skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inkplate 4 TEMPERA is a programmable 3.8 inch E Ink display with options
Because we like making money from their advertisers.
>a piratebay of YouTube videos

that'd be infeasible to do given the sheer volume of videos uploaded per day. even if we limited it to the most subscribed creators (10m+ subs) it'd be hard for pirates to keep up.

Not to mention seeding. If we had enough seeders to keep that sort of volume up, those p2p video services would be in a much better state.
Host video, give money to people who upload videos.

These are both incredibly difficult, and why Youtube and Twitch have basically zero competition.
I agree. He attacked me once out of the blue here because I said something good about CalyxOS, and said I was part of a CalyxOS-inspired conspiracy against him. For the record I've neither used CalyxOS nor GrapheneOS because I've never had a pixel phone.

I was following CalyxOS' progress at the time because they were working on enabling support for some OnePlus models but right around that moment OnePlus came out with an update that made it impossible to do change the bootloader signing keys and they abandoned the project (which I understand). I'm also a huge fan of MicroG and really prefer this open-source approach over the sandboxed google play approach. And I'm critical about some of Graphene's stances, around SafetyNet in particular ("We don't lie about security features" - I don't agree attestation is a security feature but in my opinion it's more about control/DRM). So yeah if I had a choice I probably would have gone for CalyxOS. But I'd never even heard of the guy before this happened. I had nothing to do with any hate campaign (which I doubt even exists).

But no, I don't want someone like that deciding what code goes on my phone.
Cincinnati, Ohio has Altafiber (formerly Cincinnati Bell) that offers 2gbps down 1gbps up for $80/mo. I have it and it’s amazing.

Cincinnati Bell was early to roll out DSL too. Went to college here in the late 90s and had a mind blowing 768kbps. I could watch RealVideo at 640x480!
The fact that other things like the carrier are bad, does not somehow make any other thing like graphene good. (not that it's bad exactly just that there is a problem, which is not no problem, even if it's a problem you personally have just decided to be ok with)

Someone else said that the head guy isn't the head guy any more so the biggest problem may not be a problem any more. The idea, stated ideal, design, & construction (as far as one can tell honestly) of the os are all fine.

But the point was, you don't need any more reason than his behavior to avoid granting him such a priviledged place in your phone, which holds such a priviledged place in your life. Just on basic principle. You don't need to justify that to anyone and he or the project does need to justify why one should trust them. The usual justification is merely the utterly flimsy weak one of benefit of the doubt. It's more or less impractical to actually vet strangers, and so you just grant benefit of the doubt until there is some reason to question. But that goes out the window the instant there IS any reason to question.

People have different tolerance for risk, and so, you might be fine with saying "that guy is acting a little weird in this way, but whatever, probably he can still be counted on in this other way.", but no one else is obligated to. And this example of "weird" was not just neutral irrelevant non-conformity.

There have been countless examples of people in positions of responsibility and trust going off the rails and taking a bunch of users down with them. There is no reason not to use your nose for what it's meant for in this way.

But like I said, maybe the problem is resolved now by the fact that we don't actually have to trust that guy any more. In which case, ok.
this comment never fails to appear on any Youtube blocker thread.
Good for you that you pay Youtube , but stop rubbing it in our faces. each person has its own standards
Team are heads down working on beating this.
Sure it is, you're not even involved in the transaction. Just because someone pays Google to show an ad doesn't mean you have to look at it.
USPS is funded by ads going through the mail and I throw
them straight in the trash without remorse. I bet you do too. Bet you don't feel guilt about going to the bathroom or fast-forwarding your DVR during commercials either. Ad space is sold on the possibility that someone will see it and you don't owe anyone valuable ad real-estate.

It's wild how many people unironically think "drink verification can" is in any way acceptable.
These comments make me so angry. I can't properly articulate why. But I hate "you don't know what it's like - there are people POORER THAN YOU - you are not allowed to speak of POOR if you have not gone days without eating".

I can very well feel poor without being homeless and starving. I don't claim to know what it's like to be homeless and starving, but I sure as hell Feel Poor.
>Consider what alignment means

Also consider, humans are not homogeneous; whose goals are we aligning it with? If the alignment is done by silicon valley big tech, then the AI's goals and values will be aligned with the goals and values of Google, Facebook et al. Giving those companies a monopoly on AI alignment is antithetical to democracy.
But you're perfectly comfortable using their service and also not paying the content creators you're consuming from?
I have a warm, dry nice place to live. I have food & security but I don't have the newest fad car or newest fad fashion. SO WHAT, I'm sure i'll get over it lol. I keep up with nobody but myself thanks.
That's great, keep it up. Mine took German through high school and the oder one got a minor in German in college. The younger is still not that interested in German but they both have both citizenships, hopefully will take advantage later on.
> The fierce resistance the Ukrainians are providing would appear to indicate they very much do care about who is ruling over them.

