uBlock origin is active it loads the base site, but all video tiles are just grey squares and the video titles below are just grey bars.
There's a great line in Patricia Lockwood's recent DFW essay where she says "He makes people feel they are in real possession of the word ‘volute’, that their vast untapped icebergs of vocabulary and perceptual detritus are readily available to them."
It's not impossible. You can sign up for YouTube Premium.

https://www.youtube.com/premium
It does depend on your conditioning though. When I did my first 200km ride I ate like a horse every 50km.

After a few years of regular (monthly) 200km rides I could do a 200km ride (~10h elapsed) without eating anything on the way round.
Exactly, and this is why the people in the thread saying, "don't worry, it won't pass" are not serious.

In a year or two, they'll raise it again, except then they'll know what the opposition thinks and what arguments resonated with the public, so they'll be smarter.

"They can't bring it up again for five years!" -- also not serious. They can resurrect the least controversial parts and call it something else.

The only answer is to fire every single person associated with this, such that they can never work for the EU in any guise, ever again. I'm not optimistic about that happening.
See my answer to @Cilvic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37884815
One of the two eclipses I hope/plan to observe in my lifetime.
This one will be visible from many Spanish cities, although it will be evening :-( There are many sites with eclipse details, but I prefer timeanddate [0]

In my opinion the eclipse of August 2nd 2027 [1], [2] will be a much better one. Maximum duration of totality is going to be more than 6 minutes and almost passing over Luxor [3] and Mecca [4], both important historical/religious locations. It will also pass over many popular tourist cities.

[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_2,_202...
[2] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca
> I mean, I'm not sure what you're upset about.

Oops... sorry if my tone was overly aggressively. I'm usually careful about that.
Hm one answer mentions some of Euclid’s proofs, but I think you could add that there were also false/widely accepted proofs that his Fifth Postulate could be deduced from the others and was therefore redundant. IIRC, such proofs made subtle use of the geometry being flat, which you (of course) need the Fifth to pin down.

Edit: Wikipedia mentions some such false proofs but doesn’t say how widely accepted they were:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_postulate#History
That’s quite a contentious question, there aren’t that many good studies, and they are difficult to do well
It's incredibly easy to find people, there's a huge surplus of talent and very few opportunities going. You can scoop up top engineers laid off from big tech companies for small change right now.
that's exactly the same issue though. anybody who can potentially eat into the profits of the big ISPs simply gets bought up.

that's why the only hope is municipal fibre - we've all seen what happens to the new ISP who's going to save us from the greedy telcos, they disappear. municipal governments are at least a little bit resistant to being bought.
Well, 26 bits would have made the 80286 a king. Would that itself have killed ARM?

Of course, SSE/NEON was decades in the future.

As we note, Intel did not value backwards compatibility at the outset of the i386.

Perhaps an Acorn acquisition and the sudden ownership of a low-power CPU that they could make for peanuts might have also had a profound impact.

It would have been interesting to see Intel making BBC Micros.
I live in the LA metro area, 15min from downtown, and we only get Spectrum (coaxial cable)

The only alternative is to get something wireless, either a microwave antenna service or a cell-based hotspot

It doesn’t seem any companies are trying to compete or even improve their services

Spectrum goes down at least 3 times a month, sometimes for hours on end
Yeah I'm tempted to put it on a breadboard with a 24mhz crystal and see how much faster it is
> There's no shortage of intelligent people who could fulfill your company's needs but there is an extreme shortage of unicorns who will work for a junior/mid salary and be able to produce senior level work instantly. Everyone struggling to hire will deny all of this but they also will recognize it completely because it is the simple truth.

Sometimes comments are so good on Hacker News I wish I could click a button and tip them. Companies that don’t deserve to have way too high of standards/requirements now.
Make proof using computer system, obviously.
It realy depends. Looks like they have a few A/B versions active. Some still work with uBlock, some dont
This, in turn, will spawn user scripts which work around the detection. Any client-side solution will be an arms race between Google and user script/adblock devs. The only real way to prevent it is to withhold the video stream from the CDN until the client has streamed the full ad and/or bake it into the video stream. My impression is that Twitch does this for its live streams (although not VODs).
What fundamentals and low level things do you mean?

Bit manipulation? proficiency in hex notation? firmware frameworks (e.g UEFI)?
The chance that one or more satellites will hit a human 1-x, where x is the chance that none of them will kill a human. x, in turn, is y¹⁰⁰⁰⁰, and y is the fraction of the earth's area where no human is. y¹⁰⁰⁰⁰ because it's the chance that the first satellite doesn't times the chance that the second times...

