skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too much money by what metric?

Either way, it functions but I feel it's simply a tool for 99.9% of people. They don't read the in depth heated arguments, they looks something up, get brief context, and dip. What they do with that information is honestly no better or worse than any news organization.

Ideally we teach to identify and take bias into account, but we've been at a trend for a while now to try and regulate tech instead of society.
Wait...are you actually getting useful recommendations from the not-logged-in recommendation algorithm?

Whenever I've use YouTube not logged in the recommendations have been pretty worthless.
"We broke into your house last night and took that book off the shelf. But we left 20 bucks on the counter so it's ok!"
I mean, that's true, but in a not-especially-deep way that doesn't really help or address the issue at hand.

Why do we have this thing where different people can edit it? Oh, well, we're trying to build some inter-related foundation of knowledge via categories and references, text and images. So, while yes, anyone can edit, some of that gets in the way of the actual purpose, in that "five whys" sense.

It's a bit like saying, when someone brings up spam, "Well, it's email! It's designed so anyone can send anyone else with an email address a message, that's the point."
Another new library (I haven’t used yet) that supports pseudo selectors is called CSS Hooks: https://css-hooks.com/
The guy who helped create Wrapped too... sad.
I have been fixing this manually since I noticed it a few weeks ago; I just option+del to remove the value, and it still works with an empty parameter. I've got so far as to look briefly into writing a clipboard-watcher application to strip it for me. It's obnoxious and obvious.
Well the creator of uBlock Origin probably rakes in a few hundred thousand in donations and other revenue annually, so it's probably well worth their time too.

But yeah, arguing about it all online has always been the most fun part.
This type of pseudo rational/economic reasonings are only half-smart. (In the same vein, I am not growing vegetables in my garden to save money or time)

In practice, many decisions are neither about money or time.

In this case, this is about voting with your wallet. I don't care about the price, but I really care about not increasing the revenue of Google.
> to users who bring in no revenue?
Oh, sweet summer child, they already have been monetizing their users browsing behavior and selling it to advertisers. It's their main business

> Complaining that Google is somehow wronging you by not giving you the free video hosting you're entitled to is asinine.

Google are using our browsing and video watching data already. That's enough (and has been enough over many years) for them to monetize their service. What they are doing now with the attack on adblockers on Youtube is corporate greed as they simply want MORE monetization.

And what they are doing to adblockers in general with manifest v3 and Privacy Sandbox is simply anti-competitive practices.

> Either accept the cat-and-mouse game, pay for YT premium, or stop using YouTube.
And how about no? What's in to you? Working in Youtube and worried your boss can't buy his 5-th Tesla? Understand that there are some people not happy with the enshittification of the internet, and we want to fight for a better one.
Think about today’s LLM’s. What would it take to replicate a GPT-4? It would take more GPUs than are available on the market. The rate of AI replication is limited by the rate of GPU production which absolutely will not grow exponentially. We are safe.
Does anyone really like Material UI? I find it so clunky and heavy.
Better yet, just a tiny 1-2% tax on any project, program or company that ever used anything Greek as a codename. Keeps you under the radar
> Those people who care about that shouldn’t use YouTube or any Google services at all.

While it'd be wise to avoid Google for privacy reasons, I see no problem with people making a choice to use YouTube if they want to. People can decide for themselves how much risk they're willing to take for the content hosted there. I totally respect people's choice to avoid Google to whatever limited extent that is possible, but I also respect people's choice to engage with Google on their own terms. I'd just hope that that choice is a well informed one.

For me personally that means my use of youtube involves never logging into youtube, not using youtube to view the content hosted there (I either use NewPipe or yt-dlp to download videos and then use VLC to view them), avoiding searching for content I wouldn't want forever associated with my identity, blocking ads, blocking suggested videos, blocking comments, etc. it works pretty well for me.
In the same sense that "Bullshit artist" is a better term than "Bullshit engineer".
> Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all?

The megathread addresses this:

> I've never seen this message. Is this because of my browser being X or Y? No, YouTube didn't roll this out to everybody yet.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/184fivk/youtu...
In my experience, it's not horrendous in Postgres but still noticeably worse than bigserial.

There are often reasons to have UUIDs as secondary keys. But your DB uses primary keys for disk layout, joins, etc, so I've never seen a good reason to use UUIDs there. Even the CitusDB (horizontally-scaling Postgres) examples use bigserials. I've always regretted using UUID pkeys and never regretted using bigserial.

Side bonus of bigserials is you get ordering, which matters in some contexts.
I just tried out the app - an SMS challenge was sent to my phone number, and the app sends a response via SMS. By challenge, I mean there's several fields with encoded data (not just a 6-digit OTP).

