skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still lose Google more money than someone who views the ads and never buys anything on the ads.

You didn’t lower the value of Google’s ad network by being less likely to buy things off of advertisements, but you still cost Google 100% of the bandwidth, storage, compute, and labor costs required for you to serve the video.

Hypothetical Example:

Let’s say serving one video costs 5 cents in fixed costs. An advertiser pays 10 cents for an advertisement to be shown to you. The average YouTube premium subscriber pays roughly 10 cents per video and didn’t get shown an ad.

Let’s say you never buy anything but watch the ad. Google got their 10 cents but because you’re the type of customer who will never buy anything, Google’s ad is now worth less. Because you’re such a bad customer Google lowers their ad price down to 9 cents per view, because we can assume that maybe 10% of people who watch ads will just ignore 100% of them.

That means you made Google 9 cents, minus 5 cents for fixed costs, that’s 4 cents in profit.

Now let’s say you pay for premium. The math is obvious, 5 cents of profit.

Now you watched the video with ads blocked. Google paid 5 cents to serve you the video, but nobody paid for it. Net loss is 5 cents.

I know the numbers are far off and made up but you get the idea. People who aren’t susceptible to ads are already baked into the market price of ads. A response rate of something like 5-10% for marketing emails is considered excellent.

If you block ads and don’t pay for premium you’re not even a customer. I realize that that’s not your problem, but again, it’s Google’s prerogative to refuse you service.

And you can call advertisements psychological warfare and perhaps they are in some way, but I don’t see how society would function without them. Basically everyone advertises, including on the individual level. Inviting your friends to a party is an advertisement. Does your employer advertise? And you work for someone who engages in psychological warfare? How could you!! But seriously, how do you develop anything new with the involvement of more than one person without the ability to evangelize it? How do you exchange goods without the ability to make your presence known?

As long as advertisement is moderated in some way it’s just a normal reality of living in society. It’s basically just communication.
Completely agreed. Personally I hated JavaScript too a long time ago, until one afternoon I decided to read JavaScript the Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. That one book alone was able to completely change my mind.
I wonder if someone didn't "forget" on purpose, so that people learn about it.

Or, someone very diligently followed the orders - there was an order to set up a cert, but there was no requirement that it has to auto-renew :)
But consider that Sunnyvale, California has the benefit of a very upscale demographic, no gang activity, low organized crime, etc. What works for one place will likely not apply elsewhere (e.g. no one-size-fits-all solution).

Organized crime (especially drug crime) is a quasi-military force. The police are threatening billions of dollars in illicit profit, and that will not go unchallenged easily.
Or just copy the Swiss system (which is entirely privatized, more so than in the US) if you want to maintain a high degree of direct government involvement in healthcare which exists know you could also copy one of the functioning mixed public/private systems (like the one in the Netherlands). Why try and reinvent the wheel?
Hard to say but I think Arnie Hammer might have aged worse than the Winklevii...
The ayes have it and the motion is carried.
Agreed. Why do people keep pretending that robots are anyhow more sentient than other types of automation? They aren't! They are just as dumb instruction followers as your average conveyor belt, just that the instructions might be a bit more complex and they can adapt to unforeseen environments better. But that's completely different from free will.
The issue here not specifically notability or a lack of articles. In most cases someone could find the sources but they would need to do so really quickly while flagging hundreds of pages is trivial for an editor with a grudge.

It’s that time pressure gives a great deal of power to anyone with an agenda of any kind.
The head on my X16 was very loud. So much so that you could hear it from across the room (when it was in the PC case). May have been a dodgy unit; not sure, but it packed up roughly 2 years after being installed.
Yep! This is one way of preventing this type of attack.
Another alternative I've used is Another Redis Desktop Manager - https://github.com/qishibo/AnotherRedisDesktopManager. It handles JSON values much better than Redis Insight in my experience.
Ask HN: Is there an archive of videos like archive.today?
I would love a service like archive.today where you punch in a video link and the content gets cached for a simple, no-bs archive.

The enshittification of the video platforms is getting to me. I'm ready to ignore any video links -- I can read faster than the video can show an intro, beg for subscribes, show three ads, and then finally get to the topic at hand. Maybe there's a healthy compromise?

There are browser plug-ins that kind of do this, but I like the archive method better. Submit a video on HN, post the archive link. Done. No bs. If I choose to engage with the platform, I will. (This model actually got me to sub to nyt, btw, so I see that as a net win).

Does this concept or anything like it exist?

While I certainly don't want to take anything out of the mouths of the content creators, so maybe this needs some links to source platform to enable people who want to engage more.
That isn't in-band signaling, that's encapsulating one protocol in another.
I like to think a primary goal of empire should be to burn out as slowly as possible, and citizens of an empire should work toward that outcome.

