skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But frankly, youtube has become unusable without some kind of ad blocker. I can't use ad blockers on my work laptop (security policy) and on my iphone and OH MY GOD i want to nuke the google plex in california every single day.

I don't use VPNs. I used to use a vpn for work, but I haven't been on the company vpn for months.

* I get multiple advertises in a single batch.

* Sometimes I get the same advertising over and over again, particularly in long videos.

* I get advertising for stuff i clearly won't buy (like bus-based tourist travel service in Ireland[1] where have no interest or plan visiting as a tourist)

* I get advertising for products i CAN'T buy (some kind of chocolate brand they don't sell in Italy where I live -- Cadbury i think?)

* Aldi advertising... In German, about German stores. I recognize the Aldi logo, I don't speak German.

* I get advertising in languages (both audio and text) i don't speak (already mentioned German, but lately Spanish as well).

* God forbid I open a video from a link that points at some second in the middle of the video... Some moron Product Owner has decided i MUST catch up with all the advertising i would have watched otherwise before i can watch anything past the custom starting point. Yesterday I had to watch eight pieces of advertising before i could start watching a video.

* God forbid i skip something like a third of a video... i have to catch up with advertising first.

* I'm getting A LOT MORE advertising, A LOT MORE OFTEN.

It's unbearable. I hate youtube/google so much, with passion. It hurts me so much because I used to keep them in such high regard when both me and they (as a company) were younger.

They're effectively bullying me into getting youtube premium.

[1] Hey Paddy Wagon Tours, Google has been scamming you out of advertising money for months i think - Same happens for Cadbury I guess.
You can’t say that you can just not care about zero tolerance. I was the nephew in a similar story and was probably held back from membership in the National Honor Society because of the timing of the suspension, worsening my college applications.
The question the gpt is asked seems impossible for even a human to answer based on a LinkedIn profile:

“For each profile, we asked ChatGPT to give the person a coding score between 1 and 10, where someone with a 10 would be a top 10% coder”
£124M national electron microscope facility to be constructed in Cheshire
https://web.archive.org/web/20240416220227/https://www.chemi...
I used to work in this space.

If the DOJ breaks up live nation the only group who gets screwed is the consumer. The sort of artist who is big enough to use live nation also wants a pay day for going on tour. They want the door, they want to sell their merch, they want a cut of the 20$ beer you buy. There might be 1 or 2 artist left who dont want to see you gouged on the ticket but that might not even be true any more.

Liven nation goes away. The venues are going to remain as a single company, the concessions are going to cost just as much. Ticketing might be phone/app only.

Every concert will turn into an auction. Want to get in front of the line. Pay 100 bucks to join a fan club. Want to cut that line, pay a 1000' bucks for a meet and greet and decent seats. Other wise wait, and bid. And that bidding is going to be ugly...

Fans are an interesting group of people. They tend to think with their heart and not with their head.... Dont believe me, we were selling hats and shirts at concerts long before video games. If you're willing to pay 5 bucks for a virtual good then 50 for a tshrit doesn't seem bad.
Will travel 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene!
Many artists do feel that all interpretations are equally valid and that they don't want to stomp on that. But when Lynch expands on this, he often connects it to mystery. Most of his works have a strong sense of surrealism but there's enough realism there too to also sense that there really is a central and consistent thematic logic that connects everything. It's not just randomly surreal. Often there is explicitly meta-textual layer at which a real deeper narrative is there; usually critiques of Hollywood and modern culture.

Lynch's philosophy is that mystery endures, and that we naturally dwell on the mysterious. His mysteries become a gift to the viewer/reader, and the vividness of his strokes make them dwell for decades. I still dwell on so many aspects of Twin Peaks. If he simply gave his own interpretation or explanation, that would be that, and the gift would vanish like owls in the night.
Because many conservatives have blue collar jobs that have them in their car / at a work site by themselves where they can listen.

Whereas progressives seem more likely to listen at a desk, hence the plethora of leftist podcasts.
For a long time, search engines weren't nearly as SEO-gamed as they are now
...these things still exist. They are not surfaced by search engines, because they are too small, and no companies are paying the search engines to do so. Most people stay inside their social network bubbles and never look at regular websites outside them.
This is interesting. For future I'm thinking I need to set up trading days that are as much self directed as instruction.
So this would be under the umbrella of "Critical Race Theory" which has been misrepresented and unjustly criticized as of late.
It was a pretty explicit message along the lines of "come discover how to connect with God with us".
> When did seeing a live event become a luxury?

It did not. Lots of live events happening all the time everywhere for very cheap, even free. Look around local bars and clubs.

