skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what fantasy realm you live in where people are "trading" with Google when they watch a YouTube video. No such thing happens. No money changes hands, there is no transaction.

What does happen, is I make a request, and Google sends some bits to me over the Internet for free, and then those bits are sitting on my PC, and my PC is my property. I have the right to do whatever I want with my property and the bits on it. If I want to transform the bits in some way, render video from some of them and not from others, all on my PC in my own home, then I can. With a few exceptions, courts have upheld that general right. Ad blocking isn't illegal, circumventing their anti-ad blocking isn't illegal, and it doesn't interfere with a "trade" because there wasn't one, Google just sends some bits for free to anyone who asks the right way.

Now Google can of course choose to refuse service to me for any reason they want. They can make their anti-ad blocking more sophisticated. That's fine, I'll use a competitor in that case, and we need to make sure the government enforces the antitrust laws on the books so that there's more competition against Google anyway. Whether YouTube is a criminal monopoly or not is currently up for debate, probably the answer is yes.

At any rate your understanding of the relationship is legally and morally flawed. You claim there is a trade between me and a probably criminal organization, where in fact there is none. On the other hand my right to control my property is one of the most fundamental rights out there. You better believe Google feels that way about their property and spends billions to protect/expand their own property rights!

So I am confused as to why you want Google to have property rights, but not the rest of us.

But hey, "You will own nothing and be happy," right? We're all really just renting our hardware I guess? It's 2023 and the concept of us little peons owning and controlling anything is obsolete, just do what Master says right?

BTW, FWIW my property rights are inalienable. I possess these rights because I was born a human, yes they are also upheld in the US Constitution, UN Declaration on Human rights etc. While government has mostly upheld them they don't come from government, they come from us being born human, so even if a government said what I was doing was illegal, it would be moral to ignore that government, resist and do it anyway. What's crazy to me is that people seem to be OK with handwaving away a basic human right just so that a corporation can make more profit off of entertainment content.
I pay for Premium and use it on one PC, but I browse logged out (with ublock) on another PC. This gives me two (slightly) different views into what the Youtube algorithm wants me to see, based on what I happen to watch on each machine. I occasionally reset cookies on the logged out machine.

I definitely avoid watching ads, except the non-national spots on local TV where I kinda like the local city flavor of the ads. Is that grifting? I dunno. The ads are still there in aggregate, I just won't give them my brain space. Give me a way to pay without being tracked and having my content streams tied to a single account, and I'm all over it instead of adblock.
I keep hearing this argument, and it is the worst one of all because it neglects human greed.

AI feeds on data. If it can make you a million dollars air gapped, you'll be able to make a billion with it plugged in the net with it manipulating data.
Standard Bits: an abstract pixel art universe to explore [video]
There's plenty of evidence that humans reason differently than ML models; namely basically any human intellectual discovery in history versus the (approximately) zero randomly generated ones by ML.

We don't know exactly how human reasoning works, but the observational evidence clearly indicates it is not by randomly piecing together tokens already known.
It's fun to see css-tricks again here. After the ...
CEO: Europe needs tech entrepreneurs 'whose project is not to sell' to US[video]
Branches influence the performance of your code
Steel has a range of strengths. The "most commonly used steel" is probably just mild steel and yeah Ti-6Al-4V is going to be the rough equal of mild steel on strength broadly assessed. But a high strength steel alloy will be three times that strong, and titanium can only be pushed so far.
> Where is the eula that spells out in simple language the details of the devil’s bargain that these data thieves offer?

GDPR means all tracking is overt. I have a page where I can see all the things Google tracks about me and what they are used for and I can disable different categories such as location or watch history or search history or browsing history etc.
Didn't Sony file a patent where you had to say the brand name after an ad?
What is done with it? It was my understanding that bunker fuel was basically the remains of crude oil after refining. Has refining improved to where there is no significant remainder in the process?
I feel like Racket sorta changed the "practicality" story in many respects for Scheme. Not in the sense that Racket itself is practical, but the macro system is really good and inspired other Schemes like Gerbil that are more practical.
There's no requirement that a mechanism be known in order to show that something is true.

There are lots of other ways of deriving and inferring facts. There's nothing irresponsible about it whatsoever.
You sound fun, and very badass
Dude, get your prescription then go to eyebuydirect.com
Cops are almost never fired. Placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation? While the press is in a tizzy? Sure. Fired? No. Almost all cops found in violation of policies win on internal appeal. Even in the extremely rare case when they are fired, they’re rehired in a neighboring jurisdiction post haste.

