skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal, but most towns in Vietnam you'd want to boil your water, and if you want antibiotics you go to the pharmacy, pay about $2, and get some.

What's causing it? The free market is working great to build the systems to get drugs to people. In fact if a pharmacist refused to give out antibiotics when they weren't needed, the pharmacist would probably just go out of business because the customer would just head up the street to the next guy.

The free market is not so hot at building expensive infrastructure like safe water in a tropical biome, that requires government involvement (not meaning to rag on SE Asian governments: building this stuff is difficult even if your country has been stable for the last 100 years, which is a luxury they haven't been lucky enough to have)
> Not necessarily, company could be broken down in to smaller, become employee owned in some part, could have some amount of stock become owned by an infrastructure fund or something. There's many ways to skin a cat

If you think taking money from paper billionaires is going to make a material difference to the US's $6 trillion spending each year, can you quantify how much are you expecting it to raise?
maybe if the blast furnace hadn't been invented nearly a thousand years ago we wouldn't be so familiar with the techniques that work well on steel
This probably explains why Mercedes-Benz is on the list of sponsors
I had no idea there was a chicken pox vaccine. That’s awesome.
YT premium is one of the few subscriptions I find reasonable tbh. Youtube music, no ads on youtube, my conscience is clean, and I support creators.
it used to be on Google's site but the URL redirects now :(

Anyway, https://web.archive.org/web/20230922060904/https://rework.wi...
It’s not aliens.

But that would be some extreme reaction mass exhaust. EeV, that’s an awful lot of zeros, you’d need some bonkers engineering to fit all those zeros in.
Because these websites create expectation. If everyone is using YouTube, won't you be missing something by not going? If you started using the service when you felt it was great and it deteriorated since, would it really be unfair to feel a sort of betrayal?

You should go tell drug addict to just stop, not that hard. Maybe also to everybody complaining about house pricing, after all our ancestors build theirs with log and dirt why would you need something else.
The boot roms in ESP chips are not particularly small anyway, aside from bootup and flashing functionality, they also embed radio functions for WIFI, Bluetooth, Zigbee/Thread, printf implementations, MD5 functions and more.
You can get ASCII art of that structure with:

git log --graph --oneline

Older versions you'll also want --decorate to show branches and tags, but I think that's on by default now.
Same here. No hassle whatsoever. I cannot remember seeing an ad for years now, honestly, I do not get the discussion about blockers when you have everything via Premium. I use YT a lot, more often than Apple Music for example.
Hard to pay for something that most users perceived as *free*
In a global assessment for 103 countries, after accounting for type of governance, education, economy, health care spending and community infrastructure, it was concluded that reducing antibiotic consumption alone would not control resistance. Independent of antibiotic consumption, poor infrastructure (e.g. sanitation), poor governance (e.g. corruption) and low health expenditure were all associated with higher rates of resistance.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7782542/
This kind of reasoning is perfect if you want to halt all future innovation.

Why would someone advance the state of the art in any device if the immediate result is attacks for the new device being a "monopoly" within the scope of the new device or improvements?
>skip ads

>download videos locally on your phone

>the audio continues in the background when you switch to another phone app

Y... you mean like NewPipe already does?
To me, consciousness is the collection of electrochemical signals traveling throughout the brain. I'm plural[0], so I also believe in brains that have more than one consciousness, as I've personally experienced a similar thing before. But really, I don't know which signals make up consciousness, or where they are. I don't know how metacognition forms, either. And I don't know a real, physical explanation of plurality. I know just enough to play with the concepts, and in my opinion, that's enough. You can still say things about consciousness without knowing all the details, because most people will be able to form some idea of what it means based on how you are using it. So I think saying we don't know how to start it is still reasonable, even if we don't know what it is we're even trying to start in the first place.

[0]: https://morethanone.info
Piping stuff, job control?
The ad blocker arms race is still a victory for the companies. The average user is going to get tired of fighting the constantly changing strategies and debugging why their latest combination of extensions isn’t working today despite working yesterday. Even if they can figure it out half the time, that still means they’re watching 50% of the ads instead of 0%.

I also see many people capitulating, especially among my peers who realize that spending potentially hours every month keeping up with the latest adblocker tricks is not a good use of their time relative to the trivial amount of money they’re saving on YT premium.

The die hards will always fight this battle and don’t seem to care how much effort it takes. Some people derive a sense of satisfaction from gaming the system or “winning” against corporations. They all have their justifications, but it doesn’t matter much.

