skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And reward their enshittification practices once they reached monopoly status.
> Google is trying to argue that its a violation of their terms of service to close your eyes and plug your ears.

No, they are trying to argue it's against their ToS to SKIP it entirely. No one is forcing you to actually pay attention, but you have to wait X seconds. You can close your eyes all you want, but you cannot entirely skip them.
> youtube will make sure you’ll pay the maximum price they can get from you.

and then they'll add ads to premium too
I find it interesting that people don't tout the same logic to Windows: paying through the nose to get the enterprise version gets rid of of Microsoft's dirty widgets and spam. But somewhat paying Google is OK, paying Microsoft is no-no.
It's that much less across all age groups, so there's even less benefit for the demographics not at risk. Plus for the past decade or so the overall efficacy has dropped even further, floating around 30-40%.

On top of that, vaccines need >50% efficacy to get approval. If the flu vaccine was invented today, it wouldn't pass.
Interesting, on Linux (Slackware, Debian), /bin/[ and /bin/test are not the same. But on NetBSD (and I assume others too, they are the same.
Sentiment analysis!
OpenAI Tried to Fire Sam Altman as CEO. It Only Made Him Stronger
Anyway, here's a couple recent faves from your neck of the woods, both born within a few years of the turn of the century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT9OJE2mj4E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWme81uDHiw
Here's a way to counter your proposal:

- Fetch the video multiple times

- Cut out the non-overlapping segments from the video shown to the user.

This assumes that a different ad is shown every time. Crowd-sourcing like with Sponsor Block could come in handy here.
They aren't integrated to the same level as we chat. We chat is like Facebook, Venmo, what's app, door dash, and yelp combined into one app.
I have a few of the single wall ones.

Fun fact: if you try to microwave coffee in it, it mostly just slightly heats the metal lol
After all the ink spilt over ways to guarantee that the ai doesn’t “get free” or break out of its black box, turns out the whole question is moot because we’re just gonna give it total access to internet and free copies to everyone. I don’t know why I expected anything else to happen.
The market price is based off the cost of the marginal MW for some of these auctions. They tried selling power, but someone accidentally said they'd sell for a very large negative euro per MW hour amount and that set the price for the entire market and obligated them to pay the market to sell power. This is pretty rare, but not unheard of.
Ok, I admit I was once a gullible teenager but luckily I didnt have any money then.
Fair is subjective.
Just checked again with curl|grep, and now I'm getting:

<h1 id=make-shell--expansion>make $(shell &mldr;) expansion</h1>

as the actual bytes-on-the-wire, which is still wrong, but only in one way rather than two.

(Note: iOS probably displays &mldr; as U+2026 "…", which often looks identical to "...", but is actually a single non-ASCII character.)
How much money do you reckon it costs for just the Firefox browser?
I know Mozilla waste a lot of effort on projects like Firefox OS, the Firefox mobile, politics, etc. But the actual browser it's self and it's hosting?

I just wonder if they end up dropping Manifest V2, if a patron model would work to maintain a fork properly...
15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps
Author of Shh [0] here. I've replaced a lot of Bash with Haskell (it's great!). I wrote Shh to help me out with that.

I ended up liking PyF [1] for quasiquoting. A friend of mine worked with the author a while ago to strip down it's dependencies, so it's easy to justify. It's what I recommend in my cargo culting guide [2].

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shh

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/PyF

[2] https://github.com/luke-clifton/shh/blob/master/docs/porting...
Well, electricity consumption in Finland will very likely spike tomorrow. People with a certain type of contract for their electricity will actually earn money for using a lot of electricity. Don't know what the implications for the network are, but I don't think such unnatural spikes in consumption are good for it.
They were signed by labels who also made money from the sale of those records.

Those labels are now looking for different music.
Couldn't you just buy a normal monitor? And then plug whatever you like into the HDMI/DP port?
> Should YouTube be a free service or what?

Yes. They were loss leader for more than a decade and killed all competition because nobody had coffers deep enough to fight Google.
Now because of their dominant position it’s impossible to migrate from it, because of network effect.

So f** them, not my problem. I’m willing to pay for stuff that I enjoy (old videos from 10+ years ago), I’m not going to pay for modern cancer (just open YouTube in incognito tab to understand what I mean).
They placed a bit at that price doesn't mean the market price will be that high.
> In case you don't know about it, make sure to check out SponsorBlock

So I don't love ads but mostly because of the privacy invasion they represent, but sponsorships I have a lot less of a problem with. Oftentimes sponsorships will have at least marginal connection with what in watch (most of the time looking at you NordVPN and Raid Shadow Legends) but to me sponsorships are the happy middle ground that allows creators to get some recompense for their labors without turning everything into an adscape dystopia.