The courts? PUH-LEASE! Prosecutors never prosecute. Even if they go to a grand jury, they end up instructing the grand jury to pass a no-bill (i.e. not enough evidence of a crime), thus letting them was their hands and say, “Gosh! The jury didn’t indict. Can’t do anything,” when in actually grand juries indict everyone. (When I was on a federal grand jury, the AUSA told us that if we were going to pass a no-bill, to tell him so he could bring more evidence (a legitimate ask) and told us that a no-bill would result the a call to him, and his boss, from the Attorney General himself.) Then of course there’s qualified immunity and case law that is overly differential to police actions — even when they violate procedure.

It’s bullshit. Cops are completely unaccountable. They’re gangs.

https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/fired-cops-are-rout...
If the code is included in the service, it's not a library. If it's packaged as a library and the service code is a (minimal) wrapper around it, it's a pointless additional complexity.
Very good article. Thanks!
I'm pretty sure they want people to use their products. Making it useful helps that cause.
I think there is an argument here with no right answer. Writing can have such a better signal to noise ratio but it’s harder to write well. Talking is easy but it’s also easy to forget something in the spot or ramble on too much without editing.
Here's one possibility:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality...
I actually would prefer it to zoom, which it sometimes does. A couple of examples: if you're using the tone curve tool it'll change the exposure for the level under the pointer; or if you're hovering over a vector it will scale the vector when all you want to do is zoom on the vector so you can move its fiddly control handles; but then if you're hovering over one of the settings dials by accident it will move the slider left to right. Absolutely something I wouldn't expect and have not seen in any other software. The UX is mind-boggling inconsistent and unpredictable.
No part of mine shall ever be thine! Neither I want some of your's, that's just the course of my thinking, leave me the fuck alone, or get yourself a clone and mutilate that, unblinking!
About two years ago I had this unusual appendicitis. There was just nothing that suggested my appendix had burst. By the time I had a CT scan, the appendix no longer existed.

My cousin, an experienced surgeon, told me it'd be a quick operation and I'd probably be home in a few days. I spent over 40 days in the hospital due to a severe infection that ate through my abdominal wall and almost reached my skin. One week I was taking seven intravenous antibiotics at once. There was a moment where I became convinced I was going to die.
> do you use Cantor-style diagonalization for the fixed-point theorem?

If you think Kleene's recursion theorem and Cantor's diagonalization are the same sort of argument, then I'd say yes.

I don't know if people historically had an issue with Cantor's argument or not. Certainly the modern presentation with decimals can be dicey if you are not careful because, as you note, some real numbers have two representations as decimals, one with repeating 9's and another with repeating 0's. But this issue can be avoided so long as you are careful. e.g convert all non-5's to 5's and convert 5's to 6's, thus staying far away from the dangerous 0/9 zone of digits. The constructed decimal sequence only has 5's and 6's and thus is a real number with a unique decimal representation.

There is no problem with Cantor's argument, and it can easily be formalized. It would be a reasonable exercise to do at some point in an introductory course for proof assistants.
Understanding why it took medical experts so long to realise that masks were important is a saga in its own right. It's not a case of hypocrisy as such, as the fact it went against the core belief of clinicians about what separates a serious person of medicine from a quack.

The beliefs closest to our hearts receive the least inspection.
> Forcing someone to watch your ad most likely triggers negative connotations about your brand.

I will give up driving before ever purchasing anything from Liberty Mutual and I caution everyone who will listen that they are a shitty company who will grift you for your last cent precisely because of this. As if watching the same stupid ad for the millionth + 1 time will suddenly make me realize that I WAS WRONG and I CAN'T LIVE without their product.
If it were on purpose I'd still expect the bid to not be so extreme. For example, maybe -5€/MWh and not the -250€ or whatever the number was. They could have still secured the sale without losing so much.
I ride an XR600R and am standing basically straight up most of the time.
I haven't read MacKay's work, so maybe this is naive, but I think the belief is that compression is a deterministic endeavor, whereas AGI may not be. The ability to recall information is incredibly useful; the ability to do so in convenient and flexible ways doubly so. The level of complexity being proportional to the GPT's ability to interpret means that compression is not necessarily a simple problem, like you say.

However, if intelligence involves nondeterministic traits, i.e. something in the vein of creation of the present, AGI could be a significantly different problem to solve than compression. I think there's at least an intuition that this is the case, which explains the belief that compression is a simpler/weaker problem.

As an aside, I'm currently unsure of my position on this.
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If there's a bug in a Unix derivative, does the issue lie with the implementation or the POSIX spec?

Answer: It lies with the people wanting a fix!

Moral of the story: backwards compatibility is a menace.
Pushing is fine if people can consume it asynchronously, and if you actually stick with it and don't forget to publish frequent updates.

In my decades as a SWE, there is one way that worked better than all others: having a competent project manager who individually polls team members with weekly, short(5-10min) 1:1s and then takes care of handling schedule updates, resource assignment and unblocking the dev. This allows devs to focus on what they do best with minimal cognitive load.

