skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube offers a service to advertisers. The users are both the content providers as well as the content consumers, which cancels out. Youtube sells something which is essentially parasitical on the uploaders, who actually create the value that they get to sell to advertisers, but you can say symbiotic instead of parasitic as long as the uploading and downloading are free.

The mail example is great. The post office has no right to withhold your other mail between someone else and yourself, because you threw away the ad flyer someone paid them to deliver.

Meanwhile, I pay for premium and still have to suffer ads, because every video has ads in-band in the content, and I have to watch youtube on someone else's device probably 30% of the time, and have my content (what I would consume not produce) censored and inhibited by bs ai "community standards" and dmca takedowns I didn't approve of, and even without ever looking at an ad, they are collecting and selling profiling data of me which I also don't approve of. So where's my option to strong-arm youtube to force them to fully meet my "terms" and get what I'm paying for? How come it's not reasonable for me to somehow make it that if they don't please ME, that their own server side somehow breeaks unless they conform to what decide is a reasonable fair transaction?

None of this "terms" argument holds up. All they have is might, not right.
They're trying to slow boil the frog to avoid a collective backlash and alternative switching like with Reddit.
You're 100% correct. PiHole is a DNS adblocker so, essentially, it's only able to block whole domains. My understanding is Google puts YouTube ads behind the YouTube domain so if the PiHole blocked YouTube ads, it would block the entire YouTube website which defeats the purpose.
Cycling is fine but it’s no car. Plus I live in a relatively rural area so I doubt I could get a lot done by cycling. I love the road+car paradigm and find nothing wrong with it to be honest. I don’t want to give it up for a lesser way of traveling, I want a top down fix for car pollution instead.
Like what Dave chapelle said — poor is a state of mind, so I’m not poor. What I am is broke
Eh, agreed. I think the USA has gone off the rails a bit using private companies rather than developing and deploying tech in house. The incentives aren’t really aligned to the public good ATM.
I really don't understand the panic. The target is big tech, not open source.

Think of GDPR: this goes primarily after big tech with big fines. What liability can be applied to software you don't pay for?
It’s really not: https://examine.com/guides/protein-intake/. There is tons of quality research quoted on examine.com, and the results around protein are very conclusive. The short answer is that the recommendations are for much higher protein intake than most people think, and than most standard food will give you.
Everyone complaining about gas price due to environmental reasons (such as carbon tax) fail to account for the cost of insurance, infrastructure, and disaster relief that results from climate change.

Doing nothing has a huge cost. And not centuries from now.
I like YouTube Premium. It's worth it. For a bunch of tech people... Wouldn't we see more people wanting to pay for software, a service and intellectual property?
Most creators have to get sponsors because youtube is very unreliable with what can be monetized, what can't, unblocking stuff after fake reports and so on.
I don't know how Twitch ads work (never seen an ad on Twitch tbh) but I suppose they would still need some additional metadata, for example for the player to show the button to visit the advertiser. TV-like, non-interactive ads would be a downgrade from the advertisers' point of view.

> Now at best you get a black screen while the ad runs and you block it.

Why not skip it? We already have SponsorBlock that works wonderfully. How would this be conceptually different?
IIRC this started in the Mac finder with OSX 10.2. It bled onto the web a few years later with the advent of UI frameworks and blog feeds.
AP coverage: https://apnews.com/article/milei-picardi-peso-fernandez-arge...
How about an alternative http://www.ulisp.com/show?4JAO
Poor Brian didn't have a partner like McCartney.

A composer appears to benefit enormously from a "second set of ears". It seems an artist gets too close to their creation and they lose perspective. The naive partner hears it for the first time and sees clearly how a bridge naturally follows.
You can donate to the Mozilla Foundation, but not to Mozilla Corporation. The foundation owns the corp 100%.

Gecko/Firefox developers on payroll are employed by Mozilla Corporation, which pays taxes etc. like any company.
> By the west here, you mean Israel?

And the US, which did very similar things when it funded Osama Bin Laden and the Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
I absolutely do not mean to be rude when I say "The description of what this is, is complete word salad."

Having tried the thing, it seems best summarized - currently - as "This thing is a GUI, written in javascript, allowing a user to view and manipulate the contents of a browser's origin private file system (OPFS)."

Did I get it right?

Also, what, exactly, would be its use case(s)?

