skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The abstract states that it's a puzzle why people are irrationally optimistic. The puzzle is that one would expect this to be corrected through selective pressure, either evolutionarily, or wrt evolved cultural normative expectations.

Let me suggest a rather Neitzschean answer: it's very useful in a society to have the default assumption of the populace be that their prospects are better than they actually are. That's headroom.

If you haven't read him,

Neitzsche suggests that the promise of Christian afterlife, was in effect an extreme form of this: an irrational optimism about the future, which (very usefully) made the actuality of moment to moment, day by day, awfulness bearable, on the premise that it was a transient state.

He also noted that it was useful to associate sacrifice and penury with righteousness, and described the instrumental benefit to the 1% in allowing the masses to take pleasure in the thought that those enjoying a comfortable life in this world, would meet an (per Pascal, infinitely more expensive) bill in the next.

IMO this is "hard to un-see."
You can't eradicate malaria without breaking a few eggs.
I've never experienced in the last 20 years of purchasing digital media. You can't claim it's common. I pirate when I literally can't give anyone my money, or after something like this happens. Before is just trying to justify not compensating the creators. I’ve seen so many studios go under, that I loved. I think supporting them is important, or we’ll end up with media made for the masses, that do pay.

edit: there be pirates in these waters!

edit: please include the third and fourth sentence in your comprehension of the above, before responding.
Watching ads is like going to the bathroom without washing your hands after. It's simply bad hygiene, and future generations will hopefully look back with disgust at how putrid our current society is for allowing our minds to be polluted for thousandths of a penny.
A reliable way I found to confirm whether there is new anti-content blocker code released by Youtube is to visit uBlockOrigin's reddit sub[1]:

If there are well over 1,000 "here now" (near top right), this confirms the anti-content blocker code has been updated.

If well below 1,000 "here now", all is fine. At time of writing, it's fine.

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[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/
It is far worse being a smaller Wikipedia.

It’s both. There are political accounts that remove corruption scandals from local politicians and others who just harass you in general.

I made a page about a major scandal in Portugal and they used the Brazilian admins by telling them the scandal was too small to be in Wikipedia. It was in a major TV show in Portugal but the Brazilian admins almost deleted the page (which then blocks you from remaking it).
Did you get permission from Apple to connect to their servers? Google Play does not allow apps to connect to 3rd party APIs without consent.

The relevant policy can be found at: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

"We don’t allow apps that interfere with, disrupt, damage, or access in an unauthorized manner the user’s device, other devices or computers, servers, networks, application programming interfaces (APIs), or services, including but not limited to other apps on the device, any Google service, or an authorized carrier’s network."

From what I understand your app connects to APNS without permission from Apple.

I have personally had my Google Play Developer account banned for making an app that connected to a 3rd party service
I can appreciate your point, but there's a broad history of paid services introducing ads, ads getting longer and more abrasive, content people having paid for being disappeared at the whim of the network, algorithms dictating how people are introduced to content or pushed to keep using an app, etc. I don't have much trust that many services do the right thing for subscribers.

A few services I pay for (Spotify, Xero, etc) seem to lock a user in and then push up pricing while adding functionality I have no need for.

Not to mention the split of content across an increasing number of networks. Having to juggle 5-8 paid streaming services, to watch a few 90s films that feel like they should be on all of them, seems rough to me.
This is really a lazy take, but I’ll engage.

There’s a huge difference between no ads, and unskipable ads shat out every seven minutes, with another two at the start of every video.

Television isn’t even this bad.
The endless arms race.

Reminds me of the time I experimented with running Synology OS on a PC or pirated music - it became such a hassle waiting for new patches or fixing my MP3 collection that it was just easier to pay for a license to UnRaid and Spotify move on with my life.

The value my family gets out Youtube > Netflix atm so I have no qualms about paying.
"increase in the probability of realism (pessimism)"

Realism and pessimism being synonymous now. Perhaps this was written by an optimist.
Been doing it myself. 12 years and counting...
Based on other articles I am reading, it sounds like they can't discard them at all.

Does that mean you can just "sell" a lot of clothes to a recycler for $1? Or do they have to keep that ugly jacket on the shelf for decades if they have to? How is this enforceable?

Also, I'm all for durable/repairable clothes, but I'm not sure how much the average consumer is really into darning their own socks. If we want more durable clothes we are talking about less spandex and polyester and more thick and uncomfortable garments.
Youtube seems to me to be a bullshit test platform.

They will work around ad blockers and continue to pile on repetitive and banal adverts that have nothing to do with the user until they reach breaking point (where people flee and seek alternatives), and then they will relax their system to show marginally less bullshit.

The confusing part of this battle is the app users, who do not agree with the avalanche of adverts, don't want to pay to scroll shorts until their brains leak from their ears, and cannot kick the awful habit.
Faeland
This seems like an excellent tool for digital ID cards, banks, government authentication apps, maybe 2FA apps, cryptocurrency wallets, you name it. Anything that's more important than a calculator.

