skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Repeatability and verifiability aren’t the be-all/end-all criteria for knowledge/truth.

Thus is over-selling science as the only avenue to truth/knowledge.

Where does it leave formal/mathematical/theoretical knowledge?

Where does this leave historical and political facts?

Moral truths?

Science is at best instrumentalism.
It's because you have to use YouTube. You don't get a choice. Content creators who upload to other sites don't get an audience, and audiences who go to other sites don't get any content.

This is effectively a monopoly. It probably doesn't fit any legal definition of a monopoly but it has all the hallmarks of an abusive relationship between a service and a customer base. And therefore you shouldn't feel any guilt of depriving Google of their ad-revenue or their mining of your personal data.

Google's not some poor little startup that bit off more than it could chew and accidentally ended up serving videos to the entire world, they have strategically maneuvered themselves into this position for the money and influence they stand to gain by putting themselves in a position where they have information and control over how information is exchanged between people online.
I don't think most people use adblockers, people who don't know what browser extensions are just suffer the ads.

If users would want to make Youtube change its policy, there's a better way: get together and start acting like a click farm. If you click every ad on every page and immediately open the tabs you opened, advertisers will start paying Google for nothing. Something like a subreddit coming together would definitely have a noticeable impact on larger advertisers.

The AdNauseam approach to ad blocking isn't great for the security side of ad blocking, but it'll hit advertisers where it hurts the most: their wallets, and being forced to expand filtering (potentially flagging more users as false positives).
Tell HN: This is how you can bypass YouTube's Anti-Adblock mechanism
This is what I found out so for on desktop web version of YouTube;

I'm using uBlock Origin and I started getting that annoying pop-up notification about adblokcers not being allowed and after few days YouTube blocked my video playback so I disabled my adblocker for like 3 days and I got fed up of ads and I turned it on again and I'm using it ever since....without ads and without YouTube's pop-up notification on how adblockers are not allowed (4 days now without ads and without YouTube bothering me). My understanding is that my account and/or browser id or whatever got marked as "converted" in YouTube's/Google's database so they are not checking my account and browser again. Maybe it's just A/B testing or a bug idk but after they blocked watching videos for me, I gave in for a few days and I turned adblocker again later and now again I'm watching YouTube without ads.

Oh yea and funny thing I found out; if you put your video playback speed on 2, your video ads will also play on 2x speed, meaning an ad will end sooner. Funny thing to know and to play with.
No, AI relationship apps are more popular with women than men, because the main fantastical part about fictional men is that they're good writers and emotionally expressive.
Electronics. I took the intro to electronics course on Coursera. It was a good introduction/refresher before discovering amateur radio!
Preserving digital data requires constant maintenance, because none of the media we use will last forever. Any maintenance gap of a few decades means the data is lost. Such gaps are inevitable over longer timescales like thousands of years.
But Firefox is under 5% of browser market share (generous estimates still seem to put it under 5%—the low-side estimate is closer to 2.5%) and its users are almost-certainly far more likely than most to use ad blockers.
There's not many other good choices, these days. All of the useful tech support sites have been overrun with trolls. stackoverflow, for example.

Github issues is probably the best place, but when its abused, there's just no more appropriate place to go.

Do you have better suggestions if not Reddit?
Computers used to evolve much more quickly... Or at least the improvements made a much bigger difference
I was thinking Alternative Light Source controlled over Device Data Channel / Control Interface.
They could be hosted elsewhere. Why should free education material that is already funded by donations be locked behind ad based hosting? Hosting is not that expensive if you're using only those services. Especially in the countries where it's mostly being used.
Doesn't that apply to climate science/ climate change though?
I'm kind of torn since I hate PR nonsense like this but I'm also glad that HIV research is still getting money and happening - you can't take for granted that there would be enough incentive for people to even keep trying in our current system
> patio11’s post “The optimal amount of fraud is non zero”.

Thanks, I just skimmed this post. It seems to me that "optimal" is substituting for "cost effective". The optimal amount of fraud is always zero, it's just not cost effective given the existence of people willing to go to lengths to commit fraud.

> Can YouTube squeeze more money from ads by doing this?

The third option is that this would incentivize a portion of the viewership to purchase Youtube Premium. Netflix seems to be benefiting with the same strategy.
php, heroku, mysql, redis, cron2go.
That’s because tinder makes them think that those people are in their dating pool. In reality those men will happily sleep with them like they did with the 50 other women but aren’t interested in more.