Raising something to the power of ten thousand makes a difference, even if you start very close to 1. I'm too tired to do the math now, but I bet that's where they get the big number and you don't.
It's well past time for the entire Snowden document collection to be released. But that won't ever happen due to all the agreements each person or institution made with various governments who want to keep very embarrassing info on their illegal spying operations away from the public.
uBlock is very much https://xkcd.com/2347/

I know there are other implementations that support the same filters, but it still feels like a big lynchpin in the escalating adblocker war.
Ask HN: SWE to Bioinformatics
Hi HN,

I've been a software engineer for 8 years and have become more and more interested in biology and medicine over the past years. I'm considering trying to move into the field of bioinformatics. I would love to hear from people who have done this, or maybe gone the other way as to how to do this..

One big obstacle I see is the requirement for Masters or PhDs in the field. I don't have either of those and don't have the grades or research experience to get into grad school. It could be done maybe but it would be a very uphill battle. The value of the degree seems dubious as well because I hear people much prefer PhDs to M.S students anyways.

On the other hand, I do see its a very deep field. Right now I'm doing a Bioinformatics course on Coursera & learning physiology & statistics but it would take years to really build up a background. There are some biotech startups that just need traditional software roles that I'm trying for - that seems like the best option for now.

Is there anyone who has successfully transitioned? For now I'm conflicted on whether this is even doable or if its just a pipe dream..
No motion model? If your model doesn’t have dynamics, it’s not really doing Kalman filtering
Could be any of a number of factors. No way to know.
How do you plan to implement very granular filters when the data is rarely complete or neatly organised?

I had this discussion with my friend who runs ArbeitNow. It's hard to create good filters when the data is just paragraphs of text. It's hard to augment these listings when the data is not reliable.
there's a single questionable word in the flagged comment (the word `rant`) and it's not a borderline call? yup totally makes sense. Like do you even read the flagged comment or you just go by the fact that it offended someone?
I do 4 meals at 40g each. Only one of those meals has a single scoop of whey protein (I add it to my pre-workout oats). Though all the meals usually revolve around some high protein source like cottage cheese, skyr, eggs and of course chicken breast. YouTube is full of high protein recipes (look for bodybuilding "full day of eating" videos and the like). Some channels just produce a ton of videos with anabolic recipes (jclarkefitness, felu and pretty much every major fitness influencer).
Thanks, I've looked at the docs of newpipe and invidious and neither make it straight forward to understand how they work. Both focus on "this is more private than watching on youtube"

It sounds like there is some kind of instance/server which my client/with a cleaner frontend will talk to.

But how does that work and why can youtube not detect it and block it?
"I mean it's only the keys to your whole life, no big."

It's a telephone, with a computer on it in your pocket with a shit load of sensors. The computer part involves components from many parts of the world, with many opaque subsystems. The OS is sort of Linux with knobs on and a lot of opaque parts - the first layer "belongs" to a prolific ad slinger hell bent on knowing everything about you. Then if it isn't a Google jobbie, it will have another layer of software, lots more shiny and a lot more data gathering (eg Xiomi/Samsung/whatevs). Then your "TSP" gets to put their spin on it. All three layers can sell out to eg MS for yet more data gathering and ads and profiling and so on.

Apple does the same but manages to be layers 1 and 2 and be a bit cooler about the whole thing.

You worry about Graphene?

I don't advocate for full Luddite (I run an IT company) but please get some perspective. If you are concerned about Graphene, I suggest a burner feature phone or smoke signals.

EDIT: I have F-Droid and KDE Connect wired up to both of my Arch (actually) boxes on my Samsung Invasive Intruder ... sorry Galaxy S23. I'll try switching out the Play version of Connect for the F-Droid one and see what happens.
The sad thing here is even if she did the right thing the outcome of her protest is California gets less dollars from the federal infrastructure bill due to her trying to slow the building down, because the infrastructure bill dollars get used up by states that can implement public works projects faster. Her protest doesn’t lead to less climate change, because we all breathe the same air. Her protest only leads to California having worse off roads compared to neighboring states which will utilize the funds until they are gone.
Bacterial therapies at the interface of synthetic biology and nanomedicine
Vinegar extension for Safari has so far worked for me.
Paying the ad company is not a good way to get to a place where there are fewer ads.
> otherwise there's no reason for modifying software to affect a warranty on hardware.

I think you bring up a really good point. Except for extreme cases, such as a software that is designed to be self destructive on the physical components in which it resides, the hardware should mostly be unaffected by the software. Mostly that some components get used more or less than they were before, changing efficiency of some functions. Then we get into the grey area of whether or not the unorthodox use of components caused damage.

> if the manufacturer can show that damage resulted from the user modifying the device then fine

Here you are putting the burden of proof on the manufacturer, which seems a little unfair. If anyone can make a complaint (make use of warranty), and you the manufacturer are guilty as charged automatically unless you can prove the software caused the damage, then there will be an insurmountable amount of work to thoroughly review all software not sourced from one of your already-vetted approved sources.