As long as it’s sufficiently annoying to deal with, the number of people fighting it and succeeding will be negligible small. The problem was when as blockers were so easy that they jumped from a small number of techie users and started catching on among the general public. Once an ad-supported company starts seeing a significant number of users evading the ads and also refusing to pay, they have to do something.
Aurelian's youtube channel is pretty insightful. He explains a lot of what is behind the scene referred modules. And as you say, he has been driving a lot of that work. I've been using Darktable for many years for all my photo editing and it has improved massively in the last few years. He does a great job explaining how raw file processing works (in any raw photo processing tool) and how Darktable does it.

https://www.youtube.com/@AurelienPIERREphoto/videos

I had no idea he was working on this.

Having come across his rants on Darktable last year, I think he does have a point on the UX front. A lot of the filtering in the light table (where you organize your photos) is a bit of a mess of confusing buttons, options, and weird convoluted abstractions. I never liked that part of the software. I can work with it but years in, it remains counter intuitive how you get your files in there and manage them. It's just convoluted and weird all over. A lot of bad ideas layered on top of each other. Aurelian kind of freaked out when last year some pretty major changes were just pushed through without much debate. And I agree with him, it didn't really improve much things.

Anyway the magic is in the darkroom part, which is the part where you edit photos. There is a wide variety of modules aimed at different expertise levels. Scene referred mode is basically a big upgrade over what a lot of other packages do, which is to blindly apply pre-defined curves for cameras without much regard for the actual pixels in the raw image. Filmic and other modules do this a bit more intelligently by actually looking at the pixels, using some heuristics and working from the lowest levels of the pipeline all the way up to do the right things. It adds up to a lot less work when editing photos for me compared to earlier versions. Mostly photos come out pretty OK without much tweaking. I might tweak perceptive saturation a bit, add some contrast in filmic, etc.

Basically, the workflow is roughly: 1) tweak the exposure as needed for the gray point. Filmic adapts with sane settings for black and white points and you typically don't have to tweak that. 2) add some contrast in filmic 3) maybe add some local contrast 4) in the color balance module fiddle with perceptive saturation. Done. There are a few more things I do for sharpening, profiled denoise (as needed), etc. But that's pretty much it. One nice thing is being able to apply defaults based on rules to photos.

I might play with Ansel a bit if I can find some time over Christmas. Kind of curious to see what he's done to lighttable and the rest.
ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal
Good luck with that. If Chrome won't display it that's that for 45% of your possible visitors. If the domain-without-a-tld doesn't come up as the first link in your average browser that's another 40% or so, if your ISP doesn't like you or if your certificate is the wrong color (or your bits for that matter) then that's the remainder. To compare the web as it is today with what went before is a bit silly because we have moved on from there and the party that controls your browser, your search, your income, your document store, your email and your phone may well be one and the same.
I wouldn't be able to enjoy my usage of it. I have a strong moral objection to ads, so to me paying to get rid of ads is akin to paying off the bully so they will stop beating you up. Next week they might decide you haven't paid enough, or that it doesn't even matter that you paid up -- they're bored and want to beat someone up.

I'd rather give the bully a whack in balls instead.
I’d say your best chance is to buy an android smart tv, give it no access to any internet or whatsoever and plug an Apple TV. I’m saying android os cause maybe you have the chance to tinker with the os settings a bit more and customize it to the point it’s not that smart anymore. Btw I’d be more willing to pay even big bucks for a stock non smart 4K tv
That's how I learned it, not having known anything about git or version control beforehand. I used this site:

learngitbranching.js.org/

Which represents commits as circles with arrows pointing to their parents.
I agree. If you watch a lot of YouTube it's a great deal. Way cheaper than cable.
You can reconstruct it manually with a combination of the parent commit order and the automatic merge commit message, if you didn't change the commit message. But yeah, that second part isn't recorded in the structure itself.
It will take a while to realize all they're watching is ads. Arguably influencers were ads too, but they were still humans acting and reacting. Now you get full ad experience end-to-end just in shape of a human, where real humans will be skipped.
>You're confusing resources they have control over with resources for their own personal utilization

I don't know if they're as different as you portray in practice. I agree with the notion in theory, which is why I distinctly used "wealth" in my original comment and not "income".

>He's been entrusted to make decisions about how to spend our economy's resources in part because he's made good decisions in the past.

Sure, no one is saying don't aspire to a meritocracy when considering control of the state's purse strings.

The key to your example and your "accumulation of wealth by itself isn't necessarily bad" notion is the reason I didn't say "no organization" should have more than 999m. I was strictly referring to excess personal accumulation of capital. Which harms us all.

Like I said, no one's quality of life is going to get worse if personal wealth were capped at 999m, but I can think of infinite ways to make a lot of people's quality of life better with the money we'd have in such an organization of the economy.

>and it's bad when it can continue to be accumulated by doing nothing

I don't even know if I agree with this. A state fund that earns interest and spends that interest makes sense. I think the key is the first case you note where it's bad.
> Said differently, this is clearly an arms race.

