skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, hype means great hopes of revolutionizing, or at least materially changing the rules of the game. As opposed to a marginal improvement.

We're debating how AI will sweep away whole professions, put people out of jobs and increase inequality. It's totally possible. But I wonder how other things fared in the past, where we thought they will definitely change the world. In other words, is such "hype" a meaningful signal.

You can call it something else, essentially it comes down to great expectation of revolutionary impact.
Eyeballs are auctioned to the highest bidder in real time, as I understand it. And don't forget geo and language ad targeting constraints, no point showing American ads to viewers in Germany, or vice versa.

Even if you splice on a geo & language basis, there are two basic kinds of interest-based audience targeting: content and users.

Putting ads on topic-specific content is OK for brand advertising, but you got to watch out for saturation - you're wasting money if you show the same ads over and over again to the same person. So you want to stop showing a brand ad if someone has seen it too many times already.

Showing ads based on user interests has better performance for action campaigns. It relies on some way of tracking the user and / or their interests, but it leads to better conversion as part of a marketing / sales funnel. So you need to select the ad dynamically based on the interests of the user.

All this adds up to making it hard to avoid dynamically choosing the ads to show. I think it's still probably possible with careful I/O to do the media stream concatenation server-side, and I expect it's probably the direction things will eventually go, as long as latency etc. works out.
> if you want to haul enough groceries to feed a family for more than one or two meals, or if you want to transport other people who may be too old or young

This is a "once a week" situation. As time goes on it will become increasingly hard to justify the cost of something you use once a week, especially when other options (groceries delivery) are cheaper and more convenient.

P.S. Scooters are popular because they don't need skill to ride, despite being worse in other respects. As time goes on this, too, will change; learning to ride some sort of PEV will be normal.
Dupe:

AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997636 - Jan 2024 (102 comments)
I had an old fire tablet that I used exclusively for tachiyomi for years with thousands of webtoons and managa and the newer versions stopped working on it so I effectively did the same but I just paid for a proper scraping service instead of rolling my own useragent/cloudflare/bot evader solution and use my myanimelist and a json file to pull latest stuff couple times a day and send a telegram message so I know what I can read at nights. All this sits on a private $7 droplet and a dead simple flutter shell to list and set the reading type and order (ltr, single scroll) etc... love it.
I use ubo, firefox, ddg and a pi-hole, and haven't noticed any issues with youtube.

However I tend to do youtube while signed in, and I also consume youtube on my phone, perhaps they are happy they push enough adverts to my when I use a phone that they ignore the browser use.
> What will be the effect?

You clicked :)
War needs funding. And it's no coincidence that the US is deep in the middle of all the current ongoing wars.
Agree. I think education is part of the answer, I don't know what the rest of the answer is unfortunately. I think its too easy to just point at the rich and blame them but I don't know if that is a productive solution.
Unlikely. The "loophole" GCP patched was that you can use GCS to transfer data between regions on the same continent for free. This is already non-free on AWS. What OP mentioned is that transferring data between availability zones *in the same region* also costs $0.02 per GB and can be worked around.
Yeah, this isn't Linux. Linux is better than this these days.
What you describe has something to do with this: Being poor is expensive.

Everyone who struggled financially at some point in their time intuitively knows how much harder it is to make (and keep) money if you're poor. Saving your first 10 bucks is _way_ harder than saving your first 100 bucks so to speak.

And this is even more true if you're losing money / are behind. Paying off a dollar of debt is monumentally harder than saving a dollar. And it is much more taxing and stressful to boot. If you don't pay off that dollar, someone (perhaps the police even) will come knocking.

This is one of the reasons why I believe a society should collectively provide the basics (like a family does) for everyone as long as that's possible. Even completely ignoring the ethical concerns.

We would progress much faster if nobody had to worry about fundamental issues like shelter, food, basic transportation, education and so on. Imagine all the Einsteins and Picassos we are missing out on, because they struggle to pay their rent and can't afford education. Even ignoring the geniuses, think of all the little compounding things that would happen. All the craftspeople who don't have time to tinker. All the nurses who don't have time (and energy) for bedside manners etc.

A lot of things we produce (and put a lot of energy into) would be less necessary, because they didn't have to fight the symptoms of a broken system.
YouTube has been running completely terrible for me the last couple days and I pay for YouTube premium. Sooo much buffering and I have gigabit. Everything else is working just fine.