You seem to be of a similar generation to me (Gen X)? So like yourself I grew up through those halcyon days of ZX81s, VIC-20's, Amigas and so on, as well as various flavours of Unixen, and finally Linux these days. I just don't grok the relationship between the aforementioned word salad introduction, and whatever the usefulness of this Thing could be.
This seems likely to be hardware limitation rather than software? Assuming the phone works anything like the DSLRs I've had experience with do. Photos get sent to a fast buffer when taken and then written to the slower memory in the background - initially you can take photos as fast as the buffer will accept them, but once it's full you're limited by the write speed of the main storage.
I didn't realize you music was a thing until I got it with premium. And I'm glad to have it. It seems pretty good.
Filming TV segments about internet websites?

What's next, watching TV on the Internet? Heh
Ooh, I'll see if I can do that this week.
You may want to read the article you're commenting on, which posits the very opposite of what you're contending here
In my area they started to put ads to meet hot russian women in youtube. I reported and they said it's supposed to stay there.
and people would complain that they are not funding the development of Firefox. Please realize that maintaining a competitive web runtime can't be done with a "small" team.
Inflation alone in the last few years has made $100k achievable by janitors. $175k today is just $48,800 in 1980 dollars. It doesn’t seem like a lot of money anymore, an experienced SWE could do better changing fields if that is a top end salary.
>Is there any evidence that writing a cover letter means they will be a motivated employee?

They're at least motivated enough to spend time writing a cover letter.

FWIW, I haven't written a cover letter since 1997, but if it was a company I was interested in, I would write one if I thought they would read it.

Also, consider some smart people haven't acquired the ability of talking on their feet yet, but might be able to show some desirability when given the chance to write. Thomas Jefferson was that way; he wrote beautifully but speeches, not so much.
I have to confess to a bit of skepticism of the organization "Biofuel Watch," which I've never heard of before and which it seems to be hard to find much information about.
They still mine your data…
I see that this is a labor of love, but I read through the whole page and couldn’t understand exactly what it does.

Perhaps a screen recording showing how it works and how to install it?
Creatives vs. Bureaucrats
The pdf is just the pullback measure.

A random variable is a function X(w) taking (eg) real values. In your probability space you already have an ambient measure space and an ambient probability measure P which takes sets in the measure space to [0,1]. The pdf is then the function defined on sets P(invX(q)). invX is a set valued inverse.

Ok, consider coin flips. Then X takes each element of sample space either to 1 or -1. Set values inverse of 1 is the sets that map to 1. Then we get the ambient probability measure of them.

You don’t really have to cope with measure theory in full to take this tiny step.
Isn't a "stroad" just a name for a street designed like a road? Is it inherently a negative word or does it just seem that way due to the anti-car context in which it typically appears?
I know a couple who are in a long distance relationship and regularly do telehealth therapy. They said it has helped hold them together.

Even if a couple lives near each other, I could totally imagine 1 or both in the relationship thinking in-person therapy is too dire an action to take but telehealth seems more doable. Better some therapy than none right? It could also be that in-person therapy is significantly more expensive than what a couple is able/willing to pay.
In case folks are interested, the creator of this has recently made a new version, the "Lisp Badge LE": http://www.technoblogy.com/show?3Z2Y

Some previous discussion of the "Lisp Badge LE" on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37682273
If you were living in the Netherlands anywhere in the past 50-60 years, none of the things you’ve described would be ‘wants’, they would all be described as needs. And needs provided for by the state regardless of income at that (housing is a bit iffy at the moment).

Given that regardless of how much money you have you’d have access to all of those, how would you define poor?

What the OP describes is what my definition of poor was while growing up. There were simply no people around that had less than we had.

Of course by comparison with any country in Africa we were all filthy rich, but that’s not really a useful comparison to make. In the context we were living we were poor.
When the app itself is also the second factor.
Profit numbers for YT have never been broken out in financial reports.
This is my hope as well. If the majority of a content-creator's revenue comes from in-video sponsor segments, what difference does it make where the video is uploaded. Most podcasts follow this model, with the exception of ones that have a lucrative exclusive arrangement with a particular service, like Joe Rogan's on Spotify.

This already happened with many of the right-wing creators that were banned from YT some time back. Many of these creators upload to multiple 'alt-tech' sites (e.g. Rumble), and rely on sponsors or direct support, which isn't locked to YT.
Meh, the hardest part I'd the mixing and mastering and getting it heard. They don't seem to do that themselves
Yep. They come to work in the morning. Go to lunch. Play a bit more. Go home for dinner. It’s not 9-5 but it feels weirdly banal.

Sure some of them are likely on drugs or showed up too late from a hangover. But it’s just so.. banal
Input and/or Spaced Repetition
I see your point. I’m glad the city stepped in to give them some motivation!
I never even knew I was poor when I was a kid. I didn't have a bathroom in the house, just a toilet outside and a tin bath to wash in outside too. It didn't even register that other people had bathrooms. I had everything I needed. I had some computer books (no computer) and a pile of Lego, and I was GOOD.