Really I don't have a problem with ads on websites back in the day as long as they were somewhat tasteful, which they often were because the creator worked to integrate them into their work, but the constant user surveillance and spamming random nonsensical ads are what bugged me.

I mean some channels that I frequent have even turned the sponsorships into additional entertaining content (check out Ryan George's the Adstronaut or Viva La Dirt League).
So we're going to fund YouTube with taxpayer money now?
I read it in one of Robert Heinlein's books.

It did not originate there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_free_lunc...
I don't feel bad for blocking YouTube ads. Other sites tried a more sustainable subscription-based model and Google crushed them by running YouTube at a loss for years. They seem like very smart people that don't need my help to turn a profit.
Oh, that's much worse. Hopefully they figure out how to get rid of these pigs as soon as possible. We don't have super soldiers yet so if the pigs get there before us it will be very embarrassing. We are supposed to be the smartest animals on this planet so it is not acceptable that pigs become super before people do.
What problem is AI going to solve? This question is being carefully avoided for some reason, and many seem to believe that AI is like air or water, which is good by itself.
On the internet, nobody knows you're a "dog"
Many more. ESA is still stuck in the dark ages where anything space is primarily used as pork to distribute funds across the EU.
> Cripple enough infrastructure and humanity is going to be starving to death within weeks.

Just the threat of a malicious AGI that people take seriously enough would cause ourselves to pull the plug on the Internet and all computers until they can be disinfected and new filters put in place.

It doesn't matter if the AGI is capable of actually inflicting damage or not.
> I aspire to settle the substantial $65,000 student loan burden that granted me the “privilege” of contributing to someone else’s vision during the conventional 9-to-5 grind.

It's crazy to me that we let people do this to themselves. There's no reason a student should have to take out that much debt for their degree and I'd bet there were probably ways for OP to avoid it if the right people were there to help. Ultimately it's a huge systemic issue in the US but it's also an issue with bad high school guidance counselors not helping students navigate the broken system
Any open source player client for iOS? Does not seem like any of the listed ones are compatible with iOS.
There’s are alternatives to all this shitshow: consume a lot less, read books instead and dust off those torrent clients.
They cannot produce that amount of power and needs to buy it back on the secondary market. Will likely cost around 100Meur.
maybe you could use a pc monitor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm there's interesting complexity on the definition, especially in consideration of the "different implmenetations" - very interesting.

I think Theta* is the ticket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta*
Microsoft AutoGen: possible plagiarism/academic misconduct?
I came across this tweet: https://x.com/guohao_li/status/1727641559259029921?s=46. It seems this guy came up with the same idea, did experiments, published the paper on NeurlIPS 2023, all of which were way ahead of AutoGen. There's also hints on plagiarism/academic misconduct. If so, huge shame on MSFT!! What do y'all think?

P.S. Happy holidays!
Urgh, I hate this thought-terminating cliche. It makes no distinction between minor annoyances and major design flaws.

About a decade ago I worked with someone who'd say this when a PHP project hit some ridiculous bug, and I'd suggest we maybe consider something else for future projects. Like, sure people complain that mixing tabs with spaces causes an invisible syntax error in Python; but at least it (a) has a dictionary datastructure, and (b) doesn't unavoidably convert some string keys into numbers, such that CSS colours like "112e33" become 112×10³³. (I thankfully don't use PHP anymore; inb4 "ackshually PHP7 is great"...)
Exponential backoff doesn't apply for successful requests right? The simulation doesn'T reflect that i think. peace
Working on the Sim's was the best job my GF ever had.
I feel the same to an extent.

I realised that as of this year I've been programming in one language or another for 37 years. Right now, if I stopped writing code I wouldn't miss it for a while.

Like you, I think I got into coding because of the same urge that makes me want to build stuff and do bits of DIY. When I was a kid coding was a constructive, creative outlet that didn't require much space or resources other than a computer (a ZX Spectrum in my case), and it didn't make a mess.
> What is the stance of the people who work against the revenue generation of the services they consume?

Would the advertisers really want to pay for their ads to be shown to people who aren't interested in their products? Every ad view costs them money. (I know, there are also the advertisers who just want to spread their message and aren't selling any products..)

If the ads are actually useful to people, would they still jump through all these hoops to block them?

The ad supported model is only sustainable for the ad company if it is a win for both advertisers AND end users.

"You are not paying for the (premium) service, so we will degrade your service and force you to watch ads so we can pay our bills" is usually a sign that youtube is chasing after short term profits at the detriment of it's own advertisers / end users imo.

I know this is a little too simplistic and I don't have any real answers... but this is how i'm looking at this whole debacle.
I've always used the analogy when thinking about this, or at least when discussing it casually with others, that trying to comprehend the experience of consciousness from within it, is perhaps inaccessible due to some presently unnoticed principle of reflection of recursion in thought, analogous in a physical sense to trying to lift yourself up by your own shirt collar.
You know what happens when you start this, right? The whole, jews cant have stores, thing? Remember?
Someone at work once explained the origin to me (and my employer has done work for more than one of the manufacturers of noise cancelling headphones). The cause, as identified in the article, is when expected low frequency sound components are missing.

