skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing hilarious, please don't be insulting.

Everybody knows that major patent trials often get reversed on appeal, and sometimes reversed yet again. Precisely because they're not clear-cut, because clear-cut cases often just get settled before going to court at all.

And yes, the jury trial already couldn't decide against Apple in terms of trade secrets.

So the idea that Apple is obviously the bad guys here simply doesn't hold water. And they certainly aren't in terms of hiring employees from a competitor, because that's just what corporations do to do each other.

Maybe this jury decided correctly on patent infringment, maybe they didn't. Patent infringement cases can be notoriously difficult to determine. If this one gets upheld after a couple of appeals, then it's a lot easier to say Apple was in the wrong.
My main issue with YouTube, being a paying customer, it's that they still try to shove trash down your throat like cringe shorts or stupid bullshit news.

I still think there's some shady monetization going regarding their recomedation system as well, where the "algorithm" will recommend shit that has nothing to do with the content you watch
I wonder why Youtube does not try other kinds of ads.why not ads in the sidebar, under the videos etc. They know which products and keywords are mentioned, and sometimes i google them anyway. Why do they insist on silly clickbait ads that are much worse than old-time TV ads. I don't want that because i don't like people wasting my time beyond a few hundred milliseconds. They d probably have made more money if they showed me banner ads instead of trying to make me stop using blockers

I guess it's because they want to sell "video inventory" to their advertisers. But why really? They own both the demand and the supply of advertising and they can 'convince' advertisers to use banners instead of videos. Why not be a good monopoly ?
Based on my college clubs, I can believe it. It's a shame I simply don't like dancing. Dancing and Tabletop are two things I tried for a very long time to get into for the sake of meeting friends and I simply don't like neither.
Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin featuring Esunertos, a ruler from pre-Roman Britain.

You're welcome.
The Big Book of MLOps [pdf]
Most meetings are not coding but they are all work. No chance I would be attending without getting paid and by the same token I'd likely get sacked if I failed to attend.

I can't imagine a solo indie dev has those meetings though. So their definition of work is somewhat different.

Also I guess the three hours is a consequence of them having a successful product, which is somewhat akin to winning the lottery. I can't imagine if they were struggling to make rent they'd down tools at 11am for an afternoon of reading and walking.
I have YouTube Premium. But I worry that once a substantial portion of the user base goes Premium, they'll also start to slip in ads. I think the ad business has made everyone who cares paranoid.
Apparently beavers aren't as good a Ken Burns story. Mostly killed to make beaver hats for Europeans rather than just wasted, it's not a purely American story, plus you can't easily see them from your car.

https://www.beaverinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Q...

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/downloads/beaver/...
You are getting tangled up by the two different meaning of the word "free".

Quoting https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

> “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis.

The four essential freedoms are:

* The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

* The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).

* The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
And for the routine stuff I often have a pretty good idea what's ailing me from past experience and I just need someone to write up the prescription again for whatever's worked well before. I have no problems with seeing an NP for that.

In some cases, an NP may have more current experience with figuring out the routine stuff than an MD who's a bit more removed from that kind of practice now.
imo, progress usually can't be made without mistakes. There may be many 'coming soon' cures, but a lot will fail, some will cure other things than original disease, some will advance understanding of the disease and gradually, progress is made from different directions
Many books I've liked have <4.0 on Goodreads. But you're kind of right that I will usually take that as a bad sign that needs to be outweighed by some other reason to read it (like a personal recommendation or whatever).
I vaguely recall (many years ago) some GPU (a Matrox one iirc) coming out and it being a huge deal because of how many transistors it had. I think it may have been an amazing 100 million. Times have changed :D
I'm coming more from the hardware side and have only recently started to learn programming.

What's holding me back the most is that I do nog know how to finance my projects without giving up control, shares or create financial liabilities I'd be on the hook for.

Second there are the regulatory and legal hurdles. How do I find out which standards each component has to live up to and how do I properly document and possibly report compliance with them? What documents do I have to submit to which agency, what licenses do I have to obtain and who has to certify my product before I'm allowed to sell it?

Realisticly I'm expecting to drive my first few businesses over the financial and regulatory cliff at full speed and I do not want to be in the car when it goes over the edge.
Project management was the role Larry Page once axed in 2001: https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-manage...
To give another perspective:

> Not only you need to deliver your own work as an IC, but you need to coordinate other people and ensure that things get done.

That for me is the definition of a senior/lead engineer

> Not only this is extra work, but let's be honest, many developers don't have the skills to be effective PMs.