DRM and remote attestation already use a separate secure environment, so I don't see what would change by adding virtualisation.
I remember I heard about this technique being developed by a guy from my NZ university years before there was ever a commercial product called Shazam. Maybe I eve heard and interview with him on the radio. But I’ve never heard of him again..
1) fair enough. Should the negative empty comment I was referring to have been flagged for your attention? I appreciate the answer may very well be "no, you're wasting our time with the little stuff", and I'd agree.

2) I honestly don't know how to respond to people like this. Their purpose is to negate, even purposefully destroy. I've sat down with people I've worked with who are apathetic and hopeless and slowly taught them that they can make a difference but I can't do that over the Internet. And it fills me with despair watching them trash what good things we do have.

(BTW thank you for replying, I appreciate it)
Love the strategy.
This nonsense means I just use them in the browser. There is no functionality the apps would provide me that makes it worth fighting with their superstitious nonsense.
I feel like no one is really saying it in this discussion, but paying the $9 a month or whatever for YouTube Premium makes this whole thing a non-issue, and comes with perks like being able to download videos to your device (great for flying) and to play things in the background.
Yes, because pogroms have solely been targeted against practicing Jews.

There are a ton of Jews who don't follow kosher law, who aren't particularly religious, etc etc. Yet they would be targeted by anti-semites.
Sysadmins and “1 man it shops” are tough because most people in business dont give a shit until its broken. Its a classic “it works fine why do we pay you?” Or “its broken what do we pay you for anyways” situation 95% of the time, its lose lose. If you are sales you work hard and bring more money, engineer work hard and deliver product faster. Ops just works hard to keep things alive, its very under appreciated by business.

I say this in no way to be dismissive of ops, if anything i am negstive of many management types, especially in non tech companies, that under value their ops teams.

More sysadmins should do a strict 40 hour work week, ask for overtime and paid on call.
Who else except for YouTube pays independent creators? Who else gives a chance to people who are not born into the right connections and families? YouTube at least gives people a chance to reach an audience on their own merits, just as Google search does. YouTube does have large problems, but in the end it is a payment and distribution layer between video creators and their audience.
I have been paying for YouTube premium for years now. And they are spamming the shorts feature with almost no way to turn it off on mobile or ignore it anymore. They are pushing me to stop paying for premium. Are they this stupid.
This goes both ways though. If it's not theft to not watch the ads, it's not "anticompetitive" to not serve you the video if they think you're blocking ads. What "competition" are they even blocking? The competitors who are just waiting to jump in and do exascale video hosting for free, forever, to users who bring in no revenue?

Either accept the cat-and-mouse game, pay for YT premium, or stop using YouTube. Complaining that Google is somehow wronging you by not giving you the free video hosting you're entitled to is asinine.
I'm a major libertarian, and you have a great point. Apple should maintain their competitive advantage via technical means or let more cooks in the kitchen.
it’s funny you think google would just let that happen.
it is working now
> The lawsuit from her alleges she was not hired solely because of her activism

She didn't file a lawsuit. She filed a charge with the NLRB, the NLRB investigated for nearly for 21 months and has initiated a formal case (internal to the NLRB, not a lawsuit) against Mozilla.

> So from what I can see so far, there is no evidence beyond "I don't get a job I thought I should."

There is almost certainly evidence cited in the NLRB complaint, but that complaint is non-public and subject to redactions before being released under the FOIA, and AFAICT no one has FOIA'd and published even the redacted version. But "I don't have access to the document where any evidence would be discussed" may technically make "from what I can see, there is no evidence" correct, the "from what I can see" is doing a lot of work.
What value do you bring to YouTube, especially since YouTube does not make any money from you?
I've been the person doing that testing. Checking interoperability with a range of other devices is one way you can look for problems but when it comes to signing things off the standard is the final word. Do you know what happens to the devices that don't comply with statutory radio transmission standards? They don't get sold.

Typically the cost of fixing the problem and going through the whole certification process again from the start is significant. There are some direct financial costs but mostly the damage is increased time to market. That's a great incentive for the maker to get their act together and comply with the standards like everyone else as quickly as possible. If you screw up too many times your product might be obsolete before you're ever allowed to sell it.
Or you could just pay for YouTube Premium and never see another ad again. As a bonus, you get YouTube Music thrown in for free.
> Apple normalized turning consumer devices into fiefdoms we don't own

They did it insidiously too: by having the best ecosystem, privacy and (arguably) security for 2 or 3 decades straight.