I half wonder if they're misapplying whatever filter they have.
I do not think your comparison is valid. Unlike a knife, a car can implement a max speed limit without impacting its usefulness.
It most certainly has not been bred out of us. Take away food for about a month or so and see how quickly we return to this animalistic nature.

There is no "hanging the rich" because their is no need to. The rich are getting richer, and the gap is increasing. However, the poor and middle are continuously increasing as well (Important: Assuming we stay on track after the COVID dip), there is no need to eat the rich so it doesn't happen.
If you have an older machine that doesn't support win11, could you get this and run it in Hyper-V on win10 as your main machine?
I think that's a fair correction - and its true that the Ukraine war has shattered a lot of assumption about western involvement in asymmetric conflict.
I think that depends on the setting of PRAGMA synchronous.

I'm not an expert on this, but i think the idea is to separate durability from db corruption. (When synchronous = normal instead of full) you can potentially lose (comitted) data in WAL mode if a power failure happens at just the right moment, however your database won't be corrupt. No data will be half written. Each transaction will either be fully there or fully missing.

https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous
> As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing.

Why stop at “escape”?
YouTube is still working fine for me with Firefox and uBlock Origin.
can you point to specific examples of these laws?

Maybe it's a hard thing to search for, but I mostly just found FTC guidelines which state "Your Ads Must Be Truthful and Accurate" but I can't find any more details. I think there's stuff like you can't misrepresent the dimensions of something or the color but I doubt there would be laws that don't effect photoshop but would apply to AI.
Weren't smartphones seen as a gimmick for a long time? As in, why would you merge the iPod with a phone.

Clearly they delivered, I don't clearly remember a common conviction that they will change the world.
The current economic system would collapse if people started saving their money significantly more. Money isn't a resource like canned food or barrels of oil that can be stored to prepare for the future. You can't eat money.

Money is a claim for resources that mostly don't yet even exist. To make use of money somebody has to do the labor and extract the resources to produce something useful.
Can you point to the clause in YouTube's TOS that state this? I've heard people claim this before, but a search in https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms for "block" shows nothing.
When they do you just cancel. That's what I've done with amazon, and my weekly amazon purchases have dropped through the floor.
Yeah, Oxfam have been pushing a bunch of similar misleading claims using the same trick, such as arguing that people across the world lost vast amounts of pay during the pandemic even as the rich got richer by a vast amount and insinuating this was money that was somehow redistributed from one group to the other. Of course, this is just using the fact that share prices anticipate future changes in the economy to measure from close to the bottom of the pandemic-induced drop, which happened right around when the pandemic was first declared and it was just starting to affect people, and there is no actual mechanism by which money could be transferred in such a fashion. The money lost in pay was essentially destroyed; people didn't work, didn't produce things, and the real global economy of stuff available to purchase shrunk by if anything much more than that (due to furlough, unemployment, inputs other than labour, etc). The increase in wealth of the super-rich similarly was not transferred from anywhere, it was just the valuation of things they already owned going up due to the price shares were trading at increasing. This didn't mean an equal sum of money was somehow transferred into the stock market to do this.
Unlike water, we can decide how fast a car ca go.
No. The answer isn't just individual action. Despite what the lolbertarians say, technology can and should be regulated. This is definitely one of those spaces that need more regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

We've run this libertarian nonsense to its logical conclusion, and your solution is to get browbeaten and blackmailed into aggregating your PII into one database without any rules and with the hope that you'll have "agency"? I'm sure such a company would be very responsive to your unregulated requests for PII deletion.

Let's not be naive here, this is exactly the kind of space where you need government regulation to start making it harder to do these kinds of activity.
How do you recharge your batteries?
This reminds me of HDF5, which, even thought the data is written/appended in row format, there is an API to chunk the data, organize into columns, compress based upon column regularities, and write to storage.

On reading the reverse happens.

This becomes the compute/space conundrum: space is reduced with column based regularity, but time is increased due to the extra overhead of columnar compression.
Yup, my major beef with XP back in the day was in its arrogance: This is the way to do things, and if you don't do it entirely this way, you're not extreme programming! (that was literally in the manifesto)

But the article highlights the good points of agile, and I agree with them:

- Iterative development (smaller steps with faster feedback)

- Unit tests (and building with unit tests in mind)

- Code Refactoring (which you can do confidently when you have unit tests)

The rest of XP/Agile is not necessary, and in some cases even detrimental. YMMV
I don't understand why you would use tail recursive functions for fibonacci ever and hence its relevance for dynamic programming. It can be solved with a simple equation with one input parameter. Solution left to OP as an exercise.
So the beavers were getting too stressed out when transported on horseback. To solve this, they decided to drop them out of airplanes with parachutes.

