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HN doesn't force me to watch or read the ads. I can always ignore the posts that are mainly advertising.

So perhaps my moral objections are to obnoxious, in your face, unavoidable advertisements.
Ultimately, it can't. Proprietary software has fundamental limitations that force proprietary software developers to choose technically inferior designs. It's why in the long run proprietary software is doomed.
Current architectures have a lot of juice left across several axes, using extraordinarily accurate scaling laws. We're nowhere close to a wall.

The industry has been focusing hard on 'System Two' approaches to augment our largely 'System One'-style models, where optimal decision policies make Q-learning a natural approach. The recent unlock here might be related to using the neural nets' general intelligence/flexibility to better broadly estimate their own states/rewards/actions (like humans). [EDIT: To be clear, the Q-learning stuff is my own speculation, whereas the 'System Two' stuff is well known.]

Serendipitously, Karpathy broadly discussed these two issues yesterday! Toward the lecture's end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
Your point is they're not bullies, just mere predators ?
Yes, I have and to be honest I haven't noticed a difference at all, apart google at least pretending it cares with play protect.
I read, I think, the first 2 pages of refactoring UI and it was so intuitively brilliant that it somehow unlocked this mental "block" I used to have about design for my side projects. I truly am not exaggerating.
Middle management have wrestled control back from developers with the scrum/agile garbage. That is soul-sucking insofar as you are working a conveyor belt where if anything drops of then you are the problem. SW development has entered the factory automation phase where humans are still doing the "automation". The sooner middle management can replace them with AI the sooner SW developers will be consigned to the dustbin of history. Right now, middle management hates the status quo.
It’s not just about politics. I don’t want to build a product that tells a mentally unwell kid how to blow up the school. It’s important to me that my work doesn’t do things I don’t want it to do. Is that really so weird?
The right to block advertisements is the right to close your eyes and plug your ears. Google is trying to argue that its a violation of their terms of service to close your eyes and plug your ears. It's a violation of my person to try and detect whether I'm not paying attention to your ad.
Very strange that no one noticed this error as it was ~60% of Finlands average daily electricity consumption
I don't have enough money to buy anything anyway :)

nobody will hire me!
What do you suggest as an alternative way to express these concepts?

Colloquially, "library" and "service" have 95% of the correct connotations.
This is one argument I've used in my head for ad blockers - you're removing hostile viewers so it might be a net win. It's like dropping flyers in a "no junk mail" box. I wonder if anyone studied it.
Experimental tree-based writing interface for GPT-3
I think this is exactly what’s going to happen with “super smart unsafe AI”. If it’ll be abused and overused like this, people will just stop tuning in to those media sources where AI can easily dominate.

AI dominates instagram space? Why bother scrolling through it? It’s not interesting anymore.
AI dominates online media? Why bother getting your information online?
I (Firefox+uBlock Origin on FreeBSD, Windows 10, Rocky, CentOS), logged in, have not encountered this yet.

I also run a small channel mostly with ROIO bootlegs. The channel has never been penalized, it has a small but growing user base, and all the videos have been monetized by someone else. I also sometimes watch a video from my cellphone where the ads run.

These might be the factors why I still didn't get the Youtube stick.

P.S they've been monetized by companies that have no rights to monetize them whatsoever. However I have no rights over the material and if legal holders wish to battle the record companies that hogged my videos, that's great. If I have a recording of TV broadcast of singer-songwriter playing his material in a public festival, the record label that paid and released studio version of those songs has no stake in that. There can be a complex contract between broadcaster, festival and the performer, but I'm sure record company is not part of it unless it has explicitly funded the festival or the broadcast, which is a rarity, not applicable to my videos. The algorithm IDs these tracks as studio versions or as official live version which then trigger "ownership" by those record companies.

So let's not pretend Youtube is some fair entity that needs to be paid fairly. They don't play fair themselves.
While reading your comment, I thought abouts ads for ad blockers like "hey, we noticed you searched for ad blockers so here are the top 10 best!". That's not a good idea though.
>Arguably influencers were ads too, but they were still humans acting and reacting.

Do you think those influencers spend a single second reading the comments/private messages wankers send them? Unless they pay of course.
There is also an animated show called Pantheon that deals with “uploaded intelligence” and the process is likewise fatal. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It had two seasons and the story was completed.
Welcome to Safari!
Quick! Train Llama 3!
Hey the creator here, was not expecting this to blow up at all. I made this I guess because of the Streisand effect, I probably never would have bothered if it weren’t for all the news about ad blockers not working.

I intend this as a second line of defence against ads, where the first line would be a conventional ad blocker.

After work I’m going to investigate the same technique for speeding up paid sponsor portions of the video.