Yeah, they pretty much had a choice, no? I mean, they were allowed to leave the country, right? right? oh but atleast they could voice their frustration by joining opposition parties? right? Oh well but atleast the good comedian has made Ukraine far more tolerant of LGBTQ, right? oh...
“Give deadlines, tell them what you want, and let them figure it out.”

This actually how people should be managed!

This is the problem that needs to solved.
These are the constraints.
You are empowered to find a solution.
Boston area here, and genuinely can't complain for the past 15 years over 3 different cities or parts of Boston.

About 6 years ago I had some spottiness when I had moved, but a call had a senior tech rolled out, it was identified as too strong a signal as I was so close to the head-end in the building, put an attenuator on the connection to get it smack in the middle of its target range and it was perfect after that.

Even right now my bill has dropped from $90 to $80, and again recently from $80 to $75 with no contract, for 1.2Gbps down, 35Mbps up. In which I actually get the full 120% over-provisioned speed all the time. No bandwidth cap in Massachusetts, either. I run my own DNS servers in my homelab, and with the network equipment on UPS backup, even power outages have failed to cause a service interruption in the 4 years at my current location.

My area is going to soon start piloting its municipal fiber rollout soon. That I'm looking forward to as it'll give another option and increase competition. I look forward to having improved options -- likely at lower prices still, since the cities are targeting 1Gbps symmetrical for $50/mo -- one way or the other in the coming year or so.
Reminds me of Joey Hess (joeyh.name).

That said, I think this take has aged poorly in light of recent history. For instance, Google was started as a small collaboration, but has since grown into an enormous company. Presumably, this growth was (at least initially) the natural result of finding that a couple people can only do so much. For another example, Sublime Text (a for profit text editor written by a small group of developers) is massively less popular than VS Code, which is the bloated work of a small army.
I think we're just heading for (hopefully) a return to fragmentation of content. YouTube's dominance was largely from them pouring Google Ad money into the platform such that content creators made decent money while users didn't have to suffer as many ads as other platforms.

But over the years creators have become less dependent on Google ad money, instead relying more on sponsorships, paid subscriptions ala Patreon and superchat style systems for live streams. Leaving the audience as the only leverage YouTube has.

Now on top of that Google is creating incentives for people to look for alternatives. If it's already reasonable for people to self host alternate frontends like Invidious, it's only a matter of time till a gradual shift and fragmentation starts to occur.

I think Google would've had a much easier time of forcing people to not use adblock if they hadn't spent the past decade burning good will with the way they treat content creators.
> > This is a major reason employees are dissatisfied with employers: current employees aren't paid market rates.

> Are you saying the market isn't paying market rates?

You have to keep re-entering the market to get market rates.
Bittorrent would like to have a word.
>each person has its own standards

What's your standard then? "It's my right to get whatever content/service I want for free and without ads, and I'll only pay if I feel like it"?
What's the correct wording?
If you listen to his latest appearance on Lex it's clear his position is that it's ok for AI to take over, it will achieve greater things than us, and it would be a mistake to fight that. He gives the example of chimps fighting to stop humans evolve.
I'd buy it, but $14/m is way too much for no ads imo. Especially since this is a "free" service where the justification for me paying X$/m is because i have to offset the ads i would have otherwise watched.

You're (Youtube, not OP hah) telling me i provided $14/m in ad revenue? Of course not.

I'd insta-buy if i could just pay to skip any ads i actually would have watched. Give me a stat showing me how many ads i missed, and how much i owe. Justify the cost you're forcing on me.

Instead i'll just drop youtube and give money to some other service that doesn't feel like it's focused on gaming me.
I think that’s the dude who was behind Wiring. Super contribution to rpi.
Someone with extremely valuable skills and knowledge? No, of course not. Even assuming he somehow didn’t know anybody from when he was rich, he’d know where to find people to talk to, and what to say, to start getting enough money to stop being poor pretty fast.
Yes. Jeff Bezos parents gave him a loan of $245,573, in 1993 money to start Amazon. This indicates that he grew up if not very wealthy, but solidly on the upper side of middle class. Growing up poor he would've probably not had the opportunities to get into Princeton (statistically), so probably would have had a harder time breaking in the hedge fund industry, giving him less cash on hand, and probably wouldn't have started Amazon. Maybe growing up poor he could have, but its more likely as a smart ambitious poor person, he'd have gone to whatever school gave him a good scholarship, and then ended up as an Engineer or some other safe profession and landed middle class.

