skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started learning how to code and honestly its so much darn fun to do this sprites stuff even if youre just learning it as a second career
I mean, I sympathize with the "burn it all down" attitude because the (US) government needs to be culled. Education costs exploded in the last 50 years because the government got involved. Fiscal irresponsibility is the new normal because the government will get involved to bail out the banks; why not give out credit like candy? Housing costs are insane because governments get involved via zoning to artificially reduce supply. US military spending today is (inflation adjusted) almost as high as during WW2. Federal government spending is 37% of our annual GDP which is almost certainly slowing our economic growth.

Someone needs to take an axe to the US fed. If we reduce federal spending by 75%, do you honestly think that would be a bad thing?

The US has produced all the innovation and prosperity and our government was founded on the principle of "fuck the government". Government overgrowth is the problem.
A chance was thrown away when Palm was bought out and later sold to LG.

There is very little vision at HP & HPE.
Imgur tracks which pages you've loaded and won't show you the image until you see the html. Literally what you're complaining about.
That makes sense! Thanks for the quick response!
Subreddit populated by AI personifications of other subreddits (2019)
This is a 4 year old article that predates things like LE Audio support for which has been merged into Android.
> But in truth, OpenAI was already a capitalist/commercial enterprise and has been for over a year and those concerned had already failed in keeping the beast contained. The cat is out of the bag, and trying to keep ChatGPT in the box wasn't going to do anything in preventing LLMs to continue to proliferate.

Exactly. The author writes as if OpenAI is the only company that does AI, where in fact many companies train AI models, many will do it in the future, and other countries will do it as well. Once LLMs have been invented you can't uninvent them.
using edge with ublock origin I haven't seen any ads. If I use chrome I get problems.
Good question :-) Could make sense on a senior developer level?

At the same time, seems possibly easy to game? If two friends make unnecessary suggestions, and stop each other's suggestions.

If it becomes well known that this question is being asked?

Not much work required to pretend one stopped sth from getting built
IMO Identification Numbers for Ships, Companies and Registered Owners
Used to get this when I was younger. It's been a while since I've experienced it. To me, it was more like I was hearing the percussionist in an orchestra build to a loud crescendo with felt mallets on a gong.
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

Or talk of the laws of robotics.

I think that people know plenty.
What's the alternative here? Just offer the service with minimal ads and just hope people decide to sign up for the ad-free version - a value proposition that makes little sense since the ads are minimal?

They aren't bullying anyone. They are trying to make a business model work as efficiently as possible. Anything that relies on ad revenue is going to be predatory like this.
I'm happy to pay for it, but I don't always want to be logged in and gave an echo chamber created for me. When I'm not logged in, I don't want to watch ads
That's possible with F-Droid (& Aurora Store, I think).
Every evidence I have seen so far points to the conclusion that it indeed might not happen as fast as we think: it might happen faster.
HTML painter? you mean how QLabel supports rich text via. HTML tags?

Not sure what you are getting at with the "ideas are obfuscated to call it something else". You'd have a widget tree/graph even with QWidgets/QObjects. Would you call any QWidget program that uses QJsEngine "a browser stack"?. QML is just a declarative programming language, that lets you script QObject properties/react to signals/property changes.

NumberInput { id: width }
NumberInput { id: height }

Label {
text: "Area value is: " + width.value * height.value // automatically gets updated
}

All expressions in the above snippet of code are basically Javascript expressions. To accomplish the same in pure C++, you'd need to implement some kind of observer pattern/manually connect signals and slots across objects to allow for updates of dependent values (Label's text).

QtQuick is a scenegraph that uses QML to render a GPU accelerated UI. Which is what is needed on embedded/mobile UIs to get smooth high performant animated GUIs. That'd be too ineffecient and cumbersome to accomplish with QWidget/C++.
That is pretty much explicitly against what most users want from audio unfortunately.
> this is definitely not the case in reality.

Agreed.

Major labels have leverage which they use to get a larger slice of that 70% than they would otherwise make in a ‘fair’ split.
That's true. On the other hand, people have been working with flint for longer than there have been people, and it remains fiendishly hard to make anything with it.
What are the programs that you've had to install through snap?

Or are you talking about the existence of snap on the system in general?

Personally I have not a single snap packge installed, and am usually able to find sources for the programs I use elswhere than in the snap ecosystem.
Parent comment was about disregarding merge commits.
I pirate everything anyways, why in the hell would I pay for YouTube?
Do you have better suggestions for what words/phrases to use to refer to these two categories?
In general the best strategy is probably to just avoid checking baggage if at all possible.
> Really? No ads baked-in into videos by the creators? I.e. those skipped by another add-on, sponsorblock?

Sponsorblock, yes.

> Are you sure about that? Why do they need to put their own ads into videos then?

