skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technology that constitutes the internet is fundamentally incompatible with this opinion, despite that businesses would absolutely love if they could convince people otherwise. Trying to prevent me from modifying whatever you send me for my purely private use is mostly infeasible and potentially immoral, regardless of how that simple reality affects your business model.

It is not the user's responsibility to alter their behavior to support a business's strategy. If a video hosting platform is mathematically unsustainable with the number of people who choose to view ads, along with any other sources of income, then that's just the way it is: Unsustainable (However, the answer to the question is: It's sustainable. Leadership just might not like what that means in practice).
I think this is a great take, with one exception: I think the loss of (free) ad-supported YouTube would be a devastating loss for the world at large.
I presume that you don't pay for Premium? And that the average user isn't interested in installing a tech cocktail on their systems?
They don’t have to pay it. They don’t have to have code signed.

And what’s the issue with the reason behind it? The CA/B Forum made this decision after a lot of deliberation. What’s a better partial solution to this problem given the state of the world today?
We could apply LLMs to act as an interface with the angry crowd, rephrasing angry comments into constructive criticism and summarizing needs. In turn LLMs could be applied to synthesise development progress and answer the angry crowd. Everyone would be happy.
I would pay so much money for a Chinese and Japanese version of this, absolutely amazing. I've had this idea for ages, so glad someone else built it!
Not really a fair comparison. The equivalent to "looking the other way," on YouTube would be exactly that, looking somewhere other than the ad (opening another browser, going to the bathroom, etc.).

Ad Blockers are essential painting over the bus stop ad completely, so you don't even have a chance to see it.
I read all that. A good read. A bit exaggerated but I believe it to be the general direction AI is heading.
The article approaches the problem in a strange way: In most big consumer-facing companies, product manager is a very important title and product managers have a lot of power.

One problem is that Scrum jargon uses the term "product owner." That might have been intended to give that person more influence, but the effect most often is that real product managers assign junior people to that role and it becomes the "features check-box accountant."

Real product managers should be directly engaged in product development teams because, if they are any good, they have clout with senior management and can grok concepts like minimum viable product, especially the viable part.

I can understand the frustration with mediocre product managers. But that's a symptom of being in a sub-scale organization that can't hire great product managers. If the senior management don't see that and engage better with their product teams to make up for it, you're screwed. And Scrum jargon often adds to the problem.
Well if they looked into why they're at low ridership.. they'd probably see that they're doing a poor job. (In the states)

I can't speak towards other systems but the CTA in chicago is having issues with:

1. Actually keeping a schedule [we've been lied to about wtih them adhering to their frequency schedule they advertisesd]

2. Safety in the trains [people are using the trains to smoke, drink, deface, start fights, and live there]

3. Being reliable. There are times where they just won't run for 20-40 minutes. That makes it hard to want to use it. But they're claiming "oh we don't have enough bus/train drivers" .. yet they haven't been doing anything about it and let people go during the lockdowns.

The ease of payment isn't really a big deal with people who live and depend on these the most. (They're the 80%+ of the ridership)
Covert wiretap on Russian messaging service blown by expired TLS certificate
> especially when you consider that there are only two people on the uBO team

Why in the world are there only two? That's your problem right there.

How many competent devs are right here in the comment section? Why is it so difficult to get their help?
This is only something that would work for the Dutch. That's the whole point of "going Dutch". The fact that women have to pay anything at all would make this a non-starter in the US market.
I thought it was still something stupid low like 10% of people using adblockers?
> I have seen this becoming more and more common on open source projects and totally free services, where people act as if they are entitled to something as if it is their god given right.

Do you count YouTube as a "free service" (with ads) in this case?

I wonder if there is an overlap with people that expect free stuff and people that use uBO on YouTube. YT does offer most users YT premium, which gives users an ad free experience.

Disclosure: I worked at YT in the past, but still pay for premium because I don't want the ads.
Today is Sunday
Apple says BMW wireless chargers are messing with iPhone 15s
The article did not advocate for disrespecting liberty.

It actually very hilariously directly talked about exactly your post:

“Gut feelings” and “people experiencing things” are not independently verifiable facts. In fact, every time religious experiences are tested, they are not repeatable or verifiable.
Strong vibes from RethinkDB. I hope SurrealDB will have a different fate, I'm a big big fan of live queries and change feeds and don't like most existing implementations.
What’s surprising to me is that cultures all across the world agreed that this shiny metal was valuable and could be readily exchanged anywhere for goods and services.

We know that gold is valuable today because of its distribution, availability and metallurgical properties. But random tribes who haven’t even seen an iron tool somehow decided that this shiny metal was scarce and valuable enough to hoard and desire.