It requires hiring PMs though, and established managers will bristle at the thought of giving up responsibilities and power to another person. I'm seeing that within my org now. We're slowly learning all the lessons that big companies learned years ago from 70+ years of project management theory, but we're half-assing it because we refuse to accept that PMs and Gantt charts are about the only way for a large org to deliver efficiently and accurately in a mixed hw/sw, multi-team environment.
I've done various manual labor (both skilled and unskilled). I would 100% go back into plumbing if the U.S. had a social safety net.

Have a fulfilling job where you get to see the product of all your hard work at the end of the day? Check. Ability to turn your mind off after work and actually sleep well? Check. Fresh air, sun, exercise, and real camaraderie with your colleagues? Check. No bullshit job manager to micro-manage, gaslight, and make my life hell? Check. Stress? I have never once felt stressed on a job site. I've gotten pissed off at dumbasses who've given me injuries, but it's not chronic, low-grade anxiety that permeates into my entire life like software engineering.

Main problem is the healthcare isn't guaranteed. So if I fuck up my body, my career is over, and so is my access to medicine (and so is my ability to have a roof over my head!). Have fun with your 4 week wait-times (just for a consult) and "large jobs" only for any sort of tradesman! The problem is only going to get worse.

No one with good foresight goes into the trades unless their family owns a business and is trying to hand it off to them -- or their family is in a union and are guaranteeing them a spot (don't do non-union).

Ironically, the people usually going on about how "tough" certain jobs are have never done them for any extended period of time. It tends to give you a certain humility, that at the end of the day we're all just trying to stay alive, and no better than another. Shocking how shedding sweat with a recovered meth addict just out of jail will give you some empathy for your fellow man; while working in an alienating and cut-throat environment will turn you into a psychopath just to survive.
How many hours of YouTube do you consume in a month?
> I have the right to do whatever I want with my property and the bits on it

That is false. You might think that you should have that right, but you don't.
Hire a fellow citizen, help a neighbor out.
I alredy know how I would do it, and I'm not even superintelligent.
thanks! the thumbnail trend has gotten really, really bad. any insight into why creators are hopping on the bandwagon? is there data they have access to which suggests switching to this type of thumbnail will increase engagement?
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> and I support creators

YT cut off my favorite channels' monetization all the time. They'll never get a dime out of me.
Compression is abstraction.
I don't think it is weird to pay for something you are getting value out of.
Humans have bootstrapped the tools we needed to build nuclear weapons, iphones and skyscrapers from human hands, trees and rocks. Its an interesting problem to imagine fast you could do the same thing - starting from rocks and building a city.

If humans have managed it, I think its reasonable to assume a human level (or smarter) AI could accomplish the same bootstrapping process if you gave it access to an actuator (robot arm or human assistant), enough sensors to see whats going on, and some "starter" tools and materials.

What would be the minimum starter set of stuff it would need to get going? Way less stuff than what you'd find in a modern shop, or what anyone can order online with a few hundred dollars to spend.

If AIs learn to code, seems like they should be able to learn mechanical engineering too.
Then you may completely misunderstand what you are talking about.

If you look at the problem space more like this

"The potential problems caused by software" + "the potential problems caused by intelligence"

For example software can spread. By theft or viruses. And unlike humans that can be pretty easily killed, until the last memory device is erased with that software on it, it could always come back.
I’m signed up to be an organ donor on my driver’s license, and I’ll admit this article gave me some uncomfortable feelings over that fact.

If they continue to find “novel” ways of organ donation - they at least need to provide multiple classes of Organ Donor - with one prohibiting this practice.
You would be doing the universe a service by recommending resources. I think everyone should at least be given the option to check out lucid dreaming.
Not for all types of sound: I mentioned one of the common problems with sounds which ramp up sharply, which is not something VBR can solve. AAC also has pre-echo issues (all DCT-based formats do) but the designed was improved to reduce them since this was one of the known problems with MP3 which you couldn’t just throw bandwidth at.

My larger point was simply that most services use AAC now because it saves them money, fits more music on your phone, and has better sound quality. MP3 is good enough for a lot of things but there’s no point in supporting two formats when both are widely supported and one of them is better across the board.
compression is just glorified flow of electrons. Still usefull non the less.
We know memories are essentially recreated when remembered, we know that eye-witness testimony is spectacularly prone to hallucinatory-details-in-the-llm-sense, we know that focusing attention on one aspect of a video will cause participants to simply not see remarkably obvious and noteworthy details of that video. No, I think it's safe to say that it's been shown pretty affirmatively.

Wings were inspired by birds, and although they mechanically function in a manner entirely unlike a bird's wing, the aerodynamics of aircraft wings fully explain why birds can fly.
This is such a weird take.

Your luggage often shows up 3 or 5 days later, not the next day. Which can do a lot to ruin your vacation, especially since you might be traveling on immediately from the city you flew into, whether by car or train or boat or whatever.