To be fair, Many PMs don’t have the skills to be effective PMs

> It also makes inter-team collaboration difficult, since now you have to coordinate people that don't share a reporting structure with you.

As is the case for a PM

I think our core disagreement comes around “is it worth spinning off this part of the job to a dedicated role”. I happen to believe that’s nearly never true for engineers
Even more reason that it shouldn't be mandatory.
Not really. The Swedish armed forces are still incredibly underfunded and understaffed.
Patenting a UI layout is even more rediculous. These companies are retracing the arbitrary decisions made to solve a problem, then widening the parameters to cover all possible solutions in a vague patent to use as a legal landmine for any competition that might wander into the same sector.
I've heard tinder users say they are picky because swiping yes on too many reduces your visibility (or something like that). That seems like a bad incentive to make people take chances on each other.
I agree that GP is a great take on the situation.

I'm less sure that humanity is incapable of finding another way to foster the creativity and the education/entertainment value the world gets out of youtube. I'd love to see us try and only go back to advertising if that is indeed the only/best way.

Yes ad-supported YT is "free" of direct cash payment, but how much do we (society) "pay" in form of thoughts that we wouldn't have had where it not for an advertiser to force it onto us. I sometimes wonder if advertising is a kind of corruption and will be outlawed / considered inhumane at some point in the future.
These are excellent but I think #8 (statistics of small numbers) is one that, with some nuance, you can get more personal mileage out of if you're willing to tolerate being wrong some of the time.

For example, I've noticed that of the managers I've had, the good ones and bad ones are cleanly separated by one trait or property. This is a sample size of maybe 7 or smaller.

Depending on your priors, my P(Hypothesis | Data) is maybe 0.6-0.7 which is terrible from a research and scientific point of view.

I'll take that level of certainty for day-to-day decision making anytime, though. Make enough of these weakly-backed hypotheses and you can avoid a lot of trouble.
Separating product from engineering, engineering management, and general management does not mean 1 person is in charge. Integrating them does not mean no one is.

The article was all about the consequences of the skill set being incredibly rare.
If you think a textbook is good, the digital edition should available for review as they will often be invaluable in hardcopy for continued reference. I am pleased the author adheres in some part to this mode of thinking.
What’s with the seo spam at the bottom of the home page?
Well that's what I'm saying -- if they couldn't, they should have negotiated a fixed-price maintenance contract.

That's what companies do when one can't trust the other -- they hold the manufacturer responsible for the cost of repairs/replacements rather than doing it themselves. And if a manufacturer refuses to agree at a reasonable rate, you don't do the deal because that's a huge red flag the numbers are dishonest.
Sad to see this because Google won't let me pay for Premium—it is not available in most of the countries I've lived in for the last few years. I wish I could pay for the right for my kids to not see ads, but Google won't let me. It's terrible when a relaxing piano video gets interrupted by some loud, materialistic ad and my kids can't take their eyes off it.
To be honest I sometimes (rarely) do get heartfelt messages like these, and it’s what still keeps me working on apps. Sure, it feels ok to sell a bunch of licenses and get a few thousand dollars at the end of the month, but it feels so much better to see your hard work appreciated and people improving their lives with it.

So really, thank you!
Paying $20-40 per thousand views isn’t unusual on the advertiser side.

If you watch 100 videos that’s $2 if there’s 1 ad per video. But these days it’s more like 2-3 ads per video (or dozens for long videos)
I'm a simple man. Node/Express with probably MariaDB and React. Maybe give Tailwind a spin. Same with next.js if I had the time.

Would prefer go on the backend but language switching when doing frontend at the same time is a bit of a pain.
Could a card like this work for something like object recognition? Those tiny google tpus that are supposed to be 25 dollars are 100 dollars now, and I’m wondering if the prices get low enough, would these be a viable alternative (along with an undervolt)?
> I do have every right to try and control what things get sent to and viewed on my computer.

I agree with your statement but I'm not sure how it applies to ads. I hate ads as much as the next person, but blocking them is kind of like using the service and refusing to pay for it.

There are two proper ways to not see ads on Youtube. You can either pay for Youtube premium, or not watch Youtube videos.

There are legitimate reasons to block ads, like preventing tracking. But if you're blocking ads because you think the service you're using isn't worth letting them through, then don't use the service?
> It reads like someone had a bad experience with a PM who thought they were Steve Jobs.