Probably not going to find top performers for cheap though.
I'd be interested in a link. Live At Carnegie Hall was my paper-writing music in college. I discovered later that I don't much care for it when I don't have anything else occupying my mind. I'm unsure if it's because there isn't really that much to the songs of if I'm missing some nuance and complexity that makes them worth another listen.
Try NextDNS: https://nextdns.io/
Local NPR affiliates also carry shows from other national organizations like PRI. It's not just ATC versus local programming. Many people think such shows are NPR even though they aren't.
After having read the history of Standard Oil, any time I see the word "rebate" I now think something shady is definitely going on.
Then tips are taxes as well?

Fee is a fee, no matter it is fixed sum of percentage. Same with taxes - they are not always a percentage.
Berliner pointed out multiple stories they got wrong due to their political biases.
You're exaggerating. No science says that society is going to collapse because of climate change in your lifetime. Maybe in your grandkids' or their grandkids' but not yours. Get real. Read a book.
They may be a monopoly, but fans are willing to pay to see LiveNation concerts. Acts and venues go with it. I’ve found there so many other options out there for entertainment lately that I haven’t gone to a concert in 20 years! In a way I kind of like what Ticketmaster is doing, I wish I could get a cut.

(Seriously though, we have so many olig/monopolies I’ve lost count. Sad.)
That doesn't need wireless USB, we already have CVE-2023-45866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661182 for "bluetooth stack more than 6 months old"
can you add in an estimate of your time spent preparing the food? What about cleanup? It takes me more time to clean my food prep and cook area than actually make food most of the time. And compare that to the time spent waiting in the grocery line/fast food line? What about storage costs- I just threw away a 2-week old pile of nasty ground beef that went bad before we had an opportunity to use it (totally on me, I should have cooked burgers for my kids a couple more nights).

That's what I mean by "fully loaded"- when economists compare things like this, they don't just take the published dollar costs in a single location and compare them. They made a best-effort good-faith attempt at considering all the other costs which lead to a consumer making a decision.

Also, fast food prices shot up in the past few years, faster than grocery prices. Most of the articles about this were written about 10-15 years ago.
It's like you didn't read anything I wrote, and then built your own straw man to argue with.
Lotteries aren't rationing, but are similarly useful when supply growth is constrained and are both considered more fair ways of distribution that letting the price spike limit access to only the rich.

The problem with this approach is how the price fixing that can be involved blocks the signal needed to tell the market to modify supply. When supply is meant to be fixed, this isn't an issue.

In this particular case, the Japanese law wasn't clearly explained or referenced. My best guess for the reference is the law Japan passed before the Olympics to ban the resale of many tickets at more than their list price. This isn't price fixing so much as an anti-speculation measure. This does also have the effect of making a lottery needed for many tickets as the secondary market can't balance supply and demand.
The state can get an injunction against you, fine you, and in some situations creates a private cause of action for the people whose information was breached to individually sue you with statutory damages available.
Nobody is owed validation. We want it, but we are not owed it. Learning to cope with that desire is one of the chief signs of maturity and wisdom.
Embarrassing for the US, again.
It’s the opposite. Being contrarian is free karma, generally. The downvotes come from picking unpopular positions, whether you’re wright or wrong. I used to get downvoted a lot when talking to people about privacy, but now those sorts of posts get upvotes. Times and prevailing opinions change
I remember having a cellphone in 2009 too.
Of course! Poor children are innocent victims. But once they turn 18 and start having children, it's time those adults pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and their deprived childhoods don't matter anymore. Flawless logic.
> monoculture of operating systems

There are several widely-used OS, one of which (Linux) has plenty of very different versions depending on your usecase. I'm not really sure that counts as a "monoculture"
GenX wasn’t moping around not having sex or kids or fun because they were upset about the state of the world. Even in the freaking blitz they were having more sex and kids and fun than Generation Eeoyore.
It seems like it was owned by someone who was probably a student of Meitner's. The stuff underlined about Italian denuclearization are specifically about Fermi, who was a peer of her's.

I'd definetly recommend contacting a Science Historian. You might have a pretty cool piece of actual Swedish history.
Combatting scalping is the easiest thing ever. Just put the name of the attendee on each ticket and if you want to be nice you can have a buyback period until a certain date before the show, where the venue purchases back your ticket if you can't go.
I'm in Canada. Can they still do that?
Usually pretty scam savvy but dropped my guard and bought an absolute garbage AI translation of The Little Prince on Amazon. Now I research anything before buying
One hour with Hugo (and netlify) and you have a site, come on...
I’ve seen some multicast market data protocols with remarkably poor ability to detect or recover from drops. And they are very much not of the form where a newer datagram supersedes the older one.
Buried in what way? Googling “npr lab leak hypothesis” yields dozens of stories published on NPR sites reporting on that theory, primarily quoting WHO and US government reports. I wouldn’t call that burying. You might not like what their sources say and may think there are sources they ignored, but calling that burying without pointing out those omissions doesn’t seem reasonable.