I don't like horseback riding either, but I would flip my beaver-lid if I was dropped out of an airplane.

There must be more background to this story.
I think browsers should make a distinction between server-provided scripts and local-user-initiated scripts. From what I can tell, CSP should only apply to server-provided scripts. They are a way for the server to restrict the capabilities of its own scripts. “I only require resources from these domains. If you hear otherwise, it wasn’t from me.”

For local-user-initiated scripts, this restriction is unnecessary. The server has limited what scripts it itself can run, but that shouldn’t impact what scripts the user can run.
My comment from last week is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38920297
Neat to learn about that. Still, it’s a new feature with Windows 10 and requires that the host OS be a Pro or Enterprise edition of Windows 10 or 11 (and for Enterprise it also cares about the licensing). Hardware requirements also exist.

The downloadable VMs don’t even require that your host OS be Windows or that you already have a Windows license, and they’ve been offered since long before Windows Sandbox existed.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38987489
The whole concept of the "American Dream" in the states, and the one and only selling point of the tories in the UK, is to make that 99.5% think they could one day be in the 0.5%. They won't of course, but the fact that they think it could happen means they support low taxes for the rich in case they ever become rich.
Welp, I don't go on YouTube when I'm strapped for time anyway :)
You should probably stop reading whatever it is you're reading. Your thought process on this matter is bordering on zealotry. You just suggested destroying infrastructure, which you acknowledge will starve thousands of people to prevent climate change. When questioned on that, your response is that they will die anyway.
I don't think "host yourself" in this instance would've helped. I think AWS in this instance is operating at a loss. Author found a loophole in AWS pricing and that's why it's so cheap. Doing it on their own would've been more expensive.

Now as to why the AWS pricing the way it is... we may only guess, but likely to promote one service over the other.
Of course, and with a 60% pay, because why should be the employee the one who gonna reap em profits.
>As conflicts ignite around the world, dragging on in Ukraine while sparking off in the Middle East, venture capital is banking on defense.

This is a weird attack on VC.

War is inevitable. It's a Yin Yang thing. War is never meant to be won, but to be perpetual. You want to end the evils of war sooner then you can ever win it. That the spectrum of humanity means people will always be in want leading to war.

In my scifi book, I imagined a scenario where my main character has exclusive access to alien technology and can impose his will on Earth. He doesnt wish to be emperor but everyone is worried that he plans to be that. Instead he figures out the greatest hoax ever. He comes in, pretends to be the new emperor and says that using alien tech he will start immediately killing any and all people who commit violence.

Then he start streaming his progress. But its all holograms and fake names, his alien tech lasers are only doing nothing damage starting fires all over the world. But world peace happens for the first time.

But then he backs off quietly and world peace persists long enough in the fear of his alien tech. People start talking out their problems.

This is probably what it would take to solve the problem of war.
see. in the case of fujitsu for example. if i were fujitsu and in bed with the government, i would say, the work abc would cost $10 but how about you say the estimated project cost would be around $100 and only we would bid at $90. i (fujitsu) would give you $30 for your troubles in either cash or in kind, by giving you or your family members or their busiensses some favour in similar kind (like purchasing unnecessary stuff from them at inflated prices) and this kind of thing is very difficult to investigate.
A bit off topic, but I was interested in Nvidia Shield but I have an (5.1) amplifier hooked on my TV with Optical Cable. As I understood, Shield doesn't have any Optical out. Is it possible to connect Shield to TV and let TV (LG with WebOS) pass audio through optical to the amplifier?

My amplifier is quite old, so it doesn't have HDMI in or something.
At least AWS is fully aware how premium their normal data transfer is and that one might want to optimise those costs.
Archive Footage: https://youtu.be/rrOE-m7sX9E
thanks, youtube, for introducing enough friction to break my habit of watching youtube.
Top universities also discriminate against East Asians in the admissions process because of their high performance. Basically, DEI is discrimination against high performing races (except Jews, perhaps).
Why can’t YouTube just decide to host all the ads exactly like actual videos be hosted, making it impossible to block the domains that ads seem to come from?
We do it in other industries all the time, petroleum fuels content is regulated that way for compatibility.