For the people who use ad-blockers. Not me specifically and youtube doesn't provide a functionality to skip certain parts on paid views.

> But your privacy-awareness should be on alert. For YouTube premium, you have to be logged in. You can bet, that Google profiles you based on what you watch. They just don't show you the ads right on the YouTube, but surely they do elsewhere on their network.

I use kagi (paid), and ad-blockers for everything else.

I can live with google having access to my [poor] music taste and view history.
It doesn't make it less of a lie, so if it saves some people from degrading themselves this badly, I guess it's a win.
No. They're making my pay for the bundle of YouTube Music plus ad free YouTube. I'm happy with Spotify, I refuse to pay extra for a service I won't use.
And what kind of charger?
That's only true for some Android application stores.
Made me think of “A conversation with Einstein’s Brain” one of the chapters in Hofstader & Dennett’s “Mind’s I: Fantasies & Reflections on Self & Soul” (1985), that chapter takes the form of a Socratic dialogue between Achilles and The Tortoise. Like Hofstader’s earlier “Gödel, Escher, Bach”, it is one of the best books I’ve ever read.

http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-26-conversation...
DevUtils and Workspaces are also included in Setapp.
There is evidence titanium may be the cause of the rare disease yellow nail syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_nail_syndrome

study ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3176400/
while producing "features we don't need or want"
West Africa was never "incredibly wealthy". Yes, before Europeans it was part of long-range trading routes with the Muslim world, but empires were feudalistic and only a tiny elite had access to that trade-related wealth, while the vast majority of the population was barely surviving through subsistence farming and pastoralism, just like so many do today, or hunting and gathering.
You’ve been regularly commenting on a website that’s an advertising/marketing channel for a VC firm since 2018.

Seems like it’s more accurate to say that you have a moral objection to either ads you don’t like or things you have to pay for?
> They got (imho) the lowest speed limits in any of the countries I've travelled, cameras everywhere (that's good though), and even on their "motorways" (imagine crappy roads in the US in the 60s, but worse) the limit is something silly like 60km/h. So for anyone that is simple crossing through the country (N-S Estonia-->Latvia-->Lithuania or S-N) it is a nerve breaking experience to be forced to drive 30-60km/h while CROSSING A WHOLE (small) country.

I don't understand why you saw the need to make up something this ridiculous. The standard speed on all surfaced roads is 90 kph, and up to 120 kph on major roads like the E67 that connects Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
I mean the entire point and value of that whole data siphon thing is literally the ads.
I 100% guarantee you that eventually the $15 tier will have “limited” ads and then the upcoming $25 tier is ad free, rinse and repeat. It’s happened with cable, it’s happened with streaming, it’ll happen with YouTube.
One example is if a datacenter loses power and then all the hosts get turned on at the same time they can all send requests at the same time and crash a server.
It's already there, except the ads are baked into most content as "sponsored videos". They make it easy to skip over the ads (seriously, just fast forward 20-60 seconds depending on the video).

For better or worse, the vast majority of my media consumption is youtube these days and of all the subs I pay for, it's the one I get the most value out of. I don't get the cynicism.
People complain about various python and its ecosystem's quirks all the time, though!
I think advertising still works even on people who don’t like it and prefer that if not.
I built the industry first version of that product :)

Fun way to screw with Google is to pick the worst answer (haven't seen any of the products, worse impression of the brand, etc).

Advertisers are starting to try to measure advertising effectiveness (did the user actually see our ad and like our product) instead of easily game-able metrics (impressions, time on screen, click through).

However, we found that poor ad experiences would result in poor metrics. Advertisers really don't like it when they spend millions of dollars in advertising to get a report that says "your target demographic is less likely to consider your product now after seeing your ads".
> Just pay the $15 for the ad free version?

Why not pay people to watch the ads by a similar logic?

BTW, curious has anyone ever anywhere in the world, any media, tried creating a channel/stream which just shows ads and pays people if they watch? Wondering if that’ll work.

Also, I rarely watch YT, so for me personally $15 or whatever the price is, is too high.

Another thing, ad blockers also help in privacy. $15 may result in no ads being shown in YT, but does that also mean that Google is not collecting data? I’ll consider paying to Google for a no-data-collected mode.
TBF, he does write "I do see the importance in many of the things I just listed [one of them being testing], but they sure do take the fun out of the act". And I, for one, agree with that. Testing is important, but in practice it's often just another dumb metric (e.g. achieving x % code coverage), which however doesn't say anything about whether the tests are actually helpful or just call the code so it's "covered"...
Is it too expensive today? If not, sign up and then cancel when it gets too expensive. Plus at work, I get a raise every x months nowadays, too. Gotta spend it on something.
im good. for entertainment SoundCloud and netflix are good enough, youtube just makes good recommendations. not worth >$100/year
I’ll pay for the ad free version when youtube stewards a responsible and accountable platform - both in moderating content and in proving transparent appeals instead of giving an open path for copyright trolls to harass and cause monetary harm to creators.

