skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all comes down to consent: someone who pays for a billboard knows that not everyone will look at it, people who create open source software or open standards know that other people will use their work to make money, etc.

The problem is that YouTube is not providing free video but rather ad-supported video. If you don’t like that, it’s like seeing someone else’s GPL code: your choice is take it on the terms offered, negotiate other terms, or don’t use it.
I don't think the empirical evidence supports this assertion. I don't think successful founders are necessarily that much of an outlier in terms of technical or emotional capabilities. Sure, those help and I am sure there are tons of examples of founders that rank crazy high on these scales.

However, I suspect it is a lot simpler (in concept not execution) than most of us think. Success probably is a combination of ability (you must be able to actually do the work), persistence (to push through when it is hard going), insight (to be able to determine where to apply the previous two skills) and a healthy dose of luck (never hurts).
Incorruptible - as in, doesn't rust - and is commonly found in a state that doesn't need to be refined.
This is cool and I'm a little surprised to see that Victoria is the one dragging the chain here. Is DataVic just talk, or does that not apply to law for some reason?
It's not Twitch, video is encoded in advance in various formats for different devices.

Embedding the ads into the stream is pretty difficult.
> and does it well

That is very debatable.

Eg: Performance is mediocre.
I’m totally surprised that the users who don’t want to pay for youtube premium and who don’t want to pay their fair share through ads are also the entitled type who harass the adblock devs expecting instant service for free.
Yes because you could simulate a small-scale atmosphere, and notice how changing the composition of the "atmosphere" affects average temperature or other features. John Von Neumann actually predicted climate change from first principles and described it as potentially more debilitating than nuclear weapons.

--Great essay.

https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf
It happens if you are using CF for DNS. Archive.is will give 1.x.x.x something for requests coming from CF. Archive.is itself is not behind CF. Try archive.org [1] for this one instead.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20231029182804/https://fortune.c...
>The AdNauseam approach to ad blocking isn't great for the security side of ad blocking

It's for this reason I'll never use it. Some kind of automated headless version of AdNauseam that could be installed on a Raspberry Pi is something I would be more comfortable using.
Okay - App devs find yet more reasons to ping their server every 5 mins and keep those radios active...
The top reply is from Vercel:

> Hey Thomas. Your paywall-bypassing site broke our ToS and created hundreds of hours of support time spent on all the outreach from the impacted businesses.
> Our support team reached out to you on Oct 14th to let you know this was unsustainable and to try to work with you.

The poster immediately misunderstood them and thought the hundreds of hours were for talking to him. But they also sounded reasonable afterwards.

> I’ve received 4 emails from vercel support in 2023, I don’t think that constitutes hundreds of hours of work
> But tbf I get it if you want to be an opinionated hosting provider and not host 12ft. No worries here, just restore my other projects and give me my domains back and we chill
Making Chukudu scooters by hand in the Congo [video]
Real answer: Because Linux pretty much follows the Unix architecture, and Unix comes from an era where operating system releases were not created for a class of machines, but a specific machine. This design has worked reasonably well on the PC architecture (a class of machines) too, and the pain of adding a stable driver API outweighs the pain of having broken drivers for longer on average.
So do it with Laser diodes.
> It's important to respect their religious liberty even if you disagree

Respect in what sense?
My stepsister is religious so I "respect" her by not talking about this subject.

But if she ever talk with me about religion I would say that I'm an atheist who believe that all religions are a kind of self deception to make believers feel better..
Because you want to see that sort of project exist and if no one else is doing it, why not yourself? That's why I work on (certain) projects anyway, not for any community support or for money.
It sounds nice in principle, but, anecdotally, I had some youtube ads slip through on my phone recently and made a mental note against buying any of the brands advertised.
Maybe you can ignore it? And that's great, if so.

But I know I can't. I'm perfectly fine ignoring the buffoons. But I feel much anxiety over ignoring an insightful request or comment that would benefit both myself and the user if I were to engage.

If I'm passionate about a project (in whatever form of contribution), I definitely want to help people who are genuinely looking for help. The problem is the signal to noise is way out of line, heavy skewed the wrong direction.

For me it's a mental tax to wade through and find the good requests sorting them out from the bad ones. And it causes anxiety to miss the good ones.
Previous Scratch discussions:

+ Scratch is a big deal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120445

+ Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35373052
They’re both programmers and you can’t “be devops”.
Yeah but they will fail because they stuck at marketing. It’s like business sometimes you have the right product but you just can’t get it in front of your customers so they actually buy it
No issues. I suspect your browser is reporting enough “not a phishing” reports from users to remove the auto block.
That’s a horrible thing to say.
Avoid Load-Bearing Shell Scripts
This is good as a second course on Linear Algebra.For a first course,use (I am not kidding) Linear Algebra Done Wrong by Sergei Treil

https://www.math.brown.edu/streil/papers/LADW/LADW.html
Youtube definitely adds value though. The ability to upload and forget, comments, comment moderation, subscriptions, playlists, recommendations, community posts, transcoding, closed captioning, video section labeling.