The normal "real world" way you selectively lose low frequencies is when there is a pressure differential across the eardrum - this stretches it and prevents it vibrating in the same way, losing the lower frequencies first. So the brain associates that experience with low pressure and gives the right sensation.
Context length is limited by the length of articles in the training data. You couldn’t use infinite context lengths unless the LLM had been trained on infinity long articles.

Context lengths aren’t arbitrary limits - they reflect the ability (and limits) of the model to actually reason about lengthy topics. If you want longer context lengths you’ll need more training data, larger models, and a lot more money.
Q* Approximation for Batch Reinforcement Learning: A Theoretical Comparison
I’ll gladly pay for ad free YouTube when google agrees to not track me.

My data is worth way more to me and, obviously, them.
I assume this is supposed to be one of those cases where "if you don't know why you need me, you don't need me". But what exactly do you hope to gain by self-advertising on HN like this?
Can't officials just place a bid to buy power at whatever price(negative?) to even out the extra power that is not there?
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.

While I'm just annoyed as you are by the ads blasting while I'm refueling, I want to highlight that gas stations don't typically significantly profit from selling gas; their profit might be as little as a few cents per gallon. Instead, the primary source of revenue and profits for them is usually the attached convenience store or other services.

Here's a few sources (unverified, but here for convenience):

https://fortune.com/2022/08/09/energy-profit-margins-gas-sta...

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-gas-stations/

https://www.theautochannel.com/news/2021/11/22/1074398-who-m...

https://www.cattlerange.com/articles/2022/04/how-much-do-gas...

https://www.projectionhub.com/post/gas-stations-industry-fin...
If you're using nix, I was able to make a build from the darktable derivation[0] modified to use fetchgit (since he hasn't made a github Release since December) and `s/darktable/ansel/g`.

src = fetchgit {
url = "https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel.git";
rev = "f7669af89a71882ebad15982d698b8df7e6c6ce8";
sha256 = "sha256-FI6dKUrmtTG7DIV0MmY6XdqlUpqdt7boKuXKU6CywjA=";
fetchSubmodules = true;
};

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixpkgs-unstable/pkgs/...
> 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?

Or you could, I dunno, don't agree to their terms and use their service anyways?
6 seconds video shows 15 seconds ad, lmao.
Call the Routing Police
What's your stance on muting TV commercials, zapping to another channel when TV commercials start, using TiVo, using TV commercials for bathroom pauses?
Newer HFP headphones at least have mSBC, which sounds slightly less horrible.

Still, I’m also surprised that AirPods don’t use anything better within the Apple ecosystem, proprietary or otherwise.
Thanks for sharing George, much appreciated!
I think the point os to turn as many people off as possible so he gets less HN traffic. Maybe he hates HN?
How is that possible when they don't even disclose pricing on their main page? I'm not disbelieving you, I'm just struggling to understand.
They prob didn't notice until the market closed. Even then, you can't just undo a bid like that unless they have some kind of emergency clause to fix mistakes like this.
A bit off-topic, but: I am somewhat confused by the claim “Subversion was created by Jim Blandy”. I was around back then, and the names I think of when it comes to “who created Subversion” are Ken Fogel, Ben Collins-Sussman, and Mike Pilato. And certainly many other people, including Jim Blandy. My recollection seems to be supported by e.g. https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software... and also by looking at the early subversion repository history and mailing list posts.

But I was only a bystander (and early adopter), so maybe something went on "behind the scenes" that warrants this attribution? Or maybe it is a just a bit careless and was meant to be more like "... he was one of the creators", which one probably could justify.

Coincidentally, I just checked the Wikipedia page for Subversion and was surprised that there is basically nothing on the history of Subversion and who created it, which I find sad.
It is an auction and everyone pays the same price. During the afternoon tomorrow every household in Finland will be paid significantly for their power usage unless they have a fixed price agreement, which is not that common
The trick is not allowing such a thing. Don't have something vague like "fsync_that_works" that could be implemented arbitrarily.

Have a function that is documented to implement a highly specific contract, like "writes all pending blocks of this file to disk, and ensures they'll be there if there's a crash after the function returns".
It’s very likely for youtube to turn to paying customers to sqeeze more from them because they’re already willing to pay.

Soon there’ll be a premium premium with no ads at a premium cost, $30 a month.
This is a good point tbh.

Google did destroy the competition on the space forcing a monopoly.