We have a ‘electrical plugs act’, ‘fire hydrant act’, ‘railway standards act’, ‘air traffic control act’, ‘water mains act’, etc.
Do you think you’re doing Java correctly now?

Do you have reason to believe you won’t be looking back in 10 years’ time, realising you’ve been doing it wrong in 2024 still?
It is amazing how far we have come. On my own, I can only really screw up a few times per day, unless I am really trying. On a really, really bad day, maybe a few dozen times? How inefficient.
I wonder what their testing looks like these days. My impression is that they fired their QA and never looked back...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20557488
That's their regular selling tactic. But their excuse when they're called for selling snakeoil and bullshit health regimens. Then it's: "it works for some", "doesn't hurt to try", "better that not taking anything", "at least it gives people hope".

In this case he doesn't sell snakeoil directly: he sells talking about remedies and regimens for YT eyeballs and popularity (which can be turned into money indirectly).
Majority of power lines in many countries are above ground in the air.

Eastern seacoast areas in Canada and USA frequently lose power due to high winds - tropical storms or hurricanes making landfall. Similarly Winter blizzards.

Thunderstorm do sometimes hit power infrastructure as well.

North American grid is famously interconnected and fragile too. I am amazed at the crews that are rapidly dispatched for broken trees and downed wires and fix it pretty quickly. But if it's a big storm with many outages it'll take some time. In Nova Scotia for example it's not uncommon for some households to be without power for days.

And all bets are off if significant parts of grid are down and we struggle with startup sequences.
Beelink, Minisforum and others in the same category have awful, nearly nonexistent post-sales support, no bios/firmware updates, and it's not built to last like the NUC.
Depending on jurisdiction there may be rules or case law related to re-engineering and patching of purchased software to keep it working. This is again a reminder how important the right to repair is.
Or something like a welfare state.

Most western European countries have implemented roughly all Demands of the Communist Party in Germany, although some of these have been rolled back in the neoliberal era.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/03/24.htm
That's exactly the thing he's selling.
All the above! I lived with Kevin. Hope things are good with you dude.
Same here: premium but terrible slow and unusable. Probably, I'm going to ditch premium.
I've yet to read that book, I've heard a lot of good things about it.

The above comment is referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
Growing up in the rural zone of Brazil, power outages were a constant issue, which thought me to always keep multiple backups of my data.

Now that I live in a big Brazilian city though, I can't remember the last time it happened. Even when the reserves were low during the pandemic, service did hold.
It kinda makes sense that a day(s) long truck + horseback trip is more stressful than an plane ride of a few hours tops.
Googling i found lots of people citing case law: in re Campbell Soup Co., 77 F.T.C. 664 (1970) but i did not find the actual text.
Ask HN: What are some informative AI blogs that you follow?
Your CV doesn't tell me anything you accomplished, it just lists things you did. Hiring managers want to know the impact of your work, not a page of bullets that all say: "I did a thing."

Picking one at random: "Worked on frontend and backend systems for this health tech company." OK... and what impact did your work have? Can you cite a qualitative improvement on the business due to your work? If not, can you at least cite quantitative facts like: "Released 6 updates to the product."

I'm going to make a suggestion that sounds negative, but is intended to help you realize if your bullet points read well or not -- For each one, imagine a hiring manager at an interview asking you, "So what?". Then throw out your original bullet point and instead type in your answer to that question.
I suspect

"circumvent, disable, fraudulently engage, or otherwise interfere with the Service"

may apply.
But cartels also compete with each other.
XP is the only methodology I've used that gave direction on what programmers should be doing. Most methodologies have plenty to say on what happens around the programming, such as planning and design, but when it comes to producing code---the entire point of the exercise---they treat it as a black box. I don't think XP is the final word on programming, or necessarily even good in all its suggestions, but I think it's worth knowing just because it tries to tackle the most important part of software development.
Give IOT time.
You've got to be careful of the automation charge with Intelligent Tiering.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-...
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I love remaining in the past.
It's not meant to be a scientifically rigorous test, but the idea is this.

It seems like you're accepting that (at least in its current state, barring unknowable future discoveries) this is a technology that complements developers, making them more productive.

If this is the case, then the question is how relevant this improvement is in quantitative terms. The cumulative improvements in developer productivity since the days of punching cards have easily been several hundred percent.

A thought experiment to figure out how relatively impactful this is would be to compare it to other technologies and see which gives the greatest boost.

My prior belief: somewhere around Intellisense level of useful, but not significantly more than that.