Is it something in the metal itself?
Let's start by looking at YouTube's incentives:

* don't waste infrastructure on freeloaders

* convince advertisers audience is seeing the ads they pay for

The content is free in the sense Google pays (close to) nothing and in the sense that creators can go to a different platform (as long as viewers come too).

Cost centers are data centers, bandwidth and labour maintaining the platform. Wrt. the latter, I would estimate the anti ad blocker stuff has significant costs, but isn't eating into the dev cycle in an existential way yet.

At some point they might be in trouble. Anyone have an idea when?
> But... there were, are, and will yet be many intelligent people of different religions that, for various empirically-unprovable reasons, feel there is a God - even if they know at an intellectual level that their current church or belief system isn't entirely consistent or correct.

No one should be denied the freedom to follow these feelings, within the boundaries of not infringing on other people's rights and liberties.

Having said that, please accept mass delusions do happen, smart and intelligent people do get caught in them, and so this is no proof of a god. You need material proof, and there is none.
That's the price they pay for being ubiquitous. The alternative is to lose a good % of their userbase to a competitor that can make a better use of this audience.
As the dev of a macOS app that breaks all the time because of external hardware, the tone of the article hits close to home. (I’m talking about https://lunar.fyi/ whose brightness control commands can be blocked by USB-C hubs, “smart” monitors, too long cables etc.)

I had to disable public GitHub issues on the app repo [1] because people seemed to fuel each other with spiteful comments and “why can’t you just!!” sentences.

The contact form still attracts many such “entitled” people and it hurts to wake up to such messages, but at least I can choose to ignore those if I can’t bring anything to the discussion. There’s no peer pressure.

These people are expecting too much from a handful of developers who are sharing a lot of free work and time that could have been spent better than hunting new IDs in URLs and updating regular expressions.

[1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar
As soon as you add TS to the mix, you have to deal with TS compiler not being able to output run-ready JS (or has that changed by now?), because of JS issues with modules and you need a "bundler", yet another accidental complexity, and one that is often a nightmare to configure. Then some drive-by person will want you to minify all the things and you add another unnecessary complexity.

TS is great mostly. But it definitely comes at a cost.
> That’s what designers are for.

Designers interview people, and potential features may come out of that. They don't put those potential features into a roadmap and allocate resources to them. I'm a designer: if it were up to me, I'd spend 99% of my time improving the UX of the product we have, because that's what I care about most. Somebody has to own the vision for the product with respect to the company's business goals, and individual designers and engineers are not the right people for that. Maybe I ought to have phrased that better originally.
You just use one script to block the ads. They used to work around that script all the time in 2021 but it has been stable for over a year now.
Show HN: Search and read any YouTube video with clean and punctuated text
I have not been able to get it working with 2 4090s yet, but I think that's because the library I choose to use (axolotl) does not support model parallel at all.
My solution seems ethically valid: I watch the majority of YT videos on a browser with adblocks turned off, but if it's a long technical video I'm trying to learn something from, then I use a full adblock setup on a different browser because the advertising interruptions make concentration impossible.

I suppose if I was rolling in money I'd just pay for premium - though I'm sure all that data would also be fed into their user-marketing-optimization database and sold on to whoever, which I also dislike.
That's an even worse analogy, because ad blockers only block the ads for you, not for everyone else.

A better analogy is getting someone else to paint over all the ads in the free ad-supported newspaper before you read it.
Ah ok.

Well the fact remains you have an exhaust with elevated nox.

So the 3 options are to stop the nox being created to start with (no nitrogen), convert the nox into something else (nitrous oxide?) or release/store/use the nox for something.

I'm not a chemist so I don't know what's possible / economic, thus the question.
I hateto bring it to you but we are on sunday :)
Ha, I haven't dated a woman for 8 years but maybe there is some wisdom here. It can be so hard to wrangle friends together for some casual meetups even if I'm happy to pay for it. It's usually not too bad once we eventually set a date, but if you don't reach out they almost never will. Like, we're talking maybe your most active friend will reach out for a birthday party or outing once every 6 months, pre-COVID. Many just will never reach out period.

The upside of all that is that most men don't usually take it personally. Like, I can throw out a text to someone I haven't seen since college in another state and we chat like old times (you know, minus the 5 years of catching up). So it's not like they ignore people on purpose. I guess life is just busy.

I have no clue how to meet truly NEW freinds though. Meetups are so flaky and a lot of my tech/gaming circle is probably inside anyway. At best I met some closely connected friends that were ex-coworkers I never talked to.
This feels like satire.

and written by someone who should have spent more time studying the
history of database systems.

