skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if I told you that for a decade there has been a separate service where the largest content creators on YT upload their videos without sponsorships + add extras for a monthly subscription? And this site has had issues building + shipping features at scale?

It is, in general, a very poor substitute for the player + server experience YT offers.

Yet 10+ years later, no one at YT has sat up, taken notice and said, "Hey, maybe people don't want to pay for YT directly, but what if they want to support their favorite creators?"

"What if we really doubled down on the creator experience? What if we made it possible for them to post uncensored, subscriber only videos? What if we made it possible for their most loyal fans to ALWAYS see their video without clicking a bell?"

"What if we made it easy for them to sell merch? What if YT channels were actual channels and way more focused on the creator?"

"What if we made a better editing suite? And what if we AGGRESSIVELY paid the largest creators on this other platform to switch to us exclusively for X years?"

And then rolled these features out across the world at insane Google scale. Something this languishing feature-as-a-company can't compete with.

I'm willing to bet that would make far more money than YT driving off creators and users.

Creators are the future of content. With some ads mixed in. Viewers spend billions supporting their creators. Apparently that languishing competitor has a GMV of $2B. It's fair to say that with Google's scale + resources to invest initially, they could easily 10x that.

There's one creator on their platform that has launched a multi-billion dollar brand off of it. An individual creator. And YT gets (almost) none of that sweet sweet upside.

It seems that Google doesn't want to make more money by building a better mousetrap anymore. That kind of thinking clearly isn't welcome at Google/Alphabet/Soup.

edit — "Channel Memberships" and "Subscriptions" are Google's half-hearted version of this, but it's not a serious attempt. It's the usual Google Allo, Google Messages, Google Chat, Google Spaces, Google+, Google Messenger, Google Duo style of product execution. So half-hearted that you probably didn't notice that Google Messenger doesn't exist.

They've never given a serious monetisation strategy a shot. It could be far more valuable than the ad driven market they're serving right now.
Inflammation is just an activation of the immune defense system - the swelling is entirely intentional and healthy. What is annoying the immune defense system is the problem, and can in some cases be caused by a bug in the system (auto-immune disease).

Erroneously attributing correlation as causation is a common mistake. Blood cholesterol - entirely distinct from dietary cholesterol - was also commonly completely misunderstood as a cause, even though it like inflammation is a healthy and necessary response turned into a symptom...
FreeTube (standalone client) and LibRedirect (browser extension) nicely replace YouTube.com completely for a much cleaner experience and no shorts.
An open source lmstudio software released recently, but I'm having trouble finding a link.
But how effective is it for sales? Watchere could get alienated from abusine ads and in turn avoid the brand, does’t anyone really care? It’s all dumb meaningless metrics all the way down?
Bringing the Amiga Sample Library into the 21st Century [video]
You act like these problems are especially hard.

Active-active, five nines, fault tolerance. Hard stuff. But managing on-prem is no harder.

This is what we're paid for.
There are two major frameworks managing DFT calculations: AiiDA and Fireworks. What's strange to me is Microsoft has put a lot of support into AiiDA (including hiring a few high profile developers). Yet in the paper they use Fireworks to run the simulation
Six arrested over suspected plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange
Ask HN: Whats your favorite book on API design?
Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
After Simple Mobile Tools have been lost to an adware company [1], the FossifyOrg forked and modified apps started slowly coming via Fdroid.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229
Hit this Sat on an install. Used MS's PS script; it needed 2 update files (matching the Win prod) to be downloaded first.
You are completely missing the point. I would too use language the reciever understands in order to be understood. Me and others pointed out how it was framed and how does it add anything to the story mentioning that their partner dont understand things, thats the condescending part.
It seems like (if I'm reading it right) you cured yourself so congrats on that.

Do note that unless you somehow cured at least a couple other people with Crohns using your method, it's quite possible that it only works for a small number of people (of which you are one), or even that you somehow had a mistaken understanding of the causation (i.e. something else cured it).

I personally don't think it's a big deal, but there might be a risk of others trying your method and getting adverse results (I don't know what it involves so I'm just speculating here).

Some people are offended that chronic disease patients with some intelligence can know their disease better than specialist doctors though. I never understood this reaction, I guess it's just some kind of gatekeeping that every profession has...
Recovering shredded banknote pieces using computer vision
AdGuard on iOS. Brave everywhere else.
The Icelandic volcanoes are a very different kind. They create lava flows instead of explosions (except when they erupt under glaciers, but there is no glacier near Grindavik). Another example is Hawaii, where the village of Volcano is only a few miles from the crater, which has been active almost continuously for over thirty years.
Not all volcanos are the type that explode. While there are classes/type of volcano, in reality each is a bespoke situation. It would be an oversimplification to directly compare Iceland to Pompeii.
I think this is just an "r>g" rule made famous by Piketty. When r (return on investment) is bigger than g (overall economy's growth), the rich get richer. It's unsustainable in a pure mathematical sense, the rich cannot own more than 100% of economy, so at some moment this system breaks, and one can only hope that it doesn't break violently.

