skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier to get help if you can show some interesting project. Do you have a blog or something?
uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store
This looks like a company that does kits and conversions for enthusiasts, not for practical use or economy. Sort of how Tesla was in the beginning. They do escoteric cars because money is probably less of an issue for someone who has a car like that and is interested in making it into an EV.
I see you only cherry picked a part of that statement. Surely you understand that research grants are awarded to professors and departments? As are many donations are earmarked for specific programs and departments. Those research dollars are what directly fund grad student positions. And the rankings are relatively stable, although there can be jockeying in some specific tiers. Schools like John’s Hopkins, UCLA and Michigan will be near the top of health care research dollars as well as top rankings in practically any year. Your posts read as someone who is trying to rationalize personal decisions rather than someone who knows how the system works.
The way I understand this is that now HN commentators are filled with what Nietzche would call the “last-men” who have “last-men” values while in the past it was not as widespread.
Another site filled with such people is Reddit, where I stopped bothering to comment anymore as it is far more dominated by people in this category than HN.

Yes, it is exhausting to read through those comments, more exhausting to argue against them. Not sure if it is worth it anymore, this is probably not a tide that can be stopped. But HN is still one of the few sites that is not wholly dominated by last men, and you can find thoughtful comments that broaden your perspective occasionally. Enjoy it while it lasts!
Visiting Area 5150: Investigating a PC Demo [video]
You'll need a flux capacitor to go with that.
Framing it as caused by online dating seems weird. It seems like it'd be more accurate to say that better access to likeminded partners caused a rise in income inequality. I mean it's not like these people were forced to get married they just had better access to options than in the past and selected according to preference.
>Youtube is net bad for the world

Disagree. The outliers don’t determine the value of the platform.

The videos of people creating, fixing, coding, diagnosing, doing every day random things - those are a gift to humanity.

Those visual demonstrations transcend language. Because of this, YouTube is more important than Google or any written word website.

Knowledge share is finally global.
It's very clearly a useful feature for seeing children while driving round residential areas, where they might be playing in the street.

Since it costs extra, Amazon will only adopt if if they're forced, either by regulation or significant social pressure.
I love it when the community psychoanalyzes itself
What is the bottleneck in your experience? I have around 100 transactions a month spread across various banks and providers. My experience is this:

I spent about a week defining a procedure to export all statements into CSV, converting the CSV into a Gnucash-friendly format where needed with some GPT3-authored PHP scripts. Once a month I do an import into Gnucash and the process takes at most 2 hours.
My linkedin account got taken over a couple months ago. The attacker changed the phone number and immediately added 2FA, but they didn’t control my email. During account recovery LinkedIn suspended the account and asks for ID verification, through a 3p vendor who do government id verification. That passed and LinkedIn said I could login and reset, but it still stayed suspended and asked for id again. My guess is they drowned in complexity in their own recovery flow and I hit an edge case or something.
An acquaintance of mine pronounces it with a soft G and long I, jai-ga-watts.
I mostly mean talking to each other to our faces with our voices. But I recognize the sentiment you're referring to. I think the stagnation of social media in the last 10 years, combined with the clear societal harms it has caused in some cases, has given many of us who have been around the block a few times reason to reflect on some of the ancient success stories and even yearn for their lost appeals.
> Come on, yeah they do.

Not at all. I actually think they look kind of cool. I still would prefer very understated glasses, but these are way better than a lot of the awful frames you see people wearing sometimes.
Presumably because journalism is centuries old, and techniques like this eventually become "industry standard" and you don't notice it. Once people figure out what the strategy is, they're going to try replicating it to capitalize on his success. Afterwards I suspect he'll still have a first-mover advantage, but he's going to be nowhere near as popular (comparatively). It's not any different than say, the reality show "format" being eventually copied by other production companies/networks.
That’s some of his channel. Other bits of his channel are about putting people through extreme conditions to try and win money.

The Rolling Stone profile has a good breakdown of his content cerca 2022: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeas...
HN will very happily brigade for little guys, too. Every few months there's a new "Stripe closed our account" thread that picks up a lot of steam.

Every once in a while it gets Stripe's attention and they fix it. Most of the time the torches burn for a few hours until someone researches the author and figures out they were building a gambling platform or something else explicitly against Stripe's ToS and the thread quietly dies out as people realize OP was just exploiting HN's visceral reactions.
You can't oppress people with artillery.

You need to get close to them to check their identity, their Covid passes, or whatever. You need to get close to confiscate contraband. You need to get close to prevent them from organizing and assembling, and so on.