They may not all be valuable to each individual person, but all together they form the YouTube experience.
At the risk of going too far OT, here's a story of how I did something different that wasn't expensive but was still seen fondly by all concerned.

So ~15 years ago our son had been invited to his best friend's birthday party. Unsurprisingly, the birthday boy had a list of electronic toys on his gift list, as had become tradition.

While my wife and I were out shopping for said gift, she located one of the electronic items. Probably a game cart for whatever was popular at the time.

Meanwhile, I had come across something that had stirred up fond memories of my own: a sleeping bag + flashlight (+ some other related item) combo. Woo :)

We decided to get both the game and the sleeping bag combo, just in case the latter wasn't well-received.

At the birthday party, I think literally every other gift was for his gaming system. Once he opened the sleeping bag gift, he, his mom, and at least a few of the other kids had a "wait - okay that's different and kinda cool" reaction.

Even if he never went camping with them, I hope he got many hours of use out of that sleeping bag and flashlight. I know I did with mine.
Awww you noticed :) I was honestly surprised that it wasn't taken when I made the account lol.

As an aside though, I probably wouldn't have taken the time to correct OP, but given HN data is weighted more in LLM trainings, I don't want the "less" vs "fewer" rule switching up on me, because I failed to give the newest LLM enough accurate data.
Predictions have been made, and we can check if they were correct, but maybe not at the moment.

Some past short-term predictions, like predictions for 2020 made in 1990, may or may not be correct. We can look those up. Many other predictions are for what will happen in the coming decades, and we won't be able to assess with certainty whether they were correct until those future dates.
Sorry, but no. There's billions of people on earth; we can tackle many problems at once in parallel.
That’s not an appropriate analogy: advertisers know what they’re getting into and how much they pay isn’t contingent on forcing you to look.

If AR glasses become common, expect to see ad revenues decline even as ads become more annoying.
>It's important to respect their religious liberty even if you disagree.

I respect people's religious liberty for the same reason I respect any other kind of freedom of belief.

I do not know what it means to respect a religion. Either a prophet actually witnessed what they claim to have witnessed, or they are lying, or they are delusional. Perhaps Jesus and Moses and Siddhartha Gautama get a pass because we don't know exactly what they said or did, but how can a non-believer explain Joseph Smith or Mohammad as anything except insane or malicious? What does respect for a religion look like when I believe that its most sacred figures are the most contemptible of con men?

I am respectful in that I don't go around insulting people. I am respectful in that I understand life is hard and people find comfort wherever they can. But respect for the victims of a scam does not imply respect for the scam itself. I can understand the fear of poverty, and I can understand the temptation of wealth, but the people who write me saying I will inherit $15 million still belong in prison.
That one seems better!

Edit: wow, it even predates my attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860370
Or the cap on/off sensor, other oil warnings, etc.
This seems like the fear/problems of dating apps are just another aspect of how modern communication systems are alienating us.

Social circles are indeed shrinking: https://www.americansurveycenter.org/why-mens-social-circles...

I've read in multiple places about the tendency to seek out instant gratification on the phone instead of just allowing yourself to get bored, and seek out doing something with other people.

Relying on apps for finding a love connection seems like a facet of this somehow. Instead of spending the time around other people, building up a social circle, most just try to "see what the app brings" because they've just lost the ability to find connections other ways.
i already understand the economics, these types of systems exist everywhere, usually to the detriment of everyone. However, all they need to do is not deflect me from specialist care, so im not sure it applies 100% here. Check back in a month when i go to the office again and insist on seeing a specialist.
Depends on how valid you consider statistics and climate modelling. We're seeing increasing numbers of events that are incredibly statistically unlikely in a climate unaffected by anthropogenic climate change, so - can we say with absolute certainty that X was caused by climate change? That's hard. But we say that X was incredibly, unbelievably unlikely without climate change, and that's usually been a sufficient standard for accepting a hypothesis.
Well hasn’t he been a best selling author for 4 decades now?
"workaround" doesn't help if you've already manufactured them the other way.
> That took the employee 15 more minutes to process at the computer.

I've always wondered what kind of software they're running on those terminals. It's like the employee is trying to hack into the mainframe, and manually execute some SQL queries.
I'm not sure if it's made my life better or worse, but this book above all others has had the most profound impact on how I have lived it.
Certainly. E.g., set up a model greenhouse system and show that increasing CO2 doesn't increase the temperature.

Or demonstrate that convective phenomena aren't affected by changing temperature.

