skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Killer bees, super swine... nowhere to hide.

Though the pigs are more of a nuisance than the bees. Sadly, humans being human, for-pay hunting has just encouraged their breeding.
I never bought an advertised product in my life. If any of the brands I buy starts advertising Im going to look for something else. I look for things, it’s not the other way around.
The pricing was the same for self-hosted installs...
That's a generous interpretation of the comment. IME "boys clubs" are largely a negative phenomenon I'd rather my loved ones avoid, or at least evaluate critically.
>The right to block advertisements is the right to close your eyes and plug your ears

True

>Google is trying to argue that its a violation of their terms of service to close your eyes and plug your ears.

Google can have any terms of service they want - it's their service, if you don't like the terms don't use the service?

> It's a violation of my person to try and detect whether I'm not paying attention to your ad.

No it's not.
> What is the stance of the people who work against the revenue generation of the services they consume?

Those services are fooling themselves.

Consider television. Is it immoral to mute the TV during a commercial? No. Is it immoral to go get up and get a snack or go to the bathroom during a commercial? No. TV advertisers have absolutely no expectation that TV viewers will watch their ads. So why's it that when it comes to internet advertising all the advertisers suddenly wring their hands and whine and moan about their poor business model? Ads are nonsense, I won't watch them, stop wasting my time with them, and if you want to cover costs for your service, charge me for the privilege to access it. In the meantime, if you're foolishly giving away something for free, I'm going to consume it without remorse.

The entire ad business model is nonsense, and it's not our responsibility as consumers to prop up the companies that have based their fragile fortunes on it.
> To me, consciousness is the collection of electrochemical signals traveling throughout the brain

This is unfortunately not a definition of consciousness, rather an hypothesis about the cause or origin of it. Consciousness is an experience, as you mention in your next sentence:

> I also believe in brains that have more than one consciousness, as I've personally experienced a similar thing before

This is what makes it so tricky. My only definition of consciousness is pretty much "I know it when I see it", with the annoying caveat that I cannot see any other experience than my own...
I tried to use Darktable coming from Lightroom, and I have seldom felt as stupid. I just couldn't grasp how Darktable worked.
They are open-core, not all their features are open source. No need for them to go BSL.
You're trying to ascribe your actions to a moral cause instead of a financial one.
IME VectorMagic does a much better job on more complex drawings.
Zik Zak: Know Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnvJREBGy84
>looking back, it's interesting that the US casually flew planes over the USSR

Only the U-2, and only while it was a secret program. The Soviets could have protested the overflights at any time before shooting down Gary Powers, but didn't because not being able to get aircraft or missiles near it embarrassed them.
There's a good example. Some greedy gas stations blast ads while you're pumping gas: your money for gas isn't enough, they want to steal your attention as well. But a customer may wear in-ear headphones that normally play music, but can also play nothing, let the outer sounds in, except for the speech frequencies silenced by the active noise suppression. It so happens that ads rely on speech frequencies to steal attention. Problems begin when the ads platform that gas stations use and the manufacturer of those smart headphones is the same company.
The service has been free so far only because it allowed YouTube to get almost 3 billions of users and build a de facto monopoly. Now that they are the video platform, the enshittification starts. I don't see any downside in speeding up their ads: I'm not interested in rewarding their enshittification practices and I find it healthy to affirm, once again, that on my computer I play only the content I decide to play. If this hurts the business model of YouTube, good. Maybe it will help competition.
> That bidirectionality is the difficult part

Best hack I've come up with when I have to use Bluetooth headsets on calls is to use them unidirectionally by selecting my MacBook microphone as input (try option click on volume control in menu bar).

(... but mostly I go wired most of the time).
The merger of biology and silicon is very near. If you join the techno-optimist movement then you can bring it to fruition much faster. Ask Marc Andreesen how you can help, he is the main proponent of this new social movement and has even written a manifesto about its tenants and foundational beliefs. In short, everyone will soon upload their consciousness to the cloud and live as immortal computational avatars in a boundless digital universe composed of very large lambda expressions. Mind you, although it sounds like a religion and/or cult it is not a religion and/or cult because it will make all previous religions and cults completely obsolete. You can also be a cyborg if you wish as long as you are optimistic and willing to dedicate time and effort to helping Marc and his portfolio of mission driven and techno-optimistic companies achieve the AGI singularity. *

* This comment was paid for by a16z and is not financial or medical advice. Some restrictions may apply.
> So let's not pretend Youtube is some fair entity that needs to be paid fairly. They don't play fair themselves.