Also 200k is the new 6 figures, 100k doesn’t cut it anymore
>Wars are always won by those with the most resources, whether it is money or people or both

North Vietnam and the Taliban would probably beg to differ. Sometimes wars are won by the side that wants it the most.
Some engineers and designers simply cannot stomach the idea that they aren’t actually geniuses. This guy comparing great visionary engineers to Picasso immediately sounds like one of those people that pretty much anyone (in any role) hates working with due to their massive ego.

There are many many bad PMs who are either dead weight or actively drag down their teams. But most eng and design teams are so much more inept and slow without any PM that even a mediocre one clearly improves velocity (if not effectiveness).
Take the example of hiring developers. If the guy you hired turned out to be not so good at coding but is good at DevOps then have him offload DevOps work from other developers. This leaves other developers with more time for development. There's your answer.
It looks great!

What I would dream about is the ability to read Manwha with it. That's probably a bit hard as the text is inside images, but maybe with some image recognition it might be possible...?
> wars are always won by those with the most resources

Youtube's early success was in large part due to enabling mass music piracy. That war was won, principally, by youtube and pirates, when rightsholders agreed to youtune them distribute music for only meagre advertising revenue. Besides youtube, torrenting music continues basically unchecked today, despite the massive resources available to combat it, and the strong financial incentive to do so.

Along those lines, a general solution to youtube (or other) adblocking looks like: person 1 records their screen with a high def camera while a video plays, removes the ads, and creates a torrent of it. A simple browser extension detects a link to a youtube video, and redirects to a web torrent of the same video. An approach like this has no possible response from youtube, though hosting might be expensive, and availability might therefore be poor.

An instance of a similar solution to paywalling of content on various sites like patreon involves scraping the content and rehosting it elsewhere. Websites hosting such content are frequently very popular. One would imagine that patreon would be well resourced in this domain, but apparently they have been ineffectual.
I use an ad blocker just as a blanket response to too much crap on websites and being uninterested in having advertising be in my face as much as it would be without. However, that's not to say that all advertising is irrelevant, or that I'm immune to it. When an ad gets through usually my response is something to the tune of "oh well".

The devil's advocate argument against your second to last point is that you'd actually be getting higher value from getting an ad on the eyeballs of an adblock user, because your ad is a bigger slice of the total ads they might see in a day. Do you want your ad to be 10% of the total ads somebody sees, or 0.5%?
Word 2007, wow
Even if you didn't change anything about the software, the newer CPUs would still give you better energy efficiency and thereby longer battery life.
Ask HN: Getting familiar with the code and architecture in a new job
How long it took you to get used to the new tech stack/environment when you started at a new company? Last year I started in a new full stack development position at startup, and it seemed like the first 4-5 months were really painful and it took too long to get used to the new coding standards. Wanted to see if this is normal, and what tips people have to learn it faster?
> Select "Watch ads later" a few times, until required, so time sensitive situations aren't bothered

- People will simply clear their cookies when it becomes required, and this will be automated via extensions.

> Like they have a lever and they're pulling it to 100% now.

They are not pulling it to 100%, I think yt-dlp and similar stuff is still working. If they want to do it at some point, they will have to do it before adblocking usage is more than 50% of the population, at which point the uproar will be even higher and the change impossible to make.
Correct, “järnmalm” is iron ore.
Banner ads are completely ineffective.
I think that most "good" engineering managers share the same traits as good Product Managers.

- Someone to understand the customer's desires and shut down unnecessary work.

- Drive the team to deliver features that the customers/business actually needs.

- drive tech decisions to prevent future inoperability with other products

- roadshow and maintain a team's reputation across the org

- etc
There are no good alternatives. There's literally no place left to get good topical or technical content without just loads of crap to go with it.

It's either a very depressing thing, or maybe an opportunity, depending on how rose colored your glasses are.
Kleenex art that ended in tears (1997)
Depending on which state this is in, this tip is equivalent to between 10-20mins of their paid work.

Maybe this is reductive of me, and certainly any $ amount is better than zero $, but I sort of feel like by putting a financial value on your compliment you are devaluing it.

A super heartfelt "Thank you for giving a shit. You truly made my day and inspired me to have faith in humanity. I know your job is hard and noone expects you to go the extra mile, and I genuinely appreciate that you did" in your own words would be meaningful.

A financial tip of significance (e.g. 20$ - several HOURS of worth) would also be meaningful.