Piketty somehow wrote a 1000 page book about that, and a slightly controversial one, but an idea is very simple and, I think, hard to argue against.
They are if they are the result of an artificial monopoly and there is an alternative on the drawing board with better rates. In general infrastructure should be free to use, toll is friction on commerce and development.
Are you claiming that this techniques will substantially cut down how much time is required?

How much time it would take to achieve level that in 1998 would need 10 years?
Dynamicland was amazing. So far ahead of its time, yet also so utterly without a practical real world application. So dedicated are they to the idea of dynamic code running the space that they wrote the kernel on a whiteboard, and if anyone wanted between the camera and the whiteboard with the code on it, the whole space would crash. Now THAT is dynamic.
That has worked so well for all the fully premium streaming services which have gradually announced that they're showing ads anyway.
Since the public isn't auditing Boeing, public attention has norhing to do with that.
I would pay much more for YouTube if they offered proper search and filtering tools. There's so much interesting stuff hidden behind light years of fluff. Ymmv, of course.
You have no idea how often I have had to troll through boxes of printed documents exceeding the legal retention period because digital records, if they ever existed, were improperly tracked and filed.

People, even the ones who live in IT, treat digital records as disposable because they can't see the costs or value associated with keeping the damn things organized beyond their managers' interest in them. Even with backups, I can go back years to find data that wasn't included because they weren't told it was important at the time.

More than once, the only thing keeping everything from the fire is an unassuming person in the back who's been there 25 years and is the sole living record of that department's or division's history. And they absolutely remember every bonehead that told them to scrap or change a critical process, saved or printed and filed everything of importance, and have been waiting for years for someone to finally ask for it.

Unrelated Edit: If you want something to be archived for eternity, include a recipe on it somewhere. I'm in the middle of scanning my grandmother's recipes, and the number of unrelated publications she kept from national, state, and local entities dating to the 1950s solely because they put some grandma-bait in them somewhere is astounding.
I don't block the ads any more, but I also don't watch the ads. I watch that little block showing how long the ads have to run, waiting for the Skip link.
Trees don't fall over the first day after a parasite infection you two, good grief.

Things take time in the real world, emotional blithering about capitalism notwithtanding.
Media Multi-Tasking: Are There Effects on Attention, Memory and the Brain?
> I don’t like it, but it’s pretty standard.

Whether something is 'standard' or not has no bearing on whether it is ethical, productive, makes economic sense and in general improves society or not.
Newflash: people don’t just need some minimum wage money to be happy.

UBI might be better than nothing, but boy are people going to be lost without social mobility and purpose. Hopefully we can find that some other way if all labor is ever replaced. Which I am skeptical about.
I only read one of those (Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 97 in 24 Hours). It was 25+ years ago obviously. First of all it's about 24 hour-long chapters with exercises to follow. That's a good amount of material to pick up something like MS Access, and it's not like you'll learn everything within 24 hours from now, but after 24 hours of learning in a week or so.

(You might laugh at MS Access but it was useful at least 3 times in my career, but mostly in the 25-15 year ago range.)
This is a stunning publication. It clearly wants to be consumed in print.
This reminds me of my grandfather. It's just over ten years since he died. A poor farmer's son from Central Kentucky, he saw the world from there to Korea when he was drafted. He never got more than a high school education, but had a life-long love of books and knowledge, especially geography. He would read a map like other people read books and had a complete set of state gazetteers for the US.

He loved all forms of transit, which was largest single other category of books in his modest but very personal and interesting library.

Growing up poor and never making a lot of money himself he was tight with it as you can imagine. My grandmother died before he retired, and when he did he moved in with my parents. After a health scare post-retirement my mother convinced him that since he couldn't take what little he had with him he might as well do some things he enjoyed while he could.

So twice he took the train from the rust belt Midwest to Seattle and from there took Inner Passage cruises. He wasn't one to take pictures, and didn't talk a lot. But the enjoyment he got from these trips was obvious - he'd come back looking literally like a new man.

Anyway, any time I visited Grandpa in his room (where he was just content to sit unbothered and read) I couldn't help but pick up one of the myriad interesting books or magazines he had lying around. This certainly would have made the stack, he probably would have even excitedly showed it to me.

I haven't thought about that old cowboy in a while. Thank you for inspiring some meaningful memories.
I've always been fond of this advice. I think it correctly describes some of the activities I would expect you to do and experience before you will feel like a deep expert in programming.