If you want to use a service in a way that the service provider doesn't want you to, I think it's best to just say so. It's obvious there's a difference between things that are hard to figure out automatically, and deliberately not playing fair.
The pale red failed retries should be more kiki-like, the way they are now, their pointedness is hard to see when theyre moving
If they do I will improve my extension :7
Is anyone else hesitant to do this because they’re scared that google accounts may end up terminated as a result of violating EULA?
I don’t mind giving money in exchange for useful services. I pay for YouTube because I recognize they need money through some channel, and I’d rather I just be up front and pay them for their service. Likewise I pay for Kagi, protonmail, Disney+, arstechnica, and a small variety of other service and media providers that provide value to my life. In fact, I would always rather pay up front than have them figure out some way to exploit me to fund their operations.

I don’t mind they offer alternative ways of monetizing than a subscription. A lot of folks can’t afford to pay like I can. But I deeply value the option to pay.

I’m not a fan of ad blocking on services you use that offer a pay option. I am fine with blocking in general, but if they offer the chance to just give them your money and you can afford it, you should. Every service should offer a chance to just give them your money instead of data harvesting and ad spamming as the only option.

I’m a huge supporter of open source and free software for over 35 years now, but people who make a living off their software, media, art, music, etc, should be supported as well. There’s nothing wrong with making a living doing what you love, but there’s something wrong with expecting people to give you their labors and services for free.
I didn’t bother with ad blockers till last year.

But YouTube got so bad, they seem to force you towards premium at the moment.

Minute long ads forcing me to interact on chrome cast. It’s a pain.

I don’t mind paying for a good subscription but it’s gotten a bit crazy. Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, Disney, prime, regular tv. You can lease a cheap car for that combined.
Yeah. My mistake: I somehow overlooked those.
Take this with the most non-serious mode: In the methods used by Gematria and various arts, there is a similar mechanism at play is there not? Transforming words into quasi-hash coordinate space that is computable and thus able to see what is related or equal?
Other way around is possible too. With automation a single developer can build a whole business on their own. Which means they don’t need other developers. Which means they don’t need managers to manage other developers.

Everyone wins!
> "They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that’s spreading out of control."
> Google is trying to argue that its a violation of their terms of service to close your eyes and plug your ears

Where are they doing this?
When the masses start doing that region thing it will clearly not work anymore, youtube will make sure you’ll pay the maximum price they can get from you.
Absolutely infuriating that Youtube used to have background play as a feature for free and then decided to hide it away behind a paywall because they had to monetize it somehow.

They also decided to get rid of Google Play Music, one of the best music streaming platforms ever created, and replace it with Youtube Music - which is absolutely god-awful. I want to play music, not watch music videos, not be limited to what's on Youtube and upload my own music to stream...

Purely for removing background play alone, they don't deserve 15 dollars a month (or whatever they're charging right now)
Except it's not a service that costs much money to run, so much as it is a giant silo exploiting the fact that lots of video is uploaded there. Don't you remember YouTube in 2005 before Google's purchase? It made ends meet all by itself, apparently.

OK, video quality is higher now but, but they could make the lower-quality video freely accessible -- and so could lots of other possible video-upload sites without charging $15. The value-add is not why you're paying $15.
I kinda wonder if we can use AI (or other tech) to replace middle management instead?
If you read the headlines than you've read ads for thousands of products and they are unavoidable since they are inline.
that's maybe an exaggeration; people still make buildings out of flint, they make it into perfect spheres for ball mills, and when flintlock was the firing mechanism of choice, they shaped flints for rifles out of it. the main reason we don't have a lot of flint goods around is that, aside from its edge-forming powers, it doesn't have great properties: it's brittle, nonconductive and not all that pretty, much like unglazed fired clay

you can grind it into whatever shape you want if you're careful about silicosis
The handful of trillion dollar companies have a problem that is unique: virtually all projects and innovation are not interesting enough even when successful. Only big bets remain.

Google pulled in 280 billion $ last year.

Now imagine a nice little side project within Google making it into market success with a 100m$ annual revenue.

That's basically useless to Google. A line item that doesn't move the needle and adds weight to the company. Yet to any other company it would be an extraordinary success.

If I'd arbitrarily say that 10% of annual revenue is "moving the needle" that means you need to innovate a new product raking in 30 billion a year. Good luck with that.

And it would require to be entangled with the unique ecosystem benefits of Google, because a stand-alone product would easily be countered by Microsoft, Apple, Amazon. So the bottom line is that your new product needs to be of the monopoly-type, a new money printer. Anything less than that is not worthwhile.

That's why Meta's big bet on the Metaverse wasn't as crazy as reported. When you make this much revenue yet social networking has peaked, you need to differentiate by adding a new revenue stream, and it would need to bring in a billion a month. You can only achieve that by building a brand new ecosystem and being the first at it.
The second link you provided isn't the boomerang app from instagram, it looks like the official one does not exist anymore.
There is an entire ecosystem built up around youtube timecodes as bookmarks.
If you simply bake an add in I'm guessing it would massively messup those bookmarks.
There's a bunch of hypothetical takes on this, but currently youtube already has ads that won't get away without interaction.