That 2-dollar bills and fifty-cent pieces are rare is going to interesting to some, but I think to most the only thing they'll perceive is that you valued their extra mile at $2.50. I don't think that's what you're intending, so I thought I'd offer that alternative perspective.
I highly recommend signing dev builds with your proper key because building a reputation of signing legitimate binaries is a strong signal for Microsoft smartscreen.
Has anyone been through the calculus courses on khan academy? What did you think?
Carl Sagan was very wise. I find his insights thought provoking and salient.
However, the cynic in me is sad that the default of human nature is to be gullible, tribal, delegate fact checking to authority figures, and prone to confirmation bias.
I would love to become better at rational thought and discernment. But, I feel that I (and frankly, 95% of the people on this site) are already better than the vast majority of people out there in this regard.
In other words, these messages are preaching to the choir. I’m not sure what media or messenger could bring these (or similar) lessons to the masses, or whether they could have an enduring impact. The optimist in me hopes that this will be possible some day.
Yes. If you’re interested in the long answer, I really enjoyed https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption...
I'd be quite happy marrying an affluent woman as it means I'd have at least a potential chance of leaving corporate tech and having the time to write a novel (which is all my childhood self ever wanted.)

I think guys who are intimidated by successful women have a ton of growing up to do, clearly. Surely it would be amazing to be with someone ambitious and intelligent?
Show HN: Mify – CLI that generates and maintains your backend infra code
Hello, for the past couple of months, we've been developing Mify and I wanted to share it with the people here.

We've been writing backends for multiple different big and small companies and noticed that backend development progresses in way too similar cycles. At first people write a small set of services or in better case a single service to do what's needed. At some point the tech debt becomes too much of a hassle to handle as company grows, engineers are starting to scale the codebase, rewriting code, splitting monolith, introducing microservices and eventually after a bunch of iterations like that, people write some sort of in-house internal developer platform to quickly spin up services.

The amount of effort it takes to go through this is really unnecessary. Every team needs to get a bunch of libraries for storage, configuration, logging, metrics, etc and duct tape them all together until it works, then write boilerplate for all of that, and then there's also infrastructure code and configs to set up deployment.

So, we think that it doesn't have to be that way and that's why we wrote Mify, which is an open-source tool that generated and maintains all boilerplate code for the necessary building blocks of a backend service and help with deployment. Even at this early stage Mify can save a lot of development time, so check it out, we would appreciate your feedback!
That was well put. Imagine that. Still we train our product managers to follow checklists, write endless documents about personas, have discussions about methodology and such things only loosely connected to the work that goes into making the actual product.

Imagine if a director was a bureaucrat. One who followed checklists and made policy documents, and did not have the slightest clue about the actual craft of setting lights, working the camera, and acting.

What's our profession's equivalent of a film director? One with deep knowledge about data structures, who cared about getting it right, together with professionals?
Intelligence doesn’t have much skewness in its distribution so the mean is approximately the median.
It doesn't matter what women rated men on okcupid because "rating men" is not a useful outcome of a study. It costs nothing and doesn't mean anything.
"Look at it this way, why should a project like IM pay anyone for the privilege of enriching and adding value to the Windows platform?"
These factors all interrelate, as does interpersonal expectations, societal roles, etc.

What you’re pointing out, IMO, is that expectations and roles aren’t realistic. People keep stepping on each others toes, fighting to justify themselves, burning out, etc.

But then, there have always been the ‘confirmed bachelors’ and ‘old maids’ no? It would be interesting to see the percentages over time however.

One thing that is easily confirmed by data and just by looking around - older, established men have no shortage of ‘market value’, as do young pretty women.

Also, there has never been a time where raising kids or stable long term relationships was easy, or when there was no abuse somewhere.
I don’t understand you just say it was about finding factors, okay yeah that determines whether a number is prime. You’re not telling me anything I don’t know, I just disagree with your stance.
I agree. But services should also be able to require that you remove those types of glasses to use their service.

In that case, if you ride the bus for free, you see the ads or you don't ride the bus.
Nobody _owes_ you love nor sex. Nobody at all.
This is Penrose tiling[1] by Sir Roger Penrose[2]

1: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling>

2: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose>
> I don't really expect my car to make me happy, much like I don't expect the insulation of my house to make me happy, or the x-ray machine my doc uses to make my life a happy one

I think this is valid for most people. But as I've tried to integrate more gratitude into my life, I've noticed that it is possible to feel happiness from these things. I find it all too easy to disregard many of the things I have because they've always been there and available. But as soon as I don't have some of my comforts (being outside in the cold, camping and batteries are dying, my car needs an unexpected repair, a pain in my arm that I can't treat myself, etc.), it becomes easier to realize just now nice things really are.
This is such a huge downside with subscription services in general. The product itself can change right under your nose and there's nothing you can do about it but cancel. First I was paying to filter out content, now I'm paying for access? That's a totally different thing that I didn't agree to.