If only their devices were less pleasant to use, out of the box, their fiefdom would have failed and there’d be no copycats.
Unfortunately I have no idea, or else I would've written a longer comment!
is it stealing if you mute or don't watch the ads without blocking them per se?
There's zero reason to think that people who are unwilling to sit through ads are also unwilling to pay for content. Many people pay content creators directly. They send donations. They buy merch. They even pay for useless shit like emojis just to show their support publicly.

People simply want to choose which creators they support, when, and how, which is entirely their right
"The government should pay people to make videos and then distribute them for free" in 3...2...1...
The same kind of folks who refused to accept the reality of MP3 and punted Ogg Vorbis.

Is it really worth $13.99 to die on - nope it is not.
Imagine valuing your time so little you waste it trying to block instead of just abstaining or using premium.

When Facebook started being user hostile I stopped using it wholesale.

Anti Google YouTube folks haven’t gotten the message yet.

If you make 25 an hour - the bottom decile wage for software engineering - and waste more than half an hour on this a month, idk what to say. That’s a minute a day. Chop chop.

By the way if you consider YouTube premium for family or friend group of 5 you’re paying 5 bucks a month. That means you have 12 minutes a month to waste, or about 24 seconds a day.

If you’re at a typical FANG company making entry salary you have about 5 seconds a day to waste.

Time is precious. Stop wasting it trying to fight ads when you’re capable of paying to get rid of them.
Ask HN: Do you need a cloud agnostic compute platform?
Is anyone interested in a platform that accepts your ad-hoc compute workloads (think overnight jobs, ETL etc.) and gets them completed on the cheapest public cloud spot resources available at the time?

What if you were offered a Python SDK that exposed cloud agnostic APIs that you can use to write a workload / step function and a platform that accepted such workloads and got them completed based on your choices such as ETA, max cost etc.?
I tried it with Korean, and it worked like a charm :)
You are right but I hope you are wrong. Also can add crypto the list.
They are unfortunately raising it to $14/mo. But I'll keep paying because I can't stand the YouTube ads, and it comes with YouTube Music so I don't need to pay for Spotify or some other music service.
From a Detour to Global Dominance (Covid)
You assume the competition needs to be commercial, but P2P video sharing has been around for a long time. Folks contribute bandwidth for altruistic reasons.
The rise of the JN.1 variant
This and spotify are the two monthly expenses I cannot live without. YT Premium is soooo worth it.

And yes, I realize I can play music via the same subscription but I have been using Spotify since before it existed outside Sweden and really enjoy it. I will not be leaving any time soon.
Sigh.

I guess Average Joes just can't figure out the complex ordering or Amazon or eBay. Because by your own examples of actually common, as in even remotely as common as MiniUSB, they're on there. You need a 25-pin serial cable? How long? What color? You need a SCSI terminator? You think those were even as remotely as common as MiniUSB? How many are on eBay right now? There's at least five pages of listings and I imagine there were many many times more MiniUSB cables out there.

And even then, that's fine. It's still not going to limit me from playing back my optical disks. They made optical drives with IDE, SATA, MiniUSB, micro USB, USB-B, eSATA, SCSI, etc. What are the odds all of these, along with all potential adapters, disappear?

Sigh.

> I've seen mulitple failures in my life, that was quite atypical.

I've seen that exact same kind of failure close to a dozen times in my life, mostly from a select few models iirc. Then again though my sample size of magnetic drives is probably >300 or so, a bit atypical id imagine. It's not an extremely rare thing to happen especially to low power 2.5" portable drives powered by USB.

And finally...

Sigh.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325911999375
The fact that some Go libraries use struct-based deserialization for processing ActivityPub is frankly an implementation issue. Your language choice should not make a difference in how easy you find it to implement something. go-fed could have been implemented 10x more easily using maps, without having to resort to reams of code generation to implement things that dynamic languages implement "trivially".

My feeling is that nobody has given a serious AP C2S client implementation (where the narrowing / "squishing" happens on the client side, as defined by the spec, and the server-side is agnostic) a serious effort. It increases client complexity, yes, and there needs to be extensions to the AP spec to make it work, but I think there are a lot of benefits to it that haven't yet been fully explored.

I don't think the future of ActivityPub is locked-down implementations like Go that have super strict type safety rules. That's just at odds with what real decentralized protocols have proven to work (HTML, HTTP, SMTP, MIME—all have "open ended" extension mechanisms). I think a pluggable client infrastructure that allows multiple different "types" of clients to share the same agnostic backend server is a much stronger path forward for future development.
I don't think the Open Source claim is accurate. From their repo "Magicoder models are trained on the synthetic data generated by gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 developed by OpenAI. Please pay attention to OpenAI's terms of use when using the models and the datasets."
No one is saying this because people who intentionally use ublock are doing it to not support youtube.
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Maybe proper releases, running on different machines, might be a better option most of the time.
The 90s was the height of OS patent lawsuits and crypto export restrictions.