I've been a millionaire twice.

Now I'm even poorer. I get all my food from the food pantries, and I own literally nothing. I've been reduced to zero. But I'm not unhappy! Someone was kind enough to put a roof over my head and I have an Internet connection and an IDE and I can crank out code all day until one day when I return to middle-class and can buy some decent coffee again.
I’m in the EU. Hardware defects are covered by law for 2 years.
Paul was most certainly a virtuosic bass player, and both he and John could be called virtuosic singers. At least by rock music standards.
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The advantage of massive input is that you don't need to force yourself to stop to ask all these questions (ie forcing yourself to slow down) or to slow down to write notes. In my own experience learning biology, the reason why this worked for me is that when starting in a new field, there are a lot of things that are unclear to the novice if they are important, even things in textbook. Maybe nothing else you'll ever see again will leverage that concept. That's highly likely in bio. When you know that most of what you are reading may not be important, forcing yourself to take notes and make SRS prompts makes the learning process slower and not rewarding at all. The massive input approach gives you permission to skim, jump ahead, and go on tangents.

But in contrast, I would never do this with any formal subject (math, physics, learning a new programming language, computer science in general). There I think Andy's approach is the right one and the one I've tried to follow in the past.

The why seems clear: Formal domains tend to rely a lot on deep towers of abstraction, mastering one level makes a lot of sense to get to the next one because the next one is the previous one, wrapped in new symbols. The number of concepts encountered is small, but they way they can interact is very rich, and one has to be able to work through these interactions as part of producing output in the domain in question. Whereas other domains like biology have less abstraction. The underlying nature of the domain is extremely complex, the nature of the interactions of the components in biological systems are not well defined by the sort of formal rules one can neatly encapsulate in abstractions, it all leaks to some extent; so in practice in biology one is not so much proving things but gesturing in various directions and then pinning down the gesturing with concrete experiments.

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Regardless, YouTube Premium puts way more money in creators' pockets than ads and is more reliable.
Depends on what CPU you are running, on Zen 4 it's not supported to disable the mitigations and caused bugs/crashes. I think they did fix that exact crash but I'd still not recommend it. New CPUs from both AMD and Intel are designed to be run with at least the default mitigations on.
This pattern in the tech industry is getting really annoying.

Imagine going to your favorite pizzeria and they keep trying to push you to buy some newspapers, clothing or car servicing, because the pizzeria executives want to fill up their resume.

And I think you see that most in foundations (Wikipedia, Linux, etc.) because they have no profit motive, so the ranks get filled by hundreds of unproductive activists or parasites while the tech staff is still a tiny core and doing the actual work.
Yes, Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson admired one another. Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys wrote the amazing "God Only Knows" ... supposedly then inspired the Beatles Paul McCartney to write "Here, There and Everywhere".

Both amazing songs.
That's a classic title at least in the US: Senior -> Staff -> Senior Staff -> Principal
This isn't terribly relevant because remote work gets done via tools like zoom at 2-4Mbps up not by live streaming 4K on youtube.
>So it was sort of a cancer, but it was more of a symbiotic relationship

That was the paid service. If you didn't pay, you were still tracked and your motor could still be shut down. So if you paid, you got tracking++. If you didn't pay, you just got tracking.
From your description, you literally weren't poor even by the context of the netherlands, at least using the dictionary definition of the word.

[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poor]

You might have been at the lowest income level, but society ensured you met no reasonable definitions of the word, correct?

You had what you needed, even by the high standards of the society you were in.

That is a good thing.

Very few societies (now or historically) are able to do that, let alone willing.

So I'd just say you were doing ok. Or comfortable.

Just because you didn't have anyone handy at any given moment to point at and say 'hey look, they have even less than we do!' doesn't mean you were poor. It just means you were less rich. There is a difference.
I am a bit suspicious because ChatGPT knows which version of Python it has installed, as well as which packages, without actually executing any Python. And yet, this context is not in the shared system prompt for advanced data analysis.
The official/default list doesn’t block these though, so we are not supposed to make use of the user defined filters for now?
It is. It’s just that it’s a fraction of what it used to be.

They grabbed most of AVID’s and Premiere’s share.

And then Final Cut X happened, or iMovie Pro, as some depreciatively called it
I personally would never work in intelligence because I'm capable of reading the big numbered list we can all see.
Interesting idea, but is it really "on the web" when it's just files stores in the user's local browser?
Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats
There are also a ton of amazingly affordable robot arm kits on Amazon that I would have swooned over as a child. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=robot+arm+kit
I think comcast's general availability is way higher than at&t fiber though.
> Right now it’s hard to trust that any money I give them would go to a better browser.