I have no idea how it's implemented by Apple but I'd hope there's some sort of expiry time. I'm sure they've thought of SIM-swapping as a way to take over people's accounts.
With all these horror stories, I have the opposite. I made an article for my tiny company to help promote it. Sounds bad but I followed the Wikipedia rules to the letter. I ensured that every single piece of information was cited to independent reputable sources only, even though some of it was actually false. I declared my conflict of interest on the first edit and my user talk page. I was prepared for it to get instantly deleted but instead some bots fixed a bit of formatting and now it's the 2nd result on Google after my own website when searching for the company name.
If your organization uses beyondcorp for zero trust among several other Google products, they only work in Chrome. Many MDM solutions also only do hardware verification through chrome during the auth loop for gsuite and not other browsers. My current organization blocks the installation of other browsers in their jamf configuration as well, so it wouldn’t matter even if beyondcorp did work in another browser
I dont think additional calculation is the difference. It makes more sense to think of individual humans as models which are highly tuned.

Just like like LLMs, some humans are better tuned than others for specific tasks, as well as in general.
Speaking purely from the dev side, a competent 5-person team could probably build 95% of Spotify’s current functionality in 2-3 years. Of course there are many other necessary nontechnical roles that would be unfilled (legal, business development, etc).

It’s no secret that companies tend to scale their workforce exponentially in exchange for logarithmic gains in their core product.
>Why, oh why, does nothing ever help the common man?

I believe we call that tragedy of the commons. Prisoner's dilemma fits a bit of that as well.

And just plain ol' greed at the end of the day. The people who want to help are rarely in the positions of power to do so. Or are fighting other greed in the process bogged by beauracracy.

Lastly it's also Apathy in many situations. There can be quite a bit of power when the common man gathers together, but many can't, don't, or are unaware of such a ability. So the power is mitigated unless a good wave gets going.
Digital ID exists and is widely used, yet I only need to use my digital ID to authenticate with government services. Remote attestation is the norm for many types of apps already yet I can use my bank app on my rooted phone just fine, or use my phone to authenticate with my government's SSO system.

I'm no fan of the modern dependence on Play Services or Google's attempts to kill adblockers through remote attestation, but none of these technologies are inherently bad. Business devices authenticating to business websites should allow remote attestation to verify that their hardware has not been tempered with just as an extra security measure.

Maybe your government is more evil or incompetent than mine, but bad governments aren't going to he limited by technological concepts like these.
Yes, “just stop using semver” is basically the solution to enterprise versioning
I should generate some incompressible 4K 60 FPS videos that consist of three hours of randomly generated static and upload them out of spite.
Pizza box form factor
In the case in that link, the publisher was not legitimate. Amazon (literally) sold a pirated copy. They refunded, allowing you to buy a non-pirated copy. The alternative would be to swap it out for a copy from a legitimate publisher, but I assume there are laws around swapping goods out from under people.
They're expanding the testing -- I recently got a warning when in private browsing and not logged in, but I haven't had an ad or warning when logged in (yet).
Software becomes so complex that it becomes vulnerable. Add more code, i.e., more complexity, to "fix" the problems.
Plus a usage tax on Greek-derived words!
$50 a month will absolutely rent you a pretty great dedicated server:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex €46.41 ($50.10 USD) rents you a single physical computer with a i5-13500 CPU, 64 GB DDR4, 2 x 512 GB NVMe SSDs.

If you want cheap dedicated servers, you can get even lower prices (though the value may not be as good): SoYouStart (OVH but in North America) has $30 dedicated servers[0], OVH in France has dedicated servers (Intel Atom tier, but still your own whole computer) for $11 a month[1].

[0] - https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/

[1] - https://eco.us.ovhcloud.com/#filterType=range_element&filter...

In the world of dedicated, you can get so much more vs what you'd pay for the equivalent EC2 instance.
What work do you want them to do that they're not already doing?
Yep.

Same project regularly shipped breaking changes in “feature” updates.
To be fair, I don't think there's much more Wikipedia could do better. Wikipedia is largely self-correcting in that the more eyeballs an article has, the more likely that wrong or biased claims will be challenged. I actually think the idea of creating a separate class of "proven experts" would make the situation worse: it'd just entrench whatever the expert opinion is which may even be more biased than the normal contributor base.

The main thing is to check out the talk pages. That's where the controversies crop up and at least you know the opposing view.
I'd like to use this without a Google account, and at most using only sandboxed Google Play services. Is that an option? It doesn't seem to work.
If you find yourself needing an ORM, probably what you really need is some jsonb. Which maybe strict 3NF goes against, but I would ignore that.

Good example is a "user settings" table that you're mostly just going to store and retrieve, such that splitting them into separate cols or tables doesn't help.
The hunters that they brought in who actually did the shooting were also not employees. If they could be there, she could be there.