In particular, ads can get stacked if the user doesn't skip, and they get two or three ads where they would only have gotten one if they skipped the first. Then some of the ads will stop at the last frame (I think I saw that on mobile game ads that have a store button ? didn't pay attention so might be mistaken though) until the skip button is pressed.

I think the only question for Google is how much advertiser will pay to annoy their users and when will a user just give up and do something else (I'm with you on the moment of quiet: having ads show up is a good sign to close youtube and go do something else)
Gone too young. Seemed a nice person.

I wonder if the fox will return this night. Maybe I should put some corks outside.
It sounds like you view the state as bad. Even when that state is democratic?
The Confidential Coffee Maker and Other Stories from IBM in Boca Raton
I have a titanium chainmail shirt: https://www.etsy.com/listing/505806057/titanium-chainmaille-... (me in 2nd pic)

It weighs just 6.6 lbs. (the page says 6.5 but I had to have him add a bit cause I got too swole in the lats a couple of years ago.)

It's fun to have someone try it on then watch them struggle as they can't figure out how to get it off lol

If you bend over and stick your arms down it basically slide off on its own.

What's really interesting is the ringing sound it makes when you play with it or move around wearing it, it's a noticibly higher pitch than steel is.

I also have a necklace/spacepen lanyard, wallet chain, and coif made of titanium by Bim also. My keyrings and bottle opener are also titanium. It's such a cool metal. Kind of a pity it makes a very poor knife blade. Speaking of: I also replaced the screws and hinges of my bespoke Benchmade knife with titanium ones, because why not?

A bit obsessed as you can tell.

tl;dr I have a mithril shirt
Just don't connect it to wifi and use it with the external inputs. Same outcome as a dumb TV
Three Firefox developers from three different teams (Paolo, Irakli and I) each came up with Promise (with slightly different name and semantics - I think that mine was called Future, for instance). We were using them behind the scenes to refactor Firefox and make its UX async. Of course, when we discovered that there were three implementations, we merged them.

Later, Irakli led conversations with (if my memory serves) two other teams who had also come up with Promise on the web or on Node, and we eventually merged with these proposals.

Similarly, my team was using async/await in 2014 or 2015 (it was called `Task` at the time), a few years before it was standardized. I believe that Paolo was the first person in the world to ship production code with async/await and me the second.
Off late my biggest apps actually getting through easily. They have a whitelist system it seems. But also a blacklist, one mistake seems to pile up issues
That pretty much sums up my opinion, too. I'm happy to pay for my time and for convenience. If you violate either, that's on you. And let's be honest, losing access to most of YouTube is a rather miniscule loss.
Yeah this was many years ago but the point was not about HTML, it was making sure I knew the basics.
That was on a whiteboard. I could try and find the list of people who were in the room, if necessary :)
It's comments like these that make wanting a better world feel like a truly thankless, sisyphean task.

All I can say without wasting too much of my own personal time is: in the world of federal spending you suggested

> US military spending today is (inflation adjusted) almost as high as during WW2.

would be unchanged, if not exacerbated (to continue exerting military/police control on a populace who's tax dollars aren't returned to them in the form of non-private, non-profit entities but now live in literally Bladerunner)

and the privately owned companies that lobbied to have that considerable amount of society's tax dollars spent on their products will certainly not be displaced. See also: basically every other industry

Sometimes I'm jealous of the uber wealthy not because they have nicer bathrooms or destroyed entire generation's qualities of lives and the reliable longevity of the future...but because of how many people seem eager to step up to bat for them, for nothing more than a thin veneer of "yeah well, fuck that other guy, amirite?"

Our social instincts are still tied to old institutional forms. Individuals with economic empires without borders seem to escape our otherwise commonly more organized criticisms.

This makes it painfully easy to get people to rally against "the state", but rallying against the vague, shadowy amalgamation/political party of wealth concentration proves elusive, I suppose. Like rallying against feudalism as a whole. Where do you start or end is the only real question.
I only watch logged out anyways. If you don't install other extensions (DF Youtube was the one I had that caused ad blocking to be detected) and stay with uBlock origin and sponsorblock, it won't be detected. It's a huge time sink anyways. I'd suspect most people would be better off without watching Youtube logged in.
"Shut up, you have it easy" is such an incredibly shallow perspective for someone who started by quoting Chomsky
2 clicks to turn them off mate.
Good luck with your Brother, brother.
'If I can consume the same service with no ads I will' is my stance I think.

I'm way more likely to donate to a channel I like than I am to put up with loud annoying obnoxious ads for things I'm never going to buy anyway if I don't have to.