I had the opposite understanding about the article. Steve Jobs was an extraordinary leader who through immense will power created good products; an attempt to replace someone like Jobs as the product manager with an ordinary person will result in a mediocre product.
1)It is a feature not a business.
2) complete dependency on someone else’s platform when there are no incentives for the platform to need you ,never ends well.
Only The RTX A6000 (ampere) (Not RTX 6000! those are 24GB Turings!) has NVlink, and as far as Nevada states, they only work in 2x NVLink. Memory pooling is not really a real thing as much as they say it is.

They run about 4K on eBay, and have 303TFlops of tensor core perf in sparse Bfloat 16. So 150 Dense. They do have 48GB of memory which is great, but at 768GB/s. Source: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...

The 4090s run 1599 for a founders edition or a Gigabyte Windforce V2 (my choice). They have at least 165 Tflops of Bfloat16, 330 TFlops of FP16 with FP16 accumulate, and 660 TFlops if you use sparsity. They also support FP8 at 660 TFlops Dense, 1321 TFlops Sparse(!!).

Unless you need the 2x 25% slower memory, the 4090s are much better choices. You get the same scaling over 2 cards anyway.

There is also the RTX A6000 Ada, which is 8K, and based on the same Ada chip as the 4090, except with 48GB of memory. Lower power and clock speeds result in slightly lower peak TFlops numbers. You really really pay for memory.
I mean, you still read them though, right? And you somewhat sort out the ones based on how much of a buffoon the user is? Maybe someone with excellent writing skills and having demonstrated reading all the documentation and FAQs is still asking for help in a respectful and intelligent way, and so maybe you engage.

All of that is mental tax. And it gets tiring, even if you're mostly ignoring the request. It's still tiring even when you're in the mood for it.

Just saying, it's a hard thing and I definitely sympathize for the way which open source / open project / volunteer collaborators get treated.
By the way I haven't seen a single ad on Youtube in a year because of sanctions. Do not need an adblocker. Wish other ad platforms would comply with sanctions too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

A good entrance to the rabbit hole.
I think it is more amazing that we went from the Wright brothers in 1903 to landing on the moon in 1969.
These are good points. There is also a separate point to make, which is that YouTube doesn't (in large part) create videos, they "just" host other people's videos. YouTube wants to capture a bigger and bigger slice of the value created by interactions of other people with each other. There is a question of how much monetization YouTube "deserves" versus how much they are able to actually extract from people by being a de-facto monopoly. (This is Doctorow's "enshittification" process.)
YouTube has been such a big boon to the world in helping people learn. The amount of people who have learnt several skills from YouTube enabling them to make a living is very very large. I know several people who had non STEM education and taught them CS via YouTube and went on to have good SWE careers. Whole of MIT OCS is hosted on Youtube. All of Khan Academy videos are also hosted on Youtube.
During the winter, I believe there is snowmobile access, either guided or unguided (pass-limited-per-day): https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/snowmobiles-snowcoach...
Idk man, air conditioning makes me very happy.
> It's important to respect their religious liberty even if you disagree.

I respect other people's right to have strongly-held beliefs about roughly anything, even if they're wrong. I'd rather they were wrong, than that they "believed" something that is beyond belief and disbelief.

In the case of "beliefs" that are unverifiable in principle, well I don't count those as beliefs; and equally, I don't think it's possible to disagree with such "beliefs". I'm with Wittgenstein on that; these are things that you can state (or deny) completely grammatically, but whose assertion (or denial) is meaningless.

I also like the idea that if a thing can't, in principle, make a detectable difference to the world, then it doesn't make sense to speak of it as real or unreal.
What did I say that ignores the genocide?
That's like 28 years ago though.
It is damn near impossible to buy high quality frozen food. It’s like they is no market for it. If it’s frozen it’s made with the shittiest low quality low effort process.
I know high quality food can be frozen because I make it all the time but I can’t buy it
Just out of curiosity what countries are those?
For random websites, adblockers provide security against malvertisers.

On Youtube, it's convenience and unwillingness to either pay or stop using the service. I don't have a problem being unethical to Google, but I will probably end up paying once my adblocker no longer works on Youtube.

Many people have literally grown up with Youtube, and a large section of them have used ad blockers for most of their lives. They see the adblockblock on Youtube as an attempt to take away a service that's supposed to be (ad) free, because to them, it always has been free. When you see Youtube as the free, unlimited repository of videos that the internet provides you with, forcing minute long ads on Youtube would feel like putting billboards in a national park.

The same is true for many other services. Everyone is mad that Netflix wants its customers to pay. The best stretch I've found is that Netflix tweeted "sharing is caring" once, but sharing accounts within a household has always been allowed.