Having said all that, no, I believe that the US will be the most stable large state for my entire lifetime. Just the same, I would like my children to live in a US and world that is as stable as the one my parents have had.
This seems really brittle.

https://github.com/stealthrocket/coroutine/blob/main/getg_am...
I was so pleased when I learned that login.gov implemented U2F and advised against SMS.

They also make websites which have excellent color contrast and intuitive design, and you can tell that a lot of thought went into each one.
‘I’m shocked! Shocked! That there is gambling in this establishment!’

‘Your winnings sir’
A spin off of dr damage’s tech report
I disagree with certain statements the article made. Null, the site's admin, didn't merely post the text and email conversation of the copyright claim after refusing to take down the material, he also insults and mocks the person involved. Null also stated that "In this specific instance, I will waive whatever safe harbor protections I have and personally burden liability for posting it." At one point he tells greer to "put this in your lawsuit cuck".

It's also worth noting that users of the site apparently doxxed the lawyer involved in this case.

Bear in mind that Null is probably acting in bad faith. He has outright said he was ok with users posting stolen financial information, such as Social Security Numbers and Credit cards. Source: https://archive.is/0fOcS . There are many examples of private financial information being posted on the site.

I would describe them as operating with a paper thin layer of "plausible" deniability. Officially you aren't allowed to harass or interact with the targets. But posting their home address, stolen passwords, phone numbers, and information about relatives is all allowed. Obviously, if they didn't want their targets harassed, they wouldn't post that. Kiwifarms, now banned, official twitter page said their goal was “exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”. ( Source: https://archive.is/jYp5p ).

But even the rule against interacting with "lolcows" (called "cowtipping") is haphazardly enforced. For example, one user had sex with a "lolcow" and posted photos. The admin explicitly said they would allow the content to remain up and did not ban the user: https://archive.is/zYnpK#35%
ASCII Art Database
Really?? You had to take it that far out of context? You couldn't even quote the rest of the sentence?

"A conspiracy, also known as a plot, is a secret plan or agreement between people (called conspirers or conspirators) for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder, treason, or corruption, especially with political motivation,[1] while keeping their agreement secret from the public or from other people affected by it."
Bumble birds are amazing.
Can't downvote this due to comment age but please don't use unnecessarily inflammatory language. You and I both have issues with unions but they are not "infestations"
> DNSSEC operators can be strong-armed the same way. You will also lose out on transparency logs.

Kepping DNS registry, CA, and hosting in different jurisdictions could be a noticeable improvement...
Most desktop OSes have some sort of auto-destructing "Guest" user you can enable, it really should be standard on mobile devices as well.
My suspicion would be that Facebook/Meta divulged the messages.
You can, just like you could do in Markdown. You can use inline TeX and get the right overall format with a template. I haven't actually done this for a paper, but I used Pandoc to typeset a textbook with lots of math and code and it worked well. We could have used org-mode just as easily, but Markdown was already familiar to my non-Emacs-using coauthor. (Hey, we all have our faults!)
I appreciate your sincerity as well. And I agree, I think we understand each other.

As you said, regular people can only speak for ourselves, I’d never expect you to answer on behalf of your entire country. I hope you and yours stay safe and we both get to see a just peace someday, hopefully soon.
Towards Harmony with Machines
Reminds me of the Marshall McLuhan quote from 1964, "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms."

It's easy to interpret McLuhan as applying to the present because of the generality of his statements, but it's possible that's because they're also about something very essential. It's kind of funny to think about how some distant AGI that operated over a non-living compute substrate on universe-size time scales could use lifeforms to evolve and produce things that would eventually speak-to and extend its reach.
Makes sense as they have big codebase already in Ruby.

These days, Elixir just makes just so much more sense.
It's just based on the list you entered. I'm sure it would be possible to implement some sort of autosuggest feature (maybe integrate with learning websites to see what lessons you have available), but that would be a good ways off in the future :)

There is no listening to your playing at this point. That would be a cool feature, but I'm not ready to tackle that either.
CAA account binding is the response to this.
Opening this site actually crashes my Yabai status bar widget on MacOS. What an unexpected and nice troll. Lol.

It contains the raw byte of 0x1b (ESC) in the title (before [31m), which colors the following text red in the context of a terminal. The browser title is reported to Übersicht, which apparently fails to serialize it to proper JSON and thus crashes simple-bar with a JSON decode error, removing the overview of my spaces. Everything is back to normal once I change my browser tab.
> one of the most used key command

Found the vim user! The vast, _vast_ majority of Unix command-line or text-based programs do not use the Esc key because they were not written with a particular terminal or keyboard layout in mind. (Unlike vim.)