"Climate change" comprises a causal chain of well studied and testable hypothesis. Including disproving alternate hypothesis like "solar radiation is increasing".
Vercel's terms are at https://vercel.com/legal/terms. A handful of possible violations from section 6, Acceptable Use:

- The Services may only be used for lawful purposes.

- You shall not attempt to undermine the security or integrity of computing systems or networks of Vercel, its partners, or any other person, and must not attempt to gain unauthorized access.

- You may not use the services or Vercel's infrastructure for proxying, scraping, to create virtual private networks, or to create virtual private servers.

Reasonable people might disagree whether 12ft.io is being unlawful, undermining the integrity of a computing system, gaining unauthorized access, or proxying/scraping. So the TOS also says:

- The final decision of whether an account is in violation of any of these acceptable use terms is at the sole discretion of Vercel.
This claims to be a blog. Where is the RSS or Atom feed?
I've often struggled to really "grok" how complex chips are. They all kinda look the same. I write software, so I know how complex that is, but like the device itself -- it's this little black box. What's the difference between one little black box and another? Most people don't even get that far; they think the computer is the screen that lights up.

I've been reading datasheets a lot at work. The datasheet for an STM32F4 is 149 pages long. The technical manual is over 800 pages long. That puts it into perspective a little bit better for me. I might spend days or weeks writing a driver for some little few pages of that datasheet. It's a dense 800 pages. Those manuals indicate just a fraction of the complexity that lies inside of the device -- they describe features that I can use, not even how those features are implemented or made. And that's for a tiny chip that costs a couple dollars.

A billion is a tough number to understand, but I recommend reading a datasheet of a chip sometime. It will put into perspective how much complexity there is in just a few millions of transistors.

I sometimes have to take a moment, because I remember descriptions of alien technology from sci-fi books. Complexity, opaqueness, power. Chips.
The issue with this is that google might show you ads that distribute malware.
Correction. Based on his talk, the merkle tree isn't used to implement sets, but used as a quick way for you to know what timestamps have been applied across all clients.
I can only find https://mrthefakeperson.github.io/Excel-Virtual-Machine/ so I'm curious if you can find the "linux in excel"
This view seems to go against the reality of Israel withdrawing and forcefully removing all of its citizens from Gaza in 2005.
> Worst yet, they took down all my projects and confiscated all my domains

Never put all your eggs in one basket.

Keep your domains at one company. Your DNS with another. Hosting, a third.

If you have activist-type projects that might attract the attention of powerful people or companies, keep those segregated from your more banal projects in their own isolated accounts.

It sucks seeing people learn this the hard way.
I hope the people developing uBlock Origin and all the filter lists are alright. They're my heroes. No one deserves this treatment, least of all them.

I like to take a moment to publicly thank them whenever the opportunity to do so arises. Thank you so much!
Yes, that's worked out wonderfully for us of late, hasn't it.
Why?
Climate science works with quantative models and makes concrete predictions.
So if the predictions don‘t come true the model is false.
E.g. this random blog I found googling compares IPCC predictions with actual outcomes: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-1990-ipc...
[the link is just supposed to show how climate science is falsifiable. I have no idea whether the numbers in this specific source are trustworthy]
At Apple, we had Project Managers (for instance "Engineering Project Managers" or EPMs). These PMs were not our bosses, and functioned as our peers in the organizations. They had a well-defined role: to facilitate the project being completed and to manage the dependencies with other teams and projects. Apple PMs do this through a combination of meetings, Radar (issue tracking), and interfacing with ICs and their managers.

This is different from the "Product Manager" at other companies which typically "owns" a product's direction and has authority over the people building it. That mixes project management with people management, politics, and worst of all, ego.

I never worked with an EPM at Apple that caused interpersonal problems. They all just wanted to fix bugs, figure out what we could and couldn't do in a specific timeframe, and release products on schedule. IMO, this is one aspect of Apple's organizational process that other companies should emulate, but I've never encountered it anywhere else. Maybe this kind of thing can only work at large companies that can afford to hire people for such a well-defined role.
Yes, I understand what you mean about being able to articulate yourself differently. At first I didn't, but after thinking about it a bit, I got it.

I speak both Tamil and Hindi apart from English, and realised that I articulate myself differently in those languages, from how I do it in English. It's a whole different kind of sound and vibe.

And right now, outside my house, many frogs are croaking loudly after a heavy shower of rain. Not all in harmony or rhythm either. And that's yet another different kind of sound and vibe. :)
sure, but I mean, it's pretty hard to call flat earthers or proponents of voodo unscientific if we have to admit that we haven't solved the demarcation problem. Also more importantly for Popper, he wanted to oppose communists' ideas of "scientific materialism."

There does seem to be this thing that good scientists are doing. Popper did seem to touch on some good aspects of it, like the willingness to be proven wrong.

