skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m hoping that, at some point, someone at YouTube will ask a User experience researcher to look into users’ motivation to block ads and realize that there are glaring issues with their model.

What has been happening to me is that, for the last decade or so, I only see ads in languages that I don’t speak or understand. I wrote about it—a lot. Nothing. A friend worked as the head of Analytics for that part of YouTube and he told me, “They don’t care.” I pointed out that it’s so common that Antonio Garcia Martinez wrote about it in his book _Chaos Monkeys_ (in 2012) and estimated that, at the time, it costs Facebook 4% of their ad revenue. I can confirm because I raised that point internally not once (in 2016 and it was fixed) but twice (the fix was overruled and I saw it again in 2020). In 2024, they are still wasting their time and energy, and 4% of Meta’s revenues isn’t chump change.

That’s not counting on pervasive ads for alcohol (illegal where I am), gambling (having an opt-out is mandatory in most jurisdictions), tax evading services (also illegal where I am), and specifically on Threads and Twitter, literal prostitution, and/or romance scams (I didn’t investigate which, tried to report, but was told that’s fine by their community guidelines).

I’m not a security researcher, and I refuse to investigate further than strictly necessary for my sanity (I expect deserved judgment from this community for that) however, in spite of that, I know ads are a constant vector for malware. Not much is done to address basic vectors, like not running any executable code in ads.

The only reason why enormous waste at scale, rampant illegal activity, and gaping security holes aren’t the only topics of conversation online is that everyone who can explain what’s happening has opted out. Forcing them back in isn’t the solution.
> Define Git for me

I'll pass.

> Git [...] manages diffs (or rather refs of diffs)

Wrong.

> why on earth is it an algebra about publishing?

It's not. I said operations on a repo comprise an algebra of publishing. As for why? Because that's what we're talking about: the stupid content tracker. This is not disputable.

> As I said before, imho it's [...] about tracking

You didn't say that. And you were less than humble about what you did say.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37853181 (336 comments)
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I also see very innocuous reasons for selecting those dates: for instance if you want to show what happened "since COVID hit us" this is indeed the fully correct choice.

But irrespective of the dates chosen, even your carefully selected counter-data shows a 30% increase in wealth for the richest in about 2 1/2 years. Even those of us dabbling in stocks must find this increase mind-boggling, also as it continues a seemingly indefinite trend. The rich are getting richer, whether it's by 30% or 100% in 2 years it is damaging to our societies and means millions more continue to suffer as resources are used for private enrichment at a level that does not even bring these rich anything beyond vanity value.
Hindsight is 20-20 but war is chaotic. The support for Ukraine has been half-assed at best. Strategically it was insane to let Russia build fortifications for six months uncontested.
“Your total money is decreasing” is not the same thing as “all your money is gone” - it’s leading in that direction, but if it takes 20 or 30 years to get there that’s usually enough for people to retire on.
> who cares

Most people spouting anti-capitalism rhetoric never even bothered to visit some of communism's success stories like Cuba or Venezuela, but how about living there?

> Capitalism, freedom, and democracy are all seperate concepts.

They come together. Capitalism gives you economic power and pulls you out of abject poverty. Together with free markets this gives you freedom. First freedom is to choose where you work and thus maximise your earning potential and free time. With free time you can educate yourself more, including about democracy.

I have seen this process happening in Eastern Europe with my own eyes when switching from communism, hunger and poverty to capitalism, freedom and eventual (relative) prosperity during the 90's.
They launched YouTube Premium Lite in a few specific countries, Denmark being one of them, it was exactly as you describe it, I used it for a while.

However, they've removed that plan again.
" to anyone that wants to buy a house it's obviously not the case in today's economy."

Land is very much a limited resource. But most of the problems today are due to the distribution and consumer wants. In much of the US, you could easily buy some land and put a trailer or small manufactured house on it (or buy forclosed, vacant, etc). The problem is the jobs, especially the good ones, are concentrated in a dozen or so major metro areas with higher population density. The. You have the preference of most people who want good public schools, yards, big fancy single family houses, etc. Most people don't want a small house, and due to the job distribution can't live in the less populated areas.
I'm convinced they are harmful.
3 months of which was ramp, another 2 weeks of which was holiday. She was given bad manager feedback, no chance to correct, and fired without proper explanation. To her, this was churn and burn, and I wouldn't be surprised if the other 40 people fired where similarly treated.
I know some people really work well when pair programming, but I find that I either slip into Student Mode or Teacher Mode when I try it. Either the other person knows the environment we're working in (architecture, codebase, etc) a lot better than I do, and I'm using the session to gather as much information as I can, or I know the environment better and so I'm explaining why I'm doing things.

If the other person and I are on par with the environment then we're more likely to have a discussion about what we're wanting to achieve and how best to go about it, but then one of us will go away and knock out a first cut for the other person to review.