Of course with nuclear bombs and F-16s you can blow everything to bits, but that's not how governments typically oppress people. You generally don't want to exterminate your tax base, you just want them to have the "right" opinions and beliefs.
To add to a bit of comment serendipity, @btrettel posted recently that one of his contributions from his PhD work was the characterization of "turbulent Rayleigh" liquid jets that describe men peeing but had remained largely ignored by academia because it didn't usually happen to industrial machines, only humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41547882
This is precisely what would have happened if Apple had gotten away with their distributed image hashing scheme. Only in that case the falsely accused would be sent immediately through the justice system and forced to spend a fortune to defend themselves on the assumption that they were hiding the evidence.
It works better in Firefox anyway. Use Firefox and be happy:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
What did you think was well written about it? Did it provide any useful or unique insights? The writing itself seemed terrible and riddled with spelling errors.
The greatest challenge of chronic pain isn't necessarily the pain, but how it warps and taints parts of you beyond your control.

People who haven't experienced their failure are completely unaware of the incredible mechanisms of our evolution that keep us from suicide. They're also unaware of what choosing to live means in the face of the eventual erosion of those failsafes by pain.

It's like hurtling down the interstate at 70mph in heavy traffic and having the power steering go out. There's no sense of freedom and accomplishment in having to fight just to keep to your lane, only terror from all the parts of you that know how easily you'd crash if you stopped trying for even a few seconds. It's exhausting in every sense.
Did you read my summary and not the full PDF?

If you’ve only read my summary then we are discussing this with completely different mental models of what he actually does.
Do non tech people run Linux? I've not seen this.
For people who never use anything except macOS / Linux, I challenge you to install Windows and experience it for yourself. The entire OS is like surfing the internet without ad block on. The nags, the pop ups, the malware you can’t remove. It’s truly incredible how awful Windows is. They are just milking the aging demographic who still uses Windows and squeezing as many clicks out of them as they can before Windows is dead as a home OS.
5% is honestly meeting that benchmark imo. One in twenty? That's firmly a competitor. Certainly nowhere close to leader but no longer a rounding error you can't even see in a pie chart.
ACE 7, recently got my PhD in ML and am doing reasonably well, at least from an 'objective' lens (I have a well paying job and bought my first condo recently). My mind is still chaotic as ever (I have a mix of OCD / Tourettes / PTS) and it's still often hard for me to concentrate without overthinking some portion of my life or something completely unrelated to the task at hand.

If I can plug a Youtuber who really 'gets it' (mental health and depression), it's Dr Scott Eilers. Everything else is just clichéd garbage.

(Disclaimer: I am not 'gifted' but did very academically well during high school and uni)
> Perhaps more importantly though, was my takeaway that it mostly wasn't fraud, it was truly innovative accounting that with hindsight was the wrong idea, but if the world worked out just a bit differently, could have led to them winning the market and taking the financial world in a new direction. It's not obvious to me that the fraud timeline is the only one or even the most likely one, we'll never know.

I don't think it's disputable that what Enron was doing, by the end, was fraud. 'The Smartest Guys in the Room' got a little too caught up in attacking mark-to-market, which itself isn't intrinsically fraudulent, but boy can it be misused for fraud, and the Enron guys absolutely and inarguably used M2M (among many other things) for fraud. Wilfully and knowingly.

Life is indeed shades of grey, but don't get so unmoored in your relativism that you end up giving cover to people doing genuinely bad things.
ACE 6, no need to delve into the details beyond physical and emotional abuse and neglect.

I’m happy with where my life is now. Spent many years struggling with severe anxiety and depression.

Therapy is key. If you have a high ACE score, see a therapist. It took me years of therapy to even begin to overcome some of this.

I’m very grateful for the life I have now, especially my spouse and kids. I have the opportunity to not be my parents, and I’m taking it.
That is INSANE to me. It's just a fucking car. What the hell is wrong with these troglodytes? What values does that represent?
I think you're mixing up the concept of entropy. The entropy is the measure of randomness in the data and with more entropy, the harder cryptographic schemes are to break. Going back to your comment, the asserted 130 bits of entropy in the key would be harder to break than 65 bits.

I'm also unclear on where you got the 'multiple of 5' bit about. It seems the keys corresponding to numbers divisible by 5 were used in a spend transaction by the puzzle creator. Using those addresses in spend transactions reveals the public key and saves compute that would be wasted hashing. It also enables direct attacks using Pollard's rho (which someone already posted a link for above).

Src:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg51466379#...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollard%27s_rho_algorithm_for_...

Another interesting discussion on bitcointalk about using Pollard's kangaroo:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244940.0
That's an absurdly long commute. Probably less than 5% of daily car commuters.
Yeah, I found the quiz also not take into account the mother being the cause. As one question specifically mentioned mother or step mother being abused.

