skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is an insane amount of effort that goes into producing high-quality videos

Agreed. I once heard an estimate of 1 hour of editing for 1 minute of video, and I find that to be an extremely low-end estimate in my experience. And then, editing is only one part of the process. I spend possibly more time on writing (from outline to prose to revisions) than on editing, even when including basic motion graphics.

> In contrast, on YouTube, an algorithm essentially decides once.

This contradicts the experience that I have with YouTube as a creator. For reference, this is my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@XyrillPlays/videos - Just a silly little gaming channel. Ignore the bulk of the videos that are just VODs; if you sort by "Popular", you can see that practically all the views are on a handful of edited videos.

There is one edited video there early on, which currently has 7.6k views, even though it was posted in a phase of the channel where videos got single-digit views. If it were true that "an algorithm decides essentially once", this would needed to have happened right then and there, except that it didn't. This video got 42 views "on its own", without any promotion of any kind. But here's the thing, as you said yourself:

> But with blogs, at least you have multiple good shots at visibility. Maybe you'll make it to the top of HN, maybe on X, maybe somewhere else.

The same applies to YouTube videos. When I posted another edited video later, I put that previous video as an end card. And just that miniscule click-through traffic alone was enough to have the older video get picked up by the algorithm.

And why did the newer video get picked up? Because I posted it to the subreddit and the Discord for the game. Video analytics on YouTube give a breakdown of where people are coming from, and it was very obvious how the first 100 or so views came from those places. Then after that, something clicked in the algorithm, as though it had become attuned to who might be interested in the videos, and it started recommending the video to people. From one moment to another, 85% of views are coming from algorithmic recommendations, which was 0% before.

With the most-watched video on the channel, which is nearing 200k views as of right now, it actually gained traction with the algorithm right away because I had for the first time a pre-existing subscriber base to get the video off the ground on its own, but it has not really stopped accumulating views. It has certainly flattened off a bit, but I've definitely benefited from the game in question having its 1.0 release recently. I'm also seeing people share my video on the subreddit every once in a while in the same way how people repost old blog posts to HN every now and then.
Well, you can borrow mine.
Debian conversion should be done mid2025.
Superlinker: A tool for reinterpreting ELF executables and shared libraries
That exact thing happened to a bunch at our shop. They went back to India for family, then could never come back.

Took us two years to clean up all their coding issues, although we still find some from time to time even now, 5 years later
What is the moat then?
wrong type of python for HN
How is the McMaster-Carr site so fast? (YouTube)
What is this rant?

This whole story shows the exact opposite of what you wrote: it is the Rodin museum, an independent institution which prides itself in being self-sufficient (even when it is not completely true), that is misleading the public and trying to manipulate the state ministry to its help, and the State didn't, and another part of the state ruled against them on almost all counts.
FWIW, that's also more or less what SpiderMonkey has been doing for ~25 years (and I presume other JavaScript VMs).
"people need hobbies" applies to so, so, so, so, so many folks who have nothing going in their lives, or no locus of control, beyond trying to find external Boogeymen who are responsible for just all their lives woes. (Left non-specific because I know where I am)
I'm not a farmer, just friends with some. Driving through tiny towns in rural America you often see small-time John Deere dealerships and repair shops. They are very very well established. I've heard that they have trade-in and financing programs that are very attractive; for many farmers their only option is to go with what is local and has the minimum down up front.
This is the complete opposite of what this story describes.

And since when are the French blindly obedient? Is that really their reputation?
My NumPy Year: Creating a DType for the Next Generation of Scientific Computing
> - In math things can be proven.

Some things can, some cannot (be either proven or shown to be false).
anyone hosting? want to try it
Dell Inspirons have camera below the screen. It is a horrible vantage point and a reason why it is not cloned by many manufacturers
Idk but it’s not lack of training data.
The day LLM responses start containing product placements is not far now.
>So they pretend like Mandela and his party were perfect angels practicing non-violent resistance like MLK

They were far from it, then again, the ANC campaign killed less than 100 people (excluding their sorta-civil-war with Zulu which isn't what people think about) and ultimately played no role in their victory.
That's also typically how the U.S. Supreme Court works, except for those few oddball cases where it has original jurisdiction. The losing party from the lower court files a petition for certiorari (judicial review). The Supreme Court may grant it, hear the two parties' arguments, and reach an opinion which is sent back to the lower courts, who are then responsible for resolving any remaining questions.
JD has a good reputation for reliability, and at least in the area where my family farms, green tractors retain their resale value better than most. Also a well built-out dealer network for support. A key factor for my brother's operation is that a large regional JD parts depot is a 20 minute drive away. With any other brand, the mechanic might tell you: "Well, we can have the part here in two days." versus "If you drive to the depot now and pick up the part, I can have you running by the end of this afternoon." During spring planting and fall harvest, that is a big deal.
The Japanese made Topre switches and they have already greatly increased my happiness.
I'm looking for a link to user-built Axiom.ai automations
Tesla driver blocks windscreen on public highway – report
Not so much nearest dealer, but nearest large repair-parts warehouse, even if you drive a few more miles to the dealer.
> so their conversation logs are their moat