But for whatever it's worth, I use vim every day and I notice no 1 second delay when switching modes with the Esc key, so perhaps this is something you can configure in your terminal.
If you're looking for type safety, isn't TypeScript enough?
I remember reading an accusation from someone upset about a page deletion that the notability guidelines are so tight in order to drive traffic to Fandom. At the time I thought it was absurd, but I find myself wondering about that a lot.
Would you also take federal money to expand medicaid coverage to the poor citizens of your state?

If so you might not be qualified to be a republican governor.

Wouldn't it be much better to hire your friends as IT consultants, make broken systems as confusing as possible, and continuously change the rules, and then starve the half-assed system of funding in an attempt to keep people from signing up for coverage at all? What makes this plan doubly republican-friendly is that all players are your donors and most victims are minorities.
It's more than a little annoying that an article like this doesn't have a single chart. For sure, there's a lot of deception that can be done with charts, but they can also instantly provide a lot of context.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...
I mean, it’s literally a conspiracy [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy] of foreign interests (including foreign intelligence services!) trying to convince legislators to pass laws against their own (and their constituents) interest using deceptive and likely illegal methods.

I think you might mean that it doesn’t involve blackmail, assassinations, etc?*

Notably, a conspiracy doesn’t require those things - but some do. And they’re pretty bad too.

* that we are currently aware of anyway.
We had a B&W portable that lived on top of the refrigerator but was dragged into the dining room to watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy for weeknight dinners. The TV itself was from the 70s, but we were still using it in the early and mid 90s. It still had paint dried on its case from when my parents watched it while painting the rooms of the house.
Even when I was in grad school (sadly a while ago), it was understood that to really understand the validity of a paper, you needed to look at its conclusion and methods sections. Generally speaking the abstract was just used as a filter. It helped you answer the question of whether the paper was even worth taking a look at or not. Then you mined the conclusion and methods to see if they supported what you were looking for. Only then did you read the paper in detail.

As you say there's a pretty big gap with the way researchers read through papers and the way the science media communicate about research with laypeople. It's a hard problem that needs more attention than it gets.

(Probably one of the most useful classes I took in grad school was a class in the beginning that forced us to read 10 papers a week and write summaries. The class was hell as obviously there was no way to properly understand each paper on top of your research and other classes. But it made us great at being able to quickly winnow papers for the meat of each paper and also made us great at finding papers with... dubious methods.)
I sure miss the health care system in Italy.

You go to the doctor, there is no one else there, because there's no need for paperwork. The doctor just types your name into their system and that's all that's needed.

My son was born there. Total cost: 0.

Same son had a minor tumble once, but proceeded to have one of these, which absolutely scared us to death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breath-holding_spell - we called an ambulance because his lips were a bit blue. He started breathing again just fine as we called, but they sent it anyway.

Total cost: 0. And it was nice not having to think about that when we made the call. It got there very quickly and they took him and my wife in to check him out in any case, just to be sure.

There are a lot of things I like about life in the US, and things that didn't work well in Italy too, but the health care system was just nice in that it's just there and you don't have to screw around comparing confusing plans and worrying about it being attached to your job.
Here's the list for the next 10 years. There will be a partial lunar eclipse next Saturday.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html
If that were true, the appropriate solution would be deploying intimidation techniques against those people, not wearing a uniform that does it to everyone
The Way You're Thinking About Early Adopters Is Likely Wrong
Sorry for the stupid question. Does 5% mean 5% per year (over ten years), or 5% per 10 years?
>second-best

Your performance comment is right there. What else is "second-best" other than a comment on performance?
Nobody will preserve the culture you care about for you. Nobody can make it better but us.

Internet Archive is doing a pretty incredible job of just that.
10.25 percent (highest sales tax rate in CA - 1) of 250k is closer to 31.25k. State and fed taxes income taxes are around 45% but I'll grant you there's other hidden fees (social security and others)... luckily hidden fees are now illegal in CA.

[1]: https://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates/california.h...
$1000 would be on the low side. Employers on average are now subsidizing family coverage by about $17000 per year. Annual increases continue to exceed the rate of inflation. This is obviously unsustainable.

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/report/2023-employer-health...
It's explained in the Changelog podcast mentioned elsewhere, at 36:16.
I’ve written Python for 18 years now and I’m certainly not unaware of its warts but its sheer usefulness and productivity makes it worth it. I see languages as a means to an end — some means fit people’s brains better — but at the end of the day you gotta get the work done. Python is definitely a tool that I’ve treasured.