I do wonder what differs between groups of people who can actually do pair programming and those that (like me) that can't.
>simply push their operations elsewhere, if not already.

This is true of any regulation, and its sort of a tired trope.

We don't make CP legal simply because its currently being pushed to regions with less regulation. Adding a higher barrier to entry and more difficult operations does reduce the amount out there, and while there would absolutely still be data brokers moving to deregulated regions, this imposes a significant cost and obstacle so that there would a much smaller market of availability and also a clear signal for companies wanting to do business with these brokers that they risk their own legitimate business by engaging with them.
I think our political response to this technology will be 20 years too late. After AI has annihilated people's lives through automating their livelihoods away, we'll come up with a half assed welfare system
Very cool, had not seen. I am that guy!
Hilarious! If beavers had a mythology and could pass it on to subsequent generations think of what a great story The Great Drop would be within this relocated colony.
There's a difference between user content, which could include injection attacks. And what might be called operator content (operator of the browser in this case, which could also be considered a user), sure I want to be protected against hostile injection, but I should be able to inject code into my own browser without any issue.
With bigger batteries.
Rural Australia has its own extremes, but does it get much severe weather?

I think blizzards, ice storms, tornados, and hurricanes are more common in North America and it's pretty tough to secure infrastructure against those with 100% uptime.
"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" by Andreas Malm, published by Verso Press in 2021, ISBN 1-839-76025-7

There's always the wealth-transfer option if you object to the ethics of property destruction!

The other options are even more homicidal/genocidal/apocalyptic for our civilization—you just aren't obligated to think about it today.
I honestly don't know if we can compare - is it a matter of extreme events, or being prepared for extreme events? You know there's that running joke in Romania about authorities being surprised that it snows in winter, although I agree the article shows something quite extreme. So, how "rarely" is "rarely", and is it worth preparing for it?
A number of grains can apparently follow many different curves: http://foodfont.com/rice/
Why is it not true? Sure stock value is more or less theoretical but this is not all stock. Any euro or dollar going towards Amazon or Tesla shareholders does not feed back into the local economy and cannot support roads, kindergartens and retirement homes.
I live in Portland and power to my house has been out since Saturday at 7am. As of Monday morning there were still >50k households without power.

Much of the power infrastructure here is above ground lines with significant tree coverage. There were over 3000 separate power outages , each that needs repair.

This is not an unexpected outcome, and it does favor the prepared. I have a 42kwh battery system plus 20kw of Solar as well as a generator so I have not been significantly affected. Comcast internet also went down , but I have a Starlink backup link.

If your power comes above ground and you live in a forest, you are going to lose power during a storm… and your house is not going to stay warm when it is 10 degrees F outside.
There's only value in them if whatever regulation thats governing them (GDPR, CCPA) is seen by the organization as enough of a punishment for non-compliance that they choose to respect opt-out rather than not. So, opting out of a sketchy company in Thailand? Probably does nothing. Opting out of a large, multi-million dollar broker in California? Probably worth it.
>> And that's what the ultra-wealthy do. They exercise power over other people.

Arguably, there is always SOMEONE doing this, even without ultra-wealth. Perhaps the argument could be made that the ultra-wealthy are the least malign manifestation of power-hungry sociopathic megalomania?

It's not like Stalin in the 30s or Mao in the 50s were using wealth to buy people, for example. But they sure as Hell led to really negative outcomes for the people they influenced. Far more negative than any damage that Musk/Bezos/Buffet/et al are doing now, IMO.
in the case of sqlite though, the technology is often used as a standalone file format. So it is very tempting to consider the ".sqlite" file to be the one containing all the data, and all the rest to be temporary files that don't matter much.

IMHO this (having a variable number of files containing the data, depending on your configuration) is the only real design quirks of this technology.
Historically speaking the things the rich think are worth spending money on haven’t lined up with what society thinks is best all that often.
Didn't he say he hates what came out as the released film, rather than the project itself?
They're all magical because they are small. 12 is a highly factorable number and 10 is not. Ancient Greece was not ignorant of this fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number

https://youtu.be/2JM2oImb9Qg
A couple of others:

https://www.youtube.com/@ayokoi

https://www.youtube.com/@AUNZRAILFAN
Surely we should expect that to decimate the B2C industry in general? Companies will be chasing fewer "dollars" after all...
In a few central european countries, Galaxus is a good alternative. I'm a little afraid to mention it here, because more users means more incentive for sellers to buy fake reviews, and currently one of the best parts about it is that I can trust the reviews. Many of them are well written, too.

But they do quite a few other things I like: If you choose that delivery is not urgent, they will wait for all articles to be available and send them as one package. You can pay a little extra to have the carbon footprint of your order offset. They have their own paid staff that answers questions on products in addition to the community. They pay their own writers to review products and write guides for selecting the correct product in a category, and they seem very genuine, it doesn't read like marketing BS.