Google and Meta aren't exactly lacking in conversation data: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Google Talk, Google Groups, Google Plus, Blogspot comments, Youtube Transcripts, &tc. The breadth and and breadth of data those 2 companies are sitting on that goes back for years is mind boggling.
> Server rendered HTML (ASP .net)

Who could've imagined that some React monstrosity that makes 300 API calls to build each page locally isn't the best way of doing things?
I don’t think that the difference is $110/month, but surely reading that you realise there’s a lot more going on there than “point vercel at a git repo and you’re done”. I don’t know how long it would take me to install docker and configure the above, but it’s certainly a few hours. I tried vercel for the first time a few weeks ago, and I had a production ready site online with a custom domain in about 5 minutes.

I’ve commented here before that on AWS (which I’m fairly familiar with) I could set up ECS with a load balancer and have a simple web app with rds running in about 30 minutes, and literally never have to touch the infra again.
I generally agree with your points, but the US healthcare system does now have pretty much the level of price transparency that you want. Commercial health plans have been required to publish their negotiated network provider fee schedules since 2022. You can just download the files and take a look. Of course as an individual health plan member that won't tell you your out-of-pocket cost for a particular service, but it is useful to self-insured employers comparison shopping between health plans.

https://www.cms.gov/healthplan-price-transparency/plans-and-...

Longer term though we should move away from the fee-for-service model based on providers submitting claims for service codes. A value-based care model where provider organizations bear at least some financial risk and are accountable for patient outcomes will probably work better for everyone.
Discussion (266 points, 1 day ago, 103 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873204
Bond villains only answer questions when you're safely strapped in to their brain-drilling chair.
Describe the operation of "anti-gouging regulation" that isn't just a price ceiling or a cap on how much the price can increase in response to a sudden supply constraint that would otherwise result in a shortage.
C4 – C in four functions (2014)
Terse C interpreter that can interpret itself.

Previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353532

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822
> “To provide access to every human, we need more Orbs. Lots more Orbs. Probably on the order of a thousand times more Orbs than we have today,” Heley said. “Not only more Orbs but more Orbs in more places.”

What a blob of a thing to say. And ‘access’ isn’t even a thing people want. There’s few companies I hope for bankruptcy and this is one of them
Toxic Compounds Derived from the Maillard Reaction in Thermal Food Processing
> I'm unclear on is whether "health spending",

They list their source as 2017 OECD data. OECD seems to define this as:

"Health spending is the final consumption of health care goods and services including personal health care and collective services."

Their charts are also drawn in a standard and more understandable way.[0]

> Americans are punching themselves in the face.

Hurtful, but okay, I do hope you realize it's the rampant monopolization of health care that is the problem in this country. Yours solved it by simply creating a single publicly held monopoly.

It's not as if either system is perfect and doesn't create it's own share and particular style of inhumane healthcare outcomes. Prescription label prices are noticeably different but are they meaningfully different where outcomes are concerned?

[0]: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/health-spending.html
The gelignite of incentives
Which are costs that John Deere will ultimately pass on to the consumer.
Farmers are - and have been for most of history - some of the Most technical people on the planet… probably more so then your modern “hacker” that probably couldn’t actually disassemble and repair most of the things they own and use.

I spent a summer working on a 3rd generation family farm, and it was one of the most technically competent workplaces I’ve ever seen. The owner had a degree in agricultural engineering, and dozens of patents from farming equipment he initially invented for his own use. Much of the equipment they used day to day was designed and built on site and they had a full machine shop, electrical shop, etc. Modern equipment like combines are so complex, automation heavy, and unreliable that they are usually operated by master mechanics that also weld, code, and are otherwise primarily technical people. When those multi-million dollar machines break- which happens daily- they are losing money fast and need to fix it immediately, right there in the field.

The idea of farmers as uneducated non-technical people is an ignorant stereotype held by urban people that have no clue what farms are really like.
Was Hezbollah an active ideological adversary of Israel, a participant in the conflict between Israel and Hamas/PIJ? Absolutely. Does that mean it participated in what Iran calls "resistance" to the state of Israel? Absolutely. Is that Hezbollah's core function? Absolutely not. Hezbollah is a service branch of the Iranian military. In every conflict Hezbollah has fought with Israel, it has incurred fewer losses and contested less territory than it did in Syria.

