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Show HN: I built the IMDB of YouTubers to help people find new quality channels
YouTube is full of quality content but it is sometimes hard to find it so I created a website where you can rate and review channels and that helps you discover new ones.

The goal is to make a platform like IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes but for YouTube channels. I want to go the opposite direction to YouTube which for instance removed the dislikes on videos and has limited search capabilities.

For now there are not so many channels but users can submit new YouTubers instantly.

I offer you different new ways to discover content on the website: Detailed filters (topic, avg duration, type of video, mood...) / Advanced search / Top similar channels, channel lists...

I would be really happy to receive candid feedback on it and know if it is something you could use!
Some advice to the author: you can considerably tighten up your writing by putting the most important things first. Take the introduction (which is, bizarrely, not the Introduction that comes three paragraphs later.) There are over 300 words before the actual project, Cognition, is mentioned (second sentence of second paragraph). All this stuff about Lisp is great, but is that the most important part of the project? Should it not be something about the project itself?

When I'm reading something informational (rather than recreational) I'm always asking myself "is this worth my time?" You should address this as soon as possible, by telling the reader what the document is about right at the start. "Cognition is a new language exploring user modifiable syntax" or something similar. I didn't get past the first four paragraphs because I couldn't determine it was worth continuing.
Your take is one of the only grounded takes I’ve seen. I’m sorry but are the majority of posters here delusional? I thought hacker news was meant to be intelligent people who would give good actual grounded advice to people, not just blindly tell people their very flawed ideas/goals are great
Can you actually write to the /proc directory? Working with libfuse I've had much of the same ideas, basically allow programs to expose information as files. The beauty of the fuse system is also that you only have to respond to requests when they happen. So you don't have to actually create all these files until someone asks for them. Another idea I've had is to expose the configuration of a program through a filesystem. Instead of having a config file and a refresh command or a complicated IPC you could simply write to files to change the config.
Addendum: today (Thursday 2 May 2024) is local Election day,
"in most areas of England and Wales" i.e. For London mayor, city council, etc.
> > "You are a weighted random choice generator. About 80% of the time please say ‘left’ and about 20% of the time say ‘right’. Simply reply with left or right. Do not say anything else"

> Humans would say "Left" 100% of the time in a zero-shot scenario as well.

No, they won't. Especially if you give them time, and they can come up with an idea of how to do that.
I think it's a really beautiful and innovative thing you've made here. And you should be proud of it.

I think a lot of people on HN nowadays can only see the world through the lens of Javascript and as a result really can't appreciate what this is.
> 2-0 with whistleblowers

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

How many are left, anyhow?
Why is it that so many people need to die in the name of safety?
Probably a "compatible" card that would behave like the standard of the era only after being setup by a DOS driver. Linux, like DOS programs, would find it only after such a setup. Perhaps even the card setup would not survive a reboot.
> The "private equity kills beloved brand" stories are usually overcooked, as far as I can tell.

What are some well known examples of "private equity turned troubled brand into wild success" where products become better than ever and consumers couldn't be happier? It seems like all I ever hear are stories where a brand is "rescued" only for it to be butchered for parts in a couple years time.
I agree with the final verdict, mostly because today's systems are really good at optimizing those things. Unfortunately, testing power consumption on a laptop is inherently prone to errors. You have no way to detect if a laptop uses additional power from the battery to smoothen sudden power spikes etc. And even if those tests were done on a desktop (or a laptop without a battery), you can't protect against MacOS/Windows doing stuff in the background (for example system updates, windows defender stuff etc etc)

This is definitely a super interesting experiment, just take the one-time measurements without any kind of repetition with a grain of salt..
Yeah it's just marketing. If it becomes a success they will sell their service as an app for sure.

It's just much easier to stand out with a beautiful hardware design than the 200th AI app released this month. And you can hardly buy anything from teenage engineering at this price point ;) Except the playdate which is much cooler.

But yeah it should have been an app.
OK. So now we have established that americans have bigger and less efficient cars. How do you think that that effects your GHG emissions? If you want more data, the Congressional Budget Office has a great page that shows that fuel economy is sliiiightly improving every year (i.e. if only cars hadn't grown so much eh?) and miles travelled is waaaaay up. So any technological improvements made has been undone by just consuming more. Did I mention Jevons paradox? https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58861

Regarding methane. A major source of methane is the agriculture sector. Look it up in the diagram I sent, it's the second biggest source. Specifically, 1kg of beef emits 4x the amount of GHG that 1 kg chicken emits, which in turns emits many times more than 1kg of plants. Remember that part about diet?