What can't Firefox do that the better browser can? Mozilla improves Firefox all of the time.

Do you think "none" is the amount of a donation that will go towards a better browser? If so, donate $0 of your $10. Is it 10%? If so, donate $1.

* https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

I'd like a precise breakdown, too, but I'm not an accountant, and donating a few dollars is within my means.

* https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/public-records/

* https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-202...

* https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990...

* https://frankhecker.com/2020/08/15/how-mozilla-makes-money-a...
Hacker News has detected a management team that led their product from 20% of the global market to watching-the-race status. If that doesn't elicit general criticism what will? I think they're being outcompeted by Opera.

The issue here is that things like socialising, search and what have you to diversify revenue would have been really interesting back in Firefox 2.0 when they had a thriving extension ecosystem. There were things like ChatZilla where there were full fledged apps being built in browser to provide social options.

Mozilla killed that off when they removed the old XUL layers. They went with Google's strategy of everything being a HTML/Javascript web app. Cool I suppose but they've obsoleted themselves and there isn't an obvious way back into the game for them. They aren't competent at anything, thy're stewarding a 3rd rate product and they're wasting a lot of money. They'll struggle to do anything right under current conditions.
It would be nice if browsers were able to get around all these kinds of shenanigans directly, instead of having to always reach for extensions and addons and endlessly participate in this cat and mouse game. After all, the browser is supposed to be the user's agent. Its job is to do what the user wants and fetch the content that the user asks for.

Somewhere along the path, we've made a terrible turn and allowed the browsers to become agents of the web developers instead, gatekeeping on behalf of web sites, rather than serving the user's interests.

My ideal browser would load up a site like YouTube, and, knowing my already-configured preference for ad-free, minimalist layout, would present it as a Craigslist-style list of links with thumbnails, ignoring the mess of JS and CSS that the site's developer futilely sends.
You're not just paying Youtube/Google for the ad, you're paying the content creators as well. You can always buy the music directly from artists if you don't like Spotify's revenue model. Or ditch Spotify and use the free Youtube Music subscription you get with premium, maybe combined it'd be worth the $14 to you.
Giant Tortoises Are Bringing a Galápagos Island Back in Time
Funny how we can read this kind of non-sense since at least 10 years.
not giving google money is quite an odd "principle"
Most end users don't care about privacy
And until I was homeless I didn't even know what being homeless was like.

For instance -- people say "there are millions of shelters! why are people living in tents?!" -- and I wondered the same thing. But then you go to a shelter and honestly, it is horrible for most people in shelters. Not only are you absolutely surrounded by people who (sadly) suffer from a slew of addictions and mental illness and want to steal from you, or fight you, or drag you into their endless drama, but the rules and regulations at shelters are so onerous that it makes prison seem like a holiday camp.

I now understand why people set up in a tent. They can support themselves, and be by themselves, and that agency is not to be under-rated.
So should United Nations be hold accountable?
Just because it inputs and outputs text embeddings, doesnt mean its all text in between. Inside, it doesnt work in units of texts. You wouldnt say a blind human is just a text pattern machine cause it inputs and outputs text. Theres nothing stopping the llm to learn a rich semantic model of the real world in its 100s of billions of params
I think they used to (or maybe still do?) have Premium-only content. But it's no one's motivation to pay up.
The official announcement from Wordpress.com is also discussed here from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37847782
Twitch is already at that point in the ad blocker wars.
No: 1) unfortunately ambiguous with also widely used MM/DD/YYYY, 2) cannot be naturally sorted, the order does not go from the most significant to the least significant, especially when appended with HH:MM:SS.
The name really irks me. I read the explanation, but really what you are talking about has nothing to do with linux, and while it might philosophically share goals with unix it really sounds like you are more talking about small tools (although, I don't know where to find or write those tools in your thing) and using filesystem api:s. If I understand correctly this really has nothing to do with linux (besides some unix philosophy)?

Considering that there are things like jslinux (https://bellard.org/jslinux/) and other projects that actually run linux in a browser I think the name is bad.

I'd also say that I tried the demo and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with it. I know that the github readme said that it is not "about" the DE, but I don't really know what it's about besides that?

What does it actually do?
Exactly, I used to subscribe to premium but it’s not worth the price just to avoid ads and I have no use for the rest of the stuff they bundle into premium to justify the price.
Sounds cool. I have to assume the pilot tried to do that on purpose.
https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991

Fixed it for you.
I really hope we get back to blogging.

The web can be awesome again, not this handful of megacorp sites.