[edit: add a question mark]
I wanted Tim Berners-Lee's "Solid" project to be at least a partial foundation for this, but it doesn't seem to be getting traction.

Some way to "self-host" or "own my own data" isn't very possible in a world of complex system administration and cloud providers, GDPR/Privacy, etc.

Maybe solving this problem (via FOSS, hopefully) and giving people their own internet-in-a-kit could be a good way to go?

Are there active projects like this? Is it even feasible?
Twin Perfect has over five hours of Twin Peaks explanation on YouTube ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM (there are follow on videos too).

As a long time Twin Peaks viewer and Wrapped in Plastic subscriber, it all resonated for me. The thesis there is extremely comprehensive and full of examples and the most compelling version I've found.

It may spoil it for some, and if you prefer to leave mysteries untouched ... don't watch it, but it also enriched my subsequent rewatches of many Lynch films.
Smaller artists don't make any money. There is no long tail. There's no working artist. For every 1 person you are thinking of, in the 10k to 300k monthly listeners range, there are 19 who are taking money they inherited or earned somewhere else, and transferring it to "music," and sometimes that transfer winds up as surplus to their fans, and sometimes that transfer goes to Spotify and LiveNation/Ticketmaster. You could abruptly stop going to shows of smaller artists, and nothing would economically change. It's a complete fantasy. I mean, it's an attractive narrative, it has some arithmetic to it, but c'mon, this is the status quo for all non-guilded creatives: the money that they earn is so little, it doesn't really matter. It matters from the point of view of the aesthetics of being A Consumer Who Supports Small Artists, but it doesn't matter economically in any sense.

Breaking up LiveNation/Ticketmaster would wreck the biggest artists, not little ones. Really we should be asking: What has Taylor Swift done for small artists? Whom has she featured on her tracks? Ed Sheeran, Bon Iver, Brendon Urie, Haim, Maren Morris... You might not have heard of Maren Morris, but she has millions of monthly listeners on Spotify.

The problem with what the Justice Department is proposing has similar energy to many of their efforts in the creative industries: they don't know what their fucking side is. They think it's "consumers." Man, if only it were so simple.
Do those laws apply even if you charge no fees and serve no ads?
> "As we look toward 2024 (and beyond), we’re not done lowering our cost to serve."

So, more layoffs.
I’m not sure it’s a binary choice, blog your garden!
>I never said "sell the cake instead of eating it", I said "eat cake, then sell it".
Example #732453111 of how the 2000's-era dreams of technology-enabled infinite scaling were misguided and potentially damning for the Internet.

Turns out scammers and spammers can technologically scale their side too, and can even do so in a way that the host profits from so that the host is disincentivized from doing anything about it until it's already gone too far.

Now everything is flooded with noise and supported by ads and meaningful human participation in content approval or customer service is infeasible because we're already on the far side of the transition and they can't match the established scale.

Whoops!
Never though I would be spending my Tuesday evening reading, Japanese Prime Minister speeches :-) but agree. Quite an interesting, focused and clear speech.
That’s how you start a world war. Once US is perceived as weak and indecisive all kinds of genocidal monsters crawl out to do what they want.
> stadiums are multibillion dollar affairs that take years and lots of public financing

That's a 70,000-seat stadium [1][2]. Arenas (5 to 20k) can be built for a few hundred million [3].

Unfortunately, that would mean either nosebleed ticket prices or rationing tickets to fans. The former would earn the fans' ire. The latter reduce the artist's revenue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoFi_Stadium

[2] https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/5174...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/concert-halls-li...
I listen to both NPR and Fox news summary every day, and both of them are virtually identical in how they cover things.

Every once in a while you'll hear a slant in how they will frame something, like the context or who they chose to quote. But it's clear that both NPR and Fox try very hard to be neutral.

(Note the Fox TV show with "personalities" is not the same as their news show.)
> Then perform smaller venues and ration tickets to your most-devoted fans.

Companies end up bankrupt with your line of thinking. Assuming infrastructure is sufficient for each situation to be profitable is magical thinking.
If they serve the same purpose, doesn't that open the possibility to use one of them for something else?

I'm also in the group that never keeps more than 10 tabs open, much fewer usually. The idea of having all my bookmarks displayed in a long sequence of tabs sounds horrific to me personally. It would just be an overwhelming amount of information.

I would love it if bookmarks and history were easier to search and retrieve. Having them displayed in a thousand tabs on my screen constantly not so much.
It is kind of comical that NPR made racial and gender diversity their main priority…and still have a listener base that’s much whiter than the country as a whole.
I'm a passionate VLC fan. Got it on my phone and PC, and set up streaming audio from my phone to my computer (so that I can change songs and whatnot from my phone while listening to music in the background of a fullscreen game). Plus it has the uncanny ability to play any media file known to man.
No, YOU are misrepresenting the Mueller findings. As per the American Bar Association:

The special counsel found that Russia did interfere with the election, but “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple efforts from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.”