Then again, if burden of proof falls on the accuser (warranty holder), it is a catch-22 because you can't prove that a software is without any issues. Companies are constantly creating patches not because they intentionally want to have a fault until x day, but because they genuinely thought the software was good until y vulnerability was found/exploited.

I think this is why companies take the 'any usage outside these specific approved usages voids the warranty' approach. In application to this conversation, this means while you may change your OS, it doesn't shock me that a manufacturer wants to keep their hands away from those consumers
Would this work on DL models?
Maybe instead of demons with config files that have more and more bespoke syntax, it's better to go all the way to a library that provides the basic loop functionality? Like https://github.com/c-blake/cron or something similar in C or whatever.

Maybe not, but it's an idea worth considering...
And some kind of cert renewal tool I guess.
Well, now I have an excuse for when people asks me to stand still. "Sorry, I cannot, I'm burning calories".
Words You Can Mute on Twitter to Make Yourself Smarter (2022)
I don't think so. I was quite interested in getting emulated GPUs to work for CI workers to be able to test CUDA stuff without needing actual GPU passthrough, but all I could find in this space were abandoned, early stage hobby projects on GitHub.
Yeah, I also refuse to use Reddit.
Optimization problems in PyTorch are always parameterized with a smooth manifold structure so they're always differentiable, otherwise gradient descent wouldn't work.
All states have a right of veto.
Time delay and reflection create analog video feedback as never seen before
Taken literally, the phrase could be understood as simply a call for a free State of Palestine composed of the West Bank and Gaza, with internationally recognised Israel remaining intact – "from the river" meaning the West Bank's boundary with the Jordan River, "to the sea" meaning the coast of the Gaza Strip. Maybe even with some sort of corridor with right of free passage connecting the two (see this NGO proposal – https://geneva-accord.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/corrido... )

Now, I agree in practice many (most?) people using this phrase don't mean it in just that sense, and actually mean it as a call for the abolition of the State of Israel. But it doesn't seem impossible that some people who use it actually do mean it in just the literal sense I suggest. The phrase is inherently ambiguous–which is one of the reasons why I think the potential criminalisation of an ambiguous political slogan (one which I myself would never use or endorse) is rather problematic.
If you’re on X are you even smart?
Is a million people enough?

I can get cable with fast downloads and 11Mbps uploads, or if I remember right the phone line option was 50Mbps each way.
Yep. I’m one of those neighborhoods that just got Fiber installed from someone else. Of course the end sell from Comcast was to match the price, speed and assure me a 20% discount if I signed for 2 years. Oh, and they have fiber to home now, in my area today, just come to a xfinity store and get my ONT!!!. Of course today… last year you tried to lock me in a cable and tv package that also required phone for $250 a month.

I won’t miss them.
Not a Cron but tools like Jenkins or TeamCity will probably handle most if not all of these requirements.
The Middle State: Famous Owners of a Controversial Text
yeah.

given that in-stream ads still have blocking/ignoring methods I think that if this arms race keeps going that ultimately the data (video, whatever) is going to be stuffed behind some hard authentication barrier of some sort -- and then traditional piracy methods will take over like single-user-rebroadcast/etc.
Apple uses EKF (Extended Kalman Filters) for the iPhone's GNSS system:

https://www.patentlyapple.com/2020/11/apple-reveals-adding-t...

I'm 100% sure there's some form of EKF on some loop on AirTags too.
These two positions are sitting in contradiction to each other. People chosen by lot are said to lead to administrators making the decisions and that would be bad ... but career politicians govern by giving decision making power to an administrator making the decision and that that is good. I don't think your original comment got to the heart of what you don't like about demarchy.

Furthermore, I personally just flat out don't believe "parties usually have the relevant expertise". What exactly, in detail, is that supposed to mean? Because as I've never seen that technical expertise coming out of a political party.
Finding people is easy.

Finding talented people is harder than before.

It was talented people who were not laid off (mostly, generalizing ofc).

So now we have a huge surplus of untalented, average developers applying for all the jobs en mass.

Signal to noise ratio is worst I’ve ever witnessed.
Participants also lost weight and muscle mass in this study. 12% calorie restriction and 10% weight loss maintained over 2 years (avg weight reduction of 7.5 kg vs 0.1 kg weight increase in control group), of which 71% was fat loss.
I'm well aware that Texas is bigger than the UK; and I'm also aware that Comcast is far bigger than VM.

I also said 'probably' a mistake, perhaps Comcast is right in doing this as maybe they have split the CMTSs aggressively and the cost of 4.0 is much lower for them than VM.

The other issue that VM is facing is energy costs which are much higher in the UK than the US. Coax requires a lot more power than (XS)GPON; which is pretty much all passive and therefore cheap to run.

Regardless, the long term future is going to be FTTH, not coax.
It really depends, but generally large EU countries as they have English options.