And suitcases absolutely still do disappear. Happened to a family member last month. All it takes is for the label to be torn off, or somebody at baggage claim to accidentally take your bag while you're still going through immigration.

Or it just gets put somewhere and forgotten about. Another family member's suitcase got returned... five months later. Apparently it got locked in some room that they never access.

I'm happy you've been so lucky, but don't assume everyone is.
The pre-existing cultural context is that "everyone knows" this fact that Linux is "garbage" and has "way more bugs." This is a title that directly feeds into that. You can fuel misconceptions with pure facts - that's 50% of politics. If it had been amc sinstead the conclusion would have been "oh wow, Mac gaming really must not be ready yet" if seen int he context of a gaming forum or "oh wow, Mac must be worse than I thought" otherwise. The average common fool on the street and the average highly successful corporate executive both think bug reports are bad. The audience of people who will actually read the article isn't the majority of the audience that'll be influenced by it.

Also the title might be factual but the actual article is about Linux users, not Linux, which is one way it's very easy to mislead with "facts"
Thanks for the tip! After 10 years-ish of doing it, I'm now done with it haha
I made something kinda similar to this but not marketed to kids, it does not require an account, and it is open source:

https://unli.xyz/eject/

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library-lite
I actually would have use for this software, as I deal with clients from all over the world and sometimes have no clue if they're a man or a woman. So far I've been looking up the names on Wikipedia.
Based on the title, I thought there was some unique quality of the soundtrack where there were no pauses or abrupt starts/stops, or that it was all one take. After reading the article, I'm guessing the title means that the soundtrack doesn't have any songs you'd want to skip?
I don’t believe so but haven’t poked around the website. On macOS they’re stored in the music folder.
> It’s unfortunate that Ariane 6 already has no realistic chance of being price competitive with Space X

The difference between the two looks a lot smaller when one considers the total price including the payload.

800M satellite + 75M for an Ariane 6 versus 800M satellite + 65M for a Falcon is, well, not quite a rounding error, but probably within the acceptable margin for keeping it in the European family for many projects.
There's a lot of handwritten texts out there. I spent a few months transcribing my great-great grandmother's journals as a military wife in the late 19the century. It was an enormous task - I'd spend an hour or two a week and got though a few dozen pages.

I used potrace and autotrace to darken the faded text strokes - I should give this a try and see if it can do a better job.
Why do you need a body when you can wire funds to contractors? If I were a genius entrepreneur who wanted to build some sort of big chemical plant, it wouldn't matter whether I'm fit or in a wheelchair. I'm not going to be building it with my own hands anyway. If it were commissioned by a reclusive billionaire who nobody has seen except via zoom call, and signed off on by an engineering firm whose chief engineer also is similarly reclusive, I think nobody would particularly mind.
Hehe, that's really funny. If it could happen to the buffalo it could happen to these hogs. That said, they do breed quite a bit faster than buffalo.
Not saying this is you, but I'm surprised how many managers seem unaware of the prevalence of social deficiencies among the highest performing engineers. 20 years ago this was just sort of a given. I have to regularly defend a few highly productive but socially caustic engineers who are absolutely essential to our products. Management would love to get rid of them and the problems they cause without realizing no one else would dedicate the mental resources to the sort of complex, deep problems we're trying to solve.
We've seen this movie before: You can pay to turn off ads all the way up until YouTube decides to change the bargain.
I consider pervasive advertisement a moral wrong. I don't have to tell myself anything to know that blocking ads is the ethical thing to do. They are already a moral perversion.

Edit:

I kind of consider it disgusting that watching a video is considered by anybody to be "payment", or that anybody legitimately believes it's somebody's duty to watch an advertisement. The worship of abusive corporations in our culture has gotten insane.

You already aren't understanding us when you come in believing that we're convincing ourselves of anything. We actually do have an ethical and moral map that is consistent with blocking ads, and we don't consider not watching a commercial to be the same thing as theft, or even to be morally questionable.
I've seen plenty of engineers try to turn trivial functionality like that into a microservice "to avoid version upgrade hell" (quote from one person in a previous job), or bundle what should be a simple self-contained (i.e. no-dependencies) library of functions (i.e. an API) into a REST/gRPC interface service. Microservices fad-following is as bad as TDD in this industry.
Don't underestimate the IQ of a side of bacon...
Tom Scott on the ELT in Chile:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRREz0iBes
Giant Magellan has several of its 8+m mirrors built while Thirty Meter has been fighting native Hawaiians who are not happy with any telescopes on Mauna Kea. GMT would be the safer bet. Blows my mind that the larger EELT will beat them both to first light.
Well they also have robots serving the food if we go by this analogy. Doesn't seem too unfair to streamline the process.
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