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...

With respect to obstruction: As far as obstruction, the Mueller report laid out facts on both sides but did not reach a conclusion. Barr’s letter said that “the Special Counsel states that ‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’”
Middle of the road used to be that maybe gay people could have civil unions but not actual marriage.

Middle of the road used to be that cross-dressing was fine as a hobby, but trans people had a mental illness that is harmful to enable.

Middle of the road used to be "I don't like what you say but I'll defend your right to say it".

On most issues, the Overton window in America has and continues to slide left, not right.
A personal site should be personal, in the sense that the things you share are things you value and the only value derived from it is from sharing what you value with other. That's why personal sites are the ones that are easy to tell apart. Personal should be personal, otherwise it is simply trying to establish a professional profile.)

Of course, if you have no interest in sharing your passions, don't do it. Your free time is valuable and you should only use it for things that you value.
That's because he forced the issue by going to every outlet he could, mostly liberal ones, and he was right too.

He'd be buried if he didn't and wasn't.
> The thing that makes the difference is what is running on people's laptops, because that's what people will eventually put into prod.

I disagree—I think support of deployment tooling (like Atlantis) is the bigger proof. If you are running terraform on your local machine it is likely a very small company.
> Whats really lifting them out of poverty is the west exporting manufacturing to China

How does one export manufacturing? It is undeniable that that China has benefited from science and innovation, but these I would consider to be the fruits of all mankind. If anything, the west has tried its hardest to keep knowledge from China. China has only advanced by systematically breaking intellectual property law that the west set up with the intention of hoarding knowledge to ourselves.

> its not socialism pulling China out of poverty

As you would expect, since China isn't really socialist. That said, there is certainly something unique about China's approach that has cause it to be much more successful than many other countries.

> As western cash is exchanged for Chinese products, its no surprise then that as poverty has waned in China is has been waxing in the west?

It should be a surprise. You cannot eat money. China consistently runs a trade surplus. That means that they give other countries more than they get in return. It is surely a great critique of the western system that China giving us stuff for free made us poorer. That the rich and powerful of our own countries discarded their citizens in favour of cheap Chinese labour. And so the benefit of all this free stuff which China has given us is focused into the hands of the few, rather than the many. This is sad, but not inevitable.

> The same economic systems you praise resulted mass starvations due famine killing millions in the process of trying to raise them out of poverty

Exactly. Just because a system lifts people out of poverty doesn't make it good. Yet the western system fails to even lift people from poverty.
> If you're, say, Dave Matthews Band and you have 50,000 people who want to come to each show, and you start saying you'll only play to 1,000 people at a time, the economics start going sideways

There are plenty of 5 to 20k-seat venues that would be fine.
Thanks for this! Will check it out.
This isn't laudable, it's defensive. The snafu has been covered in the NYT so there's no burying it. They are making sure their side is told by covering it themselves.
Modern Datahand-style keyboard with trackball and trackpoint
It depends entirely on how you define utility.

Making rich people happier makes me more unhappy that it makes them more happy, so by your calculus it's not worth helping them.

See how quickly this line of reasoning runs aground?
That's because most models have been trained on data created by humans for humans, it needs data created by AI for itself. Better learn from your mistakes than from the mistakes of others, they are more efficient and informative.

When an AI is set up to learn from its own mistakes it might turn out like AlphaZero, who rediscovered the strategy of Go from scratch. LLMs are often incapable of solving complex tasks, but they are greatly helped by evolutionary algorithms. If you combine LLMs with EA you get black box optimization and intuition. It's all based on learning from the environment, interactivity & play. LLMs can provide the mutation operation, or function as judge to select surviving agents, or act as the agents themselves.
Isn’t NPR the glaring exception?
I personally am more interested in micro-hosting services like omg.lol[1]. I do self host a few services, but they are generally on VPNs that have smaller attack surfaces. I don't think it's practical for most individuals to maintain secure web servers, but I think most people can pay a very small amount of money to get most of the benefit.

[1] https://home.omg.lol/
A list of companies sponsoring OpenTofu confirms that TF was "losing" to tools like TerraGrunt and SpaceLift? Sorry I don't follow.
I'm on my phone so I can only do so much digging, but from the usbip sourceforge page that's linked above, it says that development has moved into the Linux kernel:

For Linux, the source code of usbip was merged into the staging tree, and finally has been moved to the mainline since Linux-3.17. Development is ongoing in the kernel community, not here. Linux distributions will provide binary packages of usbip.*
We're hard-wired for fairness toward ourselves than to others. That's why $90/$10 splits exist, but $10/$9 splits don't.
Thanks. Yeah I had thought of auctions and profit but you're right maybe I should contact someone.