If you frame it in a different context it sounds ridiculous. "Actually we're getting out of the video streaming business and just mailing you postcards that we think look neat. Still charging you the same rate every month, though."
I mean the filesystem is going to be used somewhere of course, and everything depends on your setup / the scale of things.

My point was more that with a networked database, you can easily centralise your backing up of databases. If you are in the cloud with managed databases, the backing up is kinda solved out of the box. If you are doing it yourself or on-prem, you probably have a database cluster of some kind where backing up can be managed (which of course involves a filesystem at some point).

But if you are using sqlite, every sqlite file across your organisation needs to be backed up. You'll probably have some scripts creating the actual snapshot and then some other scripts shipping that away somewhere. Those scripts probably need to be quite bespoke for different hosting solutions. Are you going to ssh into the vm's running the apps and do the backup that way, or will you be running the backing up scripts on each vm?

Of course if you have a single VM hosting a few apps with one sqlite database each, none of this is an issue, and it might be easier in the short term than a networked database. Or even if you are operating at "scale" and treating your VM's more like pets than cattle, it's probably not going to be an issue either.
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If you're below a certain threshold of physical attractiveness it's impossible to take "good" pictures.
My feeling when I read Debt was that he was smart enough to understand conventional economic theory. My brother studied economics and he was the one who actually recommended me the book.
Various channels mirror their content to Nebula (also a pay platform, but with premium features), Odysee, Rumble, and yeah Tiktok.
Yeah, but what Sagan is trying to give is a framework for forming opinions based on reality. While it’s a good start, it’s missing imperative steps like “if Fox News is your independent verification, it’s probably a lie”.

As stated, we are in a post-truth world, and a framework from Sagan era for forming opinions with a factual justification is much more difficult.
I recommend “Finite and Infinite Games” by James Carse.

His book website is here: https://jamescarse.com/books/finite-and-infinite-games/

A few interesting quotes:

the entire first chapter reads:

There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

...

Our simple distinction now makes us look directly at the nature of an infinite game. If the purpose of such human engagement with the world is to continue the play, it would mean there are no winners–and no losers. The essential strategy would be to keep everyone in play. Finite players play within strict rules, else they cannot say who has won or who has lost; infinite players play with rules, because they must be constantly adjusted in response to changing circumstances. Master Players do what they can to prevent surprise; infinite players expect to be surprised. History did not end with their birth; neither will it end with their dying. The future is open and unpredictable. This is why the play of an infinite player is not a play but true play. It is not a scripted repetition of the past but the creative labor of imagining an open future, a future that stays open.

...

Here is the final chapter (101) in its entirety.

There is but one infinite game.

——-

So, since businesses have rules of play, and a binary “win” i.e. that we made a profit, beat our goal, or beat the competition, businesses are finite games IMO.

There are few, if any “game changers". Some are visionaries and some are law breakers (read the news).

But to sum up, I’d say that the author of the article is discussing the LONG GAME.

FWIW, I don't consider buying up the competition to try to establish a monopoly a reasonable "long game" strategy.

It doesn't kill the infinite game, but makes finite games, boring. Since nothing lasts forever, the boredom sets up the monopolist's eventual demise.

Master Players do what they can to prevent surprise; infinite players expect to be surprised.
And we haven't been back in 50 years, despite all the incredible technology improvements.

The Apollo guidance computers had "several tens of thousands of transistors"[0], we now have 19 billion in our pocket!

0: https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/apollo-11-mank....
> 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.

You mean it gets tiring to find the entertaining messages instead of the random trash? Because it doesn't matter how much effort the sender has put, or how intelligent his request/question/contribution/comment is. If I'm not in the mood, I will ignore it. I'm doing it for the fun, not to provide free support, so I will only read stuff that is fun to me. Obviously being an intelligent question is likely to add points, but it's not always the case.

It's not like this is race to see who is the least Torvalds-like of the bunch. It's 100% OK to just ignore everything. The people who complain "I had to moderate comments while my mother was in the hospital!" look like they have an addiction, or a runaway hobby.

I even have an online board for this sort of requests and generally I just read the subject lines. Fortunately for them, once your software is popular enough, a lot of people seem to like to reply to other people's questions, for some reason.