I also think it's worth saying, "you don't need to be an expert in programming to try it! Start by tinkering!" (Other comments have been downvoted for describing what tinkering might look like, but any tinkering is valid! Try running llama.cc on your MacBook! Quantize a model yourself)

Ultimately, you'll become good if you do it a lot, and you'll do it a lot if you have one or more hobby projects that you're motivated to work on. I have a few friends who are completely self taught (one going the Arduino / electronics / hardware route, the other going the web app and tools for personal use route), and the keys to their success is that they have projects they like working on. And they've kept at it for years.

They don't know everything, and they don't necessarily have great foundations, but it's not too hard to learn things on an as-needed basis these days. Both of them find information very differently than I do, which is also valuable for me to learn and see.

There are other ways to motivate yourself: taking a class with homework that gets you coding (the success of this strategy depends on the person!), finding an accountability buddy who you discuss your projects with, finding an open source project you're interested in (start by adding comments, fixing typos, or looking for a good "first timer" GitHub issue), do Recurse Center (although their job placement program may have limited options for junior / entry level engineers)

At some point, you'll have beaten your head against a problem (how can I order these things correctly? How do I get this interaction to work correctly? Why is my component re rendering in an infinite loop?) and you'll watch a video or read a blog post explaining it and you will truly understand the issue. It will be common, and you might have encountered it in a 201 class, but your first-hand experience will help it stick.

Another totally valid way to learn programming is to be good enough to get a job [1] and then be paid to figure it out day after day, and ideally have experienced programmers mentoring you. I've seen people go through bootcamps get a lot out of it, but I think the quality is highly variable

[1] unfortunately, while I think this was a really good path ten years ago, the bar continues to be raised (new grads with internship experience can be very good, companies are not hiring as aggressively today as they did in the world of zero percent interest rates)
Ask HN: What will your kids be proud of 10 years?
As a young woman in software, it is easy to see that there is plentiful, well-paying work. But having taken some time off after getting laid off from my last job at FAANG, I often struggle to explain to myself how what I'm doing really, truly benefits the world. In 10 years, what will I tell my children about what I do now? What will I be proud of - would they be proud of that database optimization that was so _technically_ interesting or would they be proud of helping make people's lives easier? In essence, during my job search I'm trying to find a role that would lead to a satisfying answer to that question. *I'd love to hear your stories, about how you've thought about what software is with respect to society*, especially for those of you who've been in it for a long time.

So, Hacker News, what about your role would you be proud of in 10 years? In 30 years? What would your peers be proud of, or your children - are they different?
I disagree. On stock Ubuntu, there is no normal situation you'll run into where you must use a terminal. If you decide to do something that requires a terminal, that's a different story. But basically every normal operation you'd do on windows GUI (and more...), you have a GUI option available on Ubuntu; it is the Windows of the Linux world, and it behaves as such.
> Has anyone here done one of those 0 to 1 bootcamps with success?

My tech lead did this.
You also generally gain access to better investments as the amount you are investing goes up.
I'd go as far as saying it should be handled on the "physics" level. Any electric apparatus in your home should be able to be left on for weeks without causing fatal consequences.
Show HN: Spent 450hrs to bring my CV down to 1 page (ML, AI)
10 second version:
Get 10000feet view of job descriptions - https://be-distinguished.com

2 minute version :

Hi HN, Long time lurker, big fan, and first time poster inspired by how this community elaborates on ideas and new products.

Recently was given feedback that my CV was too long at 2 pages, I was at loss as to how to update it without having a high-level view of the requirements of the type of jobs I would be interested in. So I built https://be-distinguished.com to help me study relevant job requirements categorized by seniority, salary and keywords.

I then used my site to update my own CV!

Overall the whole process was far simpler than I thought it'd be and the work looked like below:

[0]. study corpus (70hrs), [1]. gather job descriptions(requests - 50hrs), [2]. apply NLP to this text (nltk - 120hrs), [3]. have a custom spacy model to decide if a sentence is requirement (40hrs) [4]. return the results in a harmonized format (pandas - 50hrs), [5]. present findings through a website (flask/postgres/heroku/bootstrap - 120hrs).

Have a look and let me know what you think.

HN Special:

I don't want to hoard this data and let it sit on some database. If it inspires, send across queries (sql or otherwise) you would like to run against this database.
I would love to add them to a future version of BDDB.

you can assume these columns for your mock queries: requirements, location, seniority, title, date, salary, keywords.

relay email account for queries 8fi1pj5fb_at_mozmail_dot_com

upwards and onwards!
> It doesn't matter if cars are more comfortable.

> Cars are a massive waste of energy and resources compared to other transport options we have now.

Comfort is something we spend energy and resources on. This is a good thing.

