skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do see what you mean, and don't totally disagree, but to extend your "smartphone" metaphor I see your hypothetical as akin to someone looking at a like an old school Motorola Razr and saying "in the future these will be ubiquitous". Not necessarily wrong, but not exactly right either. The implementation of personalized assistants could take lots of different flavors, and the ultimate usage pattern which is settled (to me) seems likely to be outside any of our current models.
This reminds me of the East India Company: forcing China to buy opium even if it really harmed both its population and economy.

Indian may not be too happy with all the Marathas wars and colonization.

Anyway, is not a matter of which is the worse but of how can we get the best from both of them
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Over the last year or so various websites have mysteriously walled me off with 403s and 5xxs only when I use Firefox. I suspect that merely using a less popular browser is tripping some attempted security measure.
"Huh? What flooding?" asks the man comfortably lounging on a yacht, as millions of regular folks get swept away by the rushing water.
Intentions don't matter. Politics would be way less divisive if we realized this simple thing.
See for example the Xbox, where everything runs as a VM.
I use an extension to redirect youtube URLs to an invidious instance (https://yewtu.be/), it works okay.

I'm using this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
I've set it up to only redirect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\* so I can still use the regular YouTube UI for browsing videos. This invidious instance feels surprisingly snappy, perhaps even faster than the 'native' YouTube player.
Thanks for posting - Google needs to face serious competition and market penalties for the recent anti-user behavior. I feel that the products that matter at Google are controlled by an extremely distasteful group of people. Looting the users amassed years ago by real innovator engineers.

For example, the real implied free storage in GMail has implicitly been reduced by 80%. Their failure to reduce prices and in fact their price INCREASES are just pure greed on display.
don't get me started on how chocolate milk isn't a cocoa plant extract but misleadingly contains dairy ...

/s
Nothing/Sunbird lied about how their bridge worked, while Beeper has an open source matrix <-> imessage bridge implementation with docs.

Technically they are similar with both using macs in a server farm for their hosted offers.

[0] https://github.com/mautrix/imessage
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Just at a cursory glance, this looks pretty verbose and clunky. Existing React ecosystem styling solutions are many, so it’s not immediately evident to me when you would accept the trade offs introduced by this tool over any existing ones that seem much nicer to not only integrate, but also have to work with day to day.
Payments: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1293279751500598 (people and businesses)

Microblogging (Channels): https://faq.whatsapp.com/549900560675125

I think Status is sort of like Snapchat with ephemeral microblogging?

All the typical voice/video/group video/screen share stuff.
"This is a political problem..."

No. The US has always had political problems wrt surveillance; and many places have had much worse ones.

Now, all of us can anticipate a very different, all but inevitable, and very much worse political problem.

AI is a force multiplier and an accelerant.

As such it is a problem, an obvious one, and a very very big one. This is just one of many ways in which force multiplication and acceleration, so pursued, and so lauded, in so many domains, may work their magic on preexisting social and political evils. And give us brand new ones, per Larkin.
I could totally see RIAA shutting it down or ASCAP issuing a licensing invoice to stop a train on its tracks just because that's how they think
I haven't seen an ad on Youtube for as long as adblock/ublock existed.
Nothing has changed yet. Firefox/ubuntu and firefox/android. Logged in or logged off - no difference.
> I wouldn't be surprised if she has misrepresented the case to the NLRB in order to get them to run with it,

The NLRB complaint was filed in February, 2022. The NLRB completed its investigation and decided to file charges in November, 2023.

Presumably, Mozilla had an opportunity to show this "misrepresentation" to the NLRB during the intervening 21 months.

[0] While there is no complainant name, this seems to be the case: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-290382
What I did in my case was setup stream replication to send over the Postgres WAL to another service that would update a ClickHouse cluster. Essentially, every time the WAL file is closed, a batch of all the SQL commands that were committed are sent over the wire.

It might be easier to find some "change data capture" product that will do that for you though (like Airbyte). I can't give any recommendations here, however.
And you think that validates it? Not all processes are created equally, and if the process is too much trouble, you won't get contributions.

If Goodwill didn't have a dock where I could drop things off and an employee to put it where it needs to be, I wouldn't donate.

You incentivize contribution by lowering the barriers to it.
No, and while the nuances are pretty deep, it basically boils down to the fact that this behavior is necessary for the survival of any complex system.
devilish advocate here.

One such article - small problem.

But what if such low-view, and now outdated/vandalized articles start approaching 50% of wikipedia content? That might reflect badly on credibility of whole wiki.

It is nontrivial problem of striking balance between content quality level vs content quantity/contributor freedom.