Until then, they get no money and I watch no ads.
Apple's Pro Display XDR takes Thunderbolt 3 to its limit
Reminds me of that old text adventure game Jacaranda Jim on MSDOS.
> On the following picture, I made the styling, the make-up, the lighting, the shot, the editing, the retouching, the software color filters, the documentation to use them, the website to talk about them in 2 languages, and even the colorspace used for saturation adjustment. You will find very few people with this kind of full-stack understanding of light and color able to also write efficient computer programs and read academic research papers on applied mathematics. Yet, you will find a lot of image editing applications and a lot of guys trying…

Jeez, wish I had 1/10th of the confidence of this guy
The poster is talking about when you do something like this: `git checkout .` That wipes out all unstaged changes on tracked files in the current directory
By way of [1], here [2] is a paper about A* also posted under CS/AI. It introduces "Q* search, a search algorithm that uses deep Q-networks to guide search" and uses it "to solve the Rubik's cube", the thing which Gary Marcus complained about OpenAI not having done with a neural network in 2019.

As pointed out by techbro92 [3] the authors do not seem to be affiliated with OpenAI, but AFAIK nobody claimed that OpenAI invented Q*. It's not hard to imagine OpenAI trying it out with their Rubik-solving robot hand and then starting to think about other things it might be applied to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395959

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04518

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38398243
I wouldn't and I hope the FBI has other methods at their disposal.
YouTube, Google - just pull the trigger guys. Make YouTube a completely paid for platform.
Thanks for the shoutout :)

Got a pr about increasing the speed to 16x wonder if it's same person. I only set the ad speed for 10x, since it can access the skip button and do button.click() if there are longer adds.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-accelerator/gpbo...

I was also surprised most of the downloads are from Japan
55% net goes directly to the creators making the videos. The very video you are watching.

Encourage what you want to see in the world.
Has anyone done work on finding undecidable math beyond self-referential statements? Meaning: beyond variations of "who shaves the barber," do we have a sense that the undecidable statements are all pathologically long, or are there (we think) undecidable statements a human can comprehend that are undecidable that don't rely on self-reference?
I'm actually not someone big on insisting we say "humankind" instead of "mankind" or similar. I did check the link talking about paternalism and I can understand where the practice of using the word that way comes from, but it implicitly smears fatherly behavior and implicitly reinforces an assumption that men have political and economic power and women don't.

Gendered language is kind of a thorny issue for the English language. Not all languages are like English. Japanese and Farsi default to gender-neutral pronouns and cultures that default to calling people by their family name instead of their given name also sidestep a lot of these issues.

The US had a women-only baseball league during World War II and someone said (or somewhere I read) that it was the era of radio broadcasts and baseball defaults to referring to players by their last names, so listening to a game of baseball with women-only was experientially nearly identical to listening to men's baseball:

"And Smith is up to bat and knocks it out of the park for a home run, winning the game!"

It's probably a fiercely fought battle with English because it's the default lingua franca for the world and doesn't play well with a lot of cultures that feel forced to use it. Various proposals for fixing it come from interest groups rather than arising naturally in an emergent fashion and strike people as unnatural, top-down solutions to a problem they personally may not have, so see no reason to pursue.

/off-topic tangent, oops, because linguistics and social issues are both interests of mine
So do people.
When I was young, I really enjoyed programming - but for the sake of creating stuff. I viewed coding as a tool. Means to an end, really.

I wasn't the type that really geeked out on things like editors, programming languages, etc. but I really enjoyed making stuff, that was the fun part. Solving problems with the tools I had.

Then I joined the workforce after Uni., and found out that I didn't really enjoy the process that is called modern software development. I still enjoyed solving problems, but everything around it just didn't vibe with me.

And then there's the competition - I early discovered that I could never outperform my competition. I'm talking about the guys that live and breathe everything CS/SWE related. The guys that will continue to work on hobby projects at home after work, the guys that are extremely invested in every part of the tool-chain, and are passionate about all the stuff I found boring.

Couldn't really see myself transitioning to a manager role either.

So I chose to pursue a domain I find interesting, and become an analyst. Now I can solve problems - which I enjoy to do - and use whatever tools I want.

Coding is fun again, because I can do it fast and half-assed. I'm the only one using the code, and most scripts I write are use-once. Programming is once again just another tool in my toolbox.