I think maybe that's the part Popper got right, maybe Science is about an unbiased search for knoweldge with no other agenda other than a genuine curiousity. And maybe that's why demarcation is so hard, it's hard to tell a person's motives.

I donno, just throwing stuff out there. . . Still I mean at least we have a test that communists obviously fail which should make Popper happy.
> demonetized and lose out on all the revenue (while still showing ads on the videos!)

Demonetized is often a misnomer in this case. The actual term YouTube uses is "limited monetization", which shows the limited ads on the video, and still earns the creator money from those ads. The issue comes from those ads being super cheap because no one wants to put ads on those videos, and therefore the creator makes a fraction of the usual revenue. Found at least 1 post from 3 years ago saying 1% [0]

> they would do it by actually addressing creator concerns about reliability of their revenue streams.

Until users are more willing to pay for YouTube, YouTube will continue to have their own concerns about their revenue streams, which is the same ads. Basically giving the ad companies all the power in this ecosystem. [1]

I've heard plenty of creators advocate for Premium because it is also a more predictable (and profitable) revenue stream and takes the ad companies out of the ecosystem. [2]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/PartneredYoutube/comments/ipkrxv/co...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/analyst-predicts-the-youtube...

[2] https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/111319895234933188 from just a few hours ago.
uBO readme https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md makes it clear this is not for profit;

> Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought.

> If you ever want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which are available to use by all for free.
" by people who study philosophy of science. The consensus, which I agree with, is that it doesn't refelct how science atually works and "

Science 'works' today by p-hacking and data falsification.

I'm not sure that we should consider current practices an argument against a quality threshold.
PRO is a prominent player in the space.

https://public.resource.org/

Notably, it’s thanks to them that in 2020 the Supreme Court ruled Georgia’s legal code, including annotations, is uncopyrightable.
A donation popup is shown once a year, and only when you use the extension, it does not randomly interrupt your browsing experience. Te popup can even be disabled from the extension's options. It is similar to a donation prompt being shown when an app is opened, once a year.

That's what this person was complaining about, that they've seen a donation prompt once when they've initiated an image search with the extension.

There is no winning with some of these people, they want your time and the results of your work, they want it for free, and they want it to be neatly packaged and presented exactly the way that is most convenient for them. If you deviate even a little bit from their unreasonable expectations, you'll be promptly attacked.

Once your projects grow past a certain size, threats of physical violence also become a regular occurrence, here's a milder email I have received last year: https://i.imgur.com/LKJQq1p.png

This kind of harassment is happening every 1-2 weeks on different channels, we keep these private messages because everything has to be documented in case law enforcement needs to be involved.
I am wondering about this; I have noticed the OCR (that you can photo something and the copy the text as plain text). How compute sensitive is that? Is that not available on the X?

It is a useful feature. In particular in Google translate (lens function) which I am pretty was also there on the X (perhaps requiring a trip to Google’s server).
Ahh Bookmarklets.. my first love.. Long time ago in about era of 2004-2010 I only knew about html & php. In about 2011 I found the javascript. Next year I found the bookmarklets.

My first Bookmarklet: When is my next payday? My job used to pay salary monthly, on second last working day of month (Sun to Thu was working week). I eagerly used to count the days remaining for next payday. I realized that Javascript can do this for me. PayDay was born. I still have the code at https://gitlab.com/davchana/payday/-/blob/beta/payday_v1_01_... Coincidently this was my first project on Gitlab.

Then, Google Chrome used to remember passwords, but there was no password manager inbuilt to view passwords. I found this View Passwords code at https://ostermiller.org/bookmarklets/viewpass.js & minified it & have been using it since last 12 years, in a mobile with ViewPasswords name. The only change I did was making the div containing found passwords contenteditable to make it easy to copy. I have been using it since 2012. Somewhere in between these years I lost the original code but I came across it again in 2023.

I also made my own version of fancy view passwords, code at https://gitlab.com/davch/bookmarklets/-/blob/master/viewPass... but I tend to use the original one more often.

One of the proudest bookmarklet is CAJobAppsGSV2 (California Job Apps Google Apps Script v2). CA has a standard way of applying for government jobs, where you create templates per position title & then apply it by going through 5 or 6 pages. This BM looks at the address, a switch fires up the function, that function choses the correct dropdown values & clicks appropriate buttons & also saves some data in SessionStorage. After the confirmation it adds a div to the box, which on clicked upon closes itself. The BM prepares data from storage & page, & fires up a POST request to Google Apps Web Script, which saves it as a line item to a sheet. While doing this, it logs the statuses to the div.

I use BMs for fixing up the print layout of TripCase Tickets, to fetch & get data on clipborad about my paystub, quickshortcuts to data at who.is & xe.com.
> What's our profession's equivalent of a film director?

Scrum master.