> Imagine a world where the majority of your backend logic is seamlessly embedded within the database itself

This is not a good idea.
It has been done many times and never quite caught on because it is not a good idea.

From a security perspective it is a nightmare.

Or if you do put all the correct isolation around the code
to protect the database, then you have basically created
an "app server" (old term) inside a database, and it would
happily, run outside of the database since in essence it is already
doing so.
> Well, the attack on Israel was equivalent to 48,000 people dying on 9/11 and that doesn't include the kidnapping of civilians.

Your math is off:

9/11 = 2996 dead civilians
israel attack = ~1000 dead civilians

So it's about 1/3 of 9/11 as far as dead people go. Extrapolating to the whole population would just make Gaza numbers even more horrible than the ones in Israel, because of the lower total population in Gaza.

Anyway, my point was that attacks in the south are not mild. They have more victims than the initial attack on Israel itself.

Stop blocking humanitarian aid, ceasefire and prisoner swap/release, as always. Then some political solution involving UN peacekeaping mission, or something. It's been done in many places already. It kinda needs trustworthy figures on both sides and a lot of effort at reconciliation on both sides.

Destroying Gaza, severely damaging the west bank economy by heavy restrictions associated with a prolonged war, making people there even more frustrated with PA than they already are, just doesn't seem like it will lead to anything good for regular Israelis.
If you’re looking for curious concepts, with no real way to test and verify, you could consider that because of the whole heliosphere thing our solar system has going on, there are higher and lower areas of current flowing through space, and planets could potentially act like a resistor in some circumstances, which could be gained or lost.

Thus far though, science seems mostly satisfied with radioactive decay Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061230 and the things rvilim mentions
For me a big one is "solidify all requirements before beginning development", way too much vague and half-baked items coming through my current work queue
A new tool confirms the shift towards more a negative political tone in the US
Buying a month pass is a tax benefited account for commuting. [At many work places]. On top of that you have different pricing and you aren't paying full price at tap.

The CC being picked up means you're paying the full fare immediently even if you have the pass on the other card.
No and you should also not feel guilty for ignoring the ads on a YT video. Getting a chip implanted in your brain which filters out advertisements from your vision would be closer to installing an ad blocker in your browser; and I don't know how I would feel about companies denying free service to people with such chips implanted.
Like those entitled tv viewers who switch the channel.
I think he’s referring to the Adblock as the free service here.
Are local LLMs good enough now?
The new Zephyr 7B model can run locally on an M1 Pro MacBook as fast as ChatGPT is able to stream responses in the browser.
> I don't feel entitled to use an ad supported service for free without the ads

So don't watch things for free. Many people think that if a company is giving things for free you are not obligated to pay them in any way. The company can stop it if they can't afford anymore.
Yeah, as before piracy (audio/video) was never primarily a cost issue, but an access issue.

Another example, even if I rent a movie online, I can't often get it in my language's audio or subtitle because of my region.

It is funny that the industry can't seem to get that.
Right, so could I use it to creat an Airtable clone?
The phrase "make it for free" means the people who use or enjoy it are not expected to pay or provide other direct compensation for it. Think "make it for uncompensated use".

It does not mean that it cost nothing to make, as otherwise that phrase would have no meaning.

Yet a Google search finds people using the phrase "make it for free" for things which quick clearly require the input of personal time ("DIY Circular Saw Storage Holder (Make it for Free)"; "I'll make it for free to get experience."; "Why would a client want to pay for a website, when they can just make it for free with platforms like ..."; and "My Favorite Composting Bin; How to make it for free in minutes.")

> Plenty of businesses began the same way.

So did a huge amount of academic research projects, with funding paid for by other sources.
Seems like you’d have a lot of overlap if what the PM is doing are the activities I listed, and you also employ the people I listed.

Also, what engineer doesn’t understand the product deeply from both a technical and business perspective? Maybe a contract dev, or a new hire.
Nonsense. I provide a service in exchange for payment, then not paying is entitlement.
It's understandable to ban the site given it does break Vercel's terms, but the allegation that Vercel hasn't let the owner transfer the domain away is a serious concern. Removing a customer is always hard but you have to do it in a way that ends in a clean break between your business and the customer. Keeping a domain fails to achieve that in a big way.
> Basically most of the complexity I mention comes from memory management. It's just a lot of details to know about and keep in your head. It's the price to pay for the flexibility and power.

That's basically the point: your complain is not really about C++. You're complaining about a computational problem that some programming languages abstract away with a heavy performance tradeoff. Programming languages that allow developers to manage memory will also force developers to think through memory management and object life cycles. This is not a problem caused by or specific to C++. That's the natural consequence of programming computers.