My background is a web dev, but I make extensions in my spare time :) I recommend making some yourself they are a fun little project. This one only took about 4 hours so I’m laughing at the interest :)

If you want to see a way more awesome extension I’ve created check this out - https://mobileview.io/
About 99.9% of apps in the Google Play Store contain spyware (and I doubt it's much better in Apple's store?).
What a good time to heat up the sauna.
Yes, but they can get you to talk about Chromebooks and Android phones by advertising them incessantly. See, you just did it again!
I've noticed that this week. After spending a little time just reading on how to correctly write posix compliant code that was also guaranteed to do what I want, it's hard to come to any other conclusion than "posix is a last ditch attempt to slap a bandaid on Unix fragmentation by attempting to retcon some lowest common denominator behavior from a couple popular unixish operating systems and calling that a spec".

It's not what I would actually call designed. The closest analogy I can think of for non-c programmers is that posix is like if we decided that people should only make websites using javascript that was mutually interpretable by IE6 and Netscape navigator and we occasionally made updates every decade or two.

There's really nothing particularly noble or good or correct or elegant about all the API calls with implementation defined semantics. At best it's a necessary evil for compatibility. You can admire the cleverness required to get a single simple c codebase that works correctly on multiple operating systems and future operating systems that conform to posix in creative ways, but only in the way I admire those old school zines that are simultaneously a PDF and a jpeg and a shell script. Clever and ingenious but not actually good engineering design.
And no amount of well intended AI ethics or prompt denial would stop this sort of malevolent activity.
Could you say more about your analyst job? What kind of an analyst are you? How are you measured?
I find this interesting. Do you consider YouTube to just be a consumer product or does it occupy a different space in your mind?
We have ways to pay already.
Have plenty of PPAs on my system but also make sure to do propper pinning.

Haven't had any major dependency related issue in years.
Yeah, this is the one I pull up when I need a reference or a quick refresher. When it's been awhile, I play quick run through of the grid garden game: https://cssgridgarden.com/
There are so many people currently employed at Google whose livelihood (think mortgage payments, food, gasoline) depend on having a problem that they can work on but never solve.
Hmm. You'd still have to disable uBlock Origin on youtube and thus let google track you?
It's actually 'follow-up dupe' of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38387464 where it comes up repeatedly.
I feel all these discussion about AGI vs not-AGI are nice and fascinating but useless. MBAs will take whatever EY tells them is smart enough in a fancy powerpoint, kick all human employees out to increase shareholders value and let that expensive computer handle all the red buttons. It doesn't take an AGI to f'up humanity, it only takes a dumb computer trusted with the wrong buttons.
When prices kept rising on cigarettes it was easier to quit them for good. It's been many years now. I was and still am thankful for that pricing regime.

Lately I find I waste a lot of time "relaxing" on YouTube, but I've noticed it's become TV for me; a habit like smoking was. Sure, there's thought-provoking stuff on there, but that's not what seems to show up in my feed. It looks like cable TV. I suppose I have terrible viewing preferences. This is just my experience, of course.

So, I'm ready to kick the YouTube habit and to do more "pulling" of information. Having experienced what cable TV did (eventually throwing a huge amount ads into an expensive subscription) the new fee structure makes kicking the habit an easier, healthier, and more prudent choice. I think I know where they're heading.

I'm thankful for it, frankly. It's wind at my back to pull away from too much screen time. It'll be much easier to break the habit. I've paid enough by providing my viewing preferences anyhow. And when already-profitable monopolistic non-essential services start squeezing tighter, it's surprisingly refreshing to search for new pastures.

If/when Reddit kills "old" reddit, that'll be good too.
Let's see .. oh Gary Marcus. Never mind.
You're never going to capture the "will never watch ads" group.

What is being destroyed by YouTube's current policy that led to this anti adblock attempt, is pushing too far with the ads.

Crap quality and overstuffed.

A 5 second ad on a 4 minute video? Fine.

1:30 ad, one of TWO... on same video?

Fuck. That. Noise.

It's the same segmentation issue as piracy, y'all get hyperfocused on the group that will NEVER play ball, and ruin the experience so much for those that would, that they "swap teams".
If the USPS was never a public service America would literally look differently. Maybe social media(including YouTube) is the modern day USPS, the primary way Americans interact/communicate with each other.
AI Sharpens Rainfall Estimates from Satellites
The very origin of funds being from a mixer taints it.
Was thinking the same thing. The old will become new again when everything is crowded out by AI
Machining titanium is possible, but remains difficult. It's slow and you go through a lot of cutters.

Now this is just showing off.[1] Daishin and Open Mind started with a 60 kilogram cylinder of titanium and milled a very detailed crown out of it. 300 hours of CNC machining time on a very good 5-axis mill. Most of the metal ends up as scrap.