The fact that outside primatologists say that she was the likely best option supports the fact that she should have been given the chance. Before shooting.
OpenWrt 22.03.6
I mean, I did say it was nuanced.

You could with the right people across the entire organization succeed without and actively combat the manifestation of this effect for as long as those, or like minded, people remain… but given the fact that organizations have a bidirectional relationship with people and culture, over a long enough period of time the organization will inevitably revert to the mean.

In more broad terms, I described the path of least resistance for a complex system (the default mode), while “you” are asking for a system that deviates from that path, which requires the introduction of entropy. As can be observed in many other fields, the total entropy of a system over a long enough period of time will always trend towards zero.

Given the specifics of this particular model are bound by social behaviors you could in theory create a culture that has a default mode that does not have the issue described, but to do so you would have to start at a much higher level than a single organization and thus for the purposes of the point I was making it is moot.

Even having said all of this, there is still a great deal more left unsaid that lead me to believe this to be true.
https://stylexjs.com/docs/learn/styling-ui/defining-styles/#...
They can obviously generate indistinguishably unique urls for video sharing links if they wanted, this is just easier to implement (though not by much).

Also there’s no treachery afoot here… go ahead and remove it, the stakes here are very low.
> Saying to write-off one of the internet's best tools just because they've pushed out mv3 seems like giving up too quickly for me.

If you find value in it, why don't you reward the people creating that value?
I don't see anything here that's React-only. They specify that it's not.
Okay, that's all valid.

But as another commenter pointed out -- it's actually 13900 people.

Again, everything you say it's true but I am finding it hard to imagine the scale and the degree of the problems that mandate ~14k people. Sure, 1000. Maybe 2500.

But 13900?
ChatGPT – AI Girlfriend / AI Companion
Does that challenge seem to come from Apple or Beeper? I hope Apple. That would largely allay my concern. I guess I should have given Apple more credit, because this “vulnerability” would likely have come to light much earlier otherwise, as they’ve always needed reliable means to establish ownership of a number — it’s just been automatic and invisible on the iPhone.
It seems that as far as warfare goes, this is a downright polite munition to explode. That being the case, I don’t think it’ll see much more use.
You know a company is pathetic and failing when it has to resort to silly publicity stunts to be talked about instead of just having a product people care about and use.
It's not GA being malicious in any abnormal way. Some Firefox users are blocking some GA functionality, so GA can't count some Firefox users.
How Azure is ensuring the future of GPUs is confidential
While that is definitely possible, the ENT who conducted my study was eager to tell me that I _didn't_ have it. He only recommended the procedure I'm getting after I mentioned using Breathe Right strips.
Sure, but that's not related. There's no concept of ownership with the library of a streaming service. I think that's well understood by the general public.
A pessimist is a well informed optimist
Any time I see humaneval comparisons I feel the need to point out that humaneval is only 164 questions. 66.5 vs. 65.9% is a difference between 109 and 108 solutions, a single question. Still interesting work though
This is already possible if your phones ship with the KVM kernel module, like on some Pixel devices, but reading the article suggests that KVM will become standard on all Android devices to enable this.

edit: according to this[1], yes, the pKVM functionality that's standard in Android exposes KVM functionality so that you can run VMs on Android.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/android-13-dp1-google-pixel-6...
I wouldn't mind paying Google, but there is one thing Google does that really infuriates me: they want both my personal data and my money.

This is absolute flagrant greediness that I won't tolerate. Either stop collecting my personal data completely OR take my money. You can't have both.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe in the slightest they don't collect my personal data when I'm paying them. I find it difficult to trust any of their promises due to their poor reputation.
> They are giving things away for free with ads attached to them.

The are not "giving things away": they have terms of service. The agreement is: pay for premium or watch the ads. (This way they can pay their bills (including employee salaries and the creators that make the content).)
It is normal these days to have login with buttons BEFORE the subscription info? I mean I wouldn't even try to download if I knew there was a monthly subscription fee. Thanks
Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization
> This just seems to me like the US gov doesn’t know what they want exactly

They know exactly what they want. Writing regulations to attain that without too many unintended consequences or negative impacts on the US is the difficult part.
Google isn't one thing. It's an organization made up of individuals, with salaries and bonuses, and stock grants, and other incentive structures. It's entirely possible that those individuals, narrowly in the pursuit of those things, could squander something like browser market share, in exchange for dollars per view on youtube, or some other metric defined in an OKR.
I've thought a bit about this issue and technology's potential role in fixing it. A generalized app that promises community isn't going to reach mass adoption outside of an extremely viral built-in mechanism. Mostly because the required user density is inevitably so high (also why most new dating apps fail). If you (or any other entrepreneur) is focused on tackling this issue, I'd do it incrementally, by fixing a clear problem in one very specific segment of your potential audience's life, and expanding from there.