So generally, I feel quite good about shopping there. And it seems their style fosters a community of buyers that care about buying the correct product for their needs, and wanting to inform others about their experience.
Sorry to hammer the point home, but I'm not saying "words can't have different meanings". I'm saying it's not useful to rename "meanings" as "social constructs".
Friendly reminder to stand up an Invidious instance or use one from this list: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
It's likely not in the tos, because why would it need to be?

If someone doesn't want you on their site, and you haven't paid, they have zero obligation to let you stay. tos aren't binding, they're just a list of things people think you should know.
I am curious if there will be a possibility to run an LLM locally on the rpi, as my current set up is on rpi.
> Majority of power lines in many countries are above ground in the air

> I am amazed at the crews that are rapidly dispatched for broken trees and downed wires and fix it pretty quickly.

While power lines above the air are more susceptible to disturbances, they are also FAR easier to deal with.
Also, what is winning? To the Kremlin, staying in power in Russia is more important than number of square feet gained in the Ukraine.

If continuing the war means staying in power at home, then the war continues.
In India, a mobile operator was/is second highest diesel buyer.
> It should be impossible to survive from saved money? Wouldn't that mean that everybody has to work until they die?

Come on, it depends on the duration, and it is long stretch from parent poster's thought to your "cannot live of saved money" for some time (though would claim, the states that have/had this guaranteed by the state had it more right anyway, basic survivability for retire time should not depend on savings in modern society, only luxury).

I mean the opposite, what you seem to want, that you can live indefinitely off a certain amount of saved money, we all know cannot be similarly true for everybody?
Yeah, in reality it's much worse than that.
We don’t know how old acheong08 is.
> Never understood why inequality is a problem.

Current wealth is very influential on both current opportunities and future wealth. Not just for the person, but for their offspring too.

Maybe you can't afford to live within 1-hour's commute of work.

Maybe you can't afford a car.

Maybe you can't afford private tuition if you fall behind in an important subject at school.

Maybe investing in the stock market is an activity forever out of reach for you.

Maybe you can't afford childcare, so you have to be a stay-at-home parent.

Maybe you can't afford to leave your spouse.

Maybe you need to stay employed, so you can't try to start your own business.

Maybe you can't get a deposit for a mortgage, so you're forever paying off someone richer than you's mortgage, through rent.

None of these things are luxury goods. Being poor is playing life on hard mode.
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Why doesn't Youtube follow the Netflix/Disney+ model? I'd gladly throw a few months of $$$ if I can watch some classic movies. I guess it's copyright?
With 5V @ 5A the heat isn't the only problem, you also have a relatively higher voltage drop to contend with. Which the raspberry is also known to be pretty sensitive to. I imagine that will need even thicker cables to work reliably than 20V@5A.
> "...and the PC will shut down every hour"

Likely to be as close to a production Windows environment as possible.
Actually running it requires at minimum 70G of diskspace (see bottom of page). Not even clear if that includes the 22GB download.
Have you not read Latour. Scientific facts such as the laws of physics are socially constructed.
So then we can get 2 or 3 jobs at once
Oh, interesting! Is there an historical explanation somewhere on how and why they adopted this system?
But also the 2GB and 4GB models? I've only seen the much more expensive 8GB ones here in Spain last time I looked.
Oxfam does PR but they are first and foremost a charity feeding and providing shelter and healthcare to millions around the world. Maybe the perspective they take is influenced.by their staff watching people suffer and die from preventable deaths each year.

I would love to hear someone sa similar thing about Coca Cola or Kellogg's "Oh they pump out all this propaganda".
Speed restrictors are often set to the maximum tyre speed minus a bit of margin.

eg. a "W" rated tyre is 270kmh max rated, so the manufacture might set the max vehicle speed to 250.

Tyres get exponentially more expensive as speed ratings go up.
Very similar to the left-right primitive.

https://docs.rs/left-right/latest/left_right/

My understanding is that this technique is older than the linked implementation (though independently rediscovered), but notably, this implementation was written to support a different high concurrency SQL database (for some definition of that) called Noria.
It’s mostly in there to scare people into not doing it. AFAIK they’ve never taken action on that.

Of course if you abuse it, you’re asking for trouble.
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This website indexes its decimal time on the "standard" 12-hour timezones though, which is fundamentally broken in my opinion.

Decimal time was designed before the introduction of fixed timezones, and was relative to Paris in Revolutionary France, so a "correct" decimal clock should either use local time (using the browser's geolocation API), Paris time, or could devise a timezone system based on decimal time.

But using the sexagesimal timezones means there will be 0.83 hour difference between Paris and London for example, which is neither practical or meaningful.