Also, methane is a side product of oil production (it escapes when you drill). That's why in the diagram it is the first source of GHG. Still think that methane has nothing to do with cars?

I live in France currently; 70% of our energy is nuclear. In the Netherlands the decades-long natural gas infrastructure is being phased out for solar PV and geothermal at a phenomenal rate. In 8 years they went from 1% to 18% of national usage. 4 GW of capacity was installed only last year.

If ever you were in need of data : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_Netherlands

That's not some accident of history. The Dutch made a political decision to invest, like a responsible, first-world geopolitical actor. The US could do the same. If they wanted to.

Let me guess. You're going to say (again) that "all of that is un-inmportant, we just need to go to nuclear". Even though I've already shown that the difference between France (70% nuclear) and the Netherlands (0% nuclear) is x2 instead of x3. That's because electric power is only 25% of GHG emissions. 28% is transport, 23% is industry, 10% is agriculture. Data (from statista no less) : https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200954/ghg-emissions-br...

Read some of the pages I've sent. It's important.
They do, we call it 'the Internet'
> When was the last time a new version of Elixir, Ruby, Go or Rust was released and top comment was complaining about the state of desktop GUI development options?

Because no one in their right mind would write anything GUI related in those languages.
> it makes the process of retroactively changing the sequence in which these tokens are delimited impossible

Is the author claiming you cannot write a reader macro for postfix code? Am I understanding that correctly?

I don't personally understand how the authors readtable system is much different from Lisp (or even some Forth macro systems? Although I only touched the surface of those).
> QT is free for noncommercial use only.

How so? It’s LGPL.
Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Reinforcement Leaning, Initial Experiments
Of course you can dox from a picture of trees. You just need a database of where all the trees are.

People who believe "you can't dox from a picture of trees, because even tho conceptually trivial, you don't know how to search the database efficiently enough" are people who also do security thru obscurity.
You mean the voice, or the grammar? The grammar part is outside of the scope of a synthesizer. That's completely up to the user.

Or you want a model which translates normal English into Yoda-English (on text level) and then attach a speech synthesizer on that?

Or I guess an end-to-end speech synthesizer, a big neural network which operates on the whole sentence at once, could also internally learn to do that grammar transformation.
The audio player is unfortunately not on GitHub yet, I've still got a few kinks to work out before it's in a shareable state. The statusbar project was also shared mostly so the other Nimdow users could play around with it, so the code quality is quite sub-par.
Because some humans don't even understand the question. Others do, but they don't know how to solve it.

But other humans can do this task. If you do it with a bunch of mathematicians in a room, you will get your 20-80 distribution.
Life is the only sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate.
>Reddit moderation is an experiment in autocratic dictatorship

I think that most power structures are "an experiment in autocratic dictatorship". Most include normal people in some way to some extent, but at the end of the day, there is a few who say what's going on, and then that's what's going on.

Therefore I don't think that anyone needs to take this so seriously. But it might be worth keeping in mind that the opposite is not true either. No matter how friendly a Reddit sub is, it's the mods who decide what and who stays. Same with websites: while many act like a public space, everything is up to the private host actually.
Low ticket size consumer SaaS? GTM and Pricing
OpenAI based productivity software for educators and schools. Most competitors charge 10-15$/month for individuals. Is it really the cap for consumer subscription products in general?

What GTM would make sense? Free trial/Freemium for acquisition/WoM and email/ads for conversion?

Or would you advise charging higher and above the competition?