> Actually, I work on a performance sensitive application and it's written in Java and it's a good choice for it, since the performance comes from algorithmic complexity, mostly from asymptotic complexity. A C++ rewrite wouldn't significantly impact the performance of the application.

I'm sorry for being blunt, but if you think performance-sensitive applications stay at the algorithmic complexity level, you are definitely not dealing with a performance-sensitive application. You're just not writing naive code.

To go straight to the point, performance-sensitive applications are applications where low-level details, such as if memory is allocated at all, if an object is copied or not, and if some data is kept in cache, represent critical performance regressions. We're talking about details beyond cache locality, and keeping that cache hot is a critical feature. Algorithms alone don't cut it.

I recommend checking out the talk from Timur Doumler on low-latency C++ to see what I'm referring.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzmNeAhWqVs
The problem seemed to have been withholding data from agency they should have disclosed.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/california-suspends-cruise-rob....

So not really the fact there was an accident- it was the way they handled it.
I am probably misunderstanding your point BUT I have actually depended on Nix for "reproducible docker images" for confidential compute usecase so that all parties can independently verify the workload image hash. Rarely (actually only once) it did fail to produce bit identical images every other time it successfully produced bit identical images on very different machine setups. Granted this is not ISO but docker images, but I would say Nix does produce reproducible builds for many real world complex uses.

Ref:
[1] https://gitlab.com/prateem/turning-polyglot-solutions-into-t...
[2] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/docker-image-produced-by-docke...
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Rivets have been good to me lately
I take issue with excellent product management being hard to quantify. There is a creative aspect, but one indicator that's easy to examine is whether they understand strategic competitive analysis, not just point-by-point features bingo. Secondly, have they got the stature in the org to communicate about a project to senior management. If they have got both those attributes, you are in good shape.
I don’t know if it applies to the situation the GP described, but profit != revenue.

It seems to me, especially in the wild and woolly mom-n-pop end of the market, that there might be ample room for a company to sustainably put food on a certain number of employees’ family tables without much left over to characterize as profit.
A product manager works at a higher level than those roles. They aren't implementers - they collect information, identify needs, create plans, and get approvals. And then direct the roles you mentioned to do the work needed.

A PM will say things like: "I spent 120 hours talking with our users last quarter. They want a macro language added to the product to make their work easier. Our major competitor already has this feature. We have a budget from the executives and 6 months to get it done. We can get the CX person to do some focus groups to figure out how the users expect it to work, the designer to create some interface options for everyone to choose between and then do the UI wireframes, then the leads can work together to plan the coding schedule based on the implementation phases I will give them."
I've been wondering, how much does the average YouTube viewer generate in revenue by watching ads? $0.1 a month? $0.25? $0.5 if avid viewer?
Given that I'm not an avid viewer and I do not care at all for YouTube Music, I just find the monthly cost of YouTube Premium too high.
I don't know what the right price should be, but by comparing with other digital subscriptions I have, I think I would be OK with paying something like $5 a month.
It could be like a lighter version of Premium. Just ad-free and none of the other "benefits".
That's what my physics instincts tell me. It might take centuries for heat to conduct across the planet interior, but it has nowhere else to go.

I'm open to being told my instructions are wrong in this case though.
The book Sapiens argues that tech has made us less happy ever since the invention of farming 10,000 years ago, the hunter gatherers were happier and healthier than the farm villagers. But since tech allows the population density to grow we get stuck in "the luxury trap", we can't go backwards or a bunch of people will die. And the unhappier larger village is more powerful than the hunter gatherers so they have an evolutionary advantage.

I think you could apply a similar theory to the modern capitalist world.
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Pulling key topics, claims and other insights from the interview between Stripe CEO and OpenAI CEO at Sohn 2023 using GPT-3 API and an open-source script for you to do the same.
Honestly, I don't have any problem with this, and I see it as a great thing. 95% of the time when I go to the doctor it's something routine and basic, e.g. I just need someone to diagnose my cold/flu/infection etc.

My question, though, is where are all the "savings" going if so many visits are now seen by lower paid professionals? I was referred to a sleep study, where a PA or nurse practitioner just proceeded to ask me some basic questions from a form to see if I qualified for the study. She added practically nothing to the process (literally she was just reading questions from a form) and then charged my insurance company $200 for 15 minutes of her time. The whole thing was insane. That visit should have cost $20 max, yet people are lining their pockets at every step.
There is an adblocker for Youtube. It's called Youtube Premium for $13.99 a month. Youtube is a business pure and simple. You either pay with your attention/time (ads) or cash money. I think its hard for people to realize they are like any other streaming service like Netflix, Disney+ or Hulu.