(Open source software projects deal with same problem, just not on such scale)
The only thing I steal when I use an ad blocker is my lifetime back
How much do comparable companies spend on management, administration, and marketing?
what i’m reading from these comments: we will do anything, including leaving youtube, but for sure we will not be either watching ads or paying for content.
I don't understand this viewpoint. There are plenty of us who find YouTube useful and willing to pay for the service. I'm not as sure as you are that an exodus will happen.
> How exciting!

work.ing

£102,986.75
£102,986.75/yr when you renew

A steal.
I hate having to give everything a name like people do in react native stylesheets. Give me an inline performant style prop any day
Who Got a Lot Richer and Who Didn't During the Pandemic
> How so? They can do it because we taught them, there is no magic.

Yeah, no. I mean, we can’t introspect the system to see how it actually does programming at any useful level of abstraction. “Because we taught them” is about as useful a statement as “because its genetic parents were that way”.

No, of course it’s not magic. But that doesn’t mean we understand it at a useful level.
There is no theft when I use youtube because I was never going to click on ads in the first place.

The value of me watching ads is absolutely zero. (From my point of view in fact, it's negative).
Doesn’t this already have precedent? Nintendo used to check for the existence of their logo in cartridges before loading them so that anybody who wanted to create an unauthorised cartridge for a Nintendo system would have to reproduce their logo and infringe on their copyright. I’m pretty sure the court ruled that reproducing the logo for the purpose of interoperability was fair use.
I haven't had issues with Chrome, either. That is not what this site is about. It is simply showing if the version of the script loaded on YouTube is the same version of the script uBlock's filters are designed to target. Any issues here affect all browsers equally.
Bad metaphor. No one is stealing anything from YouTube. Meanwhile a tantrum is a display of socially unacceptable behavior because you don’t like something.

Very much a tantrum.
That's quite the leap you made there to get dramatic about LLMs takin' our jerbs. It seems to be a trend...

Support is not likely it, it's not the type of app that requires a lot of human support in the first place, tbh, I'd be surprised if you can even talk to a live person. Even if it was support, those would probably be the lowest-paid employees and not help much in cost cutting.
Not sure what a LLM would even provide for Spotify support that a static FAQ couldn't.
I watched Naked City (1948) the other night and there's a scene with a milkman delivering from a horse drawn carriage. I wondered, how long did horse-drawn carriages continue to be used in NYC (not including the carriage rides in Central Park)? Which led me to this lovely article.

I submitted it a day or two ago; I guess the HN mods thought it worthy of the second chance pool[1]. Thank you HN mods! :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
OK but now isn't the ask for a competitor who is okay with having like no ad revenue?
I don’t think anything changed in the Mission on account of APEC.
How would competition even work? How could any company succeed proving a product to a user base that doesn’t watch ads and doesn’t pay for the service?

Would be like proving an alternative to cater to shoplifters.
Reverse engineered iMessage for Android app
The changes to Chrome do not happen until this summer. Until then uBlock Origin is effectively equal on both browsers.
There was someone in my high school who had the stereotypical voice. One of his friends, who'd known him since they were little, mentioned that he had talked like that his whole life.
This has nothing to do with the iMessage protocol itself. Invisible messages looks like a bug, as it depends on the current UI and rendering repercussions. May be if you file a bug on them they may respond.
> Funded by non-profit with too much funding.

Right. The Wikimedia Foundation keeps trying other projects. They think they are supposed to grow. This leads to increasingly obnoxious demands for more contributions. "By 2022, it employed around 700 staff and contractors, with annual revenues of $155 million, annual expenses of $146 million, net assets of $240 million and a growing endowment, which surpassed $100 million in June 2021."

It's the disease of universities - too many administrators.
I’d also be willing to pay for YouTube, if it ever splits from Google.

Definitely not giving Google any money.
TIL that the Black Death killed more than 1/4 of the human race. That’s just unbelievable.
Or better yet, if they want to argue that piracy is theft, how about they instead consider that charging someone money for something and then taking that something away from them is one hundred times more a theft than piracy will ever be.
To me it seems more like the typescript-ification of CSS which is a good thing if you’re into static types!
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When the basics become harder and harder to attain despite increasing abundance, people tend to either give up or revolt.
I’ll also chime in and confirm I get no ads with Firefox. My understanding is that uBlock Origin is weaker on Chrome so there’s no reason to use it if you’re serious about ad-blocking.
I dunno. Small arms + blankets + petrol beating out an occupying force is pretty common. Hamas is building rockets out of drain pipes. What really matters is the morale to actually pull together and fight which is completely non existent in the western world. We need to become a lot less comfortable before anyone will do anything. Especially "British" "People".
You should definitely put that on your CV because it is incredibly important information.
They don't fully use Elo for matchmaking. There's a league system, and you get matched with players in your league. The ranks reset frequently, too.