There's one I like, or at least used to, King's Fine Woodworking, that.. I don't know he clearly has some setting enabled that others don't, that means his channel is plastered in text link ads that just make it look crap, and you have to scroll way down to get to 'Uploads' (vs playlists of old videos you've seen before). Ads cheapen every channel they touch, the more there are the worse it is. 'Creators' are better off focussing on direct monetisation imo. Or sponsored unbiased content, product reviews etc. where it is actually related to the channel. Not like VPNs or backup battery systems are everywhere.
C++ needs undefined behavior, but maybe less
> The implicit argument is that one can't engineer something one doesn't understand.

Isn't that easy to debunk?

I'd be hard pressed to implement an algorithm that can control a double-jointed inverted pendulum without reading up on control theory again.

But I can instead read up on neural networks and implement one that can be trained to control the pendulum.

For a more advanced example, I would never be able implement speech recognition explicitly by writing a regular program. But I could probably implement a passable one using neural networks and lots of training material.

How is this not "engineer something one doesn't understand"?
The library (and the books inside it) are paid for by taxes. The movies you watch at your friend’s house was paid for by your friend. How are you paying for YouTube?

The amount of effort people spend on these sophist explanations of why they don’t have to pay for the services they use is just amazing.
It didn't just pause the ads. It caused active discomfort with loud sounds and aggressive lighting until vision was returned to it.
You've never had any major brand of pop, ever?
I’ve definitely noticed it on macOS. Videos in the browser will stall for a fraction of a second after pressing play to give the audio time to catch up.
You can make a general benchmark assumption, e.g. in the Reactivity Series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactivity_series

So from a high enough vantage point, Ti is very slightly less reactive than Al, less reactive than Mg, and not too far from Fe. A far cry from being "a streetwalker" of a metal.
I'm absolutely entitled to decide what content plays on mwy computer. They're also absolutely entitled to send me ads along with their content. What they're not entitled to is forcing me to see those ads.
I sometimes wonder if the fancy SpaceX touchscreens are there just for the press, and when the cameras go off they use the real physical instrumentation backups that wouldn't die altogether with the wrong helmet bump in zero gravity.
That may definitely be the case. I haven’t fed AI any really complex drawings.

However, there’s a lot of knobs and buttons on AI’s raster tracer.
So what kind of service were you doing? As far as I know, nginx and others can handle more things than just http.
> Branches are pointers to a commit and that pointer is refreshed when a new commit is created. One could say they are a wandering tag (without explaining a tag for now).

A good name for these "wandering tags" would be "heads", since it's what git calls them internally (for instance, when not packed, they're stored at the "refs/heads/" path in the repository). This also exposes a distinction between a "branch" and its "head", and that distinction can be useful.
If you charge a 100kwh Tesla in Finland tomorrow you will be paid 50 euro, which is kind of extreme
> The branch name isn't even part of the patch.

More generally, the branch name is not stored with commits; it has to be computed by walking back from the branch tips, and commits can have multiple possible branch names based on this. In other words, git does not preserve information about which branch was actually active when you made a particular commit. (Mercurial, by contrast, stores the branch that was active when a commit was made in the commit, so that information is preserved.) The article discusses some implications of this, although it doesn't phrase it quite the way I did above.
Good on you for ensuring poor people have a way to deal with ads.
I'd also imagine it depends on where you're stationed. Physics at Princeton probably would see more of this than physics at, say UIUC

Both excellent academic institutions but one is you know, mentioned in James Bond and superhero movies.
Quite. One of the best uses I've seen for LLMs is for NPC dialog in computer games.
I think it's all there. The company in questions bid provides ~5800 MW for 24h, paying 203€ to those that use that power. Other companies will have accepted that bid (automatically) and will now tomorrow expect that power to be delivered (and get money for it), while other providers are planning to do something else with their power. The company mentioned may or may not have that much power available.
if enough people start closing their eyes and plugging their ears I'd expect some PM at Google to enforce a camera requirement
Supposedly by not providing service if you don’t watch the ads. I don’t see a strong connection. I happily pay for Premium because the value I get from YT is 3x what I pay for it, if not more.
After a little experimentation when they started doing this I found the second button from the top on the right immediately mutes the audio. Since then I’ve verified this works at a lot of different gas stations on car trips across the US.
Advertisers would love to skip uninterested viewers, the problem is that someone else, in this case youtube, wants that money from the advertiser for your eye balls. I normally don’t mind the model of ads for free service but it’s a sewer of interminable garbage that is also dangerous to be exposed to (bad scripts and stuff).
No it didn't make ends meet it raised something like $35m from vc and was running at a loss of around $1m a month which is why they were so quick to sell to Google despite the growth.

They also started ads in 2006 before Google bought them
Does this suggest that the idea of an overarching fsync/rename is perhaps being proposed at the wrong level of abstraction? If it can’t be reliably implemented at every subsequent level, what’s the point in having it at this level?