The software for this is called HyperMill. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqv5SjC4s6w
In fact, F-Droid is infinitely better than Google's own app store, where almost all apps contain spyware...
You're not allowed to tell users that an account has been flagged for criminal use, as this tips off the user and makes you an accomplice.
This is a very terse note. Is there simply not more information available than "some price went negative on the market because someone made a mistake", or am I missing something that's implied here?
> It seems to me that a broken neck would be a harder thing to fix than neurons impaired by infection.

Does it? We're still unable to cure MS, just slow or stall the progression of it.
> 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.

Every trade/craft has these kind of folks. I think it comes from people who like to teach others or have to work closely with others. Things like deep toolchain configuration become table stakes on large or open projects.
What % of people alive can do either? We have a system which beats the vast majority of humanity.
Yeah. Its like the glitch in the matrix a whole generation needs.
One of the episodes of Stranger Things took like a one-minute break to do a soda ad. Probably the most jarring and disruptive “produce placement” (but really, it was more of an embedded ad) that I’ve seen.
I've been reading HN since around that time, and it's hasn't made me sympathetic toward VC. If anything it's hardened my views against consumption, greed and advertising.
I'm not trying to be righteous, my moral compass is mine.

I'd be fine with YouTube being a purely paid service. Either pay, or the server returns a 500. I might even be willing to pay for it then, knowing that the only ads i might encounter are sponsor segments in the video themselves (that i can also skip right on by.)
This artificial limitation sounds very much like a purposeful limitation to gather licensing fees.
While I think we're probably at least years away, I do think there's a certain level of inevitability, and that certain individuals/companies/governments can and will put a lot of funding and effort towards making this happen.
Unless I purposely removed it and blanked the memory of it, Pop just deals in deb's and flatpak.

Not that I'm entirely jazzed with flatpak.. Poor construction of the permissions can lead to shitty experience that doesn't happen with a deb.
“Then I’m going to a cabin in the woods.”

Consider the campervan.
In QWidget if you use it then it’s compiled into the application. If you use QML it’s always there as far as I understand. Please review this post which seems to indicate that JS and HTML components are added to a project when QML is used.[0] It may not be a full engine but as I’ve previously stated I’m not interested in writing things in multiple languages. I want as few extra languages as possible. To tell me it’s not a browser stack then go on about how to use QML you can declare pages in HTML and JS that are then compiled into the binary that passes data between C++ and JS is entirely ignorant of my initial goals. If I wanted to use browser technology and JS I would build my app for a browser.

> 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).

I do not find that extra work because it’s represented in the class itself and the observer pattern maintains my preferences.

Perhaps these technologies are useful for those who want to quickly write a mobile app with slick animations. Indeed it is a easy way for Qt to gain audience for those types of apps especially for people who aren’t able to learn C++. For my intentions I am looking for less overhead overall to keep files as pure C++ as possible to ensure that a class I’m writing represents the full scope of it’s functionality and domain.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395603
Hmm… I’ll have to check later but right now I’m seeing the right thing in iOS. The blog is built by Hugo, so it’s all static files. But maybe something changed with the latest update. Thanks.
I’m ready to pay about a $2 per month for YT as a paid service. Personally, paying more than $2 for a software makes me want to avoid using it completely.
Doubt it. Most streaming sites are still ad free and their prices only increased with inflation. Both YouTube and creators already get way more revenue from premium subscribers than ad watchers so I doubt that'll change this decade
Yes, it seems to me that way.

AKA personal opinion.
There is an old Black Mirror episode where people have to sit in cubicles with 4 screens around them looking at ads to gain credits or something, and it tracks if you close your eyes it simply pauses the ads...
Ad-supported services account for the fact that some users block ads.

If users blocking ads is enough to make the service unprofitable, the service should switch to a paid model or shut down.

It's an adversarial relationship. The service is within their rights to shove ads down your throat, and you're within your rights to fight back.

(I pay for YouTube Premium)
I believe Google still has the right to waste 3 seconds of your time, so if they only verify that you wait for the duration of the ad, that would be a fair equivalent to you closing your eyes.

And I guess that's the next line of defense: GPU shaders to just replace ads with something more pretty to look at.
> That's not a good idea though.

I wonder why you say that. At least an ad for a specific ad blocker sounds like a great idea.

- Ideally, you don't send ads to users of your product
- Users of inferior products will see your ad, and it might be super effective (if you used MY adblocker, you wouldn't be seeing this ad)
- Everything else is a user that doesn't have an ad blocker, and it's probably an easy sell to say "would you like to never see ads like this?"
Yeah the rage here is wild to me. People constantly say "just give me an option to pay" but Youtube Premium has existed forever and remains an option.
If you use YouTube at all then you're not at all concerned with "a responsible and accountable platform" you're just trying to justify leeching. If you were actually concerned about those things you'd avoid using them entirety. You talk about being concerned about YouTube causing monetary harm to creators but your own actions are causing them monetary harm by denying them any payment for their value provided to you. It's hypocritical.
Manifest v3 doesn't prevent adblockers from working
I submitted and got YouTube Premium. For most of my browsing, I don't mind battling with uBlock and making it work however for the rest of the family not so much, plus with premium, I can replace my Spotify subscription and also avoid ads from the YouTube app on the smart TV.