Edit - I did the math. From the data on the MTG Elo Project, top Magic players have about a 70-75% game win percentage over an average tournament player. They have the top player at ~2300 Elo with the average being around 1500 (in matches), and have scaled the Elo system so that a 200 point gap is a 60% chance to win a best-of-three match (this is NOT the same as Chess Elo scoring).
Well it’s up to the users to pick something else if they don’t like it. Why don’t we all use Vimeo for example?
They are an ad company, their plan was to lure and lock users. They are not the only company using that tactic. Any subscription based service is the same way, or worse because you are tied to the content by paying.

For example PS plus. You spend time in the service and then your subscription runs out and you can’t access or even fully use games you paid for.

What makes google different? Why do users endure the pain?
We agree that defining such terms involves trade-offs yet the perfect should not be the enemy of the better.
I mean as far as production is concerned radioactive decay is the only energy source. The rest is latent heat and friction+tidal forces. The earth has been cooling and slowing rotation every since the theia impact.
> You can't start with a statement about clinical trials not being perfectly reproducible and that's fine, then say this.

Nobody said that to begin with. Re-read their comment.

> If people are lying about an extremely important part of their product [...]

Nobody is alleging that anyone is lying. It's just that we cannot be sure what the research actually refers to, because of the nature of a proprietary/closed model.

> This is a little silly because these models are available extremely easily and at a pay-as-you-go pricing.

What does this have to do with the parent comment? I don't think it's appropriate to call anyone here silly, just because you don't like their comment and don't have good counter arguments.
Arithmetic teaches systematic manipulation of abstract ideas which is the foundation for programming. It's not that arithmetic is the only thing that could be taught. I could think of many formal systems we could start with like lambda calculus.

However arithmetic has the advantage of being immediately obviously useful, and also helps build intuition for other things.

Also, the question is... Would people use post algebra math more if they knew it? I use calculus regularly when I'm building things for my kids. But I've noticed most people have stopped building things by hand anyway and instead rely on mass manufacture
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Let's permanently dispense with this weird notion that blocking ads is theft. When you're listening to the radio, it's not theft to change the station when ads come up. When you're watching TV, it's not theft to mute the TV and get a drink when ads come up. Youtube has zero moral expectation that people will actually watch the ads it serves. They're giving a product away for free, and people are consuming it for free; end of story.
My understanding is that they are re-using a device serial number but they imply that changing this means a major change to how iMessage works so they banking on Apple inertia.

Charging $2 before the horse has bolted seems a bit ... would have preferred that Apple was involved.
Will this allow running linux VMs on any Android device ?
Via something like nestbox: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74333551 ?
A lot of videos on Youtube aren't embeddable.
The harm i see is what i describe under "moreover" - inconsistency with respect to copying.

In your linter example, i think the most normal solution would be to add /usr/local/<linter-name>/bin to your PATH. Your solution, of a script which just does exec /usr/local/<linter-name>/bin/<linter-name> "$@", also seems fine to me - quite simple, and less likely to cause weird behaviour than a symlink.

I'm not sure what point you're making at the end. We agree that a script not working when invoked from anywhere is bad UX, because people expect to be able to do that. I think that scripts not working through a symlink is not bad UX, because people can't expect to be able to do that, because in many cases that doesn't work!
Regulation needed
C’mon, there is a pretty big difference between this and sumptuary law, don’t try to equate them. A sumptuary law is on the consumer and this is on the producer.
Commodore is probably the closest analog to Apple because they tried to follow up the 64 with the Amiga. It didn’t work out for them (hell, it barely worked out for Apple) but some people absolutely loved the Amiga.

Do you think in a world without Apple, the founders of these companies would have ended up doing what Steve Jobs ended up doing? If so, what stopped them?
0 runtime is the argument over emotion (and therefore MUI right now)
Very misleading.