I used to be infatuated with Lisp and Haskell and their sheer elegance. But now that I’m more experienced I’ve learned that picking a language comes down to practicality and maintainability as well as interoperability with other humans (library ecosystem, labor pool, stack overflow solution searchability).
moral judging aside. external consequences do effect behavior. if you don't believe me go touch a stove...twice. (not meant to be taken literally)
For All Mankind is neat, if campy. Alternative take on the space race and attempts to make at least some decent logical extrapolations had we continued to invest heavily in space exploration, maybe
I tried writing a custom Sereal decoder plugin for this a while ago but the docs were thin and the example plugins were all adding other functionality. It would be nice to have an example for what I would assume would be probably the most common use case for a plugin, custom decoding for retrieved data. It was easy to build the functionality natively into the app, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't take a patch for an obscure format, so I never really made the effort to take it further. If anyone knows of an boilerplate formatting plugin for RedisInsight, I probably would be able to get it to release.
My son was born a few weeks off the ultimate pi birthday, 1/4/15. Instead he is at ~60,000.
I've had a lot of misses with more recent shows.

Writers can put out amazing things, but I frequently have the sensation of "waiting for the movie to start" 25-50 minutes into the movie, kind of like watching Napoleon Dynamite but with no dance scene.

Every movie script doesn't have to follow Campbell's Hero's Journey, but studios and writers need to make sure that not only are we, the viewers, along for the ride but that we are invested in the characters.

We don't invest in characters because they happen to match physical traits with us.

We don't invest in characters because their living conditions are similar to our own.

We don't invest in characters for anything visible on the movie screen.

We invest in characters because they have a compelling narrative.

I don't care if the overweight kid with a good sense of humor is accepted by his classmates and seamlessly integrated into his peer group.

I care if he is a good person that does good things and that he overcomes adversity to get the girl despite others being against him.

I don't care if the non-white girl shows how bad ass and fearless she is with impeccable style while she moves to her own beat.

I care that she has a goal that makes sense and what steps she takes to achieve it.

To make us care about the characters, make us care about what they are doing with the circumstances they find themselves in.

You're the granddaughter of a dead ghostbuster. Great. Wonderful. Whatever.

Why am I watching a movie about you?
Also, if you can't blame the person for a violent action you can't blame the victims family for wanting retribution. so it seems your right back where you started from.
From the Himalayas to a remote Indonesian island
Can we agree that marketing, while currently crude, does have some effect? Some people are more swayed than others by bought-and-paid-for messages. But right now mass-marketing is pretty lowest-common-denominator. What happens when it gets cheap enough to dedicate one-humanish-intelligence 24/7 dedicated to learning about how to influence you to buy or vote. Monitoring what you look at online, where you go, people you frequently engage with, etc., and customizing/"fabricating" interesting "news" to consume, etc.. And then what happens when it is a trivial cost to put 1,000 human-intelligences working against you? Or maybe not you, but all of your neighbors or 25% of the citizens in your country?
> but the tldr is that all SCT-checking clients have to be able to respond to ecosystem changes very quickly.

This is fine. If you're using a tool that's connecting to the internet, you probably need to monitor for updates anyway.

I'd like to see a separate package, similar to Mozilla's `ca-certificates`, but for CT that can be updated independently of the actual useragent.
If you are building for the web, use the web first language PHP. It has improved in leaps and bounds.
What election is happening this year?
Both of those things can be true.

The Illuminati deep state WAS suppressing electric cars until their puppet Elon agreed to normalize the extremely connected and remotely controllable car.

This way, the bioweapon defense mode built into the Tesla can be remotely inverted to invite bioweapon agents into the car remotely incapacitating the ones who know too much.

/s, maybe.
I wonder if this systemic thing happens at Microsoft OneDrive, or Google, or the other cloud storage providers. I notice lately most of these apps tend to expect t download pictures/data from our devices, with obscure options to shut these "automatic" functions off. It would be a very interesting investigation/audit of such companies.
Would be nice if the title could mention Bandcamp, since it's very dramatic without context and could be about anything.
So, 2 spies were caught spying in private, without authorization of the spying agency.

Now, if you think this is just "3rd world shit-hole being a 3rd world shit-hole" remember:

* in Minneapolis and other American cities, extortion rackets by police officers are making a fortune selling "protection" to small businesses and minorities [0]. This is exactly how Rio de Janeiro became a gangster's hell hole in the 90's and it is until today.

* In UK, the News of The World newspaper bribed the police to spy people's phones and get stories to sell [1]. Not far from the story on this post.

[0] https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/small-business-owne...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...
At this point of time, uBlock Origin is probably more trustworthy than some browser (read Chrome) themselves.