There are methods (due to various regions having various prices) that one can find YTP cheaper than listed - but I'll leave that up to people to explore.
In case you don't know about it, make sure to check out SponsorBlock, which optionally, automatically skips parts you don't want to see like for example sponsors (but not only). You can use this awesome DB for what you want to do.

And also Invidious.

And also their combination.

User of both, I'm unaffected by the recent adblocking issues on YouTube and I can still subscribe to channels, reliably. Without any Google account. (by the way, a simple regular RSS feed reader would do, since YouTube provides RSS feeds for each channel, but Invidious is a really convenient, specialized UI for this, without the notification / algorithm issues that seem to plague YouTube wrt this, but I digress)

All these issues are already solved by these projects. I guess one could consider contributing to them (financially or with code for instance). The official YouTube frontend actually don't need no love, others already achieve what we want.

Piped, NewPipe and FreeTube are also projects to look into (I loved NewPipe when I had a smartphone, Piped looks very good too and FreeTube looks interesting but I know less about them).
I am going to preach it again.

Electric cars, with SMALL batteries and tiny (3hp?) fossil fuel generators.

This minimizes pretty much every downside of ICE and pure EVs, including the fire hazard.
I know there's lots of empirical studies and literature on this

I believe the rationale is even if say 90% of the viewers who wouldn't buy the product anyway are now less likely to buy the product, That's considered a zero.

However if you're positively influencing the purchasing decisions on that remaining 10%, then it might be money well spent.

Thus the advertising may not affect specifically you but because this is a broadcast style exposure, that doesn't matter
Yes. There are a number of "view ads and fill out surveys and get paid" things in the world.
It can be that, but it doesn't have to be. It depends on the business model and it's quite orthogonal to library vs service.
Moderately complex might be inflating things. Last I read we're talking grade and middle school math.

And we're talking questions like "if all x are y, and all a are b, and some people are both a and x, ..., correct, incorrect, unable to determine based on information?"

And this is why it's not AGI. It's regurgitating synthesized examples it has seen before. It's not processing and calculating from first principles.
The climate death spiral says otherwise. The numbers are only going up, not down.
If you use YouTube a lot, paying for no ads is a no brainer. I pay for YT premium, Apple News+, NYT, Kagi, etc. If you watch just a few videos a month, the price is just not worth it and there is no per-block pricing. Same goes for paid articles - I would have liked to read a few articles from TheInformation about OpenAI but there is no way I’d buy a subscription.
Could be worth it the price if the top one is an extension you own and lets some specific “partner ads” through.
What is your stance on borrowing from the public library, watching movies at a friend's house or getting up during commercials to make a sandwich?
Also, doesn't the Roadster precede Elon's participation in the company?
More like the Neal Stephenson kind.
Hey nice! I always wanted a subliminar ads player! Now I can just order online things without knowing why!
> the oxides of aluminum, magnesium, and nickel were not in use as paint pigments

Aluminum oxides were used as a pigment, predominantly in blue (cobalt aluminum oxide) but also in white.

In any case, the dominant white dyes of the Early Modern period -- and prior periods -- were lead based. The presence of TiO2-based pigments is actually one good way to identify a modern forgery.

> the particularly relevant issue here, as i understand it, is that titanium has a stable carbide

This turned out to be solvable via calciothermic or magnesiothermic reduction -- which is now effectively the go-to method for just about everything that can't be reduced with carbon. All titanium dioxide reduction processes demand quite a lot of energy, though; more than aluminum and far more than iron.
“then we released bears to take care of the wolves and we had too many bears so we released the tigers…”
I dunno.. I open the link I posted in a private Chrome browser instance as well as Edge and in both cases it opens directly to it without showing the imgur branding around it
All boundaries are anthropomorphic in bias and nature. Humans excel at edge detection, all labels are artificial.
I'm a simple man, I see a PKD post, I upvote and comment. My favorite author.

Highly recommend the biography Divine Invasions. He was such a fascinating (and troubled) person.
The problem here (in my mind) is that hindsight is 20/20, so you can always look at a bug and say that a test could've prevented it. But in the author's case, it sounds like they still have bugs despite all the tests, so I guess the people writing the tests just aren't very skilled? And if that's the case, couldn't a more skilled engineer just write better code to begin with?

I totally get tests as a way to prevent known incidents from happening again. But tests as a way of preventing unknown issues seems dubious to me.