Empirically, Hezbollah's function is to serve Iran's regional strategic interests. When those interests align against Israel, as they so often do, Hezbollah "resists" Israel. When they involve killing Lebanese Sunni political adversaries, they do otherwise. When they involve projecting Iranian military power in other foreign conflicts, that's what they do.

I walk down the street, and someone sitting down the side of the road asks for some spare change. I give them a couple bucks and keep walking. Am I a philanthropist? Maybe in that moment? But I am in reality a software developer.

If you want to argue that Hezbollah is both a resistance movement and a foreign military occupier of Lebanon, we might find a place to agree. But, obviously, us agreeing isn't important. I'm comfortable with what this thread says about our respective positions!
South Africa did buy at least some of Crypto AGs backdoored products, not sure when though.
As an armchair economist, this is my personal favorite theory. With one of the most obese populations in the world, I think it's obvious that we'll also be the most sick and we'll have to spend a lot to try to dig ourselves out.
To avoid harvesting people’s biometrics for profit?
That's an interesting way to characterize Elon's history. "Ambitious deadlines" implies you are believe he will one day deliver on the many, many claims he's made that have never happened.

SpaceX and Tesla have both accomplished great things. There's a lot of talented people that work there. Elon doesn'r deserve all the credit for all their hard work.
Yes but JS always has backwards compatibility in mind, even if it wasn’t in the spec. Wouldn’t be surprised if more modern implementations still add an arbitrary restriction.
Yup. Pretty crazy stuff.
This is what DJs and record labels are for. As I've pointed out many times before, the very understandable hostility of the public toward major labels that inflict inequitable terms on artists early in their career has been applied to dismiss all labels in favor of platforms. Small independent labels actually do a ton to support and build up artists outside of mainstream genres, while many (most?) platforms are as bad as major labels in their own way. Imagine if you went to the record store in the pre-internet days, and they were giving away singles or whole albums for free, but there were ads mixed in with the music and if you tried to move the needle/forward the cassette past them, they'd break your hifi.
LLMs aren’t really AI in the sense of cyberpunk. They are prediction machines which are really good at being lucky. They can’t act on their own they can’t even carry out tasks. Even in the broader scope AI can barely drive cars when the cars have their own special lanes and there hasn’t been a lot of improvement in the field yet.

That’s not to say you shouldn’t worry about AI. ChatGPT and so on are all tuned to present a western view on the world and morality. In your example it would be perfectly possible to create a terrorist LLM and let people interact with it. It could teach your children how to create bombs. It could lie about historical events. It could create whatever propaganda you want. It could profile people if you gave it access to their data. And that is on the text side, imagine what sort of videos or voices or even video calls you could create. It could enable you to do a whole lot of things that “western” LLMs don’t allow you to do.

Which is frankly more dangerous than the cyberpunk AI. Just look at the world today and compare it to how it was in 2000. Especially in the US you have two competing perceptions of the political reality. I’m not going to get into either of them, more so the fact that you have people who view the world so differently they can barely have a conversation with each other. Imagine how much worse they would get with AIs that aren’t moderated.

I doubt we’ll see any sort of AGI in our life times. If we do, then sure, you’ll be getting cyberpunk AI, but so far all we have is fancy auto-complete.
> MySQL is alone in being suboptimal.

It's only suboptimal if you choose the wrong column type for the task at hand. For storing URLs, you almost certainly don't want collation behaviors, such as accent insensitivity or case insensitivity. So VARBINARY is a better choice here anyway.

And as several other commenters have mentioned, at large scale, indexing a bunch of long URLs in b-trees is indeed a bad practice performance-wise in any relational database. You won't be able to fit many entries per page, so read performance will be slow, especially for range scans.

In that situation it's almost always better to use a non-unique index over a prefix (if you need sorting and range scans) or a hash (if you don't), and disambiguate collisions by having the full value in an unindexed column. And/or split the URL up between the domain name and path in separate columns. If needed, normalize the domain names into a separate table so that the URL table can refer to them by numeric ID. etc. All depends on the specific use-case.
Ethically Adjust Grading Without Violating 'No Grade Curving' Policy
They kinda make sense if you consider that Postgres was not an SQL database in the beginning. Quirky though.
Myspace and Digg dug their own graves though. Myspace had a very confusing UX and Digg gave more control to advertisers. As long as OpenAI dont make huge mistakes they can hold on to their marketshare.
> Their business is booming. That significantly overwhelms the concern you're raising.