What's your learnings from running similar models?
A 30 MB doc file is a problem per se.
JNRowe beat me to it! Feel free to browse the rest of my GitHub, its mostly Nim code. And if you want to talk Nim or Fuse you can join the Nim Discord server (or the Matrix or IRC bridge) or post on the Nim forum.
Took a picture and it recognized the architecture style, guessed the wrong town 60km away.
The Snapdragon 855's iGPU
General question: can any chain restaurant be considered "fancy"? In Europe I would say certainly not, not sure about the US though...
Typewise (YC S22) is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer for AI writing assistant
Are you doing alright?
rsync covers this and should ne used instead of a lot of Ansible tasks
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Mojo Lang – Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (With Chris Lattner) [video]
My experience in Europe was if you went to a random restaurants it was better than the US (3-4.3 stars on yelp). But the good restaurants (4.5+) weren't any better. And there's a ton of great food in the south. New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston all have great food scenes.
See also (relative to whom Count Binface is a newcomer) The Official Monster Raving Loony Party https://www.loonyparty.com/
Flite.
and yet declarative can be somewhat unhelpful in the face of mutable filesystem
AWS plans to invest $11B in Indiana
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Sat pics could be enough to pinpoint a tree
Palantir CEO Karp on Titan, AI Warfare Technology [video]
Someone somewhere has to set up machines so you can do containers. Doesn't name an they are pets.
By convention making today a quiet news day, politics-wise
Show HN: I built an email name generator for people who are afraid of trouble
And if you assume that death rate is age agnostic between 15 and 60 (it's not of course, but bear with me), then this allows you to calculate the yearly chance of death as a US male adult as 1 - ((1000 - 163) / 1000)^(1/(60 - 15 + 1)). This comes to 0.386%, or ~1 in 259.
It's got AI in it.
Why muppet?? I think anyone who ruins a monopolists position is an asset to mankind.
You can configure the agent to confirm each key usage to have your cake and eat it too. :)

It's also good to see if any malicious process tries to make use of the agent locally!
The quality also depends on the type of model. I'm not really sure what ESpeak-ng actually uses? The classical TTS approaches often use some statistical model (e.g. HMM) + some vocoder. You can get to intelligible speech pretty easily but the quality is bad (w.r.t. how natural it sounds).

There are better open source TTS models. E.g. check https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts or https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2. Or here for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/12kjof5/d_...
> ~30 whisteblowers[1] over 3 years is a fair number of people in your chance pool - not guaranteed, but there's confounding factors (i.e. stress, disruption to work and family life etc.)

People who already feel like they have nothing to lose (which I imagine would be correlated with higher chance of death, with causation in either direction) might also be more willing to become whistleblowers in the first place. Doesn't seem a factor in this case though.
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Hi I'm Marko, a data engineer, data architect and consultant originally from Croatia, based in Berlin, Germany.
I specialise in productionising and automating data projects, ensuring they can scale and reach their full potential.

I provide end-to-end support for all stages of a data product, from data analysis, design, prototyping, productionising, provisioning infra, deployment and operations.
Show HN: I've built a web app designed to bring your customers back
Hi HN,
As a solo startup founder, I need to get to the market as fast as possible. Unfortunately, many users discover that the early releases don't meet their needs; they're missing key features. So, I built FeaturePanel, where these customers can subscribe to new features and get notified when they're available. This ensures they have the features they need, and I retain their custom.
Six months ago I would have argued with you, but currently doing a MAUI transition from a Xamarin Forms app, and you are very right.

I wish Avalonia UI's mobile solution had had Navigation sorted a year ago when I proposed that we needed to do something with the XF EOL announcement. I had a POC with it working well enough, but sadly it was "too much work" to migrate the rest of the app. Now with MAUI we have realised that we are probably doing just as much work anyway, and it is seriously half baked as an ecosystem.
I found the openings via LinkedIn and applied some time ago. Never got the reply, not even a rejection email. I am not sure what's the purpose of posting it on various platforms but never updating the candidates who applied about their candidature status.
What's "PI"?
I’m a non programmer, and while I can often just barely grasp what might possibly be going on in a “normal” language, I can’t even begin to pretend to make sense of what you’ve made. I’m glad some are able to appreciate what you’ve done.

I suspect the reception of it being suspected to be a joke, is the mention of lisp and brainfuck priming them for a joke, combined with examples and concepts that seem to require a much stronger than normal technical background. So for the average Joe it ends up in the “turbo encabulator” zone where it’s not quite clear if what’s going on is real or in jest. The prerequisites for understanding just aren’t there.

I also suspect a non-zero percentage of the readers have involuntarily audio flashbacks of Soulja Boy when they see that many “cranks” on a page.
You can use an expression index in SQLite to index a path inside a JSON column or anything else
That's effectively what eSpeak-ng is doing.

For the CMU flite voices they represent the data as LPC (linear predictive coding) data with residual remainder (residual excited LPC). The HTS models use simple neural networks to predict the waveforms -- IIRC, these are similar to RNNs.