In their attempts to undercut the competition by shedding money to provide services for free or for cheap, large corporations have cultivated a large audience that expects everything for free with no contribution from their end. Fifteen years of free, almost ad-less service, is a long time, and it changed the culture of the internet.
Interesting, I was expecting to hear kind of the opposite: that you'd selectively tolerate the ads on videos that meet some bar (where that bar might be quality, importance, education, artistic value, personal support for the creator, etc.) and then leave the ad blocker on for all the junky other things that we honestly need less of. But maybe you only watch good non-junky things anyway, in which case, carry on.
Maybe happy isn’t the right word, but I think it’s pretty clear people were more content and felt a sense of purpose. Social media has made things worse, but it’s really the loss of community and religion that has led to the crisis of loneliness and depression among todays people.
Well as you are the FAANG hiring manager I expect I am going to lose the argument but I wonder if my oranges are more like apples than you suspect.

I see there being two options here

apples: please take the existing set of distributed components that evolved in tandem at this company and design a new application on top of and using those components

oranges: please start from scratch and explain how you would build a set of components that will work as well as those in 1.

Apples is what we mostly look for - in any org we have a scale and ecosystem and we don't want to throw it all out. If it must evolve it evolves in tandem with rest of the ecosystem. So if we have some scalable data layer now that has chosen one side of CP/AP and then we come along and say actually throw that out We need full concistency all the time for this HR app, we are going to build our own different CP data layer globally, hold my beer, then ...

The oranges part is fine - it tells us if someone has actually understood the principles behind apples. But honestly it's a fake out of we think oranges can actually be done. And this sort of stuff gives the impression you can design the application solution by also designing the ecosystem at the same time. That's the bit Inwant to emphasise - you build the platform then design the application on the quirks of what you built

And anyone who has not used the apples components won't understand their quirks and can come unstuck when the well known but non obvious behaviour strikes.

I am being too vague here. I feel there is an interesting set of discussions to come out of it - Inwill reread the article
Pirates and crackers have won every single time in the history of BigCo vs BlackHat. The more draconian and clever google gets, the more talented hackers are drawn to the cause of defeating them, and the more motivated people become to spite them. The only winning move is not to play.
Discussed couple of days ago:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989815>
In terms of usefulness and end user experience, I find no difference between the iPhone X (A11, 4 billion transistors) and my current 14.

Seems to me that all that extra processing power is still looking for a use case.
Falsifiability is not his idea; it was promoted by Karl Popper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Ad Blockers are special glasses that allow the wearer to see an empty area where the ad is supposed to be.

I believe people should be allowed to wear the glasses they want.
I understand what you mean. I'm a bit of an ideologue who would rather sacrifice some comforts or conveniences in order to reject the plan marketers are trying to force onto me.

I am disgusted by the cynical vertical integrations which are trying to shorten the lifecycle of mechanical equipment by conflating it with the life of digital systems and software. If I were King of the World, modular construction and operation would be mandated as a philosophical extension of "right to repair" into "right to retrofit". The core electro-mechanical car-as-transport would have standardized mount points and interfaces to allow sensor-suite, processing, and driver-automation to be upgraded.

A bit like the DIN car stereos of yore, the fancy driving modes or infotainment systems should be field replaceable bits that can be added to an older car to prevent its obsolescence. And conversely, the new car should be able to be bought and used in an old fashioned manner without all those add-ons, if desired by the buyer. I don't want the car manufacturer to limit me to one and only one automation or infotainment suite that they can force into obsolescence.

I feel similarly about the actual EV traction bits, but realize current packaging is at its limits to squeeze sufficient battery into the chassis. If battery chemistry ever permits, I would hope that traction batteries can eventually be a smaller modular unit to swap in or out of a car again, more like the conventional 12V battery in standard forms shared by many car makes and models.
> YouTube will win because they are financially incentivised to so so. UBO and other free blockers will fail because there is so much downside, and no upside.

This has been the situation for the ad-blocking war since it started. If the pro-ads side is destined to win, they're sure taking their sweet time about it.
That my insurer gives me significant financial incentive to see an NP at an urgent care clinic vs. going to the ER suggests the cost savings are translating into lower premiums, all else being equal.
AI accelerates post-truth civilization
You need to be sure to not confuse "I don't like it" with "No one likes it". Atlas Shrugged is still selling a hell of a lot of copies, > 65 years after it was published.
But why are you working on a project? If it isn't for the money then you are doing it to 'give back to the community'. But if they are turning hostile to you then why continue?