This excludes same sex parents and other forms of parental or guardian violence
In case people aren’t aware of the “fraud” accusations mentioned in this comment, here’s a video:
https://youtu.be/k5xf40KrK3I

There are many more discussing all that has come out recently about that channel.
He constantly runs illegal lotteries and lies to kids. What is so complex and insightful about your understanding of this situation that you have to hide it in the group chat? Companies like uber and lyft constantly ride the line of illegality and that's how they're able to turn profits.

tldr it's not that deep bro, business people are shady and draw ire mostly thanks to decades of business people being shady and drawing ire.
Given how many people are on LinkedIn, would you doubt that women on the platform sometimes get sexually harassed in DMs, e.g. by people sending them porn?
> Linux market share of desktop operating systems

This is measuring Desktop share, in case you’re curious.

Given that mobile is > 50% Linux (android). And I have to imagine server Linux share similar.
EVs are generally very heavy compared to similarly sized vehicles.
I bet you don't apply this level of rigorous criticism to books or musicians, even though they occupy time that could be better spent curing malaria or arguing about Ukraine on the internet. Why not?
I've always wondered how all this mickey branded stuff exists since I got here, especially with major brands.

Do you have any insight into why so many signs are in English? I can understand maybe foreign brands, but local mom and pop stores have giant signs like "50% Off. #partytime" especially businesses where no one speaks english.
I skimmed the summary and it describes every aspect about his production company, whereas your "summary" only described one aspect (ie. figuring out how to keep engagement up), so I only responded to that. You can't treat the entire document as "gaming the algorithm". For instance, the document also mentions only hiring A players, which could hardly be described as "he is very carefully gaming the algorithm".
Yeah that doesn't seem true based on what I'm reading. Sounds like mindless propaganda.
Deloreans are so ridiculously small in person. No chance I could fit in one. Was really quite surprised but there’s a few of them rolling around in Houston.
I would refute this point but my opinion is actually too based and even scares me.
See https://youtu.be/k5xf40KrK3I

It alleges that many of the “contests” are staged and artificially manipulated and potentially violate laws around such games. I think to many that might feel like fraud.
Have no problem using just this flag --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL on a laptop with HD Graphics 500. And I even think that flag is passed by default now.

Key thing is to make sure you are playing back supported codecs when checking for hw decode. E.g YouTube randomly forces av1 on clients and some older hardware don't support hw decode for it.

Also some distros like Fedora and OpenSUSE ship with partial codec support in their installation media.

An easy way to make sure you have all the right drivers in place is to test this in one of the Chromium flatpaks.

Though I have to state hardware video playback is not yet officially supported and it has broken a lot over the past due to this fact and the quality of the different GPU drivers in question here. The Chromium devs don't explicitly block vaapi on Intel hardware.
It comes down to the fact that Linux is just so damn easy nowadays.
Linux distros should collaborate on a unified feedback initiative to boost adoption. The major distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.) could create a joint survey site targeting Windows users who have tried Linux but reverted back. This would provide invaluable data on pain points preventing wider Linux adoption.Questions like:
What Windows-specific software or functionality did you miss most on Linux?
If you could change one thing about Linux, what would it be?
What was your primary reason for returning to Windows?
Go and read pages 6 through 10 of the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaG9xpu-WQKBPUi8yQ4HaDYQLUS...

They do not describe the same process everyone else uses to make content. They are much more specific than that.
Let's not indite just HN here. It's more the world is the same and this is just an extension of the internet norms.

Think toxic game forums. They used to be nice and a good place, but now? It's a hot mess and everyone who wants proper discourse already self selected out.
I’ve never watched this MrBeast person before, but the top result is “Last to to hand off Lamborghini, keeps it”. Other videos are similar. How is this not junk?
I set my user agent to Windows Chrome most of the time to minimize hassles. Linux usage is guaranteed to be higher than the official numbers.
Clearly not much effort went into the parent comment!
First time for me too… How is the ‘ACE score’ even validated for people not near the average?

Since presumably ‘former gifted children’ were in the 99th percentile, and above, during the relevant period.
Interesting. I assumed it was just sloppy journalism but it sounds like you’ve seen this confusion before. The name did not strike me as hard to remember.
If people can’t tell that content is trash then they have trash taste, and people with trash taste will seek out trash.

There is better content in the world and those who have the taste to seek it out generally will.
Hilarious burn: “someone who understands women.” Maybe it makes more sense in a previous era of take-my-wife-please humor. The kids call it Boomer Humor but I think it predates that generation.
I truly believe that once Linux solves its app packaging problem it could go mainstream for casual use on home laptops. (Office machines obviously are a different beast, needing Microsoft Office\365 support, etc).