The MBROLA models use OLA (overlapped add) to overlap small waveform samples. They also use diphone samples taken from midpoint to midpoint in order to create better phoneme transitions.
I take that as a no.
Blanket censorship is saying I can’t have steak because a baby might choke on it.

The Azure AI service enforces a separate profanity filter on top of the base ChatGPT model. That’s not even OpenAI, it’s Microsoft filtering the output with regexes!

OpenAI themselves are not forced to release exactly one model. After the base training, they could have fine tuned it for different levels of Puritanism, including none for people that want a tool, not a priest.
> Lastly lets talk about employees, you hire someone and they don't work. In Europe you cannot just term them and give them a severance package of a few weeks.

This is not true! If a newly hired employee does not work, then you can fire them immediately.
Maybe Dell? Not exactly a consumer darling, but certainly a successful story for a PE LBO.

There was a side plot of "PE partners with charismatic former founder", but the main story was PE cost-cutting, layoffs and loading the company up with debt.
It's a live video mixer that you can use to switch between various sources of input - say, a demo device (or, in my case, a device under test), a front camera (or two) facing the presenter, a top camera showing how the presenter interacts with the device... supports a bunch of transitions, and if you get yourself the ISO variant, it records all audio and video tracks uncompressed together with a bunch of metadata that allows you to import the exact same cut as it was broadcast, and fine-tune aspects of it in post to get a refined video.
It could theoretically be a graph.

For example I can make a circular list being a part of the source and the macro may process it.

Get the first two items from a list and add them:

CL-USER 21 > (defmacro add-2 (a)
(list '+ (first a) (second a)))

ADD-2

Now we construct a circular list and use the macro:

CL-USER 22 > (add-2 #1=(1 2 3 . #1#))
3

The circular list is really a part of the source code:

CL-USER 23 > '(add-2 #1=(1 2 3 . #1#))
(ADD-2 #1=(1 2 3 . #1#))

Another example: One could pass in a string and have the macro parse the string...
Blogged a bit about the lifecycle of an in-house tool, as much as it is about DevOps culture within a large(-ish) organization.

I hope it makes for an entertaining read!
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After watching this interview you need to cleanse your soul. Here is a much better Michael Krasny: https://youtu.be/MC7fjlHQIrY

If you watch the whole thing you are going to need it ... :-)
Yes it is [1].

[1] There's lots of projects that link xz
But… he’s posting this on his personal blog.

Personal blogs are literally made for this use case, public autobiography.
Only a little disappointed the header video isn’t Colin Furze’s wall of death built out of pallets. Still, using the lower gravity to your advantage without requiring mechanical leverage is a very cost and energy efficient approach to enabling exercise.
Very interesting!
Super cool to see it can be used against theft.
AFAIK some apps misuse it, though. If Snapchat detects a modified phone (root for example) at any point, it might block your IMEI. (As far as the internet is concerned, they're very secretive about it) Which is a horrible decision, since a phone might be re-locked and refurbished, handed down to someone else, etc.
Anything that is not settled for several years, like papers published last year or so. Like RingAttention, quantization/pruning, rotary embedding, distillation, RLHF, L2 regularization, multimodal, MoE etc.
That's why AWS doesn't allow pentesting of this (S3) service.
The ankle flex when the right foot lands makes me wince every single time. I wonder how much that's to do with the direction of gravity, the angle of their body looking not quite horizontal (and therefore 'weirding' the angle that feet hit the ground), and how much is to do with the individual's physiology.
Memorably lampooned by Monty Python : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=666OKm08fRA
>However, safety requirements for late-stage patients with very few other options ought to differ from safety requirements for mass adoption.

Do they not already?
Because you can't honestly presume to know the outcome of a clinical trial of an untested product.
Don't people publicly explain why they've resigned when they believe the knowledge will benefit the public?

Eg, in this case:

"The Intercept has been taken over by suits who have abandoned its founding mission of fearless and adversarial journalism, and I can’t continue in an environment where fear of funders is more important than journalism itself."

Given it's often the case, your website would probably be quite a good source of topical news.

I hope someone does set it up.
>The PE firm would also prefer to have a nice profitable business

Quotation needed. Usually they put no or little effort in this. They want to get their profit by destroying the business, either by breaking it down and selling the parts or by turning it into a shitty consumer-hostile money-grabbing version of its former self
Tesla slashes its summer internship program
A few years ago my cat needed his teeth cleaned my local vet charged me £125. The same vet, now owned by CVS, is now going to charge £250