You could potentially argue its too much energy/resources but that's not a determination you can make, not having access to people's internal emotional states. Some people really like giant fuzzy toys, some like nothing more than flying and some like fancy VR.

We should let people spend the energy/resources they earn on what gives them the most comfort/enjoyment or we'll be Typical Mind Fallacying our way to collective unhappiness.

(The above assumes that the externalities of cars are correctly priced in in the form of car insurance, road tax, congestion charge and fuel duty)
Programmers are bizarre in that sense.

They’ll spend weeks, years even, coding a solution in an effort to not pay for it.

Penny wise but pound foolish.
Aren't most successful engineers already very smart when they start out? Being very smart seems to be a prerequisite for all successful engineers.
> It is unusual. I'd even go as far as to say that it is an awful and stupid decision to do this at a time when USB-PD operating at higher voltages is finally becoming somewhat commonplace (common, as in: we might have extra junk laying around that can do it)

Not even "junk drawer gear". USB-PD is recent enough that any gear supporting a good cross-section of that spec will be recent if not brand new.

As 1 data point: I recently bought a USB-C power adapter that supports USB-PD up to 35W at a variety of voltages & negotiation methods.

A RPi5's power needs are well within that 35W. And yet, beside supplying 5V @3A (which comes with its own set of issues / limitations), it'll be largely useless as a RPi5 power supply. Regardless of cable used.

Many USB-PD power bricks will be in same boat. So indeed this is a stupid design decision on RPi's behalf. I've read & understand their rationale for that decision. But it doesn't make it less stupid. Other SBCs use USB-PD as intended (in this case, @ higher voltages like 9, 12 or 15V, or even variable) no problem, and without needing special 5A rated cables. The onboard electronics / ICs to do this are cheap & plentiful.

Okay - RPi's rationale is an excuse. Not a good one. Supplying a 5V/5A brick themselves, doesn't do much to paper over that fact.
KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD
Food sensitivities to Nightshade vegetables include potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and several others can mimic the symptoms of both Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis in sensitive individuals.

When my late wife got those out of our diets, her symptoms of both Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis went away. This was after years of dealing with the Medical Establishment to treat the conditions with little results.
Without context I thought they meant the M2 Browning. First produced in 1933 and still widely in use today. Pretty advanced for it's day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning
I found out this Christmas that it's impossible to give Premium as a gift, which stings hard with this ongoing crackdown. There's no gift card mechanism so you'd have to log into their account and buy it for them.
Parent comment links to the cover. A link to the article itself: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,993...
>pray you never ever get audited for the guest toolkit acceleration.

Worth mentioning that the Extension Pack is distributed separately[1] from VirtualBox itself and requires deliberate installation. Put more simply, it's an opt-in.

I'll also mention that, at least for most personal and even small business use cases, you probably don't need the features provided by the Extension Pack[2]:

* VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) support.

* Host webcam passthrough.

* Intel PXE boot ROM.

* Disk image encryption with AES algorithm.

* Cloud integration features.

[1]: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

[2]: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing
Since this plane was built last year, I’m assuming they know who was responsible for tightening the bolts and inspections.

A journalist needs to bluntly ask if they’ve been fired. If they haven’t, it’s all lip service.
What's pretty wild is that even though you can later uncover the corruption the deals are allowed to stand. When in fact all of the participants should end up in jail with their assets forfeited.
Yeah that's exactly it. You have to build up the proper context first. Get all the documentation to be nice and coherent and it will happily write beautiful code.
I'm going with the meth lab theory. Father in law (passed away recently) had a doctor "friend" that sold product. They had stories of routinely breaking into university labs to cook. Can't imagine in those years other people didn't do the same at hospitals.
Windows install ISO is 4.7GB. 300MB-500MB seems in line with what core restore files would require.
I’ve had the OG Steam Deck and now have the OLED.

Genuinely curious, what do you consider low build quality on them?
Teaching yourself programming is important on many levels as the job is a continual learning type of job. What you learned 5 years ago might apply today or you may have to learn something completely new to stay on top.
Understanding the drivers of ChatGPT usage change in higher education
Why wait? Just do it and deal with the ill effects as soon as possible.

This way they get to slash costs with less staff and effectively fire the clients they don’t want.

They expect backlash and thinks it’s worth the cost, because they plan on milking the remaining customers asap.
Oh, don't get me wrong I am bothered that it's normalized. I'm also exhausted because it's so much.

I'm just so used to it at this point that this particular instance doesn't seem like a big deal compared to everything else.
What we need is a standards bodies creating tests in private and running distributed, blind tests using only publicly accessible APIs or open source models. There’s no reason the ACM or a similar body couldn’t do this for computer science evals, for example.
Why does the SEC keep allowing acquisitions like this? And why are there not more legal consequences to this kind of behavior after an acquisition?