Being born rich lets you take a lot more risks.
I literally just finished reading "If Then" by Jill Lepore, which was about Simulmatics, and computational simulation of human behavior. If you haven't read it, you may want to take the time.
Yeah, it's very context sensitive. My father in law learned Hungarian as his first language in a Hungarian neighborhood in Cleveland. When he went to Hungary decades later they told him he spoke like their great grandparents.
They’ll only do that after exhausting all lobbying options to block competition.
Agreed. Back then switching to a new phone was justifiable since there would be a noticeable quality of life improvement between a couple generations. Now, I think we’ve reached that point where the new phone is not significantly better. Or at least, not worth the extra cost compared to a battery replacement.

Easily swappable batteries would be a big value add now for a lot of people.
>They can pretty much push the same bullshit forever until it stays while you are devoting your life to prevent it.

This is the nature of democracy, and any way of stopping this from happening would be a case of the cure being worse than the disease. This same process is how women's suffrage, civil rights, gay rights, medical marijuana and many many many other smaller victories for rights have been enabled over the years. Each one of those was brought up by politicians and lobbyists time and time again, defeated time and time again, until one day it wasn't and it stuck.

Personally I think that smaller, decentralized, local government is the best way to minimize the harm of this nature, but I fully recognize that it also means every group must fight the same fight multiple times in multiple places in order to secure their rights all over, and that's its own harm.

But I can't think of any way that you could "permanently" defeat "bad" bills that wouldn't equally have harmed those other movements.
"Reconfigurable mixed-kernel heterojunction transistors for personalized support vector machine classification" (2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-01042-7 :

> Advances in algorithms and low-power computing hardware imply that machine learning is of potential use in off-grid medical data classification and diagnosis applications such as electrocardiogram interpretation. However, although support vector machine algorithms for electrocardiogram classification show high classification accuracy, hardware implementations for edge applications are impractical due to the complexity and substantial power consumption needed for kernel optimization when using conventional complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor circuits. Here we report reconfigurable mixed-kernel transistors based on dual-gated van der Waals heterojunctions that can generate fully tunable individual and mixed Gaussian and sigmoid functions for analogue support vector machine kernel applications. We show that the heterojunction-generated kernels can be used for arrhythmia detection from electrocardiogram signals with high classification accuracy compared with standard radial basis function kernels. The reconfigurable nature of mixed-kernel heterojunction transistors also allows for personalized detection using Bayesian optimization. A single mixed-kernel heterojunction device can generate the equivalent transfer function of a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor circuit comprising dozens of transistors and thus provides a low-power approach for support vector machine classification applications.
Well if they copy Twitch I suspect it will be circumvented very quickly. My adblock works just fine for Twitch, I do not see any adverts (unless I open using incognito).
Dr Joscha Bach has been studying cognitive science and AI for the past 23 years.
I think the only "happy ending for everyone" if Google is going to ban ad-blockers for YouTube is if they make the ads less annoying.

What makes YouTube's ads annoying:

- the number of them

2 ads at the start is way too much. 1 max.

Middle of video ads should be content creator controlled.

- the ads they choose to show

Google showing me the same few very annoying (to me) ads and gives me no option to avoid those specific ads.

I have done the unthinkable and given up on YouTube as a daily site I visit. Now I will only visit it if I have to - e.g. someone link to it. Yes, I hate those specific ads that much.
They don't even need that. They can just not play video without a cookie.

Fakeable of course, but it's not DOM element removal, it's not how current blockers (have had to) work.
I live in Spain. I use English a lot at work (maybe 50% of my communication at work is in English) but not with my wife, and it's not used in the country. I suppose it's an important factor, indeed.
Turning it off means doing what instead? No vsync at all will certainly give you faster updates, if you don't mind the tearing. But in general I would describe triple buffering as a way to reduce lag when vsync is on but your system is fast.
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.

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.

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. I think that is pretty damn impressive. I use YouTube often, and I am totally fine with them making money off my data via ads (when I am not paying for YouTube premium).
For those who fall into the camp that have never taken a security clearance before but have worked on more interesting tech ... why is this all so sensitive? Are we to ignore these capabilities as if they do not exist or what? Is there a handbook for stuff you read you probably shouldn't know about or are we ready to accept the fact everything is hacked or can be hacked? Personally as an independent small timer with no cool or a secret accomplishment to date ....... assumed breach is my day to day reality.
Odd, why do they act so desperate? I thought this tool is the answer to everything in the universe - the new iphone. Is it not?
Did you put a very narrow salary range (ie 150-180k) or wide one (ie 100k-250k) in the job posting?
I am in the same boat. They are providing a service. Ads suck so I pay for. The evil angle is tiring. If they are so evil why even use YouTube at all.
If only I had explained the purpose of the church example was to illustrate with a stronger example that's merely further along the same dimension... If only I had explained anything at all instead of just saying I hate some idea for no unpackable explicable reason...
Well there's a tonne of great books and articles posted here.