Definitely. The next phase is an AI agent "watching" (through the "analog hole") if necessary and applying computer vision systems to detect and remove ads.
"I wish I were young again!"

Ah, the oft-repeated refrain of those who never stop learning.
Politicians don't understand science: advisers give evidence at UK Covid inquiry
A well known example (mentioned in the article) is the Continuum Hypothesis (CH; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis). Godel proved CH is consistent with Zermelo-Fraenkel (ZF) set theory; Paul Cohen proved that CH is independent of ZF, and hence CH cannot be decided on the basis of the ZF axioms.

By now there are numerous others; this is one of the earliest & best known examples in mathematics.
YouTube has had ads forever. It's never been free.
Does it not? Pop!_OS uses Flatpak, I believe.
The studio transmitter links very much support encryption these days. They also use COFDM, so you need to guess at a number of settings.

Making it worse for would be pirates, the receivers are ridiculously stable and will not respond like old FM links.
Thanks for sharing.

I would have guessed the stunt was to hide the switch from sugar to High Fructose Corn syrup.
PostgreSQL on S390x
Why?

I think it's liberating.

You have a whole generation of depressed teenagers comparing themselves with genetic lottery winners, filters, and photoshop edits.

If everything online can be fake, than nothing online is real, which means nobody is 'beautiful' unless I see them in real life.

Feels like coming back full circle.
This is in the PD due to the vagaries of US copyright renewal at the time, and was commonplace for pulp sci-fi.

Standard Ebooks has a nice and free PKD compilation of all of the stuff that Gutenberg has if you’re looking for an ebook version: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/philip-k-dick/short-fictio...
I used to be friends with some guys who made a rubiks cube solving robot at college years ago. It was a cool novelty back then, but is unimpressive for OpenAI to boast about now. That robot could solve a cube that wasn't specially instrumented like openai's is here as well.
And surely it's self evident that if everyone blocked ads, the service would stop functioning?

So all this is about being the "Special Few" who can get away with it, despite often positioning themselves as the Moral Choice because the adverts are bad.
That's interesting. It loads directly for me and the quality seems fine. I have experienced the issue you're describing when attempting to direct link to Reddit images lately, though. I wonder why we're experiencing differences?
Using `set -u` is more portable. If your shebang is `/usr/bin/env bash`, which it probably should be, then you can't add additional command line arguments in Linux with older coreutils. macOS supports additional arguments, regardless, and in Linux, coreutils 8.30 added the `-S` option to `env` to get around this problem.
Right now, top quality steel bike frames at the minimum bike weight allowed by the UCI are stronger than top quality carbon fibre bike frames of the same weight. Aluminum frames of the same weight would not be considered usable probably... (Pro cyclists would still use carbon fibre bikes because they can be made more aerodynamic).
Do electric cars pose a greater fire risk than petrol or diesel vehicles?
wow i saw a really stupid take just earlier today on an unrelated thread, but this one actually wins. great job!!
I wondered whether the fake reviews are being made by well-meaning but misguided friends or family. That the reviewers names are Russian is interesting.

OR maybe they're by acquaintances of the author that have some beef with him and have decided to sabotage him?

Is it possible that Apple is discovering some connection between these reviewers and the author that the author is not aware of?
Just pay the $15 for the ad free version? The entitlement people feel for a free service that takes hundreds of millions of dollars in compute and human hours to run boggles me.

Don’t like ads? Don’t like subscription fees? Don’t like large tech companies? Great! Go to the library and check out a book.
It really wasn't. Musk kept making promises on insane deadline and missing them. Anyone with a lick of sence could see that EVs would take decades to reach the main stream and would have huge issues with the raw materials required to make it the transition possible. E.g. Building four more electricity grids worth of capacity to replace gas stations.
I still think we'll see GitLab go source available/BSL within the next year or two.
When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors.
You can pay to turn off ads. There I saved YouTube as an entertainment platform for you.
The internet was designed specifically for IP traffic to be able to route around failed communication nodes. And for TCP to handle things like throttling and retries and packet order. That's pretty much all.

App stores are an economic matter we can choose to regulate or not via existing mechanisms of representative democracy. For now, the US population hasn't shown much interest in it.
https://archive.ph/6i0YQ
GTA 4 is still my favourite out of all of them.
The euphemisms are insufferable
I've done a couple of those, and there's no such thing as a cush job. My current career is usually done from a comfy desk setup, but it's just as hard as the physical work, in a different way.
Not sure about Gnome, but in KDE you can select the codec from a drop-down in volume panel for a while now. I got high quality headset audio with low delay for at least 2 releases of Fedora.
That might be where I originally read it. It stuck with me over the years because it's exactly the sort of silly thing I would write.
Never claimed it did. Snaps are yet another half baked Canonical tech...