Look at an website like https://www.lu.ma which is in some sense accomplishing a similar mission.
21 months. I probably started with "almost two years", and incompletely changed it. Corrected.
> apple's unique level of control allows it to produce a superior product with more consistency

Another way to read this:
Apple has a superior product because they perform anti-competitive practices and don't allow other companies to out-product them. And when they do, they buy them/shut them down before anyone is the wiser.
And, likewise, Youtube is free to send the bytes to only the people they want. If they don't want to serve video data to people who use adblocks, it's their right.

You are then free to try to work around it, the same way Youtube is trying to work around your adblocker.
OWASP Juice Shop: Hacking a Modern Web Application
Server is very helpful in many contexts, especially libraries and packages, and that don’t have associated commercial support obligation.

It has real drawbacks for on-premise software with commercial support obligations, and shouldn’t be used automatically just because it works well for libraries.
> I’ve seen so many studios go under, that I loved.

I've never experienced that in the last 20 years of purchasing digital media. You can't claim it's common.
Show HN: Marginalia Integrated Site Explorer
Been working on this redesign for a while, but several pieces fell in place last few days. Can't stop playing with this doodad :D
He's in Cleveland. Cleveland doesn't have traffic.[1] It has half the population it had in 1970.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/10dgg29/what_is_...
It's accelerated by globalism; a lot of people seem to want what is traditional to be something nice to look at but powerless (no need for participation), which results in things being stripped down, labeled and commodified.

There is no need to be sad. You have the ability to create and participate.
You aren't mistaken. I used to use Spotify for that purpose as well.

I had an account with Spotify premium, which allowed you to download playlists to listen to offline. On my computer, I would select a local song to add to a playlist, and on my phone I downloaded it to listen to.
No offense but nothing that Mozilla says about politics has had an effect on my experience with Firefox. Perhaps the Trillion dollar companies behind the phone duopoly, the Desktop OS with 80+% market share, and the search engine the world uses, leveraged their positions to advertise and promote their browsers to squeeze Firefox out of their 32% market share.

Like Linux, so what if Firefox only has a 5% market share? It does what I need to without having to deal with the nonsense of Google and Microsoft.

And frankly being “politically neutral” is itself a political stance. And Musk is far from impartial too. He too kowtows to dictators and bad faith politicians all the time. He takes strong explicit political positions that are not neutral. He doesn’t do the things that you would want him to do with this Firefox fork.
From Black to White: Dissecting Propaganda in Nuclear Emergencies
Two takeaways: approaching the issue conceptually and theoretically through propaganda (instead of m-/disinformation, etc.), and considering different source models for analyzing the dissemination. Both show that the "classical" literature still provides good analytical tools for research (and maybe even better ones than those provided in more recent research).
The problem Firefox has as far as I can tell is that the people in charge of the Mozilla organization would rather it be a social justice philanthropic foundation than a web browser and mail client maker and thus neglect their main product. And those they do have working on Firefox seem to want to remove features and play with UI.
Well exactly, they are outright adding an URL parameter and of course I'll remove it. Doesn't mean that they don't rely on less tech-inclined people to never even notice, and I am sure that's a core part of their strategy anyway.

As for the indistinguishable URLs, you have a solid point there but I'd think there would be a lot of outrage because people want those URLs to generate previews when pasted in pages, social media comments etc.

Not to mention all the false positives generated by people embedding such URLs.

So I think for now we're safe on that front, they would poison their own well if they went ahead with encoded URL identifiers, happily.

But again, I am very amused that they just outright added "?si=..." -- to me that reeks of desperation and I have to admit that I enjoy it when Google is struggling.
Data Viz DC is local to DC (with the occasional online event)[0] There are a lot of global meetup groups that are often affiliated with the Data Visualization Society or on meetup in your area.

[0] -https://www.meetup.com/Data-Visualization-DC/
I get the impression that a lot of the people making a stink over this are teens or people in their early 20s who have plenty of time and not a lot of disposable income. I can't help but think back to my days as a broke high school/college kid torrenting music and movies when I spent more time than I care to admit downloading and labeling mp3 files when everything I wanted was available on iTunes for a price.

Some people are in a place where time isn't their most valuable commodity.

I'm not really defending them because, personally, I think the whole thing is stupid. Youtube doesn't owe anyone anything. If you don't like their policy go somewhere else. I'm just saying that for some people it is worth their time.
Unlikely: You can make pretty good adblockers even with Manifest v3, and there are Chromium-based options with adblockers built in.