So if there was a similar competing service with the same content quality and revenue models, would you subscribe/watch the ads?
Snaps have some cool use cases, like the one you mentioned. flatpak isn't there yet for CLI apps or hosting stuff from when I last checked, and the snaps for things like nextcloud just work. On a desktop system though, it's clear that everyone should just adopt flatpak for a universal app standard for the time being.
Yes, it's bad, and yet another example of a very public, beloved and well used service by Google being "improved" away by some PM to get that promotion, thereby making it worse, with no option for a user to even revert back to the old design (lest they challenge the SV-career man's assumptions that 'It's better this way!')

Google is by and far the bigget culprit at this tactic, and it's getting very, very tired. I hope the team responsible for this change reads this: You made one of your best products harder and more inefficient to use.
Absolutely. Bring in the cats.
Unless you're willing to root your phone, or use a developer certificate to run an unofficial app, I don't think there's any chance of getting an 3rd party youtube client on iOS. They're breaking youtube's TOS which is why they have to be side loaded on android.
At first I thought your math was wrong, because that doesn't match the numbers in the article. But then I checked the day-ahead prices at epexspot[1], and it's indeed showing -500 euro/MWh in the afternoon, from 14h00 to midnight!

[1] https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data?market_area=FI&tradi...
The multiverse visualisation was really cool! This whole tool feels like it's designed for a writer from the future.

link for curious: https://generative.ink/meta/block-multiverse/
They are transparent and fair. Fake reviews are not allowed. Apple has no way to know if you hired a fake review company or if some competitor did. Their moderation team can only check for fake reviews, not who paid for them. Of course, if they ask developers if they did something wrong and they did, they will get lied to.

And it shouldn't be Apple's problem. Apple is not a court of law. They have no business knowing about their developers internal affairs, imagine the conflicts of interest. This is a matter for an actual court of law, that can issue warrants and subpoenas, where perjury is a thing, where there is fair trail and where you can ask damage and the guilty party get charged for fraud. You obviously don't want to give these powers to a private company.
No, the point of the article is to scare off anybody who isn't worth their time. They know what they're worth. But why post it here?
Not really, you use sudo when needed, at your will, not when Linux thinks you need it. I can just setuid some executable, how do you do it with Windows?
Smarttube on my tv (Nvidia shield), revanced on phone and Vivaldi with ublock, no YouTube ads anywhere.
How funny is that his voice is altered presubmably by the two signals heterodyning, and the effect is similar to what they would accomplish with a ring modulator, which was the same effect used to create the Daleks voice in Doctor Who.
Related, this fantastic article about Victor Vescovo who dived the deepest points of the globe

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/thirty-six-tho...
That's not what checkout does.
nice,

not super related but I made a simple tool to publish apple photos to the web.

https://public.photos
uYou+ is good, I use it regularly. Especially with a developer certificate.
Yeah, I personally hate sponsor segments but strongly sympathize with your view. I'm currently looking for a way to donate to the stuff I watch instead.
In case this site does not work for you too, I have previously made an archive of it. Which is here. https://web.archive.org/web/20231123163915/https://michigan-... I hope its helpful
Many indies offer a 50/50 net profit split. At volume the costs become quite small with CDs.

Majors usually seek to minimise royalties and have many well documented and some less well documented ways to reduce royalties by either chipping away at the headline rate with deductions or shrinking the base price.
> I think it's odd that YouTube hasn't simply proxied the ads into the same stream to make them indistinguishable from the video.

I would assume they do this for caching and personalization. Presumably, YouTube can make more from personalized ads. However, if they embedded these ads in the main video stream caching would be more challenging.
Ask HN: Which software do you feel thankfull for this year
In the spirit of gratitude , which software do you feel particularly thankful this year?
I wonder if having even the lesser used stuff like restaurants, gas stations etc. on the main screen has to do with people using the maps app directly while driving instead of android auto. Burying those in the app might not be wise.
I don’t see what is wrong. Branches in that conception are paths through the DAG. One would like to annotate such paths with names, and have those names automatically apply by default when adding a commit to the end of such a path.

This has nothing to do with lists of patches. Nevertheless, for any given path, it is always possible to compute a list of patches that would match that path. Just compute the diffs between all adjacent pairs of commits on that path. What you maybe mean is that you can’t replay just a single path and have it result in the same commit hash. That, of course, is correct, you need to replay the complete prefix DAG. However, I don’t see why you think that causes issues for the branches-as-paths conception.

Yes, branches can merge together. That just means that different paths can share nodes and edges. Just like two hiking trails can partially overlap. Again, I see no problem here.
What does the state owe in exchange for banning murder?

(I imagine the answer might be "protection from non-state violence." But then by analogy what they owe you in exchange for banning public defecation isn't public toilets, but an environment where there isn't shit laying around in public.)
Agreed. More would not be worth for me. I could also do with a bit of competition. Maybe many smaller YouTubes serving different niches.
Use Fastmail. It's not free, but that's okay to be because it means their business model is fundamentally different.