There's some simple stuff that seems worth pointing out:

1. You need to do it more often.
Education 10%, Exposure 20% and Experience 70% as a rule of thumb for learning.

If you want to be better at managing, then practice managing more. You're not losing time for solo dev work, you are gaining a new skill.

2. Get a close mentor you can shadow for that 20% exposure time.

3. For delegation, practice using CPORT.C – Context. P – Purpose. O – Outcome in terms of quality and quantity. R – Resources.
Then get fast at it by creating systems that do it for you. Queues are your friend.

Have fun.
Thanks for the link. I'm very familiar with this already though.

I don't rely on obscurity for 'security', i just don't think implementation details are required for most users so I don't publish them.

I'm very familiar with security through obscurity, ultimately I like to think the systems I build are secure but I can't always be sure, so why give people a head start? Not publishing details gives me time improve security.

Security through obscurity might not be the best approach, but you should know it's fairly common. For example when I generate a link to a Google Doc and "only those with the link" can access the document, I think that's a form of seurity through obscurity. No one is going to guess the link in any practical time frame...
My subdivision was built in 2003/2004. Underground utilities. I have both AT&T fiber and Google fiber (as of a few months ago) available to me.
As others mentioned: https://libredirect.github.io/
It redirects so many pages to their privacy friendly frontends. Can't use the internet anymore without this extension.
People tend to forget that managing people is a job in itself.

The number of times you see people promoted to a “manager” with the expectation that they will do that and continue at the same level of IC output is ridiculous.

Management can be and often is full time job.

In your situation you will need to spend more time mentoring and coaching your staff until they learn how you want them to perform.

Give them problems along with the constraints and how success will be measured. Then monitor progress and correct as needed.

This will mean that you have less time to do the work you were originally doing.
>AFAIK at this point most of the "ripping" of decryption keys/etc for streaming content happens not by attacking the TPM, but by using android devices that are allowed to skate with reduced security modes, and just having a giant stack of them so when one device gets banned they throw it away and move onto the next.

Without a TEE (eg. trustzone), you're not going to get anything above 540p, at least with widevine. Note TEE is baked into the SoC itself, so while it's not impossible to find a bug, it's much harder than finding a exploit in android or system apps.
> no crazy "competency tests"

I had an SF-based startup to which I applied administer an IQ test as part of their interview process

It was really dumb--we're talking literally like 20 questions of "which shape comes next in the sequence", the kind of test administered to children to determine whether they qualify for advanced placement
I hope they're going to fix the self hosted server for these accounts.

They've abandoned the old one and the new one isn't finished and not even released... It's been like this for years.
Same also. I was fascinated with the idea that someone was trying to fine-tune some RF parameters using AI and accidentally undid some safety mechanism
Thanks, but I don't need luck since I mainly watch videos from the same channels. Throwing each some spare change now and then is not hard.

I reckon you don't subscribe to premium because you think every random channel of every random video you happen to watch deserves your money? I certainly don't feel bad when my adblock prevents me from wasting any more of my time when I click on a clickbait-ty Linus Tech Tips video.
the amount of ads on youtube has grown exponentially and i highly doubt this was because of profitability issues.
I don’t know about that. I think AGI with 60 IQ may arrive before AGI that can walk, which rather limits its usefulness as an army.
Listed for sale at $900k, sold for $875k.

Note the claim I said was false:

>millennials now encounter bids hundreds of thousands over asking for fixer-uppers.

The above house is not a fixer upper, nor was it bid hundreds of thousand over asking.

Prices are high, but they definitely peaked, and at this point you can negotiate down in pretty much every market (even this summer).
> The open-source community will continue adopting "next-gen" "encryption" even though it has back doors, just like they didn't question elliptic curve encryption even after the NSA got caught putting out a compromised algorithm.

The NSA put out a known compromised elliptic curve encryption algorithm? Or are you referring to Dual_EC_DRBG, a probably compromised random number generator?
What's the point in Mozilla existing when Firefox is gone?
I don't know, or just pay for content you're consuming and the infrastructure to serve that content.