Computing is more open then it ever has been.
And they respond in the most predictable way: enshittifying the experience more and more so that more users will employ adblockers or leave. Nobody needed adblockers when ads weren't abusive, it took years for them to become as such so that someone created the first adblocker. There is a line separating ads that are acceptable if not interesting when unobtrusive and carefully targeted, from the load of crap they shovel at our face. Unfortunately that's how the system is built: not just making profits but maximizing them, which can't scale indefinitely, and the ever growing advertising that ruins both platforms and content value is just another warning that this system is broken from its roots.
How come there’s a waitlist for the main product but not this one? I feel like it should be the other way around?
Did you guys pivoted Dropbase from CSV analytics to internal app builder? Interesting move. Internal.io just sunsetted. Maybe Dropbase has what it takes and finding its P/M fit.
I tried this with mod_dav_svn back in the day and never really managed to convince myself that commit-on-write is a good idea.
What is the point of this finding? How is swapping out optimistic financing for "cognitive ability" helping anyone?
Ahhh while I've never had specifically purchased media disappear like this, movies that I want to rewatch do often migrate around from streaming service to streaming service, which is fine if you subscribe to all of them but is really a hassle when you start watching something on Netflix and then when you come back to it a month later discover it's not available anymore.
I don't see how any of that is an excuse not to pay for youtube. If there is no ad-free version and no alternative products then I get blocking ads, I do too. But when I'm given an option to pay to remove ads, I generally pay.

For websites that give me a popup saying disable adblock or no content, I immediately hit the back button and let them rot in no-view hell.
No, that's not the textual or social contract for how advertising works. If a company starts giving away pizza but stacking tomes of ad flyers on top, it's ok to take those ads, dump them in the garbage, and eat the pizza. That's how advertising has worked on the internet for decades: "yes this content is free, pay no mind to these ads over here." Just cause you found "one weird trick" to get paid doesn't mean you own my time/attention.

Advertisers want more though, and inventory owners have drunk deep from the cash hose for so long that they want to normalize and enforce behavior that we the public have merely put-up-with till now. We as the audience are now being told that we OWE the pizza store our time and eyeballs; throwing away the ad flyer, why, that's STEALING! If you're a moral citizen, you'll sit there and read every line of copy, sing along with every jingle, watch every dancing mascot, otherwise you're a thief. We keep this up, and closing your eyes will soon be a crime.
Low latency (microsecond) communication frameworks
AIs, LLMs in patricular, go in one direction, just like humans usually do.

What other humans do to cicumvent that? Yes, they found a way to alternate direction, in case of London cockney, by using rhymes [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/09/guide-to-c...

If you need to fool your AI of choice, rhyme the concepts!

For a demo, ask your AI of choice about "Does basin of gravy likes satin and silk?" (decode yourself)

The article above is from 2014 and is hardly is used when I asked questions using Cockney parlance.

You are welcome. ;)
Unfortunately, it's always there, whether or not the URL includes site tracking.
Lay-offs aren't necessarily a sign of failure or bad strategy, so your logic does not compute.

Lay-offs happen for all sorts of reasons. It may be very reasonable to have X number of people one year, but changed market conditions, or financing rates, or whatever else mean it no longer does the next year.

People don't have magic crystal balls. But even if they did, it may still make sense to hire people while financing such a thing is cheap, and to lay those same people off when it isn't any more. Make hay while the sun shines, and all that.

You may not like the fact, but getting rid of poor performers makes businesses stronger and better. Rounds of lay-offs undeniably make such decisions easier to make and justify in large companies.

CEOs who do the same (or more) with fewer resources are generally rewarded. As a shareholder in the company you'd want them to do more with less and make you more value, right?

You might as well argue that any CEO who needs to hire more people has failed. That sounds obviously silly, but it's genuinely an almost equivalent argument.

All of this may not be pleasant for those involved and especially those who are losing their jobs, but that's capitalism for you. Big business doesn't tend to optimise for people's feelings - it cares more about the bottom line and being competitive.

In this case there is an obvious and pressing need. The streaming music scene may be a tremendously complex place to operate a business in, with all it's licensing and labels and countless jurisdictions and legal complexities, but both Apple and Google are sitting there ready to eat Spotify's lunch if they can't figure out profitability.
Logging in means random videos I check from various corners of the internet starts shaping the recommendation algo. Many of these are extremely deep and vicious traps (eg my most recent one was misery porn).

Youtube premium does not works for incognito mode. This requires careful, and manual curation of my "history" page.

No thank you.
They are giving things away for free with ads attached to them. People who don't like advertisements are removing them without looking at them. They are retaliating by trying to force them to look at the ads or to otherwise mess with them getting the free items in a timely manner in the first place. Well within their rights, I guess, but it still seems like they are throwing a tantrum to me.
"You can't compare two things just because their outcomes are the same."
I've been changing it to `&si=no+tracking` since first I saw it.