I have a strong opinion on this because I have implemented decimal time (and decimal calendar) a few times, but of course it's just my opinion. Nobody uses this for actual, current applications that actually require accuracy.
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The countries with the most comprehensive welfare states all have capitalist economies. Since communism destroys wealth (and lives) rather than create any, there doesn't end up being a lot to spread around.
Where I’m at, the DBAs shifted from pipes to temporary files. They said at the double-digit TB size, it would occasionally fail otherwise. This was with Postgres / barman / pigz, FWIW.

Never saw it myself, so I have no idea what the cause was.
OP hasn't said anything that justifies the complexity of raft.
I'm not familiar with its inner workings, but if there were n WAL files, I'd expect the overhead to be a function of n.
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I’ve been in tech for nearly 20 years and I’ve immersed myself into almost all the hyped up stuff, from 3D printing back in the day to AR/VR to crypto to AI.

AI is the only thing that feels like the real thing. It’s already being used in my work extensively, from coding to content generation.

If you’ve found yourself underwhelmed by AI, you’re either not using the latest and greatest stuff, or your problems are too complex for AI to solve - for now.
They're a legacy crutch due to the existing ICE infrastructure. Eventually clean-slate implementations will outcompete the massive waste of maintaining the infrastructure originally built for something that doesn't even make sense anymore.
Being immune to pathological psyops is not a "net negative" unless you are the person benefiting from people's lack of immunity.
It's the year of the Linux desktop, everyone!
That adds extra steps, I prefer (where possible) sticking with just the standard library for portability when working with other people’s horrendously broken systems that may not have outbound internet access.
The level of bias in that article is unreal and I feel hopeful it is more West Point analysts pushing propaganda than being ignorant. That was a lot of ink spilled trying to ignore why Russia might have felt the need to invade Ukraine before the two sentence grudging admission that Ukraine was arming up and aligning with Europe (cough the US) and maybe that was noticed by the Russians. Even though of course that wasn't really a factor, Blattman assures us.

Empathy is a useful offensive tool. He's not wrong that all the other factors were at play, but any analysis really has to admit that there would have to be a lot of fear of whether the US was going to stay peaceful as the noose kept tightening around Russia. Dismissing that without benefit of hindsight on what is going on in the Kremlin right now is foolish.
Inflation is laughing at your “means”.
If I can chose between a 1 minute commercial and a 2 minute pause, I'll have the pause, please.
Ask HN: What are your most common tasks and painpoints in spreadsheet software?
Through a hobby project I've ended up implementing a spreadsheet app with support for lots of file formats (csv, tsv, json, ndjson, sqlite). The formula engine uses JS (e.g. the formula `max($('A1:A9'))` equals to excel formula `MAX(A1:A9)`. I also have a CLI which is capable of executing those JS formulas on files without the GUI.

It has been fun to code but I don't know where to take this project (if anywhere). Turning it into a polished app requires a significant time investment still.

Therefore I was wondering if there's some specific painpoints in the spreadsheet world that I could fix and provide a solution to the world via this app, since I have a solid starting point with it.
8 people, these days, will get this excellent reference.
The article implies throughout that audiences are shrinking but the only mechanism for that is Apple Podcasts won't download episodes for a user who isn't listening anyway.
I actually loved it. I had never learned so much or shipped so quickly and reliably.

And then I moved teams... And realised it's all about the people and culture around you.

I probably wouldn't sign up for it again when joining a new company, because at its worst it's absolute torture, but I still believe that at its best there's nothing like it.
If anyone is curious whether I’m exaggerating, I had to check a vendor presentation for work. The video is on YouTube, and the first ad I saw reads:

> Beauties From Eastern Europe
> Chat and meet real Slavic women
> Sponsored
> love-stories

with a photo (presumably AI-generated) where to be completely honest, I could see that she was wearing red lacey underwear and had had a full bikini wax.

Do you know what kind of question I want to have from my boss when discussing a vendor? NOT WHY DOES GOOGLE THINK I WOULD FINANCIALLY SUPPORT LITERAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

So guess what I’m activating on my browser to NOT GET FIRED.
I didn't read the comment as "and this never happens anywhere", but "and when this happens, it's due to shit infrastructure, and you can and should demand better".

If you're in an environment that has strong enough winds to cause issues for power poles... you bury the fucking cables.
I don't know if the author uses the term intentionally, or as a kind of parody. The "social construct" term has been applied over and over to many phenomena in different branches of human knowledge, mostly to produce plenty of confusion resulting from "everything is everything" kind of situation.

The humanities are, probably, the most avid user of this term, and that's why the irony. I.e. because we couldn't find a decent definition for what "race", or "ethnicity", or "culture", or "country" etc. is, every such problematic term was labeled a "social construct".

So, I think you might be too harsh on the author. I doubt they use "social construct" completely unironically. What they are actually trying to say is that "there's more to branches than meets the eye, and it turns out that it's hard to define what a branch actually is".
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