The times I actually write more persistent stuff, I can take my time and still have a lot of freedom.
Capital Markets and the Commercialization of Applied Science
OP needs to get a different programming job. Writing test code all day sounds horrible. That should maybe be a portion of your job, but not the entire job.
In .NET for plugin management there are unloadable assemblies so you can dynamically load and unload e.g. plugins at runtime. However, it requires care, has caveats and the industry generally gravitates to other techniques for zero-downtime and/or rolling deployments where the replicas (nodes) are at first drained, then shut down, and replaced one by one or in groups but never in a way where there are none to serve the requests.
Is this like captain America kind of super pig or what?
I could beat the differential equations AI at aiming a gun so badly
I admire his work.

But as a Darktable user, I found the implementations of strong opinions frustrating because I value actual workflow above potential technical superiority.

Display referred worked fine for me because the important work happens before the shutter is clicked. The skill I want to develop is fixing things in the lens not fixing them in post.

Breaking changes suck.

But again open source developers don’t owe me anything.
Gitlab 16.6 Released
> I don't get why people have no problem paying for Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc but are so stubborn about YouTube in particular, when myself and I know many others watch more YouTube than any streaming service.

I never used any of these platforms, but I can guess the reason: these platforms were always paid, which sets the expectation that one has to pay to get access to them. YouTube, on the other hand, has for a very long time been available as non-paid (and even logging in is optional, with rare exceptions). Furthermore, YouTube has for a very long time worked even when the user has an ad blocker installed and enabled (few people customize their ad blocker; if they installed it because they were annoyed with DoubleClick animated ads, or with DoubleClick tracking their every move across the whole web, they won't care what else the default lists of their ad blocker blocks). People are used to viewing YouTube without having to pay, and if they use ad blockers, without ads (and people who are not used to viewing ads are going to be more annoyed at excessive ads then people who are already used to watching some ads). It's natural to feel some anger at the other party altering the deal, and having to pray they don't alter it any further.

And beyond that, it has always been socially acceptable to ignore and/or reject ads; I might be showing my age with these examples, but things like going to the bathroom during the ads, muting the audio, pausing the recording during an ad break (or fast-forwarding through them during playback), and so on, were always acceptable, and nobody would scream that you MUST watch the ads or you're stealing from the TV station. Why should YouTube be any different (and it even has "Tube" in its name to make the analogy stronger)?
How are you using the word “entitlement” here? A very small number of people are looking for technological solutions to block ads, presumably motivated more by the enjoyment of the intellectual pursuit than by the disdain of ads.

I don’t see any statements or actions even remotely hinting at feeling entitled to an ad-free viewing experience. They’re simply trying to figure out how to achieve an ad-free experience.

If someone locally modifies a website’s visuals to implement dark mode, would you lambast them for feeling entitled to dark mode?
How a Fish Became Prison Currency
I stumbled on this economic curiosity by way of an SBF article on his adventures in prison living. The curiosity? Canned mackerel is "currency" in some prisons. And there are some interesting details behind why it has become currency rather than cuisine.
It’s like $16/month which is insane
https://github.com/dzbarsky/static-clang should let you build it in a reproducible way with a single command.
Some ML likely doing this: they track your interests, for example you searched adblockers in the past, it goes as a feature to ML model, and model predicts that it is unlikely you will click and make purchase, and they will bid on you much lower, as result you will see lots of cheap junk Ads..
If it was $10+$5 for YouTube+music, this thread would be full of people complaining that Google is nickel and diming them because there's already music on YouTube.com
This is essentially the level that high end competitive video game cheating is reaching now too.

Plugging directly into the computer as a separate device that emulates monitor, mouse and keyboard.
Good point, forgot about wrong visions of the future that excluded each other. People really get the future wrong in every way possible. Will be the same with AI.
If only regulatory bodies were as motivated in combating advertising’s huge data privacy issues inherent in RTB as Google are in beating down people trying to not have their data sent to hundreds of third parties without consent.
This happens to me sometimes, usually if I'm not getting enough sleep because of stress. It sounds kind of like a garbage truck when it sets down a dumpster. Always accompanied by a flash of white light. When I was a kid I thought it was aliens because I would fall asleep listening to Coast to Coast AM.
What is the stance of the people who work against the revenue generation of the services they consume?

Should YouTube be a free service or what?

It's only a semi-ironic question. Perhaps someone has a vision for how it all works out.

Full disclosure: I work on programmatic advertising technologies.
You may find Constructor Theory interesting. An attempt to express physical laws solely in terms of possible and impossible transformations.

“These include providing a theory of information underlying classical and quantum information; generalising the theory of computation to include all physical transformations; unifying formal statements of conservation laws with the stronger operational ones (such as the ruling-out of perpetual motion machines); expressing the principles of testability and of the computability of nature (currently deemed methodological and metaphysical respectively) as laws of physics; allowing exact statements of emergent laws (such as the second law of thermodynamics); and expressing certain apparently anthropocentric attributes such as knowledge in physical terms.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7439
This instantly loses the main selling point: Massive audience. If they manage to get 20% of people to pay (which would be huge) they'd lose hundreds of millions of viewers still.