It downloads a text file maintained by someone at a repository that lists all uBO YouTube Fixes, and compare it to the latest YouTube JS files. Not all JS updates contain anti-adblock codes, so what this website shows is pretty misleading.
But the people spending time making the content at a quality that’s not a shaky 320p video are not going to those because they rather make money via ads. So the users won’t leave
Most of the people who upload content to YouTube are doing it because of the ads. So many people have managed to become full-time YouTubers because of the revenue sharing from ads. And these people upload the content that we all enjoy watching. It's a virtuous cycle that I don't think can be replicated with PeerTube.
>a utopia by any reasonable historical standard

So... right, exactly what he said.
The "complaining about identity politics" is part of the core reason for creating a non-politicised fork which can take over where Firefox left at a ~32% market share, i.e. it can attempt to regain part of the market lost to Chrome and its many descendants. The reason for Musk to get involved (apart from funding) is to make sure the project remains politically neutral as that would be one of selling points when compared to the rest of the field. It would mean that this fork - let's call it Techiya, Hebrew for 'resurrection' and thus a fitting name for this project - explicitly stays out of the political quagmire which has swallowed Mozilla and deeply affects the way companies like Google (Chrome), Microsoft (Edge) and Apple (Safari) (re)act. It would focus on creating a competitive browser which can host a fully functional content blocker, which does not send oodles of tracking information to some mothership, which does not waste time promoting things like "racial justice" [1] but focuses on its core task of developing a solid alternative to the current Blink/Webkit-based almost-monoculture. Leave the politicking to others, not everything needs to be politicised.

Librewolf and Palemoon and Waterfox and the Tor Browser and the other Firefox forks do not have enough impact to survive by themselves without Firefox itself. They are projects focused on specific aspects - privacy, XPCOM/XUL extensions, plugins etc. If Firefox goes down so do these projects - maybe apart from Palemoon but that is only because that project already depends on a lot of older code which is no longer supported by Mozilla to enable it to run pre-Quantum extensions and plugins. What I'm philosophising about is a project which can take over where Mozilla left off, focused on creating and maintaining a viable alternative to the current Blink/WebKit hegemony and intent on gaining a sizeable market share.

[1 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozilla-racia...
Simply find an alternative model. Billboards still exist even though people that don't speak the language they're written in might see them. You can't force people to view things they don't want to, that's a torture technique.
I only have what the article says to go off of, and the article says both concerns were in play.
Self-replication is only dangerous because it creates more physical "stuff" to cause harm, exponentially fast. But the exponential is the dangerous part, not the replication. A software program replicating itself might seem dangerous until you realize that it's limited by the hardware of the single machine it runs on, so you can only really call it one total "organism." Otherwise a fork bomb would have already killed the human race.
Came here precisely to comment this. YouTube is hustling to catch-up to TikTok features is ways large ("Shorts") and small (unique share links).
> Is there any evidence that the reason Mozilla didn’t hire her was due to her agitation at Apple?

The NLRB investigation before filing the case was 21 months from the complaint, presumably they found some evidence that made them decide to move forward in that time.

The complaint is not publicly available and is flagged as potentially requiring redactions before being released under the FOIA, but you are free to request it if you are concerned with getting an idea (potentially incomplete, though) of what the government's basis for moving forward is.
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It's not going to be illegal or unenforceable based on existing jurisprudence though. You'd need legislative action from congress.
That of course being the point of an encyclopedia; you're generally not supposed to cite it, right? It's a guide to other sources.
bandwidth and hosting have associated costs. unlike piracy, which is just creating copies, this is using Google’s electricity to provide you a service without giving anything in return.
Somebody should make a coomer meme but with AI “all you need” papers
I'm kind of surprised that YouTube does this in a way that is visible and removable instead of using fully unique ids through a redirect service.
Interesting that they call Chandrayaan-3 a shuttle instead of a rocket. At least the AI in the screenshot got it right...
Hot take: consumers will do nothing and this will keep getting worse and worse.

I saw a headline today that more car brands are moving forward with electronic paywalls for features.

The dream of open computing from the 90's and 00's era of open web and P2P is dead. That was a glorious but brief moment that greed has all but overtaken.

Apple normalized turning consumer devices into fiefdoms we don't own. The manufacturer can completely control the post-sales experience.
It would be cool to add a map of the hops.
It is a tantrum in a way that a store with a lot of cash, that was giving out free clothes until all other clothes went bankrupt, and then raised the prices and hired a security guard, and the security guard could not stop all those people that were used to get the stuff free kind of tantrum!
It doesn't have much to do with your public identity, but rather with how experts in a field tend to write about that field; they make assumptions that are universally accepted among practitioners, but aren't obvious to lay readers, and Wikipedia tends to challenge those assumptions.

I guess hiding your identity is a way to cite your own stuff there.
Beeper's clients never were open source. They were based on Apache 2 licensed Element. The new client won't be open source either, given how they don't even open source their server part (contrary to their matrix bridges).
I agree 100% with this. Having both video and text is ideal, but if it has to be one or the other, text is much better.
Is forcefully deleting files you bought on your machine also theft? Practically Sony is taking your property against your will.