Yes their profit is up, no it is unrelated to the concerns

The company is acting in a way that luts the whole food system at risk

They should be disbanded, by force. I recommend replacement with a farmer cooperative
Many have had similar confidence in the past, including during the early-mid 2000s, right before the crash.
Strong disagree - yoast, while super popular, is a horrible, bloated mess and loves to dirty up your front end code. It’s also a regular target for vulnerabilities, due to its popularity.
You can build narratives around that but in fact they are not necessary

well, that is the question. that narrative may not be necessary for you, but it is for me and for many others.

what do you think will be more successful/sustainable? convincing everyone that we don't need a narrative or adopt a narrative that is beneficial for all?

your idea of making the best of our existence by trying to not make other beings miserable is a good one. and it is compatible with advancing civilization. so why don't we focus on working together to achieve those goals (and other related goals like peace, elimination of poverty, justice, clean environment, etc) instead of arguing whether we need a narrative or not?
The author posts STL files under CC-Attribution so it's not being privatized.
You work in this space and you dont know what the moat is?
Hahaha I hadn’t seen that they’re discontinuing that already. It seemed like such an obvious dud when I saw them announcing it. What a waste of resources.
What is the physics definition and what sciences are you referring to?
Did you steal them cut and paste?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/2024/10/16/departmen...
Of course. I never said they were. But sociopaths do tend to be very comfortable lying and backstabbing.
This is the first I've heard that it's false; however it seems like many times in my life I've observed something suffering, seemingly from lack of ownership despite being a common good.

What do you call that if you can't call it a tragedy of the commons?
I was slightly annoyed starting to read your comment, because "who cares what this guy learned today? these people are obstructing aggregation of knowledge, let's focus on that!", but after googling this "Pneumatit®" stuff…

> Concrete with Pneumatit® is different. The experience of Pneumatit® rooms is described as warm, wide, free, soft, relaxing, breathing. Because Pneumatit®, a liquid additive, permanently anchors a fine biological activity (liveliness) in concrete - and in all other building materials based on cement and anhydrite.

I don't even know, what to say, this is the most absurd thing I've seen in a long time. I'm chuckling right now, but the fact, that some country enforces using it… It's truly mindblowing.

P.S.

Could you please source some regulation or something where it says you have to use Pneumatit®? Cannot find it myself, and the fact that French ministry of agricultureenforces it is a bigger part of the story than the product itself.
Virtual tomb-sweeping keeps a Chinese tradition alive
Getting paid for doing something you love (or at least like when it comes to work tasks) is far better than having to spend 40 hours a week doing something you hate (in what is likely a much lower paid job), and then still getting home with no energy left to do that thing you love for maybe 1 hour.
When I imagine using crypto for this problem, the on-chain portion is a registry of hashes (for the songs) which maps them to addresses which I can send money to and then the contract multiplexes the money out to the appropriate people. So if it's one dude with a guitar and a microphone, 100% goes to him. But if it's a remix of a remix of a remix, then maybe that money gets split 50 ways.

I don't know if I need a website or a board for that. Of course I'm not the one building this, so my imagined design doesn't matter. But the question is: if not that, then what? I'm curious, I'm just gonna sleep on it before I decide that I'm $100 curious.

Edit: I see I can get the zine digitally first before deciding to be an owner. I guess I have some reading to do.
In theory you can calculate throughput because they say for example that single production cycle takes 5 seconds, uses 3 units of substrate and produces two units of a product.
So input is 3/5×60 per minute and output is 2/5×60 per minute. But that's too much for me to be doing in my head all the time so I don't. Satisfaction is nice enough to just give you result and ensures it's somewhat round so you can do further calculations with it in your head.
Note also the different meaning to "to table" (in a political context) between England and the US. One means "to put on the table for consideration" while the other means "take out of consideration and set it aside on the table"
That reminds me (heh) of a bit from one of my favorite book-series, involving someone recovering from a kind of brain injury.

> “It’s been so long since I had to [use a holo-map], it didn’t even occur to me. It’s like an eidetic chip you can hold in your hand. It even remembers things you never knew before. Wonderful!” He unfastened his jacket, and pulled a second device from an inner pocket, a perfectly ordinary, though obviously best-quality, business audionote filer. “She gave me this, too. It cross-references everything automatically by key word. Crude, but perfectly adequate for ordinary use. It’s nearly a prosthetic memory, Miles.”

> The man hadn’t had to even think about taking notes for the past thirty-five years, after all. What was he going to discover next, fire? Writing? Agriculture? “All you have to remember is where you put it down.”

> “I’m thinking of chaining it to my belt. Or possibly around my neck.”

-- Memory (1996) by Lois McMaster Bujold

That last "audionote filer" is looking increasingly practical in real-life, cross-referencing and all.