Those of us using immutable distros would love a "flatpack for cli utils". OS-tree layering defeats many of the points of immutability, and pet containers are a bigger pita than they should be. There has to be a better way.
Dear sir, your package has arrived in good order. When I asked for your daughters hand I meant so figuratively, not literally. Yours truly, A. Suitor.
I know stuff almost no one else does
They are entitled, but just like any commercial service this will just bloat to "ad lite" and then "full ads but you can still pay for it" - cable did the exact same thing.
Erm No.
I suspect that, too. I got two weeks of anti-ad blockers that required refreshing uBlock Origin. Then all anti-adblock messages stopped. Maybe Portugal has low priority. As far as I can see, practically no one will pay for Youtube Premium here.
Is an app like this, that mainly is for watching videos in a skin, against youtube license agreement terms?

I love this idea, want this, but for android!
https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1578238338288402432
YT Premium is the only media subscription needed.
Oh boo hoo.
For me personally it’s the way they’re bullying me to pay it. For years I wanted YouTube and Twitter to introduce a paid plan with less ads. And then they did, and immediately started harassing everyone who didn’t purchase it right away with ads every few seconds. It’s just rude and I don’t like being bullied into doing something.
> Arguably influencers were ads too

Precisely, and the human part is where the credibility and interest comes from.

AI is just leeching off that credibility now, but how long will it hold up?
I'm amazed by how bright-eyed the prose style is here compared to Dick's later works, not to mention the gimmick! There's nothing like a few decades of literary failure to stamp out the pesky flame of exuberance and enable some really great writing.
The lack of agency is what drove me away from my last job.

Id be fine with process, if I had some say over the work I do.
That is the world we live in. And people are fine with such rules.

There are countries where it is much harder to get residence (not citizenship) than your case with India.
The author is dismayed by the fact that a lot of the things Israel’s critics are saying are indisputably true and so can’t be ‘debunked’. Maybe we shouldn’t be so worried about ‘debunking’ true things people say and instead should stop Israel from doing the very deplorable things it has done for its entire existence.
It's an "ad" for our tool that helps build websites in many styles at once (60+ libraries we have in Shuffle). I'll ask our designer to make it less irritating. ;)

We have used the term "components" for a long time. Some call them "sections" or "blocks". Still, I think "component" is a valid name, and many websites with components/sections/blocks use it.
I use YouTube A LOT.

I follow a bunch of developers and engineering channels on it and I learn a lot of stuff on YouTube in general.

A couple of years ago, after running AdguardHome on my network, I’ve noticed that YouTube ads became more and more aggressive and that was hard to unnotice since I mostly consume YouTube on mobile devices that don’t have adblockers. I just gave up and convinced myself that YouTube, of all the services, is the one that probably deserves my money, so here I am, paying for the student plan which is 6.99€ a month. Now, after almost a year of premium, it’s probably the only plan I could not give up along with Spotify’s. I’m not used to ads anymore, I listen to a lot of stuff in background mode and I love it more than before.

Only thing that got on my nerves is that they now decided that if you don’t activate watch history you’re not going to get a Home feed, which is crazy if you ask me.
Yeah I was just reading that the latest standards have improved things so we’ll have to wait a few years for HW to filter out.
Checkout is also used for reverting changes to unstaged files.
Ah, that's true, I couldn't recall which version fixed it. Usually I assume v4 because any other distro automatically updates to the latest v4 version or latest version af all.

macOS is the only one out there missing on this. The other big feature that was only added after bash 3 and is missing on mac is associative arrays
Currently playing SOMA, where this is also an issue. People that got scanned commit suicide for "continuity" reasons, you repeatedly start up a specific mind to extract information out of it - and that version is a copy ... haven't finished it yet, but it's interesting so far.
Good thing the whole site is a bug, though I rarely end up on YT by accident since videos are marked in web etiquette.

For twitter.com a filter option here on HN would be nice but a domain blocker might do.
After burying wood you are growing more wood, so yeah, as long as you are using land that wasn't forested before you are net negative
If you are wondering if there is baking soda in a container, you could pour some vinegar in there. If there is no bubbling of carbon dioxide, then there was no baking soda. This is not circular logic, this is an observation that necessary evidence that would have accompanied the existence of something isn’t there, so the thing itself isn’t there.
We will give AI physical access to controls because of incentives. The profit incentives of corporations will ensure AI access to control in order to improve production efficiency and increase profits. The security incentives of nation states will similarly ensure giving AI a level of control, only within self-interested bounds. Stopping this requires a significant re-engineering of incentives the likes of which we've failed at multiple times in the past.