We're 99% of the way to being able to hand an everyday person a laptop with Linux on it and have them have a decent experience - but they need to be able to go to a website and download a program without screwing around with package managers and wondering if someone's even made a package for their distro. Flatpak and Snap are great, but then you still have to worry about which of those, if any, your computer supports. That's fine for anyone on Hacker News, but it's not fine for my parents or most people who don't take a special interest in tech.

If they do that, 2078 really could be the year of the Linux Desktop. But in the meantime we'll all have been using Steam Decks anyway.

Tho if it does become mainstream I do admit I'll miss feeling special and smart.
Thank you for your feedback!

However, I'm really confused. I am color blind (red-green) so I always try to make the life of other color blind people (and myself) easier. I hate red and black. When I was young and in school, I find that most people think the contrast between red and black is great, so teachers use red ink to mark our homework, and other students use red ink to mark important parts of their notes. It is very, very difficult for me to tell which line is red and which line is black.

In the article I was inspired by ( https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/findl... ), the author used red and black. I have to try really hard to see which edges are marked. So I don't want to give other color blind people like me a hard time in my game.

I do understand that there are other more rare color blind types (e.g. blue) and I would like to make my game accessible to all users. My experience is that most non-color-blind people also find the contrast between blue and black is enough. I used blue ink instead of red ink to mark important things in school, and teachers and other students can differentiate them easily.

No offense, but may I kindly remind you to check your monitor setup and whether you are color blind? Perhaps there are something wrong with your monitor screen and you are not aware of it?
Speech Acoustic Features: A Comparison of Gay Men, Heterosexual Men/Women (2020)
It's the Standard Business Operating System! What you say can't be correct!
in vino veritas. surely PG, just emerging from a smothering of left-field rhymes, was in something like a state?

I agree that almost all the time its just a bunch of guys. Would you agree, though, that this time round it’s about good vs evil organizational structures?

Specifically, Apple are relevant because their designer stratum (generalizable to Jobs’ habit of reifying ICs, so that Woz enters en passant) rhymes with the intended designer culture in AirBnB (& YC if only because their current prez was designer culture raised)

Let me know if i somehow got the pulse on anything in your opinion.
Is this linked pdf an example of something “confronting the worldview consensus”? Or the comments here?

Not a rhetorical question; confused.
Could not agree more, these days I feel like I only really read more technical posts where "sour grapes" comments are hard to insert. Basically anything about politics, tech, finance, management, news, the top few comments are so predictably negative its exhausting.
What is the time complexity of the worst case: O(N)? O(N^2)? O(N^3)? ...

In which language had you writen it: C? Python? ...

Note that in spite the exact problem is very hard, there are fast heuristics that give aproxímate solutions most of the time.
So the only reason somebody might criticize somebody/something is... jealousy?

Can you really not think of any powerful/wealthy/influential/successful/... person that you just have a simple fundamental value disagreement with, and would definitely not want to be in their shoes even given the opportunity?
I tried scouring this document for anything novel or insightful and couldn't find anything. Just a lot of spelling errors and run on paragraphs.
> I think YouTube is a lot like twitter (5 years ago), in that what you view and follow affects what you're fed.

Clear your cookies, cache, local storage, stay logged out, and see what happens. The baseline is junk.
As a kid I had a six hour paper round and a bicycle. I had my newspapers dropped off for me at four stops and nobody ever stole from them before I could get there - imagine that. In total, the mass of papers was about five times my own height, clearly a bit much to carry in one go.

My 'cargo' was heavier than that of the postman, but that was in the days before ecommerce, and the post service (UK) handled packages differently, sending them out in different vehicles to what the letters went out in, if over a certain size.

I also had to go to the door, not a mailbox at the side of the road. I was quicker than the postman with his cumbersome van. I was also quieter and more eco-friendly.

I am not suggesting that the post service in America have teenage lads on bicycles delivering letters and parcels, however, there is a lot to be said for having smaller vehicles.

Assuming I had one of these vehicles for free and all the fuel for it for free, would I have wanted one or been able to do my job quicker?

Probably not, even if scaled down to half the size for UK roads. Maybe my opinion would differ mid winter and if I was middle aged. However, I would not have my stashes in bus stops, all 30 ft of newspapers would be in the van. There would be no incentive to optimise.

Weight is your enemy in the delivery game and these vehicles are huge, yet typically American sized. If carrying a parcel to a door then that is going to be less than ten kilos in most cases, but if we assume 10kg, does that really need a vehicle with stuff weighing 300x upwards?

What they really needed was a range extending EV. These are not Prius style hybrids but they have a generator that runs at optimal RPM to charge the main battery. The original BMW EV, the i3 had this and it was a tech that wasn't really needed since those cars were overpriced and only ever did city journeys where the range extender was not needed.

The range extender can be chucked out as charging infrastructure improves and the battery can be updated to a new one that has more oomph for the same weight/size.
enterprise gets a better version too. less ads